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Quoting Tonk:

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As several others have said,

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Good morning, Tonk! Good morning, EVERBODY!

Good Morning, TROOPS!

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Aboard Misawa Air Force Base, Japan (Nov. 21, 2002) -- Senior Airman Emilio Loera assigned to the U.S. Air Force, 35th Security Forces Squadron, applies face paint prior to the start of quarterly joint services air base defense training. Training is designed to prepare security units to protect forward deployed facilities and equipment against hostile forces, including enemy fire and sniper fire. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class John Collins. (RELEASED) 21-N-8726C-001 Aboard Misawa Air Force Base, Japan (Nov. 21, 2002) -- Senior Airman Emilio Loera assigned to the U.S. Air Force, 35th Security Forces Squadron, applies face paint prior to the start of quarterly joint services air base defense training. Training is designed to prepare security units to protect forward deployed facilities and equipment against hostile forces, including enemy fire and sniper fire. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class John Collins.

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From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

A blonde calls the Delta Airlines and asks, "can you tell me how long
it'll take to fly from San Francisco to New York city"?

The agent replies, Just a minute . . .

"Thank you" the blonde says, and hangs up.

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Todays transportation for you and the Girlz.

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My Marine is defending us
By FRANK SCHAEFFER

Before my son became a Marine, I never thought much about who was defending me. Now, when I read of the war on terrorism or the coming conflict in Iraq, it cuts to my heart. When I see a picture of a member of our military who has been killed, I read his or her name very carefully. Sometimes I cry.

In 1999, when the barrel-chested Marine recruiter showed up in dress blues and bedazzled my son John, I did not stand in the way. John was headstrong, and he seemed to understand these stern, clean men with straight backs and flawless uniforms. I did not. I live on the Volvo-driving, higher education-worshiping North Shore of Boston. I write novels for a living. I have never served in the military.

It had been hard enough sending my two older children off to Georgetown and New York University. John's enlisting was unexpected, so deeply unsettling. I did not relish the prospect of answering the question ''So where is John going to college?'' from the parents who were itching to tell me all about how their son or daughter was going to Harvard. At the private high school John attended, no other students were going into the military.

RICH, POOR, BLACK, WHITE

''But aren't the Marines terribly Southern?'' asked one perplexed mother while standing next to me at the brunch following graduation. ''What a waste. He was such a good student,'' said another parent. One parent (a professor at a nearby and rather famous university) spoke up at a school meeting and suggested that the school should ``carefully evaluate what went wrong.''

When John graduated from boot camp on Parris Island, 3,000 parents and friends were on the parade deck stands. We parents and our Marines were not only of many races but also representative of many economic classes. Many were poor. Some arrived crammed in the backs of pickups, others by bus. John told me that a lot of parents could not afford the trip.

We in the audience were white and Native American. We were Hispanic, Arab, and African American and Asian. We were former Marines wearing the scars of battle, or at least baseball caps emblazoned with battles' names. We were Southern whites from Nashville and skinheads from New Jersey, black kids from Cleveland wearing ghetto rags and white ex-cons with ham-hock forearms defaced by jailhouse tattoos. We would not have been mistaken for the educated and well-heeled parents gathered on the lawns of John's private school a half-year before.

After graduation, one new Marine told John, ''Before I was a Marine, if I had ever seen you on my block I would've probably killed you just because you were standing there.'' This was a serious statement from one of John's good friends, an African-American ex-gang member from Detroit who, as John said, ``would die for me now, just like I'd die for him.''

My son has connected me to my country in a way that I was too selfish and insular to experience before. I feel closer to the waitress at our local diner than to some of my oldest friends. She has two sons in the Corps. They are facing the same dangers as my boy. When the guy who fixes my car asks me how John is doing, I know he means it. His younger brother is in the Navy.

Why were I and the other parents at my son's private school so surprised by his choice? During World War II, the sons and daughters of the most powerful and educated families did their bit. If the immorality of the Vietnam War was the only reason those lucky enough to go to college dodged the draft, why did we not encourage our children to volunteer for military service once that war was done?

A GREAT GENERATION

Have we wealthy and educated Americans all become pacifists? Is the world a safe place? Or have we just gotten used to having somebody else defend us? What is the future of our democracy when the sons and daughters of the janitors at our elite universities are far more likely to be put in harm's way than are any of the students whose dorms are cleaned by the parents of our military?

