Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "Drachinifel"
channel.
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
@Drachinifel The question you answered about "How do you maintain to keep up with your work so well even though you have a new addition to the family?" I thought your answer was very thought provoking and thank you for telling so much about yourself with that answer. It made me want to respond to three different things that you mentioned.
1) The fact that you somehow damaged your memory I found very disturbing and I lament that happening to you very much!
2) I applaud you taking a break from your work to take the time to comfort your child while there is evidently some crisis. I've rarely ever spoken of it, but when I was 7, I hit my head & it required 10 stitches. But right after it happened, I had blood running down my face to the point I was having trouble seeing cuz it was getting in my eyes. And my Dad totally ignored me, got into our only car & left to go to work. I had to wait 45 mins to an hour for my Mom's first cousin to come & take me to the hospital. About 5 years later my Dad asked me how I got the scar on my forehead.
3) Grandparents- And I'm not talking about my biological grandparents, I'm talking about my Step-dad, Billy's Mom, Ruby, & Step-dad, Curtis. Curtis had been a Marine in WW2 & Korea. He never spoke about any of it. He made & drank homemade wine. Would usually drink it while riding his lawnmower in the hot Florida sun. I totally considered them my grandparents. I called Ruby "Grandma" & called Curtis by his name. But those two did more stuff & stayed busy constantly. They both worked in the garden. And I'm talking about a HUGE garden. Curtis also worked on cars, built stuff, made wine, chow chow & was just always busy. And Grandma Ruby was always just as busy. If not in the garden or cooking, she would be sewing or take the truck to the places the factories dumped their unwanted material for sewing. I went with her several times and would always get a truckload of a lot of different nice materials. Satin, lace, you name it, if it was nice she knew where to find it for free. And she knew a lot of other ladies & would go by their house & they would trade this for that. And as busy as they stayed they still had time to show me a great time when I would go stay a week or two during the summer. Took me fishing in the boat. We would camp in Destin, Florida & go crabbing. Took me to Pensacola for a day during a shark rodeo. They accomplished more in a week than most could do in several months. I often wish I could be able to do all the things they could do. But my life now is so far away from there & I have no land to even plant a small garden. And Destin, Florida where we would camp & go crabbing is now covered in big hotels & a man made beach. And I don't live even close to there anymore. I'm in the DC area. I found your channel cuz of USS Enterprise CV-6. I once had a 79 Camaro. I called it the "Grey Ghost!" And when I heard Enterprise had the same nick name I started studying & I never stopped. My wife died 9 years on Christmas Eve and I had to find something to occupy my mind so I didn't constantly concentrate on the loss & pain of losing her.
But I do enjoy your channel very much!!! Thank you for all your hard work! I learn a lot from you!
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
In reference to the USS Indianapolis the surviving crew that had abandoned ship after 3 Japanese torpedoes slammed into her side, it was estimated that around 900 or a little more survived the ship being sank. However, because they were in the water so long many succumbed to exposure & shark attacks with only 316 of the crew FINALLY being rescued. It is actually in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest & longest known shark attacks.
Coincidentally, also during WW2, somewhere in or near Burma, I think, a large number of Japanese troops were retreating from a certain area. I forget exactly the numbers, 1,000 to 1,500 respectively, I think, were cornered in a Mangrove Swamp that was INFESTED with crocodiles. At least 20 to 30 large saltwater crocs lived there with thousands of smaller crocs. The Brits that had them cornered pleaded with them to surrender. Night after night they could hear the screaming of those being attacked, and subsequently eaten. And they continued to ask for them to surrender. I forget the number that finally surrendered. But I think that close to 500 or more Japanese soldiers died & were eaten by crocs before the ordeal was over. I do believe that also made the Guiness Book of World Records.
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
When it comes to submarines, Gato as in GA-To. is how I'm fairly certain is how it's pronounced. However, us Americans are not really picky, if you say Got-to & follow it up with submarine then either way we know what you are talking about. Unless it's someone that doesn't know there are Gato submarines and in that case they don't know either. Just like Louisiana is pronounced 2 different ways but most don't kick up a fuss about either. If/when you come to Washington DC, most that have lived here all there life say "Warshington". And where the hell the r comes from I have no idea!!! But hey, far be it from me to go around kicking up a fuss about pronunciations!
Also, ie I use to live near Toccoa, GA where the first Airborne divisions trained. Also near there is a certain Tugaloo river. However, people there pronounce it as though it is Ta-gu-la. By the way its written I thought tug-a-loo would be how it's pronounced but what the hell do I know? A Cherokee Indian name but trying to conform to English.
Makes me think of a joke I once read in a book called "Silverlock" by John Myers Myers. Why is an angleworm like a parallelogram? Idk why? Well, I can't really say that it is. But if you don't think about it, it won't bother you.
Yes, I will admit it is rather dry but what do you expect for free. If I was a real comedian I'd get paid for telling dumb jokes.
So there smarty pants! Nya nya nya!
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
Look, I know this was done 3 years ago & probably few will see my comments, However, I still feel the need to add my two cents, for what it worth.
The point is, for this thing, the Italia, how far can this thing accurately fire it's 17" guns. And what other ship Captain's would dare go close enough to find out???
And as far as ships being called "she" or "he", although I'm not sure about it but I thought that calling a ship as a "she" started with either the Greek or Roman's, that the ship being a "she" would be more favored by Poseidan and/or less likely to be unfavored and sunk by Poseidan as the God of the Sea may not want a "he" riding his waves. With that being said, small wonder Bismarck sank upon it's maiden voyage. Although I'm sure the Royal Navy had a bit to do with it. Although "he" may have been masculine enough to sink HMS Hood with a lucky strike, "he" wasn't masculine enough to withstand the onslaught of EVERY capital ship the RN could rally to avenge those lost aboard the Hood. And also, I applaud the sinking of Bismarck, but I think more of an effort should have been made to save those of the crew that were left in the water! I understand that the sailors of the RN were very upset about the loss of Hood. But Bismarck was really given no choice by Hood & POW. Fight or Flight. And the two ships were already landing shell splashes all around the German ships when they open fired.
2
-
2
-
I couldn't help but notice your use of "pine resin" as a "thickening agent". I grew up in the southern United States. And if we were ever in the woods & had gotten cold & had a strong desire to build a fire we would find what we called "lighter knot". Basically, when/where a pine tree has died, most of the turpentine from the tree will end up in the stump of the tree before it falls over. Sometimes not easy to find cuz these stumps will be almost ground level. However, the concentrated build up of turpentine in one of these stumps makes it very, very easy to start a fire, even in the rain. Most times they were relatively easy to pull them out of the ground & the concentrated turpentine as a solid is white. So you could usually see where there was a lot of the turpentine & just setting a lit match to that would get you a raging fire rather quickly. But you were using "pine resin" so I'm sort of ignorant to exactly what you mean by that considering it seemed to be a solid. I was thinking that maybe trying turpentine may work as well or better cuz I could definitely see that sticking & burning. But I'm not sure as to if turpentine would have been available & logically, of course, given the time period & location you would have to use products available in quantity in that location and time period. Idk. I'm neither a scholar of either. But I also felt it was rather telling that trying to use such a weapon with a syphon would be rather dangerous for those using it if the wind was not in your favor. However, throwing the hand grenades, if there were enough of them, could still be deployed & give your army an advantage. Because being burned is a terrifying reality & when people are burning they scream loudly & those 2 things would be highly demoralizing & terrifying to an enemy.
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2