![]() I explained that my father fought in the Pacific theater, not the European, and my mom was stationed 'States-side. "Yes," my father answered, "I was in the Navy, and my wife worked as a nurse in a military hospital." The owner then immediately announced that he wouldn't charge for their room (2 nights!). The owners soon figured out that my parents were American, and asked whether they had been involved in the war. We took my parents there in December 2009, and stayed at a local B&B. The cemetery at OMAHA Beach is so, so overwhelming in its stark symbolism and beautiful setting. I agree with "putting this on the proper day calendrically was way more important that putting in the right day difficultically." Take a moment and reflect on why it’s important to remember it. It’s the 75th anniversary of D-DAY, which the theme commemorates in honorable fashion. Pismo (Beach) is the outlier that doesn’t fit I’m thinkin’ there musta been a way to change that. Liked it, probably more than some others. Short entry this evening, much to do and little time to do it. Sounds like something involving aliens and UFOs. ![]() METROS are known as subways and transportatation authorities out here on the left side of the map. I fear the bubble’s surface tension is about to The price of HOGANS in the greater Los Angeles area is getting ridiculous. Getting pushback on The Raven with EVERMORE is a thumb in Poe’s eye. It seemed harder, and to take longer, while I was doing it than on reflection. ![]() Also took a while to get SHEDDER (25D: Labrador retriever or Alaskan malamute, notably) (I have a chocolate labrador retriever, and shedding isn't really an issue most of the time, so I can't relate to this clue), and the PISMO clue was hard (and I've been to PISMO Beach) ( 53D: _ clam (mollusk found off the coast of California)). SE was hardest part for me, largely because of the DANCER part of SWORD DANCER, but also because the clues down there were often toughly vague (see clues on EVENT, CAST, TESTS, for example). It was all over pretty quickly, though the clues on BIT and BETS held me up a bit (!) in the east (I think of "memory units" as BYTES and I thought agreeing to "make things interesting" was maybe BIDding (not BETting). I liked that, and the cluing of LEE as the artist Krasnick, and not a ton else. JUNO PROBE is a cool and somewhat timely answer (it reached Jupiter just 3 years ago). ![]() a semi-militaristic phenomenon in other parts of the world that I know next to nothing about ( Here's a not-terribly-helpful wikipedia page about it). what is that, actually? Well, in addition to being Horse of the Year in 1959, looks like it's. STATE!? That's the best you can do with those!?!?!). All so that we can trudge solemnly through a pedestrian theme with theme answers that feel mostly boring ( GOLD. Best themed day of the week and poof, gone, not here. I mean, congrats on putting the D-DAY puzzle on actual D-DAY, but boo for bumping the tricksy / ambitious puzzle I've come to expect on Thursday. Mostly I'm disappointed that I didn't get a proper Thursday puzzle. I don't know why it feels weird to commemorate such a bloody day with wordplay, but it does. It's a fairly staid first-words-type theme. I guess I don't have much to say about this.
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