In a pre-6/13/2005 memory I can remember purchasing a copy of that book when it came out.
I know that was the year 2004 because that was that wonderful period after I bagged out of Microsoft and moved out here to Spokane Valley on the other side of Washington State.
I can still recall the luxury of driving my black 2002 Jeep Wrangler over to the Appleby's restaurant and I was sitting there one day eating lunch and reading that book.
I used to largely ignore those memories because my earlier working theory was that my memory had been suppressed sometime in early 1998 and by means conventional to superior medical skill.
Now a few months ago I have decided that my memory was suppressed after 6/13/2005 and by means unconventional to any known science of human knowledge and experience. Meaning that I myself am technically not a human being. Originally I was a cloned human being born to a surrogate mother. Now I'm something very different.
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Battle Ready (Study in Command) Hardcover – May 24, 2004
by Tom Clancy (Author)
Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat" during his nearly forty years of service. As a soldier, his credentials were impeccable, whether leading troops in Vietnam, commanding hair-raising rescue operations in Somalia, or-as Commander in Chief of CENTCOM-directing strikes against Iraq and Al Qaeda. But it was as a peacemaker that he made just as great a mark-conducting dangerous troubleshooting missions all over Africa, Asia, and Europe; and then serving as Secretary of State Colin Powell's special envoy to the Middle East, before disagreements over the 2003 Iraq War and its probable aftermath caused him to resign.
Battle Ready follows the evolution of both General Zinni and the Marine Corps
Product Details
Series: Study in Command
Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (May 24, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399151761
ISBN-13: 978-0399151767
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/11/blonde-atom-bomb-1951.html - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 03:34 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Saturday 16 November 2013
Somewhere in my journal I wrote about something I did at Microsoft back in the year 2002. Back in the year 2002 I made copies of my performance evaluations from the United States Navy between 1984 and 1990 and posted images of those documents, as well as the letter of commendation from Chandler, on a shared folder I created on the Microsoft corporate internal network and I told my co-workers about it. I know people read the documents because Sharon asked me about it. Blair Shaw told me he spoke about it with a friend of his from the USS Abraham Lincoln over there across the bay from Seattle or where ever it was. That was about the time I went out and purchashed that flashy brand-new titanium Litespeed road racing bicycle from REI in Redmond.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 16 November 2013 excerpt ends]
https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/newsevents/2011/1109.html
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
LIBERAL ARTS and SCIENCES
Save the Date: General Anthony C. Zinni (Ret.), ’65 BS, MS, MBA, U.S. Marine Corps, Visits Villanova
Gen. Zinni
Anthony Charles Zinni (born September 17, 1943), who received a bachelor's degree in economics from Villanova, is a retired four-star General in the U.S. Marine Corps and a former Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Zinni
Anthony Zinni
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthony Charles Zinni (born September 17, 1943) is a retired United States Marine Corps general and a former Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM).
Career
U.S. Marine Corps
From 1994 to 1996, he served as the Commanding General, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50329
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
The President's Radio Address
June 11, 1994
Good morning. For me and for many of you, last week was a time of remembrance and rededication. As we marked the 50th anniversary of D-Day, a grateful nation honored the generation of heroes who fought and won World War II and built us 50 years of freedom.
I had the privilege of representing our country at ceremonies honoring all those who liberated Europe. It was an experience I'll never forget. And I came home with a renewed sense of commitment to the work we must do in our time.
The generation of heroes whom we honored last week never lost faith in the promise of America. They worked their way out of the Great Depression, defeated fascism on three continents, and built half a century of prosperity for their children and grandchildren. With the history they made they proved what a great democracy can accomplish when we work together for a great purpose.
Yet today, too many have lost that faith. After years of deadlock and division and drift, too many doubt that our democratic process can change our lives for the better. Well, democracy can be imperfect. After all, it's run by and it represents human beings. Its workings are often untidy, and its pace can be frustratingly slow. But unlike any other system of government, it allows the people's wisdom to prevail, and ultimately something good and decent gets done.
From 10/9/1934 ( Alexander I the king of Yugoslavia assassinated by gunfire ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 20896 days
20896 = 10448 + 10448
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/11/1994 is 10448 days
From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as 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 kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/11/1994 is 508 days
508 = 254 + 254
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/14/1966 ( premiere US film "Torn Curtain" ) is 254 days
From 9/17/1943 ( Anthony Zinni ) To 6/11/1994 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50329
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
The President's Radio Address
June 11, 1994
Good morning. For me and for many of you, last week was a time of remembrance and rededication. As we marked the 50th anniversary of D-Day, a grateful nation honored the generation of heroes who fought and won World War II and built us 50 years of freedom.
