[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of June 10, 1944

#1 – “I’ll Get By” - Harry James, with Dick Haymes (reissue of 1941 recording)
#2 – “Long Ago (and Far Away” – Dick Haymes, with Helen Forrest
#3 - “I’ll Be Seeing You” – Bing Crosby
#4 – “I Love You” – Bing Crosby
#5 - “Holiday for Strings” – David Rose
#6 – “San Fernando Valley” - Bing Crosby
#7 - “I’ll Be Seeing You” - Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra
#8 - “Long Ago (and Far Away” – Perry Como
#9 - “G.I. Jive” – Louis Jordan
#10 - “It’s Love Love Love” - Guy Lombardo, with the Skip Nelson Trio

[Seizethecarp]

The murder of Mountbatten by the Commie/Muzzie-backed IRA was one of the most vile acts of treachery in my lifetime...that and trying to off Maggie Thatcher in the same timeframe!

Lots of folks complain about how “worthless” certain royals are or may have been at times, but Mountbatten certainly made up for lots of them in my book as evidenced by the jointly signed letter in this comment on this date 70 years ago.

Looking at his Wiki page I see that he was solidly of German nobility in ancestry and curiously fell in love with a doomed Romanov as a young man carrying that love to his grave!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma

“In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life.”