Posted on 12/07/2011 12:13:51 PM PST by shoedog
Clearly the three blast scrambled his brains...
Bet he squeezed his toothpaste tube from the middle, too....
Thanks for sharing....very interesting obit on an obviously VERY intelligent man.
BTW - he and your wife are correct ....Under is safer than Over...because if a bored little kid is sitting on the pot and starts hitting the roll - in the over position, the paper will quickly spool off and be wasted!! [VBG]
From back when they built engineers that actually, well.. engineered.
Not like these days where everything is computerized.
How old was he, when he passed away?
Fascinating read; RIP Uncle Larry.
Wha??
Everybody knows it should be under. LOL
How was he an eye witness to the two detonations in Japan? There were no crew members with that name on board the aircraft.
Was he in one of the camera/chase planes?
Amazing. How would you even start on that (in the early 40's)?
Communists have stolen our colleges! Oh, Moscow, Idaho.
He sounds like he's had a very interesting life.
Where would he have seen the Japanese detonations? What location or platform?
I thought that Jacob Beser was the only one to have seen both of them.
Very nice obituary...
I too subscribe to the theory that ‘the bomb’ actually saved many lives. It is also quite clear that if he and the full team hadn’t been the first to develop ‘the bomb’, there would have been hell to pay. Germany, Japan, Russia? No thanks.
As for the t.p. installation, it’s my take that over allows your hands to come into less contact with the wall. For the times when more than one application is needed, it’s more sanitary not to come into contact with the wall at all.
Thanks for letting us read the interesting information about your uncle.
Very nice.
We are indebted to him IMO.
Yes. A cat will do the same thing. Whatta mess.
My father and his twin brother were scheduled to be landing craft drivers in the invasion of Japan.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
later
(A 1943 invention would not have been "crucial" to the Battle of Britain - a battle which concluded in 1940)
“I too subscribe to the theory that the bombs saved lives’. How well I recall my days on Leyte as a newly arrived infantry replacement. We had heard about the bombs but we were still being processed for the coming invasion of Japan. My brother had been killed on Okinawa and I can say I was damned angry as well as being very naive about the cost for going into Japan. However, the day I was in a short line for new equipment a Lt. comes out and tells us to go back to our tents and wait for new orders, the shooting was over. I spent many months on Leyte and saw the remnants of war in Jap prisoners and dead bodies bulldozed into large piles in the rice paddies. I really was glad the bombs did what they were intended for and thank the people who made them work.
My dad was a naval stores specialist, and was in Japan within a couple of weeks after the bombs ended the war.
The Japanese people treated him with considerable respect when he was there. One pregnant woman tried to give him her seat on a bus, but he graciously declined.
I believe the Japanese government had turned it’s own people against it. The Japanese had seen their boys destroyed in ways that defied humane norms. If the war hadn’t ended when it did, many more would have died. The Japanese seemed relieved.
I’m convinced there were Japanese who weren’t happy about the situation, but they didn’t cause major problems for us.
Ornery cats make under a necessity.
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