Staff Sgt. Kenworthy, from the 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, scales a cliff beside the Euphrates River near Rawah, Iraq, searching for hidden weapons. Photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis.

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In your travels today, be sure to visit:

ROFASix for NOTR's take on recently released US Army guidelines on Soldiers' photos, and the skinny on a little Al-Jazeera you might want to watch

The Gunn Nutt for pictures of the DC Freepers levelling the playing field at Walter Reed.

BULK FUEL — U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kraig J. Geising, a bulk fueler with Marine Service Support Group-26, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), fuels several types of military vehicles from Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 26th MEU (SOC), Aug. 15, 2005, at Al Qatranah Range, Jordan. The Marines are conducting several types of bi-lateral training with the Jordanian Army. U. S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Eric R. Martin

1938 - Northwestern University awards an honorary degree to ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.
1963 - The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge opens (connects Seattle and Bellevue0; Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
1968 - In Chicago, police and anti-war demonstrators clash at the Democratic National Convention.
1974 - Soyuz-15 returns to Earth.
1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan; the National Centers for Disease Control report a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men (precursor to the A.I.D.S. discovery)
1983 - Israeli P.M. Menachem Begin announces his resignation.
1986 - U.S. Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years for spying.
1988 - Three Italian AF fighter jets collide and crash at an airshow in Germany, killing 70.
1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province.

Birthdays
1592 - George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, royal minister to King James I of England
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, first American Catholic saint
1831 - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, First Lady to Rutherford B. Hayes
1878 - George Hoyt Whipple, astrophysicist, Nobel Prize winner (1934)
1906 - Sir John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt. Zion)
1939 - Cassie Mackin, newswoman (NBC TV)
1940 - William Cohen (Sen-ME)
1960 - Leroy Chiao, astronaut
1968 - Scarlet Annette Morgan, Miss NC-America (1991)

Passings
1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader / founder of Chicago
1955 - Emmett Till, kidnapped and lynched at 14 in Money, Mississippi
1961 - Thomas Connolly, first baseball umpire elected to the Hall of Fame
1964 - Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns / comedian (Burns & Allen)
1985 - Ruth Gordon, actress

Reported Missing in Action
1962
Simpson, Robert Lewis, USAF (Panama); T22B shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1965
Schierman, Wesley D., USAF (WA); F105D shot down, released by DRV (injured) - retired as a Major - alive and well as of 1998

1966
Babula, Robert L., USMC (PA); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site

Bodenschatz, John E., USMC (CA); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site

Borton, Robert C., Jr., USMC (MI); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site, remains ID'd March, 1995 (family rejects ID)

Carter, Dennis R., USMC (CA); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site

1967
Degnan, Jerry L., Civilian
Wallace, Charles Franklin, USMC (MS); A4E shot down

1968
Miller, Robert Charles, USAF (CA); T28 shot down (pilot), KIA, body not recovered

Phillips, Elbert Austin, USAF (AL); T28 shot down (non-aircrew); KIA, body not recovered