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of the day:
“I
moved to New York City for my health. I am very paranoid and New
York is the only place where all my fears are justified.”
Jessica
Baker
Several
years ago there was a man in Columbia, South Carolina name Maurice
Bessinger. This entrepreneur concocted a very tasty mustard base
barbecue sauce and eventually he had three barbecue restaurants in
the Columbia area. His barbecue sauce became so popular that it was
on the shelves in large supermarket chains. Maurice had a
Confederate flag flying over his main store in Columbia. Eventually
the supermarkets asked him to take down the flag and he refused so
they took his barbecue sauce off their shelves. Maurice said that he
would do whatever he wanted on his property and he did not really
need the money from the sauce sales in the markets anyway. I am with
Maurice on this one, y'all. Everyone has the right to put anything
they want on their own property, especially commercial ones. If you
are offended by it, don't go to his place of business and/or don't
look at it. I am up to my eyeballs with that crap of being
“politically correct”. I will not discuss the meaning of the
Confederate flag because it means different things to different
people and every person has a right their opinion. By the way,
Maurice has since gone to that great barbecue pit in the sky.
Medal
of Honor
DAVIS, RAYMOND G.
Rank and organization:
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps
Commanding officer,
1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein.). Place
and date:
Vicinity Hagaru-ri, Korea,
December 1950. Entered
service at:
Atlanta, Ga. Born:
13 January, 1915 in Fitzgerald, Ga.
Citation:
For
conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above
and beyond the call of duty as commanding officer of the 1st
Battalion, in action against enemy aggressor forces. Although keenly
aware that the operation involved breaking through a surrounding
enemy and advancing 8 miles along primitive icy trails in the bitter
cold with every passage disputed by a savage and determined foe, Lt.
Col. Davis boldly led his battalion into the attack in a daring
attempt to relieve a beleaguered rifle company and to seize, hold,
and defend a vital mountain pass controlling the only route available
for 2 Marine regiments in danger of being cut off by numerically
superior hostile forces during their re-deployment to the port of
Hungnam. When the battalion immediately encountered strong opposition
from entrenched enemy forces commanding high ground in the path of
the advance, he promptly spearheaded his unit in a fierce attack up
the steep, ice-covered slopes in the face of withering fire and,
personally leading the assault groups in a hand-to-hand encounter,
drove the hostile troops from their positions, rested his men, and
reconnoitered the area under enemy fire to determine the best route
for continuing the mission. Always in the thick of the fighting Lt.
Col. Davis led his battalion over 3 successive ridges in the deep
snow in continuous attacks against the enemy and, constantly
inspiring and encouraging his men throughout the night, brought his
unit to a point within 1,500 yards of the surrounded rifle company by
daybreak. Although knocked to the ground when a shell fragment struck
his helmet and 2 bullets pierced his clothing, he arose and fought
his way forward at the head of his men until he reached the isolated
Marines. On the following morning, he bravely led his battalion in
securing the vital mountain pass from a strongly entrenched and
numerically superior hostile force, carrying all his wounded with
him, including 22 litter cases and numerous ambulatory patients.
Despite repeated savage and heavy assaults by the enemy, he
stubbornly held the vital terrain until the 2 regiments of the
division had deployed through the pass and, on the morning of 4
December, led his battalion into Hagaru-ri intact. By his superb
leadership, outstanding courage, and brilliant tactical ability, Lt.
Col. Davis was directly instrumental in saving the beleaguered rifle
company from complete annihilation and enabled the 2 Marine regiments
to escape possible destruction. His valiant devotion to duty and
unyielding fighting spirit in the face of almost insurmountable odds
enhance and sustain the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
This
Date in History November 12
1775
Here is a letter sent to John Adams:
“Let
us separate, they are unworthy to be our Brethren. Let us renounce
them and instead of supplications for their happiness and prosperity,
let us beseech the almighty to blast their councils (Parliament) and
bring naught to all of their devices (laws and taxes).” This
person was obviously very angry. The letter was written by Abigail
Adams, Johns wife. Later on our ancestors in their wisdom told King
George III to kiss their ass.
1867
After almost a decade of battles with the Cheyenne and the Sioux
Indians of the Great Plains, not to mention the Civil War, the US
military held a conference at Fort Laramie, Wyoming to try to work
out a peace agreement with Indians. There had been unspeakable
atrocities on both sides and the American public was fed up with the
bloodletting both on the plains and during the Civil War. The US
military chose to abandon their policy of an “aggressive military
solution” to the “Indian problem” and called in several Sioux
leaders for a pow-wow. The negotiations bore fruit when the American
military decided to abandon their forts on the Bozeman Trail through
Montana which was a major sore spot with the Sioux and Cheyenne,
Chief Red Cloud in particular. As usual the US military reneged on
their promise to provide several Cheyenne tribes with guns and the
Cheyenne showed their anger by slaughtering 15 people in Kansas and
raping five women. The US military saw that peace was impossible and
in 1868 began ramping up for war with the Sioux and Cheyenne. The US
military agreed to treaty after treaty with the Sioux and Cheyenne
among other tribes and broke each and every one of them. If ever
there was a black mark on this great nation it is the treatment of
the Native Americans. We came within a gnat’s eyebrow of complete
genocide of these people.
Born
today:
1929
US actress Grace Kelly. She said “The freedom OF the press
works in such a way that there is not much freedom FROM it.” I
personally fed up with the media spoon feeding us what they want us
to know and nothing else. I am not a freaking clone, my mind is
sharp, clear and individualistic and not easily fooled. OK, I am
off my soapbox now.
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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