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IT IS MY BELIEF THAT EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO SPEND TWO YEARS OF SOME TYPE OF GOVERNMENT SERVICE TO ADD A POSITIVE NOTE TO THEIR THINKING CAPABILITIES, THUS KEEPING THEM FROM MAKING ASSES OF THEMSELVES IN THE SAME WAY MICHAEL MOORE HAS.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
7:40:08 PM EDT

nobody wants to talk about this at the Pentagon...................



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9:55:19 AM EDT

WHAT'S HIS CLAIM TO FAME: PATRIOTIC SHAME. IMPEACHMENT AND NO RETIREMENT CONSIDERING HIS AGE


DEMOCRATIC SHAME GAME

GAME SHOW HOST NUMBER ONE



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9:48:58 AM EDT

CONGRESSMAN MURTHA IS NOT A WAR HERO ACCORDING TO  BILL FRY


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Democratic Congressman Murtha is not a war hero

Bill Fry, Major, US Marines (Retired)
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Monday 31 July 2006

In 1954 I had an Agriculture teacher in Johnstown, PA, who was a well-known local resident. He was a WWII veteran who took advantage of the GI Bill and went to college. In the early 1950s he was about to get recalled for Korea, so he went into the Marine Corps as a lieutenant. I know very little about this man’s military career, except that he retired as a reserve lieutenant colonel many years later. His name was Bob Wagner  

While Bob was teaching me agriculture, he had the occasion to beat the hell out of me because of a major infraction to the rules of the school. He once broke a 3/4 inch thick, 3-inch-wide paddle over my posterior, and I could not sit down for 7 days. I had made up my mind that I was not going to scream or beg for lenience, and therefore the beating continued till the paddle was in splinters.  

Bob at that time was the Commanding Officer of the 34th Special Infantry Company in Johnstown, PA. One day he asked me what I was planning on doing with my life, and I told him I was going to be a Marine. This pleased him very much as he said, “You will make a good one,” or words to that effect. Bob picked me up and took me to a drill when I was 16, and that just set my heart afire.  

The unit was leaving for summer camp on the 19th of June, 1955, which just happened to be my 17th birthday. Bob went to all the trouble to get my enlistment papers post-dated with the proper parent's signatures and issue me a basic sea bag prior to my 17th birthday. On the 19th he swore me in, and we loaded the plane for summer camp. You could not have been any greener than I was, and, as I look back on it, he kept a pretty personal eye on me for the two weeks of camp, which went very well.  

All this is given as background for my relationship with John Murtha.  

John Murtha spent a few years in the Marine Corps as an enlisted man and then went to college, got a Reserve commission, and joined the 34th Special Infantry Company in Johnstown. He later became the Commander Officer. I spent my first tour in Viet Nam in 1965 and 1966 and therefore missed Murtha, the war hero.

However, I had a tour at Headquarters, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, in Hawaii in 1968 and 1969, and the stories were still bouncing around about this reserve major from Johnstown who went to Viet Nam and sent his daily information to the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat telling his fantastic war stories.

They were labeled Murtha Sends. While in FMF Pac I was the Head Systems Officer in the Computer Automated Center. I had the opportunity to design and implement a system to control and track all awards coming through FMF Pac. Having heard of this war hero from Johnstown, I took it upon myself to look in the data base and, lo and behold! There were no personal awards for Murtha. I never thought any more about it until I saw that he is now being touted as a war hero with 2 Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star with Combat “V”. This, of course, made me curious.  

However, let's get back to the main theme of the story:  

Upon my retirement from the Marine Corps, I took employment with the City of Albany, Georgia. In my capacity as Director of Management Information Systems, I, after some years, became the International President of the Users Group “Government Management Information Systems (GMIS).” One of my opportunities during my year as President was to travel to Greensburg, PA, to enact a state chapter in PA. During discussions with the Director of Westmoreland County Information System, I just happened to mention that I was raised up the road about 30 miles and mentioned my high school. He said, “Hey, I have a good friend who taught there — Bob Wagner.”  

I was elated and asked if I could get in touch with Bob. He called him on the spot, and we had a short phone reunion during which he asked me to come to his house for a visit after a planned dinner with the Users Group. This I did, and we had agreat evening. I was astonished to see that Bob had maintained a scrapbook on my military career; he brought it out and showed it to me. What a great tribute to receive from your mentor.  

