Posted on 04/05/2005 9:25:25 PM PDT by SAMWolf
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on April 06:
1483 Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio] Urbino Italy, painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina)
1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)/Mrs Robert Browning
1810 Philip Gosse intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
1828 Charles William Field Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1830 James Augustine Healy Macon GA, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop
1833 Johan H C Kern Dutch linguist (Sanskrit, Old Javan)
1866 Joseph Lincoln Steffens muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
1866 Butch Cassidy [Robert Parker] US desperado (Wild Bunch)
1884 Walter Huston Toronto Ontario Canada, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre)
1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker Holland, aircraft pioneer (Spider)
1892 Lowell Thomas Woodington OH, newscaster (High Adventure)
1892 Donald Wills Douglas US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas)
1903 Mickey Cochrane baseball hall of fame catcher (.320 average)
1914 George Reeves Ashland KY, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)
1917 Walter "Shakey" Horton Mississippi, harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin')
1922 Barry Levinson Baltimore MD, director (Homicide:Life on the Street, Avalon, Rain Man, Diner)
1926 Ian Paisley North Ireland, clergyman/MP
1927 Gerry Mulligan British saxophonist/orchestra leader (Jazz on a Summer Day)
1928 James Dewey Watson chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA)
1929 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster..I mean businessman
1929 André Previn Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/composer/pianist
1931 Ivan Dixon New York NY, actor (Car Wash, Hogan's Heroes)
1937 Merle Haggard Bakersfield CA, country singer (Death Valley Days)
1938 Roy Thinnes Chicago IL, actor (Invaders, Falcon Crest, General Hospital)
1942 Phil Austin comedian (Firesign Theater)
1944 [Holly] Michelle [Gilliam] Phillips Long Beach CA, singer (Mama & Papas)/actress (Knots Landing)
1945 Bob Marley reggae musician/singer (Whalers-No Woman)
1957 Maurizio Damilano Italian speed walker (30K World Record)
1967 John Ratzenberger Bridgeport CT, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers)
1971 Vivian Y Herding Albuquerque NM, Miss New Mexico-America (1996)
1972 Jason Hervey actor (Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years)
consider yourself pinged.
Thanks AZ.
Good morning Iris7. Thanks for pinging Ronnie.
Thanks for the links Ronnie.
Never Forget
I had to go get my glasses to find the flag. ;-)
Good morning all!
Very cool flag-o-gram PE!
Baylor Lady Bears Win National Championship!!!
Top of the world The pain is over, baby. Let the party begin. Baylor "finished the job" in convincing fashion Tuesday night, capping an unbelievable season of firsts with an 84-62 blowout of Michigan State and their first national championship before a crowd of 28,937 at the RCA Dome.
okay... i feel like i've celebrated now. :-)
Good Morning, Foxhole
ooh, that's good!
Hehe, my cousin, Alicia, went to Baylor. This is the Anderson side.. ya know, the part that is related to the whole town of Hubbard.
mornin
hmmmm.... my former mother-in-law was related to lots of Hubbard and Teague. Tryin' to remember her maiden name - it'll come to me in about 5 minutes cause I gotta leave the house right now! LOL
Paying tribute to Rick Rescorla
Michelle Malkin
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20020227.shtml
If politicians can find it in their hearts to give away government aid to illegal alien relatives of the victims of Sept. 11, isn't it time to reward a naturalized American hero who sacrificed his life to save hundreds, if not thousands, of lives on that day?
Rick Rescorla was born in England and came to the United States to enlist in the Army in 1963. He was a key figure in the groundbreaking Vietnam War book "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young," which was turned into a movie starring Mel Gibson that debuts nationwide next weekend. A photo of Rescorla, haggard but fierce with his bayonet fixed, graces the cover of the true-life military thriller co-authored by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and former UPI reporter Joe Galloway.
Lt. Rescorla's bravery and good humor were infectious. In the midst of battle, the fierce anti-Communist sang old Cornish tunes to boost morale. The men of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry nicknamed him "Hard Core" for his daring exploits. But beneath this platoon leader's steel exterior lay soulful introspection. Rescorla, who later became a military instructor, construction firm owner, writer, lawyer and professor, shared with Moore and Galloway his recollections after the infamous battle at Landing Zone X-Ray in Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley:
"We were flown away, but the stench of the dead would stay with me for years after the battle. Below us the pockmarked earth was dotted with enemy dead. Most of the platoon were smiling. Suddenly a grenadier next to me threw up on my lap. I understood how he felt. He was, like many, a man who had fought bravely even though he had no stomach for bloodletting."
