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Herald Russell lost his hands while training members of the 13th Airborne units in the use of explosives a faulty fuse prematurely detonated a TNT explosive pack. After under going many surgeries and rehabilitation he made his movie premier, knocking it out of the park! He appeared in five films, he is the only actor to receive two Oscars for the same movie, and only actor to auction his trophy off, he dedicated the rest of his life to fighting for veterans in AMVETS , serving as president of the organization three times, They don't make them like that any more.

At the risk of being painted with a broad brush as a racist I feel it important to interject one fact overlooked by the impassioned mobs that ran amok in the aftermath of the George Floyd case. There is no excuse for what the officer did after he was called in to help subdue Floyd, I am not offering any defense for that officers acts. But, Floyd could have complied with the first officers who arrived on the scene and he would be alive today. The officer who keeled on Floyd's head until he died was totally out of line. The other officers should have tried to pull him off. That is a given. But Floyd bares some responsibility for the situation as well. Let's take a look at what Mr. Floyd did that brought the attention of the officers in the first place. 1, passing counterfeit 20 dollar bills. A felonious act. 2. He resisted arrest. Claiming he was claustrophobic, therefore not wanting to get into the police car. (claustrophobia didn't prevent him from being in a car before the police arrived) 3. He had a cocktail of very potent narcotics in his system, cocaine, methamphetamine. The tragedy could have been avoided altogether had Mr. Floyd made better decisions that morning. He had struggled with addiction for most of his life, as many of us have, I am not saying he deserved what happened to him, I have loved ones who are struggling with the same demons, some of them have lost everything, some have gone to prison, some have cut themselves off from those who love them, choosing instead to hang with others who are addicted. This is very personal to me, it has struck very close to me. I have dealt with close family members who cannot control themselves around narcotics, some have spent many years in prison or worse, lost their lives to it. Our society has chosen a path forward that ignores the mental health issues created by extended use of powerful drugs and instead of providing health care placed the responsibly on the police to clean up after our failures because it is cheaper to incarcerate these people than it is to treat them. We are all at fault.

Another favorite of mine is The Best Years of Our Lives, one of the few post war movies that addressed the challenges of veterans returning to civilian life. Fredrick March and Myrna Loy were great in this movie. Another post war film that delved into the impact of war on those who served and their loved ones was The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, with Gregory Peck,

When they shot the seen in Shane where Alan Ladd and Jack Palance first met, if you watch Palance getting off his horse, then back on it minutes later, watch close, Palance was not very good around horse's at this point in his career, he had such a hard time getting back up on the saddle, they just edited the film of him getting off in reverse! It's funny watching him riding horse's in this movie,

Both are great, the John Ford westerners are hard to beat , Shane gets my vote as the better of the two, but The Searchers has grown on my over the years, hard to pick just one, The Unforgiven would be on the list of top 5.

I'm with you Mr. N. I bet I've watched this flick 20 or more times, Peter Sellers was a genius!

What a classic western, Clint Eastman once told an interviewer that every western he did was in some measure a remake of Shane, That's high praise.

Wikipedia huh? Anywho, Sterling Hayden's part in Dr. Strangelove is not only pivotal to the plot but an in your face to thge blacklisting of many actors caught up in the red scare of the 1950s. As you probably already know, Hayden was a decorated Marine veteran, sent to OCS only to be recruited by none other than Wild Bill Donavan himself to become an OSS operative. Hayden had a master's license to operate sailing vessels, a skill the OSS put to use, Hayden, under the name John Hamilton was assigned to Croatia, smuggling arms and agents in and out of the region, he also fought along side none other than Tito himself, and because of the friendship between the two, and statements Hayden later denounced, he was drawn into to kangaroo court of the committee on unmerican activities and forced to give the names of actors involved with the communist party. His role of Gen. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove perfectly portrayed the mentality that was rampant in post war military leaders .

Chris Rock was right

They should pay those of us who look like a fool when the algorithms decide what I am thinking.

