The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Jonathan Wainwright - Apr 19th, 2004

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[SAMWolf]

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General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV
(1883 - 1953)

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Jonathan Wainwright was born the son of a cavalry officer and a descendant in a line of distinguished U. S. Naval officers on August 23, 1883 at Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory.

His father, Robert, commanded a squadron in the Battle of Santiago during the Spanish American War and died in 1901 while serving in the suppression of the Philippine Insurrection. A year later, Wainwright was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Wainwright received his commission in 1906 and began his career with the 1st Cavalry Regiment in Texas. The 1st was sent to the Philippines in 1908 as part of an expedition sent to quell the Moro uprising on the island of Jolo. Wainwright participated in the St.Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives towards the end of World War I. Following the Armistice, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff with the Army of Occupation in Koblenz, Germany and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in that capacity. The years between the wars were spent in postgraduate studies and training commands.



He graduated from the Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kansas, 1916. Promoted to Captain, and in 1917 was on staff of the first officers training camp at Plattsburg, New York. In February 1918 he was ordered to France. In June he became Assistant Chief-of-Staff of the 82nd Infantry Division, with which he took part in Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Promoted to temporary Lieutenant Colonel in October he was assigned to occupation duty in Germany with the 3rd Army until 1920, in which year, having reverted to Captain, he was promoted to Major.

After a year as an instructor at the renamed Cavalry School at Fort Riley, he was attached to the General Staff during 1921-23 and assigned to the 3rd Cavalry, Fort Myer, Virginia, 1923-25. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1929 and graduated from the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1931, and the Army War College in 1934. He was promoted to Colonel in 1935, and commanded the 3rd Cavalry until 1938, when he was advanced to Brigadier General in command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Fort Clark, Texas. In September 1940, he was promoted to temporary Major General and returned to the Philippines to take command of the Philippine Division. that began in late December 1941.



Wainwright had little inkling of what future held. The war in Europe was already raging and he feared "that something might break over here and there he would be stuck in the Philippines missing everything." He was commanding American and Filipino troops in northern Luzon when the Japanese attacked on December 8, 1941. Wainwright commanded from the front and his skillful series of holding actions helped to make the American stand on Bataan possible. On February 7, 1942 General MacArthur decorated him with the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism.


Surrender on Bataan

General Douglas MacArthur the overall commander of forces in the Philippines was ordered to leave for Australia on March 11, 1942. Wainwright succeeded him as commander of all American and Filipino forces on Bataan and was promoted to lieutenant general. As the senior field commander of US and Filipino forces, he had tactical responsibility for resisting the Japanese invasion. Pushed back from beachheads in Lingayen Gulf, his Philippine forces withdrew onto the Bataan Peninsula, where they occupied well prepared defensive positions and commanded the entrance to Manila Bay. In throwing back a major Japanese assault in January, the defenders earned name of "battling bastards of Bataan." When MacArthur was ordered off Bataan in March 1942, Wainwright, promoted to temporary Lieutenant General, succeeded to command of US Army Forces in the Far East, a command immediately afterward reassigned US Forces in the Philippines. The Japanese attacks resumed in earnest in April.



The Japanese high command issued an ultimatum on March 22nd urging the defenders of Bataan to surrender in the name of humanity. Continuous air bombardment was followed by two human wave assaults which were repulsed but the defenders were running low on supplies and morale.

Bataan fell on April 9, 1942. President Roosevelt authorized Wainwright to continue the fight or make terms as he saw fit. Wainwright chose to continue the battle from Corregidor despite the urgings of some that he leave. "I have been one of the battling bastards of Bataan and I’ll play the same role on the rock as long as it is humanly possible. I have been with my men from the start, and if captured I will share their lot. We have been through so much together that my conscience would not let me leave before the final curtain."


General Wainwright at Celilo
November 15, 1945

Wainwright and 11,000 survivors held on in the tunnels beneath the rock for another month deprived of food, sleep or hope of relief. On May 5th Wainwright wrote MacArthur, "As I write this we are being subjected to terrific air and artillery bombardment and it is unreasonable to expect that we can hold out for long. We have done our best, both here and on Bataan, and although we are beaten we are still unashamed." The Japanese began landing on the island that night and at noon the next day Wainwright called for terms. General Homma insisted that Wainwright surrender all remaining American and Filipino forces or risk the annihilation of his troops on Corregidor. At noon on May 6, 1942, General Wainwright surrendered to Japanese General Homma. A historian of the Civil War, Wainwright later said of that moment, "Suddenly, I knew how Lee felt after Appomattox.



