Good Thursday Morning 24 June
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Today in Naval History
June 24
1833 The frigate Constitution is the first vessel to enter the newly-built dry dock at the Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. for overhaul. A false rumor circulates in Boston in 1830 that the U.S. Navy intends to scrap the ship; young Oliver Wendell Holmes pens his poem "Old Ironsides", becoming a rallying cry to save the ship.
1944 Torpedo bomber TBM aircraft (VC 69) from USS Bogue (CVE 9) sink Japanese submarine (I 52), 800 miles southwest of Fayal, Azores.
1944 Navy submarines USS Grouper (SS 214), USS Redfin (SS 272) and USS Tang (SS 306) attack Japanese convoys off the coast of Japan, sinking seven enemy vessels.
1948 The Berlin airlift Operation Vittles is initiated to offset the Soviet Union's blockade access of the U.S., France, and Great Britain to their sectors of Berlin.
1952 During the Korean War, aircraft from USS Philippine Sea (CV 47), USS Bon Homme Richard (CV 31), USS Princeton (CV 37), and USS Boxer (CV 21) continue attacks on hydroelectric plants in North Korea from the previous day
Thanks to CHINFO
Executive Summary:
• There was widespread coverage of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and CJCS Gen. Mark Milley's HASC testimony.
• National, international and trade press reported on a confrontation between HMS Defender and Russian military forces ivo Crimea.
• Navy Times reported on changes to the physical fitness test for postpartum women.
:This day in History
June 24
0217 Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal destroy a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminius in a battle at Lake Trasimene in central Italy.
1314 Scottish forces, led by Robert the Bruce, win an overwhelming victory against English King Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn.
1340 The English fleet defeats the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1497 Explorer John Cabot lands in North America in present-day Canada.
1509 Henry VIII is crowned King of England.
1647 Margaret Brent, demands a voice and a vote for herself in the Maryland colonial assembly.
1664 The colony of New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, is founded.
1675 King Philip's War begins.
1812 Napoleon crosses the Neman River and invades Russia.
1859 At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army, led by Napoleon III, defeats the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I.
1861 Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
1862 U.S. intervention saves the British and French at the Dagu Forts in China.
1896 Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Harvard University.
1910 The Japanese army invades Korea.
1913 Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1931 The Soviet Union and Afghanistan sign a treaty of neutrality.
1940 France signs an armistice with Italy.
1941 President Franklin Roosevelt pledges all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1943 Royal Air Force Bombers hammer Muelheim, Germany, in a drive to cripple the Ruhr industrial base.
1948 The Soviet Union begins the Berlin Blockade, America responds with the Berlin Airlift.
1953 John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announce their engagement.
1955Soviet MIGs down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1964 The Federal Trade Commission announces that, starting in 1965, cigarette makers must include warning labels about the harmful effects of smoking.
1970 The U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS
FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR June 24
THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
24 June
1914: The Signal Corps Aviation School at San Diego received its first Curtiss J tractor (Signal Corps No. 29). It was the forerunner of the "Jennies." (21)
1943: Near Ephrata, Wash., Lt Col William R. Lovelace made a record parachute jump of 40,200 feet. (24)
1952: KOREAN WAR. Far East Air Forces flew 1,043 sorties, the highest daily total for the month. Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers flew over 250 sorties against N. Korean hydroelectric power plants, four of them having been targets the previous day. (28) KOREAN WAR. Throug 25 June, 26 B-29s flew close air support sorties, one of the largest such medium bomber missions since the early days of the war. Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers rendered temporarily unserviceable the Samdong-ni rail complex, the choke point of the eastwest and north-south rail lines in North Korea. Night-flying B-26s seeded the area with delayedaction bombs to hamper repair efforts. (28)
1963: SAC accepted the first flight of 10 Minuteman I (Model B) missiles at Ellsworth AFB with the 66 SMS. (6)
1978: The Sea Satellite (SEASAT), with remote sensing and monitoring of the world's oceans, launched.
