This is the 11th Day of March in the year 2022. I’ll begin this post with a quote from Voltaire who said, “It is forbidden to kill, therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” We have a front row seat to the brutality of war and what makes this one different is, they look like us. I wonder how this is going to end. Moving on. Today is Debunking Day (should be every day), Dream Day, Johnny Appleseed Day, Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day, Middle Name Pride Day and National Preschooler’s Day. In honor of Putin’s lies, I will celebrate Debunking Day and hope that the Russian people soon discover the facts of this war. Moving on. On this day in 1669 Mt Etna in Sicily erupted killing 15,000. On this day in 1824 the US War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Native Americans don’t celebrate this day. This is the date of the Great Blizzard of 1888. It was one of the worst storms in American History killing over 400 people. It produced 50-foot snow drifts in some places. It was also referred to as “Great White Hurricane”. In 1869 The West first learned of the Giant Panda from a French missionary who received a skin from a hunter. On this day in 1918 US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas was the first documented case of Spanish flu which killed over 50 million people. Today I’m going to deviate from my normal quotes and give you a few on the topic of “war”. H. G. Wells said, “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” I’ll wrap up this post with a quote from Blaise Pascal who said, “Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with min, though I have not quarreled with him? Good question Blaise. Abide.