I feel shame because it took my son's joining the Marine Corps to make me take notice of who is defending me. I feel hope because perhaps my son is part of a future ''greatest generation.'' As the storm clouds of war gather, at least I know that I can look the men and women in uniform in the eye. My son is one of them. He is the best I have to offer. He is my heart.

Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book, co-written with his son, Marine Cpl. John Schaeffer, is Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps.

Posted on 12/03/2002 4:36 PM CST by Weimdog

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On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on December 04:

1443 Pope Julius II (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
1584 John Cotton Puritan clergyman in Massachusetts Bay colony
1660 Andre Campra composer
1667 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair composer
1708 Marianus Konigsperger composer
1720 Jean-Jacques Robson composer
1786 John LA Luyten Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament [or 12/14]
1791 Johann Gottlob Topfer composer
1795 Thomas Carlyle Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
1800 Emil Aarestrup Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen)
1803 Augustus Zerega diZerega Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane)
1808 Ernest Panckoucke French publisher (Horatius)
1812 Elias Smith Dennis Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1818 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring Major General (Confederate Army)
1822 Frances Crabbe England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
1825 Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek composer
1835 Samuel Butler England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
1838 Melesio Morales composer
1858 Billy Gunn cricketer (Notts & England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99)
1861 Lillian Russell [Helen Leonard] US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
1865 Edith Louisa Cavell England, nurse (WWI)
1866 Vassily Kandinsky Russian/German/French abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration)
1868 Richard N Roland Holst Dutch artist/painter
1874 Jean H L Bossard actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice)
1875 Rainer Maria Rilke Germany, poet (Duino Elegies)
1876 Dimitur Poljanov [Popov] Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems)
1879 Herbert Hamilton Harty composer
1881 Erwin von Witzleben German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot)
1888 Aleksandar I Karadordjevic king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)
1889 Buck Jones [Charles F Gebhart] US actor (War Horse)
1889 Isabel Randolph Illinois, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks)
1892 Francisco Franco [y Bahamonde] general/dictator of Spain (1936-75)
1895 Nils FA Nilsson Piraten Swedendish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
1896 Nikolai S Tichonov Russian writer (against Pasternak)
1897 Mari Andriessen Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker)
1899 Douwe Hermans Kiestra [Harm Harmstra] Frisian farmer/writer
1903 Alfred Leslie Rowse historian
1903 Cornell Woolrich US, writer (El Angel Negro)
1905 Emilio Médici President of Brazil (1969-74)
1907 Jo Boer Dutch author (Catharina & the Magnolias)
1908 A D Hershey US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
1910 Alex North Chester PA, composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
1910 Amar Singh cricketer (dashing Indian all-rounder of thirties)
1910 Ramaswamy Venkataraman President of India (1987-92)
1912 Alfons "Alphons" Berckmans Flemish/British actor (Family Stastok)
1912 Jack Walsh New South Wales/Leicestershire cricket china bowler (didn't represent Australia)
1912 Jimmy Jewel comedian
1912 John W Pritchard [Ian Wallace] US, sci-fi author (Megalomania)
1915 Allan Jackson Hot Springs AR, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand)
1915 Fred Freer cricketer (Australian pace bowler played one Test in 1946)
1920 Michael Bates Jhansi India, actor (Clockwork Orange, Patton)
1921 Deanna Durbin Winnipeg Manitoba, actress/vocalist (100 Men & a Girl)
1922 Gerard Philipe Cannes France, actor (Caligula, Le Diable au Corps)
1923 Charles Keating district attorney (Los Angeles CA)
1924 John Portman South Carolina, architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964)
1925 Maurice Binder New York NY, photographer/film titler (James Bond)
1926 Lee Doraey rocker
1928 Dena Dietrich Pittsburgh PA, actress (Dena-Karen, Ethel-The Ropers)
1928 Russell L Rogers USAF/astronaut (X-20)
1930 Harvey Kuenn baseball player (American League Rookie of the Year-1953)
1930 Ronnie Corbett England, comedian (2 Ronnies)
1930 Paul-Heinz Dittrich composer
1930 Roman Semyonovich Ledenyou composer
1932 Edgar Valcarcel composer
1932 Joanne Battiste artist (heroines)
1932 Roh Tae Woo Taegu South Korea, President of South Korea (1988-93)
