We remind you that this attack happened 10 years before the US invaded Iraq.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
1993: The first World Trade Center attack
We remind you that this attack happened 10 years before the US invaded Iraq.
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We remember Bob Jagers (1922-2021)
Bob Jagers passed away on this day in 2021. He was 99 and been very sick for weeks.
Mr. Jagers was quite a celebrity in our area, a member of our parish and wonderful storyteller. For years, he visited the local schools and you could hear a pin drop when he spoke to youngsters learning about D-Day in their history classes. The kids loved him and called him back over and over.
To say the least, Mr. Jagers had quite a story to tell, from war stories to hitting a Bob Feller pitch during a baseball game in the Pacific theater. He saw Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Hank Greenberg play. How cool is that?
In October 1968, Bob was working for a U.S. auto manufacturer in Argentina. He ate lunch and tuned in U.S. Armed Forces Radio to hear Mickey Lolich and his favorite Detroit Tigers beat Bob Gibson’s Cardinals in game seven of the World Series. He once detailed Jim Nortrup’s triple over Curt Flood’s head, a key play in that game.
A few years ago, Bob published his story in a book called Whales of World War II:I was born in 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, and later moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I graduated high school in Grand Rapids. I went to two years of Aquinas College in Grand Rapids before entering the war. I enlisted in the Navy in April of 1942. But they permitted me to finish my term.
In June of 1942 I was sent to Great Lakes naval training center, for my boot camp. After boot camp, I went to quatermaster signaling school .
Upon completion, we were asked what kind of ship we wanted to be on, and I said I wanted to be on a submarine. They interviewed me and gave me some exhaustive tests for submarine duty, and they said I was number 21. The next complement of sub sailors needed was of 20. If any of the previous 20 were rejected, or refused to go for some reason, then I would be selected.
Looking back 50 years, I was quite fortunate in that all 20 of them were selected. The next thing I knew I was on a train for amphibious training at Solomons Maryland.
I spent several months there, went aboard a training vessel, a LST training vessel on the Chesapeake Bay...
An LST is the slowest ship in the convoy. It travels maybe four or five knots, about six miles an hour. Not only do you travel from Bermuda to North Africa, but you have to zig zag. So I’m sure that the destroyers and destroyer escorts that were accompanying us really didn’t like to see the LST’s come along because the convoy moved very slowly.
We went to the straits of Gibraltar, landed at the naval base of Oran.
On page 109 of Whales of WWII, Robert recalls D-Day and his participation. He remembers the heroic work of U.S., U.K., and Canadian young men landing on the French coastline. It must have been an awesome day for a 22-year-old sailor.
In 2014, Bob spent the 70th anniversary in France with some of the men he spent D-Day 1944 with. We did a show about it, and it was a treat to listen to him.
Rest in peace Mr. Jagers. We will miss you a lot.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Voz Media on Tuesday
📹 | ENTREVISTA a @silvio_canto, analista político: Abbott se opone a una ciudad regida por la ley islámica
— VOZ (@VozMediaUSA) February 26, 2025
Mira la transmisión completa AQUÍ 👉 https://t.co/a1sC3kSdf2
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The day the bakery stopped baking
The day the bakery stopped baking: It was a bad day at a South Texas bakery, and I don’t mean that they burned your bread. This is the story:
The owners of a South Texas bakery accused of illegally hiring undocumented immigrants were also housing their employees next ...
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It was a bad day at a South Texas bakery, and I don’t mean that they burned your bread.
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) February 25, 2025
The day the bakery stopped baking - American Thinker https://t.co/6FiYxCPe0Z
Happy # 83 to Karen Grassle
She played the role of Mrs. Caroline Ingalls and became one of our very favorite TV mothers.
"Little House" was based on a series of books written by Laura Ingalls-Wilder. Laura was born in the late 1800's and published the books in the 1930's.
It was her family's story. The stories were about Pa, Ma, sister Mary and Almanzo, the young man she eventually married.
I have never read the books but the TV series was fabulous. The shows were extremely well written, serious and touched on real family issues.
It was a great show.
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We remember George Harrison (1943-2001)
George Harrison was born in Liverpool on this day in 1943 and died on November 29, 2001. He had been battling cancer for a few years.
George was part of the group from the early days. He added a few songs to the group's repertoire over the years but his biggest contribution was playing a great lead guitar and singing background vocals.
