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Passport for one 'Herman the Cat', Expert Mouser, veteran of the US Coast Guard o7, WW2, 1943 AD (media.piefed.social)
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[–] MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Now that everything is digital and so rigidly formatted and kept in databases we really lost the ability to have fun in a lot of ways.

But I would love to see the support ticket for the central passport database that reads "someone have a cat a passport and now all our systems are offline because no one ever accounted for this while we were writing the things."

It reminds me of the time I had to spend a week updating database tables to utf8 after someone started putting emojis into their log messages...

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/historypolitics/baltimores-herman-the-cat-expert-mouser-joined-the-coast-guard-during-world-war-two/

Link includes video.

Herman didn't receive one, but many cats and other animals have received Dickin Medals for their gallantry in service. The stories are incredible.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

One day I want to grow up to be like Herman

[–] Bubs@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I'm glad you specified 1943 AD! I almost mistook it for 1943 BC. I always wondered what ancient Maryland was like...