George Rebane
Seventy years ago today, in the early hours of 4 May 1949, I stood on the rail of the troop carrier USS Harry Taylor (pictured) with my father, as the ship slid past the Statue of Liberty to dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That evening on a chicken farm near Plainfield, Connecticut began our new life in America. The description of that auspicious day I recall in ‘Sixty Years Ago Today – 4 May 1949’.
Earlier today Jo Ann and I attended a farewell party for our friends Stan and Elaine Meckler. They are the latest Californians who see no reason to stay in this state of galloping socialism, rapacious taxes, and a badly fractured society with dysfunctional values and no identifiable culture. After the 2008 election we worked with the senior and junior Mecklers and a few other Nevada County families to found the Tea Party. In the following years, their son Mark Meckler became the recognized co-founder and prominent national voice of the Tea Party. Jo Ann and I are sad to see another family of friends disappear over the horizon to greener pastures.
And finally, this afternoon we also said good-bye to a long-time friend and poker buddy Gil Gray who died about six weeks ago. Gil’s wife Dee asked me to deliver the eulogy at his celebration of life held at the Gold Miners Inn in Grass Valley. Gil was a kind good-hearted person, and always a gentleman. Gil’s passing marks for many of us a tragic 12-months, during which we now have lost three from our band of Brothers of the Green Felt, who attend monthly psychostochastic seminars around the beloved octagon, a tradition now in its 25th year.
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