The FReeper Foxhole Profiles the Korean War Veterans Memorial - May 28th, 2005

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Korean War Veterans Memorial



THE KOREAN WAR



The Korean War has often been referred to as the "forgotten war" because it came on the heels of World War II and was overshadowed by the Vietnam War. Korea like Vietnam, was part of the Cold War to stop the advancement of Communism in Southeast Asia. When the Communist troops of North Korea invaded the democratic Republic of South Korea, the United States became involved through a promise of support given to the president of South Korea. It was feared that this tiny peninsula would be the setting for the eruption of World War Three. When the United Nations joined forces with the United States and the Republic of South Korea to stop the invasion, this fear was justified. North Korea not only had the support of the Soviet Union government, but also the military support of China. The stage was set for a bloody three years.

In 1945 the United Nations established the 38th parallel as the boundary dividing North and South Korea. It was the 38th that the North Koreans crossed to invade and unite South Korea under a Communist government. The United States entered the conflict under an assumption that this would be like a police action to drive the North Koreans back across the 38th. The two armies criss-crossed the dividing line several times. When the Chinese feared that their own borders were threatened, they became involved on the side of the North Koreans. The conflict then escalated further into war.

Because the Korean War only lasted three years (1950 - 1953) it is not thought of as significant, and often not even mentioned. However, if one compares the statistics of the Korean War (54,246) to those of Vietnam (58,226) which lasted over sixteen years, by ratio the Korean War was far bloodier than Vietnam.

From 1950 to 1953, the United States joined with United Nations forces in Korea to take a stand against what was deemed a threat to democratic nations worldwide. At war's end, a million and a half American veterans returned to a peacetime world of families, homes, and jobs - and to a country long reluctant to view the Korean War as something to memorialize. But to the men and women who served, the Korean War could never be a forgotten war. The passing of more than four decades has brought a new perspective to the war and its aftermath. The time has come, in the eyes of the Nation, to set aside a place of remembrance for the people who served in this hard-fought war half a world away. The Korean War Veterans Memorial honors those Americans who answered the call, those who worked and fought under the trying of circumstances, and those who gave their lives for the cause of freedom.

THE MEMORIAL



General Douglas MacArthur said, "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." When the last veteran of the Korean War fades into history, he can do so knowing that a memorial will remind future generations of his/her sacrifices in defense of South Korea. The statues depicting fighting men on patrol represent the army, navy, Marine Corps, and air force working together for a common goal - victory. A granite mural of over two thousand sandblasted photographs honors the supporting services who provided supply, medical, spiritual, and fire support to the frontline units. The United Nations Wall on the opposite side lists the countries that provided troops, medical support, or supplies to help South Korea. These were: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Republic of Korea, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. All these elements point toward the Pool of Remembrance where the sacrifice of 54,246 American lives can be contemplated. It is here where an inscription summarizes the true meaning of the memorial: "OUR NATION HONORS HER SONS AND DAUGHTERS WHO ANSWERED THE CALL TO DEFEND A COUNTRY THEY NEVER KNEW AND A PEOPLE THEY NEVER MET."

The Korean War Veterans Memorial is located near the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. It was dedicated on July 27, 1995. The Memorial commemorates the sacrifices of the 5.8 million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed Services during the three-year period of the Korean War. The war was one of the most hard fought in our history. During its relatively short duration from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, 54,246 Americans died in support of their country. Of these, 8,200 are listed as missing in action or lost or buried at sea. In addition 103,284 were wounded during the conflict. As an integral part of the Memorial, the Korean War Honor Roll was established, honoring those U.S. military personnel who died world-wide during the war.

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FACES OF WAR



Statues

The nineteen stainless steel statues were sculpted by Frank Gaylord of Barre, VT and cast by Tallix Foundries of Beacon, NY. They are approximately seven feet tall and represent an ethnic cross section of America. The advance party has 14 Army, 3 Marine, 1 Navy and 1 Air Force members. The statues stand in patches of Juniper bushes and are separated by polished granite strips, which give a semblance of order and symbolize the rice paddies of Korea. The troops wear ponchos covering their weapons and equipment. The ponchos seem to blow in the cold winds of Korea. The statues are identified here.

