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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
--Gustave Flaubert

I watched a movie recently titled Out Of The Ashes and thought it was worthy of the time spent to do so.

Movie Information  from Rotten Tomatoes is below:

This powerful, politically charged cable TV movie was based on the memoirs of Hungarian gynecologist and Holocaust survivor Gisella Perl. Having spent the WWII years in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz, Perl (played by Christine Lahti) hopes to leave her living nightmare behind when the Allies liberate Europe. But when she applies for American citizenship in 1946, she is hauled into military court to explain the extent to which she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at Auschwitz without her superiors' knowledge. But as Perl struggles to explain to her relentless interrogators (the explanation taking the form of extended flashbacks), she terminated the lives of the unborn to save thousands of pregnant women from the Nazi gas chambers. Filmed on location in Canada, the U.K., and Lithuania, Out of the Ashes made its Showtime network debut on April 13, 2003.

I believe the full movie can be viewed somewhere on YouTube. Of course, one can obtain it in myriad places. And I recommend it.

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Did You Know . . .?

The bat is the only mammal capable of true flight.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day in 1974 Richard Nixon announced that he will resign the office of the President at noon the next day, August 9. He had been engulfed by a major political scandal that began with the bungled burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic Party's campaign headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972. Senate investigations eventually revealed that the President had been personally involved in the subsequent cover-up of the break-in; additional investigation uncovered a related group of illegal activities that included political espionage and falsification of official documents, all sanctioned by the White House. On July 29 and 30, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment, charging that Nixon had misused his powers to violate the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens, obstructed justice, and defied Judiciary Committee subpoenas. To avoid almost certain impeachment, Nixon announced that he would resign from office.

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WORD FOR TODAY

recommend
verb
1. to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.
2. to represent or urge as advisable or expedient.
3. to make desirable or attractive.
4. to advise, as an alternative; suggest (a choice, course of action, etc.) as appropriate, beneficial, or the like.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Dustin Lee Hoffman

(born August 8, 1937)

Dustin Hoffman is an American actor. He first drew critical praise for the play Eh?. This was soon followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock, the title character in The Graduate. His most notable films include Midnight Cowboy,The Graduate, Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, Marathon Man, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Hook and Wag the Dog.

Deborah Norville

(born August 8, 1958)

Deborah Norville is an American television anchor and journalist. Since 1995 she has been host of the syndicated American television program Inside Edition. She earlier hosted Today on NBC, substitute-anchored both the NBC Nightly News and the weekend CBS Evening News, and was a host and correspondent for two CBS News magazine programs.

Keith Ian Carradine

(born August 8, 1949)

Keith Carradine is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's Nashville, Wild Bill Hickok in the HBO series Deadwood and FBI agent Frank Lundy in Dexter. As a member of the Carradine family, he is part of an acting dynasty that began with his father, John Carradine.

Meagan Monique Good

(born August 8, 1981)

Meagan Good is an American film and television actress. In 2011, Good featured in an ensemble cast of the film version of Think Like a Man. She played Joanna Locasto, the lead character on the NBC drama series Deception. She also starred in the 2013 comedy Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues alongside Will Ferrell.

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