On the last day of his leave, Petty Officer First Class George Mendonsa paid no attention to the day’s newspaper headlines and worried little about his Japanese enemy. After almost two years in World War II’s Pacific theater, his mindset was that the war would unfold independent of his blessing or curse. On the morning of August 14, 1945, his thoughts focused primarily on Rita Petry, an attractive Long Island girl he’d met a few weeks earlier in Rhode Island.
Tuesday, August 14, 1945, started off for Greta Zimmer in the same manner as did most weekdays during that year. Hurrying to get ready for work, she showered, dressed, and pinned her hair up tightly to keep her long locks from covering her ears and neck. Before leaving her Manhattan apartment she grabbed a quick bite to eat, reached for her multicolored, small purse, and rushed out the door. When running late, Greta walked briskly toward the subway station to catch a train that could get her to work on time.
The Last Kiss, a picture from World War II: http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2012-07/story-behind-famous-kiss
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Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back No more no more no more no more Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back No more What'd you say
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back No more no more no more no more Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back No more
Blues Brothers - Jailhouse Rock
The warden threw a party in the county jail The prison band was there and they began to wail The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing You should've heard them knocked out jailbirds sing Let's rock, everybody, let's rock Everybody in the whole cell block Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
pcpilot... back in those days the Dave Clark Five were just as big as the Beatles. But today they are just about forgotten. There is one person that owns their music rights and will not re-release any of their albums???
Those were good days indeed, remember well when the Beatles's played on the Ed Sullivan TV show back then, the following day on the morning on the school bus all of the girls were singing I Want To Hold Your Hand, over & over & over again.
Tradin' my time for the pay I get Livin' on money that I ain't made yet Gonna keep going, gotta make my way While I live for the end of the day (yeah, yeah)
Cuz it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows No one owns a piece of my time There's a long-haired girl who waits, I know To ease my troubled mind, yeah