Synchronicity...

[fajrdrako]

Two people close to me had a fall today. One was my father, far away in British Columbia, aged 88, and fragile. The other was my dear friend Sheila, only my age, but with health problems that make a fall both dangerous and painful. (She actually fell yesterday evening, but I just learned of it.) Neither was badly hurt, thank goodness. I hope they heal well and quickly.

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Yes, last I saw my father he looked very uncushioned, very frail.

My father was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in England, working in radar, but I don't think he was in London - he was in the south, I think. Too far away to see Rose in peril, so Jack found her first. It would be nice to think he encountered Captain Jack in one of those cosy officers' clubs.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

working in radar, but I don't think he was in London - he was in the south

Oh!... gosh, do you know what years he served there? The entire war...? Because in the south was where the major action for the Battle of Britain took place. The airfields that the Luftwaffe kept trying to destroy, where were based the RAF squadrons that made up the "few" in "Never in the history of conflict have so many owed so much to so few"... whose names I cannot now think of, but I have been reading of them, in fact earlier tonight on my breaks at work I was. If he was in radar, he was a hero day in and day out. When you see the book I've been reading, you will see this for yourself.

My dad joined the US Navy in 1948, and was a radar technician for four years. He tells amazing tales about those early days of radar.

Again, healing energy to your papa and to you.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

do you know what years he served there? The entire war...?

Couldn't be, because he was back in Canada to get married in June 1944. He left Canada in 1939, I believe, or early 1940.

He was working with Fred Hoyle, if you know where he was based.