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A Typical Day

Friday, September 12, 2003

• TITLE: "Typical" It didn't seem possible, two years ago, that we would so quickly return to normalcy.

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• "� Anniversary Column �" Here's a link to last year's anniversary column.

• "� Pentagon Memorial Service �" Here's a link to the short Travelogue about my attendance at the 9/11/02 service held at the re-opening of the Pentagon last year.

• "� Roman Legions �" Here's a link to a PBS page about the Roman armies' forays into far-off lands.

  Legions at the frontiers faced a chronic shortage of supplies, hostile local tribes, and tedious routines.

  Britain was the northern limit of the Roman Empire. Soldiers and their families found it to be a remote, hostile land with few amenities. Their lonely letters - preserved in mud for two thousand years - echo with yearning for loved ones and for the comforts of home:

  I write this to you from my winter quarters. I salute you. I ask that you send me what I need for the use of my lads... things I need as soon as possible, since I've just been transferred here: six woolen cloaks and five tunics...

• "� Macbeth �" The speech of Macbeth from Act V scene 5:

  Seyton: The queen, my lord, is dead.

  Macbeth: She should have died hereafter;
  There would have been a time for such a word.
  Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
  Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
  To the last syllable of recorded time,
  And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
  The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
  Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
  That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
  And then is heard no more: it is a tale
  Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
  Signifying nothing.

• Mullfoto of the Day:
  
  
  
  
  
  As you know, it takes precious little to amuse me. That I found this funny is proof enough.

  The other meter has a sign which says 2 HRS MAX.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  World War I Poster
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  
  We will not tire; We will not falter; We will not fail.