1. Summer has arrived! It showed up yesterday and today is the first full day of the best season of the year. Today is also the 4th Monday of June. The year is nearing the half way point with just 27 Mondays remaining in the year.
2. We have been enjoying Las Vegas. Today is a travel day, but we are not departing until late tonight. We will arrive home tomorrow morning. We have been experiencing some high temperatures--up to 108 degrees! We have been minimizing our time outdoors in the heat and have been drinking a lot of water to stay hydrated. We came upon the heat warning sign at a state park we visited yesterday.
3. We are being kicked out of our hotel at 10 AM today and need to find something to do for about 10 hours. I always thought 12 noon was the standard be out of the room time. We have planned to visit the Hoover Dam, which will be good for about 4 hours. It is too hot to sit around outside for very long.
4. Chris and I have done some really interesting things while we have been in Vegas. Yesterday, we visited Valley of Fire State Park! It is definitely something that should be on everyone's visit list. I'll write more about it in a future blog.
5. Well, the Iran war is over. Or is it? Did we win? Lose? Or draw? According to a Newsweek article, the situation on the ground seems to be as follows:
The U.S. laid out several goals when it joined Israel with strikes against Iran on February 28. It succeeded in beating down Iran's conventional military power. But it did not fully achieve the White House's other stated objectives: eliminating the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons, regime change, dismantling Tehran's support for proxy groups and wiping out its ballistic missile capacity. (Newsweek)
6. Today in History. On June 22, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services—known as G.I.s—for their efforts in World War II.
As the last of its sweeping New Deal reforms, Roosevelt’s administration created the G.I. Bill (officially the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944) hoping to avoid a relapse into the Great Depression after the war ended. FDR particularly wanted to prevent a repeat of the Bonus March of 1932, when 20,000 unemployed veterans and their families flocked in protest to Washington. The American Legion, a veteran’s organization, successfully fought for many of the provisions included in the bill, which gave returning servicemen access to unemployment compensation, low-interest home and business loans, and—most importantly—funding for education.
UK's Starmer announces resignation, Burnham puts himself forward as successor - Reuters
US authorizes Iranian oil sales amid talks on final peace deal - Reuters
Temperatures to exceed 40C in European heatwave as three die in France - Reuters. (104 degrees Fahrenheit)
People caught vandalizing Washington Reflecting Pool to be fully prosecuted, US Attorney Pirro says - Reuters
Trump’s Iran agreement embraces sanctions relief, a policy he and his team once denounced - CNN
What to know about the New World screwworm - CNN
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s - The New York Times
-- Bob Doan, Las Vegas, NV
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