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Edward O'Hare
For his father, the Al Capone lawyer, see Edward J. O'Hare.
Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) was an Irish-American naval aviator of the United States Navy who on February 20, 1942 became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. Butch O’Hare’s final action took place on the night of November 26, 1943, while he was leading the U.S. Navy’s first-ever nighttime fighter attack launched from an aircraft carrier. During this encounter with a group of Japanese torpedo bombers, O'Hare's F6F Hellcat was shot down; his aircraft was never found.
A few years later, O'Hare was honored when Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, suggested a name change of Chicago's Orchard Depot Airport as tribute to Butch O'Hare. On September 19, 1949, the Chicago, Illinois airport was renamed O'Hare International Airport.
By shooting down five bombers O'Hare became a flying ace, was selected for promotion to Lieutenant Commander, and became the first naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor. With President Franklin D. Roosevelt looking on, O'Hare's wife Rita placed the Medal around his neck.
From 4/21/1942 ( United States Navy Edward O'Hare presented the United States Navy Medal of Honor at the United States White House ) To 9/21/1989 ( the Hurricane Hugo makes landfall near Charleston South Carolina and my homeport in the United States Navy ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
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'FOR GALLANTRY AND INTREPIDITY IN AERIAL COMBAT'; PRESIDENT HONORS, PROMOTES O'HARE Medal of Honor Is Awarded to Navy's One-Man Air Force for Japanese Attack WHITE HOUSE CEREMONY Citation Calls Deed 'One of Most Daring in History of Combat Aviation'
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WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Lieutenant Edward H. O'Hare, the naval flier who single-handed shot down five Japanese bombers and damaged another in combat action off the Gilbert Islands on Feb. 20, was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor today by President Roosevelt.
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O'Hare International Airport
Chicago O'Hare International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAA LID: ORD), also known as O'Hare Airport, O'Hare Field, Chicago Airport, Chicago International Airport, or simply O'Hare, is a major airport located in the northwestern-most corner of Chicago, Illinois, United States, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Chicago Loop.
The airport is named after Edward O'Hare, the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.
From 12/20/1947 ( premiere US film "Miracle in a Cornfield" ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 19880 days
19880 = 9940 + 9940
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to murder me the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 9940 days
From 9/28/1991 ( United States Title 18 Treason 2381 - the United States Navy USS Asheville SSN 758 commissioned into United States Navy active service & RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the National Civil Rights Museum Memphis Tennessee ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 3892 days
3892 = 1946 + 1946
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/2/1971 ( premiere US TV movie "Yuma" ) is 1946 days
From 12/23/1954 ( premiere US film "20000 Leagues Under the Sea" ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush murders 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a military prisoner of the United States ) is 8660 days
From 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my hyperspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 4088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/11/1977 ( premiere US TV series episode "Happy Days"::"Time Capsule" ) is 4088 days
From 9/21/1989 ( the Hurricane Hugo makes landfall near Charleston South Carolina and my homeport in the United States Navy ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 4629 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/6/1978 ( the Annapolis Maryland United States Naval Academy Class of 1982 induction day for my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 4629 days
From 5/16/1945 ( James Moran ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 20828 days
20828 = 10414 + 10414
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/8/1994 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV miniseries Stephen King's "The Stand"::miniseries premiere episode "The Plague" ) is 10414 days
From 2/18/1991 ( the Bill Gates-Microsoft-Nazi-George Bush attack against the US Navy warship USS Princeton CG 59 as another attempt to murder Thomas Reagan the US Navy SEAL and Kerry Wayne Burgess circa 1990 also known for official duty as Wayne Newman and as Matthew Kline the United States Marine Corps Warrant Officer as we both served the US Navy presence in the Persian Gulf again at the same time ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 4114 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/6/1977 ( premiere US TV movie "Tail Gunner Joe" ) is 4114 days
From 11/26/1972 ( premiere US TV movie "The Prince and the Pauper" ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 10772 days
10772 = 5386 + 5386
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) is 5386 days
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From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 2713 days
2713 = 1356 + 1357
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/20/1969 ( my brother United States Navy Commander Thomas Reagan was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 1356 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/21/1969 ( my brother United States Navy Commander Thomas Reagan was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 1357 days
From 2/5/1945 ( premiere United Kingdom film "Meet Sexton Blake" ) To 5/25/2002 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Sioux City Iowa airport ) is 20928 days
20928 = 10464 + 10464
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/27/1994 ( United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the pilot and plane crash survivor along with me Kerry Wayne Burgess - circa 1990 also known for official duty as Wayne Newman the Chief Deputy United States Marshal and the active duty commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps - and the other Lockheed L-1011 aircraft passengers and crew murdered in a scheduled terrorism-sabotage attack by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal by causing the external mounted Orbital Sciences Pegasus space satellite booster rocket to explode under our aircraft ) is 10464 days
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http://www.au.af.mil/au/goe/eagle_bios/2008/day_2008.asp
Air University
On 25 May 2002, Sioux City airport honored Day by renaming their airport Colonel Bud Day Field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux_Gateway_Airport
Sioux Gateway Airport
Sioux Gateway Airport (IATA: SUX, ICAO: KSUX, FAA LID: SUX), also known as Colonel Bud Day Field, is a joint civil-military public airport located 6 miles (10 km) south of Sioux City and just west of Sergeant Bluff, in Woodbury County, Iowa, United States.
