"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Ray Butts"
22 October 1995
Episode 5 DVD video:
US Navy aircraft-spacecraft carrier Saratoga bridge communications officer: Commodore, I've got a bogey bearing two-niner-zero.
US Navy Commodore Ross: I.F.F.?
US Navy aircraft-spacecraft carrier Saratoga bridge communications officer: Negative, sir.
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Scope me. It's a Hammerhead.
US Navy aircraft-spacecraft carrier Saratoga bridge communications officer: Still closing. Zero target aspect.
US Navy Commodore Ross: All our birds are accounted for, and there's no other ships in the region.
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Any, um - Any intelligence reports of Chigs flying captured SA-43's?
US Navy aircraft-spacecraft carrier Saratoga bridge communications officer: He's headed right for us.
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Could be a Silicate suicide bomber.
US Navy Commodore Ross: Deny it. Warn him.
US Navy aircraft-spacecraft carrier Saratoga bridge communications officer: Unidentified spacecraft off my port bow, you're approaching the U.S. naval carrier Saratoga. Request you alter course and identify yourself immediately. He's still coming, sir.
US Navy Commodore Ross: Fire a warning shot.
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Two point six niner off the port bow.
US Navy aircraft-spacecraft carrier Saratoga bridge weapons officer: Two point six niner off the port bow. Aye-aye.
US Navy aircraft-spacecraft carrier Saratoga bridge communications officer: Commodore, it's overriden the H.B.D.L. It's docking.
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"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Ray Butts"
22 October 1995
Episode 5 Season 1 DVD video:
00:03:21
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Raymond Thomas Butts: My name is Butts. Raymond Thomas. My rank is lieutenant colonel. Nine two four seven one five eight four three seven.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: You're not a prisoner of war, Colonel.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Raymond Thomas Butts: No, Colonel, but I've been a P.O.W. - back in '52, Karakorum. C.C.'s tortured me for three straight days.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: How did you override the hangar bay door lock?
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Raymond Thomas Butts: And I never talked.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: I was on the bridge. It wasn't activated on our end.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Raymond Thomas Butts: I would advise an immediate investigation of the H.B.D.L.
You really do. You really, really do.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=117690
The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - 2017
359 - Statement on the Death of Former Deputy White House Counsel Cassandra Q. Butts
May 27, 2016
To know Cassandra Butts was to know someone who made you want to be better. And Michelle and I were fortunate enough to count her as a friend for most of our adult lives.
Cassandra and I met as law students, and we quickly discovered a shared passion for jazz and for public service. It was a passion she'd chase for the rest of her life—on Capitol Hill, at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and as an adviser of mine—but above all, as a citizen, always pushing, always doing her part to advance the causes of opportunity, civil rights, development, and democracy. Cassandra was someone who put her hands squarely on that "arc of the moral universe" and never stopped doing whatever she could to bend it towards justice.
We lost her this week, at far too young an age. But along with all her friends and family, we find comfort in the knowledge that all the good she did for so many lives on. She made America better. She made so many lives better, including ours. We admired her so much. And we will miss her deeply.
NOTE: The statement was released by the Office of the Press Secretary as a statement by the President and the First Lady.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/oct/14/100-years-ago-in-spokane-flu-cases-continue-to-ris/
The Spokesman-Review
NEWS > SPOKANE
100 years ago in Spokane: Flu cases continue to rise, but only two dead
Sun., Oct. 14, 2018
Spokane’s Spanish flu cases jumped to 550 – but the city health officer continued to report that most of the cases were mild and the death rate “very low.”
Only two people had died so far, but the disease was obviously spreading fast. There were many cases of “three to five cases” in one family.
People were getting increasingly edgy, despite the official assurances.
“Rumors circulated about the city yesterday that laundries had refused to collect soiled linen from homes where influenza cases existed.” Laundry managers denied these rumors.
More and more people were being arrested for violating the ban on public gatherings. The proprietor of a Riverside Avenue poolroom was arrested for keeping his place open.
From the profanity beat: The state head of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union issued a resolution asking public speakers to “cut out profanity.”
Apparently, the language used by soldiers and sailors had crept into the public discourse, and the temperance group said it was “a menace to the youth of our country.” They recommended using “clear, pure language,” even to express intense emotion.
The group also asked for the “suppression of the cigarette.”
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-above-and-beyond/ray-butts-72595/trivia/
tv.com
Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 6
Ray Butts
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Oct 22, 1995 on FOX
Quotes
Ray Butts: but don't you think for one second that we are equals, TANK!
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-blog-of-inevitability.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 12:37 AM
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2016
The Blog of Inevitability
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/anthrax-fail-government-inspectors-warned-lab-lapses-years-n157271
NBC NEWS
Anthrax Fail: Government Inspectors Warned of Lab Lapses for Years
By Maggie Fox
First published July 16th 2014, 6:55 am
Government inspectors have been warning for years that labs used to handle dangerous agents such as anthrax have been poorly regulated and that the lack of oversight has put the public at risk, yet little has been done to heed their warnings, an official said Wednesday.
PINK FLOYD
"Two Suns In The Sunset"
you have no recourse to the law anymore
and as the windshield melts
my tears evaporate
leaving only charcoal to defend
finally i understand
the feelings of the few
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/influenza-first-wave/
PBS KSPS
General Article: The First Wave
Fort Riley, Kansas was a sprawling establishment housing 26,000 men and encompassing an entire camp, Camp Funston, within its 20,000-acre boundaries. Soldiers often complained about the inhospitable weather to be found at the site: bone-chilling winters and sweltering summers. Sandwiched in between these two extremes were the blinding dust storms. Within the camp were thousands of horses and mules that produced a stifling nine tons of manure each month. The accepted method of disposing of the manure was to burn it, an unpleasant task made more so by the driving wind. On Saturday, March 9, 1918, a threatening black sky forecast the coming of a significant dust storm. The dust, combining with the ash of burning manure, kicked up a stinging, stinking yellow haze. The sun was said to have gone dead black in Kansas that day.
