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Todays transportation for you and the Girlz.

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

Some day I'm going to wipe that grin off my mother-in-law's face by telling tell her what her daughter and I did in high school.

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Good morning, afternoon or evening to all our troops, veterans and allies wherever you may be! THANK YOU so much for keeping our country free and safe.

Today's classic warship, USS Jacob Jones (DD-61)

Tucker class destroyer
Displacement. 1,160 t.
Lenght. 316'3"
Beam. 30'7"
Draft. 9'9"
Speed. 30 k.
Complement. 99
Armament. 4 4", 8 21" tt.

The USS Jacob Jones (DD-61) was laid down 3 August 1914 by New York Shipbuilding Corp.. Camden, N.J.: launched 29 May 1916; sponsored by Mrs. Jerome Parker Crittendon, great-granddaughter of Jacob Jones; and commissioned 10 February 1917, Lt. Comdr. W. S. Pye in command.

After shakedown, Jacob Jones began training exercises off the New England coast until entering the Philadelphia Navy Yard for repairs. Upon the outbreak of war between the United States and Germany 6 April 1917, Jacob Jones patrolled off the Virginia coast before departing Boston for Europe 7 May.

Arriving Queenstown, Ireland, 17 May, she immediately began patrol and convoy escort duty in waters of the United Kingdom. On 8 July she picked up 44 survivors of the British steamship Valetta, the victim of a German U-boat. Two weeks later, while escorting British steamship Dafila, Jacob Jones sighted a periscope; but the steamship was torpedoed before an attack on the submarine could be launched. Once again a rescue ship, Jacob Jones took on board 25 survivors of the stricken Dapfila.

Throughout the summer the destroyer escorted supply laden convoys and continued rescue operations in submarine-infested waters. On 19 October she picked up 305 survivors of torpedoed British cruiser Orama. After special escort duty between Ireland and France, she departed Brest, France, 6 December on her return run to Queenstown. At 1621, as she steamed independently in the vicinity of the Isles of Scilly, her watch sighted a torpedo wake about a thousand yards distant. Although the destroyer maneuvered to escape, the high-speed torpedo struck her starboard side, rupturing her fuel oil tank. The crew worked courageously to save the ship; but as the stern sank, her depth charges exploded. Realizing the situation hopeless, Comdr. Bagley reluctantly ordered the ship abandoned. Eight minutes after being torpedoed, Jacob Jones sank with 64 men still on board.

The 38 survivors huddled together on rafts and boats in frigid Atlantic waters off the southwest coast of England. Two of her crew were taken prisoner by attacking submarine U-58 commanded by Kapitan Hans Rose. In a humanitarian gesture rare in modern war, Rose radioed the American base at Queenstown the approximate location and drift of the survivors. Throughout the night of 6 to 7 December British sloop-of-war Camellia and British liner Catalina conducted rescue operations. By 0830 the following morning HMS Insolent picked up the last survivors of Jacob Jones.

USS Jacob Jones was named in honor of Commodore Jacob Jones, USN, (1768-1850), a naval hero of the War of 1812.

He's A Veteran

A boy went away
and came back a man.
You used to know him, but he's changed somehow.
He's a Veteran, and he's proud.
Some nights, he sleeps all night.
Other nights, he doesn't sleep at all.
He may be back in a foxhole,
or at 40,000 feet, or behind enemy lines.
Berlin, Inchon, Saigon, Beirut, Kuwait.
The times and places change but the story is the same.
The screams of the wounded, the nearness of death,
the feeling of trusting his life in the hands of a buddy,
and loving him closer than a brother.
Don't say you understand him.
You don't.
You can't.
You never will.
You weren't there.
He was, and all alone, a million miles from home.
He searched every face he met on the street
looking for someone from home.
He still does it, now looking for someone who was there.
He's not hard to pick out from a crowd.
He's a Veteran, and he's proud.
Just look around when Old Glory passes by.
His back will be ramrod straight,
and there may be a tear in his eye.
When a low flying jet screams over head,
he'll be the one with goose bumps on his arms, and when he thinks nobody's looking,
he might even snap a salute.
He catches himself standing up in a theater,
expecting to hear the Star Spangled Banner.
He's a Veteran, and he's proud.
Proud of his nation, proud of his service,
with a seething, rabid hate for communism and
all forms of oppression, and a love for his country
that cannot be measured, even by him.
If he feels like talking about it, then please take time to listen.
He desperately needs you to listen.
Don't say you understand him.
You don't.
You can't.
You never will. You weren't there.
If he doesn't feel like talking, then leave him alone.
You might find out something you didn't want to know.
But he'll probably just turn away--forever.
In spite of all her faults, he still thinks
that America is the greatest place on earth.
He's a Veteran, and he's proud.
And he's right.

