“You know, when guys who were in Vietnam came back and got into some...well, some difficulty, everyone said it was the fault of the Vietnam War. But not Korea. Somehow it didn’t work that way.”
June 20, 1996
News & Stories
San Diego's Korean War vets surprised anyone wants to talk about it
Sleepless in Santee asks about mockingbird songs
To: Matmail: Okay, they may be the state bird of Texas, but mockingbirds are driving me nuts. One has moved into the tree outside my bedroom window, and another is in the backyard, and they …
June 20, 1996
How Charles Lindbergh came to be called Lucky Lindy
Dear Matthew Alice: I’ve always wondered why Lindbergh's plane was called the Spirit of St. Louis. It was built by Ryan in San Diego, so why didn’t he call it the Spirit of San Diego? …
June 20, 1996
Big angora-covered cubes came in the postwar hot-rod boom.
Matt: Who invented fuzzy dice? — Dennis, San Diego Same guy that put the ram in the rama-lama ding-dong. Which is to say, who knows? Dice themselves go waaay back. Personkind might have developed written …
June 20, 1996