Rescorla earned a Silver Star, a Purple Heart and Bronze Stars for Valor and Meritorious Service. He became a U.S. citizen in 1967, got married, had children, divorced, remarried and found midlife success on Wall Street as vice president of security at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. His office was on the 44th floor of the south tower. Rescorla brought military precision, preparation and intensity to the job. He drilled employees regularly and gave prescient warnings to Port Authority officials that the Twin Towers were extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack. His advice was ignored. During the 1993 World Trade Center garage bombing, Rescorla ensured that every one of his firm's employees was safely evacuated. He was the last man out of the building.
Again, he offered his expertise and advice to the Port Authority. Again, it was ignored. And again, on Sept. 11, Rescorla found himself leading a massive evacuation of Morgan Stanley's 2,700-person workforce -- which occupied floors 44 through 74 of the south tower. As soon as the first plane hit the north tower, Rescorla sprung into action. He ignored the admonition of Port Authority security officials to stay put. A co-worker shot a now-famous photograph of Rescorla commanding his troops with a bullhorn. Employees marched two-by-two down the stairwells. Rescorla sang patriotic songs to keep them calm. "Today is a proud day to be an American," he is said to have told co-workers.
Most of Morgan Stanley's employees were safely out of the building by the time the second plane hit the south tower. All but six of Morgan Stanley's workers survived. Rescorla was one of the lost six. He was last seen walking back up the stairs, in search of stragglers.
Rescorla's bravery has been recounted in worldwide media outlets, from the Washington Post to The New Yorker magazine to the BBC. A movie based on his life is now being planned. And hundreds of veterans have signed an online petition urging President Bush to posthumously award Rescorla the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
It's exactly the kind of thing Rescorla would not have wanted. He shunned public praise for his past heroism, kept his war photos and medals in a closet, and told his wife he didn't want to see the Mel Gibson movie based on "We Were Soldiers" when it came out. Rescorla was a man who didn't need to be reminded of the high price of freedom.
We do.
Hi miss Feather
WHUT? I fergit me heering ade today.
All the leaves are brown... 
SingenSpankenTruppen
NASA EXPERIENCE: Captain Evans was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crews for the Apollo 7 and Apollo 11 flights and as backup command module pilot for Apollo 14.
On his first journey into space, Captain Evans occupied the command module pilot seat for Apollo 17 which commenced at 11:33 p.m. (CST), December 6, 1972, and concluded on December 19, 1972-the last scheduled manned mission to the moon for the United States. He was accompanied on this voyage of the command module "America" and the lunar module "Challenger" by Eugene Cernan, spacecraft commander, and Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt (lunar module pilot). While Cernan and Schmitt completed their explorations of the Taurus-Littrow landing area down on the lunar surface, Evans maintained a solo vigil in lunar orbit aboard the "America", completing assigned work tasks which required visual geological observations, hand-held photography of specific targets, and the control of cameras and other highly sophisticated scientific equipment carried in the command module SIM-bay. Evans later completed a 1-hour, 6-minute extravehicular activity during the transearth coast phase of the return flight, successfully retrieving three camera cassettes and completing a personal inspection of the equipment bay area. This last mission to the moon for the United States broke several records set by previous flights which include: longest manned lunar landing flight, 3 01 hours, 51 minutes; longest lunar surface extravehicular activities, 22 hours, 4 minutes; largest lunar sample return, an estimated 115 kg, 249 lbs.; and longest time in lunar orbit, 147 hours, 48 minutes. Apollo 17 ended with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean approximately 0.4 mile from the target point and 4.3 miles from the prime recovery ship, the USS TICONDEROGA.
Completing his first space flight, Captain Evans logged 301 hours, 51 minutes in space-1 hour, 6 minutes of which were spent in extravehicular activity. He holds the record of more time in lunar orbit than anyone else in the world.
Evans was backup command module pilot for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission. This joint United States-Soviet Union earth-orbital mission, launched successfully in July 1975, was designed to test equipment and techniques that would establish an international crew rescue capability in space, as well as permit future cooperative scientific missions.
Evans retired from the United States Navy on April 30, 1976, with 21 years of service, and remained active as a NASA astronaut involved in the development of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. He served as a member of the operations and training group, within the astronaut office, responsible for launch and ascent phases of the Shuttle flight program.
Evans retired from NASA in March 1977 to become a coal industry executive.
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