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IN THESPOTLIGHT By MICHAEL OMER-MAN 04/15/2012 15:42
This Week in History: Iran, US battle on the seas
US engages in largest surface naval battle since WWII after months of heightened tensions from Iran-Iraq war.
On April 18, 1988, the United States engaged in its largest surface naval battle since World War II - with Iran. Four days earlier, US Navy guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck an Iranian naval mine in the Persian Gulf, blasting a 50-foot hole in its hull.
The attack came after months of increased tensions along the sidelines of the Iran-Iraq War, during which both countries extended the battlefield to civilian commercial sea vessels supporting their respective oil economies. In order to protect Kuwaiti and other Gulf states’ shipping lanes and assets, in 1987 the United States allowed a number of Kuwaiti ships to be reflagged as American, a move designed to permit them US naval protections. In July 1987, one of the American-flagged Kuwaiti ships struck an Iranian mine. Four months later, Iran struck yet another of the reflagged ships, the Sea Isle City, this time with two silkworm missiles. In retaliation, the US destroyed an Iranian oil platform used by its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) to launch seaborne attacks.
The tension continued to build into early 1988, and by April, US patrols and operations to thwart IRGC mining and attack operations were in full swing.
The attack on the USS Roberts, however, was the first time the Iranians had targeted an American ship as opposed to the American-flagged Kuwaiti ships it had been attacking until that point. Washington decided on a response sending a clear message to Tehran that the US would not allow the situation in the Persian Gulf to continue.
On the morning of April 18, US Marines and Navy Seals launched attacks on two Iranian oil platforms used by the Revolutionary Guards. The platforms were heavily damaged and made unusable. Shortly thereafter, the IRGC sent a missile boat to defend the platforms. The Joshan managed to fire off its solitary harpoon missile before being sunk by the American cruiser USS Wainwright.
In the following hours, Iran dispatched fighter jets, most of which turned back once the US Navy ships locked radar on them; one was shot and badly damaged, although the pilot managed to land on a nearby island. A swarm of small Iranian attack boats was also sent to attack the US ships, but they were damaged and sunk by American warplanes that prevented the small boats from ever nearing the US Navy. Another Iranian warship, the Sahand, fired missiles at US warplanes overhead, which swiftly sunk it.
But the US military was not yet satisfied with its retaliatory strikes; it had wanted to send a stronger message in retaliation for the mine attack on the USS Roberts. The Iranian Sabalan, a warship that had attacked numerous merchant vessels in the past, was singled out ahead of time and three US warships set out to find it in the Gulf. As the events were recalled in a Washington Institute paper some two days later, after the Sabalan finally steamed out of port, “The Iranian vessel fired three missiles at the nearby US Navy A-6 attack aircraft. The US planes veered to avoid the missiles, and retaliated by dropping a single five-hundred-pound laser-guided bomb, which went straight down the Sabalan’s smokestack and exploded in the ship’s engineering spaces.”
After that final attack, no more Iranian ships came on the offensive, and the US Navy called it a day. By the end of the day, the US had sunk one Iranian frigate, a gunboat, three speedboats, damaged another frigate and severely damaged the two oil platforms. Over 55 Iranian sailors were killed. On the American side two US Marines were killed, but their deaths were not combat related.
Despite Operation Praying Mantis coming to a close less than 24 hours after beginning, one tragic event that followed it would forever mar the naval success. Following the operation, US guided missile cruiser the USS Vincennes was deployed to the Gulf to protect the USS Roberts until it could be towed into a friendly port for repairs.
On July 3 of that year, the Vincennes detected an Iranian fighter jet flying toward it. The captain ordered it shot down. The identification, however, was mistaken. The USS Vincennes instead shot down Iran Air Flight 665, which was carrying 290 civilians on board, killing them all.
With Tehran recently threatening to block the Hormuz Straits amid increasing chatter of a possible war against Iran, military planners are certainly looking at past confrontations with the Islamic Republic. Considering that Iran is expected to launch asymmetrical attacks against soft targets - like shipping - in the region if attacked, Operation Praying Mantis offers valuable lessons for both sides in any future conflict.
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House Un-American Activities Committee Testimony
Ronald Reagan
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Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild at this time. His interest and involvement in politics was really only beginning. He was, however, a committed anti-Communist, and here cooperated with HUAC in commenting on the alleged activities of communists in Hollywood and the Screen Actors Guild.
