I'm not sure who to post this to, or how. But, my parish priest is a Vietnam veteran (he was a Chaplain in Vietnam), and he and his former soldiers in arms over the years have been trying to contact all the guys. There are a few they haven't been able to find yet, so I offered to post here in case anyone might have some helpful info.
My priest is Fr. Robert Falabella, and one guy in particular he is trying to find is Wally Nelson (real name Wallace? not sure). Their unit was the 5th Mechanized, 25th Infantry. Fr. Falabella was the Chaplain, and Nelson was the Chaplain's assistant. I think the last year Fr. was there was 1968. Fr. Falabella is the author of Vietnam Memoirs: A Passage to Sorrow.
Anyone with info or suggestions please post here or FReepmail me please.
Thanks!
Looked at your Minister Sikorsky in the images above. Early 40s, very good physical condition. Serious fellow. Good eyes.
But he looks like he needs a good pair of boots! Those low cut shoes must have been full of sand.
Personally I am embarrassed about 1939. Both England and France had socialist governments since 1919. Goes to show.
The USA has had socialist governments since 1932. The fight goes on.
Your people never surrendered through some tough times. My respects.
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 13
0354 St Augustine of Hippo Numidia, Algeria, convert/Christian philosopher
1312 Edward III king of England (1327-77)
1504 Philip the Generous count of Hessen
1804 Theophilus Hunter Holmes Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1809 John AB Dahlgren US Union lt adm/inventor (Civil war Dahlgren-cannon)
1831 James Maxwell Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity)
1833 Edwin Thomas Booth US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet)
1838 Joseph F Smith 6th President of Mormon church
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson Scotland, author (Treasure Island)
1856 Louis D Brandeis Massachusetts, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
1882 John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall)
1898 Earl Sande jockey (Hall of Famer)
1906 Hermione Baddeley England, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life)
1915 Howard Cooke Jamaica, (1991 Mico Gold Medal Award)
1916 Jack Elam Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo)
1917 Robert Sterling Newcastle PA, actor (George Kirby-Adv of Topper)
1922 Jack Narz Louisville KY, TV gameshow host (Dotto, Video Village)
1922 Oskar Werner film actor/director (Shoes of the Fisherman)
1923 Linda Christian Tampico, Mexico, actress (Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone)
1932 Richard Mulligan Bronx NY, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, The Pueblo Affair)
1938 Jean Seberg Marshaltown Iowa, actress (Breathless, Paint Your Wagon)
1941 Dack Rambo Delano CA, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas)
1941 Mel Stottlemyre Wash, pitcher (NY Yankee)/pitching coach (NY Met)
1943 John Paul Hammond NYC, blues singer (So Many Roads)
1949 Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson], NYC, actress/big mouth idiot (Color Purple, Burglar)
1963 Vinny Testaverde (football: Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, NY Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: quarterback; Heisman Trophy winner: University of Miami [1986])
Deaths which occurred on November 13:
0867 St Nicholas I (the Great) pope (858-67), dies
1460 Henry the Navigator prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1687 Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 37
1770 George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58
1779 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61
1829 Sam Patch loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
(It's not the fall that gets you...it's the rapid deceleration at the end)
1868 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
1942 Douglas H Fox US captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle
http://www.destroyerhistory.org/benson-gleavesclass/ussbarton.html 1961 Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1974 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56
1984 Dorothy Arnold actress, dies at 66
2004 Harry Lampert (88), the illustrator who created the DC Comics superhero 'The Flash' (1940)
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
13-Nov-2003 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Jacob S. Fletcher Samarra (N of) - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Joseph Minucci II Samarra (N of) - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
13-Nov-2004 10 | US: 10 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Cole W. Larsen Baghdad Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Captain Sean P. Sims Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Victor R. Lu Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Justin D. McLeese Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Benjamin S. Bryan Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Jose A. Velez Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Byron W. Norwood Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Justin M. Ellsworth Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Kevin J. Dempsey Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Catalin D. Dima Baghdad (near) Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
0867 St Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1002 English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1474 In the Swiss-Burgundian Wars, Swiss infantry shatters the army of Charles the Bold at Hericourt near Belfort, countering his march to Lorraine.