Some, looking for a point of origin of the so-called Spanish influenza that would eventually take the lives of 600,000 Americans, point to that day in Kansas.
From 3/9/1918 To 5/27/2016 ( --- ) is 35874 days
35874 = 17937 + 17937
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 12/12/2014 is 17937 days
From 6/24/1949 ( Harry Truman - Special Message to the Congress Recommending Further Reorganization of the Post Office Department ) To 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 17937 days
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From 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 12/12/2014 is 4022 days
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8672 = 4336 + 4336
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 9/16/1977 ( premiere US TV series "Logan's Run" ) is 4336 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=108021
The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
921 - Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Senior Advisers To Discuss Ebola Preparedness and Containment Efforts and an Exchange With Reporters
December 12, 2014
The President. Well, let me start by saying a few words about the bill that was passed last night to keep the Government open and make sure that our agencies are funded until the fall of next year.
This, by definition, was a compromise bill. This is what's produced when you have the divided Government that the American people voted for.
Rainbow Six (1998)
Tom Clancy
CHAPTER 31
MOVEMENT
"So, they came back to talk to me again, asking the same fuckin' questions over and over, like they expect me to change my story."
"Did you?" the former FBI agent asked.
From 10/24/1989 ( Stephen King "The Stand" complete edition ) To 6/20/2019 ( --- ) is 10831 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 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10831 days
From 8/4/1961 ( Barack Obama ) To 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 13513 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 11/1/2002 ( international organized crime event - premiere United Kingdom film "28 Days Later" & the Microsoft antitrust settlement & Colleen Kollar-Kotelly & John Ashcroft ) is 13513 days
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/nov/02/business/fi-micro2
Los Angeles Times
Microsoft Wins Major Points in Antitrust Settlement Ruling
Judge's decision frees the software giant from new sanctions. Bill Gates calls it a milestone, but California, other states express disappointment.
November 02, 2002 Joseph Menn and Jube Shiver Jr. Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON — A federal judge handed Microsoft Corp. a definitive legal victory Friday
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/influenza-first-wave/
PBS KSPS
General Article: The First Wave
Fort Riley, Kansas was a sprawling establishment housing 26,000 men and encompassing an entire camp, Camp Funston, within its 20,000-acre boundaries. Soldiers often complained about the inhospitable weather to be found at the site: bone-chilling winters and sweltering summers. Sandwiched in between these two extremes were the blinding dust storms. Within the camp were thousands of horses and mules that produced a stifling nine tons of manure each month. The accepted method of disposing of the manure was to burn it, an unpleasant task made more so by the driving wind. On Saturday, March 9, 1918, a threatening black sky forecast the coming of a significant dust storm. The dust, combining with the ash of burning manure, kicked up a stinging, stinking yellow haze. The sun was said to have gone dead black in Kansas that day.
Some, looking for a point of origin of the so-called Spanish influenza that would eventually take the lives of 600,000 Americans, point to that day in Kansas. Shortly before breakfast on Monday, March 11, the first domino would fall signaling the commencement of the first wave of the 1918 influenza. Company cook Albert Gitchell reported to the camp infirmary with complaints of a “bad cold.” Right behind him came Corporal Lee W. Drake voicing similar complaints. By noon, camp surgeon Edward R. Schreiner had over 100 sick men on his hands, all apparently suffering from the same malady.
Any evidence of an influenza epidemic in the spring of 1918 was furnished by those institutions that kept a close eye on those under their watch: the military and prisons. In April and May, over 500 prisoners at San Quentin in California came down with the same condition that had struck soldiers at Camp Riley, as well as camps Hancock, Lewis, Sherman, Fremont, and several others. Influenza spreading amongst men living in close quarters did not particularly alarm the public health officials of the day. Little data existed at the time to indicate a sizable spread among the civilian population. Besides, the nation had bigger matters on its mind. There was a war to win.
In the spring of 1918, it appeared that America’s involvement in the fight against Germany was beginning to make a difference. In March, 84,000 American “dough-boys” set out for Europe; they were followed by another 118,000 the next month. Little did they know they were carrying with them a virus that would prove to be more deadly then the rifles they carried. While sailing across the Atlantic, the 15th U.S. Cavalry incurred 36 cases of influenza, resulting in six deaths. By May, the killer flu had established itself on two continents, and was still growing.
The influenza of 1918 showed no bias in its approach to the combatants in World War I: men from all sides were sickened and killed. Great Britain reported 31,000 influenza cases in June alone. The flu proved such a leveler of men that war plans were altered. Attacks that had been painstakingly planned had to be postponed due to a shortage of healthy men. By early summer, the flu extended its reach beyond the U.S. and Western Europe. Numerous cases of influenza were reported in Russia, North Africa, and India. The Pacific Ocean provided no protection as influenza spread to parts of China, Japan, the Philippines, and down to New Zealand.
By July, the influenza of 1918 had left its mark globally. Tens of thousands had fallen ill and died. This first wave was a mere prelude, however, to the perilous path the flu would cut when it reappeared in full force that fall.
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-story-of-kansas/article1056240.html
The Wichita Eagle
THE STORY OF KANSAS
JANUARY 29, 2011
1911-1920: From horses to autos and airplanes
Horses gave way to automobiles and planes became the new industry. More than 12,000 people gathered at the Walnut Grove Air Meet in Wichita in May 1911 to see barnstormers circling and gliding their planes through the air.
In Kingman County, Clyde Cessna, a farmer with no formal training in engineering or flying, took his first flights across Kansas' border into Oklahoma.
