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Posted on 05/02/2006 5:14:07 PM PDT by MoJo2001
I'm doing good GB...wearing my kevlar lined ACU's this morning as always *wink*
Getting ready for the beginning of the busy season here with TOG.
Mernin' Tom!
The Bulls lost last night. Boo Hoo!
Hey Beachie!!
(((Hugs to you)))!!!
Yeah, I fear the next game will be the last for Da Bulls.
NO! I was not ready. I was working.(pouting)
May 3
1994 -- US space probe Clementine launched
1982 -- Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1982 -- NY Times reports that military will get 25% of
NASA's budget
1971 -- Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1967 -- Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
1965 -- Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1952 -- 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1949 -- 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1944 -- Meat rationing ends in US
1943 -- US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
1942 -- Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1942 -- Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
1941 -- -4] German air raid on Liverpool
1938 -- Concentration camp at Flossenbrg goes into use
1933 -- 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1926 -- US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
1923 -- 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
1921 -- West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1919 -- America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1919 -- Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1898 -- Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see
1864 -- 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
1863 -- Battle of Salem Church, VA
1863 -- Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
1863 -- Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
1861 -- Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1861 -- Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1851 -- Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
1846 -- Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1845 -- 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
1830 -- 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1802 -- Washington DC incorporates as a city
1765 -- 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
1494 -- Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
1455 -- Jews flee Spain
Met a few fine Alaskans in Hawaii. Stayed with one from Hope. Guess the ties run deep.
For all of my fellow soldiers out there...read this and hang onto it in your brain. When you're feeling down or questioning what you're doing...remember this text below and drive on.
"Duty," "Honor," "Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you want to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean.
The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.
But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. They make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid.
They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for action; not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness; the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
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Merning, ML! Find the cow box???
Mernin, LJ!
Not yet. It'll take a few days for the old one to get here I have a little time. I think I know where it is though. If I can't find it I'll Katie; she was here when he went over all that stuff with us, and her memory is a teeny bit better than mine.;^)
But you prolly figgered that out.;^)
You know, I almost wish the Cubbies would win again; I much prefer seeing your cute little dancing nuns.;^)
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