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Lest we forget, part 2

June 6, 2014

70 years ago today, the Allied invasion of Normandy began. Eisenhower, Tedder, Montgomery, et. al. against Rommel. Related articles D-Day: June 6th 1944 as it happened

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June 6, 20142 Comments

What is now a long time ago — Driving my son to school — a school half an hour and a couple of interstate highways away and which started at 8:00 sharp — not talking much because of the earliness and the dark of the morning, letting the radio play its music. Without looking over … Continue reading Hands: #FMFparty #FMFriday #FiveMinuteFriday

Reset the Net

June 5, 2014

Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
A year ago today, we joined the world in shock on learning that governments were spying on internet users around the world. Tapping internet service providers’ undersea cables, intentionally and secretly weakening encryption products, surreptitiously collecting everything from call metadata to photos sent over the internet by US citizens…