Herman by Jim Unger for October 15, 2024

“….You might have to look in the opposite direction though.”

Also a few others: A, F, G, C, N, H, V, T, .. In other words, you need to be a bit more specific.

Spin the wheel!

I used to take ABDEC drops as a kid!

That chart has some funny words on it. Are the foreign?

Which letters are missing on the eye chart?

Good guess! As in mon-eee.

Is it better like this or like this?

That’s about my eyesight without glasses.

What chart?

What wall?

Can you read line 12?

Read it! Heck I know that guy! He’s my neighbor from Slovakia.

“…..and several O’s.”

I hope he didn’t drive to the doctor’s office with such bad eyesight.

Ah, an amateur cryptographer.

(“e” is the most common letter in English language text)

He doesn’t need glasses, he needs binoculars.

“M? No, that’s a ‘W’”

Yea … My eye exam is due, soon … 8 )

Harry S Truman to join the army for World War I, snuck into the induction center and memorized the eye chart.

Willis Lee managed to graduate from Annapolis with help from his classmates. He had several commanding officers argue that he was more valuable in the navy than not. He would win several medals at the 1920 Olympics for his shooting, this record for the most medals in a single Olympic games by one competitor was held for about 40 or so years. In WWII he was the commander of USN battleships in the Pacific and then the fast battleships once the number of ships was too large for one commander.

Well, he is there for an eye test, right? Can’t wait to see the heavy-duty lenses he’ll be wearing soon.