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I saw the update and didn’t add the link promptly. Mea culpa.

The facts don't really match up though I would say that the reaction was true. Reality as I have learned is that the gentleman had his driving privileges restored but they messed up in the required updates and when he got pulled over he came up as suspended - but again - he was supposed to be able to drive.  

Cassandra Wilson “Thunderbird” Blue Note cd

Did anyone catch this last night on the History Channel or on the BBC? The producer's took tape recordings of veterans, digitally "de-aged" them and then filmed actors (who resemble the veterans in their younger days) lip synching their words. There is a family connection to this - my brother-in-law sat down with his dad sometime in the 90s and asked questions about his war experience and let him talk and talk and the tape was sent to a museum eventually.  His dad's name was Harry Parley and his doppelganger and his words are the first ones seen and heard on screen.  I can't say for sure how closely the actor resembled Harry since I never saw pictures of him but I suspect it was very close. (When my wife and I moved to Delray Beach in 2004 we had no idea that Michael's father lived not five minutes away so I became the designated helper for Harry when hurricanes threatened or if he needed help for other things. Very nice man but I never had or took time to ask him about his experiences. And while thinking about Harry I have to mention something that was so funny, and so weird in its way, about him that was discovered after he passed: He was a little obsessive/compulsive and when banks switched to sending out scans of cancelled checks, he would cut each tiny scan into its own mini-check, and glue-stick it to a another piece of paper.  Nobody knew of this habit but we all said it was "very 'Harry'. And there were boxes and boxes of them to dispose of.) )   I only made it thru the first two hours last night and will have to watch the second half online or catch it in broadcast but it was a very effective and affecting production. https://www.history.com/shows/d-day-the-unheard-tapes