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ABC World News interviews three ex-POWs on the occasion of NAMPOWs’ 40th anniversary of freedom



ABC World News interviews three ex-POWs on the occasion of NAMPOWs’ 40th anniversary of freedom
May 19, 2013 | Vanity
Posted on Sunday, May 19, 2013 3:19:49 PM by Mach9
American prisoners-of-war held by communist North Vietnam during the years between 1965 and 1973 will celebrate their 40th year of freedom as a result of the release engineered by Pres. Nixon in 1973.
The Nixon Library, on the occasion of both the 100th anniversary of the president’s birth and the 40th anniversary of the formal dinner he hosted in May 1973 for recently returned American POWs, will recreate that dinner at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA, on May 24.
Hundreds of still-living POWs will attend, and several have already been interviewed by Diane Sawyer to air during the week of May 20. The first such interview will air on ABC World News (check for local stations) at 6:30 p.m., EDT, Monday, May 20 (repeated at 6:30 p.m. on May 27th, Memorial Day).
WE LET THEM DIE… Bob Lonsberry
WE LET THEM DIE
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Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:47:10 AM by shortstop
American life must be cheap.
At least in the valuation of the White House and the other big buildings around Washington.
Must be the men and women sent overseas mean nothing. We’ll meet your coffin at Andrews, if there are TV cameras, but damned if we’ll come to your rescue.
That’s what we learned at Benghazi.
As details have come out in dribs and drabs, each new revelation has illustrated the uncomfortable fact that we left those men to fight and die alone.
We did not defend them, we did not relieve them, we just watched them. Our drone circled overhead, providing a real-time video feed, but it did not fire its missiles, it was not used to guide in a relief force, it just took pictures.
Grisly souvenirs of a gutless administration.
For most of a year, our Libyan ambassador and various members of his security detachment warned of danger and pleaded for assistance. Time and time again the people on the ground said it wasn’t safe and they needed protection. Time and time again people in Washington declined the requests. Instead of increasing our security forces there, the administration cut them.
And then the attack came.
ROMNEY CAMPAIGN ENLISTS OVER 300 MILITARY GENERALS
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romneyannounced this week he was beefing up his campaign with some top brass:more than 300 retired general and flag officers, who will serve ina consultant role onhis campaign’s military advisory panel.
Thelist, which contains more than twodozen retired four-stars, includes Gens. James Conway and Paul X Kelley, former commandants ofthe Marine Corps; Army Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the initial assault of the Taliban in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11,2001 attacks and oversaw the overthrow of SaddamHussein in 2003; and Army Gen. James Joseph Lindsay, the first commander of U.S. Special OperationsCommand.
A wildcard choice onthe list is retired Army Gen. Hugh Shelton, who endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2008, but made astir four years earlier by pointedly declining to endorse a fellow retired Army four-star onthe Democratic ticket,, Gen. Wesley Clark.
Gunny G: ATTENTION BLOGGERS: Regular Folks Need To Be Heard From Too…Not Just Pro Writers/Bloggers…Start Posting / ReBlogging NOW!!!!!
Gunny G:
ATTENTION BLOGGERS: The Regular Folks Need To Be Heard From…Not Just Pro Writers/Bloggers…Start Posting /ReBlogging NOW!!!!!
Like the one below, and many, many MORE!!!!!
Re Karoline Miller) ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G ~WAKE UP AMERICA.1984.+ IS HERE!: February 03, 2004
…..So…who was this lady I have done my best to describe to you here?
She was one of us. Marine was a special word to her, she knew what it meant to all of us.
A few hours ago, I received an e-mail from her daughter, Faith, advising me that Karoline had passed last Thursday.
I know that this lady whom I have never personally met, is in the very best of hands now. Wherever Marines are guarding those streets of Heaven, Karoline is nearby.
For those of us who knew her, we have our reward–to you others, you missed this fine example of good people.
Was the TV Show ‘Doomsday Preppers’ Used to Convict Another Prepper in Court? « SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom
A number of times in the past, I have warned about how dangerous I think T.V. shows like Doomsday Preppers are to the prepping community. In my opinion, these prepping shows do nothing to help people prepare and are designed to do only one thing – To make Preppers look like complete Wackjobs!
Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: Parachute Accidents: Silk Chutes and Hard Fighting
…..Three other men died in Marine Corps jumping accidents not related to the performance of the parachute. Two men drowned after landing in water; one at Norfolk, Virginia, and one at New River, North Carolina. The final fatality occurred when a New River trainee lost his nerve just as he approached the door of the plane.
