The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Cactus Air Force - Guadalcanal - Feb. 4th, 2003

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The Cactus Air Force

A small group of die-hard aviators fended off Japanese invaders at Guadalcanal, code-named "Cactus."

The Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter swept in low over the sweltering jungle of Guadalcanal, as if to land on the nearly completed, crushed-coral runway at Lunga Point. Once the air base was completed, the Japanese planned to fly long-range bombers from it to cut off Australia from the east.

But as the Zero buzzed the field, the pilot was startled to see enemy troops on the runway -- 10,000 U.S. Marines had landed the day before, August 7, 1942, and now held the field. He hastily climbed away, leaving this little clearing in the jungle to become the objective of the pivotal campaign of the war in the Pacific.

Birth Of The Cactus

Believing the amphibious assault to be a temporary, diversionary raid (and seeing that they were outnumbered 3-to-1), Japanese ground forces on Guadalcanal initially withdrew into the jungle, expecting air attacks to drive the Americans off. Over the next two days, land-based Japanese navy planes, including Mitsubishi G4M bombers (Allied code name "Betty") and Zero ("Zeke") fighters, downed 20 percent of the U.S. Navy fighters sent against them but lost nearly half their own. The loss of four cruisers and a destroyer in the sea battle of Savo on the night of August 9, combined with the continuing threat of daylight air attack, caused the U.S. Navy to withdraw. The Marines were left on "the Canal" with what they referred to as the only unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Solomon Islands -- the Guadalcanal airfield. They used captured construction equipment to finish the 2,600-foot runway, adding an extra 1,200 feet for good measure.


Major John L. Smith scored 19 aerial victories and earned the Medal of Honor over Guadalcanal. (National Archives)

Although bereft of taxiways, revetments, drainage and radar, the airfield -- christened Henderson Field after Marine Major Lofton Henderson, who died leading a dive-bomber attack in the June 4 Battle of Midway -- boasted Japanese hangars, machine shops and radio installations, a pagodalike control tower complete with a warning siren for air raids, and even an ice plant. But not until August 20 did Guadalcanal -- code-named "Cactus" -- take delivery of 12 Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers and their escort of 19 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters, the advance squadrons of Marine Air Group (MAG) 23. "I was close to tears and I was not alone," said Maj. Gen. Archer Vandergrift, the Marine ground commander, "when the first SBD taxied up and this handsome and dashing aviator jumped to the ground. 'Thank God you have come,' I told him."

Within 12 hours the fledgling "Cactus Air Force" helped finish off a Japanese infantry assault. The next day, the American fliers gave an enemy bomber raid from Rabaul, New Britain, a rude welcome. In his first combat engagement, Captain John Lucien Smith, commanding Marine Fighter Squadron (VMF) 223, and four F4Fs met the fighter escort, 13 Zeros of the crack Tainan Kokutai (naval air group) led by Lieutenant Shiro Kawai, head-on. All four Wildcats survived, though two were badly damaged and one cracked up attempting a dead-stick landing. No Zeros were destroyed, but Smith thought the skirmish "did a great deal of good" by giving the Marines a better idea of the Zero's capabilities while giving them confidence in the performance and durability of their own Wildcats. Later that week, Captain Marion Carl, who had downed a Zero at Midway, got two Bettys and another Zero. Carl and Smith were to become friendly rivals.

Building Up The Fighter Force

The balance of power on Guadalcanal seesawed with the waxing and waning of fighter strength at Henderson. By the end of August the Cactus Air Force included 14 Bell P-400 Airacobra fighter-bombers (export versions of the company's P-39) of the 67th Fighter Squadron, U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF), and 19 F4Fs of VMF-224, under Major Robert E. Galer.

(In less than two weeks Galer would knock down four enemy planes, go down in the water and swim ashore. His gallantry would eventually garner him 13 kills and the Medal of Honor.)



By the afternoon of September 10, however, only three P-400s remained, with 22 SBDs and 11 F4Fs. (Among the missing was Marion Carl.) Two dozen Navy Wildcats hurriedly flew in to reinforce them; the Airacobras proved barely enough to help repulse an attack on Bloody Ridge, just south of the airfield.

During the course of the Bloody Ridge battle, Henderson received 60 planes, including 18 more F4Fs,12 SBDs and six Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, but the Japanese reinforced Rabaul with 60 fighters and 72 medium bombers.

Stopping Them Cold

By mid-October, 224 Japanese planes had fallen to the Cactus Air Force, including 111 1/2 to VMF-223 and 19 to Smith, who, as the highest-scoring American airman to date, was awarded the Navy Cross and the Medal of Honor. His erstwhile opponent as top gun, Carl, had actually made it back to Henderson after spending five days with the natives, only to find that Smith had pulled ahead of him in victories. ("Dammit, General," he urged Brig. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, the Marine air commander, "ground him for five days!") Carl finished with 18 1/2 kills and a Navy Cross.


Joe Foss (standing second from left) and pilots of VMF-121 at Henderson Field in February 1943. By that time, Captain Foss was in command of the squadron and had earned the Medal of Honor. (National Archives)

Seven of the pilots who had arrived with Smith and Carl in August went out as aces; six were killed and six wounded. Of the Dauntless squadron, only the commander, Lt. Col. Richard C. Mangrum, was able to walk away when he was evacuated on October 12; all his men had been killed, wounded, or hospitalized.

