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Other shelters have experienced a similar increase in abandoned dogs, which many have blamed on an increase in underground breeding during the pandemic, followed by a drop in adoptions post-COVID, combined with tough economic times that are forcing some people to give up their pets.
I have no idea what the kid was like. He might have been the smartest kid in class, might have been a hellraiser. Maybe he was both. He joined the peacetime Navy after high school and lost his life at 20 fighting the Japanese in the Java Sea. He died somewhere between February 27, 1942 and I would say March 2 at the latest.
Odds are this sailor lived through the bombing, abandoned the Langley when the order was given, and was picked up by one of two destroyers, USS Edsall or USS Whipple. Langley men aboard the Whipple were soon moved over to the Edsall, and orders would be given a day later to transfer them at sea from the Edsall to the fleet oiler USS Pecos.
The Pecos finally gets permission to go to sea, over Dutch objections. Before it leaves port, the captain orders his crew to stockpile bamboo poles on deck on the chance his men might end up in the water, as have so many others. Things that float could come in handy.
Knowing the bare bones of the story, I hunted up a more thorough account, heavily footnoted, drawing on original sources and first-hand accounts, personal journals, letters, declassified war records, ours and theirs.
The captain of the Whipple made the nightmare call to break off the rescue, abandon the Langley and Pecos men and save his own crew. He steamed away from men in the water, attacked a Japanese submarine, then went full steam ahead for Australia, barely had enough fuel aboard to get there.
What the Navy reported about the Langley would be closer to the truth about the Edsall. Almost every man aboard the Edsall went down with the ship. No American vessel was close enough to effect a rescue.
The Japanese, however, plucked a few Edsall survivors out of the water. The unluckiest men of all, you might say. Some sources say five men, others as many as eight. After the war, their decapitated remains were unearthed from a mass grave in Indonesia.
And the ship gets there! An unbelievable feat! No one at the U.S. command level had thought it even remotely possible. But SS Sea Witch gets through. She delivers 27 crated P-40e Warhawks. Some assembly required.
Thanks for writing this and thanks for remembering this generation. My parents lived through the Great Depression and World War II and both of them suffered terribly. I dealt with the effects of this until my mid thirties when I replaced my expectations of them with respect and understanding.
Wow, Tony, what a great write-up! It would have been a difficult and dangerous job to be a sailor of any kind back in those days, especially with conflicting leadership hell-bent on moving people, ships, and planes like chess pieces (albeit crappy chess players!). I like that you drew quick attention to the minute discrepancies just in the headstone alone. The true histories of many men and women are buried under bureaucratic bullshit.
Langley Township Mayor Eric Woodward says abandoned buildings must be secured and waste removed from a large lot on the 20200-block of 34th Ave that has become a dumping ground for waste and resting place for squatters.
Thompson said he noticed the abandoned lot with two decrepit buildings on it a few months ago, then saw the amount of garbage and other waste being dumped on the property grow over the past few weeks.
Thompson said the debris seemed to be a mix of construction-site materials and junk left behind by various people using the soccer-field-sized property as a dump for household waste. There were also indications that squatters were on the property, including drug users and thieves.
Golden Pillars is in the process of applying to Langley Township to develop up to 68 townhouses on the site, according to Sandhu, although the ultimate decision on density will be up to the municipality.
In 1992, the secondary wastewater treatment plant was constructed at the southwest edge of the city on Coles Road. Treatment technology utilizes sequencing batch reactors (SBRs). The location of the facility requires that household and commercial wastewater be pumped more than a mile through an 8-inch force main from the primary collection facility in Seawall Park through two lift stations.
When the current facility came on line, the primary wastewater treatment facility in Seawall Park was removed, and the old manholes and outfall were abandoned. The old treatment tank was converted into a generator building with an observation deck on top. The City's treatment capacity is now 150,000 gallons per day.
Hertfordshire is a county full of mysterious places, characters and legends. Starting from the last living witches to a doctor who died at 148-years-old after developing an 'elixir for life'.
Mysterious tales are passed from one generation to another and usually do not have much in common with reality. The county is also home to some 'spooky' places which were abandoned and the circumstances were never explained.
Pictures on Google Maps have revealed a creepy abandoned mansion left by its millionaire owner in the middle of the night. The property was uncovered by an urban explorer back in May 2020 and surprisingly, it wasn't the overgrown garden or rusting Bentley car that created a massive discovery. It is what the explorer found inside which was truly breathtaking, the Daily Star reports.