After crashing a dozen times before a successful flight, an exasperated Cessna reportedly said of his first plane, "I'm going to fly this thing, then I'm going to set it afire and never have another thing to do with aeroplanes!"
But Cessna had plenty more to do with planes.
He built the first plane in Wichita during the winter of 1916-17 and later founded his own aircraft company in Wichita.
This decade also brings to Kansas a deadly virus.
One of the world's deadliest outbreaks of influenza began in Kansas, at Fort Riley, where soldiers from all over the Midwest trained for Army duty in France, as part of the U.S. involvement in World War I.
Each month, the horses and mules at the fort created 9,000 tons of manure, and piles of it were burned daily. Some say the practice played a part in what happened on March 9, 1918, when a blinding dust storm struck. It mixed the ashes of burned manure with flying dust. Coughing and sneezing, men huddled in makeshift buildings at Camp Funston, a subdivision of the base.
Less than 48 hours later, a company cook named Albert Gitchell came down with a bad cough, fever, a severe sore throat, a headache and muscle pains.
The epidemic had begun. The 1918 flu was most commonly called the Spanish influenza. Some called it the Spanish lady. Old-timers called it the grippe. German soldiers called it Flanders fever.
During this time — with the hardships and horrible news of World War I — Kansans begin to blame one another for their problems.
Some German Catholics and German Mennonites, because of religious convictions, refused to carry guns and go to war.
Many who had lived in the state for nearly half a century still spoke German and came under persecution as the U.S. and its allies fought Germany. They were seen as spies when they corresponded with family still in Europe.
Speaking German was forbidden in schools and churches.
It was not uncommon to see signs in stores throughout Kansas that said "Speak American in this place."
It was a time of union strikes.
On Nov. 1, 1919, more than 10,000 coal miners in southeastern Kansas put down their pickaxes and went on strike.
They wanted a six-hour day, a five-day workweek and a 60 percent raise.
To stop them, Kansas Gov. Henry J. Allen created the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations, whose purpose was to prevent disputes between management and labor.
As winter approached in 1919, Kansas had less than a two-week supply of coal, and striking miners were intolerable to Allen. The governor sent out an appeal to any Kansan to volunteer to work in the mines and jailed the leaders of the strike.
The governor wrote: "If government is to mean anything, then its obligation is to prevent innocent people from becoming the victims of a fuel famine ..."
The leaders of the strike were undaunted.
"The best they can do is to put men in jail," Alexander Howat, coal miner and leader of the Kansas United Mine Workers, said. "We are not afraid of that. We know what we are up against. We will stay in jail until we are carried out."
After negotiations with the miners failed, Howat was imprisoned and the state took charge of the mines. Within a month the strike was resolved.
http://acsh.org/news/2006/02/01/1918-pete-hessers-children-la-gourme-and-new-information-on-the-flu-pandemic/
American Council on Science and Health
1918: Pete Hesser’s Children, la Gourme, and New Information on the Flu Pandemic
Posted on February 1, 2006 by admin
How much do we really know about the origin and spread of the 1918 flu pandemic? Comparisons with other pandemics reveal patterns and lingering mysteries.
Watching the Animals
“The horses growing better, a cough and sore throat seized mankind.” This was the news from Dublin toward the end of 1727, reported in Charles Creighton’s monumental History of Epidemics in Britain — Volume II — From the Extinction of the Plague to the Present Time, Creighton’s “present time” being 1894.
Matters had been much the same in 1688 as in 1727. A “short time before the general fever, a slight disease, but very universal, seized the horses too: in them it showed itself by a great defluxion of rheum from their noses.” Creighton’s source “was assured by a judicious man, an officer in the army of Ireland…there were not ten horses in the regiment that had not the disease.” In Dublin “not one [man] in fifteen escaped.”
Then in Huxham in 1732, some months prior to an influenza outbreak, the horses were affected by “the strangles.” This seriously unpleasant term seems to be the most common synonym for horse flu, though in World War I, la gourme, a term used by the French military’s veterinarian staff also crept into English. (You can look it up, though Google will first ask if you didn’t mean “la gourmet.”) Whether called gourme, horse flu, or the strangles, this was a nasty disease. By April 1918, civilian horses in France had also been affected. The April timing is intriguing because the first reported cases of the disastrous “Spanish Flu” among humans had been in March. But that had been among soldiers at a cavalry training site in Kansas.
At a professional meeting in 1924, a Dr. Reece, about whom I know nothing more, spoke of the “remarkably large number of observations” of coincidences between influenza epidemics and “epizootics of the same character,” starting in horses, then “dogs, cats, and the like.” It seemed that aside from the disease itself and coincidences in timing, however, the only common element among dogs, horses, and humans was crowding. Sir William Hammer added that “epizootics may precede or follow epidemics,” and they may accompany epidemics, too. Horse flu and human flu had both been troublesome in 1657-1659, 1727, 1737, 1743, 1760-1762, 1775, 1788, and 1889-1890, but a recurring question for modern epidemiologists is whether the diseases, equine or human, had been correctly identified. Creighton, a century ago, was cautious about making such judgments, as when he noted that “if Whitmore has made no mistake in his dates,” the spring of 1658 and possibly the following year saw:
universal coughs and catarrhs,
as if a blast from the stars
Although the sequence of events in not entirely clear, this explosion of an influenza-like illness was apparently followed by “a great death of coach-horses almost in every place…and it has [now] come into our fields.”
From daily experience, Creighton and all his sources had been familiar with cities in which large numbers of horses had been kept. In times past, people would have had detailed knowledge about horses in cities, knowledge that has been universally forgotten in the generations brought up in the age of the automobile. But as recently as the 1920s, annual statistics for horses were cited for places such as Omaha, Nashville, Atlanta, and Chicago, in some instances tabulated along with cause of death, somewhat as they are for humans. The problems of horses in cities had even given rise to a tongue-in-cheek warning that by such and such future date, the streets of London would be filled to the second story with horse manure.
