New England and the rest of the northeast are lovely, especially in the mountains, but as a northeasterner myself, I think that its gentle greenery is much like what you already have in the U.K.
If I were taking the trouble to cross the ocean, I'd like to see something as different as possible. In my first, belated trip the the southwest a few years ago (New Mexico and southern Colorado) I was immediately struck by how very different and foreign (and beautiful) the landscape was.


So I would suggest the Grand Canyon or the canyonlands areas of Arizona and Utah or certainly Yellowstone. It's going to be hot everywhere in the US in August, and crowded in the tourist areas, so reservations are a must. If you can possibly put it off till early September, schools will be back in session by then, and travel in the big parks much more pleasant. By late August many schools have resumed and congestion is a little reduced by then, except for Labor Day weekend (September 2 this year). Don't plan on driving on Monday, 9/2, but Sunday 9/1 won't be bad.

Lady Astor to Churchill: "if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."

He responds: " if I were your husband I'd drink it."

Haven't read this yet, but have read most Vietnam novels, and the best, I think, is "Matterhorn", by Marine vet Karl Marlantes.

Did you get up north at all or CuChi etc? Wonder what's left ofLong Binh?

Is this really Army training or some sort of high school or camp junior ROTC "see what the military is like" event?

94%. Family owned the Studebaker and the 60 poncho. The Mercs were tough.

Roger Bannister? Before or after he ran the four-minute mile?

A good account of the attitudes of the Founders toward religion and their belief in the necessity of separation of church and state can be found in American Gospel - God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, by John Meacham

Actually, none of the transported convicts came from debtors' prison. Convicts was what they were - convicted of crimes under Georgian England's incredibly Draconian and severe penal code, mostly what we would consider petty theft, many under commuted death sentences. England of this period had no penitentiaries at all, and execution or transportation were the sentencing choices. Hughes's The Fatal Shore discusses this at length.

The definitive history of the settlement of Australia is The Fatal Shore, by Robert Hughes, one of the great prose stylists of the last hundred years. It's on my nightstand right now - I'm halfway through. I borrowed it from my girlfriend's Aussie son-in-law (went to see him sworn in as a US citizen, a moving experience). One of the best histories ever written. Anybody with any interest in Australia, or good history, should read it.

"Haven't verified this...."

The key words, but it's what makes this forum amusing sometimes.

100%, and #11 was Jerry Weinberg, Born 1940, Berkely student activist, per google.

100%, and I agree with Mac, but I'll google it.

I remember every single thing in that video. Many thanks. And I learned to drive in a '56 Blue and white Fairlane just like the one in the clip, when it was two years old.

My dad, a WWII vet, now halfway through his 100th year, was treated for bladder cancer several years ago. Seems to have worked pretty well!