The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Navy Corpsmen - Unsung Heroes of Iwo Jima - Jan. 8th, 2004

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[Soaring Feather]

Hi sw!!


free dixie, bf

Hugs to sw and duckie!

[stand watie]

RETURNED in spades!

fyi, duckie is STILL out shoe/purse shopping since 10AM, with the GRRRLS!

she's looking for several pairs of "dressy flats" in different colors & matching purses.

OUCH!

i can smell the credit cards SMOKING from here.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

AND she's still OUT THERE shopping with the GRRLS, @320pm!

OUCH! LOL!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

duckie is a TRUE Southron belle.

btw, the TEST of a TRUE SB is whether or not they have (at LEAST) TWO (2) deviled egg plates.

duckie used 4 for Christmas season-all different.

and my dear friend & "cousin of the heart", japaneseghost, who was NOT lucky enough to be BORN in dixie NOW qualifies, as she has THREE! rotfl!

free dixie,sw

[Valin]

SUCCESS! It was a desperate struggle and nip and tuck there for awhile, but in the end the omelet went down to defeat.

[Valin]

No perhaps about it.
Harry Turtledove (a master of arternative history) has wrtten a book about this called "In the Presence Of Mine Enemy". it takes place in modern times only the Nazis won the war. It's about a small secret group of Jews living in Germany.

[Professional Engineer]

Don't jump threads - If you get involved in an argument in one thread, it's considered poor manners to restart the previous argument in the middle of an unrelated thread.

[Professional Engineer]

We are open 7 days a week.

Wow, do you alternate time, and/or a day off here and there?

[snippy_about_it]

They do not lie and can express what words can't do.

True. Very true.

[snippy_about_it]

No alternating time. It's our place so it doesn't really seem like work and we enjoy it. On slow days we can take turns working on Foxhole threads and if we need to run errands we can do that too.

10 months of being with Sam everyday (in person) and I'm not tired of him yet!

[SAMWolf]

Evening PE.

Had a real busy day at the store today. :-)

Word is getting out.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the ping Jet Jaguar.

[SAMWolf]

Evening alpha6.

[PhilDragoo]

Although corpsmen go back to the very beginning of the Navy, it was over 100 years ago, in June 1898 that the Hospital Corps was officially established.

In 1814, Navy Regulations mention a "loblolly boy" who was to serve the surgeon and the surgeon's mate. The loblolly boy prepared for battle by filling containers with water to hold amputated limbs. In addition, his duties called for maintaining the braziers of charcoal to heat the tar which was used to stop the hemorrhaging from the amputations. Keeping the deck safe for the surgeon around the operating area was a duty during battle. The deck, slippery with blood, was to be treated with buckets of sand. Sounds gruesome, but cannon balls and cutlasses were not tidy weapons and amputation was the standard treatment for compound fractures.

The "surgeon's steward" replaced the loblolly boy. Recognizing the need for additional trained help, surgeons selected promising young men for training in elementary medicine. More than a clean up person, this specialist is probably the true forerunner of today's corpsman. When Congress established the Hospital Corps, the Secretary of the Navy appointed 25 senior "apothecaries" as Pharmacists. These 25 are the charter members of the Hospital Corps.

Twenty-two Navy Corpsman have been awarded the Medal of Honor, America's Highest Decoration, for extreme heroism. Many were awarded posthumously.

NAVY CORPSMEN

The Navy's Hospital Corpsmen provide medical services for Navy and Marine Corps units throughout the world. Corpsmen were with the Marines at Belleau Wood in World War I. Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi is probably the most famous military image in the world - and Corpsman PM2c John H. Bradley, later wounded in the battle, was one of the six 28th Marines straining to lift the flagpole. In World War II, Navy Corpsmen earned seven Medals of Honor, 61 Navy Crosses, 465 Silver Stars, and 982 Bronze Stars. Corpsmen added luster to their shining performance when they went ashore with the Marines in Korea.

Lieutenant General "Chesty" Puller said it best:

"You guys are the Marine's doctors - There's none better in the business than a Navy Corpsman ..."

Corpsmen were in Vietnam too, and 690 died there, most while serving with the Fleet Marine Forces and Naval units ashore.

Fleet Marine Force Corpsman

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From Boots to Iwo Jima: A Marine Corpsman's Story in Letters to His Wife 1943-1945 Sidney L. Landau

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Bob Bush receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Truman, September 1945.

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Using the two atomic bombs on Japan was one thing Truman did right.

Today they are our allies while Germany armed Saddam Hussein through our entry into Iraq, and its leaders continue to work against our interests. [See Bill Gertz, Treachery: How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies, Crown, 2004.]

After innauguration I will urge the president to replace Norman Mineta with Michelle Malkin.

And offer my modest proposal for the appropriate response to a reprise of the September 11 attacks:

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1912 José Ferrer Santurce PR, actor/director (Cyrano de Bergerac, Blood Tide, Dune, Big Bus)

And as I end the refrain--thrust home.

[SAMWolf]

Evening w_over_w.

Ordinary men doing extraordinary things.

[SAMWolf]

How'd the hunt go?

[SAMWolf]

Crunchy Nuggets? Is that like Critter Crunch?