Horses and mules — which are less susceptible to equine flu — had also been ubiquitous in all the world’s armies. Pigeons too had been a common accompaniment of the military in World War I. (In the Paris Flea Market in the 1980s, I stopped at a stall with a stock of World War I pigeon-carriers. Pointing out details of their design and construction, the dealer assured me they were from the American army, not French, “the perfect thing for an American in Paris.”)
There were also historic flu epidemics that were not associated with reports of a corresponding disease in horses or mules and episodes of equine flu with no flu-like illnesses among humans. But the association of the two appears to have been well known. Yet while insisting on this matter, I have avoided mentioning a key observation: people do not catch the flu from horses. Creighton’s compilation of 1894 seems to contain nothing to indicate the contrary nor, really, does A.J. Williams’ “Analogies between Influenza of Horses and Influenza of Man” in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine for February 24, 1924. Williams had perhaps been too ambiguous in his original oral presentation, however, so a Professor Hobday rose to insist that there were no reports of transmission from horses to men or vice versa. This is how things then stood and pretty much as they now stand. About the best we can do is quote a statement made in 1919 by George A. Soper, a major in the United States Sanitary Corps whose conclusions were cited and emphasized by Alfred Crosby in his America’s Forgotten Pandemic (first published in 1976 under the title Epidemic and Peace: 1918). In a contribution to The New York Medical Journal, Major Soper noted that despite many epidemiological and clinical similarities, horse flu and human flu were not identical, nor were they transmissible from the one species to the other, but “it would seem probable that a more thorough knowledge of the disease in horses would yield facts of great value.” As concerned horses, Soper mentioned transmission via the respiratory tract, sudden onset, fever, cough, indications of muscle and joint pain, and explosive spread over whole continents on occasion, features that characterize human influenza as well. Soper also included an element I have not seen elsewhere, that horse flu was thought to be transmissible via feces and stable dust.
Dogs can catch influenza directly from horses, and humans can get it directly from pigs and vice versa. Humans can also get the flu from diverse avian species. Direct species-to-species transmission is relatively rare, however. Usually a mixing-bowl species or individual is needed, with a reassortment of viral genes taking place in a creature — human or not — that has become co-host for viruses originating in different species.
The Nightmare of 1918
The “Spanish Flu” wasn’t Spanish at all. But at the time the flu raged through Europe, many countries were at war. Spain was neutral and did not impose press censorship, so journalists there could print the demoralizing truth, namely, that the country was going through a horrific epidemic. Elsewhere people whispered, muttered, or screamed that it was an Allied plot or that the Hun had once again let loose a poisonous gas. And what censor would pass an article saying that the enemy had been so terribly successful? In truth, the whisperings, mutterings, and screams, whether from the Allies or the Axis, seemed to have had some logic to them, for those most targeted by the 1918 flu were in the prime of their lives, military age, essentially those between the ages of twenty and forty.
Influenza is also an endemic seasonal disease that is always with us. In the U.S., some 35,000 flu deaths occur in non-epidemic years, primarily among children, older people, and others who lack fully-functioning immune systems. In 1918, by contrast, those in the fifteen to thirty-four age bracket who came down with influenza or pneumonia (the most common and deadly complication of the flu) were about twenty times more likely to die than had been the case in 1917, a non-epidemic year. And, of course, many, many more were catching the flu in 1918. Estimates vary. Twenty million died worldwide. Or perhaps fifty million. Or 100 million. Or some other large figure. In India, with its youthful population, mortality reached an estimated fifty per thousand. As in the U.S., the disease in India followed the railroads, and when military horses shipped from Australia to Calcutta arrived with a nasty strain of equine flu, it spread across India with the rail transport of cavalry.
The flu of 1918 was exceedingly contagious and is estimated to have affected over one fourth of the U.S. population and one fifth of the population worldwide. These estimates are not necessarily at all accurate. It is true that doctors everywhere were badly overworked and that quite a few medical personnel were dead before they could fill out and sign death certificates or other forms. But the real problem in trying to make estimates is simply that influenza was not a universally reportable disease in those days. Until 1918, it had not been considered sufficiently serious. But in 1918, the flu virus became “unlike any strain ever seen.”
It was not just deadly. It was quick. According to a young woman working at the military laundry at Camp Funston, Kansas: “We’d be working with someone one day, and they’d go home because they didn’t feel good, and by the next day they were gone” (Barry, 2004). Within months of the start of the epidemic, gauze face masks were being widely used and vaccines and various treatments were available. None of them actually worked, but they did much to calm nerves. Many people eventually came to terms with the fact that doctors could not do much. What was really needed was nursing care, and calls went out to anyone with the least bit of training in nursing. Many of the best were overseas with the troops, but older women and student nurses came forth. Young and old, many of these courageous volunteers caught the flu and died themselves, with mortality among the younger women commonly running exceedingly high. Another group particularly susceptible to the 1918 flu were pregnant women; one study showed an incredible 71% death rate among pregnant women who had been hospitalized with the flu.