In the course of the evening we talked about the 34th Infantry Co., and Bob said, “Hey did you run into a Major in Viet Nam by the name of Murtha? He took a year off from washing cars to go to Viet Nam and politic his way into Congress.” Then Bob told me what a disgrace he had been in the eyes of the officers with whom he served.  

I never gave his comments about Murtha much thought, but I did on occasion write to Murtha and to get his support for veteran’s issues, which he regularly did not do. I thought this rather odd, in that he was a retired reserve officer and boasted about supporting the troops.  

On the occasion of his attacks on the troops and the nation’s Iraq policy, I again took interest, as he was described as an injured war hero. John Murtha is not a war hero. I am certain if and when the truth comes out one will find that his awards were given long after he left Viet Nam. Murtha is, in my opinion, a phony and has used his veteran’s status to climb to the top of several committees where he can and does influence pork for Johnstown.  

I would love to have it revealed as to the amount of federal monies he has sucked up for his constituency. I love the people of the 12th District. They are hard-working middle-class folks who do not understand how corrupt this guy is and how terrible it is for us retired Marines to have him described as a war hero.  

Although I live in Ohio, I will do anything I can to see that he is defeated in the November election. He does not deserve to represent the good people of southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Editor: World War II Navy veteran Harry M. Fox declared that Murtha had “campaigned as a war hero and I’ve never seen any documentation that he earned any of these honors”. This squares with a statement by decorated Vietnam veteran Don Bailey that Murtha had admitted to not earning his Purple Hearts. Other Vietnam vets have also questioned Murtha’s war record. Murtha could easily dispose of these questions by releasing all of his medical records on file with the Department of Defense. He, like John Kerry, refuses to do so.



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9:42:01 AM EDT

NOW, IT IS ABOUT TIME FOR AMERICA TO INVESTIGATE A CERTAIN U.S. CONGRESSMAN

ALL BUT 1 HAVE BEEN ACQUITTED. THERE'S ONE MORE MARINE TO BE ACQUITTED, AND THEN...CHARGES OF DEFAMATION TO BE FILED AGAINST A CERTAIN UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN...



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Saturday, May 10, 2008
5:31:36 AM EDT

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somewhere in America are many more photos of Black soldiers from World War Two and the Korean War. It would be a historical service if those who possess these photos would record them in a site where they could be shared with all Americans.



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Monday, April 7, 2008
10:13:25 AM EDT

THE BEST SITE ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET ABOUT THE B-17 BOMBER

http://www.b17sam.com/

IF YOU ARE A HISTORY BUFF, A FAN OF AVIATION, AN EX PILOT, A WANNA BE PILOT, A WAR HERO, A WANNA BE HERO, AN AMERICAN WITH A PATRIOTIC SPIRIT...SAM HALPERT IS THE MAN WHO HAS BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT...35 TIMES IN A B-17...AND A WHOLE LOT MORE. READ HIS BOOK TOO..



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8:38:01 AM EDT

B17 BOMBERS.........IMAGES AND PICTURES PLUS SOME HISTORY


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ONE OF THE WORKHORSE BOMBERS OF WORLD WAR TWO..........



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7:44:39 AM EDT

NAMES OF AMERICAN SERVICEMEN ON TOKYO AIR RAID,


 
The TOKYO RAID 18 APRIL 1942
CREW INFORMATION

Airplane No. 1 - #40-2344 (crew from 34th Squadron)
Take-off - 0820 (ship time); bailed out - China
Pilot - Lt. Col. James Harold Doolittle - b 14 Dec 1896, Alameda, CA - d 27 Sep 1993
Co-Pilot - Lt. Richard E. Cole - b 7 Sep 1915, Dayton, OH
Navigator - Lt. Henry A. Potter - b 22 Sep 1918, Pierre, SD
Bombadier - Sgt. Fred Anthony Braemer - b 31 Jan 1917, Seattle, WA - d 2 Feb 1989
Gunner - Sgt Paul John Leonard - b 19 Jun 1912, Roswell, NM - d 19 Jan 1943 (killed/action, Africa)

Airplane No. 2 - #40-2292 (crew from 37th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off - 0825 (ship time); wheels-up landing in rice paddy near Ningpo on coast of China.
Pilot - Lt Travis Hoover - b 21 Sep 1917, Melrose, NM
Co-Pilot Lt. William N. Fitzhugh - b 18 Feb 1915, Temple, TX - d 31Aug 1981
Navigator - Lt. Carl Richard Wildner - b 10 Jan 1917, Taylor, TX - d 7 Jun 1964 - d 7 Mar 1994
Bombadier - Lt. Richard Ewing Miller - b 2 Mar 1916, Fort Wayne, IN - d 22 Jan 1943 (killed/action, Africa)
Gunner - Sgt. Douglas V. Radney - b 17 Mar 1917, Mineola, TX - d 28 Jan 1994

