The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 1862

That explains crying and feeling pride at the same time. *sigh*

My wife says the same thing. But once I stayed up all night to see if I snored and not a peep out of me, I think she's making it up.

LOL. Yeah, my husband swears his snoring doesn't shake the walls. *groan*

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on June 29:
1577: Rubens, painter (426 years ago)
1805 Hiram Powers US sculptor (Greek Slave)
1858 George Washington Goethals engineer (built Panama Canal)
1861 William James Mayo surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
1863 James Harvey Robinson Ill, historian (Ordeal of Civilization)
1865 Shigechiyo Izumi achieved oldest authenticated age (120 y 237 d)
1865 William E Borah lawyer/(Sen-R-Id)
1869: Novelist Booth Tarkington
1886 James Van DerZee famous African
1900 Antoine Saint-Exup‚ry France, aviator/writer (Wind, Sand & Stars)
1901 Frieda Inescort Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
1901 Nelson Eddy actor/baritone (Great Duets with Jeanette MacDonald)
1907 Joan Davis St Paul Minn, actress (I Married Joan)
1909 Leroy Anderson US, composer (Syncopated Clock)
1911 Prince Bernhard Germany, (Constort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands)
1912 Jos‚ Pablo Moncayo Garcia Guadalajara M‚xico, composer (Huapango)
1914 Rafael Kubelik Bychory Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli)
1916 Ruth Warwick St Joseph Mo, actress (All My Children, Peyton Place)
1919 Slim Pickens Kingsburg Calif, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
1923 Chou Wen-Chung Cheefoo China, composer (Mode of Shang)
1924 Ezra Laderman NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians)
1925 Cara Williams Bkln NY, actress (Pete & Gladys, Cara Williams Show)
1928 Ian Bannen Scotland, actor (Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park)
1929 Johnny Ace Memphis, ballad singer (My Song)
1929 Peter George US, light middleweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
1930 Robert Evans US, actor/director (Best of Everything)
1933 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle actor (Keystone Comedies, Mabel & Fatty)
1934 Carl Levin (Sen-D-MI)
1936 David Jenkins US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1960)
1936 Harmon Killebrew baseball player (Minnesota Twins)
1938 Billy Storm singer (Valiants-This is the Night)
1941 Kwame Toure (Stokley Carmichael) civil rights leader
1943 Roger Ruskin Spear rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-Urban Spaceman)
1944 Gary Busey Goose Creek Tx, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born)
1945 "Little" Eva Boyd rock vocalist (Locomotion)
1947 Richard Lewis comedian/actor (Anything But Love)
1948 Fred Grandy Sioux City Iowa, actor (Gopher-Love Boat)/(Rep-R-Iowa)
1949 Dan Dierdorf NFLer, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1959 Larry Parham 4th victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (1st to die)
1960 Sergey Kopylov USSR, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 Anne-Sophie Mutter Rheinfeldin Germany, violinist (Berlin Phil)
1964 Pepper Johnson NFL line backer (NY Giants)
1964 Stedman Pearson rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
1967 Melora Hardin Houston Tx, actress (Family Tree, Best Times)
1972 Samantha Smith Houlton Mo, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street)

Deaths which occurred on June 29:
1095 St. Ladislaus I, King of Hungary
1099 St. Urban II, Pope
1187 Sidon falls to Saladin
1192 Saladin takes Jaffa, again
1506 Martin Behaim, constructor of the first known world globe
1644 Pope Urban VIII
1833 English abolitionist William Wilberforce dies a mere three days after England abolishes slavery.
1852 Henry Clay the great compromiser, dies at 75
1923 General JC Gomez Venezuala's 1st VP, assassinated
1941 Ignace Paderewski Polish statesman pianist, dies in NY at 80
1959 A Cecil Snyder Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at 51
1967 Jayne Mansfield actress, dies in a car crash at 34
1978 Bob Crane actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 59
1979 Lowell George rocker (Mothers of Invention. Little Feat), dies at 34
1982 Henry King director, dies at 86
1986 Robert Drivas actor (Our Private World), dies at 47
1990 Irving Wallace author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74
2002 Singer Rosemary Clooney died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 74.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 LINDSEY MARVIN NELSON SPRINGHILL LA.
[HIT NO PARA BEEP SEARCH NEG]
1966 JONES MURPHY N. BATON ROUGE LA.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1967 HARDY WILLIAM H.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 96]
1968 OWEN TIMOTHY S. ROCHESTER NY.
1970 ALDERN DONALD D. SIOUX FALLS SD.

