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November 2012

Don Torino Op-Ed on Hurricane Sandy

Don Torino, a Moonachie resident and a friend of this blog, has quite an Op-Ed on his harrowing experience Hurricane Sandy in The Record today.

At one point in the article, Don writes:

"We like to believe we are always in control of everything. Modern technology, the latest Doppler radar weather reports and the newest satellite expertise will be able to protect us from the wraths of nature.

"Somehow we have come to accept that mankind is not part of the natural world any longer. We are above it all. We got past all that nonsense when we began to shop at grocery stores, drive fast cars, communicate using the most modern up-to-date technology man has ever known.

"But I can tell you firsthand from being huddled with dozens of soaking wet, scared human beings that we are all as much a creature of nature as any bird that tries to survive a cold winter’s night or takes cover in a pine tree to wait for a storm to pass."

The link is here.


A Veterans Day Tribute

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Just wanted to wish all of our nation's veterans a great Veterans Day.

Went hawk-watching at Stateline Lookout today with one of my favorite veterans, Stiles Thomas, who enlisted in the Army on this day 70 years ago.

After basic training down South and some other assignments, Stiles was shipped to Camp Shanks in Orangeburg, N.Y., where he shipped out to Europe via the Piermont Pier.

Stiles and I visited Camp Shanks today in honor of Veterans Day. Pretty neat.

Thanks, Veterans, including my mom, a World War II Navy nurse! (Consider this part of the "Beyond" part of "The Celery Farm & Beyond" blog.)