General Wainwright spent the next three years in Japanese prison camps in the Philippines, China and Formosa (Taiwan). The man who was known to his friends as Skinny was found alive in a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria. He emerged from captivity little more than a skeleton. General Wainwright liberation allowed him to travel and attend the Japanese surrender ceremonies aboard USS Missouri (left) in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, after which he returned to the Philippines to receive the surrender of the local Japanese commander. After a short stop at Fort Shafter in Hawaii to receive his fourth star from General Robert C. Richardson Jr., he then flew home to the United States, where he received a hero's welcome and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.



General Wainwright commander the Fourth U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston from January 1946 until his retirement from the Army in August 1947. The general passed away in San Antonio, Texas on September 3 1953 and is buried at Arlington Nation Cemetary.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on April 19:
1320 Pedro I King of Portugal (1357-67)
1700 Georg Abraham Schneider composer
1721 Roger Sherman signer (Declaration of Independence, Constitution)
1721 Thomas McKean attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [or 3/19]
1801 Gustav T Fechner [Dr Mises] German philosopher/physicist
1821 Mortimer Dormer Leggett Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1830 Rudolf Cornely German bible expert/jesuit
1850 Edward John Gregory painter/engraver
1866 Henri Deterding Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell)
1868 Max Von Schillings German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag)
1877 Ole Evinrude inventor (outboard marine engine)
1897 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney sculptor/art benefactor
1903 Eliot Ness untouchable (Prohibition Agent for Department of Treasury-Chicago, Untouchables)
1905 John S "Jimmy" Thach US pilot/Admiral (WWII)
1910 Andrew Gilchrist historian/diplomat
1912 Glenn T Seaborg head of Atomic Energy Commission/chemist/discovered Plutonium/Nobel 1951
1920 Frank Fontaine Cambridge MA, comedian (Crazy Guggenheim)
1922 Erich Hartmann German WWII pilot (downed 352 Russian aircraft)
1922 Luigi Barbbarito reverend (Apostolic ProNuncio)
1925 Hugh O'Brian [Krampke] Rochester NY, actor (Wyatt Earp, Search)
1933 Dick Sargent Carmel CA, actor (Darrin-Bewitched)
1933 Jayne Mansfield [Vera Jane Palmer] Bryn Mawr PA, actress (Guide for the Married Man, Girl Can't Help It, Too Hot to Handle)
1935 Dudley Moore London England, actor (10, Arthur, Bedazzled, 6 Weeks)
1937 Elinor Donahue Tacoma WA, actress (Betty Anderson-Father Knows Best, Gladys Peterson-Get a Life)
1941 Alan Price Fatfield Durham England, rock keyboardist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1946 Tim Curry Cheshire England, actor (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
1946 Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky Russia, cosmonaut (BST-02)
1960 Frank "sweet music" Viola Hempstead NY, pitcher (Minnesota Twins, New York Mets/Cy Young-1988)
1962 Al Unser Jr Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1968 Ashley Taylor Judd [Ciminella] Granada Hills CA, actress (Kuffs, Sisters)
1969 Carlos Reyes Miami FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1975 Nazarena Almada Miss Argentina-Universe (1997)

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Deaths which occurred on April 19:
1054 Leo IX [Bruno von Egesheim und Dagsburg] Pope (1049-54), dies at 51
1390 Robert II King of Scotland, dies
1588 Paolo Veronese [Cagliari] painter, dies
1689 Christina Queen of Sweden (1644-54), dies
1776 Jacob Israel Emden [Jacob ben Tswi] German rabbi, dies at 78
1813 Benjamin Rush physician/abolotionist (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 67
1824 [George Gorden Noel] "Lord" Byron poet, dies at 36
1881 Benjamin Disraeli 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies
1906 Pierre Curie French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies
1943 Alexander Schmorell German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 Kurt Huber German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 Willy Graf German resistance fighter, beheaded
1956 Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb British diver (WWII), dies at 47
1957 Charles Funk Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76
1967 Conrad Adenauer West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91
1980 Alfred [Joseph] Hitchcock dies in Los Angeles CA from renal failure at 80
1987 Maxwell D Taylor US commander 101st airborne (WWII), dies at 85
1987 Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77
1989 Daphne Du Maurier English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82
1993 George Mickelson Governor of South Dakota, & 7 others, die in a plane crash
1995 J[oseph] Peter Grace CEO (W R Grace), dies at 82
1996 Peg Ridge peace campaigner/leftwing loonytoon, dies at 72

