Here’s a memorial to a fallen Soldier that I found in the same magazine, Confederate Veteran 1893. I love the way they spoke back then and their choice of words…not ones we use today to describe what they do here. I have Bold a phrase that had me re-reading it to make sure I understood it correctly. Enjoy and celebrate this warrior of ours! (The memorial said we would). 😉 Read more
While doing my usual searching I came across copies of old magazine publications called, “The Confederate Veteran” and came across this article concerning disabled confederate veterans whom also happened to be…HOMELESS. Take a look at how this was viewed and handled in our country in 1893 and may we follow suit. Our warriors (ALL of them) deserve the same as these gentlemen. I think you’ll enjoy this, I sure did!
The general public, interested in such matters,
knows how zealously and successfully our people in
Georgia worked to secure a Home in the vicinity of
the capital for disabled Confederate veterans, and that
the State Legislature has refused again and again to
accept the property, coupled with a provision to ap-
propriate a maintenance fund. Read more
Over century has sailed by since the luxury steamship RMS Titanic met its catastrophic end in the North Atlantic, plunging two miles to the ocean floor after side swiping an iceberg during its maiden voyage. Rather than the intended Port of New York, a deep-sea grave became the pride of the White Star Line’s final destination in the early hours of April 15, 1912. More than 1,500 people lost their lives in the disaster. In the decades since her demise, Titanic has inspired countless books and several notable films while continuing to make headlines, particularly since the 1985 discovery of her resting place off the coast of Newfoundland. Meanwhile, her story has entered the public consciousness as a powerful cautionary tale about the perils of human hubris. Read more
Monday: MIL-speak, Military Monday Montage (images)
Tuesday: Tuesday Tours of duty, (?) BRIT-speak, #YouTubeTuesday
Wednesday: #warriorwednesday, #warstorywednesday, Warrior of Light, #womenswednesday (women in the military).
Thursday: #throwbackthursday, yesteryear images, videos, stories
Friday: #fidofriday (War Dogs) RED Friday!
Saturday: Aviation: man and machine (videos, pictures, stories), Picture of the week announced, new pic of the week images posted for the next week
Sunday: Letters Home: letters from the front line, #supportsunday (raising awareness of issues surrounding the welfare of our veterans.)
*NOTE: Today in history and Duffel Blog will be posted daily as well as current events articles and stories.
FORT MEADE, MD – Just days after assuming his new post as Director of the National Security Agency, Central Security Service and U.S. Cyber Command, Adm. Mike Rogers was overheard complaining about massive privacy violations, as he’s been unable to stop his wife from going through his e-mails.
The four-star admiral — a specialist in cryptology and cyber warfare — said that despite routinely changing his password, clearing his browser cache, and implementing other routine security measures, his wife was still somehow able to see the most intimate details of his life with just the click of a button.
“I swear, every few hours I’m getting a phone call [from Dana] asking me why I started subscribing to updates from the new Captain America movie, or got a Google calendar alert about lunch with [Director of National Intelligence] James Clapper when I’m supposed to be taking her to the Mall to see the cherry blossoms,” Rogers was heard saying, according to a highly-placed source at the Rogers’ home.
“I don’t know if I would use the word ‘nosy,’ but seriously, can’t I have just one private conversation around here?”
The Admiral had recently finished drawing up a list of his wife’s possible hacking techniques, which ranged from installing Iranian malware on his work computer to involvement in the Heartbleed bug, which Admiral Rogers suspects his wife may have created to access his Netflix account.
Other sources inside the Rogers home explained that Mrs. Rogers was not spying on him, but just trying to build a comprehensive record of information that she might want to use someday.
“With all the e-mails Mike sends every day, how do I know that one won’t be an important doctor’s appointment he might forget or a credit card bill he might not pay?” the source said. “The only solution is just to read and store everything.”
The source also described a security system full of holes and easily crackable passwords.
“He can change his password every five minutes, but when he writes them all down on sticky notes and tacks them to his monitor that kind of defeats the purpose,” the source explained. “And it’s not like they’re hard to crack: ‘GoNavy1!’ GoNavy2!’? It’s not hard to figure out what it’s going to be the next week.”
Rogers grew even more exasperated after he accidentally forgot to log out of his Facebook and Twitter accounts and his wife used them to post in his name: “Taking my sweetie on a surprise trip to the Bahamas next month … if I know what’s good for me.”
The new NSA chief described the current privacy problem as “the greatest security threat” to ever hit the Rogers household in an e-mail to his closest friend, a Nigerian prince who would be sending him part of his immense fortune upon receipt of the admiral’s bank account numbers.
Rogers added that he would immediately be subjecting himself to several weeks of information assurance training and password management to ensure that similar incidents never happen again.
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via NSA Director Can’t Stop Wife From Reading E-Mails.
The RMS Titanic, billed as unsinkable, sinks into the icy waters of the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage, killing 1,517 people.
The United Kingdom’s White Star Line built the Titanic to be the most luxurious cruise ship in the world. It was nearly 900 feet long and more than 100 feet high. The Titanic could reach speeds of 30 knots and was thought to be the world’s fastest ship. With its individualized watertight compartments, it was seen as virtually unsinkable. Read more
The city of Oak Ridge located in eastern Tennessee was established in
1942 as the production site for the Manhattan Project, the American,
British and Canadian operation to develop the atomic bomb. At
its height, over 75,000 people lived there, but most of them had
no idea that they were producing uranium until the bombs dropped
on Hiroshima in 1945. In a fascinating look into this ‘secret’ town,
learn about the residents’ daily life and the sacrifices they made of
the atomic bomb. Read more
From the windows, walking by
Cities fall, and children die.