As you approach the memorial, the first things you see are the nineteen soldiers on patrol heading up hill. The use of Juniper bushes in the field is to show the rugged terrain they met. Veterans who visit the memorial view the granite slabs, located in front of each soldier, as obstacles that American soldiers had to overcome. A low granite slab does not do justice to the many obstacles that they had to overcome. The ponchos that each is wearing can only give you a hint as to the miserable weather they faced. The soldiers at the front of the patrol represent the first soldiers sent to the Korean peninsula. Many of the first soldiers were ill equipped and ill trained yet they persevered. American soldiers faced foul weather, rugged terrain, poor equipment, not to mention 54 divisions of communist Chinese soldiers but in the end they were able to overcome all these obstacles.



The soldiers represent a unit on patrol. There is much to see in the field, most of which is not readily apparent to the average visitor. The original design of the memorial was to have 38 statues to represent the 38th parallel. Most of the fighting occurred along this line but due to space limitations the number of statues had to be cut in half.



The highly polished surface of the wall of faces reflects all nineteen soldiers producing a total thirty-eight figures. It is not just the Army represented in the field. All four branches of the United States Military have representatives.

If you look in to the faces of the soldiers you will notice that they represent all different races. Even though the United States had a very segregated society, the armed forces had begun to integrate units. Visitors to the memorial are so awe struck by the soldiers, that before they know it they have missed the other parts of the memorial. Along the north side of the memorial is a low stone wall, on which are engraved the 22 countries that made up the United Nations forces in Korea. Not all the nations participated militarily. Several contributed much needed medical supplies and personnel. These 22 nations felt strongly that their freedom was also being threatened, and was willing to help in whatever way they could.



Along the south side of the memorial is the wall of faces. When the wall is viewed from a distance, the faces form the outline of the rugged hills that are a dominant part of the Korean landscape. The images depicted on the wall were taken from actual photographs of soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen who participated in the conflict. The faces along the wall represent the support troops it took to keep our foot soldier in the field. We do not often think about those who are behind the front lines. It is somewhat ironic that one of the best-known TV shows about war, MASH, takes place in Korea and is about doctors and nurses in the Korean War.

Mural Wall

The Mural Wall was designed by Louis Nelson of New York, NY and fabricated by Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, MN. The muralist, sculptor and architect worked closely to create a two-dimensional work of art adjacent to the three-dimensional statues. The wall consists of 41 panels extending 164 feet. Over 2,400 photographs of the Korean War were obtained from the National Archives. They were enhanced by computer to give a uniform lighting effect and the desired size. The mural, representing those forces supporting the foot soldier, depicts Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard personnel and their equipment. The etchings are arranged to give a wavy appearance in harmony with the layout of the statues. The reflective quality of the Academy Black Granite creates the image of a total of 38 statues, symbolic of the 38th Parallel and the 38 months of the war. When viewed from afar, it also creates the appearance of the mountain ranges of Korea. It is organized by service as shown here.

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Today's Educational Sources and suggestions for further reading:

www.abmc.gov/kr.htm
www.nps.gov/kwvm/war/korea.htm

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FREEDOM IS NOT FREE



The greatest achievement of the United States in its over 200 years of history is that its people have remained free. The American flag has become recognized as the symbol of freedom around the world. It's why so many people around the world strive to come here. It's also why so many countries hate us. Our freedom comes with a price and from time to time we will have to fight to defend the highest principle known to humanity, freedom.

Where the two walls come together there is an inscription inlaid with silver that says, "Freedom Is Not Free." Which means there is a cost to the freedom that so many of us take for granted.



