Sitting here at this desk, this must be the misery of the desperate life of the Jesus Christ bible-thumper, and all those other wacky flavors of religion garbage
Your life is pathetic and pointless and meaningless and in your desperation you delude yourself into believing that ridiculous nonsense that you have an Imaginary Friend with the beard living RIDICULOUSLY! "up there" in the clouds.
And yet, your pathetic life continues, with the occasional occurrences of good-luck, and you desperately thump that ridiculous Holy Bible as you desperately hope, falsely, that it will deliver you from your pathetic life.
Me, I never was the sit-around-waiting-for-someone-else-to-do-it type.
At the culmination of my career, forced upon me to end, I had made some accomplishments not expected of someone from such a disadvantaged-youth as mine.
I earned high-praise from my service while active-duty United States Navy, the best navy that has ever existed in the history of this planet Earth.
Seeking new challenges, I earned more high-praise while full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation.
By that year 2004, I had worked my way into an $80,000 per year (year 2004 dollars) full-time employment there at Microsoft Corporation, with all those benefits.
In year 2004, 10 years after I made my first 100-miles trip in less than one day riding my bicycle, continuing with similar challenging activities, I finished successfully the first time an official Ironman triathlon as an amateur-competitor.
Those were The 878 Days
Then 2006, a year after psychiatric treatment at the VA hospital in Seattle, bizarrely, I have invented Thomas Ray, then he becomes Thomas Reagan.
The bottom falls out.
Now, I just cannot get past the absolute certainty that somewhere in here is the solution I must find
A solution now doesn't let me get back to my life. I'm an old man now. My youth is gone. No matter what I find, I am only getting older now and that can only be worse with each passing day.
I made all the notes above this line before I starting searching for other content to include in this post.
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 7/23/2005 ( ) is 16944 days
16944 = 8472 + 8472
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/12/1989 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5933 - America Loves Its Kids Month 1989 ) is 8472 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 11/21/1998 ( from Rock Hill to Seattle, successful full-time employment interview with Microsoft Corporation ) is 14508 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/23/2005 ( ) is 14508 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 7/23/2005 ( ) is 3921 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/28/1976 ( the NASA Viking 1 unmanned spacecraft begins soil testing on planet Mars ) is 3921 days
From 12/7/1998 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my first day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004 ) To 7/23/2005 ( ) is 2420 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/18/1972 ( from The Washington Post newspaper: "5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here" and so begins the Watergate controversy ) is 2420 days
From 7/12/1915 ( the Gallipoli battle at Achi Baba ) To 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 29016 days
29016 = 14508 + 14508
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/23/2005 ( ) is 14508 days
From 12/4/1912 ( Gregory H. 'Pappy' Boyington ) To 5/14/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during 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 and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 29016 days
29016 = 14508 + 14508
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/23/2005 ( ) is 14508 days
From 4/29/1951 ( premiere US film "The Thing From Another World" ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 ) is 14508 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/23/2005 ( ) is 14508 days
https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/news/2020/jul/achi-baba-105th-anniversary
Inverclyde Council
Home News 2020 July Achi Baba 105th anniversary
Achi Baba 105th anniversary
A FIRST World War conflict which claimed the lives of 300 Inverclyde soldiers has been marked today. (Saturday 11 July)
A wreath was laid by Depute Provost Ronnie Ahlfeld at the Gourock Cenotaph, on behalf of Inverclyde Council, at 11am this morning to honour those who lost their lives during the battle of Achi Baba in Turkey 105 years ago.
Most of the local soldiers who were killed in 1915 were from the town.
The Achi Baba Remembrance itself is on Sunday 12 July but a memorial service usually takes place on the Saturday nearest to that date.
Due to coronavirus restrictions, the commemorations have had to be scaled back this year.
Depute Provost Ahlfeld said: “We must never forget the bravery of the local men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect our country.
“Achi Baba in particular had a major impact on Gourock with around 300 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from the town among the 4,000 soldiers who fell on 12 July 1915.
“So many young men lost their lives and it’s important we honour them, their families and remember the sacrifice they made.”
