This would seem to support my theory that I am the youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor. I found those clues about 6/19/1968 that made me think of my age of 9.3 years old back then.
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/070613-N-2420K-001.jpg
070613-N-2420K-001 ANAHEIM, Calif. (June 13, 2007) - California Sea Cadets shake hands with Medal of Honor recipient John Fin during the "Keeping the Promise" gala dinner held at the Anaheim Hilton. The symposium aims to promote disabled veteran-owned business and identify and educate disabled veterans who would like to become entrepreneurs. Fin was awarded the Medal of Honor for selflessly manning an exposed .50-caliber machine gun during the attack by Japanese airplanes on Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay. Although he was wounded approximately 21 times, he fought with complete disregard for his own safety. He is the oldest surviving Medal of Honor recipient. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jonathan Kulp (RELEASED)
Did I really make a buzzer-beater for the USNA basketball team in 1982 in one of the final games? I have artificial and symbolic "memories" from my last year at Ashdown where the coach told me he didn't think I was going to make the basket I threw during a basketball game but I did make it. Could that be why "Paula" made the number 3 gesture in her very first scene in the 1982 "An Officer And A Gentleman"? Was Phoebe there to watch that basketball game where I made the last minute game winning basket?
I have also been thinking I was a field goal kicker in my 1st year at USNA, so that could also account for the '3' gesture that "Paula" makes. I haven't been able to determine so far if the games the U.S. Navy team participated in back in 1982 was using the 3-point rule.
The more I think about it, the "Lynnette" character is anticipating the whistle for the end of the day and that would sure make a great symbolic connection to the end of a basketball game. Then "Paula" turns around and makes a gesture for the number 3, which could symbolize that I made a 3-point shot just before the whistle sounded the end of the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_field_goal
In basketball, a three-point field goal, three-pointer, three-point shot, or simply three is a field goal made from beyond the three point line, a designated semi-ellipsoid arc radiating from the basket. A successful attempt is worth three points, in contrast to the two points given for shots made inside the three point line.
A traditional three-point play occurs when a shooter successfully scores a basket while being fouled, and then scores the ensuing single free throw. The phrase and one is commonly used to signify that the shooter's basket was good and that a single free throw will be awarded, indicating a possible three-point play.
The three-point rule was first tested in a 1945 National Collegiate Athletic Association game between Columbia and Fordham but professional basketball would be the first to adopt the rule on a permanent basis. The short-lived American Basketball League did so in 1961, and the Eastern Professional Basketball League followed in its 1963-64 season. The three-point shot later became popularized by the ABA after its introduction in 1968. During the 1970s, the ABA would use the three-point shot, along with the slam dunk, as a marketing tool to compete with the National Basketball Association (NBA). In the 1979–80 season, the NBA officially adopted the three-point shot. On October 12, 1979, Chris Ford scored the NBA's first three-point shot, and Fred Brown led the league in three-point field goal percentage in that first season of adoption. The sport's international governing body, FIBA, introduced the three-point line in 1984.
The NCAA's Southern Conference became the first collegiate conference to use the three-point rule, adopting a 22-foot line in 1980. Over the following five years, NCAA conferences differed in their use of the rule and the distance they required for a three-point shot. The NCAA adopted the 19-foot, 9-inch line nationally in 1986.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_goal_%28football%29
A field goal (formerly "goal from the field") in American football and Canadian football (collectively called gridiron football) is a goal that may be scored during general play ("from the field").
A field goal may be scored by a placekick or the very rare drop kick. The ball must pass "through the uprights", that is, over a crossbar 10 feet off the ground and between upright posts 18' 6" (5.55 m) apart, to count, and the kick must not be a kickoff or a free kick following a safety. A field goal can still be good even if the ball hits an upright or the crossbar. The rules of the particular sanctioning authority may impose additional requirements. A successful field goal scores three points.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 19, 2006
I started thinking yesterday about a scene from "Escape From L.A." It's that one where Plissken is on that basketball court and has to score a certain number of points before the clock runs out. I am wondering if I did something like that, in that I scored several points in the final minutes or at least made a game-winning buzzer beater, while in a game with the USNA basketball team.
9/24/2006 6:43 PM
I’m still thinking I played basketball during my 4th year at USNA. The only detail I can remember though, from my senior year at Ashdown, is about the two successful free throws the coach didn’t think I would make.
9/24/2006 7:37 PM
Oh, yeah. There was that scene in “Escape From L.A.” where Snake Plissken makes that improbable shot for two points at the buzzer. I wonder if I did something like that while playing for the USNA basketball team.
11/4/2006 6:15 PM
The movie “Lethal Weapon” released on Friday, March 6, 1987, according to the wiki article. My birthday was the previous Tuesday, March 3rd. I have been thinking that my family thought I was dead during that time, but they then discovered I had survived sometime after 5/9/87 and before 5/18/87.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_weapon
Release date(s) March 6, 1987 (USA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_Weapon_2
Release date(s) July 7th, 1989 (USA)
I was wondering too about that varsity jacket “Rigg’s” wears in the sequel. The colors of the body and the trim are blue and gold, just like USNA. I have written a few times that I have thoughts that I played on the USNA basketball team and maybe that is what the “B” is supposed to represent on his jacket.