"These guys had stopped [the Japanese] cold," said Captain Joseph J. Foss, who would become Cactus' premier ace, "and now it was our turn." Foss -- "Smokey Joe" for his cigar habit -- was executive officer of Major Leonard K. "Duke" Davis' VMF-121, which moved up to relieve VMF-223 on October 9.

Terrible Conditions

"We were fired upon by Japanese troops as we landed," recalled Lieutenant Jefferson J. DeBlanc of VMF- 112, some of whose pilots arrived a month later in transport planes. "We were always under fire on takeoffs and landings."

Pilots were quartered in mud-floored tents in the frequently flooded coconut grove called "Mosquito Grove," between the airstrip and the beach. The latrine was a trench, with a log for a seat; the bathtub was the Lunga River. There were only two meals a day -- dehydrated potatoes, Spam, cold hash and captured Japanese rice -- and cigarettes. Malaria, dysentery, dengue fever, beriberi and myriad lesser known tropical diseases stalked the garrison. No man could get out of duty with less than a 102-degree fever, but by October more than 2,000 had been hospitalized.



Working conditions were also daunting. Fuel had to be hand-pumped out of 55-gallon drums (and strained through chamois, since native porters sometimes cooled their feet in it) into 12-quart buckets before being poured into airplanes. There were plenty of bombs but no bomb hoists; the SBDs' 500-pounders had to be hand- loaded. The Wildcats' turbochargers, not to be engaged below 10,000 feet but wired open anyway, wore out the engines in 25 to 50 flying hours.

Enemy Strikes

"Almost daily," wrote the 67th Squadron historian, "and almost always at the same time -- noon, 'Tojo Time' -- the bombers came." Advance notice arrived from coastwatchers up the archipelago or, once incoming Japanese bombers learned to detour out of their sight, via Henderson's new long-range SCR (signal corps radio) 270 radar. The Wildcats, the Dauntlesses and the P-400s scrambled to take off two at a time -- through a blinding pall of dust or, if it had rained, through wheel-sucking mud -- on a treacherous runway pocked with half-filled bomb and shell craters and rutted by the solid rubber tail wheels of carrier aircraft. Almost invariably one or two planes failed to take off.

The "ground pounders," the SBDs and P-400s, scuttled off over the treetops to work over enemy ground positions -- or at least to keep out of the way of the impending airstrike. The Wildcat pilots had their work cut out for them just raising their landing gear (which took 29 turns of a hand crank), struggling to form up, trimming their aircraft and testing their guns. (Early Wildcat guns had a tendency to jam during hard maneuvers; furthermore, if the oil necessary to prevent rust on the guns in the humid sea-level air was not removed before takeoff, it froze at altitude, jamming the actions.) Most important, the pilots had to reach the Japanese bombers' altitude before the Zekes fell on them.



In his first combat mission, attempting to intercept bombers at 24,000 feet, Lieutenant James Percy of VMF-112 suffered a partial turbocharger failure 10,000 feet short of the enemy formation. "I continued to climb very slowly on low blower, but it was obvious I wasn't going to reach [the enemy's] altitude in time to intercept," Percy recalled. "As the bombers passed about 3,000 feet over me, I noticed their bomb bay doors were open. As I grasped what that meant, their bombs started falling toward me. All I could do was duck my head and pray. Bombs passed all around me, but I was not hit." (Percy's luck held; in June 1943 he survived a 2,000-foot fall with a shot-up parachute into the waters off the Russell Islands.)

Down below, a black flag would go up at the "Pagoda" -- air raid imminent -- and the triple-A (anti-aircraft artillery) would open up. Around the runway, slit trenches and bomb shelters rapidly filled (a sign over one shelter entrance read, "Beneath these portals pass the fastest men in the world") as the first bombs began to fall at one end of the field, and the explosions "walked" across to the other side.

Taking A Dive

Diving, whether to attack or to escape, was the one maneuver at which the Wildcat bested the Zero. "The Zeros had superior maneuverability," said 2nd Lt. Roger A. "Jughead" Haberman, a division leader in Foss' flight who ultimately scored seven victories. "In two-and-a-half turns against a Wildcat they could have you boresighted. But our planes were heavier than theirs, so if you got into trouble, you could dive earthward away from them."

Usually.



In Foss' first combat on October 13, he was jumped by a Zeke flown by Petty Officer 1st Class Kozaburo Yasui of the Tainan Kokutai. Foss later recalled: "That bird came by like a freight train and gave me a good sprinkling, but I knew I had him. I pulled up and gave him a short burst, and down he went." But while Foss was credited with the kill, Yasui in fact survived (he would bring his own score up to 11 before he was killed over Guam on June 19, 1944) -- and his two wingmen, Petty Officer 2nd Class Nobutaka Yanami and Seaman 1st Class Tadashi Yoneda, bounced Foss. Their bullets hit his oil cooler, and his engine seized. "The only thing I could do to get out -- I was right over the field -- was to just wheel over and dive straight down," Foss recalled. He plunged from 22,000 feet right down to the deck. "I'd read that a Zero couldn't follow such a dive; its wings would come off trying to pull out. Well, whoever wrote that was a fiction writer because those boys just kept on my tail, pumping lead!" Anti-aircraft gunners cleared the Zekes from his tail, and Foss coasted in to a dead-stick crash landing.

