In WWI , Philip Bent VC and Henry Dawson MC displayed great physical courage under enemy fire when they put themselves in lethal danger to rally their men to close a dangerous break in the Allied lines.
This was 'agape' valour in that they did not risk their lives simply for the men in their battalion whom they knew well (kith and kin) but rather they selflessly risked their lives for the entire overall Allied cause.
In WWII , Dawson displayed agape physical courage and moral courage .
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Moral Courage --- this doctor tested on himself first - not on some helpless dying woman ...
First to receive penicillin needle : Henry Dawson, October 15 1940, Columbia Presbyterian medical center, New York
Despite this, Canadian-born (Martin) Henry Dawson wasn't actually a patient.
He was instead the lead investigator of this particular American penicillin research team.
He was merely following an old tradition that says a truly caring doctor doesn't first test a potentially dangerous new therapy upon his patients , but rather upon himself.
It is a tradition that Dawson's main penicillin rival, Australian Howard Florey - entirely in character with his self-serving nature - declined to follow.
Finally ---- a penicillin movie with a genuine hero - a North American hero to boot !
My book series will be the first books - ever - about the dramatic events of wartime penicillin that will feature a North American, Canadian-American Martin Henry Dawson, as its chief protagonist.
And it will thus be the first ever to feature a genuine hero as its chief protagonist.
And it will thus be the first ever to feature a genuine hero as its chief protagonist.
Penicillin G : its very low price has given all of us a quasi Herd Immunity against many once endemic infections
I would claim my book a complete success if it only got a single favourable review on Amazon.com - if that review came from Ramzi Yousef himself.
Recall that in 1993, Ramzi became the first to attempt to blow up the World Trade Center, hoping to kill tens of thousands to revenge those killed by the Atomic bombs of the best known wartime Manhattan Project.
I want Ramzi Yousef and others akin to him worldwide to see that like most things in life, Manhattan is Janus-faced.
Yes it has a Gordon Gekko side, but it also has its Emma Lazarus side.
Plutonium 239, with its half life of more than 24,000 years is atomic Manhattan's dubious gift of death that keeps on giving.
But inexpensive natural penicillin ,the wartime gift from the other face of Janus Manhattan, is a gift of life that just keeps on giving.
Beginning in 1940, in a selfless act of Agape, a dying Manhattan doctor, Henry Dawson, sacrificed his own life to try and save the lives of ten others, insisting (against the Allied governments' dictates) that wartime penicillin should be produced and released in quantities enough for ALL humanity.
Since 1940, Martin Henry Dawson's selfless act has indirectly benefited ten billion of us -- all through a form of quasi Herd Immunity against formerly dreaded bacterial infections.
Because of Dawson's moral argument, penicillin G is today not just our best loved and most effective lifesaver.
It is also are cheapest and this has allowed poor people not normally treated for lack of money to be cured .
This in turn means that the untreated don't act as reserve pools of virulent strains that have kept these dreaded killers endemic or epidemic for millenniums.
Recall that in 1993, Ramzi became the first to attempt to blow up the World Trade Center, hoping to kill tens of thousands to revenge those killed by the Atomic bombs of the best known wartime Manhattan Project.
I want Ramzi Yousef and others akin to him worldwide to see that like most things in life, Manhattan is Janus-faced.
Yes it has a Gordon Gekko side, but it also has its Emma Lazarus side.
Plutonium 239, with its half life of more than 24,000 years is atomic Manhattan's dubious gift of death that keeps on giving.
But inexpensive natural penicillin ,the wartime gift from the other face of Janus Manhattan, is a gift of life that just keeps on giving.
Beginning in 1940, in a selfless act of Agape, a dying Manhattan doctor, Henry Dawson, sacrificed his own life to try and save the lives of ten others, insisting (against the Allied governments' dictates) that wartime penicillin should be produced and released in quantities enough for ALL humanity.
Since 1940, Martin Henry Dawson's selfless act has indirectly benefited ten billion of us -- all through a form of quasi Herd Immunity against formerly dreaded bacterial infections.
Because of Dawson's moral argument, penicillin G is today not just our best loved and most effective lifesaver.
It is also are cheapest and this has allowed poor people not normally treated for lack of money to be cured .
This in turn means that the untreated don't act as reserve pools of virulent strains that have kept these dreaded killers endemic or epidemic for millenniums.
Matter over Mind - Wild over Will , decided WWII
Germany : lost a war it should have won through inefficiency or lost a war it couldn't have won at 110% efficiency ?