It was an awful disease, which, due to the war and the accompanying censorship and the jolly peace that followed, was half forgotten until Crosby’s book in 1976. It was also a peculiar disease. Although it eventually struck a broad portion of the population, it had seemingly started among the young and most fit, and from beginning to end it would be most efficient at killing individuals whose immune systems were the best H. sapiens can produce. There are no usable statistical measures, but here and there doctors in hospitals, nurses in wards, sailors on ships, and soldiers in barracks reported that it was the most robust, strongest, most fit, disease-free athletic sorts who suffered the worst. Post mortem studies on such victims of the 1918 epidemic often showed enormous damage to the lungs, which could not at that time be explained. Years later, it was realized that such victims had literally drowned in the waste products of their own powerful immune reactions to the virus. As Crosby put it, “a springtide of fluids overwhelms the lungs.” Thus in 1918, in contrast to other flu epidemics, many robust young people died of the influenza itself — rather than from secondary infections of pneumonia-causing bacteria, the standard cause of death among those with weaker immune systems. They died so rapidly that pneumonia-causing bacteria had had no time to establish secondary infections.
Darkness in Kansas
Despite the name “Spanish Flu” and the endless accusations aimed at the Hun and speculations that the epidemic had started in China, the first clinically demonstrated cases were at Camp Funston, Kansas, a site established to train troops in World War I. (Funston still exists, incorporated into Fort Riley.)
A recurrent complaint at Funston in those days arose from a twofold unpleasantness. First, in common with much of the American Midwest, the camp was subject to severe dust storms. The experience at Funston was doubly unpleasant, however, due to the great concentration of horses and mules on the base and the manure they produced. I have not seen any figures for the actual number of animals, but they were sufficiently numerous to produce nine tons of manure a week.
On March 9, 1918, despite an impending dust storm, standard practice at Camp Funston was followed and the manure was burnt. The result was a stinging yellow haze with the sun going “dead black.” Or so it is said. There had been similar days at Funston in the past and presumably elsewhere, but this event (if it actually occurred as related) was remembered as particularly severe, and the clean-up that night supposedly involved a hundred men and many hours of raking and sweeping.
According to some websites, it was two days later, “shortly before breakfast March 11th,” that Company cook Albert Gitchell reported to the infirmary with a “bad cold.” The March 11th date is most probably incorrect, however, and is perhaps a storyteller’s concoction intended to tie in with the account of the manure-burning. Better sources give March 4th as the date of Gitchell’s illness. In any case, Corporal Lee W. Drake was right behind Gitchell with similar symptoms, and by noon the Camp Surgeon had a 107 flu patients on his hands. Within three weeks, the number of sick and dead at Funston was above a thousand. In the next two months, over 500 prisoners at San Quentin penitentiary also came down with the illness, followed by comparable outbreaks at Camps Hancock, Lewis, Sherman, and Fremont. It is said that there were few incidences of the flu within the general population during these months, and although self-censorship at the newspapers has to be taken into account, later investigators have concluded that there had been nothing special to report. Civilians had remained healthy that summer.
In September the disease reached Boston, first affecting sailors and shipyard workers, then soldiers, and then moving into the general population and overseas. Some of the most awful-sounding accounts are those of outbreaks on the badly overcrowded troop transports on their way across the Atlantic. An often-cited sailor’s diary reads, “October 5 — fifteen more bodies have just been buried from the President Grant.” During the last two months of the war, over 4,000 American servicemen died at sea or after being put ashore for hospitalization at Halifax. There were also those who died the first few days after arriving in Europe. Troopships disembarking large numbers of sick and dying men in French ports hindered the Allied effort, but such things were only written about after the war.
Some people have associated the flu outbreak at Camp Funston with episodes of manure burning, whatever the exact dates. But in his The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (2004), John M. Barry suggests that the ultimate origin of the 1918 pandemic is to be found elsewhere. Barry went back to original sources, always the best procedure if time is available, and in doing so, he identified a Dr. Loring Miner who in 1918 had had a decades-old medical practice in sparsely-populated Haskell County, Kansas, some 300 miles west of Camp Funston. Doing his rounds from town to town in “late January and early February 1918,” Miner encountered a new ailment that he diagnosed as influenza, signaling the U.S. Public Health Service to warn of “influenza of severe type.”
Newspapers across the U.S. in 1918, whether large or small, had been reluctant to publish items that might hurt morale. Nevertheless, on February 14, 1918, the Santa Fe Monitor in Haskell County (as cited by Barry in 2004), reported: “Mrs. Eva Van Alstine is sick with pneumonia. Her little son Roy is now able to get up…Ralph Lindeman is still quite sick…Goldie Wolgehagen is working at the Beeman store during her sister Eva’s sickness…Homer Moody has been reported quite sick…Mertin, the young son of Ernest Elliot, is sick with pneumonia…Pete Hesser’s children are recovering nicely…Ralph McConnell has been quite sick this week.” A week later, the same paper reported, “Most everybody over the country is having lagrippe or pneumonia.”
In 1918 the population of Haskell County was 1,720, including many fit military-age men, all of whom trained at Camp Funston along with some 50,000 others before being shipped overseas or being buried as flu victims. The issue of the Santa Fe Monitor with the news that “most everybody over the country is having lagrippe or pneumonia” also reported that “Dean Nilson surprised his friends by arriving at home from Camp Funston on a five days furlough” and that Ernest Elliot left “to visit his brother at Funston just as his child fell ill” (Barry, 2004). The February 28th issue recorded the departure of John Bottom for Funston, and it is clear that there must have been very many other comings and goings between the camp and parts of rural Kansas, of suppliers of fodder, for example. It is also clear that there must have been comings and goings of horses.
Tracing the Spread
The incubation period for influenza is very rapid, just one to three days, which partially explains how and why the flu is able to spread so rapidly. Another reason is that individuals about to come down with the flu may spread the virus before they develop symptoms. (These same properties characterize most epidemic diseases.) Influenza subsides once it runs out of susceptible people to infect, but after an estimated ten to thirty passages through humans, the virus may change and adapt to a different sub-population.
