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Well, tonight I've been watching some of the Ken Burns' "Civil War" series.
Quite sobering, yet a necessary slog if one is to understand America, and Americans.
The last couple of hours I've been pausing that and flipping to a broadcast of "Apollo 13", that neat movie about a failed moon mission.
Of course, the real story there is the success of getting three astronauts back to Earth safe and sound after their spacecraft suffered a crippling explosion.
For some reason those two things seem to resonate with each other quite nicely. I can't put it into words right now, maybe tomorrow. But suffice it to say that right now I'm proud.
-dale
Quite sobering, yet a necessary slog if one is to understand America, and Americans.
The last couple of hours I've been pausing that and flipping to a broadcast of "Apollo 13", that neat movie about a failed moon mission.
Of course, the real story there is the success of getting three astronauts back to Earth safe and sound after their spacecraft suffered a crippling explosion.
For some reason those two things seem to resonate with each other quite nicely. I can't put it into words right now, maybe tomorrow. But suffice it to say that right now I'm proud.
-dale