The Americans knew the Japanese had the edge in experience. Most Yanks were straight out of flying school, with less than 300 hours in training aircraft. "Some of the pilots," wrote Percy, "barely had enough time in the F4Fs to get safely airborne." Many Zero aces, veterans of the Sino-Japanese War, counted 800 hours of flying time even before the United States entered the war.

[Valin]

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on February 04:
1465 French van Brederode leader of Hoeksen
1549 Eustache du Caurroy composer
1575 Pierre de Bérulle French cardinal
1581 Daniel Selich composer
1646 Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz Silesian poet
1688 Pierre De Marivaux Paris France, writer (Marianne)
1693 George Lillo bourgeois English dramatist (The London Merchant)
1698 Heinrich A Fouqué Prussian General
1747 Tadeusz Kosciusko Poland, patriot, (New York Bridge)
1751 Blas de Laserna composer
1758 Pierre-Gabriel Gardel French ballet dancer/choreographer
1764 Carel H Verhuell Dutch/French Vice-Admiral/minister of Navy
1767 Johann Franz Volkert composer
1768 Maurits C van Hall Dutch ruler of Heicop & Boeicop, lawyer/politician
1769 Samuel I Wiselius Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer
1778 Augustin P de Candolle Swiss botanist (Théorie élémentaire)
1799 Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret Portuguese playwright
1802 Mark Hopkins US, educator/philosopher (Williams College)
1805 Georg Andreas Henkel composer
1805 William H Ainsworth English writer (Old St Paul's, Rookwood)
1819 Joshua Norton San Francisco CA, Norton I, emperor of USA
1820 Bozena Nemcová [Barnora Panklová], Czechoslovakian author (Babicka)
1826 Halbert Eleazer Paine Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1841 Clément Ader French inventor (1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft)
1842 Georg Brandes [Morris Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic
1842 Vasili O Klyutshevski Russian historian
1848 [François-Victor-]Jean Aicard French playwright/poet (Jeune Croyances)
1849 Jean Richepin French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux)
1865 Charles Bally Swiss linguist (Le langage et la vie)
1868 Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy Irish patriot/playwright/MP
1874 Robert Liefmann German economist (Unternehmersverbände)
1875 Ludwig Prandtl German Federal Republic, physicist (father of aerodynamics)
1875 Raymond Moulaert composer
1876 Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls composer
1881 Fernand Léger France, painter/ceramist/cubist (The City)
1881 Kliment J Woroshilov Marshal/President USSR (1953-60)
1884 Julius Callewaert Flemish Dominican/bringing up children
1884 Rolland Beaumont cricketer (South African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14)
1885 Cairine Ray Wilson Montréal, 1st female Canadian senator (appointed)
1888 Paul Althaus German theologist (The Christian Truth)
1889 Walter Catlett San Francisco CA, actor (Front Page, Tale of 2 Cities)
1891 Yuri Losmann Estonia, marathon runner (Olympics-silver 1920)
1892 Ugo Betti Italian playwright
1892 Yrlö Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer
1893 Bernard Rogers New York NY, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion)
1893 Raymond Dart Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus)
1895 Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor Dutch historian (Erflaters)
1895 Hanns [Johann] Rauter German SS-Lieutenant-General/SS police chief in Netherlands
1896 Friedrich Glauser writer
1897 Ludwig Erhard chancellor of Germany (CDU)
19-- Stephanie Williams actress (Young & Restless, Simone-General Hospital)
1900 Jacques Prévert France, poet/screenwriter (Paroles)
1902 Charles A Lindbergh Detroit MI, pilot (1st fly solo across Atlantic)
1903 Edwin Denby Tientsin China, US dance critic/poet (Snoring in N)
1903 Frank Howley Hampton NY, Brigadier General (Answers for Americans)
1903 Alexander Oppenheim mathematician
1903 Berend van den Amstel [Bernard CED Hattink], actor (Beatrice)
1903 Siro Cisilino composer
1904 MacKinlay Kantor Webster City IA, novelist (Andersonville)
1904 Herman B Wiardi Beckman Dutch politician (SDAP)/resistance fighter
1904 Predrag Milosevic composer
1905 Eddie Foy Jr New Rochelle NY, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange)
1906 Clyde William Tombaugh US, astronomer (discovered Pluto)
1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer German theologist (Confessing Church)
1906 Primo Carnera Italian boxer (champion-1933)
1908 Gordon Fraser Lawrence MA, newscaster (All Star News)
1908 Emmanuel "Manny" Klein trumpeter
1909 Robert Coote London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
1909 Kenneth W Howell English Anglican bishop (Chile/Bolivia/Peru)
1910 Uys Krige South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert)
1910 Alfred Mendelsohn composer
1912 Byron Nelson Fort Worth TX, PGA golfer (won 19 tournaments in 1945)
1912 Erich Leinsdorf Vienna Austria, available conductor & banana eater
1912 James Craig Nashville TN, actor (Devil & Daniel Webster, Cyclops)
1913 Rosa Lee Parks civil rights activist (bus protester)
1913 Woody Hayes [Wayne], college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of year)
1914 Ida Lupino London England, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Jennifer)
1914 Alfred Andersch German writer (Red Head)
1915 William Talman Detroit MI, actor (Crashout, Hamilton-Perry Mason)
1916 Basil Hembry farmer/campaigner
1916 Colin Morris playwright/documentary filmmaker
1916 David Vassall Cox composer
1916 Gavin Buchanan Ewart English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh)
1917 Aga Yahya Khan Pakistan military/politician
1918 Norman Wisdom London England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
1919 Frank van Klingeren Dutch architect (De Meerpaal, Dronten)