On 25 May 2002, the airport was named "Colonel Bud Day Field" in honor of United States Air Force Colonel George Everette "Bud" Day, a Sioux City, Iowa native and is the only person ever awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Air Force Cross. In addition to commercial and general aviation service, the airport is home to the 185th Air Refueling Wing (185 ARW), an Air Mobility Command (AMC)-gained unit of the Iowa Air National Guard, flying the KC-135 Stratotanker.
Accidents
Main article: United Airlines Flight 232
On July 19, 1989, a United Airlines DC-10, on a flight from Denver to Philadelphia via Chicago, crashed at Sioux Gateway Airport while attempting an emergency landing. 112 passengers and 1 crew member were killed, while 184 passengers and 10 crew members survived. The accident was one of the most famous aviation disasters in American history, due to the skill of the crew in saving most of the occupants, and because the crash and rescue operation were captured on videotape by a news crew.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000933
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
MORAN, James P., (1945 - )
MORAN, James P., a Representative from Virginia; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., May 16, 1945
elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Second and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1991-present).
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
He flew high, wide, and silent over a graveyard world. Below him the desert lay like a whited sepulcher cut by the dark ribbon of the interstate highway. He flew east, over the state line now, his body far behind, glittering eyes rolled up to blind whites.
Now the land began to change. Buttes and strange, wind-carved pillars and tabletop mesas. The highway ran straight through. The Bonneville Salt Flats lay to the far north. Skull Valley somewhere west. Flying. The sound of the wind, dead and distant…
An eagle poised in the highest crotch of an ancient lightning-blasted pine somewhere south of Richfield felt something pass close by, some deadly sighted thing whizzing through the night, and the eagle took wing against it, fearless, and was buffeted away by a grinning sensation of deadly cold. The eagle fell almost all the way to the ground, stunned, before recovering itself.
The dark man’s Eye went east.
Now the highway below was I-70. The towns were huddled lumps, deserted except for the rats and the cats and the deer that had already begun to creep in from the forests as the scent of man washed away. Towns with names like Freemont and Green River and Sego and Thompson and Harley Dome. Then a small city, also deserted. Grand Junction, Colorado. Then—
Just east of Grand Junction was a spark of campfire.
The Eye spiraled down.
The fire was dying. There were four figures sleeping around it.
It was true, then.
The Eye appraised them coldly. They were coming. For reasons he could not fathom, they were actually coming.
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Virginia's 8th congressional district
Virginia's Eighth Congressional District is a U.S. congressional district in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The residents of the 8th District are currently represented by Democratic Congressman Jim Moran, first elected to the 8th's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990.
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Tom was making for a barn with an attached silo which stood at the end of a dirt road about a quarter of a mile long. Nick, still feeling nervous, pedaled his own bike up the highway, lifted it over the cattle-gate, and then pedaled up the dirt feeder road to the barn. Tom’s bike lay on the dirt fill outside. He hadn’t even bothered to put the kickstand down. Nick would have chalked this up to simple forgetfulness if he hadn’t seen Tom use the kickstand several times before. He’s scared right out of what little mind he has, Nick thought.
His own uneasiness made him take one last look over his shoulder, and what he saw coming froze him coldly in his tracks.
