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  • Celebrate Life – Fire and Movement, Roll On!

    Celebrate Life – Fire and Movement, Roll On!

    August 5, 2020. That is the day 97 year old Chuck Robic of Pinellas Park, FL was admitted to hospital with a COVID-19 viral infection. Some considered his ride to the hospital a Final Voyage – surely his would be a one way trip. Though Chuck Robic’s age did place him in the High Risk category for COVID-19 unhappy endings, he was not going to go down without a fight.

    “I probably hesitated for half a second before I just said ‘he’ll beat this’,” said Ken Chatelain, the husband of Robic’s great niece.

    Family used the word “tenacity” when asked why they felt so certain he’d be coming home. Modest, helpful, good-natured, respected and hero are some other words that are used to describe Mr. Robic’s character. The U.S. Army seems to agree with those assessments. Early June of 2009, Redstone Arsenal invited PFC Robic and 11 other former soldiers to celebrate the Army’s 234th birthday.

    “I just don’t think about it or talk about it much,” Robic said. “That all happened 60 years ago.”

    Chuck Robic is a veteran of World War II, an Army scout. The ink on his graduation diploma from Chicago’s Farragut High School – Class of 1943 – had barely dried before he was drafted. After living on Army bases in Little Rock, Arkansas and Florida, Robic asked for a transfer to the U.S. Army Air Force. He wanted to be a pilot. The request was denied and Army shipped him off to the European theater where he became part of the Pennsylvania Keystone Division aka the PA National Guard aka the 28th Infantry Division.

    The 28ID has lineage tracing back to Benjamin Franklin’s 1747 Associators. Old and storyed, the Division holds a hellacious reputation, well-earned. During World War I, General Pershing began calling members of the division “Men of Iron”, referring to the 28ID as “my Iron Division.” In World War II, the 28th Infantry Division landed on Omaha Beach, were the first U.S. Division to parade through Paris, breached the German Westwall and fought through the Huertgen Forest. The Pennsylvania Keystone Division got a new nick from the Germans during the second World War, the “Bloody Bucket” Division. In part because of the red, keystone shaped patches worn by these warriors. In much larger part because of destruction the division wrought on their enemies. Warriors assigned to the 28ID carry the reputations of their brothers who served before them, with pride and honor.

    Chuck Robic, former Army scout for the Pennsylvania Keystone Division, was not going to be an easy takedown. He’d bested many other foes, in far more grim environments. Not even the enemy waiting for him on a Normandy beach, June 1944, found stealing his life an easy feat.

    “Many soldiers died and were injured,” Robic quietly recalls.

    Operation Overlord is the official name of what we generally refer to as the Normandy Invasion – a horrific space and time in human history. U.S., Belgian, Canadian, English, Polish and other national troops stormed – from air and sea – beaches codenamed Gold, Juno, Omaha, Sword and Utah. During this intense fighting, Robic was shot in the leg. The British spoiled him in one of their military hospitals for 45 days before he was released and sent back into battle.

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    The next major altercation our tenacious fella found himself amidst was the Ardennes Offensive, generally referred to as The Battle of the Bulge. Far from a skirmish, this contest lasted more than a month – December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945. Icy cold, snowy weather piled atop war’s attendant miseries. The United States lost over 19,000 soldiers in that one battle, the bloodiest for the nation. When the dust had settled, Chuck Robic emerged from the forest, miraculously unscathed.

    At war’s end, Private First Class Chuck Robic was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army and returned to Chicago. Alcoa Steel snatched him up when he applied for employment with them. After 37 years as a heavy equipment mechanic, Robic retired from Alcoa and started a horse training venture in his beloved Michigan. It took years of his sisters cajoling, urging Chuck to wave goodbye to Michigan winters and move on down to sunshiney Florida where she lived, before he decided her logic was sound. Shuttering his business, he relocated to the Pinellas Park area of Florida. Family members, including a retired Air Force Colonel nephew, became neighbors. He enjoyed Florida, going fishing and puttering about, helping people wherever they needed a hand he was able to provide. Then, he caught COVID-19.

    A month and a half after he was admitted to hospital with a rough draft death sentence, 97 year old World War II veteran and Purple Heart recipient Chuck Robic was released from care. He is 100% clear of COVID-19 and has been enjoying being back home with friends and family this past two weeks or so. Like many other combat veterans, he’d rather not talk about his U.S. asset days.

    “I let bygones be bygones,” he said. “I don’t like to live in the past.”

    Roll on, Chuck Robic . . . Roll on!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHpfdIuURsI
  • What about me?

    What about me?

    Taking a coffee break from outside activities, I came for a coffee

    reading some headlines and some comments

    One such comment caught my attention

    ” Waiting for the call to arms”

    Is that what we are really waiting for?