The price the free world paid to insure that freedom, is engraved on the other wall. The total casualties of both the United States and the United Nations' forces are engraved there, and the numbers are staggering to many visitors. The Pool of Remembrance is the most misunderstood part of the memorial. It was meant to be a place where visitors can sit in the shade of the trees and reflect upon what occurred nearly fifty years ago. Unfortunately, the pool is viewed as some kind of wishing well where coins are left behind. In actuality the stilled water of the pool is the part of the memorial that is for those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedoms.

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Working up to Monday's Memorial Day thread we are skipping the Saturday Symposium and combining it with our Lazy Sunday. Tomorrow be forwarned...a day of education. :-)

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On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on May 28:
1371 John the Fearless Burgundy France, Duke of Burgundy/warrior
1577 Floris II van Pallandt Dutch earl of Culemborg/politician
1660 George I king of England (1714-27)
1738 Dr Joseph Ignace Guillotin France, physician/inventor (guillotine)
1759 William Pitt the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
1798 Josef Dessauer composer
1807 Louis Agassiz Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher (namesake of magnificent lake Agassiz)
1818 Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard St-Bernard LA, US Confederate General (Hero of Sumter)
1819 William Birney Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
1828 Alpheus Baker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1830 George Lucas Hartsuff Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1831 Eliza Ann Gardner underground railway conductor
1838 Basil Wilson Duke Kentucky, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1916
1874 G K Chesterton writer
1879 Milutin Milankovic Yugoslavian astronomer/meteorologist
1884 Edvard Benes premier/President of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48)
1888 Jim [James Francis] Thorpe Shawnee OK, decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912)
1889 Jose Padilla composer
1906 Phil Regan singer (My Wild Irish Rose)
1908 Ian Lancaster Fleming London England, author (James Bond)
1910 T-Bone Walker Linden TX, blues guitarist ("Stormy Monday Blues, T-Bone Shuffle)
1917 Barry Commoner Brooklyn NY, biologist/politician(Green party) (Science & Survival)
1917 Papa John Creech rocker (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
1925 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust)
1931 Carroll Baker Johnstown PA, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow)

1934 Dionne Quintuplets (Annette Cécile, Émilie, Marie, Yvonne), Ontario Canada, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were treated as a side show and lived in a virtual museum

1938 Jerry West Cabin Creek WV, NBA superstar (Los Angeles Lakers, Olympics-gold-1960)
1944 Gladys Knight Atlanta GA, singer, leader of the Pips (Last train)
1944 Rudy Giuliani (Mayor-R/L-NYC, 1994-2001)
1945 John Fogerty Berkeley CA, rock vocals (Creedence Clearwater Revival
1956 Germaine Montenesdro 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1962 Brandon Cruz actor (Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1975 Caresa Winters Miss South Dakota USA (1996)

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Deaths which occurred on May 28:
1089 Lanfrance Archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1259 Christoffel I King of Denmark, dies
1357 Afonso IV King of Portugal (1325-57), dies at 66
1843 Noah Webster lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84
1849 Anne Bronté novelist, dies
1863 Edmund Kirby Jr Union-Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 23
1864 Henry H Giesy US Union-Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1971 Audie Murphy HERO/actor (To Hell And Back, Whispering Smiths), dies at 46
1972 Duke of Windsor who abdicated the throne, dies in Paris at 77
1981 Stefan Wyszynski Polish Cardinal, dies
1990 Hussein Bin Onn 1st minister of Malasia (1976-81), dies
1998 Philip [Edward] Hartman actor/comedian (NewsRadio, Saturday Night Live), shot to death while asleep in his bed by his wife at 49
2002 Mildred Wirt Benson (96), creator of the "Nancy Drew" children's mystery stories, dies

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GWOT Casualties

Iraq
28-May-2003 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant Kenneth R. Bradley Ba’qubah Non-hostile - illness
US Specialist Jose A. Perez III Taji Hostile - hostile fire - ambush

28-May-2004 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Michael J. Wiesemann FOB Quyarrah AB [Ninawa Prov.] Non-hostile - unspecified cause


