Monterey Bay Forum

07/13/2024

July 13, 1941: Jane Russell inspects her own insignia on the training plane of Don Brown, son of comic actor Joe E. Brown, at the Air Corps Advanced Training School at Stockton, CA.

07/13/2024

The Trump campaign has invited "angel families," or people whose relatives were killed by illegal immigrants, to attend the Republican National Convention as a push to focus attention on migrant crimes taking place with President Joe Biden in office. MORE: https://bit.ly/3Wi6lua

07/13/2024

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, said it would reinstate former President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts after suspending him from the platforms over two years ago, according to a report by Axios.

07/10/2024

I pulled my car into my parking space and our young dog came prancing up to greet me, looking very proud of herself. I had left her in her crate with the door latched, because she had eaten the cushion on the couch a few months earlier. She was not trusted alone in the house. So why was she outdoors?
I looked at the front door which was wide open. Oh sh*t. I called the police and told them I thought my house had been burgled and I was afraid to go in. A squad car arrived very quickly and 2 policemen inspected my house and said it looked like a break-in, but most of the valuables were stacked by the door.
My collie-German Shepard puppy had broken out of her crate and had chased the burglar out of the house. With a prompt report, the police put out a bulletin and caught him later that day.
We never put her back in the crate again. She was well behaved and hadn’t even run away when outside the house on her own.
We put her to sleep this week at the old age of 16. She had a wonderful adventurous life. She peed in 48 states and 5 Canadian provinces. She swam in the Atlantic, Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, all 5 Great Lakes and many lakes, ponds, streams, and mud puddles in between.
Farewell, sweet girl.

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07/04/2024

She is Nadia Nadim. She was born in Afghanistan. Her father was killed by the Taliban when she was 11 and her family fled to Denmark in the back of a truck.
Nadia has scored nearly 200 goals in professional football and represented the Danish national team on 98 occasions.
She has finished medical school and is studying to become a reconstructive surgeon when her playing days are over.
She speaks 11 languages fluently and is on the Forbes list of the most powerful women in international sports.
If you want to show your daughter a role model, show Nadia Nadim
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07/03/2024

"This is Don Clark, a resident of Paradise, Ca. We found Don sitting in his chair and amongst the rubble of what used to be his house. Don said as he tried to leave his house during the fire, he got stuck in a blocked roadway in his vehicle. He survived the fire and decided to stay put at his house to try to save his animals. Don saved one of his dogs and one of his cats. One cat, however, was missing. Don also saved his neighbor's house by fighting the fire himself.
Don didn't seem to think about himself. He was mainly concerned with the animals in the area and the houses he wasn't able to save. The deputies gave Don some food and left him in seemingly good spirits, especially considering what just happened."
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06/30/2024

"This is Sharon, my mother-in-law.
She taught me it’s important work to see someone for who they are and not what you expect.
When I first met my mother-in-law I had a hard time understanding her thick south Virginia accent. And she seemed a little bossy in that southern passive aggressive polite way. But I knew she was important to the love of my life, so I accepted her grudgingly as some of us do when family is forced on us.
After 5 years I still didn’t really know her.
When my wife got leukemia at 30. When our world was shattered and changed forever, Sharon very quietly and very firmly stepped into the role she was born for. She moved, with her dependent Vietnam vet husband, into our house and became Michele’s caretaker too.
Over the last two years she bought most of the groceries, cooked almost every meal, did most of the laundry and cleaning, drove both dependents to almost every one of the 300+ doctor appointments, sorted tens of thousands of pills, and made sure they were all taken on time at every hour every day.
And she did this when she herself was diagnosed with cancer 6 months ago. When she was getting a mastectomy. When she is going through chemo.
She hums when she works. She talks to herself when there’s no one to listen, and she goes about every day with humility and grace.
I took this photo before I left work this morning. She didn’t know I was there.
This, friends, is what greatness looks like in a quiet moment. Waiting on oatmeal to cook for her daughter for the 300th time since she got sick.
Not everyone gets to have a real-world superhero in their lives. And for this I am filled with gratitude every day."

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06/17/2024

CRIME SCENE

What happened here?

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06/10/2024

She was meant to be in relative safety, sitting on a transport barge in the English channel with all the other journalists. But the previous evening, Martha Gellhorn had boldly boarded a hospital barge with her press credentials and the story that she was there to interview nurses. It was a sham, of course, but it got her onboard, where she found a bathroom and locked herself in. She spent a miserable night, horribly seasick, but when she crept out of her hiding place the next morning, she had a front-row seat to one of history’s greatest moments – the invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944.

Thousands of ships and 160,000 men faced the great cliffs as tons of bombs rained from overhead. It would be perhaps the greatest news story of all time, but Martha found that it wasn’t her skill as a writer that was needed. The sea was filled with dead and wounded soldiers, and she leapt into action, helping wherever and however she could.

At nightfall, she waded ashore with the medics and found herself on Omaha Beach, a stretcher-bearer with blistered hands, soaked to the skin with sea water and exhaustion. She would labor through the night, the daring she had known the night before transformed into bravery as she followed the mine sweepers.

In the days to come, Martha Gellhorn would leave that place a different person; no longer an observer of history, but a participant…the lone woman in the D-Day invasion. Heroism sometimes arrives on a wave of opportunity, and we either rise or we don’t.

06/09/2024

My dear friend Judith MacNutt gave me a revised and expanded copy of “Deliverence from Evil Spirits” (Francis MacNutt, revised by Judith)
I started reading it and went on vacation. A week after returning God made it very clear that I needed to read this book again. I had read it in 1995. It was such a CLEAR message, you need to read this book again. Here I am on a Sunday afternoon on a very hot day. I made my cuppa and opened the book. Imagine my surprise when I read my name on page nineteen.
I had no idea this was in the updated version.

06/08/2024

On October 7, Ellay Golan, her husband Ariel, and their 18-month-old daughter Yael huddled in the bomb shelter of their home in Kfar Aza as Hamas terrorists ravaged the community. Somehow, they managed to hold the bomb shelter door shut as terrorists tried to break in, so the terrorists set fire to the house, hoping to smoke the family out.

Ellay, Ariel, and Yael stayed in the shelter as long as they could until they began to suffocate from the smoke. They managed to escape the house, Ellay and Ariel shielding Yael with their bodies as they fled through the flames. They hid in a tractor on the kibbutz for several hours. Finally, they were able to reach a group of soldiers at the entrance of the kibbutz, who took them by helicopter to Sheba Medical Center. Only after Ellay gave the first responders instructions to care for her baby did she lose consciousness.

Ellay suffered burns on 60% of her body and was in a coma for two months due to the damage to her lungs from smoke inhalation. The doctors didn't expect her to survive. Ariel suffered burns over 40% of his body, and Yael 30%.

Thanks to the incredible treatment they received at Sheba, and in part due to an Israeli-invented burn treatment called NexoBrid, Ellay, Ariel, and Yael have made a tremendous recovery.

Last week, with her hands still bandaged from the burns, Ellay received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Ben-Gurion University. Mazel tov, Ellay, and may you make a complete recovery soon!

03/26/2024

Here is the last page on my book
“HAND TO HAND, from combat to healing”
( #1)