Jack A. Hunt

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on January 15:
1432 Afonso V "the African" king of Portugal (1438-1481)
1507 Johann Oporinus [Herbster] Swiss book publisher (Koran)
1567 Black Box [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation)
1622 Molière France, dramatist (Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope) (baptized)
1715 Georg C Wagenzeil Austria (court)composer/pianist
1716 Philip Livingston merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
1730 John Malchair composer
1733 Joseph Lederer composer
1742 Eugene Godecharle composer
1779 Jean Coralli Paris, ballet producer/choreographer
1791 Franz Gillparzer Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)
1793 Ferdinand G Waldmüller Austrian painter
1795 Willem de Clerq Dutch merchant/man of letters
1798 Thomas Crofton Croker Irish story teller (Fairy legends)
1809 Cornelia Connelly Philadelphia PA, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus)
1809 Pierre Joseph Proudhon France, politician (libertarian socialist)
1812 Peter C Asbjørnsen Norwegian fairy tale writer
1813 James Marion Sims South Carolina, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)
1814 Ludwig Schläfli Swiss vicar/mathematician
1815 Henry Morris Naglee Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1817 Lewis Golding Arnold Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1871
1821 Lafayette McLaws Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1826 Mikhail Saltykov Spas-Ugol Russia, radical novelist/satirist (Family of Noblemen)
1841 Lord Frederick Stanley presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup
1845 Ella Flagg Young 1st woman president (National Educational Association)
1845 Heinrich Vogl composer
1850 Mihail Eminesco [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis)
1850 Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky Russia, mathemetician (Academy of Science)
1858 Giovanni Segantini Italy, painter
1863 Adolph Goldschmidt German historian
1863 Wilhelm Marx premier (Prussia)
1866 Nathan Soderblom Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30)
1868 Noach Zjordanija Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21)
1870 Johan Peter Koch Danish officer/explorer (Greenland)
1871 Bertram Shapleigh composer
1873 Max Adler Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
1877 Lewis M Terman Indiana, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)
1878 Johanna Muller-Hermann composer
1879 Ernest Thesiger London England, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Ghoul)
1882 Florian Znaniecki Polish/US sociologist (Polish Peasant in Europe)
1888 Joseph Henabery Omaha NE, director (Cobra)
1891 Osip E Mandelstam Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time)
1892 Frank Hutchens composer
1892 Rex Ingram [Reginald IM Hitchcock], director (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
1893 D Ivor D Novello Cardiff Wales, British actor/composer/writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend, Truth Game)
1893 Dragisa Cvetkovic Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-41)
1894 Edmond Rubbens Belgian attorney/minister of colonization
1896 Jacobo Ficher composer
1899 Goodman Ace radio/TV actor/writer/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)
19-- Charles Brown Talladega AL, actor (Dwayne Thompson-Today's FBI)
19-- Count Stovall California, actor (Cal-All My Children, Roy-As the World Turns)
19-- Victor Campos New York City NY, actor (Cade's County, Doctor's Hospital)
1900 César Domela Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son)
1900 William Heinesen Färoës Island, writer (Noatun)
1902 Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud king (Saudi Arabia)
1906 Aristotle Onassis Greece, rich shipping magnate
1906 Rezso Kokai composer
1908 Edward Teller Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project)
1908 Roberta Bitgood composer
1909 Elie Siegmeister New York City NY, composer (Plough & the Stars)
1909 Enrique Sasal y Chapi composer
1909 Gene Krupa Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)
1911 Cy Feuer New York City NY, Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
1911 Wim Kan Dutch cabaretier
1912 Michel J-P Debré premier of France (1959-62)
1913 Lloyd Bridges San Leandro CA, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)
1914 Lord Dacre of Glanton British historian
1916 Mikki Doyle journalist
1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser President of Egypt (1954-1970)
1918 Andreas M Donner Dutch jurist (constitutional law)
1920 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor Philadelphia PA, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York
1920 John Junor British editor in chief (Sunday Express)
1922 Franz Fühmann writer
1923 Lee Teng-hui president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- )
1925 Ruth Slenczynska Sacramento CA, pianist
1925 Keith Bentley international racing cyclist
1926 Maria Schell Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)