The flu virus in the fall of 1918 was not identical to that of the spring disease, and toward the very end of 1918 additional mutations gave rise to a third wave. This was less deadly than the second but still a truly terrible disease to which individuals who had survived infection during one of the earlier waves had only partial immunity. The flu was still present through 1919, and in 1920 the reported death rate by influenza among young adults was still well above normal. “Just-married” couples were mourned throughout the epidemic, and the parents of young children sometimes died within days of each other. During the second wave, feverish, newly-orphaned children were found dazedly wandering city streets.
Differing by a week with the sources mentioned above, Crosby and Barry give March 4th as the day the first soldier at Camp Funston reported ill with symptoms of influenza. This fits Barry’s claim that the epidemic may have originated in Haskell County in January or early February 1918. If so, as Barry writes, it might readily have died out for lack of susceptible human hosts in sparsely-populated Haskell, where the epidemic was so short-lived that school had reopened with healthy children by mid-March. But, Barry writes, the war then brought the flu to Funston.
There is nothing obviously wrong with Barry’s belief that the epidemic started in Haskell County, but it is of limited value because it leaves so many important questions unanswered. Why Haskell County? Why Funston? Why the virulence of the disease? Why was it especially severe among individuals who were fit? Was the disposal of horse manure crucial? Valid answers would also have to be consistent with the very recent claim that the human virus of 1918 had an avian source.
The Santa Fe Monitor mentioned two-way traffic between Haskell County and Camp Funston, but there seems to be nothing special about Haskell County aside from the presence of the flu-like disease somewhat before March 1918. Camp Funston, on the other hand, was special. First of all, there was the crowding. Then there were the horses and mules and their weekly output of nine tons of manure. And then there was the select presence of fit young men and women to the near exclusion of anyone else. (There were enough young women at Funston for weekend dances but, I would guess, few babies, children, or older people other than some senior officers and their wives.) So if a weak or “standard strength” flu virus had been brought to Funston, perhaps by birds feeding on undigested seeds in the manure, it would have found itself in proximity to an unreceptive human population whose members all possessed well-functioning immune systems. A soldier who caught this flu prior to March 1918 would have presumably been subject to a few coughs and perhaps some aches in his joints. He might well have avoided a visit to the camp hospital, since in the wartime society of the U.S. during this period, the very worst thing to be was a “slacker.” (Following a disappointment in love, my grandfather’s brother Jake left home as a very young man and joined the U.S. Customs Service in the Philippines. There, around the turn of the century, he caught a tropical disease and had to be repatriated. He was later exempted from military duty. When the draft was again activated in the 1940s, Uncle Jake was at pains to explain to anyone who would listen that he had not been “a slacker” during The Great War.)
Weak or standard-strength versions of avian or avian-equine or equine-avian influenza may have passed from soldier to soldier at Funston without necessarily exhibiting consequences severe enough to be preserved in military records or memories. And those who carried the virus might have included men belonging to the prime-of-life cohort, such as Dean Nilson, who had made a round trip between Funston and Haskell County while on furlough. In Haskell they would have encountered people whose immune systems were far weaker, some whose identities are known to us: “Pete Hesser’s children,” “Mrs. Eva Van Alstine’s little son Roy,” and “Mertin, the young son of Ernest Elliot,” who had been “sick with pneumonia.”
In these children and anyone who may have picked up the virus from them, the particular viral strain would have undergone changes that could then have been brought back to Camp Funston. While this is hypothetical and will perhaps forever remain so, we know that while the children of Haskell County were recovering and heading back to school, a highly contagious version of the flu began to run its course through the soldiers in training at Camp Funston. At this stage, the illness gave few signs of becoming the horrific thing Barry calls “the deadliest plague in history.” According to Crosby, the flu at this stage usually meant “two or three days of misery” and in any case the epidemic at Funston waned rapidly, “bobbing up only now and then as new lots of draftees arrived.” It was much the same story throughout March and April 1918 as the disease spread through Camps Oglethorpe, Gordon, Grant, Lewis, Sherman, Doniphan, Fremont, Hancock, Kearney, Logan, McClellan, Sevier, and Shelby, an unpleasant countrywide epidemic in the military that at this stage had still not spread into the civilian population. Some unfortunate soldiers at Funston and other camps had indeed died, but the cause of their deaths generally appears to have been pneumonia and other secondary complications. For although it was highly contagious, the Funston-style version of the 1918 flu — “the first wave” — was not itself a great killer. The second wave, which was the dreadful pandemic itself, would not come until the autumn when it would break out from the military camps on the East Coast.
The sequence of events described above depends on mutations of the 1918 flu virus. These produced a sequence of events that could not and cannot be predicted in advance. Simultaneously, a different sort of disease pattern was being traced out within particular populations, military camps, towns, and cities (and perhaps ships). This pattern depended on the number of local person-to-person passages of the virus, and the pattern produced by the sequential passages was always the same: those struck in the first ten days were far more likely to become severely ill than those affected after the virus had undergone a number of person-to-person passages. By October 1918, mutational changes to the virus had rendered it especially deadly. It then weakened everywhere with passages from person to person, and by late November conditions were briefly very much better. But additional mutations then set off a third wave in December. In common with the second, it was worldwide. Crosby, who touched on such matters at many points in his study, concluded that a patient’s outcome depended primarily on the virus rather than the care he received.
