One time when I was in the Bay Area, an old, short Asian man wearing a "World War II Veteran" cap boarded the BART. I silently wondered to myself if, due to his very short height, he had sat in the ball turret of a B-17.

Year or two later, there's a blurb on the national news about a man with a Japanese last name from about the right part of California, who died at the age of 95. Turns out, he was indeed a rear gunner on a B-17 crew.

Thank you for your service, old stranger. We met only briefly and never talked, but I'm glad our paths crossed.

Nope[1]:

> Is Julia named after someone or something?

> No.

[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/faq/#General