Americans fought and died for three years and nine months in WWII. We were in Korea doing the same thing for three years plus; and Viet Nam some ten years. Since then U.S.Troops deployed somewhere in the world have become so common that the only people who really are concerned are those families "with a dog in the fight" so to speak.
Americans have suffered the loss of a loved one and waited while the flag draped casket was delivered. Others have waited in vain. Much effort has been spent locating and recovering MIAs with more than a little success.
BUT! Korea left us with 36,519 dead and some 8,400 MIAs and I would like to explain some facts that most Americans have never bothered to learn. "Two-thirds of all American POWs in Korea died as a result of war crimes", according to U.S. war crimes investigation. North Koreans killed the POWs taken in battles for Hill 312, Hill 303, the Pusan Perimeter, and Daejeon, ALL of them!
The Chinese rarely executed POWs preferring mass starvation and disease during the winter of 1950-51. They withheld food to force prisoners to accept their indoctrination programs, Brain Washing, as it came to be known.
The movie "Manchurian Candidate" starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Landsbury, in 1962, was an example of the tactics of "Post hypnotic suggestion" used in Chinese prison camps.
We veterans of the "Forgotten War" have certainly NOT FORGOTTEN!...Medicineman!
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Monday, January 2, 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
LAME (RUPTURED) DUCK PRESIDENT!
It's 2017. All is quiet in the Halls of Congress. Soon the new Congress will take their seats and the wheels of government will start to move again. But the Peoples house will still contain the old tenant, Obama, until the 28th.
When Trump takes the oath of office and the seat of power that goes with it he and Obama will shake hands, wish each other well and go their separate ways. Trump will move into the White House and Obama will leave town. Or, perhaps not!
In my heart of hearts I cannot see Mr. Barack Hussain Obama going quietly. Bush went back to Texas and shut his mouth. Bill Clinton did much the same thing, but stayed in New York ( Arkansas did not want him back) and made speeches (raised money)!
Folks, do not look for this man to stay in the back ground and keep his mouth shut!....Medicineman!
When Trump takes the oath of office and the seat of power that goes with it he and Obama will shake hands, wish each other well and go their separate ways. Trump will move into the White House and Obama will leave town. Or, perhaps not!
In my heart of hearts I cannot see Mr. Barack Hussain Obama going quietly. Bush went back to Texas and shut his mouth. Bill Clinton did much the same thing, but stayed in New York ( Arkansas did not want him back) and made speeches (raised money)!
Folks, do not look for this man to stay in the back ground and keep his mouth shut!....Medicineman!
Saturday, December 17, 2016
ELECTORAL COLLEGE-THE FINAL VOTE
December 19, Monday, presidential electors will meet in their respective state capitols to cast their ballots. The Constitution does not allow them to deliberate, as some of the liberal body have demanded, no they are to cast their votes for the candidate that received the most popular votes in their states. And in states where Trump won only Republican electors will cast a vote. The same is true in those won by Clinton, only Democrat electors will vote.
The all out effort to change the status of the Electoral College has been furious and even threatening in some areas. The NEA, National Education Association, spent a six-figure sum in an all out effort to elect Hillary. That is money from dues collected from teachers who often do not support the NEA position.
Thee 538 electoral ballots will sent to Congress where during a joint session of the 115th Congress the ballots will be opened. On January 6 Speaker Paul Ryan and out-going Vice President Biden will announce that Donald J. Trump has been elected 45th President of the United States by "a majority of the whole number of electors." The final vote!..........Medicineman!
The all out effort to change the status of the Electoral College has been furious and even threatening in some areas. The NEA, National Education Association, spent a six-figure sum in an all out effort to elect Hillary. That is money from dues collected from teachers who often do not support the NEA position.
Thee 538 electoral ballots will sent to Congress where during a joint session of the 115th Congress the ballots will be opened. On January 6 Speaker Paul Ryan and out-going Vice President Biden will announce that Donald J. Trump has been elected 45th President of the United States by "a majority of the whole number of electors." The final vote!..........Medicineman!
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Germany knew the war was lost. The people, the generals and soldiers all knew the war was lost except.........Hitler!
Hitler launched the offensive on December 16 throwing everything he had into what came to be called, "The battle of the bulge". The intent was to split the American and British forces by recapturing Antwerp.
The Nazis made significant gains taking advantage of the terrible weather that prevented Allied air support from resupplying the entrenched American defenders.
The story is told in dramatic fashion in the television special "Band of Brothers", the story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The fighting, the shelling and the cold were always there to one degree or another from December 16 to January 25.
Patton and the Third Army was finally able to break the back of the German offensive and relieve those defenders of Bastogne...........Medicineman!
Hitler launched the offensive on December 16 throwing everything he had into what came to be called, "The battle of the bulge". The intent was to split the American and British forces by recapturing Antwerp.
The Nazis made significant gains taking advantage of the terrible weather that prevented Allied air support from resupplying the entrenched American defenders.
The story is told in dramatic fashion in the television special "Band of Brothers", the story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The fighting, the shelling and the cold were always there to one degree or another from December 16 to January 25.
Patton and the Third Army was finally able to break the back of the German offensive and relieve those defenders of Bastogne...........Medicineman!
Monday, December 5, 2016
A DAY OF INFAMY!