It looks as though the human version of the “1918” epidemic had started at Camp Funston at the end of 1917 or toward the beginning of 1918 with birds, horses, manure, and the burning of manure all perhaps implicated. It was not then able to cause human illness sufficiently severe to be recorded or remembered. Yet it had enormous potential for harm because it was by then already adapted to people with first-class immune systems, passing among them and perhaps producing the occasional cough or touch of fever, if that. Its ecological niche was strictly among the healthy. It knew no other type of host environment. In February and perhaps January 1918, carriers of this flu variant had mixed with the general population in Haskell County where, as is typical, the virus passed from person to person, undergoing unknown changes. When it returned to Funston in late February or very early March, it spread, causing considerable short-term miseries, but not as an especially deadly disease. The virus at this stage was active, contagious, and disease-causing but it was confined to an inhabitual ecological niche characterized by host-individuals with strong immune systems: army nurses, men in military training camps, troops moving about on trains, dockers, miners, and men in prisons. And as luck and the Kaiser would have it, these individuals were frequently forced into crowded circumstances, tightly packed among others with similar immune profiles and then shipped from one camp to another and then overseas.
As a consequence of its passage through the general population in Haskell County, some of the early strains of the 1918 influenza virus were capable of surviving and multiplying outside their preferred niche and eventually more or less thriving in other environments. Still, it would always remain a disease of the robust, one Swiss doctor recording that he had never seen a severe case in anyone over fifty.
The virus might be compared to a Wall Street employee who could readily thrive if transferred to a high-stress environment in Washington or London but might or might not be able to adapt to a low-stress job as a pool cleaner. In general, it is only the individual creature itself — human, animal, or microbial — who determines whether a new environment is a good one. That’s why zookeepers have so much trouble keeping certain animals. It is much the same with medical researchers, who can do little better than trial and error in selecting a suitable medium on which to try to culture unfamiliar bacteria.
Lessons from 1918
Some potentially useful lessons emerged while researching this material. One involved the immense danger of crowding and insufficient ventilation. Men in wind-blown trenches had far less flu — or perhaps it was less flu with pneumonia — than those living in crowded barracks behind the lines. The risk of the flu was far higher in the spic-and-span military camps on the East Coast of North America than in Europe’s muddy trenches, and this was not something it took a statistician to detect. French soldiers who left the crowded barracks for the front reduced their chances of getting the flu by a factor as much as twelve (Crosby, 2003, p. 153). The dangers of crowding were apparently double, a greatly increased risk of catching the flu — and, it seems, a similarly greatly increased risk of dying from it. Sailors on ships came down with the flu just as frequently as the tightly-packed troops they were transporting. But their onboard living conditions and daily routines — which presumably excluded playing cards for long hours below decks — provided them with a systematically lower mortality rate, lower by a factor of three to five.
Another potentially useful lesson relates to what have (inexactly) been called “relapses.” Deaths among recovered patients were not necessarily caused by the flu itself, nor its secondary complications. The risk for newly recovered patients was that their immune systems were so exhausted that exposure to most any infectious agent at all in the four to six weeks following recovery from the flu could be fatal. The cause of death could be a tertiary factor, such as the sniffles.
There are other lessons, too, though they do not always apply to today’s world. It is clear, for example, that the flu could be avoided by total isolation. Eskimos were so severely affected by the epidemic that there had been talk of the possible disappearance of the entire people, but at least one Eskimo family who were living by themselves with no contact with others had had no incidences of disease.
One symptom of the pandemic of 1918-1920 may not have been given sufficient attention. In diverse countries around the world, flu patients complained of diarrhea (see Crosby, 2003, Ch. 9). Diarrhea is not “supposed” to accompany human flu — yet when stool tests for the usual bacterial culprits and for amoebas were carried out on U.S. military personnel, the results were systematically negative. Whether or not there is a useful lesson here, this anomaly should not be ignored, and it should be noted that in birds the flu virus normally infects the intestinal tract.
Another highly troubling issue was the impaired judgement and mental stability of many after recovering from severe cases of influenza — a matter which may not be specifically limited to the flu of 1918-1920. “Toxic involvement of the nervous system” was one term and ” slowed cerebration” was another. Individuals who were touched appear have included Woodrow Wilson who, according to one aide, had “manifested peculiarities” after coming down with typical symptoms of influenza plus severe diarrhea in early April 1919.
The good news is that the conditions in 1918 were a product of the times and are unlikely ever to be repeated. Although Creighton’s survey of historic epidemics shows that the flu can be very unpleasant indeed, a strain of influenza will probably never again be offered such a highly specific and frightfully dangerous niche within the human population. Barring bad luck, the 1918 epidemic will permanently retain its title as “The Deadliest Plague in History.”
Rainbow Six (1998)
Tom Clancy
CHAPTER 6
TRUE BELIEVERS
"So, what do you do, Mark?"
"Molecular biochemistry, Ph.D., in fact."
"What's that mean?"
"Oh, figuring out how life happens. Like how does a bear smell so well," he went on, lying. "It can be interesting, but my real life is coming out to places like this, hunting, meeting people who really understand the game better than I do. Guys like you," Mark concluded, with a salute of his glass. "What about you?"
"Ah, well, retired now. I made some of my own. Would you believe geologist for an oil company?"
"Where'd you work?"
"All over the world. I had a good nose for it, and the oil companies paid me a lot for finding the right stuff, y'know? But I had to give it up. Got to the point-well, you fly a lot, right?"
"I get around," Mark confirmed with a nod.
"The brown smudge," Foster said next.
"Huh?"
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17320 = 8660 + 8660
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From 12/10/1935 ( James Chadwick is awarded the Nobel Prize ) To 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 22882 days
22882 = 11441 + 11441
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 2/28/1997 ( the so-called "Blue Dress" incident of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky ) is 11441 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 2697 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 3/22/1973 ( Richard Nixon - Message to the Senate Transmitting the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification ) is 2697 days
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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1935/press.html
Nobelprize.org
The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935
James Chadwick
Award Ceremony Speech
Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on December 10, 1935
Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen.