He moved out of the line of jumpers, but his static line became tangled with the next man to go out. The non-jumper’s parachute opened while he was inside the plane and the billowing chute slammed him against the aircraft body hard enough to wreck the door and sever his spine.
The most unusual accident occurred near San Diego, California, on 15 May 1941. Second Lieutenant Walter A. Osipoff and 11 enlisted men of Company A were making a practice jump over Kearney Mesa. Everyone else had exited the plane and he threw out a cargo pack, which possibly tangled in his static line.
His parachute opened prematurely while he was still in the door of the plane; it billowed outside the aircraft and pulled him out, but the canopy and suspension lines tangled in the bundle of static lines streaming beside the transport. For a moment the cargo pack, Osipoff and his partially opened parachute were all suspended from the cable that held the static lines.
Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: “Hash-Mark”
I find it interesting that the adoption of the hash-mark as an item of uniform made its entry into the Marine Corps in 1833, not as a service stripe, as it was later, but as an insigne of rank (on the fatigue uniform)–sergeants and corporals wore two stripes and one stripe respectively below the elbow.
The designations prevailed until 1859.
Gunny G: LOYALTY UP ~ LOYALTY DOWN! Spoken By: Chesty Puller…
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Chesty Puller On “Loyalty Down”
Amid a nationwide public outcry regarding the whole matter of the drownings in particular and Marine Corps training practices in general, LtGen Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller was recalled to active duty to testify at the trial regarding Marine training and tradition. Mrs. Puller protested to her husband citing previous trouble and controversy in Puller’s career. Puller told her, “…The important thing is the Marine Corps. If we let ‘em, they’ll tear it to pieces. Headquarters won’t speak up. It’s my duty to do it.”
Don’t Send That Outraged E-Mail by Gary North… (“Blog it instead, I’m going to show you how. It’s free. It’s fast. It’s the way to go. Ask Matt Drudge”)
Blog it instead, I’m going to show you how. It’s free. It’s fast. It’s the way to go. Ask Matt Drudge. He didn’t send an email to Newsweek deploring the spiking of an article. He posted his report — without objections — on his blog in 1998. This eventually got a President impeached. His site gets 6 million visits a day. Meanwhile, Newsweek is up for sale. Here is the great irony: DrudgeReport.com (two employees) is worth more than Newsweek.
So, you read a bonehead article. You’re convinced that what that author really needs is a piece of your mind. You think you can spare it. You have decided to sit down and write him an email.
Here are eleven good reasons not to do it.
First They Came for the Bloggers…
…..Let’s hope so, but I wouldn’t hold your ‘collective’ breath here. I warned about this previously – first they will come for the bloggers using copyright infringement as a weapon, then taxation and fees.
The American government will do anything they can to shut us up and those that believe this does not affect them better wake up and soon.
Why There Is No Justice In America…Dr Ed Rivera…(edrivera.com)
Why There Is No Justice In America…Ed Rivera…
(Re Judge Andrew Napolitano)
LINK BELOW !!!!!!
(Ron Paul – Larry McDonald Connection?) Congressman Larry McDonald – Interesting | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012
Congressman Larry McDonald – Interesting
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Has anyone ever researched former Congressman Larry McDonald? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_McDonald
His disappearance is rather interesting…
A Conservative Democrat, he was active in numerous civil organizations and maintained a conservative voting record in Congress. He was known for his staunch opposition to communism and believed in long standing covert efforts by powerful US groups to bring about a socialist world government.
He served as Congressman in seventh district of Georgia. He was re-elected four times and served from January 3, 1975, until his disappearance, on September 1, 1983.
An admirer of Austrian economics, he was an advocate of tight monetary policy in the late 1970s to get the economy out of stagflation. He was also a passionate advocate of laissez-faire or market based policies.
Ron Paul on Larry McDonald – YouTube (See Additional info This Post Re Larry Patton Mcdonald, Erc…)
Larry McDonald – New World Order | TRUTH WARS
Larry McDonald – New World Order
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Congressman Larry McDonald on Crossfire, May 1983, just three months before being killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets near Moneron Island after the plane entered Soviet airspace.
“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy?
Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.” Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976
China Marines!: Gunny G’s Legends and Myths (Col R. E. Sullivan, PhD, USMC Ret.)
Gunnery Sergeants
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When the big rank turnover occurred in the MC, and we went from 148 enlisted ranks to 7, I was a newly minted Platoon Sergeant (1 rocker). Along with the other line Marines I took a dim view indeed of “technicians” assuming the chevrons of what had been line ranks. For instance, if a platoon of 45 Master Technical Sergeants, (3 Flat), and one Line Private was assembled, the Line Private became the platoon commander since all line ranks were considered senior to all technical ranks.
