The Soldiers Creed
I am an American Soldier.
I am a Warrior and a member of a team.
I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values.
I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.
I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself.
I am an expert and I am a professional.
I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat.
I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
I am an American Soldier.
The Creed of the United States Marine
This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My rifle is my best friend. It is my life.
I must master it as I must master my life.
My rifle, without me, is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless.
I must fire my rifle true.
I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me.
I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will . . . .
My rifle and I know that what counts in this war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make.
We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit . . . .
My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life.
Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its sights, and its barrel.
I will ever guard it against the ravages of weather and damage.
I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready.
We will become part of each other. We will . . . .
Before God I swear this creed.
My rifle and I are the defenders of my country.
We are the masters of our enemy.
We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but Peace!
The Sailor's Creed
I am a United States Sailor,
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America and I will obey the orders of those appointed over me,
I represent the fighting spirit of the Navy and those who have gone before me to defend freedom and democracy around the world,
I proudly serve my country's Navy combat team with Honor, Courage and Commitment,
I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all.
THE AIRMAN'S CREED
I AM AN AIRMAN
A Newly planted seed growing each day, exceeding all expectations
I AM AN AIRMAN
One of the many, the strong, and the proud
I AM AN AIRMAN
Backbone of the Air Force, focused on quality, integrity, and excellence
I AM AN AIRMAN
Eager to learn the skills of tomorrow's needs.
I AM AN AIRMAN
Continuously striving to become more than I thought I could and encouraging my fellow airmen to do the same.
I AM AN AIRMAN
Going above and beyond what is appointed by those appointed over me
I AM AN AIRMAN
A follower, transforming into a future leader
I AM AN AIRMAN
A part of the hope and promise of freedom, willing to die so that freedom may live
I AM AN AIRMAN
The Coast Guard Creed
I am proud to be a United States Coast Guardsman.
I revere that long line of expert seamen
who by their devotion to duty and sacrifice of self
have made it possible for me to be a member
of a service honored and respected,
in peace and in war, throughout the world.
I never, by work or deed, will bring reproach upon the fair name of my service, nor permit others to do so unchallenged.
I will cheerfully and willingly obey all lawful orders.
I will always be on time to relieve, and shall endeavor to do more, rather than less, than my share.
I will always be at my station, alert and attending to my duties.
I shall, so far as I am able, bring to my seniors solutions, not problems.
I shall live joyously, but always with due regard for the rights and privileges of others.
I shall endeavor to be a model citizen in the community in which I live.
I shall sell life dearly to an enemy of my country, but give it freely to rescue those in peril
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On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 02:
1452 King Richard III, of England (1483-85)
1715 Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30)
1737 Francis Hopkinson, US, writer/lawyer (design Stars & Stripes)
1800 Nat Turner Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion
1847 Paul von Hindenburg, German Field Marshall during World War I and second president of the Weimar Republic.
1851 Ferdinand Foch believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I
1869 Mohandas K Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist
1871 Cordell Hull US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)
1879 Wallace Stevens Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)
1890 Julius "Groucho" Marx NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life)
1891 H V Porter basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard
1895 Bud Abbott Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello)
1921 Robert Runcie archbishop of Canterbury
1928 Clay Felker St Louis, journalist (NY Herald Tribune, Esquire)
1928 Spanky McFarland actor (Little Rascals)
1929 Moses Gunn St Louis Mo, actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft)
1932 Maury Wills baseball shortstop (LA Dodgers, NL MVP 1962)
1938 Rex Reed Ft Worth Tx, movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge)
1939 Yuri N Glazkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 24)
1945 Don McLean singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)
1948 Donna Karan Forest Hills NY, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977)
1950 Persis Khambatta Bombay India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce)
1951 Mike Rutherford rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics)
1951 Sting AKA Gordon Sumner, rocker (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune)
1952 George Meegen England, walked 19,019 miles from Argentina to Alaska
1954 Lorraine Bracco actress (Someone to Watch Over Me, Dream Team)
1962 Esai Morales actor (Bad Boys, La Bamba)
1964 Sherry Arnett St Louis Mo, playmate (Jan, 1986)
1965 Jill Powell Jacksonville Fla, actress (Marcy-As The World Turns)
1970 Kelly Ripa actress (Hayley Vaughan-All My Children)
Deaths which occurred on October 02:
0322BC Aristotle dies of indigestion
1264 Pope Urban IV (1261-64), dies (birth date unknown)
1564 Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist, dies at 49
1678 Gen Wu San-kuei invited Manchus in China, dies trying to expell them
1780 John Andre British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold, dies at 30
1962 Frank Lovejoy actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48
1973 Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies
1973 Paul Hartman actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 68
1981 Hazel Scott singer/pianist, dies at 61
1985 George Savalas actor (Kojak), dies at 58
1985 Rock Hudson actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies at 59 of aids
1985 Sidney Clute actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69
1993 Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), died at 83
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On this day...