1987: President Ronald Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive No. 280, National Airlift Policy, to redefine the roles of military and commercial airlift. It made both "important and interdependent" for fulfilling national security mobility requirements. (18)
1993: The USAF authorized the destruction of B-52 Stratofortress bombers and LGM-30F Minuteman II silos. The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan AFB started destroying the 363 B-52s immediately. (16)
1996: Exercise MARCOT '96. On a global power mission, SECAF Sheila E. Widnall flew on one of three B-52s from the 5 BMW at Minot AFB. Widnall and her crew took off from Andrews AFB on an eight-hour mission for the exercise. The flight included anti-ship operations in the North Atlantic, live MK-82 bomb drops at Gagetown Range, Canada, aerial refueling over western New England and fighter intercepts. Lt Kelly Flinn, a co-pilot of the 23 BS at Minot, joined Widnall on the flight. Flinn was the first B-52 combat-qualified woman. (AFNEWS)
1997: Operation PROVIDE COMFORT/NORTHERN WATCH. EF-111A Ravens from the 429th Electronic Combat Squadron (ECS) at Cannon AFB left Turkey for home after nearly 2,100 days of deployment to support the two operations. (AFNEWS, 26 June 1997)
1998: AMC announced a modernization program to re-engine its entire C-5 fleet over 10- to 12-year period. Besides new engines, the modernization included a comprehensive avionics upgrade with the new All Weather Flight Control System and Global Air Traffic Management equipment. (22)
1999: Operation ALLIED FORCE. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen authorized the redeployment of 315 aircraft, including the 18 A-10s from the 104th Expeditionary Operations Group (ANG), to their home stations. As of this date, the ANG activated 4,227 Guardsmen under the Presidential Selected Reserve Call-Up for Kosovo operations. Of those, the ANG deployed 2,976 people to support those operations and the activities of 73 KC-135s and 18 A-10s. (32)
2001: Lockheed Martin's X-35B (STOVL) concept demonstrator made its first vertical takeoff and landing, at the contractor's facility at Plant 42 in Palmdale. The event validated the aircraft's unusual shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system, marking the first time in aviation history that a shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system had lifted an aircraft off the ground. (3) During a flight at NAS Patuxent River, Boeing test pilot Dennis O'Donoghue flew the X-32B through its first successful transition from horizontal flight to a jetborne hover. Altogether, the plane hovered four times in five flights.
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Thanks to Carl
10 Animals With Surprising Smarts and Brain Power
10 Animals With Surprising Smarts and Brain Power
by Dr. Karen Shaw Becker June 24, 2021
Top 10 Smartest Animals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUlQlc_bxrg
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Some of the smartest animals on earth are species you'd never suspect
For example, dogs, dolphins, and chimpanzees are well-known for their intelligence, but did you know that each arm on an octopus has a mind of its own?
And how about pigeons? Far from "flying rats," these birds have math and problem-solving skills
Humans hardly have the market cornered on brain power. In fact, we're just one of many intelligent species on the planet, and you may be amazed to learn what other types of creatures are on the list.
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Thanks to DR and Rich
Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 8:34 PM
Subject: Can you discover the thread connecting all these news stories?
Hi to all -
NYC
They held their primary election for mayor, to replace Comrade DeBlasio, today. There were many candidates, ranging from bozo to brilliant. But, with so many competing for the job, none was able to get 50% or more of the vote. So, we will not have a winner for a few weeks, yet. It will be kind of like those competitions where each pair competes, and the winners go on to compete against other winners, until 'there can be only one'. Should be interesting.
We also have video of three young black men assaulting an off-duty police officer, and beating him severely. Some speculation that at least one of the three knew the officer, and had reason to be angry with him - perhaps from a previous arrest.
University of Oklahoma
There is a group there promoting 'anti-racist training'. This is an oxymoron, if ever there was one. These 'classes' use extreme racism to promote anti racism. Kind of like the fascists of Antifa claiming to be anti-fascists. So, to ensure that all clearly understand what they are doing, (it is for your own good, after all), everyone must use approved speech. In this case, they say, 'free speech' is not allowed. No discussion or debate over what they are doing, just get in line like the good little lemmings you need to become, and obey.