Afghanistan
A Good Day

http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White

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On this day...
0585 BC Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends
0640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
1037 German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis"
1156 Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily defeats Byzantine fleet
1349 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia
1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V
1533 England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage
1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
1664 1st Baptist Church is organized (Boston)
1674 German Parliament declares war on France
1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1754 George Washington defeats French & Indians at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
1774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
1818 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched
1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie
1845 Fire in Québec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention
1863 1st black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
1871 Paris communards revolt put down
1892 Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Fransisco, for conservation of nature
1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
1900 Solar eclipse occurs
1907 1st Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy
1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
1926 US Customs Court created by congress
1928 Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
1929 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England
1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid
1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
1940 British-French troops capture Narvik Norway
1941 1st night game at Washington DC, Griffith Stadium (Yankees 6, Senators 5)
1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st homerun (also his 1st major league hit)
1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
1955 Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500 with an average speed of 128.213 mph
1956 Dale Long becomes 1st to hit homeruns in 8 straight games
1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1957 National League approves Brooklyn Dodgers' & New York Giants' move to west coast
1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
1961 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
1961 Record 27 homeruns hit in 7 American League games
1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; estimated 22,000 die & 1 million houses destroyed
1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya
1964 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th String quartet
1964 Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli

1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem

1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
1968 American League announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
1968 National League grants San Diego Padres a franchise
1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Oregon
1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate
1974 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win
1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500 (average speed of 161.363 mph), 3 times
1982 Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain
1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating of STS 51-G
1987 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci (Cat...C.A.T I r gots muchly edumakashuns)
1987 Mathias Rust, 19, West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1989 Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Indianapolis 500 with an average speed of 167.581 mph
1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)
1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
1993 Polish Government of Suchocka falls
1994 Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)
1994 PLO officials announced that Yasser Arafat had named himself interior minister of the autonomous zones as part of an interim government; 14 other prominent Palestinians, mostly Arafat allies, were appointed to other positions.(it's good to be king)
1995 A 7.5 earthquake devastated the Russian town of Neftegorsk, killing at least two-thousand people
1996 US jury convicts the former business partners of Pres. Clinton in the Whitewater Case. James and Susan McDougal, and Jim Guy Tucker, governor of Arkansas. Tucker was charged with creating a sham bankruptcy to avoid paying taxes on profits from a sold cable TV company in which he was a partner.
1997 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time
2001 President Bush honored America's veterans with the Memorial Day signing of legislation to construct a World War II monument on the National Mall.
2003 Pres. Bush signed a tax cut into law. It was the 3rd cut in 3 years and included a cut in the rates on capital gains and dividends, breaks for small businesses and funds for state governments. It was valued at $350 billion over 10 years.
2004 International Clown Hall of Fame in downtown Milwaukee posthumously inducted the late Vance "Pinto" Colvig as the first Bozo.

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

Puerto Rico : Memorial Day
US : Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868] (Monday)
Virginia : Confederate Memorial Day (1868) (Monday)
Athlete of the Century Day
National Reverse Your Work Schedule Month

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Religious Observances
old Roman Catholic : Feast of St Augustine, 1st achbp of Canterbury, confessor
Christ : Commemoration of St Bernard of Montjoux, patron of mountain climbers
Anglican, Roman Catholic : Ember Day
Feast of St. Germanus, Bishop of Paris.
Buddhist : Feast of the Dead.

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Religious History
1725 English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'I can't think that when God sent us into the world He had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it.'
1818 Former president Thomas Jefferson set forth in a letter to a Jewish journalist his opinion of religious intolerance: 'Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.'
1898 In Italy, the Shroud of Turin was first photographed by Secundo Pia in Turin's Cathedral, where it had rested for 320 years.
1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill which added the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1958 The Presbyterian Church in the U.S. merged with the Presbyterian Church of North America to form the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA).

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

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Strange Days
Teen in Coma after Watching Paris' Burger Flick 212 Times

A teen-age who boy fell into a coma and was hospitalized after watching Paris Hilton's lascivious hamburger commercial 200 times non-stop regained consciousness today.

