1. A while back I wrote about Don Dawson, the guy who left his life in the US to go search for his brother who had gone missing in action in Vietnam. I turned up a good deal more than I originally thought I would, including having a commenter offer to send me an original copy of the actual Life magazine article from 1965 (!) that she and her husband had found whilst cleaning out their attic. She sent it to me in exchange for the cost of postage, and it was a cool thing to read when I was back home for a couple weeks in August. I didn't have time to transcribe the article, but was still planning to at some point in the future, until today, when I noticed yet another recent comment on the original post I made. Turns out Google Print now has back copies of Life online. Here's the one about Don Dawson. I love the internet.
2. Today I got the following email, from "Gmail Customer Care":
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Kind of scary and evil that some people might fall for this stuff.
3 comments:
that's fun about google books and old magazines. technology doesn't cease to amaze me.
Good thing you warned me about that password. You know me, I might fall for something like that :) MM
Are you ever going to publish what you found on the Dawson's? I saw the Life article on the internet and wondered what became of the family.
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