On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 14:40:09 -0700  writes:
> Hi, thanks for the info about cricket -- I was curious.  Had an odd 
> visualization of British players, you see. 

If it helps, American baseball is equally inscrutable to foreign
players....

We were recently watching a Cricket match in a local park and Russ asked
some leading questions.
The little I know (I still don't have a feel for scoring) comes from a
great many British novels.

> FYI - The CO and chief archetect of this book project contacted my 
> mother to gleefully exclaim "We're doing this -- is't it GREAT?  
> BTW, we included your husband! Please buy a copy at our reunion!"  
> So, she is *gently* reminding him (and, his publisher) that the 
> copyright has not run out, and he needs her permission to publish 
> and distribute. Royalties really aren't the issue, here.

=nodding=

> Hmmm... didn'y know that about the Great Wat, I always thought that 
> was WWII &
> the War to End ALL Wars to be WWI.  Thanks. Lezlie

It's anachronistic esoterica that most folks don't care about, so I
shouldn't worry. [The WWII participants being called "The Greatest
Generation" doesn't help.]
I just have a minor (very) obsession about things WWII.
I think the disappointment of all the short-sighted superlatives for WWI
MAY have backed off the press in the regard of calling it "ender" and
"great" -- or the fact that Korea came on its heels too quick to allow
anything that sweeping to stick. Though the media expounded drippingly
else.

What ship was your Dad on? [Ah, I see you said in another bit. Navy Diver
& Demolitions -- whoa.]

When I attended Dad's ship's [The Pierce; the attack transport APA-50;
fictionalized (shortly after the war) by the 1st Officer in _Away All
Boats_] reunion, what I found most fascinating is that they ALL told the
same 5 or so "safe stories" -- the pov just changed to different parts of
the ship. I'm not sorry I went, but it was nearly a bust in terms of
getting more material on Dad's experience. [And some memories had been
rewritten, clearly, by the movie version of the book.] Still, his
generation appreciated someone younger CARING enough to listen. 

Anyway, good luck with your particular situation. I can see where there's
like to be a lot of bruised feelings, as myopic as points of view re:
reunions and age (of the participants) and all, can be.....
Of course, I can also see where their reunion book really wouldn't have
THAT great an effect on your chances with your Dad's (depending on how
much they muck with it), there's the authorized vs unauthorized version
marketing, and those that read the memoirs are suckers for more (imho). A
lot of the same material gets retread over and over as it is.....

Sounds like your mom is handling it as well as can be.

'Best!
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...We couldn't go on having shimmering insides every day or we would wear
ourselves out. We're . . . we're like the swords, in a way. Sort of black
and ugly-looking when we're just going along from day to day and making
each other angry over little things. But we ought to remember that way
deep inside us there is a little flickering glow.... --Muggles (Carol
Kendall; "The Gammage Cup")

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