"We are sad to learn of the passing of Flight Lieutenant (retired) John Cruickshank, 105. John was the last surviving recipient of the Victoria Cross from World War Two. We thank you for your service." On 17 July 1944, when he was 24 years old, Flt Lt Cruickshank was sent on a patrol to protect the British Home Fleet as it returned from an attack on a German battleship. A U-boat was spotted on the surface near Norway and the aircraft he was captaining and piloting launched an offensive. The first bombs failed to release but Flt Lt Cruickshank repeatedly turned the plane to face enemy fire and returned the attack, sinking the U-boat. Flt Lt Cruickshank sustained 72 injuries including two to his lungs and 10 to his lower limbs. The navigator was killed and three other crew members were severely injured, while the badly damaged aircraft was filled with fumes from exploding shells. The surviving crew members spent five and a half hours flying back to the Shetland Islands.
Or not. Doing everything she could to conceal Trump's crimes and kiss Trump's arse appears to have got her off the hook. For now. I still wouldn't write life insurance on her though.
RIP Lorenzo Somaschini https://buenosairesherald.com/sport...ne-motorbike-racer-dies-after-crash-in-brazil
Coincidentally I just read, by Sigmund Freud, in 1899: "The scabs on the nostrils bring to mind a problem I once had with my own health. At that time I frequently used cocaine to suppress bothersome swellings in my nose and a few days ago I had heard that a woman patient who did the same had contracted an extensive necrosis of the nasal mucous membrane. My recommendation of cocaine, which I made in 1885, also brought severe criticism upon me." He goes on to mention the friend who was trying to quit 'morphia' he recommended coke to, but to take it 'orally'. But the friend immediately started shooting it up, and before long died. Then there's patient Mathilde, who we now know was bipolar - so psychoanalysis probably worse than useless - he put on sulfonal, a hypnotic as dangerous as barbiturates, which eventually killed her. Probably the wrong thread to say LOL.