Supreme Court
Now and then, they get it right. Brandi Levy was on the Junior Varsity cheerleader team, and tried out for Varsity. She was in ninth grade at the time, and failed to make the Varsity squad. She was upset, and vented her feelings, later, off school grounds, on Snapchat. Now, this service is known as a 'safe place', because they delete posts after 24 hours, so they cannot come back to haunt you later. But, someone took a screenshot of Brandi's post, which contained some rough language, and shared it with school authorities. They decided that even though this was personal, private and off-campus, it was not acceptable. So, the school suspended Brandi from the Junior Varsity squad. She and her parents sued the school, and the district court agreed with them. But, the school disagreed, and this went all the way to the Supreme Court. The court ruled 8-1 in favor of Brandi, saying she had the absolute right of free speech, even if the school did not like it.
China
Like other scientists the world over, China uploads research data to a global database, so scientists from all over can expand on their research. But, it seems that some of the data concerning the start and tracing of Covid 'disappeared' from that database. This is not allowed by international law. If someone wants to remove information, they must submit their request for review, and give sound reasons for needing it removed, and then the keepers of this database will choose whether or not to delete it. But, that only works for those who honor and obey law. An American scientist discovered this missing data in cloud storage, and retrieved it. It does show that China had problems much earlier than so far admitted with Covid. And, has a lot of clues as to the origins of the virus, which China has denied.
Of course, this discovery is being suppressed, especially by Big Tech. Now, the Big Tech folks are not doctors. So, the CDC and even WHO have both come out with new guidelines about the vaccinations. It is becoming clear that young people and those who have recovered from Covid should not take additional vaccinations. These often cause harmful, even fatal effects. Just like the anti-vaxxers have been saying. But, Big Tech refuses to allow this information to be distributed, and has removed it from their sites, and blocked any who try to post it - even those who merely quote verbatim what the CDC and WHO say. Rather, they continue to insist that universal vaccinations are the only acceptable actions. Okay, so if this is not about your health and safety, what is it about?
Covid, which is a real problem, is not just a health issue. It is a primary driver for The Great Reset. This is not a conspiracy theory. Too many coincidences for that to be so. This ties directly into lockdowns, and fear mongering, and other measures to control the populations, to keep them in fear, and obedient. And, it worked so well, you can be sure new and improved versions will soon be presented. You know, like that 'extended warranty' on your car all those callers are worried about.
Uncle Joe
Well, he presented his latest, rehash, of gun control ideas today. It was rambling, incoherent, and disjointed, like most of his other speeches. While his and the left minions ignore real crime, or proven solutions, and release rioters while prosecuting police officers, they are telling us that anyone owning guns is the real problem. Chicago came up. With one of the highest murder rates in the nation, and the world, it is not due to lack of enforcement of existing laws in the city, nor to failure to prosecute gang members and drug dealers. Not at all. All those illegal guns in their fair city are due to the outside communities, where people can just go across the street and actually buy guns, and bring them back to Chicago. If we just close down those shops, and take away all registered guns, all the gang crime will stop.
They failed to mention that those other communities, where gun ownership is allowed and common, do not have a gang problem or shootings. Just like places all over the nation where guns are allowed, even required, have very low rates of gun crime. Why, right here in Atlanta, the community of Kennesaw (home of a great Civil War battle) required residents to own a firearm, several years ago. Gun crime dropped more than 90%, and never picked up again. Even today, it is rare for anyone to try to commit a crime in that town with a gun. Those who have tried, have often ended up on the wrong end of a gun. Gangs do not flourish there.
But, good old Joe used the best double speak he could muster to reverse the facts.
Brittany Spears
We had a kind of story on the news tonight. Seems Brittany, now 26, is owned and operated as a ward of her 'conservatorship' . For many years, she has been totally controlled by her masters, who had the courts declare her as suffering from dementia, and therefore incapable of deciding things for herself. She is essentially a slave to those people. And, they said, this is common in Hollywood, to exploit talent.
Daily Mail
This news source is turning out to be quite good at getting to the real story. Their latest is the stuff of supermarket tabloids. Seems Hunter had a little romp in a nice hotel , The Chateau Marmont, for a month or so, where he indulged in his favorite activities, drugs, booze and hookers. To the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. All of it paid for by dad. Not clear if dad was fully aware of and supporting this, or if he just gave Hunter the family credit card. Gosh, how did dad afford all that on the modest salary of a public servant?
