The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Alexander Vandegrift - May 3rd, 2004

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[SAMWolf]

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General Alexander Archer Vandegrift
(1887 - 1973)

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General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, World War II Medal of Honor recipient and 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps, was born on 13 March 1887 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia and was commissioned in the Marine Corps as a second lieutenant on 22 January 1909.

First Lieutenant Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC
Portrait photograph. Though dated 5 April 1917, this image must have been taken in 1914-1916, as Vandegrift was promoted to Captain on 29 August of the latter year.

Following instruction at the Marine Officers' School, Port Royal, South Carolina, and a tour of duty at the Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he went to foreign shore duty in the Caribbean area. He participated in the bombardment, assault, and capture of Coyotepe in Nicaragua. He further participated in the engagement and occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico.

In December 1914, following his promotion to first lieutenant, he attended the Advance Base Course at the Marine Barracks, Philadelphia. Upon completion of schooling, he sailed for Haiti with the 1st Brigade and participated in action against hostile Cacos bandits at LeTrou and Fort Capois.

In August 1916, he was promoted to captain and became a member of the Haitian Constabulary at Port Au Prince, where he remained until detached to the United States in December 1918. He returned to Haiti again in July 1919 to serve with the Gendarmerie d'Haiti as an Inspector of Constabulary. He was promoted to major in June 1920.


Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC
Portrait photograph taken circa 1942.

Major Vandegrift returned to the U.S. in April 1923 and was assigned to the Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia. He completed the Field Officers' Course, Marine Corps Schools in May 1926. He then was transferred to the Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California, as Assistant Chief of Staff.

In February 1927, he sailed for China where he served as Operations and Training Officer of the 3d Marine Brigade with Headquarters at Tientsin. He was ordered to Washington, D.C., in September 1928 where he became Assistant Chief Coordinator, Bureau of the Budget.

Following duty in Washington, he joined the Marine Barracks, Quantico, where he became Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1 Section, Fleet Marine Force (FMF). During this assignment, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in June 1934.


Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, USN (left), and Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC
Working on the flag bridge of USS McCawley (AP-10), at the time of the Guadalcanal-Tulagi operation, circa July-August 1942.

Ordered to China in June 1935, LtCol Vandegrift served successively as Executive Officer and Commanding Officer of the Marine Detachment at the American Embassy in Peiping. Promoted to colonel in September 1936, Col Vandegrift reported to Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC), Washington, D.C. in June 1937, where he became Military Secretary to the Major General Commandant. In March 1940, he was appointed Assistant to the Major General Commandant, and the following month was promoted to brigadier general.

Brigadier General Vandegrift was detached to the 1st Marine Division in November 1941, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. He was promoted to major general in March 1942 and sailed for the South Pacific Area that May as commanding general of the first Marine division to ever leave the shores of the United States. On 7 August 1942, in the Solomon Islands, he led ashore the 1st Marine Division in the first large-scale offensive action against the Japanese. For outstanding service as Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division during the attack on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Gavutu in the Solomon Islands, he was awarded the Navy Cross and for the subsequent occupation and defense from 7 August to 9 December 1942, was awarded the Medal of Honor.


Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC,
Commanding General, First Marine Division
At his field desk in the Division command tent on Guadalcanal, circa August-December 1942.

In July 1943, he assumed command of the I Marine Amphibious Corps and commanded this organization in the landing at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Northern Solomon Islands, on 1 November 1943. Upon establishing the initial beachhead, he relinquished command and returned to Washington, D.C. as Commandant-designate.

On 1 January 1944, as a lieutenant general, he was sworn in as the 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps. On 4 April 1945, he was appointed general, with date of rank from 21 March 1945, the first Marine officer on active duty to attain four-star rank.



For outstanding service as Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1 January 1944 to 30 June 1946, Gen Vandergrift was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. He left active service on 31 December 1947 and was placed on the retired list 1 April 1949.

General Vandegrift died 8 May 1973 at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, after a long illness. He was 86. His interment was 10 May 1973 at Arlington National Cemetery.

