I Could Not Resist

 

Some of you might remember when I sold my Mini Cooper in December of 2021.  If not check it out HERE.

It was very low mileage and I received $200 more than I paid for it.  

At the time, I was concerned about our need to coordinate our driving needs with only one car.  Well it was fine for awhile, but then I started getting more and more cabin fever.  I started looking online for Mini Coopers.  I found one at CarMax that I came pretty close to buying.  It was a four door Countryman and I thought it would work out.  Then I did a search for used Mini's at the Mini dealership here and found the one above - Mini Cooper S 2022 with mileage of 1414. The owner saw a higher powered Mini and traded this one in on it.  It really wasn't inexpensive, but it fit my needs and to be honest, my desires.  So once again I am the owner of a Mini Cooper!

Lest We Forget

 

 https://web.archive.org/web/20220909024633/https://911digitalarchive.org/

War Communique - or What I Want to Hear

 

This is from my mother's memory box that I have mentioned before.  I have googled Pvt. James M Black, Jr with no result so I am not sure if this is the real author or not.  I thought it was interesting the names of people that he mentioned and was especially interested in "Did Charley Chaplin beat the rap?" I again made Google my friend and discovered the following about Chaplin. 

"The 1940s were marked with controversy for Chaplin, and his popularity declined rapidly. He was accused of communist sympathies, , and some members of the press and public were scandalized by his involvement in a paternity suit and marriages to much younger women. An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the U.S. and settle in Switzerland." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin. Chaplin died in 1977 in Switzerland.

Of course the real message was that soldiers didn't want to hear news of the war, but rather wanted to know what was going on in the lives of their girlfriends.