The FReeper Foxhole Enjoys a Lazy Sunday and a look at "Cher Ami" - March 6th, 2005

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[w_over_w]

Morning Glory Folks~

If I've said it before, I'll say it again. I don't know where I would find such inspirational military stories except here in the Foxhole.

What a heroic little bird . . . sniff . . .

"Cher Ami" was a registerd Black Check Cock carrier pidgeon, one of 600 birds owned
and flown by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France during WWI.

Well I'm off to Fellowship and then some much needed yard work on a glorious sunny (finally!) day. I'll check in later . . . have another successful GOII day.

Iris~

Wonderful exchange between you and Phildragoo last night . . . if you ever stop posting here I'll flame you. ;^)

[alfa6]

I think the tail is wrong for a Jenny. I have looked at it in a slightly larger version and if I had to guess I would say it is a Vickers Vimy. It looks like it has a box kite type tail.

Good luck with the store today :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

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Ooops! I almost forgot, you're a Marine and ex-'Nam Vet. Okay, please don't ever stop posting here. Pretty please. And did I mention "please".

Whew! Did I just save my life? ;^)

[Professional Engineer]

Hi miss Feather.

[Valin]

Birthdates which occurred on March 06:
1405 Johan II King of Castille
1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti painter/sculptor/architect (David, Pièta)
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon)
1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)
1791 Anna Claypoole Peale painted miniatures
1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison father of American watchmaking
1820 Horatio Gouverneur Wright Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 Philip Henry Sheridan Albany NY, Major General (Union Army)
1835 Charles Ewing Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1885 Ring Lardner US, writer (You Know Me Al)
1893 [Walter] Furry Lewis father of the blues
1898 Jay C Flippen Little Rock AR, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay)
1900 Robert "Lefty" Grove baseball pitcher (300 game winner)
1906 Lou Costello Paterson NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello)
1923 Ed McMahon Detroit MI, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search)
1924 William H Webster US, judge/head FBI/CIA
1926 Alan Greenspan economist/Presidential advisor (Federal Reserve Board)
1927 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr Shawnee OK, USAF/astronaut (Mercury 9, Gemini 5)
1927 William J Bell Chicago IL, soap opera creator (Young & Restless)
1929 Ho Dam North Korean Secretary of State (1970-83)
1929 Thomas S Foley (Representative-Democrat-WA, 1965-94)/majority whip/Speaker of House
1937 Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
1939 Christopher Bond (Senator-R-MO)
1940 Willie Stargell outfielder/1st baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1971 National League homerun leader)
1944 Mary Wilson Detroit MI, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go)
1945 Rob Reiner Bronx NY, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me)
1946 David Jon Gilmour Cambridgeshire England, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-The Wall)
1959 Tom Arnold Ottuwa IA, comedian (Roseanne, True Lies)
1964 Cher Butler Garland TX, playmate (August, 1985)
1968 Marty Morgan Minneapolis MN, 180½ lbs greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1972 Shaquille O'Neal Newark NJ, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Olympics-gold-96)

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Deaths which occurred on March 06:
0766 Chrodegang church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50
1616 Francis Beaumont Elizabethan dramatist, dies (birth date unknown)

