The 4Star-9Rattan Blog

  Quote of the Week!-My Mother land! A motherland provides dwellers with life's essentials (air, water, food), a deep sense of identity, belonging, culture, language, and heritage, acting as a nurturing, foundational source for physical sustenance, community, values, and history,  fostering pride and loyalty much like a mother provides care and roots for her children. It's the source of shared  traditions, laws, stories, and a connection to place and people, offering protection and a home.   A motherland provides dwellers with life's essentials (air, water, food), a deep sense of identity, belonging, culture,  language, and heritage, acting as a nurturing, foundational source for physical sustenance, community, values, and  history, fostering pride and loyalty , much like a mother provides care and roots for her children. It's the source of  shared traditions, laws, stories, and a connection to place and people, offering protecti...

Saturday Reading!-" Mary had a little Lamb."     Mary Sawyer Tyler : 1806-1889 "Mary had a little lamb" wasn't just a nursery rhyme it was a real 9-year-old girl who saved a dying lamb, and that lamb's wool eventually helped save a piece of American history. You sang it as a child. Maybe you've sung it to your own children: "Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb..." But did you know Mary was real? Her name was Mary Sawyer, and this is the true story behind one of the  most famous poems in the English language. March 1815. Sterling, Massachusetts. A cold morning with frost still clinging  to the barn walls. Mary was born New York Public Library“Birth-place of Mary Sawyer and the little lamb. Sterling, Mass.” Nine-year-old Mary Sawyer was helping her father with the morning chores when they discovered one  of their ewes had given birth to twin lambs overnight. One lamb was healthy, nursing contentedly. The  other lay motionless in the ...

Sunday Special!-"Eyes of the Sky!   Pujji with RAF Squadron Leader Mohinder Singh Pujji saved 300 American-commanded troops in the Burmese jungle  during WWII by locating them from the air after other attempts failed, flying personally to find the lost soldiers hidden from Japanese forces and guiding rescuers to their precise location, earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) for his bravery.  Pujji was sent to No.9 Advanced Unit at RAF Huntington, where he became part of it It was also around this time that he first made the request to fly with his turban, creating what would become the late fighter pilot’s most indelible and iconic image.  They designed a special cap to fit over the turban, enabling him to still use his headphones and oxygen mask whilst flying with it. The turban, which also proudly displayed his RAF wings, was to become even more special to him in ways that he could never have imagined. Not only was it a symbol of his faith and bravery, bu...