JFK Legacy Redux~~It’s Rommel’s Birthday
Could not find much else to do, that would not
exhaust my reserved energy. I therefore stayed with TCM (Turner Classic Movies) which, to
commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the JFK assassination, showed the below selections all of which
I saw for the first time. Ergo it afforded
me some entertainment value. I therefore
almost enjoyed the series. In fact I’d
recommend to it to everybody so inclined to watch commercial-free TV. So check them out when you can.
Four
Days in November (1964)
I
threw in the “almost” qualifier because all the while I was thinking it was
Rommel’s birthday. He happens to be my
oldest nephew. He was most instrumental
in getting me reconnected to the clan when I needed it most, i.e., in a timely
fashion; and at a time when I did not know how.
The
information in and of itself is nothing remarkable. All of us happen to have been born not of our
choosing where or when. We are all
historical incidentals unless of course we’re lucky enough to leverage the unfolding
and recording of history.
I
found it ironical that when your birthday, which by all reckoning has to be one
of the most significant events in your life, happens to be coeval with a world
historical event, e.g., the assassination of a U.S. President (only twice last
century), it becomes rather difficult to
hide your true age.
You
might say, whatever for? Believe me, if
you are resourceful and live long enough you’d find instances when the leverage
of falsifying your age, in numerical terms, has some advantages. At least one of my younger brothers can
attest to it ~~ good, bad, indifferent or otherwise.
So to
Rommel let me say: Happy Half A Century.
May you enjoy as much the second and third halves of a century that’s
yet to come.
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