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John Candy's death was kinda weird as I remember it.. 

I heard he died of a heart attack, but it always seemed a little fishy.

I don't, he had been over weight for quite some time and still smoked and  of course drank.Think it was the Rolling Stone did a big article on him they had mentioned his dad died young also.But he was successful in business bought one of the CFL teams with Wayne Gretzky and they won the CFL Championships.  I was fan and use to watch Second City TV in the early '80s. He did a segment "Dining with LaRue" a smart ass Food Critic who tried to talk his way into restuarants for Dinner. That was pretty good,talked his way into a nice place and there was always salty exchanges between him and the help.Then he got small gigs then STRIPES I think was the 1st big break.


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Terrora Power Plant photo. Probably right after it was finished in 1925. The photo I have seen which has the sign "Terrora Development Georgia Railway & Power Co". Notice the difference between the new masonry & steel power plant and the wooded shed on the hill. See the pipes coming in behind the plant that carries water 1 mile through the mountain from Lake Rabun Dam to run the generators.


Badge will be pleased to note there is a move afoot to remove said dam which would restore Tallulah Falls to its roaring former granduer.  I doubt that happens though, lake front property being what it is.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

The "Miracle on Ice" (1980)
Voted the greatest sports moment of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated magazine, the unlikely victory of the US men's hockey team over its Soviet counterpart during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games has been called the "Miracle on Ice." The Soviet team was considered the world's best international hockey team, while the US team was made up of amateur and collegiate players.

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USS California (BB-44), affectionately called the "Prune Barge" was the second Tennessee class Super Dreadnought built for the US Navy. She was the last battleship and only Dreadnought built on the West Coast of United States, fittingly, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California.

There was a guy in my hometown who was on this ship on the morning of December 7, 1941. He is the only Pearl Harbor survivor I ever knew personally.

He joined the Navy at 17 in 1941 and had only recently been sent to join the crew of the "Prune Barge" when it was sunk. He spoke to a service club I am in about the experience. After the sinking he swam through oil-covered water to Ford Island.

Next he was assigned to a Cruiser which was sunk at Coral Sea so in the first six months of the war he was sunk twice.

Postwar he ran a stone business in town for many decades. Funniest thing about him was that even as an 80ish year old, grandpa-looking guy he sounded like he was still in the Navy. I'm pretty sure the expression "swore like a sailor" was coined to describe him.

The Battle of the Coral Sea - ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee

The US didn't lose any cruisers at Coral Sea, he may have been talking about Guadalcanal, where we lost five in one night.

Sorry, you are right.

I knew it was in the South Pacific. 

At one point I found an article about it. Apparently a fairly substantial group of former USS California crewmen had all been assigned en-mass to this Cruiser so he was far from the only one. I wish I could remember the name of the Cruiser. 

Next he was assigned to a Cruiser which was sunk at Coral Sea so in the first six months of the war he was sunk twice.

Cindy's father - who I never knew was sunk twice in the N.Atlantic while serving in the Merchant Marine

Guadalcanal was brutal 7 months,sea,air,land - hats off to all of them

Cindy's father - who I never knew was sunk twice in the N.Atlantic while serving in the Merchant Marine

Guadalcanal was brutal 7 months,sea,air,land - hats off to all of them

Agreed.  

The oddest thing about it all is that through it all, the Japanese kept clinging to their "Decisive Battle" doctrine and waiting for the decisive naval battle which they thought would have to come eventually.  What they failed to realize was that the Guadalcanal campaign WAS the decisive battle.  Midway was important in that it SEVERELY curtailed the offensive punch of the IJN, but the decisive battle was Guadalcanal which turned into war by attrition which Japan couldn't hope to win against an enemy with 2x their population and 10x their industrial capacity.  The US simply bled the Japanese dry.  

After Pearl Harbor and the naval battles of 1942 there was something of a lull at least in terms of major fleet-vs-fleet naval battles and there wasn't another one until the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June of 1944.  In the battles of 1942 the IJN had been a worth adversary to the USN but by 1944 they were laughably outclassed.  They had lost many trained pilots and while the USN fliers took to the sky in brand new planes built AFTER the lessons of 1942, the IJN fliers took to the sky in the same planes they had started the war with 2-1/2 years earlier.  The battle was so lopsided that it has ever since been known as the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.