1920 Derek Worlock English Roman Catholic archbishop (Liverpool)
1921 Betty Friedan Peoria IL, feminist writer (Feminine Mystique)
1923 Conrad Bain Alberta Canada, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes)
1925 Russell Hoban US children's book author (Riddley Walker/Pilgermann)
1926 John Edward Caulwell Hearne writer
1928 Dave Ketchum Quincy IL, actor (Agent 13-Get Smart)
1929 Mary Joan Nielubowicz Rear Admiral/nurse
1929 Paul Burlison rocker
1931 Argentina Rioja
1931 Isabel Perón [Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina
1932 Ivan Davis Electra TX, pianist/writer (Hunger, Corn is Green)
1934 Gil Rogers Lexington KY, actor (Hawk-Guiding Light, Doctors)
1934 Jouko Sakari Linjama composer
1935 Martti Talvela Hiitola Karelia Finland, operatic basso
1935 Wallis Mathias cricketer (1st non-Muslim to play for Pakistan)
1936 Gary Conway Boston MA, actor (Burke's Law, Land of the Giants)
1936 Daan van Golden Dutch sculptor
1937 Collin Wilcox Highlands NC, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird)
1937 John Devitt Australia, 100 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1960)
1937 Magnar Solberg Norway, 20K biathalete (Olympics-gold-1968, 72)
1938 Donald W Riegle Jr (Senator-D-MI, 1976- )
1939 John Schuck Boston MA, actor/comedian (McMillan & Wife, Holmes & Yo-Yo)
1939 Jacques Charlier Belgian sculptor
1939 Jane Bryant Quinn newspaper & television reporter
1939 Stan Lundine (Representative-D-NY, 1976-86)
1940 George A Romero actor/director (Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes)
1941 John Steel rock drummer (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1941 Marie Masters Cincinatti OH, actress (Susan-As the World Turns)
1942 Johnny Gamble rocker (Classics)
1943 Cheryl Miller Sherman Oaks CA, actress (Paula-Daktari, Born Free)
1944 Florence LaRue Gordon Pennsylvania, rocker (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
1944 Daniel A Mica (Representative-D-FL, 1979- )
1945 David Brenner Philadelphia PA, comedian/TV talk show host (Nightlife)
1946 Mary Meyer US, 500 meter speed skater (Olympics-silver-1968)
1946 Roy Yeager Doraville GA, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1947 Dan Quayle (Senator-R-IN)/(44th Vice-President-R 1989-93)
1947 Jeannie Wilson Memphis TN, actress (Simon & Simon, Stir Crazy)
1947 Sanford Bishop (Representative-D-GA)
1948 Alice Cooper [Vincent Furnier], Detroit MI, rocker (School's Out)
1948 Robert Coover novelist (Pricksongs & Descants)
1948 Rakesh Shukla cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India vs Sri Lanka 1982)
1948 Rod Grams (Representative-R-MN)
1949 Michael Beck Memphis TN, actor (Hans Helms-Holocaust)
1950 Pamela Franklin Tokyo Japan, actress (Satan's School for Girls)
1950 James Dunn US vocalist (Stylistics-You make me feel Brand New)
1950 Philip Ehart rock drummer (Kansas)
1950 Robert-John Stips rock keyboardist/singer (The Nits)
1952 Jerry Shirley rock drummer (Humble Pie-Hot N Nasty, Eat It)
1952 Lisa Eichhorn Reading PA, actress (Cutter's Way, Yanks)
1953 Svetlana Ulmasova USSR, 3K (world title 1978)
1958 Mary Ann Pascal actress (Samantha-Brothers)
1958 Werner Schwab writer
1959 Lawrence Taylor [LT], NFL's greatest linebacker (New York Giants)
1959 Zenani Mandela daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela
1960 Pamelyn Ferdin actress (Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders)
1961 Denis Savard Pointe Gatineau CA, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1961 Vern Fleming Long Island City NY, basketball player (Olympics-gold-1984)
1962 Clint Black Long Branch NJ, country vocalist (A Better Man)
1962 Dan Plesac Gary IN, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1962 Vern Fleming NBA guard (New Jersey Nets)
1963 Pirmin Zurbriggen Swiss alpine skier (Olympics-gold-1988)
1963 Jane Leary Sydney Australia, golfer (1992 Australian Amateur Champion)
1963 Tracie Ruiz-Conforto Hawaii, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-2 gold/silver-84, 88)
1965 John van Loen Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord, San Frecce)
1966 Marissa Laakso Boston MA, Miss Massachusetts-America (1990)
1966 Barry Klein Grand Rapids MI, rower (Olympics-1996)
1966 Spike rocker
1967 Sergei Grinkov Soviet ice skater (Olympics-gold 1988, 1994)
1968 Kristen Marie actress (Cheryl McKinnon-Another World)
1969 Brad Cornett US baseball pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 Chastity Bono Los Angeles CA, daughter/actress (Sonny & Cher Show)
1969 Chris Crooms WLAF safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 Dallas Drake Trail, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 Joe Sacco Medford MA, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 Alisa Marie Kimble Miss California-USA (1997)
1970 Gabrielle Anwar Laleham England, actress (Body Snatchers)
1970 John Frascatore US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 Nicole Wood Canton OH, playmate (April 1993)
1970 Todd Peterson NFL kicker (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 Kevin Farkas NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1971 Maarten Atmodikoro soccer player (Dordrecht '90, NAC)
1971 Pete Pierson NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 Sterling Palmer NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1972 Kelvin Anderson CFL running back (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 Michael Goorjian actor (Party Of Five)
1973 Oscar De La Hoya Los Angeles CA, boxer (Olympics-gold-92)
1974 Brandon Convery Kingston, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1974 Chris Ward defensive end (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 Elana Eve Chomiszak Providence RI, Miss Rhode Island-America (1996)
1975 Miriam Ruppert Miss Germany-Universe (1996)
1978 Laurence Borremans Miss Belgium-Universe (1997)
1980 Kelly Marie Sodan Miss Kentucky Teen-USA (1996)

