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On March 2nd 1968 48 men of C company 4th battalion 9th infantry regiment 25th infantry division, died in an ambush.
It only took about 10 or 12 minutes for them to die. They were caught in a cross fire with interlocking fields of fire if you were there about all you could do was die. Alot of guys were wounded very badly, and some not so bad. I arrived just after the ambush, and had the task of going thru their gear, I never seen so much bloody stuff in my life, lots of bullet holes and tore up things. I became a part of the new rebuilt C company. We went on and engaged the enemy 2 or 3 times a week, and lost guys at the rate of 2 or 3 a week.
Below are the names of men from C...
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Birds are fascinating creatures. The way they fly, hover, dart, swoop, dive, nest and perch. Their distinctive markings, chirps, hoo’s and calls. There is practically no end to the time an avid bird-watcher like myself can spend studying and observing the plethora of birds that grace this great Valley and State.
Late one windy night a short...
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Thought I'd share a few photos I shot at the scene of the propane induced house explosion today...
Best Wishes for the survivors in their hopefully speedy healing!
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Now and then there’s a surprise. Recently at our household, we being your tree hugger types and not about to be out-greened by anybody, we picked up some of the new hand crank powered LED flashlights. I started with the notion that here is a kind of a flashlight. In my mind I put this item into the flashlight category of stuff, a pretty ho hum category. Well, the surprise to me is that, after we’d had these hand crank flashlights around the house awhile, it became apparent to me that this little gadget is in a whole new category of stuff I hadn’t realized even existed until just recently. And in this realization I’m thinking here might be a way finally to sell green. Finally, after many...
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So much of what we depend upon to be "science" may turn out to be nothing more than the old politics as usual tricksters at work.
This week the data that formed the support of the hockeystick version of climate change ran into trouble. It seems the "peer reviewers" missed some important problems with the data. The data turns out to be "cherry picked" from a larger set of information. Now the review system must be reviewed. If the suggestions are true then the entire problem of AGW is nothing more than people believing what they read or heard without questioning it.
In the meantime the politicians are forging ahead with what may be the biggest mistake ever made. Stay tuned folks this is going...
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The days are getting colder. We put away our summer clothes and begin to bundle up. Some look forward to the coming winter with its snow and ice. Others dread the the coming winter. Some look forward to the coming holidays with ancipation. Others dread the coming holidays because of loss of loved ones.
I have been thinking alot lately of the summers...
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Admittedly, my perspective is that of an engineer, which tends to be narrow. The way an engineer thinks, step one, define the problem. Fence off a tiny little part of the Big Picture and focus exclusively on that. Don't get distracted by stuff going on outside the fence you have defined. Don't fall into the trap of an ever-expanding definition of the problem or your productivity for which you are paid will drop to zero. Engineers don't pretend to be up to dealing with the Big Picture. That's beyond our pay grade. Hence, the engineer jokes. Well of course God is a civil engineer, goes the punch line of one engineer joke. Who else but a civil engineer would locate a waste disposal facility...
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I planted my first garden in my life, and it was such a wonderful garden. I had 12 5" tall tomato plants, and around 175 stalks of corn, beautiful Zucchini plants, and it was all destroyed by the watering hole that is behind my house.It flooded my garden and drowned all of my plants, I had to till my ground 8 times before I could even plant seeds, I put many hours of labor into my garden, and I was devastated when it died. To make a long story short, no one will take responsibility for this water, it is located on a pasture that is behind my home, and the city has come out twice ,and I have not heard one word back from them. I have had the canal companies out and the water master. It is like...
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Have you ever pictured holding a funeral for your child? A funeral fraught like so many others with grief and sorrow and heart break for the person departed, but unlike others, a funeral fraught with grief and sorrow for all of the dreams that will never come true. If there was anything you could do to prevent such a heart-wrenching moment you would, wouldn’t you? Wouldn’t you do anything to never have to say good-bye to a child that has only begun to live?
The Centers for Disease Control reports that the leading cause of death among young children is “unintentional injury”...(more)
The Centers for Disease Control reports that the leading cause of death among young children is “unintentional injury”...
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Ray Malouf, 94 year old retired physician, has always loved lake trout. He has lots of personal stories about fish he has caught in the past. He has numerous friends that will bring him a lake trout after a successful trip. But today, he actually caught one himself. It took some work, but he was able to shuffle into a small fishing boat and troll for "macs" on Bear Lake. He hooked into three big fish total, but was able to actually land only one of them. He felt it was worth the effort, however, because the one that didn't get away weighed in at 12 pounds. Dr. Malouf is likely to be the oldest fisherman to ever catch a lake trout this size out of Bear Lake. He plans to smoke the...
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