Today would have been Vicki's 66th birthday. I can't believe she's been gone twenty years. We met as freshmen in college, and stayed close until cancer took her. This photo was taken in my first year as a homeowner, and just a day or two after I'd adopted Tasha from the shelter. I miss both of them, so much.
Today would have been Vicki's 66th birthday. I can't believe she's been gone twenty years. We met as freshmen in college, and stayed close until cancer took her. This photo was taken in my first year as a homeowner, and just a day or two after I'd adopted Tasha from the shelter. I miss both of them, so much.
Today would have been Vicki's 66th birthday. I can't believe she's been gone twenty years. We met as freshmen in college, and stayed close until cancer took her. This photo was taken in my first year as a homeowner, and just a day or two after I'd adopted Tasha from the shelter. I miss both of them, so much.
I found myself thinking yesterday (with all the Oppenheimer movie hype) about Daddyâs assertion that when he was stationed in Philly during WWII, he worked on The Bomb. He said, after he got sick, that he wondered if his muscle degenerative disease might have been caused by that work....
Now the Navy Yard is one of the trendy spots for corporations. https://navyyard.org/
I found myself thinking yesterday (with all the Oppenheimer movie hype) about Daddyâs assertion that when he was stationed in Philly during WWII, he worked on The Bomb. He said, after he got sick, that he wondered if his muscle degenerative disease might have been caused by that work.
Did a search, and found the following (link to the full article is below the quote):
âUnbeknownst to nearly all who worked there, the Navy Yard was home to experiments instrumental to the construction of the atomic bomb. In 1944, a wooden building storing uranium for the Manhattan Project exploded, killing two and burning nine. At the time, few noticedâindustrial mishaps were common at the yard, given the frenetic pace of construction and thousands of hastily trained workmen. The Naval Boiler and Turbine Laboratory at the yard was used to separate U-235 isotopes from uranium ore to produce nuclear fuel. âLittle Boy,â dropped by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, most likely used fissile material produced in Philadelphia.
âThe deadly accident, plus the Navy Yardâs proximity to Philadelphiaâs large population, meant the base would never become a nuclear naval facility. Still, a small atomic plant at the Navy Yard operated until September 1945, and some of the research conducted at the Yard guided the construction of the U.S. Navyâs first atomic-powered submarine. These activities, plus rocket technology experiments and degaussing operations (demagnetizing ship hulls to protect against magnetic mines), may have inspired the urban myth of the U.S. Navyâs efforts to render a ship invisible, known as the Philadelphia Experiment.â
Lovely lady! 
edit: And her son drove her nuts sometimes?