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Deaths which occurred on February 04:
0211 Lucius Septimus Severus emperor of Rome (193-211), dies at 64
0708 Sisinnius Greek-Syrian pope (708, 20 days), dies
0856 Hrabanus Maurus East France, archbishop of Mainz, dies
1189 Gilbert of Sempringham English monastery founder/saint, dies
1222 Willem I earl of Holland (1203-22), dies
1503 Queen Elizabeth consort of Henry VII of England, dies
1505 Joan of Valois Queen of France/saint, dies at 40
1553 Caspar Othmayr composer, dies at 37
1590 Gioseffo Zarlino composer, dies at 73
1617 Louis Elsevier Dutch publisher, dies at about 76
1640 Hendrick C Vroom Dutch seascape painter, dies
1714 Duke of Berry French King Louis XIV's grandson, dies
1746 Robert Blair Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46
1781 Josef Myslivecek composer, dies at 43
1781 Willem Crul Admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle at 59
1815 Geert Reinders Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation proponent, dies at 77
1815 Jacob van Strij Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 58
1816 Meingosus Gaelle composer, dies at 63
1834 Amelie Julia Candielle composer, dies at 66
1844 Willem de Clerq Dutch merchant/literary, dies at 49
1854 Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz composer, dies at 66
1869 Johan M Dautzenberg Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60
1894 Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax instrument maker (saxophone), dies at 79
1895 Faustina Hasse Hodges composer, dies at 71
1896 Henry David Leslie composer, dies at 73
1911 Peter A "Piet" Cronje South Africa Boer General, dies at about 75
1921 Xavier Mellery Belgian painter/illustrator, dies at 75
1927 Thomas Linnemann Laub composer, dies at 74
1928 Hendrik A Lorentz physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74
1939 Edward Sapir US linguist/cultural anthropologist (Indian), dies at 55
1939 Henri W A Deterding Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), dies at 72
1941 Johann Peter Kirsch Luxembourg church historian, dies at 79
1943 Frank Calder 1st NHL president, dies
1946 Margarete Boie writer, dies
1953 Alexander Loudon Dutch diplomat (League of Nations), dies at 60
1954 Vaclav Vackar composer, dies at 72
1956 Leendert A Donker Dutch Social Democrat party-minister of Justice, dies at 56
1956 Peder Gram composer, dies at 74
1957 Joseph Hardaway creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66
1957 Miguel Covarrubias Mexican illustrator, dies
1958 Frederik de Merode Belgian prince, dies at 46
1959 Una O'Connor actress (Banjo, Invisible Man), dies at 78
1964 Siegfried T Bok neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71
1965 U C Greyhound champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
1966 Gilbert H Grosvenor president National Geographic Society, dies at 90
1968 Ed Baker actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70
1968 Gerard den Brabander [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New), dies at 67
1969 Thelma Ritter actress (All About Eve, Pillow Talk), dies at 63
1974 Mihail Andricu composer, dies at 79
1976 Edward Benjamin Britten composer, dies at 62
1978 Dr Bergen Evans English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73
1982 Sue Carol actress (She's My Weakness), dies of a heart attack at 73
1983 Jim Ameche actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68
1983 Karen Carpenter singer/drummer (Carpenters), dies of anorexia at 32
1983 Reginald Denham director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89
1987 Liberace pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman), dies at 67
1989 Kenneth "Jethro" Burns country singer (Homer & Jethro), dies at 69
1991 Bob Leslie actor (Cinderella, Mako Jaws of Death), dies at 64
1992 Fred Slyter dialogue coach, dies after long illness at 56
1992 John Dehner actor (Apache, Cowboy, Boys from Brazil), dies at 76
1994 Han Jansen Dutch painter, dies at 62
1994 Harold Schneider US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
1994 Jan Veldkamp Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI), dies at 84
1994 Justinus Darmojuwono Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79
1995 Betty Davis British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
1995 Patricia Highsmith [Mary Patricia Plangman], US/Swiss, dies at 74
1995 Roel Wiersma Dutch soccer star (PSV), dies at 62
1997 James Friell political cartoonist, dies at 84

