SoCal Chronicles: Gravelin Gertie

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Gravelin Gertie

My Dad was in the China-Burma-India theater during WWII. He helped build the Ledo road in India among other projects while there. The vehicle in the picture has the name Gravelin Gertie painted on the door. We have he and his generation to thank for our freedoms and way of life we have today.

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"Civilization ends when the pampered beneficiaries of the hard work of the now dead have the luxury of ignoring how hard it was — and is — to build shelter from the elements, to erect public buildings from scrub, to grow food and sprout farms from sage. Our contemporary criminals are protected from the elemental struggle and so have the indulgence to gnaw away at civilization’s veneer — and we, in our conspiratorial silence about them, likewise forgot that to keep still about the destruction of the work of others is to be complicit in it."
~Victor Davis Hanson

"The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does nothing."
~Theodore Roosevelt

"[G]overnment's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
~Ronald W. Reagan

"There were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were."
~Bill Clinton

"In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest."
~William McKinley

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
~Harry S. Truman

"I've now been in 57 states -- I think. One left to go".
~Barak H. Obama

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Gravelin Gertie

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