translation 996.tra.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Bridget Brigitte (McDonald) is an award-winning songwriter, singer, and writer who runs Bionic Sisters Productions. With a symphony-composer-grandmother and a radio-technology-pioneer-grandfather, she was destined for music. Also, with a world-renowned-author/educator mother and attorney father, it’s no surprise that Bridget received a BA from UC Berkeley (Chinese History & Comp Lit. English/French/German) and MA (French) and Ph.D. (Comparative Humanities) from Johns Hopkins. She has written 2 novels, a translation (Stanford), and has poems in journals across the country. She taught at the University of Orléans, France, and returned to California with her husband Jean-Pierre, a graphic designer and manager with a degree in gourmet cooking. Proud parents of adopted animals including tortoises, turtles, fish, cats, and a dog, they live in a drug and alcohol-free home. After wrestling with health issues in 2000, Bridget brought out her CD Where Birds Meet in the Rain (recorded by engineers for Jewel and Blink 182), since played on radio stations worldwide. After performing in France, Ireland, Canada, and on television many times, she witnessed her Bridget Brigitte Special air on TV. She has featured more than 150 performers in her signature shows at Humphrey’s, with line-ups always including an even mix of women and men. Bills she has played on have included Lucinda Williams, Jonatha Brooke, and Harriet Schock (“That Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady”). Bridget was a LA Music Awards AC Artist of the Year nominee (alongside Minnie Driver), and her 2006 10 song music video DVD has himbos replacing bimbos.

evacuation 8.22.j Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

We had had very few losses in previous wars - I call them "de luxe wars" - but in this war, because of the surprise, in the first 24 hours we had great losses, and throughout the first days we had great losses. We weren't prepared and we weren't organized for evacuation and for telling the families and for registration. The amount of deaths in the whole war was 2,500, and many more wounded, and most of the losses were in the first days. The pressure on the hospitals was huge; there was a lot of logistics involved, and it was a terrible blow to morale when the hospitals were filled with so many wounded. We also made mistakes at the beginning of the war. The ratio between ourselves and the enemies... the Syrians and Egyptians had prepared their entire army, and from the very beginning of the war they used their entire army, and we were only using a tenth of our army, so in the first part, the ratio was 1:30 - 1:50. For example, we had one artillery battery and they had [Interpreter: "some number"]; they had 1,200 tanks, we had 300. So we had great losses at the first stage. When the reserve service arrived, we decided to take the initiative and not to allow them to take advantage of their success. So, although we were not prepared, we attacked with part of our forces on 8th October, just as they arrived, and again that was a mistake because we did not have the power, and again we suffered great losses. Only later did we decide to organize first and to switch to an offensive, when we were prepared to concentrate all our forces.