The huge house in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire had been abandoned in a hurry, with clean crockery still piled up in the dishwasher. Games of snooker and chess had been left unfinished, while the kitchen ceiling had caved in.
Upstairs, designer clothes were hanging up in the wardrobes, with no clues as to who owned the mansion. It was soon discovered that the owner of the house had been one Athanasios Tachmintzis, a 70-year-old Greek millionaire property tycoon.
The father-of-five had bought the house back in 1999 for his large family, and lived there for almost two decades as a recluse with his two daughters and at least one of his sons. His British-born wife Sharon died in 2004 at the age of 52 from cancer after 32 years of marriage.
The house was abandoned back in 2016 in a hurry, but with no clues left as to what had happened. Now, pictures of the house have been uncovered on Google Earth, giving a new view of the creepy mansion.
A rusty and overgrown metal gate on Google Maps is the only sign that the house is there. Villagers who lived nearby to the family said Athanasios, better known as Thanos, was obsessed with security and once had guards positioned at the gates.
He also had three Dobermans on the grounds to protect his property. Details for the house on property website Zoopla list it as having eight bedrooms and six bathrooms, as well as a whopping four reception rooms.
It isn't known how much the house is worth. Thanos' son Athanasios had his business Mirai Industek Ltd was based at the property, according to Companies House. It was incorporated in January 2014, but dissolved in April 2019.
Hudson's Bay Company participation in the Pacific coastal trade wasmotivated by nothing less than a desire to eliminate both Russian andAmerican competition from the Pacific Slope. For many years Russiantrade with Indian middlemen had steadily eaten away at the Hudson's BayCompany's northern interior trade. The Anglo-Russian Convention of 28February 1825 provided scope for continental expansion of the Britishfur trade, confining the Russians to the Alexander Archipelago and anarrow strip of the mainland from 54 40 north latitude along thecoastal range to the 141st meridian and by that degree to the ArcticOcean. An additional clause in the convention provided an openinvitation to undercut the Russian coastal trade by conceding to Britishsubjects the permanent right of free navigation of rivers flowingthrough its coastal strip and free trade on the coast for tenyears.1 Company coastal expansion in the next decade aimed toutilize this invitation although it was against the American coasterswho posed the most immediate threat to the British fur trade that theHudson's Bay Company directed the first thrust of its maritimeeffort.
The American sea captains with whom the Hudson's Bay Company had tocontend were primarily engaged in trading land furs with coastal Indianswho traded with the natives of the interior. Unlike their Russian andBritish rivals, the Americans represented no one company and operatedsolely from ships. Their capital was limited and only an elaboratecommercial cycle dependent on commerce in supplies enabled them to stayin business. The cycle usually commenced in the fall when coasters fromNew England and New York were outfitted for a three-year cruise.Rounding the Horn in December, they called at the Hawaiian Islands, tookon fresh provisions and left behind what was not required for the tradeof the first season. They arrived on the Northwest Coast in March,traded furs at various locations and usually visited the RussianAmerican Company's establishment at Norfolk Sound where they exchangedprovisions for sea otter pelts. In September they either cruisedsouthward to the Spanish settlements to pick up additional supplies andsometimes a cargo of timber or salmon, or returned directly to theHawaiian Islands. Winter was spent in the islands or on a voyage toCanton to sell the furs. The process was repeated a second year and thethird the coaster proceeded to China and thence to the eastern sea-boardof the United States laden with Chinese produce.2
The Hudson's Bay Company coastal strategy discussed at Fort Vancouverin 1828 aimed to exploit two principal weaknesses in this system; (1)dependence on sales to China and Russia, and (2) lack of capital. TheLondon committee ultimately rejected Simpson's 1824 recommendation tosell furs in China for, like the Nor'Westers, they had to deal throughthe agency of the East India Company and their China experience provedto be just as unprofitable. Fortunately, by 1828 the Chinese marketposed less of a threat since its price for pelts wasdeclining.3 Simpson and McLoughlin hoped to destroy the otherAmerican market by effecting an agreement with the Russians to supplymanufactured articles and provisions at prices the Americans could notafford to match. While negotiations were proceeding on this front, acombination of Company trading forts and ships would undertake anintensive campaign to spoil American profits by reducing prices of goodsto the coastal Indians below the American cost of supply.4Fort Langley, situated near the coast and assigned jurisdiction overJuan de Fuca Strait and the inland of Vancouver Island, was the firstlink in the chain of posts intended to eliminate Americancompetition.
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