Religious Freedom
Got a lot of excellent comments on that post, and one person even sent me the exact quote from the Founding Documents. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." The people who wrote this spoke in a manner a bit different from how we talk today. Kind of like asking the younger set to read and comprehend Shakespeare. His plays are full of jokes, many quite ribald, and a lot of nuances that the kids just do not get. Same here. By 'respecting' a religion, they meant that one faith would get unfair advantage, favoritism, over a different faith. You cannot, for example, allow Christians to do one thing, while Muslims get to do another. Nor can the government restrict the rites and practices of any faith. States did this. Many of the early settlers came here to escape the meddling of governments with their faith or beliefs. And, they tended to group together in communities where they shared common beliefs. And, as often happens, they did not welcome those of differing beliefs to be among them, as that might upset the group.
For two or three hundred years before the great exodus to America, Europe had been having wars over religion. Protestants and Catholics fought many wars over who was to lead the people in faith. Henry the VIII, the original host of 'Queen for a Day' objected to the Pope telling him about marriage and divorce. So, he quit the Catholic Church, and created the Church of England. The two were pretty much the same, other than on matters of divorce. And, the king, not the Pope, was in charge.
This has been honored in the breach more often than in the law, however. Many groups have been shunned or persecuted throughout our history because of their faith. Catholics were treated badly when they began to come here in large numbers, following the Irish Potato Famine, for example. And, they were not welcome in politics - Kennedy was the first Catholic president, and those old enough to remember may recall all the anti-Catholic speech against him. In New Orleans, many years ago, Irish Catholics were treated as virtual slave labor to dig all the canals around that city. Thousands died in these projects, and their bones lie there to this day. Many other groups have had similar experiences. The Native Americans had their religion stamped out by our government, who feared their spiritual strength.
Today, there are massive movements to abolish all religions, and faiths, other than the 'woke' ones, and of course, atheism. Marx hated religion, and God, and his followers are the same.
Rich
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
LOOKING BACK 55-YEARS to the Vietnam Air War— ... … For The List for Thursday, 24 June 2021… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 24 June 1966….
"Community Organizing—the Communist model in South Vietnam circa 1960s"
https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/rolling-thunder-remembered-24-june-1966-cias-iq/
This following work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear's Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip
Vietnam Air Losses
Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
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This Day in Aviation History" brought to you by the Daedalians Airpower Blog Update. To subscribe to this weekly email, go to https://daedalians.org/airpower-blog/.
June 23, 1961
Maj. Robert M. White became the first person to exceed Mach 5 when he flew the X-15 to a speed of Mach 5.27 (3,603 mph) at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Flights during this phase incrementally increased the speed and altitude of the X-15 up to its design limits of Mach 6 and 250,000 feet. The second North American Aviation X-15A, 56-6671, was air-dropped from the NB-52A Stratofortress mothership, 52-003, over Mud Lake, Nev. White fired the Reaction Motors XLR99-RM-1 engine for 78.7 seconds, reaching Mach 5.27 (3,603 miles per hour) and climbed to 107,700 feet. Ten minutes, 5.7 seconds after being dropped from the B-52, White touched down on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards. White was the first pilot to exceed Mach 4, Mach 5 and Mach 6. He also flew an X-15 to an altitude of 314,750 feet, qualifying for U.S. Air Force astronaut wings. Maj. Gen. White was Daedalian Member Number 1332.
June 24, 1989
The Air Materiel Command commander at Wright Field, Ohio, was officially directed by HQ U.S. Army Air Forces to take over responsibility for conduct of the X-1 transonic flight research program. This meant that, instead of a Bell test pilot, it would be an AMC test pilot who would make the initial assault on Mach 1. Capt. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager had already been selected as project officer for this effort.
