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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (8th March 1945)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front is advancing toward Danzig and Gotenhafen
German Army Group South continues its offensive around Lake Balaton
German Army Group E is engaged around Sarajevo
Goteburg, Sweden...
Allied and German POWs and internees are exchanged for the last time as chartered Swedish vessel Drottninghold departs for UK, Portugal, Egypt, and Turkey on a repatriation voyage
Germany...
Hitler decrees that families will be held accountable if a soldier surrenders to the Allies
On the Western Front...
Canadian 1st Army captures Xanten
US 9th Army attacks toward Wesel on its left flank and regroups for an assault across the Rhine
US 1st Army captures Bonn and continues sending troops across the Rhine at Remagen -the Luftwaffe conducts heavy attacks against Remagen bridge, which include Me-262 jets
US 3rd Army is advancing from the Kyll River to the Rhine
English Channel...
Four Kriegsmarine minesweepers and other smaller vessels sortie overnight from the Channel Islands witha landing party to raid Granville. They run into US sub-chaser PC-564 patrolling off Granville harbour. With its own gun jammed and overwhelmed by the raiding force, the sub-chaser is badly damaged and most of the crew are killed or captured.
British vessel Lornaston is sunk by U-275
Switzerland...
Secret talks begin between Dulles of the OSS and SS General Wolff regarding the surrender of German forces in Italy
Washington DC...
Roosevelt meets with Generals Stilwell and Wedemeyer, and presents Medal of Honor to Admiral Halsey, despite his poor decision-making at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
In the Pacific...
Two Japanese cargo ships and and two minor IJN craft are sunk by patrolling US aircraft in the South China Sea. Japanese vessel Kwan Shan Maru sunk by mine. A Japanese transport is sunk off Formosa.
On Luzon, US 6th Army is attacking around Shimbu Line, Antipolo, Talaga, Mount Magabang, and Putlan
Detachments of US 8th Army land on Busuanga Island, Balabac Island, and Pandanan Island
Organized Japanese resistance ends on Palawan Island
On Iwo Jima, US V Amphibious Corps continues attacks against fierce Japanese opposition
Burma...
British 14th Army fights its way into northern the outskirts of Mandalay
Indian Ocean...
Japanese vessel Hoyo Maru is sunk by US 10th Air Force aircraft in the Andaman Sea
Today's Air Raids...
Antwerp, Belgium by seven V-2 rockets
Essen, oil facilities, rail yards, a chemical plant and targets of opportunity in Germany by US 8th Air Force
Kapfenburg, Germany by US 15th Air Force
Hamburg, Kassel, Berlin, Hanover, Hagen, Bremen and Osnabruk, and river-minelaying in Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Hungary on rail yards by US 15th Air Force
Maribor, Yugoslavia by US 15th Air Force
Northern Italy transportation lines, supply depots, and other targets in the Po valley by US 12th Air Force
Verona, Italy by US 15th Air Force
Chichi Jima by US 7th Air Force
China Shihkiachwang, Japanese positions, supply depots, transportation lines, and military targets by US 14th Air Force
Burma Japanese positions, transportation lines, and military targets by US 10th Air Force
Hmawbi Airfield, and military targets in Burma by RAF aircraft
2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
The Milk Run
Blogging
Lunch
Meditation
Me Time
Missus Time
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I continue to learn about myself! A considerable handicap to this character is the way it reacts to the unwanted-unexpected. I'm quite capable of a measured response given space, but when suddenly confronted with rudeness, criticism, frustration or nuisance, my reactions are somewhat cranky! This is exacerbated by multiple frustrations or hunger.
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I continue to learn about myself! A considerable handicap to this character is the way it reacts to the unwanted-unexpected. I'm quite capable of a measured response given space, but when suddenly confronted with rudeness, criticism, frustration or nuisance, my reactions are somewhat cranky! This is exacerbated by multiple frustrations or hunger.
This is not an easy one! The only way to prevent this would be for my consciousness to be so elevated and so detached from experience that nothing good or bad affected me at all. At that level of detachment, my mind would be pure awareness, virtually devoid of conscious thought.
Though my consciousness is elevated considerably above the average, it is not yet anywhere near that kind of stillness! If I want to achieve it, I will need to start investing serious daily energy into disciplines of concentration and giving daily meditation priority #1.
But here is the interesting irony - it is my very handicaps of negative experience and mental instability that are driving me inexorably to ever higher consciousness as the only way to escape the suffering.
4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What are you doing about the factors that are restricting you?
5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry throughout with sunshine in the later afternoon and clear skies overnight
A moderate westerly will peter out completely by late evening, but temperatures will drop correspondingly sharply.
Max Temp = 8 degC at midday
Min Temp = 3 degC at midnight
Sunrise at 06:40
Sunset at 17:57
Weathertrack: A weak cold front crossing Britain today will be reduced to cloud by high pressure building behind it
Air Pressure: 1014 millibars and rising sharply
6. TODAY'S ONELINER
I had surgery on my funny-bone and was in stitches for weeks! :D
7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
8. TRIVIA
Reyes syndrome is a rare and potentially fatal disorder linked to taking aspirin during viral illnesses such as the flu. Symptoms include persistent vomiting, fever, and confusion. Liver and brain damage occur within a few days. Many doctors advise against giving aspirin to children and young people for treating the symptoms of influenza-like symptoms. Dozens of cold and flu remedies contain aspirin.
9. ZEN WISDOM
Indifference and acquiescence in the face of the negative, destructive functions of life is, ultimately, to side with the forces of destruction.
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