Larry hart
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Older with a full life experience behind me. Grad work in history so you will find a lot of that, War, cultural and geographical. Sometimes I just tell a story. And please comment. I love having my ego massaged.
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The Retreat from Dunkirk, 1940
Dunkirk was a pretty good movie. And, it was fairly accurate by Hollywood standards. However, they left an important part out of this story. How were those thousands of soldiers, the cream of the British crop, able to escape running with their backs to German guns? German forces clearly dominant, pushed the British and their allies into a pocket in Northwestern France but could not finish them off there. Why?
By Larry hart8 months ago in History
Jewish Soldiers from Palestine
In reviewing Pierre Van Paassen’s new book, “Forgotten Ally” the New York Times book reviewer, R.L. Duffus said in October of 1943, “While the French were holding Rommel at Bir Hacheim a tiny but indomitable band of Palestine Jews under Maj. Felix Liebman were holding him in the bloody dust of Mechili, without food, water or thought of surrender. “ Van Paassen’s story of Jewish engineers from Palestine laying a mine field in the Western Libyan desert has proven to be largely made up but even while Van Paassen was weaving his tale, designed to embarrass the British Mandate, Jews from Palestine were in fact fighting and dying in that very desert.
By Larry hart8 months ago in History
My Life as a Craftsman
I’ve been a finish carpenter for a number of years now, and by a rough estimate I have hung about 3,600 doors. Door hanging involves many repetitive operations, such as mortising hinges and drilling locksets, so it makes sense to use jigs. On a typical job, I might have 20 or 30 doors to hang; using jigs, I can cut my installation time in half.
By Larry hart10 months ago in Art
Review: In the Heart of the Sea
In my opinion next to Steven Spielberg, probably the best director of this generation would have to be Ron Howard. The man has proven himself over and over again, with compelling story lines and excellent film craft, “Apollo 13,” “Backdraft,” “A Beautiful Mind,” and others in this top notch portfolio of successes.
By Larry hart10 months ago in Critique
Hank and Jackie
Hank and Jackie The year is 1947, a post war world where Americans must come of age facing the nagging responsibility of emerging as a world power. Like an adolescent struggling to break free from childish thinking, America is forced to decide whether to accept the higher principles on which it was founded or change into something else. This is a story about Jackie Robinson and Hank Greenberg, two of the greatest baseball players during the middle part of the twentieth century. They were opposing ball players on a baseball diamond but in a larger more important role they were on the same team. Are” all men created equal?” Hank and Jackie were two of the many people who helped us decide the answer to that question. Whether they wanted it or not, they became symbols for a generation and helped usher in a new dawn in American thinking.
By Larry hart10 months ago in History
The World According to Moishe
Vel’, as one of your great American v’riter’s once said, if you really v’ant to hear about it, I v’ll tell you. Cum, cum, sit, sit…here, take this chair make yourself comFORT’able. Now, My name is Moishe and I own dis little dry cleaning store. I know it never would’ve bean possible without living in this great con’tery, the United States of America! I consider myself a fortunate man to have come vere many years ago and start a new life. I escaped that madman Hitler v’hen he v’anted to kill all the Jus. P’tui, I spit on his grave, wherever it is.
By Larry hart10 months ago in Fiction
The Anatomy of a War Hero
During the first hours of the Yom kippur war on October 6, 1973, Israel was in a scramble to mobilize quickly to meet the invasion forces both of the Egyptians in the South and the Syrians in the North. They had been caught off guard with minimal forces to guard the borders which had been staunchly maintained since the end of the war in 1967.
By Larry hart10 months ago in Motivation
The Beatles, Dodger Stadium, 1966
The following is an excerpt of a much longer short story. It’s 95% true. It's autobiographical. I actually lived this moment. We were a car full of stupid 16 year old kids that just didn’t want to miss this concert. We did a 60 minute drive in Los Angeles rush hour traffic in about 20 minutes. But we got there and I lived to tell about it. We were there. The Beatles second to last live concert they ever gave in the USA.
By Larry hart10 months ago in History
