Posted on 11/13/2002 1:07:45 PM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 11/14/02 - Baghdad, Kabul, Calais, Denpasar, Washington
BREAKING: Denpasar - Amrozi, the Perp BREAKING: Kabul - University Riot BREAKING: Calais - Iraqi Logjam
Baghdad, Washington
========= Baghdad =========
In Baghdad, Iraq, the new national bird - the Predator.
This model has 50 hours non-stop flight, wing span of 48 feet, length 26 feet.
========= Kabul =========
Berkeley in Kabul?
In Kabul, at Kabul University, students violently protested.
They want more free food and electricity for their dormitories.
Their violent behavior is quite different from the women
who appear to be much more serious and must have been studying.
In Kabul, at the Chicken Street market.
=========== Kibbutz Metzer, Israel ===========
Hamas and Arafat target children, as is their way.
At Kibbutz Metzer, Israel, a handpainted family mural remains
after the murder of innocent children ages 4 and 5 in their home,
one holding a pacifier, by the side of their mother.
Their friends grieve.
========= Denpasar =========
Islamic terrorist is gleeful
In Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Amrozi confessed to the October 12 bomb blasts
and smiled. Police then named four new perps in the case, bringing the number to seven.
Amrozi uses one name, and owned the Mitsubishi minivan filled with >110 pounds of explosives.
Amrozi's older brother runs the local al Qaeda a.k.a. Jemaah Islamiyah.
========= Calais, Iraqi-occupied France =========
In Calais, France, LEO check papers near Sangatte, the Red Cross-smuggling
point to the English-speaking free World, which suddenly became too overfilled
with new arrivals from Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo.
In St Pierre St Paul church, Iraqi-occupied Calais, France,
local residents help immigrants on their way.
========= Washington =========
Last WWII Comanche Code Talker Visits Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery
By Rudi Williams
WASHINGTON, - After meeting with the defense secretary and
other top Pentagon officials on Nov. 5, Charles Chibitty, the last
surviving World War II Comanche code talker, donned his feathered
Indian chief's headdress and offered a prayer in the Pentagon Chapel
for those killed in the terrorist attack on the building.
The aging code talker then placed a wreath and offered an Indian prayer
at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery. This
marks the third time the 81-year old war veteran was honored at the
Pentagon for his service to the nation. His visits in 1992 and 1999
were also in November during National American Indian Heritage Month.
While meeting at the Pentagon with Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld, Undersecretary of the Army Les Brownlee and Raymond F. DuBois
Jr., deputy undersecretary of defense for installations and
environment, Chibitty recounted his wartime experiences when his unit
landed on the Normandy shores on "the first or second day after D-Day."
After his unit hit Utah Beach, his first radio message was sent to
another codetalker on an incoming boat. Translated into English, it
said: "Five miles to the right of the designated area and five miles
inland, the fighting is fierce and we need help."
"We were trying to let them know where we were so they wouldn't lob no
shells on us," he explained with a chuckle. "I was with the 22nd
Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division. We talked Indian and
sent messages when need be. It was quicker to use telephones and radios
to send messages because Morse code had to be decoded and the Germans
could decode them. We used telephones and radios to talk Indian then
wrote it in English and gave it to the commanding officer."
Chibitty said two Comanches were assigned to each of the 4th Infantry
Division's three regiments. They sent coded messages from the front
line to division headquarters, where other Comanches decoded the
messages.
He said 20 Comanches signed up to be code talkers, but only 17 went to
training at Fort Benning, Ga., and only 14 hit Utah Beach at Normandy.
"None of us was killed, but two were wounded pretty badly; one was my
cousin," Chibitty noted.
Brownlee asked him if he was hit and Chibitty said, "Heck, no. I was
like a prairie dog. As soon as I heard a whistle, I'd dive in that
hole. I was little then. I weighed 126 pounds and it didn't take long
for me to dig my hole. My buddy weighed 240 pounds and some of them
were more than six feet tall and they had to dig a long trench."
Speaking in the Comanche language, Chibitty gave Brownlee another
example of a message code talkers sent to other units, then translated
it for him: "A turtle is coming down the hedgerow. Get that stovepipe
and shoot him."
"A turtle was a tank and a stovepipe was a bazooka," he explained. "We
couldn't say tank or bazooka in Comanche, so we had to substitute
something else. A turtle has a hard shell, so it was a tank."
Since there was no Comanche word for machine gun it became "sewing
machine," Chibitty noted, "because of the noise the sewing machine made
when my mother was sewing." Hitler, he said, was "posah-tai-vo," or
"crazy white man."
There are no other words in his language to describe a bomber aircraft,
so they said, "Daddy and I went fishing and we cut that catfish open
and he's full of eggs. Well, that bomber was up there just like this
catfish, it's full of eggs, too, so we called it a pregnant airplane.
"We got so we could send any message, word for word, letter for
letter," Chibitty said. "The Navajos did the same thing in the Pacific
during World War II and the Choctaw used their language during World
War I. There were other code talkers from other tribes, but if they
didn't train like the Comanche and Navajos, how could they send a
message like we did? If they made a slight mistake, instead of saving
lives, it could have cost a lot of lives.
In 1989, the French government honored the Comanche code talkers,
including Chibitty , by presenting them the "Chevalier of the National
Order of Merit." Chibitty has also received a special proclamation from
the governor of Oklahoma. In 2001, Congress passed legislation
authorizing the presentation of gold medals to Native Americans who
served as code talkers during foreign conflicts.
"I felt I was doing something that the military wanted us to do and we
did to the best of our ability, not only to save lives, but to confuse
the enemy by talking in the Comanche language," he said. "We felt we
were doing something that could help win the war."
Brownlee asked him if the Comanche language is written and Chibitty
said, "There's a book, but you've got to be awfully damn smart to read
it. It's not like alphabets, you have to learn the phonetics to
pronounce the words." The aging code talker then sang Silent Night in
the Comanche language.
Chibitty said when he attended Indian school in the 1920s, teachers
became angry with him because he was speaking the Comanche language.
"When we got caught talking Indian, we got punished," he noted. "I told
my cousin that they're trying to make little white boys out of us," he
said.
After joining the Army years later, he told his cousin, "They tried to
make us quit talking Indian in school, now they want us to talk
Indian."
The retired glazier visits schools to tell the youngsters about what
code talkers did and how they did it. He said officials at Comanche
headquarters near Lawton, Okla., are trying to preserve the language by
teaching it to children.
"The service you and your buddies provided turned out to be
invaluable," Brownleee told the aging veteran. "You had this way of
speaking that nobody could translate. The way you used your language
was of such great advantage to your country."
Before returning home to Tulsa, Okla., Chibitty spent some time with
researchers at the U.S. Army Center for Military History for oral
history sessions. The Army wants to preserve the history of the
Comanche code talkers and Chibitty is the last one to tell the story
from first-hand experience.
========= Terkezi Oasis in the Sahara Desert =========
Terkezi Oasis in the Sahara Desert
END OF TRANSMISSION 11/14/02 .......... K
The Kabul students clearly don't have enough homework to keep them busy.
These people are nuts!
Gaaaakkkk! How inconsiderate and politically incorrect of him!
Thanks for the post, as always!
Sounds like Michigan State.
Hey, is the Chief a Shriner? Check out his pendant.
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