Has been stolen by someone else. I’ve found The Drake, a fishing magazine for folks who really like to fish, and who can’t care too much for wasting cash. It comes out once a year, apparently, and features such wondrous stuff as

“I never thought I’d become a fishing writer,” (John Gierach) says—a rather surprising statement coming from one of the most successful fishing writers of all time. “I thought I’d be a poet or a novelist or something. I started writing about fishing because I was doing a lot of fishing anyway and I figured, ‘Hey, why not do this?’

The 2003 (I just thought deux mille trois) issue has PJ O’Rourke, and a bunch of vignettes that don’t feature any high dollar gear or anything except for love of the water (an exhortation in 52 weeks of fishing suggests going kayaking or rafting during the spring runoff, since in the end it’s not about the fish, it’s about rocks, water, and fresh air), and appreciation of fisher(folk) and fish.

Just a reminder that 62 years ago, 3,000+ Americans died in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, dragging the US into WWII . Ultimately, more than 55,000 Marines and Sailors, and over 300,000 Army soldiers would be killed, two cities would be leveled by atomic bombs, and Europe would be pretty uniformly leveled by a half decade of strategic bombing. More than 16 million Americans, out of a population of about 100 million, would serve in the armed forces. Cost of liberating the world – Approx $335 billion dollars in 1945 dollars.

I hope that we can continue the tradition of our grandparents, and may the American giant never sleep again.