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TWO CHARGED ATOMS IN A SUPER COLLIDER

11/15/2012

 
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Two Charged Atoms In A Super Collider
    The military urge to exhibit medals was expressed when WW-I fighter pilots painted enemy flags on the fuselages of their planes. In WW-II, bomber pilots painted a bomb for each mission.  After the war, stationed in Italy, my navigator, Ike, painted an Italian flag on the canvas tent wall over his bed.
    “What’s that?” I asked.
    “Mission accomplished,” he said proudly.
    He’d spent the weekend in Rome where a posh hotel on the Via Veneto, reserved for R&R, had a dance band, and women.
    “Careful you don’t get a war wound,” I said.
    “Always wear body armor.”
    Soon a second Italian flag, a third, then a French tricolor.
    “Is Paris as good as Rome?”
    “Go to Pig Alley!” he said, with a smirk. Soon he had rows of flags.
    It comes to mind in the wake of General Petraeus resigning because of an affair. From what I’ve read and heard, he was an outstanding general, a good CIA director, and nothing classified was lost. I approve of fidelity but not possessiveness, The affair  between a mature woman, ex-Lt. Colonel, now a civilian so no power imbalance, was  two consenting adults. A public resignation obliges papers to pick it up, yet, beneath the text is, what’s the big deal?  Neither her husband, Dr. Scott Broadwell, nor his wife, Ms. Holly Petraeus, is in danger of losing a life partner.
    David Patraeus: top of his West Point class, soccer and ski teams, PhD from Princeton, four-star general, medals from collar bone to bottom rib.
    Paula Broadwell: concert mistress (violinist), high school orchestra, all-state basketball player, homecoming queen, West Point grad, Harvard doctoral candidate.
    Two charged atoms in a super collider, smashing together in a shower of sparks.
    I’d say both deserve medals

Susan Donnelly
11/15/2012 10:10:05 pm

Thank you, Stuart, how refreshing. Sex is used to sell everything from toothpaste to tires, and we freak out about this?

robert streicher
11/15/2012 11:43:34 pm

i think the media needed it... i mean: this election had a big let-down factor for the scrambling idiots paid to talk.(plunged ratings big factor)
there is the security factor, or personel revenge?...but who,? that may take a couple of weeks not to find out or speculate on...but this is not sexy enough. we need something juicier-like hillary on crack.


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    Author (Yuma, AZ, 1944)

    Being 90 years in this world,  with great kids,  great grandkids, great wives (two, one at a time) and great memories, I wonder why some people seem to have stopped loving the U.S.A.? I will wonder in print right here. If you wonder too, or can provide some answers, please comment.
                                   Stuart Hodes

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           With my friend, Nero.
                   April, 2012.
        Photo by Ray Madrigal

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