Most of television is drivel, but on rare occasions television is sublime.
The American Experience “War Letters”, which aired here two nights, ago is as profoundly moving as anything I have seen, read or heard lately.
This is not just American experience, but the human experience.
If you missed “War Letters”, you can view it online here for a while.
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Suffering from both acute and chronic condo fever, I bundled up and walked down in 8°F/-13.3°C to see how far out the lake is frozen.
I wore my Omni-Heat reflective fleece and pants under a parka and over Levis and corduroy shirt and was, except for my exposed face, comfortable. At sea, less the parka but adding foul weather gear and I’ll be good.
I have a ski cap here. I’m not sure if I have a watch cap on GANNET and will check.
A wall of ice about 5’/1.5 meters high and growing with spray from each wave rises from South Beach. Beyond it the water is open, until on the horizon there is another white line of ice.