1836 Davy Crockett US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49

1888 Louisa May Alcott US author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55
1900 Gottlieb Daimler designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65
1917 Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73
1932 John Philip Sousa US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
1933 Anton J Cermak US mayor of Chicago, murdered
1954 Louis Zimmermann violinist, dies at 80
1964 King Paul I of Greece (1947-64), dies at 62
1965 Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker] actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75
1967 Nelson Eddy US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65
1970 William Hopper actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), dies at 55
1973 Pearl S Buck author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80
1976 "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom light-heavyweight box champion (1932-34), dies at 71
1982 Ayn Rand author-philosopher (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77
1986 Georgia O'Keeffe US painter (Flowers), dies at 98
1994 Max Schubert winemaker, dies at 89
1994 Melina Mercouri Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68
1997 Michael Manley Jamaican Prime Minister (PNP, 1972-80, 89-92), dies
1998 Adem Jasari Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1967 CARPENTER HOWARD B.---YOUNGSTOWN OH.
1968 ANSELMO WILLIAM F.---DENVER CO.
1968 COLOMBO GARY LEWIS---YAKIMA WA.
1968 LOPEZ ROBERT---SEATTLE WA.
[REMAINS IDENTIFIED 06/16/00]
1968 MITCHELL GILBERT L.---TEHACHAPI CA.
1968 NELSON RICHARD C.---DREXEL HILL PA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 07/17/84]
1968 RIOS NOEL L.---NEWARK NJ.
1968 SEWARD WILLIAM H.---ATLANTA GA.
[REMAINS IDENTIFIED 06/16/00]
1969 COLEMAN JIMMY L.---GOODWATER AL.
1969 MC DONNELL JOHN T.---FORT WORTH TX.
1970 HUMMEL JOHN F.---BARSTOW TX.
1971 MILLINER WILLIAM P.---LOUISVILLE KY.

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

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On this day...
1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
1255 Pope Alexander IV permittes Mindaugas to crown his son as king of Lithuania
1323 Treaty of Paris
1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Islands for W. Africa
1521 Magellan discovers Guam
1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1728 Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
1775 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
1799 Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine
1808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
1820 The Missouri Compromise, enacted by Congress, signed by President James Monroe.
1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy

1836 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight (Remember the Alamo)

1853 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice
1857 Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens
1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
1865 President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball
1886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington MA
1886 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, New York NY
1896 1st auto in Detroit MI, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
1902 Census Bureau forms
1918 US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1919 NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie
1921 Police in Sunbury PA issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract
1924 British Labour government cuts military budget
1930 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
1933 FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday
1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, New York NY
1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1945 Assassination attempt on Höhere, SS Police führer Rauter
(SS Brigadefuhrer Dr. Eberhardt Schongarth immediately ordered reprisals and a total of 263 people were shot. A Special Court of Justice in the Hague sentenced Rauter to death and he was executed March 25, 1949. Schongarth was tried by a British Military Court, found guilty on another war crime charge, sentenced to death and was hanged in 1946)
1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1947 XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc CA
1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
1959 11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1960 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
1962 US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1964 Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
1964 Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
1964 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Eddie Fisher)
1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1967 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted
1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
1972 Jack Nicklaus passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia
1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News" (How can I miss you when you won't go away)
1982 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166(3 OT)
1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
1985 Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1985 Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar
1985 Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated; The war is over" (or not)
1994 Vice President Al Gore and White House adviser George Stephanopoulos, appear on the Sunday TV talk shows to blame Republican sniping for much of the furor over Whitewater.(Nothing here. Move along)
1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
1998 Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Connecticut state lottery
1999 Ta Mok (72), aka "the butcher," the one-legged last senior leader of the Khmer Rouge, was arrested.
2001 Bill Mazeroski was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, along with former Negro League player Hilton Smith.
2002 It was reported that a 3-year study of heavy marijuana users showed that long-term pot smoking impaired brain function (Oh Wow man, like heavy duty)
2003 Pres. Fidel Castro was elected a sixth term.

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

Ghana : Independence Day (1957)
Guam : Magellan Day/Discovery Day (1521)
US : Stoneware Pottery Appreciation Day
US : National Pet Sitters Week
US : Aardvark Week Begins


Texas : Alamo Day


Civilized and Polite Behavior Among Citizens Month in China.

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Religious Observances
old Roman Catholic : Feast of Ss Perpetua & Felicitas, martyrs (now 3/7)
Panamá : Jesus Nazarene of Atalaya
Anglican, Roman Catholic : Ember Day

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Religious History
1629 In Germany, the Edict of Restitution ordered that all church property secularized since 1552 be restored to the Roman Catholic Church.
1735 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.'
1759 English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'There is a wonderful mystery in the manner and circumstances of that mighty working, whereby God subdues all things to himself, and leaves nothing in the heart but his pure love alone.'
1919 Death of Julia H. Johnston, 70, American Presbyterian Sunday School leader. She penned about 500 hymns during her lifetime, one of which is still sung today: "Grace Greater Than Our Sin" (a.k.a. "Marvelous Grace of our Loving Lord").
1933 Death of Amos R. Wells, 71, pioneer U.S. Christian educator. From l901 until his death, he was editor of "Peloubet's Notes for the International Sunday School Lessons."

