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Nate Binzen's blog spells out the latest while he figures out how to host it on his www.intuart.com
terreplein (ter' pla-n) n. [Fr. < It. terrepieno < terrapienare, to fill with earth, terrace < terra (see TERRACE) + pienare, to fill < L. plenus, full: see PLENTY] a level platform behind a parapet, rampart, etc., where guns are mounted
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Sunday, June 05, 2011
Memorial Day, 2011
Memorial Day, twenty-eleven the army airman, fighter pilot and later race-car driver, later still creator of the Fitch sports car, to this day owner of the single prototype curve-graced Italian open two-seater, arrived at the parade to pick up his compatriot, fifteenth air force b-seventeen bomber pilot out of Foggia who until last year had always insisted on walking, only to learn from the man’s wife he had died six months before. The airman hadn’t known – he’d been away. He grew quiet, stared off into space. He didn’t drive the car, the widow and bomber’s daughter-in-law told their son over breakfast some days later. She told me about it a couple days ago, she said. Probably didn’t want you guys weighed down by it. Unusual to miss the parade, but they’d been in Toronto… Niagara in fact, that day, swept up as one should be by the great, life-giving waters.
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