Posted on 07/31/2004 8:01:40 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Thanks!!!
I have to get some housework done...
Have a great Sunday everyone!!
Ms.B
The best part is... McDonalds has a Chocolate dip cone for one dollar. It's good sized too. Makes treating to ice cream less painful on the pocketbook! LOL
Guest Military Chaplain and a hugh feast with Brother Tonkin ~ Bump!
Hot black coffee with the Ice Princess from the far, far North. :)
I got question Tomkow if you become Prez of the US would you open Burka company in Iraq COME ON IT WOULD SELL and Hooters restaurant
That drive miltants nuts HOOTERS
Breaking news off SKY news alert report that series of attack just happen one of Cathoic and Armedian Orthodrx Church in IRAQ at this hour killing 10 people so far I hear more on BBC copy
And Sky news also reporting more breaking on casino got nail by grenade attack in Czech Republic
killing 2 people
Another report Hareetz wire report that Paleistein FM claim that expect more chaos in PLO area in Gaza because they don't know if Arafat has power to control them
SHEESH
The two anchors crossed represent cooperation and strength
Silver and Gold stars represent the Auxiliary and Coast Guard members
Two red vertical bars represent the blood shed on the 11th of September, 2001
The eagle, superimposed upon the red bars,
represents our renewed strength and vigilance to
“never tire, never falter, never fail”.
Waterway Watch is the initial and primary Coast Guard Auxiliary program launched as a component of Operation Patriot Readiness,
and is a major part of the Coast Guard's maritime security initiative.
Waterway Watch promotes public awareness and involvement in Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)
and Maritime Homeland Security (MHLS) activities.
Waterway Watch involves all Auxiliarists, both those performing direct operational missions
and those involved in Recreational Safe Boating operational support activities.
NORTH, KENNETH WALTER
Name: Kenneth Walter North
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O3
Unit: Korat AB Thailand
Date of Birth: 1930
Home City of Record: Chappaqua NY
Date of Loss: 01 August 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 215000 North 1044900 East (Yen Bai on Red River)
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105D
Missions: 33
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0411
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews.
REMARKS: 730304 RELEASED BY DRV
SOURCE: WE CAME HOME copyright 1977
Captain and Mrs. Frederic A Wyatt (USNR Ret), Barbara Powers Wyatt, Editor
P.O.W. Publications, 10250 Moorpark St., Toluca Lake, CA 91602
Text is reproduced as found in the original publication (including date and
spelling errors).
KENNETH W. NORTH
Lieutenant Colonel - United States Air Force
Shot Down: August 1, 1966
Released: March 4, 1973
Colonel North is a native of Connecticut. He entered the USAF pilot training
program following his graduation from the University of Connecticut in 1953.
His first overseas assignment was in Japan where he spent three years.
Following a stateside tour of duty he was assigned to Hickam Field in Hawaii.
Soon he was in Okinawa, flying F-105 D's. Eight months later he volunteered
for duty at KORAT AB in Thailand.
He flew thirty-three combat missions over North Vietnam and was shot down
north of Hanoi in August 1966.
"This period started a new life for me when I was to realize how brutal and
deceitful man could be and how hard and how often my faith in my country was
to be tested. The knowledge that my country was a great country and that
communism was a cancer helped me keep that faith. The strong, unshakeable
desire to come home with honor allowed me to do just that."
Colonel North plans to remain in the USAF and to stay in the tactical fighter
business. He is living with his wife, Carol, and four daughters in Wellfleet,
Massachusetts. Carol was very active in the POW-MIA effort where she helped to
improve conditions for the prisoners after 1969.
To the children of America, Colonel North says, "You have a right to be proud
of more than just American fighting men, you can be proud of America. In spite
of some of our ills which are too quickly and too frequently pointed out, we
are the greatest nation on earth. Be proud and help to build an even greater
country."
December 1996
Kenneth North retired from the United States Air Force as a Brig General. He
and his wife Carol reside in Maryland.
This is a fly=by post of sorts - I promised to take the kids swimming, so I gotta make good on that. I just had to tell you all that Josh was in church this morning, in uniform and looking GREAT!! I got to give him a big hug and tell him thanks! I appreciate all your prayers for him while he was in Iraq! He had built up something like 79 days terminal leave, so although his time isn't up until October, he is essentially done.
Have a good day! Have fun!
I just sent you three an e-mail -- with a video file attached. Windows video is from my mom; I'll let you three decide if it's "post in the Canteen"-worthy. ;)
In Jesus name Amen.
gut should be but.Sorry,Lord help me please.
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Graphics and information from the Medal of Honor website.
Ping to #136! :o)
Most of us here can read typo. ;)
Welcome to the Canteen!!!
Thanks
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