The majority of old school (modernist) authors on WWII (men mostly 70 years or older) will go to their graves unbending from a belief that human factors, not material factors , decided WWII.
Because basically they are still modernists at heart and that is what modernists do - or did .
Because basically they are still modernists at heart and that is what modernists do - or did .
WWII : high moral action forsaken for high morale puffery
High morals or High morale : diverse ways to win WWII
Where Henry Dawson and a few others differed most strongly from the mainstream of civilian thought in WWII was his concern that his side could best win the war with high morals --- rather than just with high morale.
why Henry Dawson rather than Henry Alline
The revisionist's temperament
By my fifth year in school, I found it almost impossible to resist the urge to publicly expose the difference between cherished myth and actual reality, regardless of the negative effect on my already diminished popularity.
This constant urge to revise and to debunk has made me a sort of historian, at least by temperament.
This constant urge to revise and to debunk has made me a sort of historian, at least by temperament.
Thin books or fat journals ? Hard to tell !
For a time I thought my Dawson series of books would come out in parts of a periodical magazine :
Triumph of the NATURAL
"The Mills of Nature" will start up its longer (6000 word) articles with a series that puts together a natural world oriented account of WWII.
If that all sounds very Olympian , rest assured it will be instantly sharply brought down to earth.
That is because the series will be told through the eyes of just a single individual, who himself barely got out of town during all of WWII.
You will read of the wartime experiences of New York City based Dr Martin Henry Dawson.
Dawson was a decorated Canadian WWI hero and the leading DNA and Penicillin pioneer.
But Dawson couldn't re-join the military in WWII ,as he had hoped , because he was slowly dying of an auto immune disease throughout the war.
But even if he had gone overseas he couldn't have told this big a story.
Because oddly enough , no frontline military general or overly-busy national leader ever had as intimate an overview of the entire war as a well connected and media-hungry New Yorker.
New York city was the world's biggest , richest city and its biggest port.
It was thusthe war's biggest transfer point for both cargo and both in and outbound troops (not to mention all the just-passing-though VIPs).
This alone made it home to the war's best informed and most varied gossip.
New York was also a wartime city with the world's most varied and freest media.
But that isn't enough to pick out Dawson.
Many equally well-read among the eight million New Yorkers would also seem qualified to tell this tale.
However, in what turned out to be an unexpectedly long war of attrition, the question of sustaining manpower numbers and morale became the paramount question above all others - on both sides.
And so as it happened, the very contrary minded and penicillin-pioneering Dawson ended up becoming very close to the turning point of this vital issue.
This chance of fate , combined with his unusually wide WWI war experiences and his endless curiosity as a reader and listener makes him a wonderful subject to tell Nature's side of the war through.
Admittedly, it is a risk to use the eyes of a homebound dying man to tell the story of a war spread over all the world.
But few military events of WWII could have had a bigger impact on our own post war world than the penicillin events personally initiated by this hometown-bound and dying doctor.
His story over that six year period will be told in about sixty vignettes , collected into six series parts , all determined by six decisive breaks in Dawson's actual WWII experience.
Major parts' titles and their individual time periods :
I : Discarding the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1939 to the Fall of 1940
II : Exalting the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1940 to the Fall of 1941
III : Betraying the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1941 to the Fall of 1942
IV : Agitating the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1942 to the Fall of 1943
V : Denying the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1943 to the Fall of 1944
VI : Triumph of the Natural : roughly from the Fall of 1944 to the Fall of 1945
If that all sounds very Olympian , rest assured it will be instantly sharply brought down to earth.
That is because the series will be told through the eyes of just a single individual, who himself barely got out of town during all of WWII.
You will read of the wartime experiences of New York City based Dr Martin Henry Dawson.
Dawson was a decorated Canadian WWI hero and the leading DNA and Penicillin pioneer.
But Dawson couldn't re-join the military in WWII ,as he had hoped , because he was slowly dying of an auto immune disease throughout the war.
But even if he had gone overseas he couldn't have told this big a story.
Because oddly enough , no frontline military general or overly-busy national leader ever had as intimate an overview of the entire war as a well connected and media-hungry New Yorker.
New York city was the world's biggest , richest city and its biggest port.
It was thusthe war's biggest transfer point for both cargo and both in and outbound troops (not to mention all the just-passing-though VIPs).
This alone made it home to the war's best informed and most varied gossip.
New York was also a wartime city with the world's most varied and freest media.
