Notes from JWR:
May God Bless and Protect all SurvivalBlog readers in this new year, regardless of calamitous events. — Today is the 125th birthday of John C. Garand (born 1888, died February 16, 1974.) — Today is also the birthday of novelist Daniel Carney. (Born 1944, died January 9, 1987.) The year 2013 also marks the 50th anniversary of Carney’s emigration to Rhodesia. Daniel Carney is best known for his 1977 novel The Wild Geese, which was soon made into a very popular movie of the same name. — Today we present another entry for Round 44 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing …