Daily hisory

Good morning,


Quote of the day:

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and strong, because someday in life you will have been all of these.”

                  George Washington Carver

A few years ago on February 15 a woman-child was born in the Greenville, SC Memorial Hospital. She was a wide-eyed blonde that eventually grew into a rock hard athlete with a cannon for an arm. She was the middle (number 2) daughter of three and she spent her formative years in Pensacola, Florida. One day in her early years her father took her out of school and they went surf fishing. That was an event that she remembers to this day. She matured into a warm, compassionate and caring person and her parents are proud of her, that’s right it is my daughter Mardy.

For the life of me I cannot understand the media’s constant attack on our military for accidentally killing civilians like we have read about ad nauseum for the last couple of days. Our military is at war, for crying out loud! It is not unusual for our guys to kill each other by accident. It is called “friendly fire”. Collateral death is a fact of life when it comes to combat. By my rough calculations the US and British Air Forces alone killed about 700,000 German civilians ON PURPOSE to break their will to fight and to deplete available manpower used to manufacture the tools of war not to mention the death of 7,000,000 German soldiers, sailors and airmen that died at the hand of several allied armies, especially the Russians. One air raid on Hamburg, Germany was responsible for the deaths of 75,000 civilians in one night. There is no need for me to go into Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki and various other nasty and costly battles with the Japanese armies, navies and air forces. It is estimated that 26,000,000 Russian civilians alone were killed by the German army on their way across Russia. The deaths of civilians perpetrated by military forces go back to before written history. This is why knowledge of world history is so important, it provides and understanding of why, what and where. Now back to the original question. Why is the media jumping on the allied military for a relatively few civilians being accidentally killed? I think all of us know why. The liberal media is left wing and anti-war and is using their instruments to broadcast their personal views. When that happens it is no longer journalism, it is propaganda. We should all keep that in mind when reading or hearing reports about our military.

On Valentine’s Day Eve 45 year old Barry Jones was grieving about splitting up for the fifth time from his longtime girlfriend. After several drinks Barry decided to visit with his girlfriend whether she liked it or not. It was about 1:45a on Valentine’s Day morning when Barry showed up at his girlfriend’s house and tried to force his way in but his girlfriend wasn’t buying. She warned him and then uncorked a 12 gauge shotgun blast into Barry’s chest. The cops found Barry on the sidewalk leading to his girlfriend’s front porch. Barry was dead as fried chicken and the cops are going to charge Barry’s girlfriend with a crime. I don’t know what she could be charged with. If anyone, and I mean anyone, tries to force their way into my house they will be met with five .38 special rounds and/or five 20 gauge high brass shells loaded with number 6 shot. I do not know of many animals that could stand up to that barrage.

Recently Australian Justice Anthony Whealy of New South Wales sentenced five Muslims to 23 to 25 years in prison after being convicted of harboring explosives and weapons while planning a terrorist attack. The Muslims were immigrants who were naturalized Australians. The Justice stated that the five were unlikely to be reformed “because of their religious zeal plus they wear their prison sentences like a badge of honor.” They are not eligible for parole for 17 years. What has happened to the American system of justice? There is no doubt in my mind that the FBI, CIA, Interpol, and many other law enforcement agencies know of similar garbage that are doing the same thing on American soil. I have a cure for it. It involves concrete blocks, wire/chains and a boat approaching the 100 fathom curve.

This date in history February 16

1862    US General U.S. Grant completes a brilliant campaign in the western theatre with the capture of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River in Tennessee. Just 10 days before he had captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River which severely damaged the Confederate supply routes. The Confederate troops at Fort Donelson were led by General Gideon Pillow and the Fort was well defended by seasoned troops. Grant chose to attack from two directions and was initially successful but General Pillow ordered a counter-attack and drove the US army back making an escape possible, but Pillow got greedy. He thought he would win and continued the attack rather than ordering an escape. Included in those that chose to escape were CSA General Nathan Bedford Forrest and 500 cavalrymen that proved to be a thorn in the side of the Union army for the entire war. Eventually Grant was able to flank Pillows troops and they were forced to surrender. When Pillow asked Grant for surrender terms the answer was “nothing but total and unconditional surrender will be accepted”. Grants troops joked around saying that the U.S. in Grant’s name meant “Unconditional Surrender”.

1803    The fledgling United States merchant fleet had been under attack by pirates in North Africa while the ships were in the Mediterranean Sea. President Thomas Jefferson got fed up and sent our Navy there to counteract the pirates. One of the US warships, the Philadelphia, ran aground near Tripoli and was captured. The US Navy felt that they had to prevent the pirates from adding to their fleet with a ship the caliber of the Philadelphia. On this date, Lieutenant Stephan Decatur and 73 sailors and Marines sailed into Tripoli harbor disguised as Maltese fishermen. They boarded the Philadelphia, killed the crew and set fire to the ship and it burned down to the waterline. Decatur and his crew escaped with no casualties. Decatur became an icon in the history of the United States Navy. There are several towns named for him.

1894    For reasons known only to the Texas Prison System, on this date they pardoned one of the most bloodthirsty gunfighters in the history of the American west, John Wesley Hardin. Hardin killed his first man at the age of 15 and at least 40 more followed. On his 21st birthday he got into an altercation with another man. The other guy drew and fired first but missed, Hardin didn’t. Even though he shot in self defense, Hardin did not want to be arrested so he hit the road. He was tracked down and captured by the Texas Rangers on a train in Pensacola, Florida. He was brought back and was given a trial, convicted and sentenced to life. While in prison he got an education and became a lawyer. After he was pardoned he began a law practice in Gonzales, Texas but this small town did not have enough excitement so he moved to El Paso. Soon after moving he was standing at a bar when someone walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head killing him instantly. The killer was a relative of someone that Hardin had killed. Hardin had been in prison for 17 years but was killed for his past bad acts. Beware; your past will catch up with you.

1968 On January 31 the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army combined with the most coordinated attack of that unfortunate war, it was the beginning of the Tet Offensive. They were successful in capturing seven of the largest South Vietnam cities and 30 provincial capitals. They even sent a squad of shock troops that captured and occupied the US embassy in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) for six hours. A platoon of US paratrooper was dropped on the roof and the invaders were routed or killed. There were 1,000 Viet Cong guerillas that hid out in Saigon and it took 11,000 American and South Vietnamese troops 10 days to find and kill or capture them. On this date, the US State Department announced that the Tet Offensive resulted in 350,000 refugees in addition to the 800,000 that were there already. What a freaking nightmare.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.