RICHFIELD, Minn. - Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86.
Lindberg died Sunday at Fairview Southdale hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, said John Pose, director of the Morris Nilsen Funeral Home in Richfield, which is handling Lindberg's funeral.
Lindberg spent decades explaining that it was his patrol, not the one captured in the famous Associated Press photograph by Joe Rosenthal, that raised the first flag as U.S. forces fought to take the Japanese island.
In the late morning of Feb. 23, 1945, Lindberg fired his flame-thrower into enemy pillboxes at the base of Mount Suribachi and then joined five other Marines fighting their way to the top. He was awarded the Silver Star for bravery.
"Two of our men found this big, long pipe there," he said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2003. "We tied the flag to it, took it to the highest spot we could find and we raised it.
"Down below, the troops started to cheer, the ship's whistles went off, it was just something that you would never forget," he said. "It didn't last too long, because the enemy started coming out of the caves."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/ap_on_re_us/obit_lindberg
Strange but apparently true according to the news article found here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614/ap_on_fe_st/baby_monitor_space
PALATINE, Ill. - A mother of two in this suburb of Chicago doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on
NASA's space mission. She just flips on her baby monitor. Since Sunday, Natalie Meilinger's baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis.
"Whoever has a baby monitor knows what you'll usually see," said the elementary school science teacher. "No one would ever expect this."
**I couldn't pass this up. I think it's totally hysterical (though logical once you think about it)! However I must say I feel completely cheated. Muddy and I bought a speaker monitor for our last kid some years ago. We *barely* used it and we NEVER got anything like this. Some people have all the luck.:-)**
HUNTINGDON, Tenn. -- The family of Pvt. William Bernice Clark never had a funeral for him, never got to say goodbye and never really accepted his fate among the fallen during the Normandy D-Day landings in World War II. That was until his dog tag was discovered in the sands of Omaha Beach.
On Wednesday -- exactly 63 years after that tragic day -- the aged tag was returned to his native Tennessee.
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"This feels like an ending," said the soldier's first cousin, 79-year-old Lota Park, who along with another cousin accepted the dog tag at a ceremony in the small town of Huntingdon, about 90 miles west of Nashville.
The tag has blackened with age, but his name, identification number, religion (Protestant) and blood type (Type O) are all clearly visible.
It remained out of sight for more than five decades until a collector from England found it five years ago on the beach, likely near the very spot where the 20-year-old Clark was killed. The collector gave the dog tag to a World War II buff from New Jersey, who turned it over to the National D-Day Memorial.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/
ats-ap_us17jun06,0,3167950.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
“God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said to a number of foreign guests at a ceremony marking the 18th death anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.
Citing last year’s Lebanon war, he said, “With God’s help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine.”
Ahmadinejad went on to note that “If you make a mistake and create another war against the oppressed Lebanese nation, this time the angry ocean of the nations of the region will remove your rotten roots from the region.”
First let's get this straight, President Imaneedajob does not give a hoot about the Lebanese people.
He only cares about power, if he can use them to gain power in the middle east, then so be it.
He is, highly motivated, intelligent and flat out crazy.
This is the same man who wants to bring about WWIII so he can dispose of all those who do not believe as he does.
The same man who took a union leader in Iran who was putting together a protest and took him out in the center of town and slowly cut his tounge out so he would shut up, and silence any others wanting to protest his government.
Sounds to me like it's time to start putting a dent in his plans. (or his head)
Here is yet another article that debates the so called concensus on global warming.
Here is a cherry picked excerp;
Does any remember the global cooling warning in the 70's? I do and I wonder how many of the scientists then are the same scientists today? I wonder what will be the 'end of the world' doomsday scenario that they will be trying to sell us in another 30 years.
That is if we make it that long! LOL. Not that I dont think that it is good to be much less wasteful and take care of our planet (not to mention getting off our depency on fossil fules) just dont tell me that we are all going to die if we dont.
If the left was smart about it, they would be telling the right that their 401k will be in jepordy if we dont go green. Then something would be done about it. Just dont say 'were all going to die' because everyone is sceptical about those scenario's, yes even the scientific community.
This whole global warming thing has backfired. Now instead of going green because its the right thing to do, everyone is trying to figure out if the myth is true and doing nothing. Again the should have just told everyone that their retirement money would be gone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
WASHINGTON - The government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze. Out of caution, the
Food and Drug Administration said, people should throw away toothpaste with labeling that says it was made in China. The FDA is concerned that these products may contain diethylene glycol.
The agency is not aware of any poisoning from toothpaste in the United States, but it did find the antifreeze ingredient in a shipment at the U.S. border and at two retail stores: a Dollar Plus store in Miami and a Todo A Peso store in Puerto Rico.
Officials said they are primarily concerned about toothpaste sold at bargain retail outlets. The ingredient in question, called DEG, is used as a lower-cost sweetener and thickening agent. The highest concentration of the chemical found in toothpaste so far was between 3 percent and 4 percent of the product's overall weight.
"It does not belong in toothpaste even in small concentrations," said the FDA's Deborah M. Autor.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_he_me/chinese_toothpaste
****....and some people have considered me "goofy" in the past because I have gone out of my way - for years now (not always to the degree of success that I'd like) - to avoid buying anything "made in China". Maybe those same people wouldn't consider me "goofy" now.****