...ThanksGiving....

.....the City  is back  to  near  normal....thank  the  Gud  Lord ....!!!!.....with  school attendance swelling ....vaccines   now easy  to  get....learning experience  for  the  modern  gentry  , until  recently ,hitherto  unexposed....;......with the  Hospital 25th Anniversary a runaway  success .....thr  r  reasons to  be satisfied this Friday  Holiday...with  a  sharp downpour  &  strong  winds   today  it  was  as  if business  as   normal....with  Siesta  time reading  a  brisk  affair now  with  Little Nanu  as  Papa's  reading mate  with  a  primary  Children  Encyclopedia....finally, the action  around the Sasquehanna   river  in PA ,a  decisive  battle  near  Albany as  Gen  Horatio Gates brings an  epic surrender  of British  troops  by  the  Continental  Army ....with  Gen  George Washington  retreating  frm  Philadelphia frm the  assault  of Gen  Howe of the British  Red  Coats ....the  surrender  effected  by Gates comes  as  a boon .....for  the Continental  Army ....finally the Mist &a haze over New England lifts off.....as Langguth  captures it so  vividly  in  the "Patriots"....the  narrative of  the American  War  of Independence as  free  flowing as  her  rivers  ....!!!....Lord Cornwallis  in  action too , who later on  succeeded  Hastings   in the Indies....the  Irony more  starkly  laid  before  me  as America  gain independence  frm  Britain   &  We  lose  ours at  the same  time with the East India  Company  tightening its  grip over India.....The Patriots  , The Militia , The Continental army .....no  rank outsider  like  me  can  Opine  abt the Gun Culture , now I  realize ,  as it  is a venerated  American  thought
intimately linked to  their Legacy  of "Liberty".....!!!!