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

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Thought for the day :
"Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

[Valin]

My WAG is a Martinsyde G.102

[Iris7]

You are most kind. Talking about the Katyn thread? A good man put that one up.

Actually, I was an enlisted US Navy swab, but, during my Viet Nam days, where I was most of the time most of the guys who had paychecks signed by the Secretary of the Navy wore Marine covers. Well, so did I. In the water then in the mud sort of existence, I guess. I was pretty rear echelon really. Pretty darn lucky, too. Several miracles, actually. So, here I am!!

[Iris7]

"Mr. Charles Whittlesey was a lawyer in New York..."

Major Whittlesey was a WALL STREET lawyer in New York City, and quite well off. Not the sort of guy you would expect to volunteer for infantry duty these days, eh?

Major Whittlesey never regained his good humor after the Lost Battalion experience. Too many of his men, good men, HIS men, lost. Killed himself in 1922, as I recall, jumped off of a passenger ship in the night. Left a note. To me, his reason is very easy to understand. He missed his dead guys.

[Professional Engineer]

1927 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr Shawnee OK, USAF/astronaut (Mercury 9, Gemini 5)

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
by Tara Gray

Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (Colonel, USAF, Ret.), was born on March 6, 1927, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to parents Leroy Gordon Cooper, Sr. (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) and Hattie Lee (Herd) Cooper. He attended primary and secondary schools in Shawnee, and Murray, Kentucky, where he graduated from high school in 1945.¹ The Army and Navy flying schools were not taking any candidates the year he graduated from high school so he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps. He left for Parris Island as soon as he graduated. World War II ended, however, before he could get into combat. He was assigned then to the Naval Academy Preparatory School and was an alternate for an appointment to Annapolis. The man who was the primary appointee made the grade so Cooper was reassigned in the Marines on guard duty in Washington, D.C. He was serving with the Presidential Honor Guard in Washington when he was released from duty along with other Marine reservists. After his discharge from the Marine Corps, he went to Hawaii to live with his parents. His father was assigned to Hickham Field at the time. He started attending the University of Hawaii, and there he met his first wife, the former Trudy B. Olson of Seattle, Washington. She was quite active in flying, the only Mercury wife to have a pilot's license. They were married on August 29, 1947, in Honolulu and lived there for two more years while he continued his studies at the University.²

Much more here.

Somehow "The Right Stuff" glossed right over the part about his wife being a pilot as well.

[w_over_w]

1836 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight (Remember the Alamo)

Remember The Alamo!
Recuerde El Alamo!

Texas Forever!

[w_over_w]

I was pretty rear echelon really. Pretty darn lucky, too. Several miracles, actually. So, here I am!!

Good! And hear you'll stay . . . kind sir.

And if I haven't said it before it merits repeating, thank you for your service to our country.

[Professional Engineer]

1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)

[snippy_about_it]

Hi Darksheare.

[Darksheare]

Hello!
Been a typical day in my world.
(Weird, but that's normal.)

[snippy_about_it]

Fokker D.II

[snippy_about_it]

This is wonderful, thanks for posting it.

[snippy_about_it]

It's me again, Trisha's Mom, with a big hello from soldierette.

It's wonderful to hear from you. Please tell soldierette we think of her and hope she is safe. I can understand the want for some pretty smelling things. I had a couple young ladies in my group on the USS Tarawa that always appreciated some scented body lotion.

Tell soldierette to take care and stay in touch, let us know if we can do anything for her and her fellow troops.

[snippy_about_it]

The Stevie Wonder song will never sound quite the same to me.

LOL. I swear I thought the same thing while reading this!

[snippy_about_it]

Stevie Wonder's song is My Cherie Amour.

Yeah, however, it is the song we thought of. LOL.

[snippy_about_it]

Hugs sw and duckie. We've been so busy we're running a little late on pings.