The FReeper Foxhole Profiles LCDR. Joseph T. O'Callahan, USNR(ChC) - July 23rd, 2004

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Joseph Timothy O'Callahan



Father O'Callahan's Citation reads as follows:

O'CALLAHAN, JOSEPH TIMOTHY

Rank and organization: Commander (Chaplain Corps), U.S. Naval Reserve, U.S.S. Franklin. Place and date: Near Kobe, Japan, 19 March 1945. Entered service at: Massachusetts. Born: 14 May 1904, Boston, Mass. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as chaplain on board the U.S.S. Franklin when that vessel was fiercely attacked by enemy Japanese aircraft during offensive operations near Kobe, Japan, on 19 March 1945.

A valiant and forceful leader, calmly braving the perilous barriers of flame and twisted metal to aid his men and his ship, Lt. Comdr. O'Callahan groped his way through smoke-filled corridors to the open flight deck and into the midst of violently exploding bombs, shells, rockets, and other armament.

With the ship rocked by incessant explosions, with debris and fragments raining down and fires raging in ever-increasing fury, he ministered to the wounded and dying, comforting and encouraging men of all faiths; he organized and led firefighting crews into the blazing inferno on the flight deck; he directed the jettisoning of live ammunition and the flooding of the magazine; he manned a hose to cool hot, armed bombs rolling dangerously on the listing deck, continuing his efforts, despite searing, suffocating smoke which forced men to fall back gasping and imperiled others who replaced them.

Serving with courage, fortitude, and deep spiritual strength, Lt. Comdr. O'Callahan inspired the gallant officers and men of the Franklin to fight heroically and with profound faith in the face of almost certain death and to return their stricken ship to port.

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"Compassion Under Fire"

“Father Joe O’Callahan, quite a guy … I walked back on the fantail, and he had a white cross with tape on his battle helmet, and, of course, those guys were pretty shook up, and they were more or less traumatized at the time. And he got them organized, and he got the guys so that they could pull the tow line over. She was burning. She was listing quite heavily, and those guys really went through hell.”

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Today's Educational Sources and suggestions for further reading:

www.ussocallahan.org/jtocallahan.html

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[SAMWolf]

Darn! That name sure sounds famliar. ;-)

Good Night Snippy. Nice job on completing LCDR. Joseph T. O'Callahan's story.

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Good night Sam, sweet dreams.

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July 23, 2004

Dying Daily

Read: 2 Corinthians 4:7-12

We are hard-pressed on every side, . . . always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus. —2 Corinthians 4:8,10

Bible In One Year: Psalms 33-34; Acts 24

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Are you in a situation where you are often misunderstood for your faith in Christ? Are you surrounded by people with a carping, critical spirit? Do you get little or no credit for the work you do in your church or for your family?

The proper response is a willingness to have a humble and submissive spirit—to die as Jesus did throughout His life. Yes, our Lord died once on the cross; but in another sense He also died every day. The cross was the culmination of an entire lifetime of dying. He was willing to be misunderstood and maligned, to give up home and comforts, to take the role of a servant. That was His“death.”We must be willing to die in that way as well.

When we die with Him, God’s gift to us is“the life of Jesus”(2 Corinthians 4:10), the most attractive life ever lived. His beauty will gradually grow in us and become our beauty as well.

Remember this saying:“A picture is worth a thousand words.”The portrait you draw of Jesus with your humble, tranquil presence in the face of grievous wrong is worth many words on the subject. Some may see the life of Jesus revealed in you and long to enter into that life. That’s how dying daily can help bring life to another. —David Roper

Dear Jesus, take my heart and hand,
And grant me this, I pray:
That I through Your sweet love may grow
More like You day by day. —Garrison


Living daily for Christ requires dying daily to self.

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[SAMWolf]

Morning E.G.C. If you get any extra rain you don't need send it our way.

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Morning PE.

Hey that place looks real familiar! This thread is starting to be Deja Vu all over again.

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Morning alfa6.

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Morning Mayor.

Are you surrounded by people with a carping, critical spirit?

I'll bet Snippy will say she is whenever I'm at her place. ;-)

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Morning stand watie.

