Quote of the Day
"These men are loved with a kind of love that exists no place but on the battlefield -- and it is never talked about. These gents go for days without sleep, give away their clothes, go without food, keep going when they are sick, perform miraculous feats when they are wounded, and take the suicidal details rather than ask someone else to do it. They are never afraid, they are never cold, they never complain, and they spend all of their time trying to think of ways to help their men -- and to save them. I don't know if they are happy -- but if it isn't selflessness I never hope to see it."
"These men are loved with a kind of love that exists no place but on the battlefield -- and it is never talked about. These gents go for days without sleep, give away their clothes, go without food, keep going when they are sick, perform miraculous feats when they are wounded, and take the suicidal details rather than ask someone else to do it. They are never afraid, they are never cold, they never complain, and they spend all of their time trying to think of ways to help their men -- and to save them. I don't know if they are happy -- but if it isn't selflessness I never hope to see it."
-- Carl Schluter, American soldier, in a letter home from Belgium, November, 1944
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Today in History
1523 - Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden.
1639 - Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land for construction of a gunpowder mill.
1816 - Following an eruption of Mt. Krakatoa, New England sees a 10" snowfall, during the "year without a summer."
1862 - The city is surrendered after the Battle of Memphis.
1918 - The first U.S. victory of WWI occurs at the Battle of Belleau Wood.
1932 - A Federal gas tax is enacted.
1936 - Aviation gasoline is produced commercially for the first time in Paulsboro, NJ.
1942 - The first nylon parachute jump occurs in Hartford, CT; Japanese forces retreat, ending the Battle of Midway; Nazis burn the village of Lidice Bohemia in order to avenge the killing of
Reinhard Heydrich.
1944 - D-Day: 150,000 troops in the Allied Expeditionary Force land in Normandy, France; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., receives the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1946 - Henry Morgan becomes the first actor to take his shirt off on TV.
1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors begins.
1971 - Air West Flight #706 collides with a Navy Phantom jet over LA, killing 50; Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to the Salyut 1 space station.
1975 - The Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam is established.
1977 - The Supreme Court rejects automatic death penalty laws.
1982 - 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon in order to drive out the PLO.
1984 - 1,200 die in the Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising in India.
1985 - The body of Nazi criminal Dr. Josef Mengele is located and exhumed; Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to the Salyut 7 space station.
Birthdays
1755 - Nathan Hale,patriot, said "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country," hanged
1756 - John Trumbull, American painter(Declaration of Independence)
1872 - Alexandra, last Russian czarina
1928 - George Deukmejian (Gov-CA)
1932 - David R. Scott, Col. USAF/astronaut (Gemini 8, Apollo 9, 15)
1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist / Nobel Prize winner
1935 - Dalai Lama Tibet, Tibetan spiritual leader
Passings
1862 - Confederate Brigadier General Turner Ashby, in battle
1967 - Edward G. Givens, Jr., astronaut, auto accident
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy (Sen-NY), assassinated
1976 - J. Paul Getty, oil magnate
Reported Missing in Action
1964
Klusman, Charles F., USN (CA); Escaped August, 1964 - alive and well as of 1998
1967
Son, Ha Van, Commando (Vietnam); Released February, 1989 - alive and well as of 1998
1968
Burgard, Paul E., USMC (OR); Pilot, killed in CH46A crash, remains recovered June, 1968
Harper, Ralph Lewis, USMC (IN); Killed in CH46A crash, body not recovered
LaPlant, Kurt Elton, USMC (KS); Killed in CH46A crash, body not recovered
Palacios, Luis Fernando, USMC (CA); Killed in CH46A crash, body not recovered
Sanchez, Jose R., USMC (NY); Killed in CH46A crash, body not recovered
1972
Fowler, James A., USAF (ND); F4D shot down
Seuell, John W., USAF (ND); F4D shot down
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