When I started this thread I intended it to be strictly what the title defected, lessons learned during the past three years. Not necessarily related to political angst but more broadly speaking, economic impact of Covid19,, the resulting supply chain failures. But once someone ( it doesn't matter who) made it about BLM and the rest of the alphabet soup of ancromins the conversation followed that path. So to that end, IMO we need to rethink the forty or more years of ever increasing globalisation, supply chains are vulnerable to the shifts in regional politics ( witness the Ukraine situation with Putin holding Europe's energy needs hostage while he invaded a sovereign nation, and now threatens Finland and Sweden) . Lesson 1, don't do exclusive deals with traditional enemies of liberty such as China and Russia. Lesson 2. Every nation must develop domestic energy as best they can. The western nations went into the global economy movement completely naive thinking that trading with authoritarian nations would soften their resolve or somehow by making all nation dependant on each other for goods, the world would be a safer place. Clearly the western nations ( the EU, the US, Canada etc. ) miscalculated.

Spell correct to the rescue as also, I have to check every key stroke, this is the most undesirable program ever created by the nerds at Microsoft aka micro aggressive computer nerds.

I find it a bit disingenuous when the only cell phone videos that go viral are of bad situations. So many people are basing opinions on such limited and bias information that is intentionally skewed to produce the desired reaction. Sadly, they don't even realize they are being played. There are literally thousands of interactions between police and citizens daily, out of all of those interactions all that goes viral are the ones that go south. The narrative then becomes, all interactions between officers and citizens are bad. Which is ludicrous, slanderous and disingenuous. Purposely so. And it isn't just and American problem,

I'll raise you Amend the verse, but when you start burning down our cities, attack our police, burn our court houses while waving signs of Che and Mao and demanding an end to our nation, you aint gonna make it with anyone wjth more than one functioning brain cell anyhow.

Dr. Strangelove, released in 1964, a great cast, Kuberik at his best and Peter Sellers as well at the top of his game, playing 3 lead characters, it was James EarlJones first big movie part although he got little screen time, Slim Pickins, great movie

Theta what I thought too. I get it says Tele style, but it looks like someone tried to make a fake Tele but messed up when applying the fake serial number. The neck looks like a Warmoth,

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1658031041211213/ I ran across this on FB or Meta marketplace aka, ripoff central, serial number should be from around 1996, but I can't find anything like it on Reverb or on Fender websites. I'm thinking someone put a after market neck on a Tele body and faked the serial number.

This must be such a relief to your family, I can't imagine what you and your family are going through. Prayers and best wishes .

His mother was asked what name to put on the birth certificate, she said Misery, the nurse thought she said mystery?

What a punk!

Try the audio version of the T-sheet. The "T" sheet is an old salesmen tool, literally draw a T on a sheet of paper, write the pros on one side and the cons on the other side. The audio version is something we used to do at a music store I worked at years ago. This is how it work's; Pick two maybe four guitars you like, have someone who plays well stand behind you while you close your eyes so you concentrate on nothing but your auditory cortex, have the player play each guitar without you knowing which one they are using. After the player has finished playing each guitar write down what you liked and what you didn't like about each guitars voice. Here is why this works primarily with acoustic instruments, your guitar sounds different to the audience than it does to you, when we play a guitar, our ears are above and behind the instrument, the audience is facing the stage, sound waves expandvas they travel away from the guitar. So as a player, you never hear what the audience hears. This is why recording yourself and listening to the play back really helps you develop as a player, and is such a great tool for bands in general. This is a really good tool for discerning the sound you want out of your gear. Pro violinist have used this method for years to pick the right instrument for their style of playing, it's important to have someone you know play the instruments and really give them a work over, at least 5 minutes for each instrument. This removes from the equation the visual influence ( bias) such as wood type, maker, body size etc. I hope this helps.

I'm having visions of Slim Whitman, singing the Hallehujah Chorus

This is your big chance, apparently you could corner the market if you start a rock band that play's Bluegrass as I can find no such animal.

We are of the same vintage (era, age ) I bought a 1964 Martin 00-18 brand new for $250.00, And that was a lot of dough back then, my friends were buying Silvetones, Danelectro's, Harmony's, Tiesco' s but to own a Gibson LP , or any ES, or a Strat or Tele was pure nirvana,. Living in So. Cal, surf music was the big thing, so Fender and Mosrite were in big demand, there were no Chinese anything available, Japanese guitars were or questionable quality. Oddly, as I recall, you seldom saw any Gretch guitars, that was probably a So. Cal cultural thing, Rickenbacher's became a lot more popular after The Fab Four hit the scene.

I would agree, we are truly in a great era for inexpensive guitars, the Mexican made Fenders and Martin's are as good as some players will ever need, and Japan is building some of the best on the market.