CHAIRMAN J. PARNELL THOMAS: The record will show that Mr. McDowell, Mr. Vail, Mr. Nixon, and Mr. Thomas are present. A subcommittee is sitting. Staff members present: Mr. Robert E. Stripling, chief investigator; Messrs. Louis J. Russell, H.A. Smith, and Robert B. Gaston, investigators; and Mr. Benjamin Mandel, director of research.
STRIPLING: When and where were you born, Mr. Reagan?
RONALD REAGAN: Tampico, Illinois, February 6, 1911.
STRIPLING: What is your present occupation?
REAGAN: Motion picture actor.
STRIPLING: How long have you been engaged in that profession?
REAGAN: Since June 1937, with a brief interlude of 3 1/2 years -- that at the time didn't seem very brief.
STRIPLING: What period was that?
REAGAN: That was during the late war.
STRIPLING: What branch of service were you in?
REAGAN: Well, sir, I had been for several years in the Reserve as an officer in the United States Cavalry, but I was assigned to the Air Corps.
STRIPLING: That is kind of typical of the Army, isn't it?
REAGAN: Yes, sir. The first thing the Air Corps did was loan me to the Signal Corps.
MCDOWELL: You didn't wear spurs?
REAGAN: I did for a little while.
CHAIRMAN: I think this has little to do with the facts we are seeking. Proceed.
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POLITICOMAGAZINE
What Obama Should Learn From Reagan’s War With Iran
It’s been nearly 30 years since the U.S. Navy fought Iran in the Persian Gulf. How much longer will that peace last?
By DAVID B. CRIST
May 03, 2015
The missile boat Joshan advanced toward the American armada. Commanded by Captain Abbas Mallek, the Joshan served as an Iranian squadron flagship and was a near legendary boat in the Iranian Navy, having executed some of the first attacks on Iraq at the outset of their war. The Joshan closed to within 12 miles of the much larger American force, and Mallek fired off the sole remaining anti-ship missile in Iran’s inventory. The missile came within 100 feet of striking the large American cruiser USS Wainwright. For this act of bravery, Mallek lost his leg and half his crew as the Joshan disintegrated in a barrage of American missiles.
By the end of the day, the U.S. had lost one Marine attack helicopter and its two-man crew. Iran had lost half its operational navy and at least 60 servicemen.
The last act of this drama turned into a tragedy. On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes, commanded by an aggressive captain, instigated a fight with Revolutionary Guard boats inside Iranian territorial waters. In the middle of this firefight created by the Americans, an Iranian passenger jet took off from Bandar Abas, oblivious to the battle ranging on the water below. Due to incompetence and procedural errors, the Vincennes mistook the Airbus for an Iranian fighter. She launched two missiles, downing the airliner and killing 290 innocent civilians. In the aftermath, the U.S. government was less than honest about what had transpired and American culpability. (Amazing, the captain of the Vincennes still received a Legion of Merit medal for his time in command.)
Later that month, Iran finally accepted a ceasefire with Iraq, ending the war and the naval conflict with the U.S. But Iran has never forgotten the Vincennes. The current commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Navy, Admiral Ali Fadavi, commanded the Iranian vessels during the Vincennes engagement more than a quarter-century ago. He has never forgiven the Americans for what he sees as a deliberate act of terrorism. Why else, he’s said, would you give a medal to a captain who shot down an airliner if it was not deliberate?
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Fadvai is hardly alone in the Iranian leadership in remembering the Tanker War—that conflict began an intense study of the U.S. military for many of today’s leadership. The lessons of their youth have combined with their observations from two American wars against Iraq, convincing Iranian leaders that they cannot contend with the Americans in a large, conventional war. However, their strategy of the 1980s had been a correct one. Mines, swarms of small boats and land-based cruise missiles could overwhelm the much larger and sophisticated American warships in the confined waters of the Gulf. One Iranian admiral correctly observed that a lone missile from the Joshan had nearly knocked out the largest U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf. More small boats armed with missiles, they surmised, would have made the battle a costly one for the U.S. Navy.
Today, Iran’s entire military strategy centers on defeating the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf. What started as an improvised mosquito fleet of small boats has grown into a force of some 3,000 small boats, now reinforced by sophisticated anti-ship missiles and wake-homing torpedoes. During the last conflict with the U.S, Iran used five or six oil platforms as patrol bases from which to conduct hit-and-run attacks; today more than 150 have been identified and linked with the Revolutionary Guard. Iran currently possesses between 3,000 and 5,000 mines, many forward-deployed to be quickly laid against Gulf Arab or American targets.
Iran has refined its tactics by using the U.S Navy itself as the guinea pigs. Iranian boats frequently conduct high-speed approaches on U.S. warships. One such incident in January 2008 nearly resulted in a shooting war as three American ships, led by the USS Hopper, believed they were under attack from Iranian mines and fast boats. Only the cool head of a senior naval commander prevented combat.
While Iran studied the lessons of its conflict with the United States, the Pentagon paid far less attention than it should have. Few in uniform took Iran’s military threat seriously. I saw this apathy firsthand in a 2009 briefing I gave on Iranian mining operations during the 1980s. A senior intelligence officer—noticeably displaying a lack of interest in history—openly dismissed the idea of Iranian mining. In another case, one three-star quipped that destroying the Iranian small boats would be like “clubbing baby seals.”
But a new generation of officers, battle-hardened by insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, grasped Iran’s unconventional strategy. As one Army general said to me, “Iran’s naval mines in the Gulf shipping lanes are the just the watery version of the IEDs we faced on the main roads of Iraq.” Beginning in 2010, under Marine General James Mattis and his successor Army General Lloyd Austin, the military revamped its thinking about Iran, supported by more enlightened Navy leadership. A new approach emerged as CENTCOM built a joint force tailored to challenge Iran’s ability to control the Persian Gulf, surprising similar to those employed in 1987 as once again the U.S. military re-discovered its own history.
Following new sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, Iran again threatened to mine the Strait of Hormuz in July 2012. Its senior naval commander, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, warned that closing the international waterway would be “easier than drinking a glass of water.” CENTCOM moved quickly to counter Iran’s move, deploying more ships and convening an international mine-clearing exercise as a signal of American resolve. However, like Colin Powell after the Roberts mining, Obama’s National Security Advisor Tom Donilon urged caution again concerned about starting a war. He pulled in the reins on CENTCOM, greatly restricting what actions local commanders could take without White House approval. The episode passed without further escalation.
While much has changed in the Middle East since the last conflict with Iran, this latest dustup with Iran in the Strait shows the continuing tension between Washington and Tehran. Despite the prospect of a historic nuclear agreement, Obama may find that fighting and talking frequently go hand in hand, as other presidents have learned before him.
A nuclear agreement does not lessen the need for military preparedness. The two nations have different strategic goals in the region. Tehran rejects the current status quo of American preeminence and interprets the U.S. 5th Fleet in the Persian Gulf and the U.S. military bases in the region as aimed against Tehran. The wars in Syria and Yemen have now put the two nations on opposing sides of ongoing conflicts. As the threat of the Islamic State recedes, Iran will correctly view U.S. support as shifting back to the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Washington is equally hostile to Iranian attempts to expand its influence across the Middle East. Tehran’s support for Hezbollah, Shiite militias in Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen is viewed as a threat to Israel and Saudi Arabia. Any or all these could lead to a military confrontation, one likely to be played out again between old foes in the Persian Gulf.
And it could all begin with a single boarding incident gone wrong.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/23/07 6:07 PM
They broke the truce. That's why 9/11 happened. It's not an excuse for what they did to New York. But it is why the terrorists attacked New York. It has something to do with Vincennes. Something about an understanding. There is some logic to it all.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/05/07 2:21 PM
I wonder if after the Vincennes incident in 1988, I created evasion techniques for U.S. Navy ships in that situation so they wouldn't have to shoot the aircraft down.
But there is also the fact that if an aircraft that large got that close, then hotile intent would be obvious and it wouldn't take much from the CIWS to bring it down, I assume.
With enough time though, a diving aircraft of that size would, I think be easy to avoid in a FFG, CG, or DDG. The speed difference is great but the ship has better maneuverability there as the moment of impact approaches and it is just a matter of timing.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 05 October 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 9:13 PM Saturday, September 10, 2005
It was July 3, 1988. That was when the cruiser that relieved us shot down a civilian airliner. I may write more about this later in the context of how that may be something affecting my situation even today.
