What We Do When The Cable Goes Out
Not What You Think
Why is Kerbey posting nipple-less breasts? That’s not like her. No, but WWII is totally like me! Did you know that over 60 million people were killed in WWII (about 3% of the 2.3 billion 1940 world population)? And 7 million of those casualties were in factories and defense plants in the U.S. Can you imagine?
In response to the casualties, a plant in Los Angeles mounted a safety campaign to protect its many female workers. On the left, you see the goggles. On the right is the protective bra. Cumbersome much? Did they make them in many sizes? I wonder how many chest injuries actually occurred. It makes you wonder how much training unskilled workers received before getting their feet wet, so to speak.
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs
A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Small
Chances are high that you may have seen this image, taken by photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg for LIFE magazine. That little hand belonged to Sarah Marie Switzer (a six-month-old fetus) during her 1999 operation to close a lesion on her spinal cord. Tests had showed that she would be born with spina bifida (often prevented by taking folic acid supplements in pregnant mothers).
What a powerful moment as Dr. Bruner gently placed Sarah’s hand back into the uterus.
Problems with spina bifida include poor ability to walk, weak bladder or bowel control, hydrocephalus, a tethered spinal cord, and latex allergy. As Sarah grew, leg braces helped her walk, and her disability didn’t slow her down. Here she is at the age of nine, water-skiing. Yes, water-skiing.
Medical science is amazing!
Free At Last
Allied prisoners liberated by the US Seventh Army at Bad Orb, Germany.
You Came To My Rescue
An American private receives a grateful welcome from an Italian woman after the Battle of Anzio.
On May 25, 1944, General Lucian King Truscott, Jr’s men captured Cisterna, and on June 4th, General Mark Clark led the American forces into Rome. Here the US tanks pass the Colosseum.
“As Good As Ever Went Down Your Throat”
I had to break the image in two, so’s you could really take in the amber glow of Old Crow. 
If Aliens Came And Stole All Our Coke, And Only Then
Confederate Troops, Manassas, Virginia 1861
I don’t know about y’all, but I love jumping inside Civil War photos. Not that war is fun, but it’s so interesting to see images from when photography was in its infancy, 155 years ago.
By the late 1850s, most American artists had switched from taking mainly portraits made with the daguerreotype process to large glass-plate negatives (allowing them to capture entire scenes) that combined the clarity of the daguerreotype and the endless reproducibility of paper-print photography (metmuseum.org).
And aren’t those two little boys dressed as soldiers just precious? I bet that was a sight for them to see. I wonder if the taller one enlisted, a few years down the road.
Doughnuts & Coffee
Rebels Sit On Rooftops
What Could Be Sweeter Than A Doc Who Makes House Calls?
A doc who lights it up right after!
Yep, it’s a Camel ad–with beautiful artwork!
I Don't Get It 