"How could this happen?", "Where is Pearl Harbor?". "How could Japan do that to us?"
Americans watched closely the war in Europe and the "Battle of Britain". They were interested in what Hitler was doing and some even watched with a quiet admiration at the man's ability to take so much territory so easily. But enter the war? NO! The "America First" movement, the WWI Vets, the German American Bund (Brown Shirts) all were declaring "Sit this one out"!
But reality has a way of sneaking up on us and "sneak" it did on December 7, 1941 when Japanese planes came with bombs and torpedoes and blazing guns. America was caught flatfooted!
Washington knew that Japan was on rampage in Asia and British and Dutch holdings in the Western Pacific. They were concerned about our bases in the Philippine Islands. We even beefed up our base on Wake Island, just in case??? But Pearl Harbor?
When the Japanese cruised all that way, undetected, in the northern Pacific and launched there bombers and fighters and torpedo planes they could not believe their good fortune. They came in from the north over Hickam and Wheeler Air Fields, shooting up the planes on the ground on their way to Pearl where our Battleships, the pride of the Navy, lay at anchor. No Torpedo nets had been put in place because the harbor was only 45 feet deep and it was thought that air dropped torpedoes would just dive into the mud on the bottom. The Japs had already thought of that and solved that problem.
What happened there will always be remembered and the 2,474 Soldiers and Sailors who died there honored. The USS Arizona remains under the Flag and a Memorial to that "Day of Infamy"!........Medicineman!
Americans watched closely the war in Europe and the "Battle of Britain". They were interested in what Hitler was doing and some even watched with a quiet admiration at the man's ability to take so much territory so easily. But enter the war? NO! The "America First" movement, the WWI Vets, the German American Bund (Brown Shirts) all were declaring "Sit this one out"!
But reality has a way of sneaking up on us and "sneak" it did on December 7, 1941 when Japanese planes came with bombs and torpedoes and blazing guns. America was caught flatfooted!
Washington knew that Japan was on rampage in Asia and British and Dutch holdings in the Western Pacific. They were concerned about our bases in the Philippine Islands. We even beefed up our base on Wake Island, just in case??? But Pearl Harbor?
When the Japanese cruised all that way, undetected, in the northern Pacific and launched there bombers and fighters and torpedo planes they could not believe their good fortune. They came in from the north over Hickam and Wheeler Air Fields, shooting up the planes on the ground on their way to Pearl where our Battleships, the pride of the Navy, lay at anchor. No Torpedo nets had been put in place because the harbor was only 45 feet deep and it was thought that air dropped torpedoes would just dive into the mud on the bottom. The Japs had already thought of that and solved that problem.
What happened there will always be remembered and the 2,474 Soldiers and Sailors who died there honored. The USS Arizona remains under the Flag and a Memorial to that "Day of Infamy"!........Medicineman!
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
BYE BYE NFL
Football, that sporting combination of pushing, tripping, clobbering, shoving, grunting and groaning. That physical mayhem resulting in bumps and bruises and bloody noses, black eyes, torn cartilage and worse. I am sure most of you can think of other words to insert here but these will suffice for now!
I mention this because I am no longer watching NFL football, nor listening to broadcasts of same. I will not read about it nor think about it. It is wiped from my memory bank.
When over-paid, under-educated, bad mannered and spoiled brats refuse to honor the flag of the country that allows them the freedom to make this kind of money and do hose thing I just mentioned. When they prefer to sit on there pampered butt when the National Anthem is rendered and thus insult the thousands of Americans that have suffered and died defending their right to act like ASSES----that makes them a non-entity in my world and I am DONE!
The leadership of the NFL could and should clean up this problem, as some team owners have already!
I will enjoy my football at the College level, and even High School where the real game is played........Medicineman!
I mention this because I am no longer watching NFL football, nor listening to broadcasts of same. I will not read about it nor think about it. It is wiped from my memory bank.
When over-paid, under-educated, bad mannered and spoiled brats refuse to honor the flag of the country that allows them the freedom to make this kind of money and do hose thing I just mentioned. When they prefer to sit on there pampered butt when the National Anthem is rendered and thus insult the thousands of Americans that have suffered and died defending their right to act like ASSES----that makes them a non-entity in my world and I am DONE!
The leadership of the NFL could and should clean up this problem, as some team owners have already!
I will enjoy my football at the College level, and even High School where the real game is played........Medicineman!
Sunday, November 6, 2016
OPERATION TORCH!
Operation Torch took place on November 7, 1942, when 850 naval craft landed American and British troops in North Africa. It was the greatest amphibious operation in history and was led by General Eisenhower. The assault began with 60,000 American troops leading the charge..
The Allied landings took place on the north and West coasts of French North Africa. Included in the attack were General Jimmy Doolittle for air and Major General George Patton for land forces. Bridgeheads were established both north and south of Casablanca, with little resistance from French forces, thus opening the second front against the Germans in North Africa.........Medicineman!
The Allied landings took place on the north and West coasts of French North Africa. Included in the attack were General Jimmy Doolittle for air and Major General George Patton for land forces. Bridgeheads were established both north and south of Casablanca, with little resistance from French forces, thus opening the second front against the Germans in North Africa.........Medicineman!
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