I had the privilege of representing our country at ceremonies honoring all those who liberated Europe. It was an experience I'll never forget. And I came home with a renewed sense of commitment to the work we must do in our time.
The generation of heroes whom we honored last week never lost faith in the promise of America. They worked their way out of the Great Depression, defeated fascism on three continents, and built half a century of prosperity for their children and grandchildren. With the history they made they proved what a great democracy can accomplish when we work together for a great purpose.
Yet today, too many have lost that faith. After years of deadlock and division and drift, too many doubt that our democratic process can change our lives for the better. Well, democracy can be imperfect. After all, it's run by and it represents human beings. Its workings are often untidy, and its pace can be frustratingly slow. But unlike any other system of government, it allows the people's wisdom to prevail, and ultimately something good and decent gets done.
This morning I want to tell you about something profoundly important we're working to accomplish. For weeks we've been told that health care reform is dead, that America will continue to be the only advanced country in the world that spends more than anybody else on health care and does less with it, leaving tens of millions of our fellow citizens without health insurance, tens of millions more with inadequate insurance, and even more with the constant risk of losing their coverage. But the truth is, in spite of all the naysayers, our Nation is closer than ever before to achieving a goal that President Truman set after World War II, "real health care security for every family."
Last week, for the first time in history, Congress took several giant steps toward a bill that answers the call of history and provides guaranteed private insurance for every American. Senator Kennedy's Labor and Human Resources Committee approved a bill providing guaranteed private insurance for every family. The Senate Finance Committee is moving forward under the leadership of Chairman Moynihan, who is also committed to achieving coverage for all Americans.
Meanwhile, other important congressional committees continue their work, and soon the House and the Senate will debate and decide on a bill that will make our families' anxieties about health care a thing of the past.
This isn't just about the uninsured, although their numbers are growing and nearing 40 million. It's also about the tens of millions of Americans, most of them hard-working, middle class people, who live with the uncertainty of never knowing whether their health care will be there when they need it. After all, they could have a member of their family get sick or they could lose their jobs or they could change jobs and they couldn't get insurance on the new one. The only way all of our people will be secure is when every American knows that whether they lose their job, change jobs, move their home, get sick, get injured, or just grow old, their health care will be there.
Others urge half-measures and quick fixes. They say they're reforming the health care system, but they fail to provide every American with the ironclad guarantee that they'll have private health insurance that can never be taken away. Health care reform just isn't the real thing unless middle class working people are guaranteed coverage, and after at least 50 years of delay, the American people deserve the real thing.
I'll tell you why I'm fighting so hard for this health care reform. Every day Hillary and I, the Vice President, people in our administration, we all hear about hard-working Americans whose lives are being torn apart by uncertainties about their health care. People like Jim Bryant, who told the Boston Globe that he works 70 hours a week but has no health insurance for his family. He wonders if it's fair that he misses his son's soccer games on Saturdays to go to his second job while people who are on welfare have health benefits he and his family don't have. In a moment of frustration he pointed out to his wife that if they broke up she and their sons could get benefits that working families like theirs can't afford.
That's just not right. No one who works should have to go on welfare to get health insurance. And everyone on welfare should have the opportunity to go to work without losing health care coverage. It's families like the Bryants who will get no help at all from half-measures, quick fixes, and Band-Aid-style reforms. For the sake of these hard-working families, let's not leave anyone out. Let's cover everyone. Let's get the job done this year.
In the weeks ahead, you'll hear from special interests who do very well in the present system and who prefer the deadlock of political systems to the reform of health care. For months, those who do well in the present system and those who want for political reasons to beat health care reform, have blitzed the American people with mountains of false information about our health care plan. They say it means Government regulation of the whole system. They say it means taking away benefits from Americans. But the truth is what we want is private insurance for everyone. We want to keep the private health care delivery system that's the best in the world for people who have access to it. We want to give a break to small businesses so they can afford health insurance that's good. But we think everybody should be covered and everyone should take responsibility for doing it.
Now, if you keep faith with democracy, if you'll make your voice heard, we can break gridlock even on this most difficult issue that has frustrated Americans for 50 years. And the national interests will prevail over narrow interests. I know we can succeed.