1187 Saladin (Salah ed Din) captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders
1263 At Largs, King Alexander III of Scotland repels an amphibious invasion by King Haakon IV of Norway.
1535 Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)
1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1656 Connecticut colony bans Quakers
1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1835 Battle of Guadalupe River. The first battle of the Texas Revolution. American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry
1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1870 Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1871 Brigham Young, Mormon leader, arrested for bigamy
1879 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
1907 Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader
1909 Orville Wright sets an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham's previous record of 508 feet.
1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
1913 Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1916 Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of the year
1919 Pres Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
1920 Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the economic crisis
1932 NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 29th World Series
1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
1935 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
1936 1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
1936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series (World Series #33) grand slam
1938 Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller strikes out 18 Detroit Tigers
1938 Tigers' Chester Laabs struck out 5 times in a game
1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
1940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
1941 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo
1941 German armies began Operation "Typhoon" an all-out drive against Moscow.
1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
1947 Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1947 Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a world series (World Series #44) homer
1949 St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
1950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
1950 The comic strip "Peanuts" 1st appears, in 9 newspapers
1953 Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in the 50th World Series
1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
1954 NY Giants sweep Cleve Indians, in 51st World Series
1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers
1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
1961 "Ben Casey" premieres
1962 SF & LA play a 4h18m 9 inning game
1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1966 2 perfect game pitchers face each other (Bunning vs Koufax)
1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
1967 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts (World Series #65)
1970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
1980 Larry Holmes retains WBC heavweight title defeating Muhammad Ali
1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
1983 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
1984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
1988 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to the Supreme Court
1990 Radio Berlin International's final transmission final song is "The End" by the Doors
1997 Algerian terrorist kill 20 members of a wedding party in Blida
2000 Philippines soldiers freed 12 Christian evangelists from Abu Sayyaf rebels after one escaped and alerted the military. The guerrillas escaped with 5 remaining hostages.
2002 James Martin (55) was shot to death by a sniper in Wheaton, Md. He was the 1st to die at the hands of a local serial killer.
2003 The US House voted 281-142 to prohibit doctors from carrying out what abortion opponents call partial birth abortion.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Guinea : Independence Day (1958)
India : Gandhi Jayanti
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day
Missouri : Missouri Day (Monday)
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) (Monday)
Bhutan : Tsechhu
Name Your Car Day
National Wine Festival Month!!
Religious Observances
RC : Memorial of the Guardian Angel
Jewish : Rosh Hashanah-New Year
Religious History
1782 The Baptist Missionary Society was founded in London, England. This first modern mission society was started by William Carey, then 21, who later became England's first great Protestant missionary to India.
1808 Birth of Allen W. Chatfield, an Anglican vicar in Herefordshire (a west England county bordering on Wales). His best remembered writings include the English translation of the hymn, "Lord Jesus, Think on Me."
1918 Birth of Don Hustad, organist for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He accompanied Graham as organist for his worldwide crusades during 1961-67.
1970 A two-day convention opened at which the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania-South Jersey was formed. It was comprised of 9,000 charter members from 52 Southern Baptist churches.
1984 Grace Ministries International was incorporated in Grand Rapids, MI. Originating as Bethesda Mission in 1951, GMI engages in church planting in nearly a dozen overseas countries.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Woman, 71, pulls car with teeth
A 71-year-old woman has pulled a car for 65ft - with her teeth - in China.
Wang Xiaobei performed the stunt with a car weighing more than a tonne in Jinan, Shandong province, where she lives.
She attached one end of a heavy rope to the car and wrapped a handkerchief around the other end before biting on the rope.
Mrs Wang said she had been practising feats of strength with her teeth for more than 30 years.
She has previously managed to carry a 25 kilo bucket of water with her mouth, and also a bicycle.
Thought for the day :
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