Airplane No. 3 - #40-2270 (crew from 95th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off - 0830 (ship time); bailed out - China
Pilot - Lt Robert Manning Gray - b 24 May 1919 - d 18 Oct 1942 (killed/action China)
Co-Pilot - Lt. Jacob Earle Manch - b 26 Dec 1918, Staunton, VA - d 24 Mar 1958
Navigator - Lt. Charles John Ozuk - b 13 Jun 1916, Vesta Heights, PA
Bombadier - Sgt. Aden Earl Jones - b 7 Sep 1920, Flint, MI
Gunner - Cpl. Leland D. Faktor - b 17 May 1921, Plymouth, IA - d 18 Apr 1942, China (killed bailing out)

Airplane No. 4 - #40-2282 (crew from 95 Squadron, 17 Group)
Take-off 0833 (ship time); bailed out - China
Pilot - Lt. Everett W. Holstrom - b 4 May 1916, Cottage Grove, OR
Co-Pilot - Lt. Lucien Nevelson Youngblood - b 26 May 1918, Pampa, TX - d 28 Feb 1949
Navigator - Lt. Harry C. McCool - b 19 Apr 1918, La Junta, CO
Bombadier - Sgt. Robert J. Stephens - b 28 Feb 1915, Hobart, OK - d 13 Apr 1959
Gunner - Cpl. Bert M. Jordan - b 3 Sep 1919, Covington, OK

Airplane No. 5 - #40-2283 (crew from 95th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off 0837 (ship time); bailed out near Chuchow, China
Pilot - Capt. David M. Jones - b 18 Dec 1913, Marshfield, OR (P.O.W.- Germany for 2 1/2 years)
Co-Pilot - Lt. Ross R. Wilder - b 10 Jan 1917, Taylor, TX - d 7 Jun 1964
Navigator - Lt. Eugene Francis McGurl - b 8 Feb 1917 - d 3 Jun 1942, Burma
Bombadier - Lt. Denver Vernon Truelove - b 10 Nov 1919 - d 9 Jul 1943, Sicily (killed/action)
Gunner - Sgt. Joseph W. Manske - b 13 Apr 1921, Gowanda, NY

Airplane No. 6 - #40-2298 (crew from 95th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off 0840 (ship time); landed in area of Nangchang, near Poyang Lake, China.
Pilot - Lt. Dean Edward Hallmark - b 20 Jan 1914, Robert Lee, TX - d 15 Oct 1942, China (captured and executed by Japanese)
Co-Pilot - Lt. Robert John Meder - b 23 Aug 1917, Cleveland, OH - d 1 Dec 1943, China (captured, died in P.O.W. camp
Navigator - Lt. Chase Jay Nielsen - b 14 Jan 1917, Hyrum, UT (captured; in P.O.W. camp 3 1/2 years)
Engineer - Gunner - Sgt. Donald E. Fitzmaurice - b 13 Mar 1919, Lincoln, NE - d 18 Apr 1942, China (killed/action)
Bombadier - Sgt. William J. Dieter - b 5 Oct 1912, Vail, IO - d 18 Apr 1942, China (killed/action)

Airplane No. 7 - #40-2261 (crew from 95th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off 0843 (ship time); crash landed, China coast
Pilot - Lt. Ted W. Lawson - b 7 Mar 1917, Fresno, CA - d 19 Jan 1992
Co-Pilot - Lt. Dean Davenport - b 29 Jun 1918, Spokane, WA
Navigator - Lt. Charles L. McClure - b 4 Oct 1916, St. Louis, MO
Bombadier - Lt. Robert Stevenson Clever - b 22 May 1914, Portland, OR - d 20 Nov 1942, U.S.
Gunner - Sgt. David J. Thatcher - b 31 Jul 1921, Bridger, MT

Airplane No. 8 - #40-2244 (crew from 95th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off 0846 (ship time); landed in Russia, crew interned
Pilot - Capt. Edward J. York - b 16 Aug 1912, Batavia, NY - d 31 Aug 1984
Co-Pilot - Lt. Robert G. Emmons - b 22 Jul 1914, Medford, OR - d 2 Apr 1992
Navigator-Bombrdier - Lt. Nolan Anderson Herndon - b 12 Dec 1918, Greenville, TX
Engineer - S/Sgt. Theodore H. Laban - b 13 Jul 1914, Kenosha, WI - d 16 Sep 1978
Gunner - Sgt. David William Pohl - b 31 Dec 1921, Boston, MA - d 18 Feb 1999

