The week I turned 62.
I'm Eligible for Early Retirement. . .
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
Saturday, May 31, 1975. Laying down arms.
Neutralist Laotian Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma ordered the Royal Lao Army to lay down their arms and cease further resistance as the Pathet Lao took Savannakhet.
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Wednesday, May 28, 1975. "NATO is the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy and has the unwavering support of the American public and of our Congress. Our commitment to this alliance will not falter."
Thursday, May 31, 1945. Intervening in Syria.
Churchill informed de Gaulle that British forces had been instructed to intervene in the Levant in order to end the fighting and the threat it posed to Allied supply lines to the Pacific. The British soon arranged a ceasefire but British intervention would bring the UK and France to the point of war.
The Norwegian government started to return to Oslo.
Odilo Globocnik, age 41, Austrian Nazi committed suicide after being captured by the British.
On Okinawa, the Japanese pulled out of Shuri.
Japanese resistance ended on Negros in the Philippines.
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Wednesday, May 30, 1945. Czech reprisals.
Monday, May 31, 1915. An Armenian provisional state.
Imperial Russian general Nikolai Yudenich arrived in Van, Turkey and appointed Armenian resistance leader Aram Manukian Governor of the Armenian provisional government.
British and Ottoman troops fought in the marshes of the Tigris between the towns of Amara and Qurna, Mesopotamia (Iraq).
The Germans pushed the French back at Souchez.
British and French colonial troops laid siege to German forts around Garua, German Cameroon.
Zeppelin L38 bombed London.
Italian Ralph DePalma won the 5th Indianapolis 500 driving a Mercedes 18/100.
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Saturday, May 29, 1915. Success against the Ottomans.
Labels: 1910, 1915, ANZAC, Art, Australian Army, Gallipoli, New Zealand Army, Ottoman Army, World War One
Tuesday, May 31, 1910. Union of South Africa created.
The Union of South Africa was created from a merger of the British Cape Colony and Colony of Natal, and the conquered Boer republics.
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Wednesday, May 25, 1910. Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright flew on the same plane for the only time, Wilbur made his last flight as a pilot.
Thursday, May 31, 1900. Marching into Beijing.
337 Western troops from the US, Italy, Japan and Russia arrived in Beijing. The entry was not opposed, but not welcome.
The governing body of the Free Church of Scotland voted 592 to 29, to unite with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland creating the United Free Church of Scotland.
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Sunday, May 27, 1900. The Vietnamese Martyrs.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1980s, 1988, Apostolic Christianity, Catholic, Christianity, Pope Leo XIII, Pope St. John Paul II, religion, Vietnam
Friday, May 30, 2025
Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Ranching Freely
Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Ranching Freely: Memorial Day is a day to remember and give thanks to all who have sacrificed themselves for our freedom. No better way of doing that than by...
Wednesday, May 30, 1945. Czech reprisals.
The forced expulsion of ethnic Germans from Brno began.
The French Army took control of the parliament building in Damascus while French aircraft bombed other parts of the city.
On Okinawa US forces reached Shuri and the southeast edge of Naha.
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Tuesday, May 29, 1945. Hitting Yokohama.
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Thursday, May 29, 2025
US Marine achieves feat not done since 1959 during USMC Marksmanship Championship Competition
US Marine achieves feat not done since 1959 during USMC Marksmanship Championship Competition: MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. – U.S. Marines from across the Corps competed in the annual U.S. Marine Corps Marksmanship Championship Competition on MCB Quantico, April 10-18.
Saturday, May 29, 1915. Success against the Ottomans.
Australian troops beat back the last major Ottoman attack at Gallipoli. On the same day, New Zealand troops captured a defense post overlooking ANZAC Cove.
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Friday, May 28, 1915.
Tuesday, May 29, 1945. Hitting Yokohama.
"Men of Co. B, 184th Inf. Regt., inspect a Jap 75-mm gun they captured on Okinawa. 29 May, 1945. Company B, 184th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division."
