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Post by captbudman on Jun 6, 2024 8:24:58 GMT -6
How a Great Leader remembers the anniversary of the Greatest Generation beginning the liberation of France...
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Post by captbudman on Jun 6, 2024 8:40:25 GMT -6
How a man that is too senile to be prosecuted commemorated the 80th anniversary...
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Post by floridaanticub on Jun 7, 2024 21:19:49 GMT -6
At the risk of being "that guy", July 5, 1942 is 82 years ago, but ... oh well. Today is the actual 80th Anniversary of the Normandy invasion being delayed for 24 hours, making tomorrow the 80th anniversary of D-Day. A date certainly to be remembered. My Bad! I went to Public Schools... Sh— happens.
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Post by captbudman on Jun 14, 2024 12:47:52 GMT -6
In this day in History, on June 14, 1777, the Flag Act of 1777 was passed by the Second Continental Congress and specified the design of the national flag.
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Post by captbudman on Jun 15, 2024 11:02:10 GMT -6
80 years ago today (15 June 1944), United States Marine forces landed on the southwest coast of the island of Saipan in the central Marianas chain, beginning the Battle of Saipan. The Battle of Saipan was a pivotal military engagement during World War II, occurring between June 15 and July 9, 1944. It took place on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands, which was under Japanese control at the time. The battle held significant strategic importance for the United States, as capturing Saipan allowed the Allies to establish air bases within range of the Japanese home islands, facilitating strategic bombing missions by B-29 Superfortress bombers.
The conflict involved U.S. forces, primarily consisting of Marines and Army troops, who faced off against the Japanese Army. The American forces numbered around 71,000, while the Japanese defenders had approximately 31,000 troops. The battle commenced with a massive amphibious invasion on June 15, 1944. Despite encountering fierce resistance, the U.S. forces managed to secure a beachhead.
Combat during the battle was intense and brutal, characterized by difficult terrain, fortified positions, and a determined Japanese defense. One of the most notable events was the largest banzai charge of the war, conducted by Japanese forces on July 7, 1944. Thousands of Japanese soldiers participated in this desperate and suicidal attack against American positions.
The battle also had a tragic impact on the local civilian population, with many civilians caught in the crossfire or committing suicide to avoid capture, influenced by Japanese propaganda about the Americans. By July 9, 1944, U.S. forces had secured the island, but the battle resulted in heavy casualties on both sides. Approximately 3,426 American soldiers and around 29,000 Japanese soldiers were killed.
The capture of Saipan had significant strategic implications. It led to political repercussions in Japan, including the resignation of Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, and paved the way for further Allied advances in the Pacific, including the subsequent battles of Guam and Tinian. The Battle of Saipan was a critical step in the Allied island-hopping strategy, demonstrating the increasing effectiveness and coordination of American military operations in the Pacific. It underscored the determination of both the Japanese defenders and the advancing American forces, setting the stage for subsequent battles that would bring the Allies closer to Japan's mainland.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2024 11:37:36 GMT -6
Ya'll should watch the series 'The Pacific', if you haven't - it gives a great dramatic depiction of the Battles of Guadalcanal, Peleliu & Okinawa. Its preety rugged. What those Marines, Seabees & Sailors went through in the Pacific was beyond imagining.
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Post by captbudman on Jun 15, 2024 12:47:48 GMT -6
Ya'll should watch the series 'The Pacific', if you haven't - it gives a great dramatic depiction of the Battles of Guadalcanal, Peleliu & Okinawa. Its preety rugged. What those Marines, Seabees & Sailors went through in the Pacific was beyond imagining. No, I haven't watched it yet. I see it's on Netflix so I'll check it out. You're right -- the men who fought in the Pacific faced a tough battle against troops that would rather die than surrender.
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Post by captbudman on Jun 28, 2024 9:10:38 GMT -6
Two monumental events happened on June 28th.
In 1914, Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated at Sarajevo, Serbia. Thirty days later, on July 28th, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Military alliances then brought in other powers, leading to World War I (the "War to end all wars").
Also on June 28th, 1919, Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles under protest. This set in motion the events that brought about World War II.
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Post by Billy John Davy on Jul 2, 2024 6:01:16 GMT -6
14 years ago today, the setting President memorialized a grand kleagle of the KKK
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Post by Billy John Davy on Jul 4, 2024 6:17:32 GMT -6
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Georgia
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
North Carolina
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Massachusetts
John Hancock
Maryland
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Pennsylvania
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean
New York
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire
Matthew Thornton
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Post by captbudman on Jul 4, 2024 8:13:04 GMT -6
Happy Independence Day!
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Post by Billy John Davy on Jul 9, 2024 6:42:56 GMT -6
happy Ice Age day!
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Post by captbudman on Jul 12, 2024 10:44:43 GMT -6
On July 12, 1984, flailing Democrat Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale (who promised to raise income taxes) selected Geraldine Ferraro as his VP running mate. Alas, the diversity choice couldn't help him, just like Kamala can't help Joey...
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Post by captbudman on Jul 14, 2024 13:07:31 GMT -6
On July 14, 1789, a pivotal event in the French Revolution occurred: the storming of the Bastille. The Bastille was a medieval fortress and prison in Paris, symbolizing the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchy. Revolutionaries in Paris, angered by King Louis XVI's dismissal of the popular finance minister Jacques Necker and fearing an imminent military crackdown, stormed the Bastille. At the time, the Bastille contained only seven prisoners, but it was seen as a powerful symbol of the monarchy's abuse of power. The fall of the Bastille was a turning point in the French Revolution. It demonstrated the power of the people to overthrow a symbol of the old regime and galvanized revolutionary fervor across France. The event signaled the collapse of royal authority and the rise of the people's power. This event is now commemorated annually as Bastille Day, a national holiday in France.
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