Helen Keller once wrote that "the world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." Americans from every part of the country and every walk of life have called for fundamental health care reform this year. The steps that Congress took last week proved that the voice of the people is being heard.
I urge you to tell your elected Representatives that we need to do this, do it right, and do it now.
Thanks for listening.
NOTE: The President spoke at 10:06 a.m. from the Oval Office at the White House.
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-I-king-of-Yugoslavia
Encyclopædia Britannica
Alexander I
King of Yugoslavia
Alexander I, (born December 4 [December 16, New Style], 1888, Cetinje, Montenegro—died October 9, 1934, Marseille, France), king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1921–29) and of Yugoslavia (1929–34), who struggled to create a united state out of his politically and ethnically divided collection of nations.
He was the second son of Peter Karadjordjevic—king of Serbia (1903–18) and king of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1918–21)—and Zorka of Montenegro. Alexander spent his early youth in Geneva with his father, then in exile from Serbia, and in 1899 went to St. Petersburg, where he entered the Russian imperial corps of pages in 1904. In 1909, however, when his elder brother renounced his right of succession, Alexander, having become heir apparent, joined his family in Serbia.
A distinguished commander in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13, Alexander was appointed regent of Serbia by the ailing King Peter (June 24, 1914) and during World War I served as commander in chief of Serbia’s armed forces, entering Belgrade in triumph on October 31, 1918. As prince regent, he proclaimed the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes on December 1, 1918.
The instability of the new state was demonstrated by an attempt on his life on June 28, 1921, the day that Alexander swore an oath to uphold the constitution. Nevertheless, on August 16 he succeeded his father as king and on June 8, 1922, he married Marie, a daughter of Ferdinand I of Romania. Later Alexander attempted to consolidate the rival nationality groups and political parties into a unified state.
During the 1920s mounting political tensions forced numerous changes in government ministers and culminated in the murder of several Croat deputies by a Montenegrin deputy during a Skupština (parliament) session (June 20, 1928). The Croat members then withdrew from the Skupština; and, because Alexander could neither negotiate a satisfactory compromise for restructuring the body nor form an effective government, he dissolved it, abolished the constitution of 1921, and established a royal dictatorship (January 6, 1929).
Continuing his efforts to unify his subjects, Alexander changed the name of the country to Yugoslavia (October 3, 1929), outlawed all political parties based on ethnic, religious, or regional distinctions, reorganized the state administratively, and standardized legal systems, school curricula, and national holidays. He also tried to relieve the peasantry’s financial difficulties, eased relations with Bulgaria (1933), and engaged Yugoslavia in the Little Entente (with Czechoslovakia and Romania) and the Balkan Entente, an alliance with Greece, Turkey, and Romania (1934).
In the process Alexander created a police state that required military support for survival. When a new constitution was promulgated (September 3, 1931), the dictatorship was, in effect, given a legal foundation. Although Alexander’s acts were at first well received, demands for a return to democratic forms intensified by 1932, when a major economic crisis resulting from the worldwide depression added to political dissatisfaction. As a result, Alexander seriously considered restoring a parliamentary form of government, but, before he was able to do so, he was assassinated while making a state visit to France. The assassin was identified as Vlado Chernozemski, an agent of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. The Ustaša, a Croatian separatist group, also was implicated in the plot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061107/releaseinfo
IMDb
Torn Curtain (1966)
Release Info
USA 14 July 1966 (Boston, Massachusetts) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061107/plotsummary
IMDb
Torn Curtain (1966)
Plot Summary
Professor Michael Armstrong is heading to Stockholm to attend a physics conference accompanied by his assistant-fiancée Sarah Sherman. Once arrived however, Michael informs her that he may be staying for awhile and she should return home. She follows him and realizes he's actually heading to East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain. She follows him there and is shocked when he announces that he's defecting to the East after the US government canceled his research project. In fact, Michael is there to obtain information from a renowned East German scientist. Once the information is obtained, he and Sarah now have to make their way back to the West.
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Torn Curtain (1966)
Full Cast & Crew
Paul Newman ... Professor Michael Armstrong
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PINK FLOYD
"Two Suns In The Sunset"
and i think of all the good things
that we have left undone
and i suffer premonitions
confirm suspicions
of the holocaust to come
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 5:03 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 14 November 2015
