Seventy-nine years ago today, Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blew up the Soviet war monument that preceded the controversial Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. The Soviets had re-occupied Estonia in 1944 and systematically destroyed memorials to the Estonian War of Independence, which Estonia won in 1920. At 15 years of age, Ageeda and Aili were sent to a Gulag. Aili married a fellow prisoner. They were unable to return to Estonia until 1970. In 1998, they were awarded the Estonian Kotkaristi teenetemärk, the Order of the Cross of the Eagle. They lived to age 93 in Estonia. Today I wanted to do a short ride but climb some of the many hills near my family's home in Santa Rosa. I mapped out an unfamiliar route with lots of steep grades. One turned out to be a private road, but the rest were plenty!