Good
morning,
Quote
of the day:
When
one of his troops admitted that he was scared during combat the
platoon leader said:
"Do
you know why you are scared? It is because you still have hope. The
sooner you convince yourself that you are already dead the sooner you
will become the soldier you are supposed to be. You will be able to
kill without fear, without compassion and without remorse...all wars
depend on it.”
1st
Lt. Frank Spears
2nd
platoon, “E” company, 506 PIR, 101st
Airborne 6/6/44.
A
while back in northwestern Afghanistan the Taliban accused a pregnant
WIDOW of ADULTERY and punish her by administering 200 lashes and then
shooting her in the head three times. They also executed a 10 person
medical team that was in Afghanistan on their own time to help the
Afghanis. Their only crime was that they were westerners except for
three of them who were Afghanis. The Taliban wants everyone to come
to them and them only for everything. They want total control of
everyone’s body and soul. I can assure you that they would love to
take over America and enslave all of us. They are the enemy. As
Gen. George Patton said “The aim of all wars is to kill the enemy
or prosecute the war so severely that they surrender...there is
nothing else.”
This
Date in History August 18
1227
Earlier, in about 1162 a man-child was born to a minor Mongol
chieftain who he named Temujin. The chieftain died and Temujin was
set to succeed him but the remainder of the tribe would not obey such
a young leader and the rest of the tribe abandoned the family to fend
for themselves out on the vast Steppes of Mongolia. By his late
teens Temujin had become a very skilled and feared warrior and had
attained a charisma that attracted other tribal leaders and he
consummated many alliances. The end result was Temujin had acquired
a monstrous army all of them on horseback. One tribe kidnapped
Temujin’s wife. They should not have done that because Temujin and
his troops went after her and tortured and killed all that had done
the kidnapping. Temujin decided that he was going to combine all the
Mongol tribes under his command by force if necessary. He made an
offer to those tribes that had not joined him that either they would
join or each and every member of the tribe would be killed. It was a
simple choice for the other tribe leaders, they chose to live.
Temujin ended up with and army of over 500,000 mounted warriors and
his name was changed to Genghis Khan meaning “Oceanic Ruler.”
There was no other army in the world that could even come close to
competing with a cavalry that size. Normal armies in the rest of the
world relied on huge infantry and a small amount of cavalry because
of the amount of ground and feed required to support horses. The
Mongols did not have that problem with thousands upon thousands of
acres of open range in the Steppes of Mongolia. Khan organized his
army in units of 10, 10 horsemen to a unit, 10 units to a company, 10
companies to a division, etc. The most feared unit was a “Tumen”
or a unit of 10,000 highly organized cavalrymen. After Khan got his
troopers organized in 1209 he set out to conquer China. Through an
extensive network of spies, Khan found a weakness in a large city and
sent 250,000 cavalrymen to the attack. It was no contest and Khan
went in and slaughtered millions and then asked the survivors if they
wanted be obedient or not. As you might suspect, they chose to
become a follower of Khan. On one occasion he was attacking a city
that refused to surrender so he dismounted many of his troops and
they dug a diversion canal from a nearby river into the city and
flooded it. There is no need for me to tell you what happened after
the city finally surrendered. As he approached yet another city the
city leaders offered to surrender if Khan promised that “not a drop
of blood would be shed”. Khan agreed and the city surrendered then
Khan and his troops went in and strangled everybody. No blood was
shed, however. On this date while putting down a rebellion in the Xi
Xia, China Genghis Khan died. On his deathbed he ordered the Xi Xia
wiped from the face of the earth. His army did as they were told and
they did not leave one stone standing on top of another and either
killed or enslaved all its residents. In order to keep Khan’s
gravesite a secret, his army killed anyone that saw his funeral
procession on the way to his home in Karakorum, Mongolia and Genghis
Khan’s burial site is not known to this day. At one point Khan
ruled half of the known world.
1931
After weeks of torrential rain, on this date the Yangtze River in
China overflowed its banks and floods the surrounding countryside.
The Yangtze River has the most populated cities in the world on its
banks. The majority of the peoples of China live close to the
Yangtze or its tributaries. The end result was the greatest disaster
in the 20th
Century. Over 3.5 million Chinese died as a result of this flood
either by drowning or disease promulgated by the failure to dispose
of so many bodies at one time. Typhus, Typhoid and Malaria was
rampant. Not only that the rice fields were flooded and the crops
failed causing widespread starvation later on. The Chinese
government had been warned about the possibility of the flooding of
the Yangtze and had plans to reinforce the flood control system but a
civil war intervened.
1988
On this date Seattle, Washington judge the Honorable Gary Little
went to the basement of his court house and blew his brains out.
Earlier a few juvenile offenders had complained that Judge Little had
approached them for a sex while they were being tried in his court.
Their reward was a lighter sentence if they complied. Somehow these
complaints were covered up, at least for awhile. Finally a news
reporter smelled a rat and dug into the case and found out the Judge
Little had been coercing young men for sex for years and the legal
community had covered it up. The reporter gathered all the
confirmation he could find and notified Judge Little that he would
author an expose’ in the next day’s newspaper. It was then that
Judge Little went to the basement and took care of business. I
wonder how many of those in the legal profession protect each others
backs in cases like this. The ironic thing about the Judge Little
thing is that he shot himself under a pipe where his father had hung
himself years before after being arrested for burglary.
Born
today:
1919
Former governor of Alaska Walter Hickel. While asking to be
allowed to kill hundreds of wolves in the Alaskan wilderness he said
“After all, we can’t allow nature to run wild.” Walt, shut up
and quit ruining my life.
Thanks for
listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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