1927 Francis Routh composer
1927 Norm Crosby Boston MA, comedian (Young at Heart Comedians)
1929 Reverand Dr Martin Luther King Jr Atlanta GA, dreamer (Nobel 1964)
1929 "Queen Ida" Guillory Ziadaco music
1929 Eva Badura-Skoda composer
1931 Thomas Hoving New York City NY, news correspondent (20/20)
1931 Derek Meddings special effects technician
1931 Murad Kazhlayev composer
1932 Dean Smith US actor/relay runner (Olympics-gold-1952)
1932 Enrique Raxach composer
1932 Louis Woodard Jones New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Olympics-gold-56)
1935 Malcolm Frager St Louis MO, pianist
1935 Robert Silverberg US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)
1937 Margaret O'Brien San Diego CA, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis)
1939 Charles Christopher Steel composer
1941 Captain Beefheart [Don Van Vilet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast)
1942 Edward "Sonny" Bivins US singer (Manhattans-Kiss & Say Goodbye)
1943 Mike Marshall Major League Baseball pitcher (1974 Cy Young Award)
1945 Marie-Christine AHI von Leibnitz German/British princess
1947 Pete Waterman rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1947 Andrea Martin Portland ME, actress/comedienne (Wag The Dog, Club Paradise, SCTV)
1948 Dini Petty Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV)
1948 Tommy Nolan Montréal Québec Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin)
1948 Ronnie Van Zant rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 Howard Allen Twitty Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1979 BC Open)
1950 David Lynn Jones Bexar AR, country singer (Bonnie Jean)
1951 Charo Murcia Spain, actress/singer (Chico & the Man, Love Boat)
1951 Martha Davis California, vocalist/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely, Shame)
1952 Melvyn Gale rocker (ELO)
1953 Boris Blank rocker (Yello)
1953 Randy White NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1955 Enrico Mentana Milan Italy, Italian newscaster (RAI)
1956 Vera Sosulya USSR, toboggan (Olympics-gold-1980)
1956 Paul Parker cricketer (one Test England vs Australia 1981)
1957 Mario Van Peebles Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes)
1958 Julian Sands actor (One Night Stand)
1959 Pete Trewavas Middlesbrough, rock bassist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws, Real to Reel)
1960 Tim Curtis cricketer (England righty batsman in 5 Tests 1988-89)
1961 Iris DeMent Paragould AR, country singer (Our Town)
1963 Erling Kagge Norway, explorer (South Pole)
1963 Lijuan Geng Hebei China, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96)
1963 Richard Nasheim hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1963 Yaro Dachniwsky Chicago IL, team handball goalie (Olympics-1996)
1964 Cees van der de Linden soccer player
1964 Paula Schnurr Kirkland Lake Ontario, 1.5k (Olympics-8-92, 96)
1965 Derek B rocker (Bullet from a Gun)
1965 Michael Clemons CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 Lisa Lisa (Velez) rock vocalist (& Cult Jam)
1967 Richard Blakey cricketer (England wicket-keeper in India 1993)
1967 Ted N Tryba Wilkes-Barre PA, PGA golfer (1995 Anheuser-Busch Golf)
1968 Chad Lowe Dayton OH, actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder)
1968 Bob Dahl NFL guard (Washington Redskins)
1968 Felton Spencer NBA center (San Francisco Warriors)
1968 Laurie Fellner Appleton WI, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 Steve McConaghy Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1969 Adam Burt Detroit MI, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1969 Delino DeShields Seaford DE, infielder (Montréal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers)
1969 Demetra Hampton actress (Valentina)
1969 Leonard Wheeler NFL safety/cornerback (Cincinnati Bengals, Minnesota Vikings)
1969 Marsha Miller Rochester NY, WPVA volleyballer (National-17th-1995)
1969 Rob van Dijk Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1969 Rod de Highden Australian 5k/10k/marathoner (Olympics-96)
1969 Siupeli Malamala NFL guard/tackle (New York Jets)
1970 Dan Landry San Diego CA, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96)
1970 Elroy Kromheer soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 Michele Granger Anaheim CA, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 LeShon Johnson running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Regina King Los Angeles CA, actress (Brenda Jenkins-227)
1972 Ernie Reyes Jr San Jose CA, actor (Ernie-Sidekicks)
1972 Kimberly Anne Massaro St Louis MO, Miss Missouri-America-5th (1996)
1973 Daniel Nijhof Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1973 Randy Srochenski CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1974 Aubrey Jo Hiller Missoula MT, Miss Montana-America (1996)
1974 Mike Minter safety (Carolina Panthers)
1975 Greg Loveridge cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner, did not bowl vs Zimbabwe 1996)
1975 Mary Pierce Montréal Québec Canada, tennis star (1995 Australian Open)