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1961 BAKER LEO---AL.
[SHOT DOWN BAY OF PIGS 1961 - NATIONAL GUARD CAPTURED/SHOT BURIED WITH UNCLAIMED CUBAN INVADERS]
1961 RAY THOMAS---BIRMINGHAM AL.
[SHOT DOWN BAY OF PIGS 1961 - CAPTURED/SHOT
1966 ADAMS LEE A.---WILLITS CA.
1966 BROWN JOSEPH O.---NORWALK CT.
[REMAINS RETURNED, IDENTIFIED 12/03/98]
1966 ROBBINS RICHARD J.---CLEVELAND OH.
[09/27/96 REMAINS RETURNED]
1967 HAMILTON JOHN S.---SILVER CITY NM.
[NO CHUTE BEEP, REMAINS RETURNED 10/97]
1967 MADISON THOMAS M.---TUSKEGEE AL.
[03/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 STERLING THOMAS JAMES---AUSTIN TX.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 BLODGETT DOUGLAS R.---ALEXANDRIA VA.
1968 DENNIS WILLIAM R.---PITTSBURGH PA.
1968 GONZALEZ JESUS A.---PITTSBURGH PA.
1968 HOUSH ANTHONY F.---NEWTON IL.
1968 LORD ARTHUR JAMES---SAVANNAH GA.
[HELI CAUGHT FIRE, CRASHED]
1968 MILLARD CHARLES W.---WILSON NC.
[HELI CAUGHT FIRE, CRASHED]
1968 SHAFER PHILIP R.---GRAND JUNCTION CO.
[HELI CAUGHT FIRE, CRASHED]
1968 WALLACE MICHAEL J.---ANN ARBOR MI.
1968 WERDEHOFF MICHAEL M.---TOLEDO OH.
[HELI CAUGHT FIRE, CRASHED]
1968 WILBURN JOHN E.---LUTHER OK.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0607 Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-General French Van de Holly
1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism
1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
1587 Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet
1770 Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia

1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"

1782 Netherlands recognizes US
1839 Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom and Luxembourg a Grand Duchy
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1897 1st Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10
1900 Highest scoring opening game, Phillies beat Braves 19-17 in 10
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1909 Joan of Arc, declared a saint
1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall
1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
1927 "Vagabond King" opens in London
1928 New York Yankees are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 FDR announces US will leave the gold standard
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"
1936 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia

1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz

1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
1948 ABC-TV network begins
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1949 Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1956 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III (civil ceremony)
1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs
1960 Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating
1964 Coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
1966 In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chicago
1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)
1967 US Surveyor III lands on Moon
1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)
1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1974 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park homerun against the New York Yankees
1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th President of Israel
1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn NY)
1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed record (124.902 mph)
1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver
1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce in Nicaragua's civil war
1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champion Evander Hollyfield beats 42 year old George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 Branch Dividians/FBI 51 day standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members
1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender

1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500

1997 More than 50,000 residents abandoned Grand Forks, N.D., as the rising Red River overran sandbags.
1998 China freed Wang Dan, one of the leaders of the 1989 pro-democracy movement that had been brutally suppressed in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
2000 A federal appeals court ruled that 6-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez may stay in the United States until the court heard the full appeal from his relatives, who sought to retain custody of the boy.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Cuba : Bay of Pigs Victory Day (1961)
England : Primrose Day
Sierra Leone : Republican Anniversary Day (1971)
Uruguay : Landing of the 33/Desembarco de los "Treinta y Tres" (1825)
US : John Parker Day (1775) honors minutemen
Venezuela : Declaration of Independence Day/Day of Indian
Massachusetts, Maine : Patriots Day-Boston Marathon run (1775) (Monday)
US : National Coin Week (Day 2)
US : National Lingerie Week (Day 2)
US : Astronomy Week (Day 2)
US : John Parker Day (1775) honors minutemen and the Revolutionary hero
Worldwide Innovation Month

