tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post8703103614410447813..comments2023-04-20T11:39:31.414-04:00Comments on Exploriment: DieppeExplorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-53033868653875636142016-08-23T10:43:59.205-04:002016-08-23T10:43:59.205-04:00A Bloody War has similar descriptions about having...A Bloody War has similar descriptions about having to sail past survivors in the water following submarine attacks early in the war. Chilling but they were desperate times. Actual desperate times, not the possibility that in 100 years the average global temperature might be 1/2 a degree higher than what someone imagines it should be. <br /><br />That generation (as well as our current vets) kept a lot of their horrors to themselves, understandably I guess, but I think it was to all of our detriment. We have it so easy, comparatively speaking, that it is hard, I think, for many people to imagine how bad things could be, as though war is something from the past and now we just need to focus on meaningless minutiae to craft the perfect society. I guess we'll never learn.<br /><br />I visited Dieppe in the early 2000's and after about 1 second in a German bunker overlooking the beach I wondered what the hell we we thinking? It was about as close to a literal shooting gallery as you could get. And the beach? It was hard to walk on it much less drive a tank. Such a tragic waste but just a blip in the greater tragedy that resulted from the ineptitude of much of our leadership at the time. Do we have better leaders today? Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926136056808188752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-43637065352724389842016-08-22T19:02:22.016-04:002016-08-22T19:02:22.016-04:00If there was a zombie apocalypse, there would quic...If there was a zombie apocalypse, there would quickly be zombie rights groups.<br /><br />I toured the Haida, and there is a display and write-up about the night their sister ship, the Athabaska was torpedoed. The part about the captain having to make the call to leave as dawn approached, even though lots of their brothers were still in the water – man oh man. No one would fault him for doing so, it was the tactically sound decision, but jesus.... I can't even begin to imagine what every man on that ship felt, and the burden he had to carry for the rest of his life.Explorimenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-5085688931082917622016-08-21T10:04:39.691-04:002016-08-21T10:04:39.691-04:00The stories that that generation has (or many of t...The stories that that generation has (or many of them anyway, many also never left canada much less served) never cease to astound me. I recently read a book by a Canadian naval officer during the war (A Bloody War) who at one time had a captain who was in his twenties. <br /><br />Hard to imagine many twenty somethings nowadays being capable of such things. I know they exist as I've had friends who've seen them firsthand but my personal experience with this generation is different. Hopefully we can avoid finding out for real.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926136056808188752noreply@blogger.com