July 2009
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“I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious,...”
– German General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord in Truppenführung, 1933
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The Swine Flu Scare
I always look forward to my journey back home as it usually brings me thoughts about good food, relaxed life and of course family! This time however, I started from Vernon Hills less enthusiastically, with a fear of Swine flu - the disease with symptoms as common as the common flu yet deadly enough to cause death (or so the media would have us believe). I tried buying a mask to wear on my journey...