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

On this day...
1236 Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon take Cordoba in Spain
1534 Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1540 English ex-chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced to death
1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1776 Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
1858 Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
1862 Day 5 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station
1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN
1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
1888 Professor Frederick Treves performs the first appendectomy in England.
1891 100ø F (San Fransisco, CA)
1897 Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1903 The British government officially protests Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
1913 Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War. Bulgaria defeats Greek/Serbian troops
1914 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani
1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #979 Ilsewa
1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1931 109ø F (43ø C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
1936 Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
1936 Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"
1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1941 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1946 British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
1947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
1954 Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
1956 Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, Calif
1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
1958 Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm
1959 Pope John XXIII encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
1960 KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits the UK charts
1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "The Cage" released
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
1966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem
1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge
1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House
1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
1972 Supreme Court-death penalty usually was "cruel & unusual punishment"
1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
1975 20.57 cm (8.10") of rainfall, Litchville, N. Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain
1977 Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults
1978 VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1982 Israel invades Lebanon
1983 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1984 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1985 STS 51-F vehicle moves to the launch pad
1986 Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
1986 Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues
1987 Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams
1989 Susan Lucci loses the daytime emmy for 10th straight year
1990 Marla Maples father sues the National Enquirer for $12M
1990 NY Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak A's Dave Stewart no-hits the Blue Jays & Dodger's Fernando Valenzuela no-hits St Louis 6-0, 1st time no-hitters in both leagues
1999 A Turkish court convicted Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan of treason and sentenced him to death.
2000 An overloaded ship carrying almost 500 people, many fleeing sectarian violence in Indonesia's Maluku islands, sank, killing all but 10 known survivors.

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

Iowa : Independence Sunday (1776) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Month

Religious Observances
RC, Ang, Luth : Solemnity of SS Peter & Paul, apostles

Religious History
1757 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote ina letter: 'Whatever we may undertake with a sincere desire to promote His glory, we may comfortably pursue. Nothing is trivial that is done for Him.'
1810 In Bradford, Massachusetts, the first U.S. missionary society was organized: the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
1875 The first 'holiness' conference opened at Keswick, England. Keswick conferences stress a non- charismatic, 'crisis' form of sanctification, in contrast to the older traditional view of Christian sanctification as being a lifelong 'process.'
1908 Birth of Cyrus H. Gordon, American Jewish archaeological scholar. Having taught Assyriology and Egyptology at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, his his technical writings include the 'Ugaritic Handbook' (1947).
1931 The Unevangelized Fields Mission was founded, in England. UFM missionaries today work primarily in Latin America, Europe and Africa, as well as in Haiti and Indonesia.

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

Thought for the day :
"The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn`t."

Such bravery was quite amazing, as well as such compassion to the fallen. And quite rare at times.
An interesting man.

Amazing yes. I have faith it's still out there. :)

It is.
One just has to look for it.
But it is there. :-)

Great piece this morning, SAM...

Meade, McClellan, Burnsides, Jackson, and Lee have all become household names in military communities thanks to their accomplishments (or perhaps, lack thereof?) during a trying time in this nation's history.

Time to head out to church, I'll visit you, snippy, and the rest of the platoon later! (Or are we company strength now?)

Thanks Jinxy. See you later.

Now I have to go look up platoon and company sizes...SAM said I was gonna learn stuff whether I wanted to or not! lol. Of course, I wanted to. :)

I'll visit you, snippy, and the rest of the platoon later! (Or are we company strength now?)

Now I have to go look up...

Thanks Jinxy, I learned something else today! If you are including our readers, we are company size!

platoon
a subdivision of a company-sized military unit, normally consisting of two or more squads or sections

* squad
a small military unit consisting of less than ten men

* company
a military unit usually consisting of a headquarters and two or more platoons

Good Morning Everybody.

You Know The Drill
Click the Pics J

Coffee & Donuts J

Good morning Fiddlstix.

1977 Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults

Ah yes another "enlightened" decision from our Justices < /sarcasm>

We still see it and now it's often caught on film.

Well I think we have more than a Platoon but not quite Company size yet. Snippy is doing a great job recruiting, we'll get there.

"Fox Company" I like it. :-)

Good Morning Fiddlstix.

So nice to see the you with the Coffee and donuts again. I think Snippy is goinjg to try and talk you into being Fox Company's Mess Sgt.

So nice to see the you with the Coffee and donuts again. I think Snippy is goinjg to try and talk you into being Fox Company's Mess Sgt.

LOL! Good morning, Sam J

Okay. I can probably handle that J

"Fox Company"... I like the sound of that, too!

Our Military Today

Pfc. Kevin Ott

Sgt. 1st Class Gladimir Philippe

The remains of two missing soldiers were found 32 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad on Saturday. Sgt. 1st Class Gladimir Philippe, 37, of Roselle, N.J., and Pfc. Kevin Ott, 27, of Columbus, Ohio, were last seen Wednesday at their post in the town of Balad, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) AP - Jun 29 9:29 AM

Thank you SAM.