Deaths which occurred on January 15:
0069 Servius Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), killed by Praetorian guard in the Forum Rome, at 70
1208 Peter of Castelnau French nobleman, murdered
1684 Caspar Netscher Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
1705 Walraad the Young, Earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/Governor of Nijmegen, dies
1744 Charles-Hubert Gervais composer, dies at 72
1755 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia composer, dies at 83
1765 Carlmann Kolb composer, dies at 61
1775 Giovanni Battista Sammartini composer, dies
1788 Gaetano Latilla composer, dies at 77
1812 Johannes Herbst composer, dies at 76
1816 Henry Harington composer, dies at 88
1844 Joseph Mazzinghi composer, dies at 78
1866 M T d'Azeglio writer, dies
1896 Matthew B Brady US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1904 Eduard Lassen composer, dies at 73
1909 Ernest Reyer composer, dies at 85
1909 Ernest von Wildenbruch German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
1911 Wilhelm Berger composer, dies at 49
1915 Guillaume Couture composer, dies at 63
1919 Karl Liebknecht Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
1919 Rosa Luxembourg Marxist revolutionary, murdered
1922 John Kirk Barry Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
1924 Geza Zichy composer, dies at 74
1926 Enrico Toselli composer, dies at 42
1932 Georg Kerschensteiner German educationalist, dies at 77
1934 Hermann Bahr Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
1934 Patrick O'Malley US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
1936 Henry Forster cricket (Hants & Oxford University, Governor-General of Australia), dies
1942 Melvin Winfield Sheppard runner (Olympics-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
1949 Black Dahlia murder victim found in Los Angeles (basis of the movie)
1949 Pompeo Aloisi Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63
1953 Viktor Patrick Vretblad composer, dies at 76
1955 Yves Tanguy French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1961 Francesco Maria Saraceni composer, dies at 49
1962 Kenneth MacKenna actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62
1964 Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
1965 Pierre Ngendandumwe premier of Burundi, murdered
1966 Betsy Mitchell US 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25
1967 Albert Szirmai composer, dies at 86
1968 Bill Masterson 1st NHLer fatally injured during game (Jan 13), dies
1968 John Davidson actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80
1968 Leopold Infeld Polish nuclear physicist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
1969 Theodor Werner German painter, dies at 82
1971 John Dall actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
1973 Jef Alpaerts Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
1974 Karel Salmon composer, dies at 76
1978 Margaret Bowman & Lisa Levy Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
1981 Emanuel Celler (Representative-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
1982 Red Smith sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
1983 Meyer Lansky reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach FL at 81
1983 Shepperd Strudwick actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
1986 James H "Jim" Crowley US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1987 Dolores Hawkins singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
1987 Ray Bolger actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
1987 Gerrit Borgers Dutch literary, dies at 69
1988 Sean MacBride Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83
1989 Wilf Slack cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
1990 Gordon Jackson actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
1993 Henry Iba basketball coach, dies at 88
1993 Huub H Jacobse Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68
1993 Ken Cory dies of AIDS at 51
1993 Sammy Cahn [Cohen], US songwriter (Bei Mir Bist Du Schön), dies at 79
1994 György Cziffra Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
1994 Harry Nilsson rock vocalist (Without You, Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
1994 Philippe Brun jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
1995 Sollie McElroy singer, dies at 61
1996 Les Baxter singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
1996 Moshushu II King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51
1996 Richard Charles Cobb historian, dies at 78
1997 Jose Ignacio Domecq wine maker, dies at 82
1997 Kenneth Thimann botanist, dies at 92
1998 Amos "Junior" Wells blues harpist, dies at 63
1998 Gulzarilal Nanda temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies