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On this day...
0708 Sisinnius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1194 Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's ransom of 100,000
1508 Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
1586 Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Netherlands
1600 Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
1620 Prince Bethlen Gábor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II
1657 Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal
1697 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
1699 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
1782 British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet
1783 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
1787 1st Anglican bishops of New York & Pennsylvania consecrated in London
1787 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
1789 1st electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as President & Vice President
1794 French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
1797 Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000
1803 William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature"
1822 Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
1824 J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public
1846 Mormons leave Nauvoo MO for settlement in the west
1847 1st US telegraph company established in Maryland
1849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
1854 Alvan Bovay proposes the name "Republican Party", Ripon WI
1855 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery AL, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi & South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy
1864 Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
1865 Hawaiian Board of Education formed
1866 Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible
1875 Princess Louise marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belgium
1880 Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke" premieres in New York NY
1887 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
1895 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
1899 Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
1903 Stanley Cup Montréal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1 & 1 tie
1904 John Millington Synges "Well of Saints" premieres in Dublin
1913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
1913 National Institute of Arts & Letters founded
1914 US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
1915 Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Mississippi Penitentiary
1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established
1919 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
1920 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (1½ months)
1922 WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
1924 1st Winter Olympics games close at Chamonix France
1924 George Kelly's "Show-Off" premieres in New York NY
1926 Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
1927 KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
1929 Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut vs England at Adelaide
1930 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
1931 National League adopts a deader baseball
1932 3rd Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid NY
1932 Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria
1933 Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
1933 German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press
1936 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
1937 Jim Margie, Philadelphia PA, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
1938 Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
1938 "Our Town", by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
1939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-minute mile beyond human effort
1941 United Service Organization (USO) founded
1941 British tanks occupy Maus Libya
1941 Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
1942 Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US General wounded in action in WWII
1943 Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan" premieres in Zürich
1944 Jean Anouilh's "Antigone" premieres in Paris
1944 US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
1945 FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta
1946 Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday" premieres in New York NY
1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia
1951 US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
1951 US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1952 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC New York)
1956 AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
1958 "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances
1958 Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
1959 Israel begins exporting copper ore
1960 BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
1960 Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park
1960 Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be" premieres
1961 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1962 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances
1962 US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
1962 US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
1964 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City OK
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
1967 US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
1967 "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby
1968 Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
1968 "Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances
1969 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cincinnati-Detroit, San Diego-Boston
1969 John Madden is named head coach of the NFL's Oakland Raiders
1969 Beatles appoint Eastman & Eastman, as general counsel to Apple
1969 Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men" premieres in New York NY
1969 Yassar Arafat takes over as chairman of PLO
1970 "Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 23 performances
1970 "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
1971 Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)
1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
1972 Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
1972 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
1973 Islanders & Sabres had a penalty free game
1973 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled
1973 "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances
1973 Manfred Kokot runs world record 50 meter indoor (5.61 seconds)
1974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
1974 Patricia Hearst (19), daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
1974 Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands
1974 Gas rationing ends in Netherlands
1976 12th Winter Olympics games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras
1976 Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt)
1977 Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed"
1977 30th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released
1979 "Co-Ed Fever", TV Comedy, debut & cancelled that outing on CBS
1979 End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 years (WSC, SCG)
1979 Joanne Carner win LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1980 Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran
1980 Joanne Carner win LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47 meters) Tacoma WA
1982 Musical "Pump Boys & Dinettes" premieres at Princess Theater NYC for 573 performances
1982 Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees
1983 José Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium
1983 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1984 "Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
1984 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168 meters) Las Vegas
1984 "9" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 739 performances
1985 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
1985 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons
1986 38th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
1986 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)
1987 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against the Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
1987 Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
1987 President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
1988 Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges
1989 Dean Jones scores 216 vs West Indies at the Adelaide Oval
1990 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
1990 Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 meter freestyle (3 minutes 40.81 seconds)
1990 Danny Everett runs world record 400 meter indoor (45:04)
1990 Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60 meter hurdles indoor (7.69)
1990 NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 27-21
1990 Pat Bradley win Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1990 Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
1990 St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
1991 US postage raises from 25¢ to 29¢
1991 Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose
1991 Martin Crowe & Andrew Jones make 467 stand vs SL, world record
1993 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA
1993 Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
1993 Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror
1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
1994 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan
1994 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 meter indoor (6.00 seconds)
1994 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 meter indoor (8:18.71)
1995 Dean Jones completes 324 for Victoria vs South Australia
1995 Sandra Völker swims female European record 50 meter backstroke (27.77)
1995 Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
1996 NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 20-13
1997 73 Israelis die when army copters collide
1997 Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals
1997 OJ Simpson found liable in murders of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson
1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium

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

Angola : Outbreak of Fighting Against Portuguese
Sri Lanka : Independence Day (1948)
US : Kosciuszko Day
Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - - - - - ( Sunday )

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Religious Observances
Anglican : Commemoration of Cornelius the Centurion
Feast of St Gilbert of Sempringham
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesole/confessor
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St John of Britto, Portuguese Jesuit

