Happy Birthday To Me!

On this day in history:

The space between a woman's breasts was given a name by the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists: the intermammary sulcus. 

A camel at the Knowsley Safari Park on Merseyside, England was killed by lightning

On Victor Records, singer Allan Jones recorded "I'm Falling in Love with Someone".

At a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish, fellow poet Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt the recital. 

 At the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, John M. Miller, dazzled a large crowd as he executed a perfect loop-the-loop in his autogyro. 

AND

I was born 71 years ago in St Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, California.  After several months living at 45 Newton Street near the Cow Palace, my Dad, W E (Pete) Dobson went overseas as a tail gunner in a B25J named Tuff Stuff in the Rome Arno Air Campaign and my Mom, Isabelle Adams Dobson, accompanied by my maternal grandfather. William Theodore Adams aka Skeet (he was a railroad man so he and we traveled free) brought me home to Federalsburg, Maryland by train.  We only changed trains twice.  Once in Chicago and once in Philadelphia and were picked up at the train station in Bridgeville, DE by my maternal grandmother, Pauline Horsey Adams and taken to the town where I spent the next 24 years of my life, the memories of which today are buzzing around my head like lightning bugs on a warm summer's night.

College, US Air Force, marriages (that is not a typo), two children, two grandchildren and several dogs later, I sit here in Seaford Delaware trying to count my blessings.  It is difficult for me to do that because I don't know where to start as there are too many of them.  Suffice it to say I have led what many would called a "charmed life".  I simply call it blessed by God largely as a result of Godly family members and friends who have prayed for me from before my birth.

So to all the folks I have known before, who traveled in and out my door, I am glad you came along and if I could sing I would dedicate a song to the all the folks I have known before!!!   

PS:

To the uninformed, I celebrate my birthday for an entire week hence The Week O' Dan

 

Purple Heart Day

Today is Purple Heart Day

On August 7, 1782, the original Purple Heart (the Badge of Military Merit) was established by General George Washington

The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, while serving under competent authority in any capacity with one of the U.S. Armed Services after April 5, 1917, has been wounded or killed. Specific examples of services which warrant the Purple Heart include any action against an enemy of the United States; any action with an opposing armed force of a foreign country in which the Armed Forces of the United States are or have been engaged; while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party; as a result of an act of any such enemy of opposing armed forces; or as the result of an act of any hostile foreign force. After 28 March 1973, as a result of an international terrorist attack against the United States or a foreign nation friendly to the United States, recognized as such an attack by the Secretary of the Army, or jointly by the Secretaries of the separate armed services concerned if persons from more than one service are wounded in the attack. After 28 March 1973, as a result of military operations while serving outside the territory of the United States as part of a peacekeeping force.