Airplane No. 9 - #40-2250 (crew from 89th Recon. Squadron)
Take-off 0850 (ship time); bailed out 100 miles south of Poyang Lake
Pilot - Lt. Richard Outcalt Joyce - b 29 Sep 1919, Lincoln, NE - d 13 Feb 1983
Co-Pilot - Lt J. Royden Stork - b 11 Dec 1916, Frost, MN
Navigator - Lt. Horace Ellis Crouch - b 29 Oct 1918, Columbia, SC
Bombadier - Sgt. George Elmer Larkin, Jr. b 26 Nov 1918, New Haven, KY - d 18 Oct 1942 (killed in crash of flight from China to India)
Gunner - S/Sgt. Edwin Weston Horton, Jr. - b 28 Mar 1916, No. Eastham, MA

Airplane No. 10 - #40-2303 (crew from 34th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off 0853 (ship time; bailed out
Pilot - Lt. Harold Francis Watson - b 3 Apr 1916, Buffalo, NY -
Co-Pilot - Lt. James N. Parker - b 4 Feb 1920, Houston, TX - d 19 Jun 1991
Navigator - Lt. Thomas Carson Griffin - b 10 Jul 1917, Green Bay, WI (P.O.W. of Germans, 2 years)
Bombadier - Sgt. Wayne Max Bissell - b 22 Oct 1921, Walker, MN - d 9 Jan 1997
Gunner - S/Sgt. Eldred V. Scott - b 29 Sep 1907, Atlanta, GA - d 31Jul 1978

Airplane No. 11 - #40-2249 (crew from 89th Recon Squadron)
Take-off 0856 (ship time); bailed out
Pilot - Capt. Charles Ross Greening - b 12 Nov 1914, Carroll, IA d 29 Mar 1957 (P.O.W. of Germans, 2 years)
Co-Pilot - Lt Kenneth E. Reddy - b 29 Jun 1920, Bowie, TX - d 3 Sep 1942 (killed in crash, U.S.)
Navigator - Lt. Frank Albert Kappeler - b 2 Jan 1914, San Francisco, CA
Bombadier - S/Sgt. William L. Birch - b 7 Sep 1917, Galexico, CA
Gunner - Sgt. Melvin J. Gardner - b 6 Apr 1920, Mesa, AZ - d 3 Jun 1942, Burma (killed in crash)

Airplane No. 12 - #40-2278 (crew from 37th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off 0859 (ship time); bailed out
Pilot - Lt. William H. Bower - b 13 Feb 1917, Ravenna, OH
Co-Pilot - Lt. Thadd Harrison Blanton - b 25 Feb 1919, Archer City, TX - d 27 Sep 1961
Navigator - Lt. William R. Pound, Jr. - b 18 May 1918, Milford, UT - d 13 Jul 1967
Bombadier - Sgt. Waldo J. Bither - b 31 Oct 1906, Houlton, ME - d 25 Feb 1961
Gunner - Sgt. OmerAdelard Duquette - b 25 Jan 1916, W. Warwick, RI - d 3 Jun 1942, Burma (killed/action)

Airplane No. 13 - #40-2247 (crew from 37th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off 0901 (ship time); bailed out
Pilot - Lt. Edgar E. McElroy - b 24 Mar 1912, Ennis, TX
Co-Pilot - Lt. Richard A. Knobloch - b 27 May 1918, Milwaukee, WI
Navigator - Lt. Clayton J. Campbell - b 14 Mar 1917, St. Maries, ID
Bombadier - Sgt. Robert C. Bourgeois - b 28 Sep 1917, Lecompte, LA
Gunner - Sgt. Adam Ray Williams - b 27 Sep 1919, Gastonia, NC - 30 Nov 1993

Airplane No 14 - #40-2297 (crew from 89 Recon. Squadron)
Take-off 0907 (ship time); bailed out
Pilot - Maj. John A. Hilger - b 11 Jan 1909, Sherman, TX - d 3 Feb 1982
Co-Pilot - Lt. Jack A. Sims - b 23 Feb 1919, Kalamazoo, MI
Navigator-Bombadier - Lt. James Herbert Macia, Jr. - b 10 Apr 1916, Tombstone, AZ
Engineer - S/Sgt. Jacob Eierman - b 2 Feb 1913, Baltimore, MD - 16 Jan 1994
Gunner - Sgt. Edwin V. Bain - b 23 Sep 1917, Greensboro, NC - d 19 Jul 1943, Italy (killed/action near Rome)