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From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born and the Soviet Union prostitute and the cowardly International Terrorist violently against the United States of America actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the USA and United Nations chartered allies ) To 6/28/1978 ( Jimmy Carter - Task Force on Women Business Owners Remarks on Receiving the Report of the Task Force ) is 8279 days
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 7/3/1988 is 8279 days
From 11/20/1985 ( from my official United States Navy documents: "CO,NEPTDCEN ADV LTR 1-86" ) To 7/3/1988 is 956 days
956 = 478 + 478
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 2/23/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"A Taste of Armageddon" ) is 478 days
From 11/20/1985 ( from my official United States Navy documents: "CO,NEPTDCEN ADV LTR 1-86" ) To 7/3/1988 is 956 days
956 = 478 + 478
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 2/23/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks at Ceremony Marking the Ratification of the Presidential Inability (25th) Amendment to the Constitution ) is 478 days
From 3/22/1963 ( John Kennedy - Remarks in Chicago at the Dedication of O'Hare International Airport ) To 11/20/1985 ( from my official United States Navy documents: "CO,NEPTDCEN ADV LTR 1-86" ) is 8279 days
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 7/3/1988 is 8279 days
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HISTORY
JULY 03, 1988 : U.S. WARSHIP DOWNS IRANIAN PASSENGER JET
In the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes shoots down an Iranian passenger jet that it mistakes for a hostile Iranian fighter aircraft. Two missiles were fired from the American warship–the aircraft was hit, and all 290 people aboard were killed. The attack came near the end of the Iran-Iraq War, when U.S. vessels were in the gulf defending Kuwaiti oil tankers. Minutes before Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down, the Vincennes had engaged Iranian gunboats that shot at its helicopter.
Iran called the downing of the aircraft a “barbaric massacre,” but U.S. officials defended the action, claiming that the aircraft was outside the commercial jet flight corridor, flying at only 7,800 feet, and was on a descent toward the Vincennes. However, one month later, U.S. authorities acknowledged that the airbus was in the commercial flight corridor, flying at 12,000 feet, and not descending. The U.S. Navy report blamed crew error caused by psychological stress on men who were in combat for the first time. In 1996, the U.S. agreed to pay $62 million in damages to the families of the Iranians killed in the attack.
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STAR TREK
Taste of Armageddon, A
Star Trek: The Original Series
Season: 1 Ep. 23
Air Date: 02/23/1967
From 4/19/1963 To 7/3/1988 is 9207 days
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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 4/19/1963 To 7/3/1988 is 9207 days
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 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 4/19/1963 To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 9588 days
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 2/2/1992 ( premiere US TV series episode "Murder, She Wrote"::"The Monte Carlo Murders" ) is 9588 days
From 4/19/1963 To 10/26/1988 ( Ronald Reagan - Memorandum of Disapproval on a Bill Concerning Whistleblower Protection ) is 9322 days
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 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) is 9322 days
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From 4/19/1963 to 3/15/1998 (deployed) is: 34 years, 330 days
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Undercover C.I.A. officer, who was identified as a CIA operative in a newspaper column by Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. The ensuing political controversy, commonly referred to as the Plame affair, or the CIA leak scandal, led to a Justice Department investigation and numerous indictments within the Bush administration.
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From 4/19/1963 To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 9588 days
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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 12/18/1978 is 4794 days
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Rachel Dawes: That's right. You better run.
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A Taste of Armageddon [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 3192.1
Original Airdate: 23 Feb, 1967
[Council Room]
(Anan rejoins the group)
ANAN: It's a vicious attack, extremely destructive. Fortunately, our defences are firming, but our casualties are high. Very high.
KIRK: Sir, I have been in contact with my ship, which has had this entire planet under surveillance. All during this so-called attack of yours, we have been monitoring you. There's been no attack, no explosions, no radiations, no disturbances whatsoever. If this is some sort of game you're playing
ANAN: This is no game, Captain. Half a million people have just been killed. Activate the attack units, Sar.
SAR: Yes, Councilman.
ANAN: Launch immediate counter attack.
SPOCK: Computers, Captain. They fight their war with computers. Totally.
ANAN: Yes, of course.
KIRK: Computer don't kill a half million people.
ANAN: Deaths have been registered. Of course they have twenty four hours to report.
KIRK: To report?
ANAN: To our disintegration machines. You must understand, Captain, we have been at war for five hundred years. Under ordinary conditions, no civilisation could withstand that. But we have reached a solution.
