Military Connection and "Talking With Heroes" Join Forces
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March 21, 2006 - Simi Valley, CA. - Military Connection is pleased to announce that its President, Debbie Gregory, will be a featured guest on the March 28, 2006 "Talking With Heroes" radio show at 5:00 p.m. PST to discuss its new web site. MilitaryConnection.com was launched January 27, 2006. This web site offers the most comprehensive online directory of information and resources for each branch of the U.S. military, including all active duty Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Reserves, National Guard and Coast Guard, as well as resources for Veterans, Retirees, Department of Defense civilian employees and their families.

"Talking With Heroes", hosted by founder Bob Calvert, is a weekly radio show with thousands of listeners. TalkingWithHeroes.com is a non-profit under the umbrella of the National Heritage Foundation. This outstanding talk radio show features guests each week that are either active military, veterans or organizations that provide support and resources to the military. The show also provides a forum for military heroes to share their knowledge and experiences in helping the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of the world.

In addition to Debbie Gregory of MilitaryConnection.com, the March 26th show will also feature former Army Ranger and entertainer Keni Thomas, Deb Saunders, President of Blue Star Moms, East Bay Chapter, and Doris Kent, whose son Jonathan was killed in Iraq in October of 2004.

Debbie Gregory stated: "We are honored to be included in the “Talking With Heroes” radio talk show. We appreciate the opportunity to get the word out to those who will benefit the most from the many resources and the vast information on our web site". When the next tour is back home, its on MilitaryConnection.com.

MilitaryConnection.com was recently featured by the Department of Defense News Agency and America Supports You. www.americasupportsyou.mil

This web site is an extremely useful tool for companies wishing to tap into this impressive talent pool of world-class candidates and offers creative online advertising opportunities to reach viable candidates. With features such as the Directory of Employers and the Virtual Job Fair of government jobs and civilian jobs for transitioning and retiring military, this site offers something for everyone from databases of benefits and useful information to free coupons and online yellow pages. Gregory added "We are very proud of our Charity Connection that enables clients to make direct donations to wonderful charities”.

Log on to www.talkingwithheroes on Sunday, March 26th at 5:00 p.m. PST and click on the Stardust Radio Network link to hear the show. If you have questions or comments, call in live at 877-213-4329.

Debbie Gregory, President
www.militaryconnection.com
800-817-3777 or 805-306-0580

Bob Calvert, Host
www.talkingwithheroes.com
719-359-5235

The full guests list on the March 26, 2006 {5pm PST} Show are:

Deb Saunders, President of the East Bay Chapter #101 Blue Star Moms, Inc., an official chapter of Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc. Deb joined this service and support group shortly after her son joined the Marine Corps. He left for boot camp the morning of September 11, and she knew that everything had changed for him that day and for our country. Since that time, she has served as president of the chapter for three years, watching it grow to 160 members, and expand and broaden it’s support programs to include not only active duty military and their families, but our injured troops, and our Gold Star Parents.

Blue Star Moms also supports our veterans and their activities and programs. Deb’s son, Joe, is now a veteran and out of active duty. But her dedication to her group of mothers and their kids has not changed. She also hosts a small group meeting at her home as well as the general meeting each month. She actively encourages moms to become involved in projects that help them deal with the stress of deployments.

Debbie Gregory, an experienced executive recruiter who spent six years working as a print advertiser for Defense Department-contracted base newspapers.is the President of MilitaryConnection.com. Debbie Gregory said she aimed the site at today's military family. "All the databases are free for their use. ... We're not really selling anything."

The site contains several useful features to support the military's unique needs with links to hospitals, schools, news, state tax boards, yellow pages, a military pay calculator and a "virtual mall," she hopes, will help military families make smoother transitions between duty stations. The site also provides options for help on resumes and advice for what to do at a job interview.

Doris Kent's son, Cpl Jonathan Santos was killed in Karabilah, Iraq on October 15, 2004 when his vehicle was attacked by a suicide bomber. She visited a traveling exhibit that had a pair of boots with her son’s name on them. A woman witnessed her visit and went home and told her friends what she saw. The next day, an independent film producer/physician found the boots at the exhibit, emailed this mother, and 11 months later released a short film titled “The Corporal’s Boots”.