Through the windows, through the eyes
Soldiers march, and soldiers cry.
Past the broken welcome sign
Soldiers march the streets to die.
Locked inside a final fight
Soldiers march, and soldiers cry.
Broken hope, believing lies
In the land where senses die.
Praying, walking through the night
Soldiers march, and soldiers cry.
Raining fire from the sky
Time is marching, passing by.
The empty, soulless children’s eyes
Soldiers march, and soldiers cry.
Hope rises, hope declines
None the power of divine.
Beneath the empty, blackened sky
Soldiers march, and soldiers cry.
In my heart, they will be mine
Soldiers marching, line by line.
As cities fall and children die
Soldiers march, and soldiers cry.
Summer Sandercox
Α The March Ω
More than 13,000 people have already committed to helping Reset the Net on June 5th, and the list is growing. Together, we have the power to make dragnet surveillance too expensive and difficult to continue in its current form.
If you have a website, an app, or you’re an independent developer, click here. We have special instructions for you! On June 5th major websites, apps, and tech companies will unveil or announce new features, initiatives, and tools that protect users privacy.
Everyone else: Join the Thunderclap now to help spread the word.
On June 5th we’ll all work together to get as many people as possible to start using basic encryption tools to protect our communications from governments and companies that spy on us. There will be crypto-parties, know your rights training’s, protests, and social media actions all driving attention at a single page promoting free, open source privacy software in an easily understandable package for average internet users.
PAT’S RUN STARTED 10 YEARS AGO.
IN 2014, WE’LL RUN HARDER THAN EVER.
Pat’s Run is held in late April to commemorate the day Pat lost his life in Afghanistan serving with the 75th Ranger Regiment. Symbolic of the #42 he wore as an ASU Sun Devil, Pat’s Run is 4.2 miles long, ending on the 42-yard line of Frank Kush Field inside Sun Devil Stadium.
Donations from the race directly support the Tillman Military Scholars program, which provides scholarships to U.S. military veterans and spouses who reflect Pat’s values, strength of character, and commitment to service.
To mark the 10th Anniversary of Pat’s Run, we encourage each participant to fund-raise $100 in support of Tillman Military Scholars. The more we raise, the more we can help these outstanding Americans impact our country for years to come.
Link to Got Your 6 for information about the run and other ways to support/advocate The Tillman Military Scholars, including a Shadow Run.
US Air Force, Calypso Pass, NICE!
Two U.S. Air Force Thunderbird F-16 Fighting Falcons execute a precision acrobat technique known as a Calypso Pass for a crowd March 23, 2014, at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. The Thunderbirds performed for more than 185,000 during the MacDill AFB presents Tampa Bay AirFest 2014.
The Calypso Pass is when two planes flying at high-speed perform a mirror image. Interestingly, the Guinness World Record for closest Calypso Pass belongs to Major Scottie Zamzow and Major Brian Farrar of the 2005 Thunderbirds. They were a mere 18 inches (45 cm) apart! The feat was accomplished on 12-13 November 2005 at the Aviation Nation Air Show in Nellis, Las Vegas. [source]
The Thunderbirds are the air demonstration squadron of the United States Air Force (USAF). The Thunderbirds are assigned to the 57th Wing and are based…
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NEVER take the rights & freedom each of us has secured & intact within this amazingly beautiful country of ours for granted.
The men & women, our veterans, who stood up & who still are, to secure those rights & freedom gave very much of themselves in doing so.
Hold no doubt–Freedom is NEVER Free.
Have you thanked a veteran?
Join your fellow Americans in putting our gratitude into action & in uniting our voices collectively in standing up for the rights of ALL those who stood up for the rights & freedom of this entire country. Follow my page as well as +Gulf War Syndrome (Glenn Stewart) ‘s page for details posted daily, as well as multiple times throughout each day, on how you too can join your fellow Americans in standing up to secure our veterans rights & to demand our politicians, the VA Department & the DoD DO WHAT MUST BE DONE to keep our veterans rights intact & set into motion, effective immediately, all necessary & long overdue reforms needed to respectfully do right by ALL our veterans as should have never been in question in the first place.
This fight for our veterans has been far too long overdue.
The time to secure & fight for their rights is NOW & WE MUST BE RELENTLESS.
Thank you to each of you for genuinely caring enough to join in the teamwork to fight the just fight for ALL our veterans in a battle they should never have had to contend with. Your time & efforts are sincerely appreciated.
A wonderful tribute to our warriors.
They were heroic and yet silent. They said little and did so much.
Their chest expanded in pride and their eyes sharp on the scope.
They were in all levels, all colors, all language, and yet they communicated the same language of hope and charity, of bravery and the ability to conquer fear.
When the day was the darkest and the noise so great the brain could not think, they focused on their mission.
Their power was in their arms, their minds and their souls,
They represented the best this country has to offer, and they require so little in return.
Many now so old, their wrinkles on their brows, their minds filled with images they try to forget,
Yet deep in their bodies, the struggle to stand erect, to salute the flag, not to falter or sway in the wind.
We owe them so much and can never repay…
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“O Captain! My Captain!” is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman, about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln. The poem was first published in the pamphlet Sequel to Drum-Taps which assembled 18 poems regarding the American Civil War, including another Lincoln elegy, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d. It was included in Whitman’s comprehensive collection Leaves of Grass beginning with its fourth edition published in 1867. [Source] Read more
Maiden on the Midway 
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