Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Richard Henry Carmona

Based on this information I found on the internet, this guy was 13 days, 359 months, old on 11/4/1979, the day the U.S. embassy in Tehran was taken over.

From 11/22/1949 to 11/4/1979 is: 13 days, 359 months

1-33-59

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carmona

Vice Admiral Richard Henry Carmona, M.D., RN, M.P.H, F.A.C.S. (born 22 November 1949 (1949-11-22) (age 57)) of Puerto Rican descent, was the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, head of the United States Public Health Service. Appointed in 2002, he left his office quietly at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term.



http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/323179_healthcensors11.html

Last updated July 10, 2007 6:11 p.m. PT

Former surgeon general: I was muzzled

Administration interfered for political reasons, Carmona says

By KEVIN FREKING
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's most recent surgeon general accused the administration Tuesday of muzzling him for political reasons on hot-button health issues such as emergency contraception and abstinence-only education.

Dr. Richard Carmona, the nation's 17th surgeon general, told lawmakers that all surgeons general have had to deal with politics but none more so than he.

For example, he said he wasn't allowed to make a speech at the Special Olympics because it was viewed as benefiting a political opponent. However, he said he was asked to speak at events designed to benefit Republican lawmakers.

"The reality is that the nation's doctor has been marginalized and relegated to a position with no independent budget, and with supervisors who are political appointees with partisan agendas," said Carmona, who served from 2002 to 2006.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States that was triggered by a group of militant university students who took over the American diplomatic mission in Tehran, Iran on November 4, 1979. The students were supported by Iran's post-revolutionary regime that was in the midst of solidifying power. The students objected to U.S. influence in Iran and its support of the recently fallen Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. They held 63 U.S. diplomats and three other U.S. citizens hostage until January 20, 1981. Of those captured, 52 were held hostage until the conclusion of the crisis 444 days later.[1]

The ordeal reached its lowest point when the United States military attempted rescue operation on April 24, 1980. The failure of so-called Operation Eagle Claw resulted in the deaths of five USAF Airmen and three U.S. Marines. Notably, some political analysts believe the crisis was the primary reason for U.S. President Jimmy Carter's defeat in the U.S. Presidential Election of 1980.[2]

The crisis ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in Algeria on January 19, 1981. The hostages were formally released into United States custody the following day. The release took place just minutes after Ronald Reagan was officially sworn in as president of the United States.



JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Operation Eagle Claw

The bad news is that I have to spend over 9 years apart from my wife for this deployment. The good news is I get to see her in person this very second (sometime in the future obviously because it isn't happening as more seconds pass). Everything would be normal if not for this goddamned cage I live in, surrounded by these goddamned sociopaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antler

Antlers are the large and complex horn-like appendages of deer, consisting of bony outgrowths from the head with no covering of keratin as is found in true horns. Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a pedicle. While an antler is growing it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone; once the antler has achieved its proper size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler. Antlers are shed after mating season and regrown each year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlers%2C_Oklahoma

Antlers is a city in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,552 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pushmataha County


http://www.airnav.com/airport/80F

Antlers Municipal Airport
Antlers, Oklahoma, USA
FAA Identifier: 80F

http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_1_results.jsp

ZIP Code™ Matches in COFFEE CREEK, MT

59424


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw

Operation Eagle Claw (or Operation Evening Light) was a United States military operation to rescue the 53 hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran on April 24, 1980. The operation was a failure

The farm my grandmother Betty and Homer lived on was between that Antlers airport with the 80F identifier and the road labeled Coffee Creek.

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