June 25, 1928
The Boeing P-12 made its maiden flight. Developed as a private venture to replace the Boeing F2B and F3B with the United States Navy, the Boeing Model 99 first flew on this date. The new aircraft was smaller, lighter and more agile than the ones it replaced, but still used the Wasp engine of the F3B. This resulted in a higher top speed and overall better performance. As a result of Navy evaluation, 27 were ordered as the F4B-1; later evaluation by the United States Army Air Corps resulted in orders with the designation P-12. Boeing supplied the USAAC with 366 P-12s between 1929 and 1932. Production of all variants totaled 586.
June 26, 1909
The first commercial sale of an airplane in the United States is made as Glenn H. Curtiss sells one of his planes to the Aeronautic Society of New York for $7,500. This action spurs the Wright brothers to begin a patent suit to prevent him from selling airplanes without a license.
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Thanks to Dutch and JJ
It's a good time to recycle this one! Cheers, JJ
DEAD BUG! - A Tribute to Military Aviators
(In Victory, you deserve champagne. In Defeat, you need it!)
As we get older and we experience the loss of old friends, we begin to realize that maybe we bullet-proof aviators won't live forever. We aren't so bullet-proof anymore. We ponder...if we're gone tomorrow, "Did I say what I wanted to my Brothers?" The answer is "No!" Hence, the following random thoughts:
When people ask me if I miss flying, I always say something like, "Yes, I miss the flying because when you are flying, you are totally focused on the task at hand. It's like nothing else you will ever do (almost). " But then I always say, "However, I miss the squadron and the guys even more than I miss the flying."
Why, you might ask? They were a bunch of aggressive, wise ass, cocky, insulting, sarcastic bastards in smelly flight suits who thought a funny thing to do was to fart and see if they could clear a room. They drank too much, they chased women, they flew when they shouldn't, they laughed too loud and thought they owned the sky, the bar, and generally thought they could do everything better than the next guy. They flew planes that leaked, that smoked, that broke, that couldn't turn, that burned fuel too fast, that never had working autopilots or radars, and with systems that were archaic next to today's new generation aircraft.
But a little closer look might show that every guy in the room was sneaky smart and damn competent and brutally handsome in their own way! They hated to lose or fail to accomplish the mission and seldom did. They were the laziest guys on the planet until challenged and then they would do anything to win. They would fly with wing tips overlapped at night through the worst weather with only a little 'Form' light to hold on to, knowing their flight lead would get them on the ground safely. They would fight in the air knowing the greatest risk and fear was that another fighter would arrive at the same six o'clock at the same time they did. They would fly in harm's way and act nonchalant as if to challenge the grim reaper.
When we flew to another base we proclaimed that we're the best squadron on the base as soon as we landed. Often we were not invited back. When we went into an O' Club, we owned the bar. We were lucky to be the Best of the Best in the military. We knew it and so did others. We found jobs, lost jobs, got married, got divorced, moved, went broke, got rich, broke some things, and knew the only thing you could count -- really count on -- was if you needed help, a fellow aviator would have your back.
I miss the call signs, nicknames, and the stories behind them. I miss getting lit up in an O' Club full of my buddies and watching the incredible, unbelievable things that were happening. I miss the crew chiefs saluting as you taxied out of the flight line. I miss lighting the afterburners, if you had them, especially at night. I miss going straight up and straight down. I miss the cross countries. I miss the dice games at the bar for drinks. I miss listening to BS stories while drinking and laughing until my eyes watered.. I miss flying below the rim of the Grand Canyon and hearing about flying so low that boats were blown over. I miss coming into the break hot and looking over and seeing three wingmen tucked in tight ready to make the troops on the ground proud. I miss belches that could be heard in neighboring states. I miss putting on ad hoc Air Shows that might be over someone's home or farm in faraway towns.
Finally, I miss hearing DEAD BUG! called out at the bar and seeing and hearing a room full of men hit the deck with drinks spilling and chairs being knocked over as they rolled in the beer and kicked their legs in the air—followed closely by a Not Politically Correct Tap Dancing and Singing spectacle that couldn't help but make you grin and order another round.
I am a lucky guy and have lived a great life! One thing I know is that I was part of a special, really talented bunch of guys doing something dangerous and doing it better than most. Flying the most beautiful, ugly, noisy, solid aircraft ever built ... an aircraft that talked to you and warned you before she spanked you! Supported by ground troops committed to making sure we came home! Being prepared to fly and fight and die for America. Having a clear mission. Having fun.