But that isn't enough to pick out Dawson.
Many equally well-read among the eight million New Yorkers would also seem qualified to tell this tale.
However, in what turned out to be an unexpectedly long war of attrition, the question of sustaining manpower numbers and morale became the paramount question above all others - on both sides.
And so as it happened, the very contrary minded and penicillin-pioneering Dawson ended up becoming very close to the turning point of this vital issue.
This chance of fate , combined with his unusually wide WWI war experiences and his endless curiosity as a reader and listener makes him a wonderful subject to tell Nature's side of the war through.
Admittedly, it is a risk to use the eyes of a homebound dying man to tell the story of a war spread over all the world.
But few military events of WWII could have had a bigger impact on our own post war world than the penicillin events personally initiated by this hometown-bound and dying doctor.
His story over that six year period will be told in about sixty vignettes , collected into six series parts , all determined by six decisive breaks in Dawson's actual WWII experience.
Major parts' titles and their individual time periods :
I : Discarding the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1939 to the Fall of 1940
II : Exalting the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1940 to the Fall of 1941
III : Betraying the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1941 to the Fall of 1942
IV : Agitating the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1942 to the Fall of 1943
V : Denying the Small : roughly from the Fall of 1943 to the Fall of 1944
VI : Triumph of the Natural : roughly from the Fall of 1944 to the Fall of 1945
story papers as model for 21st century books
21st century U-print 'story papers'
I worked long enough in bookstores to realize that our current book publishing system is very badly broken and probably the most climate-destroying of all the culture industries.
WWII as a preview of the Sixth Extinction
The most frequent contribution most of us (scientist or laity) make to the public debate about the Climate is to discuss our beliefs about changes that may (or may not) happen sometime in the future , when human hubris collides with natural reality.
Unfortunately , that leaves more than enough "ifs and maybes" for many other citizens to permanently tune out on this all important public debate.
By contrast, The Mills of Nature discusses what actually did happen in the recent past , when pure human hubris really did get seriously stuck axle deep in the dirt of natural reality.
To protect the guilty and the inept , WWII history has normally been told back to front : 'the Allies won the war in 1945 --- and here is how it all happened'.
It becomes distilled down a human drama between six extremely ham-ish actors, all judged more than capable of eating the scenery.
Cue the headline : "Scenery Eating Actors"
Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, FDR and Tojo were still better known for extraordinarily skills in speech-making and morale-raising than for any administrative prowess they might have had.
But the current historical consensus about WWII argues they were just the kind of leadership needed to fight this sort of war.
So we end with this intimate human drama , a clash between the six men fronting the six biggest civilizations, played out for us above the footlights .
Meanwhile, far back at the ranch , Mother Nature is nothing but an uninteresting and inert painted backdrop.
However, there is another way to tell the story of WWII.
It proceeds more conventionally, from front to back, detailing what Allies, Axis and Neutrals actually thought would happen, day by day, and then contrasting that with what actually did happen.
As a result, it ends up telling a far more downbeat story.
Now we can clearly see human ambitions, on all sides, stymied time and time and time again by natural forces.
And by humans that each side regarded as less than fully civilized and thus less than fully human - people in some sense also seen by most as 'just another part of the natural world.'
Nature (and 'these people of the natural world') turned out to be very far from inert --- for six long years it resists Civilized Man's vaulting ambitions at every turn.
So for but one example , over and over again a bad - natural - harvest of the lowly potato in Germany led to the human decision to see that more Slavs and Jews further East were starved or shot to death.
Even now, few us really believe it was Generalissimo Stalin , rather than General Frost and General Mud, who really saved Russia in 1941.
So once again cue the headline : "Scenery Eating Actors".
But this time , read it with the accent on scenery and not on actors .
I hope you find this Green history of WWII a humbling and healing affair.
Yes it does cut us down to size before the vastness of an ever turbulent Mother Nature .
But hopefully it will also help us give the lesson on the dangers of Climate Change, before we get to the final exam....
Unfortunately , that leaves more than enough "ifs and maybes" for many other citizens to permanently tune out on this all important public debate.
By contrast, The Mills of Nature discusses what actually did happen in the recent past , when pure human hubris really did get seriously stuck axle deep in the dirt of natural reality.
To protect the guilty and the inept , WWII history has normally been told back to front : 'the Allies won the war in 1945 --- and here is how it all happened'.
It becomes distilled down a human drama between six extremely ham-ish actors, all judged more than capable of eating the scenery.