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Religious Observances
Christian : Commemoration of James Duckett
Anglican : Commemoration of St Alphege, Archbp of Canterbury, martyr
Lutheran : Commemoration of Olavus Petri
Lutheran : Commemoration of Laurentius Petri

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Religious History
1529 In Germany at the Diet of Spires (Speyer), a document signed by Lutheran leaders in fourteen cities lodged a "protest" which demanded a freedom of conscience and the right of minorities. Henceforth, the German Lutheran Reformers were known as "Protestants."
1823 Birth of Anna L. Waring, Welsh Anglican hymnwriter. "In Heavenly Love Abiding" is one of her best-known hymns, and is still sung today.
1887 The Catholic University of America was chartered in Washington, D.C.
1930 American pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a missionary in the Philippines, wrote in a letter: 'Fellowship with God is like a delicate little plant, for a long nurturing is the price of having it, while it vanishes in a second of time, as soon as we try to seat some other unworthy affection beside Him.'
1941 Robert F. Wagner, Sr. introduced a resolution in the U.S. Senate stating that U.S. policy should favor the "restoration of the Jews in Palestine." The resolution was supported by 68 Senators.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"We're Americans - with a capital A! And do you know what that means? Do you? It means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world."

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What a Difference 30 Years Makes...
1970: Take acid.
2000: Take antacid.

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New State Slogans...
New Jersey: Leave the gun; take the cannoli

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Male Language Patterns...
"Of course I like it, honey, you look beautiful." REALLY MEANS,
"Oh, man, what have you done to yourself?"

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Female Language Patterns...
"I'm going to the grocery store." REALLY MEANS,
"I'm going to the hat store and buy the most expensive one, then I'm going to the dress store and buy the most expensive one, then I'm going to take all my friends to the most expensive restaurant we can find, and charge it all to you. I'll bring you back a candy bar. Watch the kids while I'm gone."

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning PE.

I'm trying to figure out the story of this flag picture. It's familiar to me in a way, but I can't place the event.

[The Mayor]

The only time my home town is ever on the map..

Hopkinton Massachusetts, where it all begins..
My family history is in these towns, Hopkinton, Ashland and Framingham.

Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans' Day are four distinctly American tributes to liberties, freedom and democracy, commemorated by a holiday in the United States. Then there is Patriots' Day. For New Englanders, Patriots' Day remains the quintessential observance: the anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with skirmishes between British troops and the Minute Men of Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts, and preceded by Paul Revere's famous Midnight Ride. For runners, Patriots' Day has become synonymous with the Boston Marathon or, as locals often refer to the day, Marathon Monday. The events of more than two centuries ago in April 1775, now commemorated as the Patriots' Day holiday in Massachusetts and Maine, marked a turning point in the long struggle between England and her American colonies. In a march of protest and petition, which turned into revolution and independence, the fighting on April 19, 1775 foreshadowed the rebellious action of the American colonies in ultimately creating a new nation, the United States of America. Originally celebrated on April 19, Patriots' Day was moved to the third Monday of April in 1969. While "the shot heard 'round the world" continues to reverberate in re-enactments of the historic events, the sound of gunfire also will ring clearly in Hopkinton this Patriots' Day to signal the start of the 108th Boston Marathon and to recall the ideals of the American Revolution. The Boston area is a uniquely and profoundly American locale; there's no better venue and no better occasion than the Boston Marathon and Patriots' Day to showcase the spirit. You'll notice increased attention to all things patriotic at the marathon, especially along the route's eight cities and towns of Hopkinton, Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton, Brookline and Boston. The B.A.A. encourages businesses, schools and residents along the 26.2 mile course to contribute to the display of patriotism. Other marathon-related activities include a warm-up run on the Sunday prior to Patriots' Day, re-named the "B.A.A. FREEDOM RUN" and in keeping with the patriotic theme. The 2.8-mile run will take in many of Boston's inspiring and educational tourist attractions, including part of the Freedom Trail. The Boston-metro area is filled with inspiring, educational and historical American sites, as well as reminders of courageous acts by America's early Patriots. While here for the marathon - whether it is beforehand, during or afterwards - discover for yourself what Patriots' Day means to you.

