― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
other cool, slightly more cheesy story from today's symposium:
118. there was a lady who was a 10 year old navy brat in 1941 and was at a "Jitterbug Contest" on the military base the night before the PH attack. the band leader knew she was a very good jitterbugger, but knew she didn't have a partner so asked the crowd i some young gent would come and dance with her. a uniformed sailor walked on to the dance floor, danced with her, and the two won the contest, each taking home a trophy and never even getting eachothers' names. (no doubt a HUGE thing to happen to a ten year old girl in 1941). the attacks happened the next morning and the little girl survived, lived on Oahu during all of WWII, and went on to live in the Southeast. She always wondered if the serviceman she danced with survived the attack and if so could she one day reunite. long story short, she finally tracked him down, alive and well in 1998, (they had been living 15 miles apart for a few decades) and at the 60th anniversiary gala in 2001, they danced the jitterbug together for the first time in 60 years. they were both in the room as me today while she told this story and will dance the jitterbug again at tonite's 65th aniv. gala.
both this lady and jim leavelle are being covered by NBC this week, so there's going to be stuff on nightly news and today show on wed and thurs. probably.
― grady (grady), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
i think i always knew it subsconsciously.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
-- grbchv! (reduhnekkisssss...), December 6th, 2006. (gbx) (later) (link)
― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link
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― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link
124a. yes! drinks with ultimate bro vic for first time in ages :)
― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link
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― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― v (sleep), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
this looks so fucking weird
― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
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― John Justen wants to hit you in the head with a pipewrench. (John Justen), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― t.weiss (t.weiss), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.starbuckscoffee.org.uk/jpegs/chicago-fuckoff.jpg
― grady (grady), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
137. i am DONE, my semester is officially OVAH
― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link