Cue the headline : "Scenery Eating Actors"
Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, FDR and Tojo were still better known for extraordinarily skills in speech-making and morale-raising than for any administrative prowess they might have had.
But the current historical consensus about WWII argues they were just the kind of leadership needed to fight this sort of war.
So we end with this intimate human drama , a clash between the six men fronting the six biggest civilizations, played out for us above the footlights .
Meanwhile, far back at the ranch , Mother Nature is nothing but an uninteresting and inert painted backdrop.
However, there is another way to tell the story of WWII.
It proceeds more conventionally, from front to back, detailing what Allies, Axis and Neutrals actually thought would happen, day by day, and then contrasting that with what actually did happen.
As a result, it ends up telling a far more downbeat story.
Now we can clearly see human ambitions, on all sides, stymied time and time and time again by natural forces.
And by humans that each side regarded as less than fully civilized and thus less than fully human - people in some sense also seen by most as 'just another part of the natural world.'
Nature (and 'these people of the natural world') turned out to be very far from inert --- for six long years it resists Civilized Man's vaulting ambitions at every turn.
So for but one example , over and over again a bad - natural - harvest of the lowly potato in Germany led to the human decision to see that more Slavs and Jews further East were starved or shot to death.
Even now, few us really believe it was Generalissimo Stalin , rather than General Frost and General Mud, who really saved Russia in 1941.
So once again cue the headline : "Scenery Eating Actors".
But this time , read it with the accent on scenery and not on actors .
I hope you find this Green history of WWII a humbling and healing affair.
Yes it does cut us down to size before the vastness of an ever turbulent Mother Nature .
But hopefully it will also help us give the lesson on the dangers of Climate Change, before we get to the final exam....
WWII : the warlords as scientists ...
Nature Resists, 1939-1945 : science proposes, nature disposes
The Allied-Axis started out fighting one enemy and ended up fighting a totally unexpected enemy.
Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Mussolini and Tojo were all well known for having a strong personal interest in science and technology.
Homo Proponit
Man Proposes ,1939 - 1945
The wars and the killings started by the Axis began in 1931 in Manchuria and carried on in full flood until at least 1946-1947, as it played itself out in a series of local but bloody civil wars or wars of national liberation.
At least fifteen full years of non-stop bloodletting somewhere in the world, directed or started by the Axis.
Despite all of this, what makes the very much shorter six years of WWII (September 2 1939 -September 2 1945) truly unique in humanity's long run of war and violence is not the record number of people who died, nor the attempted industrial mass murder of all Jews, all Romas and all Slavs.
the mysterious ways of Martin Henry Dawson ...
God Only Knows why Henry Dawson did what he did - because no one else does ... probably not even himself
1870s Modernity -- fluid or rigid - or both ?
Modernity: Have we got it Wrong ? Rigid not Fluid ?
The usual claim that Modernity represents an extraordinary degree of change and dynamic uncertainty must butt its head against the co-current rise of hyper-rigid nationalism in the same time and space.
WWII's war of the 1As upon the world's 4Fs
The Jews in the mind of the Nazis : not un-natural but rather hyper-natural
WWII started out , on all sides, with at least this in agreement : in part, it was to be a military conflict fought out exclusively between various groups of physically healthy, literate , law-abiding, heterosexual, white men.
Which is to say, the military part of the war was to be exclusively between 'civilized men'.
All the rest of us, the vast majority of us : children, women, 4Fs, colored folks of all kinds, queers , cripples, crooks - on and on - were to remain nearly inert and invisible : acted upon rather than actors.
Just part of the neutral (natural world) backdrop to this ongoing human drama happening under the stage lights.
1939-1945 : scenery chewing actors ...
1939-1945 : 'civilized men' battle each other to divide the natural world - but then , totally unexpectedly , it resists...
"1939 -1945 : Scenery Chewing Actors" is a wonderful ambiguous title.
Does it mean ham actors like Hitler, Mussolini and Churchill tore up the natural world, in passing, as they struggled to lead all humanity ?
Or does it mean does it mean the best laid plans of mousy prime ministers and ratty war lords are blunted and broken when the neutral seeming natural backdrop to their human-only drama turns out to be very much alive around and willing to bite back ?
Ramzi Yousef : here's the beatific side of wartime Manhattan ...
When asked why he hoped his 1993 bomb inside Manhattan's World Trade Center would kill all of the 50,000 people at the complex, the chief planner of the attack, Ramzi Yousef, said the planned massive carnage was partly to avenge the 250,000 Japanese killed by the bombs of the Manhattan Project.
