Private Briefing

09/02/2025

09/02/2025

Happy 77th Birthday to Terry Bradshaw!

09/02/2025

Love this story …

February 1944. In New Guinean jungles, a lone American soldier finds something strange. A little Yorkshire terrier is in an empty foxhole. Corporal Bill Wynne purchases her for two Australian pounds and calls her Smoky. She then stays with him everywhere. Two years of combat, Spam for supper, rain every day, 150 air raids, and two typhoons. Smoky never leaves his side. When bombs drop, she yips and shakes as if she senses something horrible is about to happen. She does this more than once to save Wynne.

Then there is the instant that makes her a legend. An airfield requires a telegraph wire under a runway crowded with planes and people. Digging would shut down everything for days. Wynne attaches a string to Smoky and pushes her through a seventy-foot pipe barely wide enough for her to squeeze through. She gets through fast. This saves the operation.

She is the first therapy dog to visit wounded veterans for twelve years after the war. Today, monuments and awards still keep her memory alive.

09/01/2025

Pretty good flick …

08/29/2025

Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann

Ninety-two years ago this month, a category one hurricane came up the coast bringing four days of drenching rain and flooding much of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. On Aug. 23, 1933, the swollen Sinepuxent Bay would cut a path through a low area near S. 4th Street creating a 50-foot-wide inlet to the Atlantic Ocean.
As the tides changed and water from the ocean flowed back and forth to the bay this gap would widen until eventually spanning three blocks and washing away everything in its path. Assateague Island would be separated from Ocean City forever.
The destruction to Ocean City was massive with the Boardwalk in pieces, the railroad bridge destroyed, and the fishing camps demolished. The automobile bridge was unusable for three days.
Fortunately, no lives were lost, and the storm would turn out to be a blessing. With the opening of the Inlet, Ocean City would enter its modern era with a commercial harbor and a base for the deep-sea charter fishing industry. Assateague would eventually become a National Seashore while Ocean City would become the “White Marlin Capital of the World.”
To purchase one of Bunk Mann’s books, click over to www.vanishingoc.com.
Photo from Bunk Mann’s collection

08/29/2025

How can you not laugh … 😂

08/29/2025

Hmmm ..🤨

Not how my folks brought me up …

"All we can do is to teach our kids better."

08/28/2025

Todd and Buzz …