A horrible darkness was coming out of the west. It was not a cloud; it was more like a total absence of light. It was in the shape of a funnel, and at first glance it looked a thousand feet high. It was wider at the top than at the bottom; the bottom was not quite touching the earth. At its summit, the very clouds seemed to be fleeing from it, as if it possessed some mysterious power of repulsion.
As Nick watched, it touched down about three quarters of a mile away and a long blue building with a roof made of corrugated metal—an auto supply place, or perhaps a lumber storage shed—exploded with a loud bang. He could not hear this, of course, but the vibration struck him, rocking him back on his feet. And the building seemed to explode inward, as if the funnel had sucked all the air out of it. The next moment the tin roof broke in two. The sections whirled upward, spinning and spinning like a top gone insane. Fascinated, Nick craned his neck to follow their progress.
I am looking at whatever it is in my worst dreams, Nick thought, and it is not a man at all, although it may sometimes look like a man. What it really is is a tornado. One almighty big black twister ripping out of the west, sucking up anything and everything unlucky enough to be in its path. It’s —
Then he was grabbed by both arms and literally jerked off his feet and into the barn. He looked around at Tom Cullen and was momentarily surprised to see him. In his fascination with the storm, he had quite forgotten that Tom Cullen existed.
“Downstairs!” Tom panted. “Quick! Quick! Oh my laws, yes! Tornado! Tornado! ”
At last Nick was fully, consciously afraid, ripped out of the half-entranced state he had been in and aware again of where he was and who he was with. As he let Tom lead him to the stairs going down into the barn’s storm cellar, he became aware of a strange, thrumming vibration. It was the closest thing to sound he had ever experienced. It was like a nagging ache in the center of his brain. Then, as he went down the stairs behind Tom, he saw something he would never forget: the plank siding of the barn being pulled out board by board, pulled out and whirled up into the cloudy air, like rotted brown teeth being pulled out by invisible forceps. The hay littered on the floor began to rise and whirl in a dozen miniature tornado funnels, nodding and dipping and skipping. That thrumming vibration grew ever more persistent.
Then Tom was pushing open a heavy wooden door, thrusting him through. Nick smelled wet mold and decay. In the last instant of light he saw they were sharing the storm cellar with a family of rat-gnawed corpses. Then Tom slammed the door shut and they were in perfect darkness. The vibration lessened but did not cease completely even then.
Panic crept up on him with its cloak open and gathered him in. The blackness reduced his senses to touch and smell, and neither of them sent messages which were comforting. He could feel the constant vibration of the boards beneath his feet, and the smell was death.
Tom clutched his hand blindly and Nick drew the retarded man next to him. He could feel Tom trembling, and he wondered if Tom was crying, or perhaps trying to speak to him. The thought eased some of his own fear and he slung an arm about Tom’s shoulders. Tom reciprocated and they stood bolt upright in the dark, clinging to each other.
The vibration grew stronger under Nick’s feet; even the air seemed to be trembling lightly against his face. Tom held him more tightly still. Blind and deaf, he waited for what might happen next and reflected that if Ray Booth had gotten his other eye, all of life would be like this. If that had happened, he believed he would have shot himself in the head days ago and had done with it.
Later he would be almost unable to believe his watch, which insisted that they had spent only fifteen minutes in the darkness of the storm cellar, although logic told him that since the watch was still running, it must be so. Never before in his life had he understood how subjective, how plastic, time really is. It seemed that it must have been at least an hour, probably two or three. And as the time passed, he became convinced that he and Tom were not alone in the storm cellar. Oh, there were the bodies—some poor guy had brought his family down here near the end, perhaps on the fevered assumption that, since they had weathered other natural disasters down here, they could weather this here one, too—but it wasn’t the bodies that he meant. To Nick’s mind, a corpse was just a thing, no different than a chair or a typewriter or a rug. A corpse was just an inanimate thing which filled space. What he felt was the presence of another being, and he became more and more convinced who—or what—it was.
It was the dark man, the man who came to life in his dreams, the creature whose spirit he had sensed in the black heart of the cyclone.