1933 Horst Buchholz Berlin Germany, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe, Sahara)
1934 Victor French Santa Barbara CA, actor (Highway to Heaven)
1934 Wink [Winston Conrad] Martindale Jackson TN, TV host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This)
1935 Fred Rumsey England, cricket lefty pace bowler (5 Tests 1964-65)
1936 Larry Davis blues singer/guitarist
1937 Donnelly Rhodes Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, actor (Dutch-Soap, Double Trouble)
1937 Max Baer Jr Oakland CA, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies)
1938 Andre Marrou Libertarian presidential candidate (1992)
1938 Liesbeth Struppert actress (Miep Gies-Anne Frank)
1938 Lynn Blessing vibes Player
1940 Freddy Cannon [Picariello] Lynn MA, rocker (Palisades Park)
1940 John Cale Wales, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Velvet Underground)
1941 Humberto Solas director/writer (Lucia)
1941 Raul Blanco Australian soccer assistant coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1942 Bob Mosley Paradise Valley CA, rock bassist (Moby Grape)
1942 Chris Hillman San Diego CA, singer (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr Tambourine Man)
1943 Patti Chandler California, actress (Bikini Beach)
1944 Dennis Wilson Hawthorne CA, drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys-In My Room, California Dreaming)
1945 Michael Gerzon mathematician
1945 Pam Higgins LPGA golfer
1947 Ursula Krechel writer
1948 Southside Johnny Lyon Neptune NJ, rocker (Asbury Jukes-Don't Want Go Home)
1948 Lin Onus artist
1948 Roberta Lynn Bondar Ontario, astronaut (STS 42)
1949 Jeff Bridges Los Angeles CA, actor (Stay Hungry, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds)
1949 Mary Bea Porter-King Everett WA, LPGA golfer (1975 Golf Inns Classic)
1949 Russ Karel director
1950 Pamela Stephenson Auckland New Zealand, actress (Superman 3, Sat Night Live)
1950 Jan Rietman Dutch radio/TV host
1950 Karel van de Graf Dutch TV host
1951 Gary Rossington rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington-Collins Band)
1951 Patricia Wettig Cincinnati OH, actress (Nancy Weston-30 Something)
1952 Ronald Michael Sega Cleveland OH, PhD/Astronaut (STS 60, 76)
1955 Brian Prout Troy NY, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1955 Cassandra Wilson jazz singer
1956 Bernard King basketball player (New York Knicks, New Jersey Nets)
1956 Blagoi Blagoyev Bulgaria, 82.5 kg weightlifter (Olympics-silver-1976)
1956 Herbert Groenemeyer Germany, rocker (OE, Luxus, Chaos, Spruenge)
1957 Raul Boesel Brazil, Indy-car racer (CART)
1957 Lee Smith Jamestown LA, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1958 Bill Roy Versailles IL, skeet (Olympics-1996)
1961 Frank Reich NFL quarterback (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions)
1962 Arnold Scholten soccer player (Feyenoord)
1962 John Gaasbeek soccer player (FC Twente/NAC)
1962 Stan Gelbaugh NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1963 Johanna Wright Raleigh NC, WPVA volleyballer (Pismo Beach-4th)
1963 Mike Snoei soccer player (Sparta)
1963 Sergey Bubka Ukraine, pole vaulter (Olympics-gold-88, 92)
1964 Bill Peterson Smithfield NC, WLAF general manager (Amsterdam Admirals)
1964 Marisa Tomei Brooklyn NY, actress (My Cousin Vinny)
1965 Rob Smits pop drummer (Kong/Phlegm)
1967 Klaus Wilmsmeyer NFL punter (New Orleans Saints)
1967 Martha O'Kelley US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 Mike Barrowman Costa Mesa CA, kayak/200 meter breast stroke (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1969 Ferric Collons NFL defensive end (New England Patriots)
1969 Jacques Landry Saskatoon Saskatchawan, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 Marie-Josée Morneau Longueuil Québec, 56 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1969 Mik Middleton WLAF safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 Terry Glenn wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1970 Jeff Blake NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 Terrence Wisdom NFL/WLAF guard/center (New York Jets, London Monarchs)
1972 Damien Covington NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Howard Eisley NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
1972 Jassen Cullimore Simcoe, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1972 Jude St John CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 Kerry Anne Guse Brisbane Queensland, tennis star (1996 final Hobart)
1972 Ted Johnson NFL inside linebacker (New England Patriots)
1973 Corliss Williamson NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1973 Tyra Banks model/actress (Higher Learning, Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1974 Anke Huber Bruchsal Germany, tennis star (1996 finalist Australian)
1976 John Lee Chicago IL, dance skater (& Julia Bikbova)
1977 Emily Ballard Miss Washington Teen USA (1996)
1977 Shahid Nazir cricketer (Pakistan Test fast bowler vs Zimbabwe 1996)

