OT: this is one of the things that really gets to me about the last several Republican Presidents – they have all, from Nixon forward revealed things that should have been secret for political ends while burying things as classified that had nothing to do with security beyond their job security or the security of their “legacy.”
]]>OT: that incident, in broad outline, is known and occurs in later published sources on both Allied and German sides of that war. I first read of it in a popular, layman-level German book on code breaking by Rudolf Kippenhahn, first published in 1999, then in 2000 in English translation. But the fact that a blogger among us has a direct family connection to this crucial incident in the history of the breaking of Enigma codes is truly cool. (I do not think my father knew any war-related secrets, but if he did, he took them with him when he died.)
]]>OT: thanks, Kevin. I wonder how many things my Dad never talked about, and think of things I will never mention [not as important or exciting] because an oath is an oath.
]]>I was missing her commentary in our local liberal rag for a while. Now there won’t be any more.
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