Moments after awakening, Dennis Stringfellow, 17, whispered to his mother, "I need a hamburger real bad."

Overjoyed at her son's recovery, Alice Stringfellow rushed to the cafeteria at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center to obtain one of the cafeteria's enormous -- and notorious -- Heart Buster burgers.

Stringfellow apparently fell into the coma after watching the 60-second Paris Hilton hamburger commercial non-stop on the Internet for more than three hours in his bedroom at the family home in the tony Philadelphia suburb of Paoli. His mother found him slumped over his computer keyboard and summoned paramedics.

The teenager was revived by Dr. David Schneiderman, a Philadelphia neurologist who specializes in treating mass media saturation syndrome, an illness Schneiderman discovered and described in his best-selling book Wake Them Up Before It's Too Late.

As part of his efforts to revive Stringfellow, Schneiderman sent a forensic team into the teen's bedroom. They found an image of Hilton's burger commercial on the computer screen.

Examination of the computer's hard drive revealed that Stringfellow had watched the 60-second commercial 212 times over a period of three hours and forty minutes. That meant the teen paused an average of 2.26 seconds before watching the commercial again.

"There's no question that such frenetic viewing of a video clip that is very nearly pornographic, if not, in fact, pornographic, is what pushed this young man over the edge," Schneiderman said after reviving Stringfellow.

Part of Schneiderman's trademark treatment of mass media saturation syndrome cases is that after studying the patient and the stimuli that induced the coma, the neurologist then repeatedly whispers a phrase in the comatose patient's ear. That stimulus leads to the patient's emergence from the coma.

In prior cases of MMSS, Schneiderman has shared the phrase with the media, sometimes with great fanfare. He declined to do so in the Stringfellow case.

"Let's just say it was a somewhat scatalogical phrase that would be therapeutic for a 17-year-old male, but which might be misunderstood by the public," Schneiderman said.

Asked if the phrase might contain the C-word or the F-word, Schneiderman said, "I'm not going to play guessing games. Whatever the phrase was, it worked."

The Paris Hilton video, which has now been downloaded from the Internet an estimated 10 billion times, shows the woman wearing a provocative bathing suit and washing a car. At the end of the 60-second film, she eats a giant hamburger sold by the Carl's Jr. fast-food chain. Guardians of public morality have roundly denounced Hilton and her car washing antics, the bathing suit, the soap suds, and the hamburger.

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Thought for the day :
"If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?"

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Snippy.

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Forget-me-not-o-gram, very appropriate for this Memorial weekend. Thanks PE.

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Wonderful flag-o-gram graphic.

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I have nothing but respect for Korean War veterans. They fought a difficult fight under BRUTAL conditions. The Marines who walked out of Chosin....the Army troops who held Pusan....the Air Force crews who flew innumerable sorties against targets in North Korea.....the Navy personnel who provided gunfire support or flew early jet aircraft from axial deck carriers....ALL were outstanding folks. I thank God for them every time I meet one, and just am honored to have served in the same Air Force that the men who dueled over "MiG Alley" served in. To my mind, Korea isn't "the forgotten war," it's one of the proudest moments in American military history!

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Good morning EGC. ((Hugs))

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Good morning feather.

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1843 Noah Webster lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84

When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He did this because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently. He thought that all Americans should speak the same way. He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English.

Noah used American spellings like "color" instead of the English "colour" and "music" instead " of "musick". He also added American words that weren't in English dictionaries like "skunk" and "squash". It took him over 27 years to write his book. When finished in 1828, at the age of 70, Noah's dictionary had 70,000 words in it.

Noah did many things in his life. He worked for copyright laws, wrote textbooks, Americanized the English language, and edited magazines. When Noah Webster died in 1843 he was considered an American hero.

Quotes:

"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, "just men who will rule in the fear of God." The preservation of [our] government depends on the faithful discharge of this Duty; if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded. If [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine Commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the Laws." -History of United States by Noah Webster.

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Good morning Aeronaut.

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Well said. Aim High and thank you for your service.