    We all see what’s going on out there

    While the music is somber or haunting

    there is a smile to be found

    For those that do not know

    it is the mark of the Nazarine on my throwing hatchet

    it’s good steel

    couple swipes on the stone

    I can shave your head with it

    Lima Charlie

  • the Bear Jew

    the Bear Jew

    first some background

    Inglourious Basterds’ Bear Jew partially on Sam Dreben, a World War I veteran dubbed the Fighting Jew. Dreben was both a decorated soldier and sometime mercenary, but unlike Donny, he was famed for his skill with a machine gun instead of a bat. In addition to fighting in WWI, he saw action in the Mexican Revolution, the Philippine-American War and the Boxer Revolution in China.

    Why did the Bear Jew come to mind?

    Here’s your answer

    Joe Biden Endorses Michigan Democrat Who Blogged About 4-Year-Old Girls Wearing Thong Underwear

    Baby-sniffer Joe Biden on Wednesday endorsed a Michigan Democrat who previously berated women as “breeders” and blogged about 4-year-old girls wearing thong underwear.

    Jon Hoadley, a state lawmaker, is now running for US Congress in Michigan’s 6th district and was also endorsed by Kamala Harris.

    A Michigan lawmaker and rising star in the Democratic Party who is running for Congress in one of the nation’s most contested seats discussed drug use and sex in a now-deleted blog where he also published derogatory comments about women and creepy remarks about children in underwear.

    But before he was elected to state politics in 2014, the ambitious Democrat ran a LiveJournal blog where he discussed learning about crystal meth, described his sexual partners as “victims” and published a conversation which included a reference to 4-year-old girls wearing thongs.

    In a post from May 2005, the state representative discussed going to a gay bar to “learn about crystal meth” and in a post several weeks later described his sexual partners as “victims.

    In a subsequent entry, Hoadley referred to women as “breeders” — a derogatory term used to refer to straight people or people who can have children — and called them “weird/bad dancers.”

    Never heard of the Bear jew?

    God knew it was a Bear Jew he was needing

    not an Angel with a Coca-cola

    ” If there is to be trouble

    let be on my watch

    so the children can live in Peace”

    I read that long ago

    In china… TooYoung

    is just a name

    America best get her shit together

  • A FITNA

    never heard of that?

    Sure you have, just don’t recongnize it because it’s spelled backwards

    ANTIFA

    The word “fitna” in Islam, also spelled “fitnah” or “fitnat,” is derived from an Arabic verb that means to “seduce, tempt, or lure” in order to separate the good from the bad. The term itself has various meanings, mostly referring to a feeling of disorder or unrest. It can be used to describe the difficulties faced during personal trials. The term can also be used to describe the oppression of the powerful against the weak (rebellion against a ruler, for example), or to describe individuals or communities giving in to the “whispers” of Satan and falling into sin. Fitna can also mean attractiveness or captivation

    Are we seeing these words put into action?

    well let’s took a look

    Rubber bullets and CS gas hasn’t worked
    I know what will get their full fucking attention
    BRUTAL?

    Compared to what

    Burning Looting Murder of the innocent?

    I suppose it comes down to the question of Wanna

    Who better to explain WANNA

    then the Duke

    Voting and hunting season in the same month

    that’s rather Convenient

    take a good long hard at that gif file

    Kill or be killed

  • 3 Words

    3 Words

    Honor Courage Commitment

    words not taught or explained to Portland Police department

    what follows the end result

    of no Honor no Courage no Commitment

    “Like hey motherfucker, You’ve been watching this whole thing fucking unfold and you didn’t intervene at all or light the crowd up or something? He started laughing and he was like, Man, if I got out and tried to help you guys, my fucking car would be on fire right now, and I’d be running next to you”

    Intel from Combat Experts

    Three decorated, armed combat veterans were recently incapacitated and nearly killed by Antifa/BLM terrorist in Portland. The three were surprised, overwhelmed, beaten, and chased 11 blocks by armed, trained, and coordinated enemy combatants right here in the USA. Special duty Portland police officers witnessed the beating and chase, but the police could do nothing to stop it.

    How could this happen? How could Antifa terrorists be better trained and equipped in communications, surveillance, and tactical execution than a United States Marine?

    Perhaps the USMC and the police are fighting the wrong battle with totally inadequate weapons and tactics.

    One Marine’s account of his painful, frightening, and humiliating encounter with Portland’s children of darkness sounds like an encounter with demons and the possessed.