This year like two years ago the Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize for Physics as a reward for discoveries in the world of atoms and molecules. However, a fundamental difference is to be observed between the prizewinners of this year and the prizes that were awarded last time. The latter formed the reward for investigations of more theoretical nature, viz. the discovery of laws regulating the great many phenomena having been brought into light by experimental research. This year the Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded as a reward for a discovery, confirmed in an experimental way, of a new fundamental building-stone of atoms and molecules, viz. the discovery of the so-called neutron. By a combination of intuition, logical thought, and experimental research Professor J. Chadwick, the laureate of this year, has succeeded in proving the existence of the neutron and establishing its properties.
One of the Nobel Prize winners for the year 1933, Professor Heisenberg, had concluded by his researches that, owing to reasons of principle as well as to the roughness of our senses and our instruments, it would be impossible for us to arrive at an exact knowledge of what takes place within the atoms. However, experimental research has made undaunted progress, and by the aid of refined methods and new instruments today's Nobel Prize winners in Physics and Chemistry have succeeded in presenting science with a new and deeper knowledge of the structure and qualities of matter.
The Nobel Prize for Physics for this year is awarded as a reward for the discovery of the neutron.
2007 film "The Mist" DVD video:
01:31:08
Mrs. Carmody: Oh. Ain't. His. Fault. No, no, no. Ain't nothin' ever anybody's fault. But he denies it. He points the finger, this Judas in our midst.
Crowd: Judas!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/influenza-placing-blame/
PBS KSPS
General Article: Placing Blame
When influenza began to cut its deadly path across the U.S. in the autumn of 1918, it did so with such speed and fatal efficiency that some believed sinister forces to be at work. By the early 1900s, many Americans had lulled themselves into thinking that the wonders of medical science could vanquish any foe, no matter how microscopic. For over a century, after all, the booming science of medicine had gone from one triumph to the next. Researchers had developed vaccines for diseases ranging from anthrax to smallpox. Great advances in microbiology had eliminated the mystery from once fatal diseases. When it turned out that influenza was confounding even the most brilliant medical minds of the time, fear set in, and along with it, suspicion.
That America was engaged in a World War provided a convenient target upon which to heap suspicion: the reviled Kaiser and his German countrymen. As thousands of Bostonians fell under the flu’s deadly spell, rumors began to spread almost as fast as the flu itself. One widely accepted notion — outside of the medical profession, that is — had German spies deliberately seeding Boston Harbor with influenza-sprouting germs. Such innuendo was lent credence by statements of individuals who should have known better. On September 17, 1918, Lt. Col. Philip Doane, head of the Health and Sanitation Section of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, forcefully voiced his opinion that the epidemic might have been started by Germans put ashore from U-Boats. Said Doane, “It would be quite easy for one of these German agents to turn loose influenza germs in a theater or some other place where large numbers of persons are assembled. The Germans have started epidemics in Europe, and there is no reason why they should be particularly gentle with America.”
Other notions of this strain of influenza’s origin contained less-politically charged, but equally specious logic. According to one theory, poison gases used in the war, air charged with carbon dioxide from the trenches, and gases formed from decomposing bodies and exploding munitions had all fused to form a highly toxic vapor that flu victims had inhaled. Among the other causes advanced were air stagnation, coal dust, fleas, the distemper of cats and dogs, and dirty dishwater.
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Ray Butts"
22 October 1995
Episode 5 Season 1 DVD video:
00:28:58
US Marine Corps 1LT Nathan West: Explain this, Colonel! Was this mission a friendly assassination?
US Marine Corps 1LT Vanessa Damphousse: Did you kill this man?
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Raymond Thomas Butts: They're all dead... because of me.
00:31:05
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Raymond Thomas Butts: Look what they've done. Chig's are afraid of their dead, horrified of ours. Remove the eyes and the heart. But all that crap means nothing. The finest spirits - six unequaled souls - are gone and that's because of me. So I came back to lay them to rest, because that's how we do it in the Corps. That's the least I can do for them and their families, and unfortunately, it seems like all I can do for me.
US Marine Corps 1LT Shane Vansen: You shouldn't have left them.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Raymond Thomas Butts: They should have gone with me.
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-above-and-beyond/ray-butts-72595/trivia/
tv.com
Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 6
Ray Butts
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Oct 22, 1995 on FOX
Quotes
Vansen: What would you die for? Sir, I know you'd kill for us... Would you die for us?
Ray Butts: I'm already dead, Vansen.
From 7/31/1959 ( premiere US film "Casper's Birthday Party" ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 10946 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 10/22/1995 is 10946 days
From 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 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 10/22/1995 is 1739 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 8/7/1970 ( Richard Nixon - Statement on Appointing Frank Borman as Special Representative on Prisoners of War ) is 1739 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 8/7/1970 ( Richard Nixon - Statement on Appointing Frank Borman as Special Representative on Prisoners of War ) is 1739 days
From 1/5/1962 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Nothing in the Dark" ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 10946 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 10/22/1995 is 10946 days
From 1/27/1945 ( Auschwitz liberated ) To 10/22/1995 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 ) is 9265 days
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From 5/19/1962 ( Marilyn Monroe performs "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" ) To 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) is 10946 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 10/22/1995 is 10946 days
Other posts by me on this topic includes: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/10/pray-for-your-own-phony-self-pence-moron.html
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-above-and-beyond/ray-butts-72595/
tv.com
Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 6
Ray Butts
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Oct 22, 1995 on FOX
The Saratoga receives a mysterious new passenger: a battle-scarred special-forces commando whose classified mission directives put the 58th at his disposal, even if it means leading them to certain disaster.
AIRED: 10/22/95
Space: Above And Beyond
Ray Butts
22 October 1995
Episode 5 DVD:
00:07:52
Vansen: Maybe, it's just, you know, no one is born that mean. They either put it on for effect, or something happened - something turned them that mean. They can never go back. The worst part is... they know it.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 10:12 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 14 October 2018