Things are well for Sanfra and you I pray.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on July 23:
1339 Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers)
1816 Charlotte Sanders Cushman US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
1822 Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1824 Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1906
1834 James Cardinal Gibbons archbishop of Baltimore
1884 Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros)
1888 Dr Milan Stoyadinovich Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-9)
1892 Haile Selassie(Ras Tafari Makonnen) emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)
1893 Karl Menninger psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
1894 Arthur Treacher Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
1919 Pee Wee Reese Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)
1921 Calvert DeForest, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman)
1925 Gloria De Haven LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
1931 Jan Torell Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants)
1933 Bert Convy St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)
1936 Anthony M Kennedy Calif, supreme court justice (1988- )
1936 Don Drysdale Van Nuys Calif, pitcher (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962)
1938 Ronny Cox Cloudcroft Mass, actor (St Elsewhere)
1943 - Tony Joe White, rocker (Polk Salad Annie)
1947 Don Imus radio personality (IMUS in the Morning)
1947 Spencer Christian weatherman (Good Morning America)
1950 Blair Thornton guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
1961 Woody Harrelson Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)
1971 Aimee Rinehart, Miss Missouri USA (1996)
1971 Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer (2 Highways)
1972 Marlon Wayans, comedian (Wayans Bros, In Living Color)
1982 Schottzie Schott dog mascot of the Cincinatti Reds

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Deaths which occurred on July 23:
1373 Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint, dies
1403 Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], killed in battle at 39
1793 Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 72
1816 Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
1844 Christian Gobrecht 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1875 Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63

1885 Ulysses S Grant 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor, NY, at 63 (I wonder where He's buried?)

1930 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
1943 Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies
1943 Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies
1944 Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
1944 Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
1955 Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
1961 Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma and Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75
1971 Van Heflin actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60
1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot ACE, dies at 82
1982 Vic Morrow killed during filming of "Twilight Zone" at 53
1985 Kay Kyser (James King Kern Kyser) US bandleader, dies
1990 Joe Turner jazz pianist, dies at 82 of cardiac arrest
1997 Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1962 MATAGULAY ROQUE S.---RICHMOND CA.
[12/24/62 RELEASED, RIP 12/29/99]
1966 NEWSOM BENJAMIN BYRD---MADISON VI.
[03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED]
1966 PEMBERTON GENE THOMAS---CAMERON MO.
[03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED]
1966 SMITH WILLIAM W.---SEARCY AR.
1968 GOSEN LAWRENCE D.---BINGHAM LAKE MN.
1972 SHANK GARY LESLIE---PRAIRIE VILLAGE KS.
[DEAD REM RET 07/01/84]

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

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On this day...
0636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
0685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
1215 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
1764 James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
1827 1st US swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1829 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
1852 1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio
1864 Battle of Woodstock, VA
1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (The Reds) established
1877 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire

1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo

1906 Pogrom against Jews in Oddessa
1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #666 Desdemona & #667 Denise
1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
1920 Kenya becomes a British crown colony
1921 Edward Gourdin of the US, sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4"
1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1942 German troops conquer Rostow
1942 Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad
1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
1947 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in the UK
1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
1967 43 killed in Detroit race riots (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1968 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman
1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses
1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
1978 Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession

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

Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Oman : National Day (1952)
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day (Monday)
US : Upside Down Day.
Baked Beans Month

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Religious Observances
Ancient Rome : Neptunalia, honoring Neptune
Buddhist-Laos : Beginning of Buddhist fast
RC : Comm of St Apollinaris, 1st bp of Ravenna, martyr
RC, Luth : Memorial of Bridget, mystic, patron of Sweden (opt)

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Religious History
1779 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'I findit of more consequence to a preacher to know his Bible well, than all the languages or booksin the world -- for he is not to preach these, but the Word of God.'
1846 Birth of William R. Featherstone, Canadian Methodist hymnwriter. He penned thewords to 'My Jesus, I Love Thee' before age 16.
1860 Birth of William W. McConnell, missions pioneer. In 1891, he became the firstmissionary sent out by the Central American Mission, after its founding in 1890.
1918 Death of Joseph H. Gilmore, 84, American Baptist clergyman. He is remembered todayprimarily for the hymn, 'He Leadeth Me,' which he wrote at the age of 28.
1976 The First National Southern Baptist Charismatic Conference closed. Baptist pastorand charismatic leader Howard Conatser (1926-78) was a speaker at this convention.

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

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Thought for the day :
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

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Things To Do If You Ever Became An Evil Overlord...
DO NOT strike a bargain with a demonic being then attempt to double-cross it simply because you feel like being contrary.

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Letters To God From The Dog...
Dear God,
How come people love to smell flowers, but seldom, if ever, smell one another? Where are their priorities?

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Dumb Laws...
South Dakota:
It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory.

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How To Annoy Osama bin Laden If You're Invited To A Dinner Party At His Secret Afghan Lair...
Ask him if he wears boxers or briefs. Check. Take pictures. Post these on www.amihotornot.com.

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