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Deaths which occurred on December 04:

0771 Karloman II French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20
0811 Charles eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39
1137 Lotharius III of Supplinburg emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67
1182 Henry Earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies
1334 John XXII [Jacques Duèze] Pope (316-34), dies
1371 Reinald III the Fat Duke, Duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1371 Stefanus X Uros V King of Serbia (1355-71), dies
1514 Richard Hunne English "heretic", commits suicide(?)
1576 Rheticus mathematician, dies
1603 Maarten de Vos Flemish painter, dies at about 71
1642 Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu bishop of Luçon, dies at about 57
1649 Outgert Arisz Akersloot Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
1676 Johann Georg Ebeling composer, dies at 39
1732 John Gay English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
1798 Luigi Galvani Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61
1807 Prince Hall activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston
1836 Daniel Read composer, dies at 79
1884 Alice Mary Smith composer, dies at 45
1890 Willem III Dutch king, buried
1909 Paul-Albert Besnard French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60
1915 Gustav Hollaender composer, dies at 60
1923 [Auguste-]Maurice Barrès French writer/parliament leader, dies at 61
1932 Gustav Meyrink writer, dies at 64
1933 Stefan George German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
1935 Hylton Philipson cricketer (England keeper in 5 Tests 1892-95), dies
1935 Johan Halvorsen composer, dies at 71
1938 Dina Appeldoorn Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54
1943 Carlo Mierendorff German politician/antifascist, dies at 46
1948 Karl Bonhoeffer German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
1952 Karen Horney German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67
1953 Daniel Gregory Mason composer, dies at 80
1954 Nina Vasar wife of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies
1959 Rosetta Duncan (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58
1967 Bert Lahr [Irving Lahrheim] US comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72
1969 Alceo Toni composer, dies at 85
1969 Fred Hampton US Black-Panther leader, murdered
1971 Shunryu Suzuki Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies
1973 Michael O'Shea actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67
1974 Lee Kinsolving actor (Explosive Generation), dies at 36
1975 Hannah Arendt German/US sociologist, dies at 69
1976 Benjamin Britten British composer (Beggar's Opera, War Requiem), dies at 63
1976 Tommy Bolin rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose
1977 Leila Hyams actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72
1978 Samuel Abraham Goldsmith Netherlands/US phycists, dies at 76
1979 Robert Karnes actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
1980 Francisco Sá Carneiro PM of Portugal (1980), dies in air crash
1980 Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz sprinter (Olympics-gold-1932), shot at 69
1983 Estelle Omens actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at 55
1984 John Rock US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94
1985 Marcel Boereboom Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
1986 Reuben Nakian US sculptor, dies at 89
1987 Rouben Mamoulian director (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
1990 Edward Binns US actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74
1993 Frank Sturgis watergate burglar, dies at 68
1993 Frank V Zappa US music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52
1993 Hetty de Boer-Jongkind Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42
1993 Margaret Landon US author (Anna & the King of Siam), dies at 90
1994 Geoffery Rudolph Elton historiographer, dies at 73
1994 Jakob Kaplan French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99
1994 Julio Ramon Ribeyro Peruvian playwright, dies at 66
1994 Robert Jesse Charleston museum curator, dies at 78
1994 Thomas Roy Garrett museum curator, dies at 63
1995 Adrianne Jones killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16
1995 Itzhak Rabin PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
1996 Basil Nield judge/politician, dies at 83
1996 Muriel Monkhouse Red Cross worker, dies at 86
1997 David Abell Wood priest, dies at 72
1997 Richard Vernon British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72