General Vandegrift held an honorary degree of Doctor of Military Science from Pennsylvania Military College, and honorary degrees of Doctor of Law from Harvard, Colgate, Brown, Columbia, and Maryland Universities and John Marshall College.



In addition to the Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, and Distinguished Service Medal, his decorations and medals included:

• the Presidential Unit Citiation with one bronze star, Solomon Island, 1942;
• Navy Unit Commendation with one bronze star, Solomon Islands, 1943, and Okinawa, 1945;
• Expeditionary Medal with three bronze stars, Cuba, 1912, Nicaragua, 1912, Haiti, 1915-24, Cina, 1927-28;
• Nicaraguan Campaign Medal, Nicaragua, 1912;
• Mexican Service Medal, Mexico, 1914;
• Haitian Campaign Medal with one star, Haiti, 1915 and 1919-20;
• Victory Medal with West Indies Clasp and one star, Haiti, 1918;
• Yangtze Service Medal, Shanghai, 1927;
• American Defense Service Medal, 1939-1941;
• Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with four bronze stars;
• Solomon Islands, 1942-43;
• American Campaign Medal;
• World War II Victory Medal.

He had received the following foreign decorations:

• Haitian Distinguished Service Medal, Haiti, 1919-20;
• Medaille Militaire with one silver star, Haiti, 1920-21;
• Honorary Knight Commander, Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire;
• Companion (Honorary) of the Military Division of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, British Solomon Islands, 1942;
• Cruz de Aviacion de Primera Clase, Peruvian Government, 1944;
• Abdon Calderon of the 1st Class, Equador, 1944;
• Knights Grand Cross in the Order of the Orange-Nassau with Swords, Netherlands, 1945;
• Order of Pao-Tine (Precious Tripod) with Special Clasp, China, 1947;
• Legion of Honor (Grand Officer), france.

[GailA]

We didn't get to do any touring at all. DK is not a touring type. He just wanted to camp and relax. His BP is down when we do, as long as I watch his salt intake.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Feather. So what's in doing in NEW York State?

[CholeraJoe]

Thanks for the thread on Guadalcanal, SAM. My father served with the 551st Signal Aircraft Warning Batallion there. It was an AAF outfit supporting the Marines. The funniest story he tells was of the day he set the river on fire. It seems the river had been sprayed with a thin film of diesel fuel to control mosquitos. Dad had just been issued a new M-1 and wanted to try it out.

He and the S3 of the batallion, (he was the S1) went down to the riverbank and started firing their M-1's, not realizing the river had diesel on it and that every fourth round was a tracer round. The tracers ignited the diesel and the two intrepid young officers beat a hasty retreat.

[SAMWolf]

We didn't get to do any touring at all.:-( Relaxing is good, and besides, that's what a vaction is all about.

[SAMWolf]

Morning CholeraJoe.

LOL! So Officiers get in trouble too, huh? Thanks for sharing that story. I can see the WTF look on their faces as the river goes up in flames.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, Sam!!

Well last evening we had a rip roaring wind and rain storm. Cooled things down fast. We had been hitting 75F and in about twenty minutes it was down in the 50s.

Overcast today, no rain, but decidedly cooler.

How's things in Oregon??

[Professional Engineer]

ACK I missed you on the flag-o-gram ping. My apologies.

[Professional Engineer]

Hi Sam, I had the feeling you'd know about MARS. Glad they were there for you.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning PE. That's okay, I'll scoot on over to read it.

[Soaring Feather]

Oh great Flag-o-gram today. Love the snow covered mountains in the background. Lovely.

Nice, picture of Barry Goldwater. I liked him a lot. The MARS page is bookmarked, great info.