We box out bad memories from various operations most of the time but never the hallowed memories of our fallen comrades. We are often amazed at how good war stories never let the truth interfere and how they get better with age. We are lucky bastards to be able to walk into a Squadron or a bar and have men we respect and love shout our names, our call signs, and know that this is truly where we belong.
We are AVIATORS. We are Few and we are Proud.
I am Privileged and Proud to call you Brothers
Push it Up & Check SIX!
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Thanks to Mike for the reminder
HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
The sad thing about it, you can see it coming.
I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see it in print. God help us, not that we deserve it.
About the time our orignal thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government
'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'
'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'
'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage'
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2020 Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
Only BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE
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This day in US Military History
1664 – New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1675 – In colonial New England, King Philip's War begins when a band of Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts, and massacre the English colonists there. In the early 1670s, 50 years of peace between the Plymouth colony and the local Wampanoag Indians began to deteriorate when the rapidly expanding settlement forced land sales on the tribe. Reacting to increasing Native American hostility, the English met with King Philip, chief of the Wampanoag, and demanded that his forces surrender their arms. The Wampanoag did so, but in 1675 a Christian Native American who had been acting as an informer to the English was murdered, and three Wampanoag were tried and executed for the crime. King Philip responded by ordering the attack on Swansee on June 24, which set off a series of Wampanoag raids in which several settlements were destroyed and scores of colonists massacred. The colonists retaliated by destroying a number of Indian villages. The destruction of a Narragansett village by the English brought the Narragansett into the conflict on the side of King Philip, and within a few months several other tribes and all the New England colonies were involved. In early 1676, the Narragansett were defeated and their chief killed, while the Wampanoag and their other allies were gradually subdued. King Philip's wife and son were captured, and on August 12, 1676, after his secret headquarters in Mount Hope, Rhode Island, was discovered, Philip was assassinated by a Native American in the service of the English. The English drew and quartered Philip's body and publicly displayed his head on a stake in Plymouth. King Philip's War, which was extremely costly to the colonists of southern New England, ended the Native American presence in the region and inaugurated a period of unimpeded colonial expansion.
1930 – The 1st radar detection of planes was made at Anacostia, DC.
1941 – President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1943 – Allies began a 10-day fire bombing of Hamburg.
1944 – The battle for Cherbourg continues. American forces of US 7th Corps (part of 1st Army) continue to make progress. The German garrison commander, General Schlieben, refuses to surrender.
1944 – The battle for Saipan continues as US 5th Amphibious Corps makes progress. The 27th Division clears the southern part of the island and most of the division moves northward. The 2nd Marine Division continues to battle for Mount Tapotchau.
1944 – Japanese bases on Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima are raided by American carrier aircraft. The planes are from Hornet, Yorktown, Bataan and Belleau Wood (a force commanded by Admiral Clark). Japanese losses are 66 aircraft.
