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What ever happened to Marilyn (A correction)
A few of you asked about Marilyn in my last post.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Marilyn died in 2002 of cancer.
I'm pleased to report that the reporter who wrote it knew Marilyn exactly the way I remembered her.
I was also reminded that I may have been wrong about the timing of when I interviewed her. So, I had cause to go digging around to find my scrapbook (which was buried in a box in the back of a storage closet where I had thrown it when I moved here two years ago).
Strangely enough, my recollection of the autumn air and the kids being out of school is absolutely correct, since it appears I interviewed her the day after Thanksgiving. It was unseasonably warm that year and it is possible that time and distance had muddled it in my mind. VJ Day was important to her, and she did talk quite a lot about VJ Day in the interview I had with her, although that part did not get into the articles I wrote.
The articles I wrote at that time are not online (sadly enough) and I have no ability to put them online.
I will correct the original post (truth is important), and link to this post so the correction can be explained.
Also, there were some typos and I wrote that three planes on 9-11 flew out of Logan when there were only two. The other flights were out of Newark and Dulles.
I want to thank everyone who emailed me privately with their corrections.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Marilyn died in 2002 of cancer.
I'm pleased to report that the reporter who wrote it knew Marilyn exactly the way I remembered her.
I was also reminded that I may have been wrong about the timing of when I interviewed her. So, I had cause to go digging around to find my scrapbook (which was buried in a box in the back of a storage closet where I had thrown it when I moved here two years ago).
Strangely enough, my recollection of the autumn air and the kids being out of school is absolutely correct, since it appears I interviewed her the day after Thanksgiving. It was unseasonably warm that year and it is possible that time and distance had muddled it in my mind. VJ Day was important to her, and she did talk quite a lot about VJ Day in the interview I had with her, although that part did not get into the articles I wrote.
The articles I wrote at that time are not online (sadly enough) and I have no ability to put them online.
I will correct the original post (truth is important), and link to this post so the correction can be explained.
Also, there were some typos and I wrote that three planes on 9-11 flew out of Logan when there were only two. The other flights were out of Newark and Dulles.
I want to thank everyone who emailed me privately with their corrections.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
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The one thing that I did seem to detect is a bias in favour of action instead of determining what action to take.
Interestingly, that is Colin Powell's perspective on the Clinton administration (if you presume that "determining what action to take" was an end in itself). He was then chair of the Joint Chiefs and wrote on it in his autobiography; the "dorm room bull session" approach in policy meetings was not his cup of tea, and he, like most of the military, thought that Clinton's initial picks for defense-related Cabinet posts were less than stellar. Clinton eventually came to the same conclusion after realizing that academics who studied warfare were not quite the same as people who were actually in the military.
- Madox