Six months after this film she will release another film entitled “The Corporal’s Diary” which will be entirely made with Cpl Santos’ personal video footage and excerpts from a daily journal he kept while deployed to Haiti and then Iraq. This mother’s story and her quest to not let her son be forgotten is filled with pain and hope.

Keni Thomas is a former Army Ranger and member of the elite Task Force Ranger assault unit. Thomas fought in the Somalia battle recounted in the book and motion picture “Black Hawk Down.” He was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge. Thomas spent four more years in the Army as an assistant team leader for the 75th Ranger Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment. After he left the Army he went to work as a counselor in an outdoor therapeutic program for troubled youth.

Keni’s current project is Flags Of Our Fathers – A Soldier’s Story: A collection of songs written by Thomas that tell stories inspired by life in the military and by those who serve our nation. Special guest artists include Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Michael McDonald, Kenny Rogers, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Blackhawk and Shawn Mullins. Keni Thomas is a national spokesman for the www.herofund.com and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides college educations to the children of our special ops personnel killed in combat or training. A portion of proceeds from the single “Not Me” and the CD Flags Of Our Fathers - A Soldier’s Story will go to the Hero Fund. He has made media appearances on Hardball on MSNBC, CNN Headline News, Hannity & Colmes on FOX News, “The True Story of Blackhawk Down” on The History Channel, Frontline on PBS, with additional appearances on The Discovery Channel and NBC Dateline. His movie credits are: Sweet Home Alabama – Keni Thomas & Cornbread were the featured band in the blockbuster film. Circle On The Cross – Thomas wrote the title track. We Were Soldiers – Thomas worked as a military advisor and made his on-screen debut as a squad leader next to Mel Gibson.

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Today in History
1026 - Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy
1066 - 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1153 - Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III
1568 - Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike
1579 - Friesland joins Union of Utrecht
1593 - English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander
1630 - French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont
1657 - France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
1708 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
1794 - Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine; Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
1801 - Murder attempt on Czar Paul I
1806 - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast
1808 - Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
1832 - British Parliament passes reform bill
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes
1836 - Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale
1839 - 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 - Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1849 - Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
1857 - Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)
1858 - Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia)
1861 - London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr. Train of New York, begin operating
1862 - Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1864 - Encounter at Camden, AR
1865 - General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
1867 - Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto
1880 - Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)
1881 - Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war; Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
1889 - President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
1901 - Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
1903 - Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1910 - 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
1912 - Dixie Cup invented
1915 - Zion Mule Corp forms
1917 - 4 day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest US
1918 - Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris France, 256 killed; Lithuania proclaims independence; Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp)
1919 - Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted; Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan, Italy; Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms
1920 - Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1922 - 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington DC
1923 - Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
1925 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House
1933 - Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
1934 - US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945
1936 - Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome
1940 - All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland
1942 - 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported; Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean; US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
1943 - German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
1944 - Bomb attack against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome - 33 die; Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives
1945 - British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine; Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa; Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
1948 - John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 meter))
Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win
1950 - Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government; UN World Meteorological Organization established
1956 - Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day); Sudan becomes independent
1957 - US army sells last homing pigeons
1960 - Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 - JFK visits San Francisco
1964 - UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva
1965 - Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young); Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed
1966 - 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
1968 - Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from Washington DC
1969 - Rally for Decency (Miami)
1971 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
1972 - Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
1973 - Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US
1976 - International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratify)
1980 - Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
1981- Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions; Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1982 - Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees
1983 - US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI)
1987 - US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf; West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns
1989 - 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature; Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter
1990 - Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1991 - 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
1993 - Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns
1994 - Amy Fisher's lover, Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months & 9 days; Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for New York Governor; Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)