1948 – One of the most dramatic standoffs in the history of the Cold War begins as the Soviet Union blocks all road and rail traffic to and from West Berlin. The blockade turned out to be a terrible diplomatic move by the Soviets, while the United States emerged from the confrontation with renewed purpose and confidence. Following World War II, Germany was divided into occupation zones. The United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and, eventually, France, were given specific zones to occupy in which they were to accept the surrender of Nazi forces and restore order. The Soviet Union occupied most of eastern Germany, while the other Allied nations occupied western Germany. The German capital of Berlin was similarly divided into four zones of occupation. Almost immediately, differences between the United States and the Soviet Union surfaced. The Soviets sought huge reparations from Germany in the form of money, industrial equipment, and resources. The Russians also made it clear that they desired a neutral and disarmed Germany. The United States saw things in quite a different way. American officials believed that the economic recovery of Western Europe was dependent on a strong, reunified Germany. They also felt that only a rearmed Germany could stand as a bulwark against Soviet expansion into Western Europe. In May 1946, the Americans stopped reparations shipments from their zone to the Soviets. In December, the British and Americans combined their zones; the French joined some months later. The Soviets viewed these actions as a threat and issued more demands for a say in the economic future of Germany. On June 22, 1948, negotiations between the Soviets, Americans, and British broke down. On June 24, Soviet forces blocked the roads and railroad lines into West Berlin. American officials were furious, and some in the administration of President Harry S. Truman argued that the time for diplomacy with the Soviets was over. For a few tense days, the world waited to see whether the United States and Soviet Union would come to blows. In West Berlin, panic began to set in as its population worried about shortages of food, water, and medical aid. The United States response came just two days after the Soviets began their blockade. A massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin was undertaken in what was to become one of the greatest logistical efforts in history. For the Soviets, the escapade quickly became a diplomatic embarrassment. Russia looked like an international bully that was trying to starve men, women, and children into submission. And the successful American airlift merely served to accentuate the technological superiority of the United States over the Soviet Union. On May 12, 1949, the Soviets officially ended the blockade.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
HUGHES, OLIVER
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company C, 12th Kentucky Infantry. Place and date: At Weldon Railroad, Va., 24 June 1864. Entered service at: Albany, Ky. Born: 21 January 1841, Fentress County, Tenn. Date of issue: 1 August 1865. Citation: Capture of flag of 11th South Carolina (C.S.A.).
SMITH, CHARLES H.
Rank and organization: Colonel, 1st Maine Cavalry. Place and date: At St. Mary's Church, Va., 24 June 1864. Entered service at: Maine. Birth: Hollis, Maine. Date of issue: 11 April 1895. Citation: Remained in the fight to the close, although severely wounded.
WEIR, HENRY C.
Rank and organization: Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, U.S. Volunteers. Place and date: At St. Mary's Church, Va., 24 June 1864. Entered service at: ——. Birth: West Point, N.Y. Date of issue: 18 Nay 1899. Citation: The division being hard pressed and falling back, this officer dismounted, gave his horse to a wounded officer, and thus enabled him to escape. Afterwards, on foot, Captain Weir rallied and took command of some stragglers and helped to repel the last charge of the enemy.
CHURCH, JAMES ROBB
Rank and organization: Assistant Surgeon, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. Place and date: At Las Guasimas, Cuba, 24 June 1898. Entered service at: Washington, D.C. Birth: Chicago, Ill. Date of issue: 10 January 1906. Citation: In addition to performing gallantly the duties pertaining to his position, voluntarily and unaided carried several seriously wounded men from the firing line to a secure position in the rear, m each instance being subjected to a very heavy fire and great exposure and danger
*BENNETT, EMORY L.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company B, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Sobangsan, Korea, 24 June 1951. Entered service at: Cocoa, Fla. Born: 20 December 1929, New Smyrna Beach, Fla. G.O. No.: 11, 1 February 1952. Citation: Pfc. Bennett a member of Company B, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty in action against an armed enemy of the United Nations. At approximately 0200 hours, 2 enemy battalions swarmed up the ridge line in a ferocious banzai charge in an attempt to dislodge Pfc. Bennett's company from its defensive positions. Meeting the challenge, the gallant defenders delivered destructive retaliation, but the enemy pressed the assault with fanatical determination and the integrity of the perimeter was imperiled. Fully aware of the odds against him, Pfc. Bennett unhesitatingly left his foxhole, moved through withering fire, stood within full view of the enemy, and, employing his automatic rifle, poured crippling fire into the ranks of the onrushing assailants, inflicting numerous casualties. Although wounded, Pfc. Bennett gallantly maintained his l-man defense and the attack was momentarily halted. During this lull in battle, the company regrouped for counterattack, but the numerically superior foe soon infiltrated into the position. Upon orders to move back, Pfc. Bennett voluntarily remained to provide covering fire for the withdrawing elements, and, defying the enemy, continued to sweep the charging foe with devastating fire until mortally wounded. His willing self-sacrifice and intrepid actions saved the position from being overrun and enabled the company to effect an orderly withdrawal. Pfc. Bennett's unflinching courage and consummate devotion to duty reflect lasting glory on himself and the military service.
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World News for 24 June thanks to Military Periscope
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