SPOCK: Then the attack by Vendikar was theoretical.
ANAN: Oh, no, quite real. An attack is mathematically launched. I lost my wife in the last attack. Our civilisation lives. The people die, but our culture goes on.
KIRK: You mean to tell me your people just walk into a disintegration machine when they're told to?
ANAN: We have a high consciousness of duty, Captain.
SPOCK: There is a certain scientific logic about it.
ANAN: I'm glad you approve.
SPOCK: I do not approve. I understand.
ANAN: Good. Then you will recall I warned you not to come here. You chose to ignore my warning. I'm sorry, but it's happened.
KIRK: What has happened?
ANAN: Once your ship was in orbit about our planet, it became a legitimate target. It has been classified destroyed by a tricobalt satellite explosion. All persons aboard your ship have twenty four hours to report to our disintegration machines. In order to ensure their co-operation, I have ordered you, Captain, and your party held in custody until they surrender. If possible, we shall spare your ship, Captain, but its passengers and crew are already dead.
Captain's log, delayed. The Enterprise, in orbit about Eminiar Seven, has been declared a casualty of an incredible war fought by computers. I and my landing party, though apparently not included as casualties aboard the Enterprise, are confined on the planet's surface, awaiting what?
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Windows 1.01 (1985) - History of Windows: a blast from the past
Bill Gates and Paul Allen officially announced their Microsoft Windows graphical user interface on November 10, 1983. The first version was called Windows 1.01 but was almost named Interface Manager until marketing manager Rowland Hanson convinced Bill Gates to change it. Windows 1.01 was released on November 20, 1985.
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Windows 1.0: The flop that created an empire
Two years later than planned, Microsoft's new graphical operating system went on sale November 20, 1985. It wasn't worth the wait. But a bigger story was soon to unfold.
November 20, 2013 4:00 AM PST
by Charles Cooper
The big story in The New York Times on November 20, 1985, concerned Hurricane Kate's advance as it smashed into northern Cuba and the Florida Keys before barreling north to threaten the Gulf Coast. But another big story -- for the technology world -- was about to unfold thousands of miles away in Las Vegas, where the Comdex trade show was getting under way.
Apple had grabbed headlines a year earlier with the introduction of its graphical Macintosh. Now, after two years of delays, Microsoft was finally ready to debut the much-promised Microsoft Windows.
Ford's Edsel arguably received better reviews.
Computer reviewer Erick Sandberg-Diment wrote in his column that "running Windows on a PC with 512K of memory is akin to pouring molasses in the Arctic." That critique was one of many describing the product as an unadulterated flop.
This was just a momentary setback for Microsoft, which shrugged off the initial embarrassment. (Tandy Trower, the product manager charged with shipping Windows. 1.0 offers a great write-up here about the history of how the company labored to get things right.) Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows 2.0 wasn't much better than Windows 1.0. However, by the time the third incarnation of Windows came out, in 1990, Microsoft had a clear winner.
It also caused a rancorous split with longtime partner IBM, which had its hopes on another graphical user operating system for PCs it co-developed with Microsoft called OS/2. But Bill Gates stuck with his vision and Windows became a veritable money machine that would create billions of dollars in wealth for Microsoft and its investors.