Birthdays
1699 - John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany
1736 - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch Governor of Ceylon (1765-83)
1761 - John W. de Winter, Dutch Vice-Admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)
1818 - Don Carlos Buell, Union Major General
1823 - Schuyler Colfax (R) 17th Vice President (1869-73)
1825 - Edward Lloyd Thomas, Confederate Brigadier General
1854 - Alfred Milner Giessen, British Governor (Cape colony)
1857 - Fannie Farmer, actress (namesake of a candy company)
1858 - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927)
1863 - Godfried C.E. van Daalen, Dutch General/Governor of Atjeh
1881 - Hermann Staudinger, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)
1883 - Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st King of Iraq/Syria
1887 - Felix Felixovitch Yussupov, Russian prince/murderer of Rasputin
1898 - Georgios Grivas Greek General/opposition leader on Cyprus
1901 - Jan H. de Groot, Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder (Free Netherlands)
1905 - Ralph Perring Lord Mayor (London)
1907 - Daniel Bovet, pharmacologist (Nobel 1957); Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician
1908 - Dominique de Menil arts patron/human rights advocate
1911 - Charles Joseph A. Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison (James Bond films)
1911 - Denis Wright, diplomat; Edward Warner, diplomat
1912 - Werner von Braun Wirsitz, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars)
1919 - Michael Lyne British air Vice-marshal
1920 - Neal Smith (Representative-IA)
1928 - 11th duke of Beaufort, English landowner/multi-millionaire; Alfred Morris, British MP
1929 - Albert H. Crews, astronaut
1931 - Norman F. Lent (Representative-NY)
1938 - Christopher Glenn, news anchor (CBS Nightwatch)
1949 - Karen English (Representative-AZ)
1953 - Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, British MP
1956 - Andrew Mitchell, British MP

Passings
1169 - Shirkuh Kurd General/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle
1237 - Jan of Brienne King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople
1369 - Pedro the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon
1555 - Julius III [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67
1653 - Johan van Galen, Dutch Admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48
1676 - Paulus Wirtz [Würtz], German/Netherlands army commander, dies at 63
1801 - Paul I, Tsar of Russia (1796-1801), strangled at 46
1862 - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81
1902 - Kálmán Tisza, premier of Hungary (1875-90), dies at 71
1907 - Constantine P. Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
1925 - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian General/minister of War, dies at 76
1944 - O.C. Wingate, British General-Major (Burma), dies in air crash
1952 - Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
1957 - L. Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77
1961 - James Edward Murray (Senator-MT 1935-61); Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24
1962 - Josephus R.H. van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Netherlands, dies at 80
1963 - Davey Moore dies seconds after being KOed in feather-weight championship
1983 - Dr. Barney Clark, 1st artificial heart recipient , dies after 112 days at 62
1985 - Patricia Roberts Harris (Representative-D), dies at 60
1991 - Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican Presidential candidate, assassinated at 44

Reported Missing in Action
1961
The following US Army personnel reported MIA when their C47 was shot down:
Bailey, Lawrence Robert (NM); passenger, released August, 1962 - alive as of 1998

Bankowski, Alfons A. (CT); flight engineer, KIA - remains ID'd November, 1991

Garside, Frederick T. (MA); assistant flight engineer, KIA, remains ID'd November, 1991

Magee, Ralph Wayne (LA); pilot, KIA - remains ID'd November, 1991

Matteson, Glenn (TX); navigator, KIA, body not recovered

Sampson, Leslie V. (MT); radio operator, KIA - remains ID'd November, 1991

Weitkamp, Edgar Wilken (PA); passenger, KIA, body not recovered

Weston, Oscar B., Jr. (VA); co-pilot, KIA, body not recovered

1966
Clark, Donald E., Jr., USAF (VI); F100F shot down, remains returned by SRV September, 1977

Dawson, Clyde Duane USAF (WI); F100F shot down, remains returned by SRV Septeber, 1977

Hewitt, Samuel Eugene, USMC (IN); disappeared near perimeter wire, presumed Killed

Tapp, John B., USN (KY); A4C disappeared en route to ship, presumed Killed

1968
Franks, Ian J., US Army (NY); OV1C crashed in water, presumed Killed

1969
Davis, Robert C., USAF (NJ); A26A shot down (w/Widdis), remains returned 1994 - 1995

Widdis, James W., USAF (NJ); A26A shot down (w/Davis), remains returned 1994-1995 - ID'd October, 1996

1972
Jackson, James T., USAF (FL); F4D crashed (bombardier/navigator, w/Whitt), Killed, body not recovered

Pike, Dennis S., USN (AZ); A7E disappeared on mission

Whitt, James E., USAF (IL); F4D crashed (pilot, w/Jackson), Killed, body not recovered

1975
Martin, Earl; released from Saigon July, 1975