GeorgeBates
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From the New York Times, 2 January 2024:
On certain rare occasions, ordinary people in the midst of an average day have changed history...
... Maureen Flavin, a postal clerk on a remote stretch of the northwest Irish coast who, in 1944, on her 21st birthday, helped determine the outcome of the Second World War.
She died on Dec. 17 in a nursing home in Belmullet, Ireland, near the post office where she used to work, her grandson Fergus Sweeney said. She was 100.
The events that led Ms. Flavin to her unforeseeable moment of global consequence began in 1942 when she saw an ad for a job in the post office of the coastal village of Blacksod Point.
She got the job and learned that the remote post office also served as a weather station. Her duties included recording and transmitting weather data. She did that work diligently, though she did not even know where her weather reports were going...
On certain rare occasions, ordinary people in the midst of an average day have changed history...
... Maureen Flavin, a postal clerk on a remote stretch of the northwest Irish coast who, in 1944, on her 21st birthday, helped determine the outcome of the Second World War.
She died on Dec. 17 in a nursing home in Belmullet, Ireland, near the post office where she used to work, her grandson Fergus Sweeney said. She was 100.
The events that led Ms. Flavin to her unforeseeable moment of global consequence began in 1942 when she saw an ad for a job in the post office of the coastal village of Blacksod Point.
She got the job and learned that the remote post office also served as a weather station. Her duties included recording and transmitting weather data. She did that work diligently, though she did not even know where her weather reports were going...