Somewhere… over in the corner or perhaps right behind them… he was watching them. And waiting. At the right moment he would touch them and they would both… what? Go mad with fear, of course. Just that. He could see them. Nick was sure he could see them. He had eyes which could see in the dark like a cat’s eyes, or those of some weird alien creature. Like the one in that movie, Predator, perhaps. Yes—like that. The dark man could see tones of the spectrum that human eyes could never attain to, and to him everything would look slow and red, as if the whole world had been tie-dyed in a vat of gore.
At first Nick was able to divide this fantasy from reality, but as time passed, he became more and more sure that the fantasy was reality.
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
"Someone was in there," Tom said abruptly.
Nick smiled but the smile felt cold on his lips. He had no idea how good the imitation looked, but it felt crappy. He pointed to Tom, to himself, and then made a sharp cutting gesture through the air with the side of his hand.
"No," Tom said. "Not just us. Someone else, Someone who came out of the twister."
Nick shrugged.
"Can we go now? Please?"
Nick nodded.
They trundled their bicycles back to the highway, using the path of uprooted grass and torn soil that the tornado had made. It had touched down on the west side of Rosston, had cut across US 283 on a west-to-east course, throwing guard-rails and connecting cable into the air like piano wire, had skirted the barn to their left and ploughed directly through the house which stood - had stood - in front of it. Four hundred yards farther along, its track through the field abruptly ceased. Now the clouds had begun to break up (although it was still showering, lightly and refreshingly) and birds were singing unconcernedly.
Nick watched the hefty muscles under Tom's shirt work as he lifted his bike over the jumble of guardrail cable on the verge of the highway. That guy saved my life, he thought. I never saw a twister in my life before today. If I'd left him behind back there in May like I thought about doing, I'd be as dead as a doornail right about now.
He lifted his bike over the frayed cables and clapped Tom on the back and smiled at him.
We've got to find somebody else, Nick thought. We've got to, just so I can tell him thanks. And my name. He doesn't even know my name, because he can't read.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001495.htm
CDC
MMWR
Weekly
November 10, 1989 / 38(44);754,759-762
Medical Examiner/Coroner Reports of Deaths Associated with Hurricane Hugo -- South Carolina
At 11:57 p.m. eastern daylight time on Thursday, September 21, 1989, the eye of Hurricane Hugo struck the coast of South Carolina north of Charleston (Figure 1). Peak wind velocities in Charleston were measured at 135 mph, and there was an accompanying tidal surge of 12-17 feet. Heavy rains caused additional flooding and further damage. In addition to the damage or destruction to homes and buildings, approximately 900,000 persons in North and South Carolina were left without electrical power. After striking the coast, Hugo moved across central South Carolina and North Carolina. On September 22, the National Weather Service downgraded Hugo to a tropical storm.
As part of the Medical Examiner and Coroner (ME/C) Information Sharing Program at CDC, public health officials, using contact information in Medical Examiner and Coroner Jurisdictions in the United States (1), asked ME/Cs in 25 South Carolina counties in the path of Hurricane Hugo to report 1) the number of deaths in their jurisdictions that they investigated between September 21 and October 6; 2) the number of these deaths that were related to the hurricane; and 3) for the 35 deaths reported as hurricane related, information about the demographic characteristics, cause, and circumstances of each death. ME/Cs reported that 29 injury deaths were directly related to the hurricane (Table 1) and categorized the manner of death for these persons as "accident"*. In Dorchester and Berkeley counties, coroners reported six deaths caused by "heart attacks" attributed to stress associated with the hurricane. The manner of death in these cases was "natural," and all six occurred after the hurricane.
http://www.noaa.gov/features/03_protecting/hugo.html
NOAA
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Hurricane Hugo: 20 Years Later
On September 21, 1989, Hurricane Hugo barreled inland at Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, as a massive Category 4 storm. It leveled beachfront properties, tossed fishing boats into the streets, wreaked havoc and destruction on Carolina communities from the coast to hundreds of miles inland, and threatened the lives of everyone in its path.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8363682
NCBI
US National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Am J Emerg Med. 1993 Sep;11(5):464-7.
The effect of a class IV hurricane on emergency department operations.
Sheppa CM, Stevens J, Philbrick JT, Canada M.
Source
Department of Emergency Medicine, Trident Regional Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29418.
Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine the impact on emergency department (ED) operations of Hurricane Hugo, a class IV hurricane that struck Charleston, South Carolina, on September 21, 1989.