To this day, you'll still hear Microsoft critics complain that the various flavors of Windows through the years have never come close to offering the simplicity or elegance of the Mac operating system. (You'll hear a similar refrain from many OS/2 diehards.) I'll leave that one for a bar stool debate. With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, however, this much is clear: Windows 1.0 was a flop. But it also was the embodiment of a technology vision which would create a tech empire.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:21 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 19, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
In the Frame of Mind episode, Riker comments about how one person is always there. For me, it is Mark Mogge. He is almost everywhere in my past.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:33 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006, Supplemental
Back in the '80s, in my memory at least, I had this cool game for my Commodore computer. It was a space shuttle simulator, can't remember the name. It required a lot of planning and detail and was a lot more than just flying the shuttle. You had to manage money to buy parts and accessories to put into space, with the purpose being to conduct research. The EVA, which was used to construct a space station and to put satellites into orbit, looked very similar to the one from 2001: Space Odyssey. The neatest part was scheduling the shuttle flights and the respective equipment and crew. You had to pick scientists to send up to the station so they could conduct the research. I couldn't ever get the research projects started though. I find it notable, with all things now considered, that it was Mogge that told me one time about how he had managed to get the research started.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 May 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:33 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006, Supplemental
It was Mogge, back in 2001 when I saw him in Charlotte, that told me I looked exactly the same as when we were on the Wainwright, except for the hair.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 May 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/1/2006 7:40 PM
Highway 59 runs into Seneca, South Carolina, also. In what appears to be downtown Seneca, it is named Oak Street and it intersects with a road that is labeled Business 76 & Business 123. The Seneca branch of First Federal that I have written about several times is nearby on a major highway labeled Bypass 76 & Bypass 123. I wrote about running into Mark and Andrea Mogge again the first time after I had been out of the Navy for a while. I also wrote about a girl named Lee Edgar who worked at the Seneca branch. It was her terminal at the drive-through window that I was working on when I saw Mark and Andrea sitting in their small red pickup outside in the drive-through. We were talking in the parking lot outside next to Highway 76/123 and I “remember” at one point answering a call on my large cellular phone, the kind you carried in a bag, that was in my burgundy Plymouth Voyager [ correction: Plymouth Laser ] car.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:47 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 22 January 2016 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/01/of-terrible-year.html
I am thinking again that my memories, those "artificial and symbolic" musings from earlier in my behemoth blog, of Greenville South Carolina and First Federal, actually represent my theory they represent my day's off
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/31/2006 5:50 PM
The first night I met Bobbilynn, I lost my pager for a while. That may have also been the night I got a speeding ticket from a state trooper on the way out there between Clemson and Seneca. I was waiting for Bobbilynn to meet me at the Seneca branch to work on the ATM one night. If you were standing in front of the branch, with Highway 123/76 at your back, there is, or was, a payphone to your left. I later found my pager in the grass near the phone, which I had used to call into the central dispatch of the bank to left them know I was waiting there because no one had shown up to let me in.
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alibi
Law. the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:45 PM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Friday 14 February 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/02/sleeper.html
That was how I met Bobbilynn out in Clemson. But before that, and during that time-frame, was Melody Barber there was Cecilia Gage. I knew Rachel because she was a bank teller in the main branch and my employer's office was there in that main branch office. I remember Jim Shea telling me she liked me. Another time he was complaining that he wasn't my social secretary or whatever was his precise words, from taking messages for me from women who called me at the office. I think that time was the woman who worked for the architect there in Greenville. A woman who worked at one of the many bank branches I traveled to there in Upstate South Carolina introduced me to her. So anyway, the bank had a schedule for the bank tellers who volunteered and they would be on call just as I was. I was on call for one full week and then I was not on call the next week. With only Jim Shea and me to cover that region of South Carolina we were on-call from the morning hours until midnight and he and I had to take every service call that came in. We also had to work full days. The bank had employees on-call too and they would meet one of us there at the site that was having problems and they would stay there until Jim or I fixed the machine. One night, perhaps a weekend day, I was out at a stand-alone ATM with Melody Barber and Cecilia Gage and I remember that we were in that ATM room and Cecilia was feeling cold and I was wearing a jacket, the kind they call a bomber's jacket, and I took it off and gave it to her. Later I was over at the Phoenix nightclub near the airport, where I often went with Barbara and pals, and I discovered that Cecilia had put a note in one of the jacket pockets and she had written her telephone number on it. So anyway, that got me thinking about the time of year and that must have been the year 1990. That reminded me about those security guards and I have not thought about those details in what seems like over ten years at least if even that. So I wonder what else I have forgot.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 08/28/07 12:57 PM
So before I went to work for MP Computers, according to the documents from the SSA, I worked for Professional Computer Resources Inc., and I recall that was for only 3 months, during 1996 and 1997. I can't "remember" the name of the bank I was working at on their contract, but it might have been First Union. I do "remember" that I worked on the Capital Markets trading floor and department. I was on the Help Desk there on the trading floor and then I moved down to another floor. I recognized the area as where we used to maintain the imaging-check sorters machines when I worked for UFP.
Rich Molck worked for the IT department of that bank and he saw my name in the email address book and looked me up just after I started working there. Mark Mogge did just about the same thing when he started Microsoft years later.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:12 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Journal May 25, 2006
Before I married my future ex-wife, the person I asked to be the best man was, you guessed it, Mark Mogge.
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:58 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 20 August 2016
