This date in history

500 years ago today

Florentine navigator Giovanni Verrazano on a voyage for France is the first European to discover New York harbour

boy was he lost - looking for France & ends up in NY Harbor?

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Also a cool little town. Spent a couple of days there in 2005.

Finally, a National Day that's actually important. Today, April 30th, is National Bugs Bunny Day!!!! It commemorates the Rascally Rabbit's first appearance on screen in Porky's Hare Hunt on April 30th, 1938.

Bugs is the second cartoon character with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, coming in after Mickey Mouse.

HAPPY BUGS BUNNY DAY!!!!

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Some came home, many didn't

Was reading yesterday that there are only an estimated 119,000 WW2 Veterans still alive out of the 16.4 million that served.

was reading about the landings & they had a surviving "landerer" that they were interviewing...

He was 102. He said this was the most acurate dipiction of what it was like. No way in hell that I could have done this.
Bless them all................

was reading about the landings & they had a surviving "landerer" that they were interviewing...

He was 102. He said this was the most accurate depiction of that action.
God Bless. There is no way in hell that I could have done this.
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was watching an interview this morning with a Vetern of the landing. He was 102. Said it was the most accurate dipiction of what happened. He was crying.

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