Airplane No. 15 - #40-2267 (crew from 89th Recon. Squadron)
Take-off 0915 (ship time); bailed out
Pilot - Lt. Donald G. Smith - b 15 Jan 1918, Oldham, SD - d 12 Nov 1942 (killed/action, British Isles)
Co-Pilot - Lt. Griffith Paul Williams - b 10 Jul 1920, Chicago, IL (P.O.W., Germany, 2 years)
Navigator-Bombadier - Lt. Howard Albert Sessler - b 11 Aug 1917, Boston, MA
Engineer - Sgt. Edward Joseph Saylor - b 15 Mar 1920, Brusett, MT
Gunner - Lt. Thomas Robert White - b 29 Mar 1909, Haiku, HI (Medical Corps) - d 29 Nov 1992

Airplane No. 16 - #40-2268 (crew from 34th Squadron, 17th Group)
Take-off 0919 (ship time); crashed on China coast sout of Hanchung
Pilot - Lt. William G. Farrow - b 24 Sep 1918, Darlington, SC - d 15 Oct 1942, China (executed by Japanese)
Co-Pilot - Lt. Robert L. Hite b 11 Jan 1909, Sherman, TX (P.O.W. - 3 1/2 years)
Navigator - Lt. George Barr - b 6 Apr 1917, Brooklyn, NY - d 12 Jul 1967 (P.O.W. - 3 1/2 years)
Bombadier - Cpl. Jacob Daniel DeShazer - b 2 Feb 1913, Baltimore, MD (P.O.W. - 3 1/2 years)
Gunner - Sgt. Harold A. Spatz - b 14 Jul 1921, Lebo, KS - d 15 Oct 1942, China (executed by firing squad)

SOURCES: The Doolittle Raid: America's Daring First Strike Against Japan by Carroll V. Glines; Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military/Avation History; 1991.

The First Joint Action by Colonel Charles R. Greening; monograph submitted to the Faculty of the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA; 21 Dec 1948.

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Monday, March 17, 2008
5:38:06 PM EDT

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"the papparazi" from jacpots2's AOL Pictures Public Gallery.

 

JACK POTTS NEW CAMERA WILL MOST LIKELY BE BANNED BY GOVERNMENT...

the papparazi

is this the real Jack Potts?

According to rumors circulating around the Pentagon, the JS-MEGA-1000YOU/FOZ  KAMRA is being studied by the government's top scientists and military brass. Velma Ray Dolittle, Editor of the BLOGABOUTAMERICANMILITARY, stated that the camera that is being marketed as the "first camera that will capture true images of UFOs," is being tested for the unknown factors that are built into the Kamra's basic software  package. To find out more, Velma Ray flew to Washington earlier in the week to get a beam on this unusual story. Velma Ray secured a brief interview with the Director of Foreign Invaders and Aliens in America, Admiral Archer Z. Cozmitranter. The Admiral  made a reference to a recent Sci-Fi movie that was made in Nevada.

 "I liked the movie," the Admiral admitted, "but there was a camera in the movie that reminds me of this new JS Mega dittos or whatever it's called, the JS Mega Wizard of OZ...or,whatever," he continued to stammer.

    "It's called the JS-MEGA-1000YOU/FOZ  KAMRA ," Velma Ray said, hoping her correction would not hinder the interview by focusing on the name.

       "And the name of the fella who invented it?" the Admiral asked.

        "Jack Potts," Velma Ray replied.

        "That's right, yes, he is the fella I am thinking of," the Admiral smiled. He then handed Velma Ray a match box, a very strange match box. It appeared like a foreign object, not just a match box. "Now you understand why we are watching this camera---watching it like the unidentified object it really is," the Admiral said, his voice trailing off. "I found this box of matches after they had finished shooting the film--it's odd. I checked around and there's no such place anywhere around the area, nowhere at all. And this is what bothers me, yes indeed."

 



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Thursday, March 6, 2008
8:38:46 AM EST

ARMED FORCES HISTORY THAT WASN'T MENTIONED UNTIL THE MID 1960S..............INADVERTENTLY OMITTED BY RACIST PUBLISHERS AND EDUCATERS..........

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