[CholeraJoe]

Apparently he never got in trouble about it since neither of them talked about it until after they left Guadalcanal. He claims there was no alcohol involved.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on May 03:
1455 Joâo II the perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews
1469 Niccolò Machiavelli Italy, politician/writer (The Prince)
1691 Carolus van der Abeele Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction à l'amour)
1773 Giuseppe Acerbi Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
1816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1844 Edouard A Drumont French anti-semitic journalist
1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
1859 Andy Adams US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
1874 François Coty Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
1892 Sir George Thomson demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
1898 Golda Meir [Meyerson] Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
1902 Seton I Miller Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul)
1903 Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) Tacoma WA, crooner/actor/golfer (White Christmas, Going My Way)
1906 Mary Astor Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific)
1916 Henry Barbosa Gonzalez San Antonio TX, (Representative-D-TX, 1961- )
1919 Pete Seeger New York NY, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
1920 Sugar Ray Robinson [Walter Smith] middleweight/welterweight boxer (champion)
1928 James Brown Augusta GA, singer/jail bird, Godfather of soul(I feel good)
1931 Alex Cord actor (The Dead are Alive)
1936 Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey] Madras India, singer (After The Lovin', Release Me, Quando Quando Quando)
1937 Frankie Valli [Castelluccio] Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1946 Greg Gumbel sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
1947 Doug Henning Fort Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
1949 Albert Sacco Jr Boston MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1949 Ron Wyden (Representative-D-OR, 1981- )
1950 Mary Hopkin South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
1951 Christopher Cross [Geppert] San Antonio TX, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
1955 Steve Jones English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy)
1957 Cactus Moser Montrose CO, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1964 Ron Hextall Winnipeg, NHL goalie (Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders)
1968 Deborah Caprioglio Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter)

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Deaths which occurred on May 03:
1010 Ansfried 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69
1481 Mohammed II [Fâtih], sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies
1614 Sasbout Vosmeer Roman Catholic theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66
1758 Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini] Pope (1740-58), dies at 83
1863 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35
1916 Pádraic Pearse Irish nationalist, executed by British firing squad
1925 Clément Ader French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84
1926 Napoleon V Bonaparte French pretender to the throne, dies at 63
1955 Philips C Visser explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
1972 Bruce Cabot actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
1972 Dan Blocker actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1982 Hugh Beaumont actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
1989 Christine Jorgensen 1st transsexual, dies at 62
1992 George Murphy (Senator-R-CA, 1965-71)/actor, dies of Leukemia at 89
1994 Richard Scarry author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1967 MOORE RALPH E.---INDIANAPOLIS IN.
1968 AVERY ROBERT DOUGLAS---MORGANTOWN NC.
1968 CLEM THOMAS D.---NEW PARIS IN.
1968 CHANEY ARTHUR F.---VIENNA VA.
1968 CLARK STEPHEN W.---PLYMOUTH CA.
1968 MC KAIN BOBBY L.---GARDEN CITY KS.
1968 TERRY ORAL R.---MASCOUTAH IL.
1970 CHURCHILL CARL R.---BETHEL ME.
1970 CONAWAY LAWRENCE Y.---COLUMBUS OH.
1972 AYRES TIMOTHY R.---HOUSTON TX.
[03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1972 BRACY LESTER JR.
08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED ID 06/12/74]
1972 HOPPER JOSEPH CLIFFORD---MEMPHIS TN.
[08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1972 MC DONALD JOSEPH W.---WAPPINGER FALLS NY.
1972 MC IVER ALEXANDER---SANTA MONICA CA.
[08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1972 SIENICKI THEODORE S.---IRVINGTON NJ.
[03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1972 SLATER FREDDIE LEON---BALTIMORE MD.
[08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1972 UNGER DON LEE---LAKE WORTH FL.
[08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1972 WILLIAMS DAVID B.---LAFAYETTE LA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 10/26/89]
1972 WIDERQUIST THOMAS CARL---MORTON GROVE IL.
[08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1973 MOREAU RON
[05/73 RELEASED]

