In France opinion is equally strained: after the deaths of ten French soldiers this summer in a Taliban ambush opinion polls called for all French forces to come home.
The Laki eruption was believed to have caused thousands of deaths because of unusual conditions in Europe that summer, along with the severe cold of the following winter.
Following the deaths of Bo Diddley and Les Paul this summer and last, it's obvious that we still greatly misunderstand the music of their particular edge, on which Eckstine was a fellow traveler.