    The Marine who wrote this warning was with the Marine’s 1st LAR 0311 from the early to late 2000s. Since then, he has been a contractor, presumably in security. His summary of the encounter begins:

    Me [sic] and three of my buddies were in Portland this weekend, got attacked by Antifa. There’s a Twitter video with millions of views on it. They ended up on Hannity and Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, etc., of us getting beaten with bats and rocks the size of cantaloupes thrown at us, getting spit on etc. We were all carrying pistols as well. Opportunity, ability and jeopardy, we were in a deadly force situation and we could easily articulate the use of deadly force, but they had pepper sprayed us. They were using industrial strobe lights on us, etc. We couldn’t PID [positively identify] our target and what lied beyond it, They [Antifa/BLM] did a great job of taking our situational awareness away, it was fucking incredible.

    Bro my perspective on this changed so much.

    The three veterans were in Portland for interviews to become Portland police officers, not to confront rioters. They asked and received permission from the police to witness the riots that they might soon be facing as rookie Portland police officers.

    But in all the training that I’ve been through my life, I’ve never been in one where in the first five seconds of the scenario you’re blinded with a strobe light and sprayed with pepper spray…. That changes everything*.

    They were throwing these rocks from 15 feet back in the crowd, you couldn’t see who the fuck through it, etc. things like that…. It’s just a good talking point for guys that carry concealed, but you need to think through all these different scenarios.

    The part that sounds like aspects of an exorcism begins at this point.

    It got way worse after that video ended, they chased us for 11 city blocks. They had a convoy of about 25 vehicles that cut us off at the next intersection, They had scouts on the corner with radios, they had a drone following us, they had a bull horn calling us Nazis, and the crowd was following a red strobe light that was up in the air on a stick, so they would announce Nazis and then people would follow the red strobe light, That video is just the beginning, I’ve got a fucking fractured hand from a baton, everyone of us has black and blue bruises up and down their legs and back, I had a guy spit in my face from 6 inches away, call me a pussy and a coward for not doing anything about it, and then tell me that he was going to find where I live, rape my mother, rape my children in front of me and then kill me.

    Antifa Reality Check

    2 thoughts in video

    why these 2

    don’t know, just did is all

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGgaXXBkE8A
  • I see you

    I see you

    Dad

    I’m so proud to have had you as a Father

    I admired you tremendously Proud of who you were

    A strong leader, a protector…

    yet you were thoughtful and caring at the same time

    the Principals you lived by were an example to all

    inspiring to those who you taught

    those fortunate to have known you are blessed beyond measure

    Chance

    When other’s see deer, I hear my father how to do this or that properly

    mistakes happen for a reason, learn from them

    When I hear my Mother say

    ” in many ways you are like your father”

    I’m tempted to say

    See, I was listening mother

    but I never do

    I just smile

    Not a Rod Stewart fan

    but he did good with this song

    it’s for the one who now calls me Dad

  • I read this story before

    I read this story before

    Was a time crime was ramped such as stage coach robbeies, cattle rustling ,

    beating up the local populace all the while the leaders of the town turned a blind eye

    Times have changed kinda sorta and somewhat

    faces change

    technology changes

    people not so much

    from what I read

    there’s no way Doc could have fired the first shot

    couple of different view points on the matter all sound

    so familiar don’t it

  • Victory Over Japan: Official Surrender Signed

    Victory Over Japan: Official Surrender Signed

    Times Square Kiss by Alfred Eisenstadt

    The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. Together with the British Empire and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being “prompt and utter destruction”. 

    Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri as General Richard K. Sutherland watches, September 2, 1945

    While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end, Japan’s leaders (the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, also known as the “Big Six”) were privately making entreaties to the still-neutral Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms more favorable to the Japanese. Meanwhile, the Soviets were preparing to attack Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea (in addition to South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) in fulfillment of promises they had secretly made to the United States and the United Kingdom at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences.


    On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM local time, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Sixteen hours later, American President Harry S. Truman called again for Japan’s surrender, warning them to “expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.” Late in the evening of August 8, 1945, in accordance with the Yalta agreements, but in violation of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and soon after midnight on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Later in the day, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb, this time on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Following these events, Emperor Hirohito intervened and ordered the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War to accept the terms the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration for ending the war. After several more days of behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d’état, Emperor Hirohito gave a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15. In the radio address, called the Jewel Voice Broadcast (玉音放送 Gyokuon-hōsō), he announced the surrender of Japan to the Allies.

    Representatives of the Empire of Japan stand aboard USS Missouri prior to signing of the Instrument of Surrender.


    On August 28, the occupation of Japan by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers began. The surrender ceremony was held on September 2, aboard the United States Navy battleship USS Missouri, at which officials from the Japanese government signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, thereby ending the hostilities. Allied civilians and military personnel alike celebrated V-J Day, the end of the war; however, some isolated soldiers and personnel from Imperial Japan’s far-flung forces throughout Asia and the Pacific islands refused to surrender for months and years afterwards, some even refusing into the 1970s. The role of the atomic bombings in Japan’s unconditional surrender, and the ethics of the two attacks, is still debated. The state of war formally ended when the Treaty of San Francisco came into force on April 28, 1952. Four more years passed before Japan and the Soviet Union signed the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, which formally brought an end to their state of war.