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

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On this day...
1342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
1455 Jews flee Spain
1494 Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen (18th ecumenical council) in Rome
1515 Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
1621 Francis Bacon accused of bribery
1624 Spanish silver fleet sails to Panamá
1629 French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
1640 English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
1654 Bridge at Rowley MA begins charging tolls for animals
1660 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
1662 Royal charter granted Connecticut
1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan, the School of Medicine belonged to the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).
1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city
1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont
1815 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
1822 Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1845 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts)
1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1851 Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire; 30 die
1861 General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1863 Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights)
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
1863 Battle of Salem Church VA
1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria LA: Confederate assault
1900 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06¼
1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville FL
1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1909 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
1917 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1919 Afghánistán Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-months after leaving), stay until 1933
1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists
1932 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switzerland)
1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1936 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
1938 Concentration camp at Flossenbürg goes into use
1938 Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941
1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
1941 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4
1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1942 Nazis require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1943 US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
1944 "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
1944 Meat rationing ends in US
1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1947 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1952 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
1953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1958 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
1958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
1959 Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive homeruns in a doubleheader
1960 Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks" premieres in NYC
1963 Leslie Narum is the only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite
1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1965 KTCI TV channel 17 in St Paul-Minneapolis MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University
1969 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8
1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 National Public Radio begins programming; 112 NPR stations premiere "All Things Considered"
1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 meters), topped out
1973 Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
1975 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02
1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th homerun (2nd to have 300 homeruns & 300 stolen bases)
1980 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
1982 New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1986 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
1986 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st homerun
1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs FL
1988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
1994 US space probe Clementine launched
1995 David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
1997 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
1999 76 tornadoes tore across the Plains states, killing about 50 people and injuring more than 700
2000 The trial of two Libyan men (Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah) ,accused in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, began in the Netherlands.
2001 The United States lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947

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

Japan-1947, Poland-1791 : Constitution Day
Lesotho : King's Birthday
Northern Ireland : Bank Holiday
Zambia : Labour Day (Monday)
New Orleans : McDonogh Day (1850) (Friday)
National Turn Off Your TV Week Begins
National Walking Week Begins
National Lumpy Rug Day
Electrical Safety Month

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Religious Observances
Christian-Poland : Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of SS Alexander, Eventius & Theodulus, martyrs
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of the Finding of the Cross
Christian-Bruges Belgium : Holy Blood Procession
Roman Catholic : Feast of SS Philip & James, apostles
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Juvenal, bishop/confessor

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Religious History
1512 The Fifth Lateran Council opened under Pope Julius II. Its twelve sessions lasting through 1517, the council continued under Leo X, following Julius' death in 1513.
1675 A Massachusetts law was enacted requiring church doors to be locked during the worship service. (Too many people were leaving before the long sermons were completed.)
1738 English revivalist George Whitefield, 23, first arrived in America. In all, Whitefield crossed the Atlantic thirteen times, and died in Massachusetts in 1770, during his seventh visit.
1850 Sixteen year old Charles H. Spurgeon made his public profession of faith in Jesus Christ in a Primitive Methodist Chapel, in Colchester, England. Spurgeon began a preaching career the following year which did not end until his death in 1892.
1878 Death of William Whiting, 53, Anglican poet and music instructor. He is known to have written only one hymn during his life, but its popularity has endured: "Eternal Father, Strong to Save."

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

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Thought for the day :
"Creditors have much better memories than debtors."

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Actual Newspaper Headlines...
Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus?

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Why did the Chicken cross the Road...
FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it?

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Stocks To Watch In 2004 Watch for these consolidations in 2004 and make yourself a bundle...
3M will merge with Goodyear and issue forth as....... MMMGood.

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Guide to Minnesota driving...
Under no circumstances should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you, or the space will be filled in by somebody else putting you in an even more dangerous situation.

[E.G.C.]

Folks, I went to pestpatrol.com this morning and did a check on my computer.

Here's what the scanner discovered.

67 tracking cookies, 5 browser helper objects, 2 adwares, 1 spyware and 1 exploit.

I'm figuring out what I'm going to do next.

I experienced a few DoS's this morning so when that happens I usuall go to another browser. So I thought I'd get to the bottom of this.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Aeronaut.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Iris7.

[snippy_about_it]

Sounds like a restful little vacation. Welcome back!

[snippy_about_it]

Wow. Our flag, Barry Goldwater and a MARS link. Good morning PE. MARS program sounds really neat. Thanks.

[snippy_about_it]

I Watch I Warn

Good morning CJ. Great story about your Dad. Those M1's are powerful enough to set a river on fire. LOL.

[Darksheare]

Mornign!

[stand watie]

GM, snippy,et.al.!

free dixie,sw