"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.--------- Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Remembering Paul Tibbets 6 August 1945
Tibbets's middle name is Warfield. He's a Warfield cousin of mine. All the evidence shows that many thousands of American lives were saved by Tibbets's mission. Later in 1945 he was fiercely attacked by a Dellinger cousin of mine, David Dellinger, a man who never knew that his real heroic Revolutionary ancestors were North Carolinians, not Bostonians.
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