Early Christian Communism
For centuries the alleged ideal of communism had come to the world as a messianic and millennial creed. Various seers, notably Joachim of Fiore, had prophesied the final state of mankind as one of perfect harmony and equality, one where all things are owned in common, where there is no necessity for work or need for the division of labor.
In the case of Joachim, of course, problems of production and property, indeed of scarcity in general, were “solved” by man no longer possessing a physical body. As pure spirits, men as equal and harmonious psychic entities spending all their time chanting praise to God, might make a certain amount of sense. But the communist idea applied to a physical mankind still needing to produce and consume is a very different matter. In any case, the communist ideal continued to be put forward as a religious, millennial doctrine. We have seen in volume I its enormous influence on the Anabaptist wing of the Reformation in the 16th century. Millennial and communist dreams also inspired various fringe Protestant sects during the English Civil War of the mid-17th century, particularly the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Fifth Monarchy Men.
The most important forerunner of Marxian communism among these Civil War Protestant sectarians was Gerrard Winstanley (1609–60), the founder of the Digger movement and a man much admired by Marxist historians.
(Adm Boorda) Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: Articles By Tom McKenney, LtCol USMC (Ret.), 1997, etc.
Shortly before his suicide death last year, Admiral Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations, was the speaker for the flag officers’ mess. In his speech, Boorda reported proudly that our advanced naval technology – highly classified secret information for which a foreign nation would pay millions, and for which any spy would kill – is being voluntarily given to Red China! After the CNO’s speech was concluded, Major General John K. Singlaub, USA (Ret.), amazed and horrified, approached the admiral and expressed disbelief. After all, China is a sworn enemy of our nation and all that we represent, and is the only nation on Earth with the power to be an actual threat to our existence. Under certain circumstances, it may be justifiable to share such secret technology with an Allied Nation such as Great Britain.
But to give it to an enemy nation is suicidal madness, and an act of treason for which a member of the Armed Forces or a private citizen could be executed. According to General Singlaub, when he asked Admiral Boorda how such a thing could be justified, the admiral smiled uneasily and said, “It is the President’s … the administration’s policy.” Nothing in the Clinton administration “just happens,” and I assure you that nothing of significance happens (at least not more than once) without the knowledge and personal approval of Clinton himself. Nothing.
Gunny G: For Another (honest) Look At The US Constitution, The Founding Fathers, Etc…..
Gunny G: For another (honest) look at the US Constitution, the Founding Fathers, etc.
Food for thought; and maybe makes some sense as to what went wrong, when and where!
The wriings of William Buppert, Gary North, Ed Eivera, etc.
Zero Gov – Anti-Government, Pro-Liberty » Blog Archive » The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government) by Bill Buppert
I wrote this earlier and wanted to republish since I will be debating the Articles versus the Constitution tomorrow in Yuma, Arizona at the 2012 Freedom Library Annual Awards Ceremony Debate. The issue gets more critical year by year because the Constitution may very well be one of the most clever anti-freedom documents crafted by man in the Western world.
As a result of a crafty and thorough propaganda campaign, a document that purports to support limited government and peaceful human activity has done exactly the opposite in such a gargantuan fashion that one is aghast so many people can still be deluded by the premise and continue to be bamboozled by its promise.
Kansas ‘Doomsday Prepper’ sentenced to prison – KansasCity.com
Government exhibits included grenade bodies, powder and fuses. Prosecutors said five incendiary bombs were found in a storage locker leased to Dutton in Eureka in southeastern Kansas.
Dutton’s defense said he was preparing for the collapse of the economy and collecting medical supplies, non-perishable foods and other items.
The defense submitted to the court an excerpt from a National Geographic documentary on “Doomsday Preppers” to illustrate his state of mind.
Admiral Fallon On The USS Saratoga During USS Liberty Attack…was born in East Orange
He Was A Carrier Pilot On The Saratoga Fallon was a young US Naval Officer serving aboard the US Aircraft Carrier Saratoga in June, 1967, when Israel launched a surprise war against its Arab neighbors.
He saw the valiant F-4 Phantom pilots rocket off the Saratoga to save the crew of the USS Liberty, only to return 15 minutes later.