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On this day...
0771 Karel, the Great, becomes king of all France
1110 Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
1197 Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
1259 Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III & French king Louis IX
1489 Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from the Moors
1534 Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1563 Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
1619 America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Virginia)
1644 1st European peace congress opens in Münster
1655 Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of synagogue
1665 Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand" premieres in Paris
1674 Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
1680 Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
1682 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
1688 General strategist John Churchill joins with Willem III
1691 Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania
1691 Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of South Netherlands
1745 Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
1783 General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York NY
1791 Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published
1798 Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt
1812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster PA patents a horse-drawn mower
1816 James Monroe (VA), elected 5th President, defeating Federalist Rufus King
1829 Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
1832 French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
1833 American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia
1836 Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg PA
1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Massachusetts
1843 Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri" premieres in Leipzig
1844 James K Polk elected 11th President of US, George M Dallas Vice President
1851 President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
1863 Storm flood ravages Nethe coastal provinces
1864 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
1864 Battle of Waynesborough, Brier Creek GA
1867 Grange organized to protect farm interests
1875 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
1889 Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
1890 Willem III, Dutch king, buried
1899 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
1899 Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
1901 Anne Russell's "Girl & The Judge" premieres in New York NY
1905 British government of Balfour resigns
1906 Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
1908 Haiti's President General Alexis Nord flees from military coup
1909 1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6
1914 Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in San Francisco CA (Opened February 20 1915)
1915 F F Fletcher is 1st admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County GA
1918 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes (Yugoslavia) proclaimed
1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office
1920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
1920 8th CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3
1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation secretary-US foreign service
1923 Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres
1923 WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
1926 14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats University of Toronto, 10-7
1927 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1927 Pirates' Paul Waner wins National League MVP
1928 Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee" premieres in New York NY
1930 French government of Tardieu falls
1930 Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
1931 "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair
1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
1933 Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road" premieres in New York NY
1935 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class
1941 Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts
1942 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
1942 US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WWII
1943 Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes
1943 2nd conference of Caïro: FDR, Churchill & Turkish President Inönü
1943 Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
1944 Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
1945 Senate approves US participation in UN
1945 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB); he is 1st junior to win the trophy
1947 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union
1948 "Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances
1948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
1949 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500
1951 Copland/Robbins' "Pied Piper" premieres in New York NY
1952 Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
1952 Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO
1954 "Hit the Trail" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
1954 "On Your Toes" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 64 performances
1955 Manager Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1956 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB)
1957 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
1957 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England)
1958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community
1958 Finnish government of Fagerholm, resigns
1961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
1961 Smallest New York Knicks crowd at 49th St Madison Square Garden-1,300 (due to snowstorm)
1961 Tanganyika becomes the 104th member of the UN
1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1961 WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Aldo Moro forms Italian government
1963 Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council
1964 Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
1964 Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1964 Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes
1964 Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, vs Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31
1965 2nd New York Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
1965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts (Borman & Lovell)
1965 "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert NYC after 232 performances
1965 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury CT, 4 die
1965 San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
1966 KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational
1970 Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
1973 John Cappelletti wins Heisman trophy
1974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
1974 Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison
1975 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead
1976 Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner)
1977 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself
1977 NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats Kansas City 27-7
1977 Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate win Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship
1977 Neil Simon's "Chapter Two" premieres in New York NY
1978 Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco 1st female mayor
1978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
1978 Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1979 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey #7, Bingo Smith
1979 Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)
1980 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Colorado Rockies)
1980 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
1981 "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
1981 According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence; Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa
1981 President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence (No 12333)
1982 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
1982 China adopts its constitution
1982 Police & racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
1983 New Jersey Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
1983 US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
1983 "Amen Corner" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 83 performances
1983 David Shire & R Maltby Jr's musical "Baby" premieres at Barrymore Theater NYC for 241 performances
1984 Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
1985 President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser
1985 "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London
1985 French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
1986 NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
1986 Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" premieres in New York NY
1987 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
1988 Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
1988 Amy Benz/John Huston win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1988 Baltimore Orioles trade veteran 1st baseman Eddie Murray to Los Angeles Dodgers
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in New York NY
1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
1991 Judds final concert (Nashville)
1991 Muslim Shiites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
1991 Pan American World Airways ceased operations
1991 Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
1992 US Troops land in Somalia
1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500 meter (35.92 seconds)
1993 Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
1994 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
1994 Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1994 Tony Kushner’s"Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" closes at W Kerr after 367 performances
1994 Tony Kushner’s"Angels in America-Perestroika" closes at W Kerr NYC after 216 performances
1995 Atherton (185) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test
1996 7th Billboard Music Awards
1996 NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
1996 Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
1997 "Diary of Anne Frank" opens at Music Box Theater NYC
1997 NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking his coach

