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Posted on 01/10/2005 7:58:39 PM PST by LaDivaLoca
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Ahem thank you Beachy...I do believe you gave me an opening. As you know, Ma is teaching me graphics. I'm going to tell her I need to learn them so I can communicate with darling Angel Boy. How does that sound?
See what chlorine can do to you?
YOu know, I have never donated whole blood, but I have donated platelets many times. Apparently I have a very high platelet count for a female.
Good Morning, Star--we're having a t-storm too now. The weather has been very weird here. No winter to speak of and just one day of snow and only a couple of inches at that. Well, better than ice storms.
Ah, not quite!
CHORLINS, RICHARD DAVID Name: Richard David Chorlins Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O2 Unit: 602nd Special Operations Squadron Date of Birth: 07/16/1945 Home City of Record: UNIVERSITY CITY MO Date of Loss: 11 January 1970 Country of Loss: LAOS Loss Coordinates: 174000 North 1054358 East Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered Category: 2 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1H Missions: Other Personnel in Incident: Refno: 1549 Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action Combat Casualty File. Updated 2002. REMARKS: CACCF CRASH/PILOT/POSTHUMOUS PROMOTION ========================== From: "Robert Jacobs" <jakesresearch@earthlink.net> Subject: Richard David Chorlins, MIA, Laos Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:57:14 -0800 I have been busy again. Looking into Chorlins loss. There is not much info on him. I have found that he was a 1967 graduate of the Air Force Academy. He was with the 602nd Special Operations Squadron, Nakhom Phenom, RTAFB, Thailand. His loss coordinates in MGRS are: WE777533. Regards, Bob Jacobs ========================= No further information available at this time. |
Good morning, Star!
Good to see you online Sarge!!
HUGS!
I think all of us less favored siblings have the same thing in mind. How to communicate with tomkow!
Just remember, he's had a lot of experience and he shows up in many forms!
LOL!! We're in the same place - generally speaking. Wildwood here...
Good morning Star.
Ah....ha......that's more like it! Now that's my kind of Angel boy.
OORAH!
Ok watch it! Ma has finally showed up. She might get upset with us if she finds out we are picking on her angel boy!
MA! There's pickin' on me!
Uncleshag's band, The Longtown Boys just read your posts about giving blood.
After an email discussion, the four guys are biking over to The Red Cross located on Bull Street in Columbia, SC to donate and make up for you two.
Bernie (Bottles) Bernstein has the record for giving in the band by donating every 60 days since 9/11.
Thank you armyavonlady and DW for serving in ways we cannot.
Thanks, too for the reminder to "give the gift of life".
Absolutely wonderful! Thanks so much for doing this. My funk has now ended and I have a smile on my face. Ask for the red and blue bandages to cover your bandaids! Woo hoo!
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Now with a larger following and the help of Togrul and the Chin (a large civilization in northern China), Temuchin was able to defeat the Tartars and avenge his father’s death (Nicolle 18). Temuchin continued to build power by removing rivals (Nicolle 18-19). Deals were struck with most Mongol chieftains giving them leadership roles and wives (Humphrey 47). These chiefs who would not serve under other chiefs were willing to serve under the dominating Temuchin (Humphrey 47). Eventually Jamuga became Temuchin’s primary rival allying with Temuchin’s enemies in a series of campaigns which came to include even Togrul and the Kereits (Nicolle 19). Using superior political and military skill, Temuchin defeated and integrated all opposing Mongol tribes (Marshall 28-32). By 1206 Temuchin led more than two million people and ruled land stretching a 1000 miles from west to east and 600 miles from Siberia in the north to the Gobi Desert in the south (Humphrey 57, 63). Temuchin’s followers, while still nomadic, were now united behind their leader and considered themselves one nation of Mongols (Humphrey 59). Temuchin took the name Genghis which appropriately meant universal leader (USA Today 1). 
Having created a nation Genghis now looked to build an empire (Humphrey 77-78). During his lifetime Genghis conquered Hsi Hsia a southwestern border country of Mongolia, the Chin empire of north China, and (after being provoked by the massacre of a trade caravan and subsequent murder of his ambassador) the medieval Muslim kingdom of Khwarezm (Marshall 42-57). Genghis was able to consistently defeat larger forces by using ruthless military strategies which are well-known and innovative military strategies which should be well known (Marshall 37-57). Genghis’ highly disciplined troops were equally capable of slaughtering civilians whose armies refused to surrender and mastering the advanced methods required to capture fortified cities (Humphrey 82-83). Well supplied and constantly drilled in war games, the Mongolian men were always prepared for war (Humphrey 68). In the field of battle Genghis maintained close communications with commanders using swift "arrow messengers, signal flags, and fire (Humphrey 79-78). The entire army moved and attacked on horseback and there were always one or two fresh horses available for each man (Humphrey 65). Combined with other tactics, the incredible mobility of Genghis’ forces (which was probably not matched until the German blitzkrieg of WWII) always gave him the advantage of surprise (Humphrey 67-68). 
Most of the Western world views Genghis Khan as a simple savage who overwhelmed others by brute force (Marshall 64). However, Genghis was a cunning warrior, a superb motivator, an organized leader, and a wise ruler who valued loyalty, education, strict laws, and the exchange of knowledge and goods with other cultures. Genghis created Mongolia and established an empire that reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea and from Siberia to Tibet (USA Today 1). Genghis died in 1227 but the structure and tradition the great leader established did not (Nicolle 46-47). Descendants were well positioned to expand Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire from the Pacific to the Danube and from Siberia to the Indian Ocean, an area in which half the population of the world then lived (Humphrey 107). It took a genius, not a savage, to accomplish this.