Gunny G’s Notes On USMC Politics, History, Inter-Service Relations, etc.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) English: Harry S. Truman (1884 – 1972), 1945 – 1953 the thirty-third President of the United States Deutsch: Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), 1945 bis 1953 33. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
SOME ‘Gunny G’ NOTES ON MARINE CORPS HISTORY, POLITICS, INTER-SERVICE RELATIONS, ETC.
“For your information the Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.”
-President Harry S. Truman, 1950
GUNNY G: And So, The Question as to Just When Communism/Socialism Arose In America?
Gunny G: And So, The Question Arises As To Just When Communism/Socialism Came To America?
I have seen many stories and claims as to when and where Communism, or Socialism, first reared its head here in the good old USA, but lately, I have noticed, there seems to be increasing information on this topic that may tend to confuse the issue somewhat. Much of this information has been around for a long time, but gone unnoticed by myself and apparently most others as well.
About the first time most Americans heard of communism, myself included, was during The Senator Joe McCarthy thing back in the late ’40s. Of course, information on Socialism was available long before that, but I suspect few paid much attention to it.
Not that long ago an article appeared by Alan Stang titled Republican Party Red From The Start… The article emphasized that the Republican Party had been influenced by Marxists beginning shortly after many of them from the 1848 revolution in Europe had immigrated to America. This was by the early 1850s just prior to the election of Abraham Lincoln.
By the Civil War, many of these had found their way into government positions, including the new Union Army; and most of them were sympathetic to Northern politics, and unfriendly to the Southern cause.
Anyway, Stang’s book sparked my interest and I soon found other books on this topic, i.e., the “forty-eighters,” Lincoln, socialism, big government, etc.
In addition to Stang, there are books /and online articles by such authors as Dr Thomas DiLorenzo, Al Benson and Kennedy, Clyde Wilson, etc.–real eye-openers!
LewRockwell.com has a listing of numerous authors who write regularly on these, and related topics, with online archives for each writer.
Karl Marx, surprisingly, had become acquainted with Horace Greeley, and in 1851 he became a writer for Greeley’s New York Tribune, and this continued for about ten years. And so the ideas of Marx himself had its foot in the USA doorway at that time.
And so, I was surprised by this information not only that such things had occurred, but that so little, apparently, was known of this. I had read before where writers had made reference to some form of socialism being practiced by both the Puritans and Pilgrims way back in the colonial days of our country, and the Indiana Connection, but, again, little attention was paid as being at all relevant to modern times Communism.
Communism, by the way, can be loosely known by many names, including Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Marxism, Leninism, etc. And many more names too, but for purposes of my little spiel here the above will do.
Read more…
China Marines!: Gunny G’s Legends and Myths…
…..And that’s the way it was….Salute! Semper Fidelis, SullyAll Marines die in either the red flash of battle or the white cold of the nursing home.
In the vigor of youth or the infirmity of age all will eventually die but the Marine Corps lives on.
Every Marine who ever lived is living still, in the Marines who claim the title today. It is that sense of belonging to something that will outlive our own mortality.
GUNNY G: CHESTY PULLER: (BUT, THE ENEMY CAME FROM WITHIN) AND WE FAILED TO HEED HIS WARNING!
GUNNY G: CHESTY PULLER: (BUT, THE ENEMY CAME FROM WITHIN) AND WE FAILED TO HEED HIS WARNING!
WAKE UP AMERICA.1984.+ IS HERE! ~ GUNNY G: HEY, REAL AMERICANS! YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU BLOGGING RIGHT NOW !!!!! Gunny G: NOW BLOG THIS !!!!!
GUNNY G: HEY, REAL AMERICANS! YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU BLOGGING RIGHT NOW !!!!!
Gunny G: NOW BLOG THIS !!!!!
NOW (Right Now!) is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of our country, while we still can!
Real Americans: Get your own blog, free and quickly, online and Blog (Vote?) Daily–the only way left for your voice to be heard at all !!!!!
Writing, phoning, and voting are all well and good…but Bloggers are what they HEAR!
You’ve heard the expression, “vote with your feet,” well, I say, VOTE WITH YOUR OWN OUTSPOKEN BLOG DAILY!
Guess why “they” are now putting so much energy into getting rid of bloggers, and even the internet itself!!!!!
IMAGINE ALL REAL AMERICANS BLOGGING!!!!!
Myself, I have used Blogger.com ~ WordPress.com ~ Netwok54.com ~ Some have many formats of forums, and also a Blog format! Call it a blog, forum, website, whatever–they all work.
DidJa Know: Many think Thomas Paine (patriot author: Common Sense, etc.) may have been the first blogger (pamphleteer)!
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