On this day...
0708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Catholic Pope (dies 20 days later)
0946 Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted
1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
1552 France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
1562 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens
1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to the Baltic
1586 Battle at Boxum Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army
1680 French explorer Sieur de la Salle builds Fort Crèvecoeur
1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism
1754 Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
1759 British Museum opens in Montague House, London
1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in New York City NY
1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
1780 Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
1785 Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
1797 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run; Mr & Mrs Pierson of Charleston SC make 1st US railroad honeymoon trip
1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
1844 U of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
1847 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in New York City NY
1851 General Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera
1857 1st first-class game in Sydney, New South Wales vs Victoria at The Domain
1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1865 Fort Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
1866 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs Cechach" premieres in Prague
1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
1877 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
1882 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Massachusetts
1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg
1895 Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
1896 Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel" premieres in London
1900 SCNEC soccer team forms
1905 Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater
1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest
1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by William Taggart, who invented them
1908 C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wicket partnership 243 for Australia
1915 Japan claims economic control of China
1915 Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike" premieres in New York City NY
1919 2 million gallons of molasses "Tidal wave" Boston MA, drowning 21
1919 Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
1919 Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" premieres
1919 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week) Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
1919 W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room" premieres in New York City NY
1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes the country of Memel
1924 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1925 Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP
1930 George Headley scores century on debut vs England (made 176)
1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
1935 Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" premieres in New York City NY
1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
1936 Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
1936 Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants
1939 1st NFL pro bowl, New York Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
1939 Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
1942 Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WWII
1943 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon
1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal
1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England
1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
1945 "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY for 429 performances
1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC
1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
1951 Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Washington DC station
1953 German Democratic Republic Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
1955 Dmitri Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry" premieres in Leningrad
1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1956 Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1956 Dmitri Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
1956 KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 NFL Pro Bowl East beats West 31-30
1957 Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field
1958 New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV
1961 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 35-31
1961 Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open
1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records
1962 50th Australian Mens Tennis Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64)
1962 Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
1964 Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in New York City NY
1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
1965 Rock group The Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain"
1965 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor MI forms
1966 AFL Pro Bowl All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19
1966 NFL Pro Bowl East beats West 36-7
1967 Super Bowl I Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in Los Angeles; Super Bowl MVP Bart Starr, Green Bay, Quarterback
1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
1969 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1970 Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's)
1970 Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
1971 "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY for 19 performances
1971 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels
1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel
1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
1973 President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
1974 Expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
1974 24th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 134-123 at Seattle
1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford
1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1978 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
1978 Super Bowl XII Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, Defensive Tackle
1980 Pam Gems' "Piaf!" premieres in London
1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
1981 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1982 "Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in New York City NY
1983 Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard
1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
1983 Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs India
1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours
1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
1984 Schönbrun skates world record 5 km (7 39.44)
1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected President of Brazil in 21 years
1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
1985 Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs India
1986 Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World
1988 Arab uprising in Israel begins
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
1988 Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Madras, world Test record
1988 Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) vs West Indies on Test debut
1989 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City NY after 176 performances
1989 10th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 35 awards
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
1990 New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 second, beats Bulls, 109-106
1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
1990 Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes - (they don't)
1991 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1992 EC recognizes Slovenian and Croatian independence
1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Totò" Riina arrested in Palermo
1994 15th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10
1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist
1995 Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
1995 San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
1995 San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360
1997 Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin
1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again

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

Guatemala : Esquipulas
Japan : Adults Day/Seijin-No-Hi
Jordan : Arbor Day
Venezuala : Teachers' Day/Dia Del Maestro
US : Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929) - - - - - ( Monday )
Virginia : Lee-Jackson Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Florida : Arbor Day - - - - - ( Friday )

Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Paul of Thebes, the 1st hermit
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Maurus, abbot

Religious History
1697 The citizens of Massachusetts spent a day of fasting and repentance for their roles in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. Judge Samuel Sewall, who had presided over many of those 20 capital judgments, published a written confession acknowledging his own "blame and shame."
1844 The University of Notre Dame was chartered under Roman Catholic auspices in Indiana.
1852 Mt. Sinai Hospital was incorporated by Sampson Simson and eight associates in NY City. It was the first Jewish hospital in the U.S.
1873 Lutheran founder of the Missouri Synod, C.F.W. Walther warned in a letter: 'Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.'
1970 Israeli archaeologists reported uncovering the first evidence supporting the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by military forces of the ancient Roman Empire.

Thought for the day :
" When all is said and done, too many people keep on saying and doing. "

1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours

And I thought I didn't have a life!

Recruit Paul R. Athanas puts in some extra physical training in his Kilo Co. squad bay at the 3rd RTBn. Tuesday night. Leaving a lucrative construction career behind, the Boston native initially wanted to quit before excelling through recruit training.

