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This blog began on April 7, 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a fun ride since.<\/p>\n

At 9:14 AM Eastern today, the following entry came in from one of our regular contributors, Dennis, in response to Reflections On D-Day\u00a0<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cTW, You\u2019re right about the Marines in the South Pacific. Unlike the Army, in Europe, who handled all of their own logistics, the Navy handled the logistics for the Marines, who were basically the ground combat forces of the Navy. My Dad\u2019s WW2 experiences were sort of unique. Even with bad knees, he was drafted into the Army Air Corps, right after Pearl Harbor. His first month was spent in the hospital for knee surgery, followed by abbreviated basic training while recovering. He was sent to an airbase on New Caledonia in the South Pacific where he served as an aircraft mechanic (was a mechanic prior to being drafted, aircraft skills learned OJT) for the duration, as he called it. As the saying goes, \u2018all gave some, some gave all.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was the 20,000th<\/sup> comment on this blog.\u00a0 Dennis will be getting an autographed book as a small prize.<\/p>\n

A blog with no commentary is simply one person\u2019s thoughts.\u00a0 Add in the commentary, and you have dialogue and a far more effective exercise in promoting thought and gathering knowledge.<\/p>\n

I have all of you to thank for that.<\/p>\n

A couple of blog entries here attracted so much useful commentary from readers that they grew into full-length articles, each commentator being quoted for what they contributed to the discussion.\u00a0 Both pieces appeared in my \u201cAyoob on Firearms\u201d column in Backwoods Home<\/em> magazine, one on use of guns in extremely cold weather, and one on guns as protection of self and others from venomous snakes. I\u2019m toying with doing the same with this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gratifying that in the course of eight years, I\u2019ve seldom had to delete a comment. When it happens, it\u2019s usually someone trashing another individual who commented (I\u2019m fair game, commentators are not), or who couldn\u2019t accept their first warning not to make racist comments, drop F-Bombs, etc.\u00a0 I can still count on the fingers of one hand those I\u2019ve banned, and that was for stuff like death threats, or indications of stark lunacy.<\/p>\n

As far as I\u2019m concerned, you guys and gals who comment here MAKE this blog.\u00a0 I humbly thank you all for your participation, and look forward to the next 20,000 comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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