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Aloha Night Owl!
One of the must visit sites if you ever visit the Arlington National Cemetary.
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PERSIAN GULF (June 12, 2008) Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class Timothy Hayhurst inspects an actuator in the jet shop of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) before installing it onto the engine an F/A-18 Super Hornet. Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility supporting maritime security operations. U.S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Geoffrey Lewis (Released)
PACIFIC OCEAN (June 11, 2008) Cmdr. Richard T. Brophy, the newly appointed commanding officer of the "Talons" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 115, hugs his brother Lt. Cmdr. Mark Brothy, after a fly-by change of command ceremony above the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Lt. Cmdr. Brothy is assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) and visited Ronald Reagan to witness his brother's change of command ceremony. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joe Painter (Released)
NORFOLK, Va. (June 4, 2008) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Nicholas Beyer holds his 4-month-old son for the first time during homecoming celebrations for the crew of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 at Naval Station Norfolk. Beyer and several other new fathers were among the first allowed to walk off the ship in order to meet and hold the children whose births they missed due to the deployment. Nearly 7,500 Sailors have returned to their homeports from a scheduled deployment with the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG) supporting maritime security operations in the 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kristopher S. Wilson (Released)
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Audie Murphy also was an actor for a time after he got out of the service as I’m sure everyone knows. He worked with Doug McClure on a western movie I think it was. I remember McClure being interviewed several years ago and saying that Audie had flashbacks to the war pretty bad. McClure said that one day he knocked on Audie’s trailer door on location, and that Murphy came to the door holding a gun pointed at him and in a trancelike state. McClure said he just held up both hands, said “Easy Audie”, and backed slowly down the steps from the trailer and left. After a while Murphy was back at himself.
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Although I didn't know the man I did serve in the 1st and 15th Infantry, albeit in Headquarters Company ~ he was in Company C.
Our service was also 24 years apart.
One of the privileges given to a Guard of Honor (best appearance before standard 24 hour guard duty) was to post inside the 1/15 headquarters building. There you could spend your evening standing in front of the ancient silver bowl given to the unit by the Dowager Empress, or just looking at the lebenteen gazillion flags and ribbons that had been awarded to them in their nearly two centuries of existence.
Or, you could go to the West side of the building and read through the pictures and citations given to the 20 something Medal of Honor Awardees who'd also served in the 1/15th over the years, including a large percentage of every meaningful battle or military event in American history up until the Viet Nam War ~
Audie Murphy was, in an historic sense, just another in a long line of authentic heroes, who somehow ended up in the same small part of the Infantry.
The unit history reads like the brief of an encyclopedia of American military history. BTW, in the Korean War, for all you Marines out there, following the withdrawal of the Marines from Chosin, the 1/15 was the last unit to hold the perimeter at Hungnam. Supposedly back in WWII Eisenhower had somehow convinced himself that the 1/15 was an otherwise unrecognized Marine brigade, and there we see that same phenomenon at work.
We are coming up on the 210th anniversary of the activation of the 1/15th ~ July 16, 1798.
Good evening, everybody!
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Thanks for tonite’s thread Star and Ma!
Good evening everyone!
A great American Hero. Wish he was still around.
Check out “To Hell and Back” clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuY1qfCqxT8
fwiw, my mother taught Lt Murphy freshman English & three of his sisters vocational home economics.
he was a GREAT soldier & TEXAS is PROUD of him.
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Ray Bethell is a world champion kite flyer. He can make multiple kites twist and turn in such precision that they behave as if they are one. As I watched an amazing video of Ray and his three synchronized kites, I recalled a poem I had read many years ago.
In the library of Pastor Howard Sugden, I came across a well-worn book containing the works of John Newton. Inside was a poem titled “The Kite; or Pride Must Have a Fall.” The kite in Newton’s poem dreamed of being cut free from its string: “Were I but free, I’d take a flight, / And pierce the clouds beyond their sight, / But, ah! Like a poor pris’ner bound, / My string confines me near the ground.” The kite does finally manage to tug itself free, but instead of soaring higher in the sky, it crashes into the sea.
The analogy calls me to reconsider some “strings” that make me feel constrained. Vows. Promises. Commitments. Responsibilities. Although such things make me feel tied down, God uses them to hold me up. As James teaches, it is our willingness to be humbled (or held down) that God uses to lift us up (James 4:10).
Before cutting any string, make sure it’s not one that’s holding you up.
