Super Bowl Sunday LI (51)

Because we already have enough weirdos outside our doors.

A yearly celebration of America's favorite sport combined with great food and drinks-an accident waiting to happen. Or is it? It's no accident you driving drunk. It's no accident when your child is killed by a drunk driver. At some point, someone chose to drink and had not made prior plans to stay off the road. It's not an accident and it can be prevented.

Drunk driving and child graves are the reason there is something called "responsible driving" and it starts BEFORE you take your first step. It starts BEFORE you get to the party. It starts when you have a ride already lined up.

Note to sober self: with the first sip, your rational decision-making is already dwindling; make plans now.


Bless you today and always.

True Crime Fanatic

PS: Go 'Niners! (that's what die-hard fans say)

Churchill's Secret Agent

In war, ordinary men become soldiers, on extraordinary man became a hero.

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

~Winston Churchill

Churchill's Secret Agent

a novel based on a true story

~by Max and Linda Ciampoli

"One extraordinary man" doesn't come close to all the heroes you'll meet in this story, however it is novelized-fiction at it's finest: there's action, exotic locations, war, blood, suspense, terror, defeat, surrender, and heroes. 

When the Nazi's invaded France, Marc left school to join the military. Because of his extensive education-based upbringing by a nearly non-existant dad and a mother who wasn't allowed near her son, Marc quickly found himself in the elite Alpine infantry. On skis.

Enter Winston Churchill. Marc's godfather gave word to his longtime neighbor that Marc was needing to do more for the Allies. The neighborly Churchill summoned Marc to England and into extensive and difficult training that would come to bear the ending of war in France and in fact, the very life of a hero.

Sometimes known as Michel Carbonell, Marc flew in planes and under the sea to get to most destinations where he often had to parachute to relative safety in order to spread false rumors the Nazi's would pick up on or to give money to the Resistance in hopes to defeat the enemies as quickly as possible.

Twice captured and twice escaped, Marc suffered loss of vision, broken limbs, and enough blood and gore to make a "normal" person crack. Marc wasn't normal. 

By the near-end of the war in France, Marc is back up and on his best secret mission yet: he and trained-by-him special soldiers are going to give the last push back to the Nazi soldiers hidden in the rockiest mountains. That's when a lone bullet hits its mark and ... 

Easy to read, the somewhat new information and excitement over a young hero and a vulnerable nation surviving due in part to one of the most well known person during the times, Winston Churchill, Churchill's Secret Agent delivers all it promises and more, though it falls flat at the end. But a dull ending is forgivable since the true ending goes with the fall of the Nazi regime and another win for the Allies. rated 4 bloody knives