Support of family, SDI motivate Kilo Co. recruit through training

Submitted by: MCRD Parris Island
Story Identification Number: 20031131794
Story by Cpl. Virgil P. Richardson

MCRD PARRIS ISLAND, S.C.(January 10, 2003) -- Regardless of what your recruiter tells you, there's nothing anyone can do to prepare you for the reality of boot camp. While some make the adjustment more smoothly than others, everyone who graduates and becomes a Marine is greatly changed during his or her time in recruit training. For recruit Paul R. Athanas of platoon 3002, Kilo Co., 3rd RTBn., making the transition from civilian to Marine was one he almost couldn't make.

"The adjustment was unreal," said Athanas through his thick Bostonian accent. "I was cut in half - destroyed as a person. Any doubt a recruit or self-respecting man could have was running through my head non-stop." "The boy hated us yelling all the time," said Staff Sgt. Thurman R. Lofton, Athanas' senior drill instructor. "He was on the verge of being sent home until things started turning around for him."

"I'm a grown man, and I hated having someone tell me I only had a few seconds to shave," said Athanas. "On top of missing my family, I've always been in control. I couldn't take the stress of being yelled at."

Many wonder why a union sprinkler fitter making nearly $40 per hour in the booming construction area of metropolitan Boston would give it all up to join the Corps.

"Like every American, I was [angry] after Sept. 11," said Athanas. "As a blue collar worker, my first instinct was 'let's go kill these guys,' but I had to think it through a bit first."

While anger over the terrorist attacks was the motivating factor that led Athanas towards the Corps, his dedication to duty and a sense of purpose was the ultimate deciding factor.

"I had two uncles who went with the Marines to Vietnam, and only one came home," said Athanas. "I'm not 18, and I don't have four or five years to decide what I want to do with my life, and I never wanted to regret not serving my country."

The drastic turnaround Athanas went through began one evening as he lay awake in the rack.

"Training was hard from the beginning," he said. "But when you hit the rack at night, you wonder how your family is, and what they're doing. I slowly started to realize I came here for a reason."

The realization that the Marines are about more than yelling and timed shaving came with the help of his fellow recruits and his drill instructors, said Athanas.

"Through the help of my platoon and especially the help of my senior drill instructor, I realized that everyone was missing their family and we came here to do something and I was going to do it," he said. "These recruits are the closest thing to family you have here, and the senior drill instructor was an awesome father figure."

Family support is something Athanas brought with him to Parris Island. His long-time girlfriend at first thought his decision to join was a joke.

"She didn't believe me at first," said Athanas. It was hard for us both, but she tells me how proud she is of me, and she supports me 100 percent."

Athanas produced a laminated photo of his girlfriend out of his cammies that he kept with him all through recruit training.

Written on the back was a message from his girlfriend-a goal they shared from the day he left beantown: "January 10. I Love you."

With two uncles that served in Vietnam, Athanas said his mother was the hard-sell in the family.

"My mother had a brother who died in the Corps, so me joining was hard for her, but she tells everyone who will listen how proud she is of me. She's my biggest fan."

Having fully transitioned into one of the few, the proud, Athanas looks forward to returning to his Hyde Park, Mass., home to share memories with family and friends of the biggest and best decision he ever made. A decision he almost didn't see through to the end.

"As soon as I get home, I'm gonna invite all my family and friends over to hear how they felt while I was gone," he said "Then I'm gonna eat. I'm gonna eat a lot. My mother's Italian and she makes a killer meat sauce."

French towns honour US pilot killed in liberation
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To my fellow Canteeners, our Military, Vets, Allies, Volunteers and your families,

"I wish for you..."

Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,

Sunsets to warm your heart
Gentle hugs when spirits sag,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Beauty for your eyes to see,

Confidence for when you doubt,
Faith so that you can believe,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
And love to complete your life.

God Bless you!

I asked the Lord to bless you
As I prayed for you today
To guide you and protect you
As you go along your way....
His love is always with you
His promises are true
No matter what the tribulation
You know He will see us through
So, when the road you're traveling on
Seems difficult at best
Give your problems to the Lord
And God will do the rest.

To our troops-

Thank you for protecting US. Sleep well and safe. May you be protected. May your families' hearts be at ease.

"What is needed now is to post approved snail mail addresses of military bases and/or individuals."

I am more than willing to offer my PO Box address here on Fort Hood. Since what we are doing here seems to be mirroring what you good folks have already thought up. Is there any specific area of the canteen which lists these addresses? I am still exploring the canteen as we speak.

This is wonderful work you guys are doing here, Kudo's to everyone involved.