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

México : Day of the Artisans
Tonga : Proclamation Day

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Religious Observances
Orthodox : Presentation in the Temple of Mary
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Barbara, virgin/martyr
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Peter Chrysologus, bishop of Ravenna/doctor
Roman Catholic, Anglican : Commemoration of John Damascene, priest/doctor

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Religious History

1154 Adrian IV, 54, was elected to the papacy. Born Nicholas Breakspear, near St. Albans, England, he was the only Englishman ever elevated to the office of pope.

1674 French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette erected a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan, in present_day Illinois. His log cabin became the first building of a settlement that afterward grew to become the city of Chicago.

1809 The International Bible Society was founded in New York City as an interdenominational agency for translating, producing and distributing the Scriptures. The I.B.S. has since distributed the Bible to over 150 countries in the world.

1854 Birth of Mary Reed, American Methodist missionary. She died in 1943, having spent the last 52 years of her life ministering to the lepers of India.

1966 Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'The good Lord, in spite of reports to the contrary, is not dead.'

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Thought for the day :
" A closed mouth gathers no foot. "

[kayak]

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Happy Saint Barbara's Day

Patron saint of the Artillery

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS Mugford (DD-389)

Bagley class destroyer
Displacement. 1,500
Lenght. 341'8"
Beam. 34'8"
Draft. 9'10"
Speed. 36.5 k.
Complement. 200
Armament
. 4 5", 1 twin 40mm., 4 21" tt.

The USS Mugford was laid down 28 October 1935 by Boston Navy Yard; launched 31 October 1936; sponsored by Miss Madeline Orne; commissioned 16 August 1937, Lt. Comdr. E. W. Young in command.

Joining the Pacific Fleet in late 1937, Mugford conducted local operations along the West Coast and around the Hawaiian Islands, taking time out for periodic overhauls and upkeep. 7 December 1941 found her at Pearl Harbor. When the attack began, Mugford was on standby status and while raising steam to get underway, she downed three planes in 10 minutes with her antiaircraft guns. Within an hour after the attack began, the "little ship" was steaming out of Pearl Harbor firing as she went. Her next major duty was to screen the Wake Island relief force and after completion of this duty served as an escort for convoys traveling between the United States and Australia. She served in this capacity until mid-1942.

On 7 August Mugford was on patrol off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, when a large Japanese airstrike came in; three near misses and one bomb hit couldn't prevent Mugford from downing two of her attackers, but she suffered eight killed, 17 wounded and 10 missing. Next day she shot down another enemy aircraft in a raid in which she suffered no damage, and rescued two enemy aviators from the water. On the 9th, she sped toward the action of the first Battle of Savo Island, arriving in time to pull 400 survivors of Vincennes (CA-44) and Astoria (CA-34) from the water.

After battle damage repairs at Sydney, from 18 September through December, she operated on patrol in the Coral Sea and along Australia's northern coast. Brisbane was her base for continued patrol, as well as escort missions to Milne Bay, New Guinea, which became her base later in the summer as New Guinea operations took on a faster pace. She joined in the assault on Woodlark Island in July, conducted shore bombardment and patrols in that general area in August, and in September escorted LSTs to the invasion of Lae on the 4th, after which she patrolled off-shore while under enemy air attack. Later that month she conducted pre-invasion bombardment north of Finschafen, off which she served until late in October. [451] On 20 October, she and four companion destroyers were attacked by 60 enemy planes; Mugford suffered no damage.

On 14 and 15 December, she participated in the largest operation yet in the New Guinea campaign, the landings on Arawe, New Britain. Next was the assault on Buna and Cape Gloucester, where on Christmas Day she came under enemy air attack, taking three near misses in a first attack, and shooting down an attacker in a second assault later the same day. One man was killed, six wounded, and the ship riddled with shrapnel with some small holes below the waterline.

After repairs at Milne Bay, Mugford returned to patrol, bombardment, and escort missions for the New Guinea operation, sailing off Saidor. On 10 January 1944 she sailed for Sydney, then returned to New Guinea and escort and patrol duty in Huon Gulf. After escorting three merchantmen from Tulagi to the Union Islands, Mugford arrived Pearl Harbor 24 February to escort Maryland (BB 46) to Puget Sound, before continuing on to Mare Island for overhaul, arriving 5 March.