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Religious History
1441 Pope Eugene IV published the encyclical "Cantante domino." It asserted that the biblical canon of the Roman Catholic Church contains both the 66 protocanonical books (i.e., the complete Protestant Bible) and 12 deuterocanonical (aka "apocryphal") books 78 writings in all.
1810 The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized in Tennessee as an outgrowth of the Great Revival of 1800. Standing between Calvinism and Arminianism, the denomination holds a "medium theology" which affirms unlimited atonement, universal grace, conditional election, eternal security of the believer and salvation of all children dying in infancy.
1873 Birth of George Bennard, American Methodist evangelist. He penned over 300 Gospel songs during his lifetime, but is primarily remembered today for one: "The Old Rugged Cross."
1874 English poet and devotional writer Frances Ridley Havergal, 37, penned the words to the popular hymn of commitment, "Take My Life and Let It Be [Consecrated, Lord, to Thee]."
1950 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot resolved in his journal: 'I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.'

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Thought for the day :
" Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth. "

[SAMWolf]

1940 George A Romero actor/director (Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes)

Night of the Living Dead - A Classic Horror Flick.

[manna]

Present!

[Valin]

I had a brother-in-law who was on Guadalcanal(as he put it, "Part of an all expense paid tour of the pacific").

He told of a time when they were being bombed when he (from under his bunk) looked over at at a "new guy" shaking so bad that the bunk was shaking, he starts to laugh...until he looked up and saw how his bunk was shaking.

[brownie]

I was a boatswain's mate aboard the USS Saratoga, CV-60 for a few years and then was a reservist while I went to school. I then joined the Army JAG Corps after law school and served for a few years.

[hardhead]

New at G. I. Memories: Glasgow AFB, Montana - were you one of the SAC STK's (if you were in SAC, you know what SKT stands for) who was stationed out in the middle of nowhere, Northeastern Montana? See what the base looks like now.

[SAMWolf]

STK = Storage Tech?

[hardhead]

'SAC-Trained-Killer', a somewhat sarcastic term that G.I.'s applied to each other when they were selected for one of a base's combat defense augmentation teams.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Gotta love military humor!

[GailA]

My step dad served in this theater, Corregidor.

Today's Graphic

[SAMWolf]

My step dad served in this theater, Corregidor

At the beginning of the war or at the end of the war? I thank him for serving.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Willie and the Hand Jive"
(To be sung to Eric Clapner's--aka Clapton's--"Willie and the Hand Jive")

I know a cat named Ol' Slick Willie...
Gotta phat li'l chick named BigAss Hill'ry!
She's a squawkin', dried-up, worn-out shrew...
So Slick just plays that ol' skin flute!
Look out, Country, it's an intern 'ho'...
Doin' Slick's hand jive...knees to the flo'!
Media's havin' a pretty good time...
'Cuz Left don't see where cheatin's a crime.
Hand jive, hand jive, hand jive...
Slap that monkey blind!

Slick was a young Ozark A.G....
When he ambushed poor Juanita B!!
Sex Fiend Willie gave her quite a treat...
When he raped that lady, her lip did bleed.
Quaint style, Slick's VILE, he smiles,
"Baby, get yo'self some ice!!"

Slick and Hill'ry...they having a ball...
Abusin' their Power and that ain't all,
'Cuz they committed TREASON it's plain to see...
Slick's tellin' them big lies on TeeVee.
Slick LIES, Slick SPIES, he'll resign...
And do that Prison Time.

Hey...hey-ey

Ridicule...Ridicule...RIDICULE!!! This one's gotta FUNKY BEAT...MUD

[Chemnitz]

Remove me from your list. You are not responding to mail so I will do this until you do. Thanks.

[kneezles]

Hiya Sam!!! Great thread!!! Thanx!!!

[SAMWolf]

Hey Kneezles! Missed seeing old Blinky. How you doing?

[fatima]

Here is a bump AntiJen.

[Jen]

I did remove you and I did reply to you already. Also, there is no need for you to be rude to me. Go read my post to you at #24 on this thread.

[Jen]

I love your song parodies, MUD. But when will we get to hear you singing??? Soon, I hope!!

[Jen]

Many thanks for bumping by today!

[Mudboy Slim]

Soon, my FRiend...definitely in 2003!!

Howdy A-A...good to see ya!!

"Marchin' on DeeCee!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "Racin' in the Streets")

I got a worn-out ol' computer with a 486...
Fax machine and patriotism galore.
Left's threatnin' our Rights with all their Guv'ment ROT...
Clinton's a Chinese Communist Whore!
Me and my FReeper buddies gonna fight to the last...
Gonna kick Ol' Slick right outta town.
'Cuz Bill took Chinese money, helped our Nukes get snatched...
We'll Re-Impeach, then we'll CONVICT RATS' Clown!!

Tonight, we fight Slick's White House Blight...
We're gonna knock that Traitor outta his seat!
Spring is here and The Time Is Right...
For FReepin' on DeeCee!!

We decry corruption when we see'it...
We expose Tyranny by the State.
When Limbaugh shuts down, we hit the DrudgeReport...
We're all funded by "Dick" Mellon-Scaife.
Now some folks, they just give up caring...
And start givin' up their Liberties, piece by piece.
Some folks come home from work and wash up...
Then go hit the Web to FReep!!