    General of the Army Douglas MacArthur signing the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Allied Powers

    US Navy Admiral William F. Halsey and Vice Admiral John S. McCain on board USS Missouri shortly after the Japanese surrender ceremony 2 September 1945.

    Admiral Chester Nimitz signing the surrender documents

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    The Japanese delegation departs the USS Missouri BB-63 following the surrender ceremony.

  • Of Mountain Men and Map Makers Pt 7

    Of Mountain Men and Map Makers Pt 7

    Editors note: This is the last part of this series, you can find the rest of the series here: Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4, Pt 5, Pt 6

    In an unintended action, a mapping error by Zebulon Pike was discovered by Joseph Nicolas Nicollet that would spur the fledgling Corps to begin a series of extensive, high profile mapping and scientific expeditions to explore and inventory the geography, geology, flora and fauna of what would become the western United States.

    Joseph Nicolett

     In the first major move to correct the mapping error, the Corps would hire Nicollet and assigned Lt. John Charles Fremont as his assistant.  Nicollet would head a mapping expedition in 1838 to correct the maps between the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers; Fremont would finish the survey as Nicollet’s health forced him to leave the field before the mission was complete.  

     Major James D. Graham would conduct a border survey of the Republic of Texas over a two year period (1841-1842).          

                                                                                                         

    John Fremont was appointed leader of the 1842 expedition to map the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains paying particular attention to what would became the Oregon Trail to South Pass.

                                                                           

    John C Fremont

    Fremont would return to the field in 1843 to complete the mapping of the Oregon Trail (with a side trip to the Great Salt Lake) to its terminus at The Dalles.  Turning south they flanked the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains. Fremont decided to cross the Central Sierras to reach Sutter’s Fort in Alta California. After resupplying Fremont led his men south to a junction with the “Spanish Trail that ran between Los Angeles and Santa Fe.  

    Turning east across the Great Basin following Jed Smith’s route to South Pass, Fremont determined the basin was “endorheic”, meaning that the basin was and locked with no outlet the world’s oceans.  He was able to disprove the myth of the Buenaventura River, returning to St. Louis in August 1844. June 1st 1845 and Fremont is headed west again, become embroiled in the Bear Flag Revolt, be appointed Military governor of California and return to the United States only to be tried for insubordination and pardoned by President Polk.                              

    The Corps would conduct a Boundary survey of the border between the United States and Canada led by (Major?)William H. Emory 1844-1846.                                                                                  

     In August 1845 Lieutenants James Abert and William Peck are dispatched to survey and map the watershed of Purgatory Creek and the Canadian River in present day Colorado and New Mexico.                                                                                                                    

     

    William H Emory

    Lt. Colonel William H. Emory would return to the field as Brigadier General Stephen Kearny’s cartographer as Kearny invaded New Mexico and California in 1846; it was Emory’s journal (Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth to San Diego) that became a guide book for travelers to southern California. Emory would be deeply involved in the US/Mexico Boundary Surveys conducted between 1848 and 1855.            

    Beginning in 1849 Lt. Howard Stansbury would lead a two-year evaluation and survey of the Great Salt Lake and surrounding areas while examining the condition of the Oregon and Mormon trails.                                                                                                       

    September 4, 1851 Brevet Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves began the first systematic survey of the northern Territory of New Mexico from the Zuni Pueblo to the Yuma Crossing of the Colorado River arriving the crossing November 30, 1851.   

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    The Corps would take a very active role in conducting Trans-Continental Rail Road surveys beginning in 1853 with the Northern Pacific Survey.        

    President Franklin Pierce would appoint Isaac Stevens Governor to Washington Territory March 17, 1853.  

    Isaac Stevens

     A route for a northern trans-continental railroad was planned from St. Paul, Minnesota to Puget Sound.  Stevens, as a civil engineer, assigned himself the task of surveying the eastern end of the route to Puget Sound.  Stevens and his party began surveying the route west as Captain George McClellan’s party surveyed a route east from Puget Sound, the two parties conducting their surveys between the 47th and 49th parallels would meet September 8, 1853.

  • Oh George, not that story again

    Oh George, not that story again

    What is old is new again

    Here we are back to where we started having to fight in different mediums

    for the same things once fought over long ago

    Freedom & Liberty

    from the reject of humanity in the streets or our betters such as

    jack dorsey , hillary kerry clapper comey lisa gums page

    along with a whole host of hollywierd pedo/dopers

    Martha I’m gonna tell the best Goshdamn story

    2nd best only to the Bible

    The Tree of Liberty is thirsty once again