Archive for the ‘History’ Category

It’s the 68th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. There were 2,350 people killed and the attack drew the United States into World War II. Our WWII Veterans are quickly dying away, one way to read their stories is to go to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Project.

Al Bodenlos’ Story:

Early in the morning on December 7th at the Army-Navy YMCA, loudspeakers ordered all military personnel to report to their organizations immediately. Al dutifully caught the Schofield Shuttle. When the bus neared the shores of Pearl Harbor, all hell was breaking loose. M.P.’s stopped and stormed the shuttle and ordered everyone to get off and to take cover immediately. Al then Iearned that the harbor was under attack and the Japanese pilots were shooting anything moving. Al recalls that the planes were flying so low that you could see the faces of the pilots. They shot at but missed the shuttle by inches, bullets whizzed all around and everyone dove for safety into a nearby ditch. Al was scared and witnessed the horror of the tragedy developing in the harbor. He vividly remembers the USS Arizona blowing up and the USS Oklahoma rolling over as he helplessly watched other ships sink to the harbor floor.

The attack appeared to end, so everyone re-boarded the shuttle and proceeded to Schofield Barracs. The second wave started when Al arrived at his unit. The 804th was already deployed at all five military airfields. Al was also the Company courier, and he delivered messages from the command post by motorcycle to the airfields for two full days with no rest. He spent the rest of the war island hopping, building and repairing airfields captured from the Japanese. His faith pulled him through.

If you have a relative or friend who is a survivor of Pearl Harbor get their story added to this database for future generations and history.

PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS PROJECT

Reposted from 12/7/2008.

I had a comment posted in 2008 noting the photo album for Lt John William Finn who is the only living Pearl Harbor Medal of Honor recipient. You can read Lt. Finn’s story here.

Pearl Harbor Day, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7 1941, WWII, MOH Lt John William Finn

She’s 123 years young, October 28th, 1886 was the dedication of the Statue of Liberty presided by President Grover Cleveland.

Read about it at the NY Daily News.

Lady Liberty Birthday, Statue of Liberty

People are always blaming the politicians for being corrupt, self serving, reckless and unaccountable. Who’s fault is this anyway? Well, it’s the American people who don’t pay attention, don’t read or understand the Constitution and vote for politicians based on what that particular politician can do for THEM when they should be voting based on that politician adhering to the U.S. Constitution. Americans need to wake up, learn about the US political system from the federal level down to the local level. Don’t leave it to everybody else to do the right thing.

The History of Spending

We can only turn this country and our economy around if Americans decide that liberty and freedom are worth more than subservience to a government that thinks they know better how you should live and work your life.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free”. President Ronald Reagan

The History of Spending video.US debt

How did the attack on September 11th change you? Have you already forgotten that fateful day and it’s importance with all the sacrifices made by every day heroes? Have you forgotten the real threat of Islamic terrorists who hate your very existence?

Remember the life of Brian D. Sweeney

A resident of Barnstable, Massachusetts, Brian was a lieutenant in the Navy and a Desert Storm veteran, protecting the no-fly zones. He was a radar intercepting officer aboard F-14 Tomcat fighter planes in the VF-211 “Bounty Hunters” squadron, serving on the USS Nimitz and USS Ranger aircraft carriers. Brian graduated at the head of his class at the Naval Officers Training School in Pensacola, Fla.

He was a staff instructor at the Navy’s prestigious Fighter Weapons School in Miramar, Calif., from 1995 to 1996, and a staff member for the Tomcat Strike Fighter Weapons School in 1993. He was also squadron avionics/weapons division officer from 1991 to 1993 and squadron weapons training/tactics development officer from 1993 to 1995.

Brian worked for a variety of private-sector aeronautical companies, including Lockheed Martin Corp., Spectratek Corp. and Horizons Technology. From March 2006, he was a systems consultant for the Department of Defense and aeronautics industry at Brandes Associates in Los Angeles.

Described as “side-splittingly hilarious, athletic, stylish and intelligent”, Brian believed most in dedicating time to family and friends. (Cape Cod Online)

United Flight 175, which was hijacked by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001 crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

September 11 2001, Brian D Sweeney, United Flight 175, Project 2996, Patriot Day, Day of Remembrance, Islamic terrorists

Freedom isn’t Free!

July 4th, President Ronald Reagan, freedom is never more than one generation

See how informed you are on US History and Civics.

Independence Day Quiz

No cheating by going to a search engine. It’s only 30 questions, I scored 28 with one really stupid mistake.

Independence Day Quiz, American Civics

How easily it is to move from the American form of government to an oligarchy. All it takes is for a few good men (and women) to do nothing!

Too bad this video isn’t used in American public and private school civics and history classes today. Do they still teach civics in school today? Seems to me there are too many on the left who believe the fallacy that Nazism is a product of right of center government. It is nothing more than a product of propaganda from a propaganda dissemination during WWII to differentiate Communist Russia from Nazi Germany.

American form of government, oligarchy, republic, Nazism, facsism, communism

This flag is privately owned (Jim Gentry of South Pittsburg,TN), the owner (at his own expense) brought it out for Sgt. John M. Sullivan’s funeral on Jan. 8, 2007 in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee.

Flag Day, Grand Ol’ Flag, Jim Gentry, Sgt John M Sullivan

Obama’s claims in his Cairo speech about Muslim contributions to the world are greatly exaggerated and in fact are downright lies.

From Frank J Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University):

In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, President Barack Obama claimed: “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar University — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing.�

Obama is not much of a “student of history� if he believes this. Almost every advance he attributes to the Muslims was due to someone else.

What’s even more interesting is how any change in science has to be attributed to Allah according to the Koran.

The reason Muslims never developed fundamental physics is because the leading Muslim theologians declared the idea of fixed physical laws to be heretical. The Qur’an (verse 6:64) states: “The Jews have said, ‘God’s hand is fettered.’ Fettered are their hands, and they are cursed for what they have said. Nay, but His hands are outspread; He expends how He will.� The standard Muslim interpretation of this passage has been that there cannot be unchanging physical laws because Allah may change the laws at any moment. In 1982, the Institute for Policy Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan, criticized a chemistry textbook by saying: “There is latent poison present in the subheading Energy Causes Changes because it gives the impression that energy is the true cause rather than Allah. Similarly it is unIslamic to teach that mixing hydrogen and oxygen automatically produces water. The Islamic way is this: when atoms of hydrogen approach atoms of oxygen, then by the Will of Allah water is produced.� The implication is clear: next week, Allah may change his mind about water being a compound of hydrogen and oxygen. With this sort of worldview, how could one possibly be a scientist?

Kind of answers the question of why Muslim countries stagnate, course the totalitarian rulers subjugating their citizens may also contribute to their backwardness [snicker]

Obama, Cairo Speech, Muslim contributions, muslim science, muslim inventions

Andrew Klavan at PJTV has a great video up for graduating college students explaining about those big bad mean old Conservatives.

Why Are Conservatives So Mean?

Why Are Conservatives So Mean