1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal
1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"
1839 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1835 Texans officially proclaim independence from Mexico, and calls itself the Lone Star Republic, after its flag, until its admission to the Union in 1845
1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1862 Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1878 New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace offers amnesty to many participants of the Lincoln County War, but not to gunfighter Billy the Kid.
(Lincoln County War
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/lincoln-county-war.htm) 1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1900 Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter
1909 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1914 The brassiere, invented by Caresse Crosby, is patented
1921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN
1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
1940 U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v. Lee that African Americans cannot be barred from white neighborhoods.
1941 German U-boat, the U-81 torpedoes Great Britain's premier aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal. The ship sinks the next day.
1942 Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1955 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1964 Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points
1967 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
1969 VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news of bias & distortion
1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
1970 Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
1971 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
1973 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously
1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
1989 Polish labor leader Lech Walesa received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush during a White House ceremony
2000 Lawyers for George W. Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced she would end the recounting at 5 p.m. the next day - prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.
2001 Bishop Wilton Gregory elected the first black president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
2001 US warplanes hit Taliban convoys leaving Kabul. The Al Jazeera office in Kabul was bombed. Kabul residents rejoiced at the departure of the Taliban. Eight foreign aid workers, two Americans, two Australians and four Germans, held captive in Afghanistan for three months were freed from a prison by anti-Taliban fighters.
2002 Iraq accepts a tough new U.N. resolution that will return U.N. weapons inspectors to the country after nearly four years.
(Don't unpack your bags)
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore removed from the bench for refusing to remove a Ten commanments monument
2004 Zimbabwe reports that the annual rate of inflation last month dropped to 209%.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Grenada, New Zealand : Rememberance Day
Laos : King's Birthday
England : Lord Mayor's Day
National Indian Pudding Day
US : Winter Weather Awareness Day
Friday the 13th falls on a Sunday
Peanut Butter Lover's Month
Religious Observances
RC : Commemoration of St Didacus, confessor
RC-US : Memorial of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin, (1850-1917)
Religious History
0354 Birth of St. Augustine of Hippo, greatest of the Early Latin Church Fathers. Of his many writings, two have endured: "Confessions" describes the circumstances leading to his conversion to the Christian faith, and "The City of God" was written as a Christian view of the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths in the year 410.
1564 Pius IV ordered his bishops and scholars to subscribe to "Professio Fidei," the Profession of the Tridentine Faith recently formulated at the Council of Trent (1545_63) as the new and final definition of the Roman Catholic faith.
1618 In the Dutch commune of Dordrecht, the Synod of Dort convened to discuss the Arminian controversy vexing the Reformed faith. In the end, about 200 Arminian (Remonstrant) ministers were deposed and fifteen were placed under arrest and later expelled from the country.
1804 Anglican missionary to Persia, Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'God and eternal things are my only pleasure.'
1962 The name of St. Joseph was added to the canon of the Roman Catholic mass. It constituted the first alteration made to this canon since the seventh century.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (
pilgrimwb@aol.com)
Police Respond to Burglary Call, Find Pot
Nov 12, 5:03 AM (ET)
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - In retrospect, it probably wasn't such a good idea to call the police. Ronald Meyers summoned officers to his home in an upscale neighborhood Thursday morning, claiming that someone was trying to open his windows and that he could hear voices outside.
Responding officers found no burglar but asked if they could check inside, said Sgt. John Booth, a Palm Springs police spokesman. When Meyers, 59, let them in, officers allegedly found more than $100,000 worth of marijuana, he said.
The alleged stash included an 8-foot-tall pot plant, more plants growing in the garage and harvested marijuana - some packed into large closeable plastic bags - stuffed in large storage bins in a bedroom, Booth said.
Officers also allegedly found syringes, at least one methamphetamine pipe and other drug paraphernalia, he said.
Meyers was jailed for possession of marijuana for sale with bail set at $25,000, he said.
His neighbors said they were unaware of anything unusual going on inside the house, which sits near signs for the area's Neighborhood Watch Association.
Thought for the day :
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson
One more Thought for the day. Why? Because I like it!
"She had rouged her cheeks to a color otherwise seen only on specially ordered Pontiac Firebirds, and in her ears she wore two feathered appliances resembling surfcasting jigs especially appetizing to striped bass."
George V. Higgins ( A woman seen at a party)