It is true that the current wartime image of Manhattan does present a particularly Mars like character.
It is true that the current wartime image of Manhattan does present a particularly Mars like character.
God's mysterious - not to say even humorous - ways ...
A Presbyterian with a Monstrance of Penicillium Mold
Devout Presbyterian layperson and wartime penicillin researcher Gladys Hobby recounts in her book "Penicillin : Meeting The Challenge" of her rounds carrying a petri dish containing a big circular 'wedged' penicillium mold, every day through the wards at Presbyterian-Columbia Hospital.
This daily pilgrimage served no medical or scientific purpose, but it did serve the moral purpose of helping to sustain the spirits of the young SBE patients there.
when chickenhawks fantasize about war ...
War medicine was from Mars, Social medicine from Venus ?
The very word "war" medicine seems to stir something vaguely Mars-like, deep within the soul of the chickenhawk doctor or scientist.
Successfully conceiving ,in an academic lab at the University of Chicago, a way to reduce combat deaths from shock seems to transport one almost up to the frontline evacuation hospitals, directly under hostile fire.
Being there, doing it, roughing it , all sweaty and virile-like : medical science with the smell of the locker room and the men's shower stall about it.
the fit warring upon their opponents' "unfit" : WWII in a nutshell
Eugenically speaking, WWII was a Proxy War.
Opposing groups of the high tech 'fit' warred mostly upon their opponent's low tech 'unfit' population.
All in the hopes this would cause their opponents to surrender without much direct (dysgenic) combat between the opposing 'fits'.
So - for example - German civilians on German soil were bombed for six full years before British troops* finally fought a badly faded German Army on German soil, in the dying moments of WWII.
Opposing groups of the high tech 'fit' warred mostly upon their opponent's low tech 'unfit' population.
All in the hopes this would cause their opponents to surrender without much direct (dysgenic) combat between the opposing 'fits'.
So - for example - German civilians on German soil were bombed for six full years before British troops* finally fought a badly faded German Army on German soil, in the dying moments of WWII.
WWII's middle class delusion - that only the morale of less civilizied is easily broken
Morale-krieg : breaking the will or the wild ?
Diving Stukas , sirens wailing , bombing city bus stations or strafing refugee columns.
Paratroopers and Fifth Columnists popping up out of nowhere, guns ablazing.
Hard-charging Panzer tanks crushing civilian cars and people while un-announced U-boat attacks in the night sink civilian liners filled with women and children.
Blitzkrieg was clearly Terror-krieg and Morale-breaking-krieg.
But whose morale exactly ?
Philip Bent VC : physical courage of the highest order
Agape Valour has no 'hometown'
The idea that most VCs had one and only one hometown - pace UK Local Government Minister Eric Pickles' idea that their one and only hometown should have a government subsidized cobblestone to mark the one hundredth anniversary of WWI - is factually wrong.
Moreover, it goes against the firm ideas of the lady who set up the standards of the Victoria Cross - Queen Victoria herself.
remembering when wartime Manhattan was from Venus
Now I am become Hope, the Healer of Nations
Thanks to John Gray I can say, in a sideways allusion to his famous book, that wartime Manhattan displayed both a Mars and a Venus side to its Janus-like character and everyone instantly knows what I mean.
the Venus side of wartime Manhattan
In her time - during and after WWI - nurse Edith Cavell was as famous as Oscar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg and all the other WWII "Righteous Among the Nations" combined.
She devoted her life to nursing, mostly in Belgium though she was British herself, and didn't see why WWI should interrupt her practise of trying to save all patients, regardless of whether they were German, Belgian or Allied.
She devoted her life to nursing, mostly in Belgium though she was British herself, and didn't see why WWI should interrupt her practise of trying to save all patients, regardless of whether they were German, Belgian or Allied.
Campbeltown nee Buchanan , 40
" I'm a clapped out ship at a Halifax pier , the first of Knox's 'volunteers' "
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| HMS Campbeltown - formerly USS Buchanan 131 - hero of the famous St Nazaire Raid |
Seventy five years ago next September 6th, the wartime naval base of Halifax Nova Scotia made its biggest ever contribution to military history.
Without even firing a shot.
All because - ironically enough - it was considered the most suitably neutral ground for two former military enemies to publicly seal a handshake of eternal friendship.
Monday, May 26, 2014
Do Nova Scotians still have moral courage ?