Mugford returned to Pearl Harbor 10 May for training in preparation for the Marianas operation, for which she staged at Majuro. Screening the fast carriers, she observed the first strike the morning of 11 June, then screened battleships bombarding Saipan and Tinian, firing night harassing missions herself and screening night retirements. She rejoined the carrier screen as word came of the approach of an enemy carrier force, and thus played a role in the epic Battle of the Philippine Sea, when Japanese naval aviation was all but exterminated in a great victory. She continued patrol and escort mission in the Marianas and Marshals as preparations were made to invade Guam, during which action Mugford served as radar picket between Guam and Rota. On 28 August, she sortied with TF 38 for surface bombardment and air strikes on enemy shipping and installations in the Bonins, Yap, and Palau, covering the Palau invasion in September. Early in October, TF 38 struck at Okinawa, and on the return voyage hit at Formosa and Luzon. The enemy mustered as strong an air attack as it could on the 12th and 13th of October, and Mugford shared in downing many of the attackers while protecting the vulnerable carriers.

With the Leyte invasion now underway, TG 38.4, with Mugford, sped to meet the threat posed by major Japanese fleet movements, and on 24 October, planes from the force hit the Japanese center force in the Mindanao Sea, then headed north on receiving reports of a Japanese carrier off northern Luzon. The next day strikes were flown against the Japanese, opening the battle of Cape Engano phase of a great American victory, the battle for Leyte Gulf. Further action came 30 October, when a Japanese airstrike damaged Enterprise (CV-6), Belleau Wood (CVL-24), and Franklin (CV-13). Mugford and other destroyers guarded the damaged ships to safety at Ulithi, repaired their own damage, and returned to patrol duty in Leyte Gulf.

On 5 December, Mugford spotted enemy aircraft attacking amphibious craft passing through her patrol area in Surigao Strait. She sped to protect them, and late in the action was crashed by a "Val" dive bomber. She was badly damaged, and lost eight men killed, 14 wounded. Making temporary repairs, Mugford pulled into San Pedro under her own steam. She was ordered to the United States for permanent repairs at Mare Island 6 January 1945 to 4 March.

Returning to the western Pacific in mid-March, Mugford served as radar picket and on antisubmarine patrol between Ulithi and Saipan until the close of the war. She served in TG 55.7 repatriating Allied prisoners of war from Japan to Okinawa early in September, then screened carriers providing air support for the occupation of the Nagasaki-Sasebo area. She continued on occupation duty until returning to San Diego 19 November. Here she was stripped and prepared for participation in the Bikini atomic tests, during which she decommissioned 29 August 1946. Retained for experiments in decontamination, she was finally sunk off Kwajalein 22 March 1948.

Mugford received seven battle stars for World War II service.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Morning Troops, families, veterans, and Canadian and Israeli allies (and everybody else). Thank you for taking such good care of the USA.

Today in Anchorage, Alaska:

Sunrise 9:52am
Sunset 3:46pm

Hi 41F
Lo 32F

Mostly cloudy and mild

Actual yesterday in Anchorage:

Hi 39F
Lo 33F

State Hi 51F Port Alsworth
State Lo -8F Fort Yukon

California: Hi 60s

[MoJo2001]

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A Musical Dedication To Our Troops and Veterans! God Bless All Of You!!

CLICK ON ALL THE GRAPHICS!!

Lighting A Candle In Support Of Ted Maher,
his family, friends, and supporters! Keep
The Faith!

Warning: Offensive Music! You've Been Warned!

Click On Bill! It's Not That Bad! You'll Like It! *evil grin*

Remember: Not All Music Is For Everyone!
Just A Variety For Everyone To Choose From!

THE MUSIC DEDICATION CONTINUES!!
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!! ENJOY THE
MUSIC! STAY SAFE

FROM ALL OF US AT
THE CANTEEN!!!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Happy Wednesday, Canteen crew! Only a few minutes until the Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting. It sure looks beautiful. Buzz Aldrin is there to help turn the lights on. The crew of the international space station is sending a Christmas message. From 240 miles up in space...T minus 10, 9, 8,...