Where There’s A Will There’s A Way
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Heroes
West Point & U.S. Naval Academy Glee Clubs Sing National Anthem
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Xcrb2nZyI&w=800&h=450] Complete Lyrics To The Star-Spangled Banner O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting
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Slowest SR-71 Fly-Past
I saw one of these close-up at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson Arizona. They are truly awesome. About thirteen years ago I took my oldest grandson, Kyle, to see Major Brian Shul and his co-pilot Walt Watson speak about their experiences flying the R-71. It was a wonderful presentation with many personal
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Gabby Hays, Sans Beard
Baby Boomers like me spent many hours before their black and white TVs watching Western during our youth, which prompted a previous blog title, “My Heroes Were Cowboys.” One of the best cowboy stars’ favorite sidekicks was Gabby Hays, whose appearance and voice made us love him. What I had never seen before just now
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Dragnet
This was the first episode of the television show Dragnet, which originally aired December 14, 1951 when I was about to turn 8-years old. Via regular broadcast TV or via online streaming, I have probably seen every episode of Dragnet. In it, Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb), Sergeant Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough), and Chief of