I originally wrote this as a 'letter to the editor' to the Halifax Coast Magazine , over the public being offered a chance to name the new city ferry...
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"The best test of a truly world-class city is not in the height of its skyscrapers but in the self confidence, cheekiness and swagger of its ordinary citizens: one has only to think of the character of your typical Berliner, Cockney or New Yorker ("Two decades of world-class delusions," Coast feature by Tim Bousquet, July 11 2013).
Now we have been asked to suggest a name for the new harbour ferry and I would like to see it named The Roue. Partly because I think it is a truly catchy name like "the loonie," but also partly to demonstrate that underneath all their bluster, our world-class-obsessed elite are actually far too chicken to swagger.
William J. Roue, who designed the famous Bluenose, also designed many of our harbour's earlier ferries and rode them daily as well, as he lived most of his long life in Dartmouth but worked in Halifax, making ginger ale by day and designing boats by night.
But as francophones and those with an interest in literature will recognize, roue is also a word adopted into English to describe our complicated feelings about someone who is a rakishly attractive, free-wheeling ladies' man. We shouldn't really like him but we have a sort of sneaking admiration for him (or her) all the same.
Imagine when our sophisticated friends come here, on vacation, from the truly big cities of the world and we oh-so-casually suggest that we "take The Roue to Dartmouth." Let them go back home and tell all their friends that the citizens of Halifax have the nerve to call their harbour ferry The Roue!
Would the Nova Scotians of today have enough swagger to carry this off ? Maybe not. But years ago, after watching William J. Roue's first successful design beat the pants off America's best, one humble deckhand boasted - in the best Sam Slick fashion - "the timbers that'll beat her are still growing in the trees!"
Now there's confidence and swagger that's truly world-class."
—Michael Marshall, Halifax
—Michael Marshall, Halifax
Agape Love as "brave compassion"
It is unusually difficult to be compassionate when one is also under attack.
I mean not just when enemy bullets are winging your way but also when your entire society, including all your friends and family around you, is seemingly opposing your compassion.
I mean not just when enemy bullets are winging your way but also when your entire society, including all your friends and family around you, is seemingly opposing your compassion.
Agape compassion is easy - but Agape valour is very very hard
Agape love is not just 'compassion' - it is selfless limitless compassion for others (including enemies) even onto death.
By definition it seems to be more about limitlessness (of selflessness onto death) than mere normal (limited) expressions of compassion and mere normal (limited) acts of compassion.
Demands that we display agape love thus becomes one of Christ's notorious 'hard' sayings.
By definition it seems to be more about limitlessness (of selflessness onto death) than mere normal (limited) expressions of compassion and mere normal (limited) acts of compassion.
Demands that we display agape love thus becomes one of Christ's notorious 'hard' sayings.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
WWII plenticide and agape penicillin were made for each other : chalk and cheese, matter and antimatter , oil and water
WWII saw an unusually high number of civilians and POWS die in a war supposedly fought between modern civilizations : why ?
Out of thousands of possible drug choices, penicillin , dramatically emerging late in WWII , remains our best loved and best known medicine : why ?
I think these two unusual events are in fact closely linked : (behavior on both sides in) WWII being the disease and Agape penicillin being the cure.
Agape penicillin's plenitude curing plenticide against life and of compassion....
Out of thousands of possible drug choices, penicillin , dramatically emerging late in WWII , remains our best loved and best known medicine : why ?
I think these two unusual events are in fact closely linked : (behavior on both sides in) WWII being the disease and Agape penicillin being the cure.
Agape penicillin's plenitude curing plenticide against life and of compassion....
Scandal : Writers Union of Canada rejects BLOCKHEAD
Great news !
The Writers' Union of Canada has changed its membership requirements and I am still not allowed in.
For a few weeks there , I feared I might be.
The Writers' Union of Canada has changed its membership requirements and I am still not allowed in.
For a few weeks there , I feared I might be.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
His agape love had no hometown....
(Martin) Henry Dawson was born in Truro but spent his formative years going to school in Halifax and Montreal or saving lives and fighting Huns in World War One France.
He later worked in hospitals in Kentucky and in New York City.
In WWII, he gave up his own life to try and save hundreds of thousands of people - people totally unknown to him and from all over the world - who were dying (needlessly) of subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) .
He later worked in hospitals in Kentucky and in New York City.
In WWII, he gave up his own life to try and save hundreds of thousands of people - people totally unknown to him and from all over the world - who were dying (needlessly) of subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) .
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