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70 years ago! I don’t remember much about WWll. We saved tin foil and had a big ball of string and bought 10 cent war stamps. Tatum, New Mexico was such a long way from Normandy. What bravery and sacrifice as those young men charged on the beaches of Normandy. Although there is still  much violence in our world it does not compare to WWll. We still have many challenges. Boko Haram, honor killings for women who marry for love, ethnic and religious  slaughter are among the many challenges of today. There are rays of hope. Donald Sterling has agreed to the sale of the Clippers, the kings are a game ahead in the NHL, and I like both teams in the NBA Finals.  And it seems that domesticated dogs may have helped hunters with large kills of wooly mammoths as much as 27,000 years ago. Good for dog man relationships but really bad for the wooly mammoths. 

A report on teachers in Mexico. One teacher made 46,846 dollars a month and apparently Mexico has the oldest teachers in the world. I think I read that 1442 teachers we between 100 and 105 years of age. And if that is not startling enough over 5 billion people do not have the internet. There are two new ecological happenings. The toxic Cane Toad has been discovered in Madagascar and a new to America bark beetle that turns the inside of trees to slime apparently attacks over 200 different types of trees. But some things that seem new are not. Whatever causes Lymes disease has been found in amber and is about 15,000,000 years old. Finally it seems that the Milky Way will collide with our closest galaxy neighbor in a couple of billion years and if that is not scary enough our sun will blow up before that. On the bright side, a new season of Orange is the New Black is on Netflix as well as season 4 of The Glades. For every dark cloud there is a Silver Linings Notebook. For all the recent graduates, may you find whatever will bring great joy and perhaps lots of money.