Hi JPF:

They say "Hindsight is always 20/20!" and I glanced at my post number 1041815 with alarm. Somehow, after reading Brian's following post, I decided to go back and edit my remarks. Being tired at the end of my day, my fuzzy thinking got the best of me and I changed a key sentence in the last sentence of the second paragraph.

I meant to say, "Putin never seems to deal from the top of the deck." Old men should read their posts at least three times before pressing the "send" button... LOL! I wish JPF were endowed sufficiently to afford a spell checker... and I know we are barely getting by fund-wise... but nothing will review and correct my inability to put my thoughts down coherently. Forgive me for my excessive stupidity.

Thanks, Ray for your reading reccomendations. I took a shot at the "Rise and Fall" and read most of Churchill's six volume memoirs but I have not read "Wine and War."

Johnny:

I get Brian's drift about a summary regarding your editing jobs but in all honesty, I seldom have the time to watch or listen to the works of others. No offense intended because I realize the importance of what you do. I volunteer my services to edit the work of another JPF member for his blog from time to time. I only wish I could afford an edit person for my scatter-brained posts. To err is human... and so, I must be a human after all!

Happy Sunday, everyone.