11/9/2006 5:32 PM
I started wondering why I used Sherman Self-storage in Coeur d’Alene after I moved to eastern Washington. As I was looking at the map, I see that its address is on 23rd Street off Sherman Avenue. That intersection leads down the lake to Higgins Point. Anyway, it reinforces my thoughts that my basketball jersey number during my senior year with USNA 82 was 23. I have been debating whether it was 24, but 23 makes more sense if it was selected for symbolism. It has something to do with how 2359 is one minute before midnight.
11/11/2006 7:51 PM
I don’t know if these are memories trying to resurface or just random thoughts, but I have been thinking more about a time I seemed to have been playing basketball on the Navy team while at the Academy. I have these thoughts that I played for the first half or three periods and then the coach brought me to rest me for the final plays of the game. At the end of the game, with maybe 30 seconds left, we were ten points down. He put me back in and told the other guys to just get the ball in my hands. I scored enough points in the last few seconds to win the game, an important game I think, maybe the final game of the year, and I scored the winning basket from beyond the half-court line as the buzzer went off. I think it was reflected in “Escape From L.A.” where Kurt Russell’s character did something similar.
11/11/2006 8:02 PM
I don’t know, or can’t remember, who the other team was, but I have thoughts that they teamed up to run me into the ground to reduce my effectiveness.
12/02/06 7:43 PM
That certainly is close to something I wrote about a while back. I was writing about the combination of 23 and 59 being my basketball jersey number my senior year at the USNA and 59 being my birth-year. Something about the last minute of the day. Based on this information, the sphere, which resembles a basketball, is 23 meters high, which means the truss structure is 58.07 meters high.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsphere
The Sunsphere is an 81.07 m (266-foot) high hexagonal steel truss structure, topped with a 23m (74-foot) bronze glass-plated sphere. It is the most distinctive structure on the Knoxville, Tennessee skyline.
In March 1991 officials from the Pensacola Tornados of the CBA were looking at Knoxville for possible location and said of the Sunsphere as potential office space, "What better place for basketball offices than a giant gold basketball in the sky."
12/02/06 7:49 PM
DAMN!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Pensacola
Naval Air Station Pensacola (IATA: NPA, ICAO: KNPA), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located in Warrington, Florida, a community southwest of the Pensacola city limits. It is best known as the primary training base for Navy and Marine aviators and as the home base for the Blue Angels precision-flying team.
12/03/06 12:21 AM
I was reading through as I was looking for clues about my perceptions of playing basketball in the USNA in 1982. This reminds me of "memories" about a wheelchair I used to sit in at a warehouse next to Mills Store. I am thinking that I had to use a wheelchair after falling from Columbia as it was landing on 4/14/81 and was injured by my parachute harness.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=42434
Remarks on Accepting the Honorary Chairmanship of the VIIth Paralympic Games
April 22nd, 1982
01/08/07 9:05 AM
And why do I have such a strong "memory" about Villanova winning the basketball championship in 1985? A very puzzling and curious "memory."
01/08/07 11:48 AM
Why do I "remember" this? I associate this event with being on the Taylor in 1985. I have what seems to be very good "memories" of this event. I have "memories" of committing this event to memory. Why would I do that? Why would I have such a "memory" associated with my "memories" of the USS Taylor?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanova_University
...
1985 National Champions
In 1985, under the direction of coach Rollie Massimino, the men's basketball team completed one of the most surprising runs in NCAA tournament history by winning the national championship in the first year of the 64-team field. The eighth-seeded Wildcats beat Dayton, then upset top-seeded Michigan, Maryland and second-seeded North Carolina to win the South regional en route to the Final Four in Lexington, Kentucky. After defeating 2-seed Memphis State in the national semifinals, Villanova met defending champion and ten-point-favorite Georgetown, led by Patrick Ewing, in the title game.
01/08/07 1:07 PM
There were four WW2 era Battleships re-commissioned into active USN service in the 80's:
USS Iowa BB-61 re-commissioned on 4/28/84, Saturday. That is around the same time of the year I have been writing that I graduated USNA in 1982, but I am not really sure any more what that means.
USS New Jersey BB-62 re-commissioned on Tuesday, 12/28/82. I think it was the New Jersey that OS2 Doug Weise had been stationed on. I "remember" him from my class at Great Lakes and then at Dam Neck. Maybe the New Jersey was recommissioned in 1982, as the first one of those four, because I graduated USNA in 1982, and because I had earlier graduated from Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey.
USS Missouri BB-63 was re-commissioned on Saturday, 5/10/86.
USS Wisconsin BB-64 was re-commissioned on Saturday, 10/22/88.
