[beaversmom]

I looked this up earlier. My ADD won't allow me to wade through all of it, so this is just a portion of the information at the link. I thought I would post in case anyone else is interested.

[CharlesOConnell]

This set up Old Gimlet Eye, Smedley Darlington Butler, tough old bastard but a Quaker who said “thee” and “thou” when talking with his Congressman Dad at home. Butler just did a decent administrative job cleaning up a disease ridden army camp in Belgium.

So in the early 30s when FDR took money off the gold standard, gold which Bubba’ s favorite Georgetown Prof Carroll Quigley said destabilized the economy sitting massively in the middle of the money-goods&services fulcrum—taking the country off the gold standard cut the wealthy’ s assets in half overnight.

There goes your government. Jock Morgan’s men working for DuPont want to retire FDR and put a Soldier in the Presidency. This is in Jules Archer’ s “The Plot to Seize the White House”. I’ll link to the full text in a later post.

The Soldier President they wanted to head their Coup was MacArthur, who would have kicked Harry S Truman down the stairs 25 years later if he’d been allowed to. But MacArthur had turned the Army on Veteran Bonus Marchers camped in a Washington DC park.

So they thought they could get Butler to be their man. But he went to HUAC and John McCormick, who was later Speaker of the House and confirmed the substance of sealed testimony. Time Magazine inadvertently confirmed it by ridiculing it.

[equaviator]

This was big news in Macomb County, MI at the time. Particularly at Selfridge Field near Mt. Clemens.

http://www.127wg.ang.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123447202

[imardmd1]

This flu hit every settled nation very hard, not just the armed forces. My grandmother died of it in February of 1919, leaving my grandfather with five children, the two youngest whom he was not able to take care of, that wound up as foster children in local homes.

If this epidemic had serious effect, it was to reinforce the not-too-distant impact of Pasteur's findings on the germ theory of disease, on greater emphasis for indoor plumbing, running water, and personal hygiene in heath education.

We are the beneficiaries of the social outcomes of defense against such infections.

Until AIDS, that is, which is bound to cause great damage to our armed forces now that perversion in barracks life has become more than acceptable, rather than giving its practitioners a BCD.

[gattaca]

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