He did sing or write some tunes, such as "Something" and "Here comes the sun".
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We remember Ron Santo (1940-2010)
He began his career with the Cubs in 1960 at age 20. From that debut to his retirement in 1974, he put together some great numbers: .277 career batting average, 342 HR, 2,254 hits & 1,331 RBI.
From 1963 to 1970, Santo averaged 29 HR and 106 RBI. He also led the NL in walks 4 times and won 5 Gold Gloves for his defensive work at third base.
Sadly, he died in 2010 and did not live to see his induction into the Hall of Fame in 2012.
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World War II: Appeasement and the 1930's
World War II, episode 2:
Appeasement and the outbreak of war........click to listen.....
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Monday, February 24, 2025
The week in review with Bill Katz, editor of Urgent Agenda
Guest: Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...Ukraine War resolution....Trump & Musk cont....Trump polls and other stories..
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No more ‘climate change’ Popes
No more ‘climate change’ Popes: As a lifelong Catholic, I am sorry to hear of the Pope's health. I love my Catholic faith and no one does Easter (or Holy Week) like we do.
Who is going to be the next Pope? There are some strong candidates such as…..
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The Catholic Church has two serious problems, from losing members to a current Pope who keeps making the leftist case for illegal immigration and climate change.
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) February 24, 2025
No more ‘climate change’ Popes - American Thinker https://t.co/IznJQuxBBS
As a lifelong Catholic, I am sorry to hear of the Pope’s health. I love my Catholic faith and no one does Easter (or Holy Week) like we do.
Who is going to be the next Pope? There are some strong candidates such as Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, 65, from The Democratic Republic of the Congo:
President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar, Fridolin Ambongo Besungu made headlines when he rejected a controversial declaration of Pope Francis — with the papal blessing, no less.
The conservative Capuchin declared the doctrine of Fiducia supplicans — which allowed priests to bless unmarried and same-sex couples — null and void on the African continent. Besungu was able to achieve explicit blessing from Pope Francis in an emergency meeting in 2023 shortly after the release of that teaching, the Catholic Heraldreported.
A Besungu papacy would be seen as a sharp rebuke of the left-leaning principles of Pope Francis. The current pontiff made Besungu a cardinal in 2019.
Rebuke of Pope Francis? I like that with all due respect to the ailing Pope.
Another good choice would be Cardinal Wim Eijk, 71, from the Netherlands. He is regarded as one of the most conservative of the front-runners.
There is also an American on the list: Cardinal Raymond Burke, 76. He is a proponent of the Latin Mass and a public critic of Pope Francis’ liberal tendencies.
I love the Latin Mass. My father was an altar boy in Cuba and learned all those Latin lines that we don’t hear anymore.
No one knows who it will be because it all happens in secret and we just get to wait. No polls here.
The Catholic Church has two serious problems, from losing members to a current Pope who keeps making the leftist case for illegal immigration and climate change.
So stay tuned. The smoke will eventually go up and a new Pope will reveal himself in the balcony. I’d love to see one of these three men on the balcony.
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Happy # 69 Eddie Murray
We say happy birthday to Eddie Murray, one of the Orioles' greats. He was born in LA on this day in 1956.
Eddie broke in 1977 and turned into one of the most consistent hitters in major league history: .287 career batting average, 504 HR, 3,255 hits and 1,917 RBI.
Murray was a key piece of the teams that played in the 1979 and 1983 World Series. He hit 2 HR in game 5 of the 1983 World Series to clinch the title for Baltimore.
Eddie broke in 1977 and turned into one of the most consistent hitters in major league history: .287 career batting average, 504 HR, 3,255 hits and 1,917 RBI.
Murray was a key piece of the teams that played in the 1979 and 1983 World Series. He hit 2 HR in game 5 of the 1983 World Series to clinch the title for Baltimore.
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Remembering Luis Aguile (1936-2009)
We remember that Luis Aguile was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on this day in 1936. He died in 2009. His full name was Luis Maria Aguilera Picca.
Back in the 1960s, our family spent many cold winter nights in Wisconsin listening to “Cuando sali de Cuba“. It always put a tear in my parents’ eyes. As my father told me, Aguile was a pop music star circa 1960 and had no connection to Cuba. What inspired him to write this song? I don’t know but it became a favorite in “el exilio”
Thanks to the late Luis Aguile for that wonderful song!
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