Posted on 10/29/2018 7:29:53 AM PDT by fugazi
Today's post is in honor of Maj. Jeffrey R. Calero, who died of wounds sustained during a dismounted patrol in Kajaki, Afghanistan on this day in 2007. Calero, 34, was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Queens Village, N.Y.. He was a member of Company C's Operational Detachment Alpha 2132, 1st Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and was serving on his second Afghan deployment.
1814: The wooden floating battery Demologos, the United States' first steam-powered warship, is launched at New York City.
1942: Decimated by combat losses, malnutrition, and tropical diseases, the first soldiers of the Japanese garrison begin departing Guadalcanal.
1944: Three 442d Regimental Combat Team soldiers earn the Medal of Honor near Biffontaine, France on this day. Technician 5th Grade James K. Okubo, Pvt. Barney F. Hajiro, and Pvt. George T. Sakato (click the links to read their citations).
The all-Nisei (second-generation Japanese-American citizens) 442d RCT holds the distinction of being the most decorated unit in United States Armed Forces history.
1998: (Featured image) 36 years after becoming the first American to orbit the earth, John Glenn (Col, USMC ret.) blasts off aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, becoming the oldest man in space at 77 years old. Glenn was the third member of Congress to fly in space. He was preceded by Senator
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Glenn accepted the most expensive bribe in history for his Clinton impeachment vote.
You can say that again.
Yep, Glenn bought his ride back into space by shutting down the investigation into Clinton selling the Communist Chinese the technology to get anything off the launch pad.
Now they can not only launch, but target multiple US cities, thanks John Glenn.
“Go For Broke’’. Motto of the 442nd.
It’s amazing to consider how many of these great men left internment camps and volunteered to serve and die for the country that locked their family up.
I don’t know what the best course of action as far as Japanese, German, and Italian-Americans, but I would say FDR’s internment policy wasn’t the right thing to do.
Right? They sure as hell didn’t bitch and moan about being ‘’victims’’.
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