01/08/07 1:33 PM
Intriguing details on this boat. The 733 piqued my interest and I discover that it was commissioned during that time I think I was missing in action in Africa. When I think of Nevada, I think of Las Vegas and gambling. Then I noticed that the boat was commissioned 23 weeks, 5 days after 3/3/86. That made me think of that theory I wrote about recently about a final game of basketball I played at the USNA. The game I am imaging or that I might be remembering, is the one I wrote about that might have inspired that scene in "Escape From L.A." where "Snake Plissken" has to score those baskets in order to stay alive. I wrote about how my supposed jersey number of 23, combined with 59, creates some kind of impression about winning in the last minute. Is that what this boat represents? When everyone thought I was dead, does this boat represent a more optimistic viewpoint?
http://www.navysite.de/ssbn/ssbn733.htm
USS Nevada SSBN-733
There is probably a better reason for the commissioning of the USS Nevada SSBN-733 being commissioned at that time. Maybe it was as I described about my jersey number, but it was probably something else and for the same reasoning as I described about gambling that I was still alive after that Libya prison I was being held as a Prisoner of War was bombed. Those boomers might also have all been commissioned on the same day of week, as the Burkes, so I need to look at that.
The USS New Jersey BB-62 was re-commissioned on 12/28/1982, according to the following information I found on the internet. That was 3 days, 34 weeks, after 5/1/1982. I would expect that date to align with 4/30/1982, because that is the date I recognize as when I graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. There might be a reason I don't remember yet. But I don't think it is a coinicidence that the New Jersey was the first of those battleships to be brought into active duty and because I recognize that I got my first college degree from Princeton University in New Jersey. It makes sense that this ship was re-commissioned to time with my graduation from another college.
From 5/1/1982 to 12/28/1982 is: 3 days, 34 weeks
3-3-4
http://www.navysite.de/bb/bb62.htm
USS New Jersey (BB 62)
Fourth commissioning: December 28, 1982
From 6/7/1981 to 4/28/1984 is: 3 weeks, 34 months
3-3-4
http://www.navysite.de/bb/bb61.htm
USS Iowa (BB 61)
USS IOWA was the first ship in the United States’ last class of Battleships.
Third commissioning: April 28, 1984
From 6/7/1981 to 5/10/1986 is: 59 months, 3 days
59-3
http://www.navysite.de/bb/bb63.htm
USS Missouri (BB 63)
Second commissioning: May 10, 1986
USS MISSOURI was the third ship in the IOWA class and the last battleship commissioned by the United States Navy.
From 5/13/1987 to 10/22/1988 is: 1 year, 5 months, 9 days
1-59
http://www.navysite.de/bb/bb64.htm
USS Wisconsin (BB 64)
WISCONSIN was the fourth IOWA class battleship and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name of the state.
Third commissioning: October 22, 1988
Annapolis, Maryland.
That's why the woman representing Phoebe in "Heartbreak Ridge" is named "Mary." The scenes mentioning her husband reminds me of Stonewall Jackson. I was his total age on 6/20/1998. It also supports my theory that I called in an air strike to bomb the prison I was being held in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis%2C_Maryland
Annapolis is the capital of the State of Maryland and the county seat of Anne Arundel County. It is a city with a population of 36,217 according to the 2004 census estimate. The city is part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area, It is situated at the mouth of the Severn River which flows into the Chesapeake Bay, 26 miles south of Baltimore and about 22 miles east of Washington D.C. It is also home to the United States Naval Academy and St. John's College.
Stonewall Jackson was 39.29 years old when he died. I was 9.29 on 6/19/1968.
From 1/21/1824 to 5/10/1863 is: 39 years, 109 days
From 3/3/1959 to 6/19/1968 is: 9 years, 108 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21,[1] 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most revered Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee.[2] He is most famous for his audacious Valley Campaign of 1862 and as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. His own troops accidentally shot him at the battle of Chancellorsville and he died of complications from an amputated arm and pneumonia several days later.
Military historians consider Jackson to be one of the most gifted tactical commanders in United States history. His Valley Campaign and his envelopment of the Union Army right wing at Chancellorsville are studied worldwide even today as examples of innovative and bold leadership. He excelled as well at the First Battle of Bull Run (where he received his famous nickname), Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Jackson was not universally successful as a commander, however, as displayed by his weak and confused efforts during the Seven Days Battles around Richmond in 1862. His death was a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but the morale of its army and the general public; as Jackson lay dying, General Robert E. Lee stated, "He has lost his left arm; I have lost my right."
This actor was 459 months, 2 weeks, 1 day old on 5/28/1982. I guess that is a 4-59-21 clue. I recognize the date 5/28/1982 as when the Class of 1982 graduated at the U.S. Navy Midshipman were promoted to the rank of Ensign, while the U.S. Marine officers, if there were any, were promoted to 2nd Lt. The ‘4’ is because I am the 4th oldest among my siblings.
It is the nature of this clue, my thoughts suggest, that he was given the role of "Hotel Manager" in the movie. I have observed what seemed to be similar references to me as some kind of authority figure associated with a hotel, but also that the hotel represents a larger corporation, of which I am the authority figure, which makes sense.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258117/
Michael Ensign
Date of Birth: 13 February 1944
Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) .... Hotel Manager