85% of Yokohama was destroyed in a B-29 raid.
The second Sandakan Death March begins in which the Japanese guards commence a force march of Allied POWs in Borneo.
The French Army shelled Damascus and Hama.
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Monday, May 28, 1945. Memorial Day.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Allison Schrager: America’s debt problem is also a retirement problem
Allison Schrager: America’s debt problem is also a retirement problem
Thoughts?
The average American retirement age is 62, up from 55 in the early 1990s. Some sources say the US average is now 64. The average age in Wyoming is either 63, or 64. It's hard to find percentages for lawyers, but it's well known that many lawyers work past 65, which is sort of falsely, now, regarded as "retirement age" (67 is now "full" retirement depending upon a person's age).
The average retirement age for ranchers is 75.
Wednesday, May 28, 1975. "NATO is the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy and has the unwavering support of the American public and of our Congress. Our commitment to this alliance will not falter."
Gerald Ford.
The statement was issued to calm NATO fears that the US might back out of its commitments to Europe, the way it had in Vietnam.
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Tuesday, May 27, 1975. Americans out of Laos.
Monday, May 28, 1945. Memorial Day.
The USS Drexler was sunk in a kamikaze attack. 100 Japanese aircraft were shot down on the same day, bringing to an end the Japanese air offensive.
William Joyce, "Lord Haw Haw", was arrested by the British in Flensburg.
Queen Wilhelmina returned to the Netherlands.
The Royal Navy stopped the convoy system in the Atlantic, Arctic and Indian Oceans.
Admiral Halsey, commanding US 3rd Fleet, took command of American naval forces operating against targets in Japan.
French forces and Syrians engaged in combat against each other.
John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival was born.
It was Memorial Day.
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Sunday, May 27, 1945. Reversals of fortune in China.
Friday, May 28, 1915.
The French failed to capture, Andres, Pas-de-Calais.
New Zealand troops captured a ridge overlooking ANZAC Cove.
Riots broke out between Sinhalese and Muslims in Kandy, British Ceylon.
Armenian actor Yenovk Shahen, age 34, was murdered in the Armenian Genocide.
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Thursday, May 27, 1915. Armenians.
Monday, May 28, 1900. Annexing the Orange Free State.
The British Empire annexed the Orange Free State.
A total eclipse of the sun darkened a path that ran through Mexico and the southeastern United States and on to Spain.
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Sunday, May 27, 1900. The Vietnamese Martyrs.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1980s, 1988, Apostolic Christianity, Catholic, Christianity, Pope Leo XIII, Pope St. John Paul II, religion, Vietnam
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Tuesday, May 27, 1975. Americans out of Laos.
The US and Laos reached an agreement which included that all Americans were to leave Laos,by June 30, 1975.
The nation was not yet fully controlled by the Pathet Lao.
Falling like dominoes.
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Monday, May 26, 1975. Memorial Day.
Sunday, May 27, 1945. Reversals of fortune in China.
The 6th Army captured Santa Fe and attacked around Wawa Dam on Luzon.
Chinese troops completed the occupation of Nanning, the capital of Kwangsi Province, cutting off the main Japanese supply route from French Indochina, Thailand, Malaya and Burma.
The Chinese 6th Army was air transported from Burma to China, the first time an entire army was moved by air.
Heavy fighting occurred on Okinawa. Off of Okinawa the USS Drexler was sunk by Japanese aircraft.
Rudolf Querner, age 51, German SS officer and police leader committed suicide as the odd process of Germany somewhat denazifying itself continued to occur in this fashion.
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Saturday, May 26, 1945. The Homecoming.
Labels: 1940s, 1945, Burma, Daily Living, Music, Norman Rockwell, Okinawa, Tokyo Japan, U.S. Air Force, World War Two
Wednesday, May 27, 1925. Finding the right girl.
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