[Professional Engineer]

I believe it's a 9/11 flag from the World Trade Center, but I'm not positive of that.

[Soaring Feather]

I thought as much, but did not want to commit because I was not sure. I think you are right- those are Firemen holding our flag.

[SAMWolf]

I believe you're correct and they were mostly on the ground when the Japanese attacked Clark Field.

[SAMWolf]

During World War II, Lieutenant General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright was commander of the Allied Forces in the Philippines. Following a heroic resistance of enemy forces, he was forced to surrender Corregidor and the survivors of the Philippine campaign to the Japanese on May 6, 1942. For three years he suffered as a prisoner of war in a Manchurian camp. During his internment, he endured the incessant cruelties of malnutrition, physical and verbal abuse, and psychological mind-games. Through it all he maintained his dignity as a human being and soldier. But after the Japanese surrendered the war, his captors kept Wainwright and the other prisoners incarcerated -- the war was over, but the bondage continued. One day an Allied plane landed in a field near the prison and through the fence that surrounded the compound, an airman informed the General of the Japanese's surrender and the American victory. Wainwright immediately pulled his emaciated body to attention, turned and marched toward the command house, burst through the door, marched up to the camp's commanding officer and said, "My Commander-in-Chief has conquered your Commander-in-Chief. I am now in charge of this camp." In response to Wainwright's declaration, the officer took off his sword, laid it on the table, and surrendered his command. (Spiritual Strongholds, Don McMinn, NCM Press, Oklahoma City, OK, 1993).

This is the only reference I can find to this incident, I don't recall reading about it before. Maybe someone else knows for sure if it's true.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning E.G.C. Happy Patriots Day.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Archy, I KNEW someone at the Foxhole would know for sure.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Mayor, really need your coffee this morning.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Feather.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning PE. That's the WTC Flag at the Olymics, right?

[SAMWolf]

1903 Eliot Ness untouchable (Prohibition Agent for Department of Treasury-Chicago, Untouchables)

I grew up watching Robert Stack as Elliot Ness.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the in fomation on Patriots Day, Mayor.

[stand watie]

GM, snippy!

free dixie,sw

[Valin]

"Ragged Old Flag"
J. Cash

I walked through a county courthouse square,
On a park bench an old man was sitting there.
I said, "Your old courthouse is kinda rundown,"
He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town."
I said, "Your old flagpole has leaned a little bit,
And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it."
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He said, "Have a seat", and I sat down.
"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"
I said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like to brag,
But we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag."
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"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there
When Washington took it across the Delaware.
And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key
Sat watching it writing "Oh Say Can You See".
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at it's seams."
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"And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on though.
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag."
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"On Flanders Field in World War I
She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun.
She turned blood red in World War II
She hung limp and low a time or two.
She was in Korea and Vietnam.
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam."
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"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,
And now they've about quit waving her back here at home.
In her own good land here she's been abused...
She's been burned, dishonored, denied and refused."
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"And the government for which she stands
is scandalized throughout the land.
And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin,
But she's in good shape for the shape she's in.
'Cause she's been through the fire before
and I believe she can take a whole lot more."
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"So we raise her up every morning,
Take her down every night.
We don't let her touch the ground
And we fold her up right.
On second thought I DO like to brag,
Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Gator Navy.

I don't know enough about MacArthur to support or question him but didn't Roosevelt order him to leave the Philippines and if I recall correctly weren't there some questions about MacArthur's intellegence officers and their culpability in the mistakes made?

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning EGC.

Patriot's Day commemorates the battle of Lexington and Concord which were fought on April 19, 1775. Part of the history of this famous revolutionary battle was the midnight ride of Paul Revere and William Dawes. The Sons of the American Revolution in Massachusetts were largely responsible for the official recognition of the event.

Today only a few states recognize the holiday; however, its celebrations are known by many. Besides several reenactments of the famous midnight ride, there are other festivities including professional baseball games and the running of the Boston Marathon.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks archy for your informational reply to Humal. I love it when our Foxhole family jumps in and we all help out.
It's the way a family should be. :-) It's no wonder why I love this place.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Mayor.