Tonight, we fight Left's Treas'nous Blight...
We're gonna stomp those Lib'rals beneath our feet!
Spring is here and The Time's Just Right...
We're Gonna DESTROY DemElites!!

(Keyboard/Percussion)

We met him and his "schtick" eight years ago...
Sixties' Lib'ral with "an eye fer the babes."
With far-Left Media at his back...
Slick told the World he's here to stay!
But now there's Treason, Rape, and Chinese spies...
So many lies...Oh no, it just ain't Right!
This Country's drones, they need a spark...
Need Ol' Mudboy singin', "It's worth the fight!"

Slick spunked on the floor of our great White House...
But folks said, "Wait, 'cuz Wall Street's soarin'!"
They stare off all numb, afraid to fight...
Trustin' LIES of folks who slaughter the Unborn.
For all YOU Mind-Numbed Robots and Network "HotShots"...
Ignorin' crimes to Beat the Band...
Tonight, the FReepers and me, we're gonna take back DeeCee...
And Purge LEFT's Filth From OUR Land!

Tonight, we fight the righteous fight...
Out of our way, RINOS, you best keep!
'Cuz Spring is here and the mood's just Right...
For FReepin' on DeeCee!

(Keyboard/Percussion to fade)

Mudboy Slim

BTW...Just over two centuries ago, our forefathers risked Life, Liberty, and their personal fortunes to stand up against an over-bearing and tyrannical government. Because of their courage and determination, the original Thirteen Colonies became what we now know as the United States of America. Therefore, our honored forebears were all-too-aware of the propensity for central governing bureaucracies to grow out of control. The writers of our Constitution, in an attempt to protect the citizenry from this eventuality, chose to enumerate our individual liberties in the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment includes "the right to free speech," which not only protected the individual's right to speak out against the government, but also enabled the Fourth Branch of Government--the Free Press, if you will--to flourish. For over two hundred years, this watchdog Media has turned over many rocks, exposing the dark under-belly of American politics...UNTIL NOW!!

Previously occupying the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, was a small petty man, heading a vast criminal conspiracy. Bill Clinton most indubitably committed multiple felonies and obstructed justice in the Monica Lewinsky matter. A morally-weak, spineless Senate was not up to the task of removing him from office, making a mockery of our Legal System as the #1 Law Enforcement Officer in the land was allowed to continue master-minding a relentless attack on The Rule of Law; however, it is clear that Clinton is "Guilty" (beyond all reasonable doubts) of multiple felonies and SHALL BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE!!

Since escaping Justice in the Impeachment Trial, Mr. Clinton has been credibly accused of Violent RAPE by one nice woman, Ms. Juanita Broaddrick. Either this is a major slander against the good name of an innocent man...or else Bill Clinton raped and violently bit the lip of this young woman. If it wasn't true, don't you think the Rapist-in-Chief would have come out a bit more strongly in his own defense?!

Now, we come to find out the President of the United States is most likely guilty of TREASON, for accepting illegal foreign campaign donations from the Communist Chinese in exchange for basically offering a free run of our Nuclear Weapons Labs and authorizing high technology transfers through key Democratic National Committee contributors, Hughes and Loral. Executive Branch Corruption never ran as deep and as wide as is the case with this Administration!!

Yes, when it comes to brazenly flouting the laws and mores of this Country, this Clinton Cadre of Corrupt Communist Co-Conspirators is charting a new course. Yet, the blatantly Left-Wing Media can't find the time or the manpower to investigate/report the Truth about Slick Willie's Felonious Behavior, the "dark side" of the man who could violently rape a supportor and suggest as he left, "Better put some ice on that, baby!" No, our "Free Press" cannot even find it in themselves to report on the TREASON committed by Bill Clinton, in which each and every man, woman, and child in America is now significantly more at risk than 8 years ago, simply because Bill Clinton needed some illegal contributions to retain his tenuous hold on the reins of Power.

We've seen how ridiculous the Yugoslavian State-controlled Media Propoganda Machine looked in the recent conflagration in Kosovo...who amongst the Media Poltroons can explain to me the difference between Clinton's Media and Slobo's. Fortunately, The Network drones are becoming irrelevant!!

If you want to help in reclaiming our Country from the Evil that occupies the Oval Office, here's the gameplan...

RE-IMPEACH. CONVICT. DETHRONE.
DE-PENSION. DISBAR. DE-LEGITIMIZE.
INDICT. CONVICT. IMPRISON. DISCARD KEY.
(COURT-MARTIAL FOR TREASON AND APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT OPTIONAL)

Quite Sincerely,
Mudboy Slim

P.S. "On the 15th day of February in the Two-Thousand Third Year of our Lord, there was a Grand Convening of Patriots at the Mall in Washington, DC. This convention of FReedom-loving Americans from accross the Continent was unanimous in its call for JUSTICE to be exacted upon those who would commit TREASON against our great Country!! Historians will record this great day as the beginning of the end of William Jefferson Clinton's Treasonous Reign of Terror!!"

So sayeth the word of...MUD

1 Posted on 07/03/2000 10:07:19 PDT by Mudboy Slim (Impeach@gain.HARDER!!)