The Allied casualty figure at the 1915 battle totalled 4,000 dead or wounded with some 10,000 lives lost on the Turkish side in the fight to capture Achi Baba, a prominent hill feature overlooking the Allied beachhead at Cape Helles, on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
https://www.gallipoli-association.org/on-this-day/july/12/
Gallipoli Association
12 July 1915
HELLES - Major D. Yuille, 1/4th Royal Scots Fusiliers, 155th Brigade, 52nd Division - Private Nixon, 1/4th Royal Scots Fusiliers, 155th Brigade, 52nd Division - Lieutenant Arthur Chater, Chatham Battalion, Royal Marine Brigade, RND ...Hunter-Weston and Gouraud had seen the successful advances on the left and right flanks as merely the first stage before a joint attack by the British and French to bring the lagging centre into line. Although Gouraud had been wounded by shrapnel whilst visiting a French hospital on V Beach on 30 June, his successor, General Bailloud, was in agreement.
The importance of the superior French artillery was now clear and as it would not be ready until 12 July this was the date adopted for the attack. Meanwhile it had belatedly dawned on Hunter-Weston that all three of the original British divisions were now only suited to fairly passive line holding duties until they had a chance to rest and assimilate their reinforcement drafts. Therefore the task inevitably fell to the newly arrived, but already blooded, 52nd Division.
Hamilton had hoped to use this division at Anzac but his scepticism about Helles frontal attacks was overcome by his desire to capitalise on any Turkish weakness following their crippling losses on 5 July and he approved the plans put forward by Hunter-Weston.
Yet the delay before the attack could be organised inevitably gave the Turks a vital breathing space in which to recover and re-organise their defences. The attack on 12 July was again planned to take place in two halves to allow the artillery to concentrate on each in turn. In the morning the 155th Brigade on the extreme right of the British line were to advance in conjunction with yet another assault by the French on the banks of the Kereves Dere. To the left of the 155th Brigade, 157th Brigade were to remain in their trenches whilst the guns swung round and bombarded their objectives on either side of Achi Baba Nullah. Unless a real opportunity presented itself they were not to advance until late afternoon. The already battered 156th Brigade was to be the divisional reserve. All the troops in the initial attack were to advance in four waves starting at the same time one from each of the British trench lines. The objectives were strictly limited to the first three Turkish lines, although this was to cause considerable confusion as in many areas only two Turkish lines had been completed. The bombardment duly opened up at 04.30 with the French 75's as usual causing devastation in the Turkish trenches. At 07.30 the gunners lengthened their range to put a ring of scything steel around the area which it was hoped would prove impenetrable to the Turkish reinforcements inevitably rushing to the scene. The leading waves of troops set off across No Man's Land while the 157th Brigade tried to keep the Turks' heads down with the rattle of small arms fire. The Scottish troops reached the Turkish trenches with relatively few losses but then became bogged down in the labyrinth of smashed trenches. One of them was Major D. Yuille of the 1/4th Royal Scots Fusiliers.
"Unless one has seen it there is no imagination that can picture a belt of land some 400 yards wide converted into a seething hell of destruction. Rifle and machine-gun bullets rip up the earth, ping past the ear, or whing off the loose stones; shrapnel bursts overhead and the leaden bullets strike the ground with a vicious thud; the earth is rent into yawning chasms, while planks, sandbags, clods of earth, and rugged great chunks of steel hurtle through the air. The noise is an indescribable, nerve-racking, continuous, deafening roar, while drifting clouds of smoke only allow an intermittent view of the damnable inferno."
Under these circumstance efforts to locate and capture the largely none existent third line of trenches caused many unnecessary casualties. In the confusion many of the soldiers were isolated in the 'third line' - one of them being Private Nixon also of the 1/4th Royal Scots Fusiliers.
"I managed to get to the furthest point, that was the third Turkish trench or dummy trench. It was about one foot deep, and we had to set-to and fill sandbags. We were packed together and enfiladed from the left. Our fire rapidly diminished, till there was no one left to fire. Then I was knocked out. When I came to, our little trench was occupied by a Turk to every two yards. Four or five of our men were lying across me, and I could not get up. I was bayoneted six times in the back whilst lying there. A Turk officer, at the point of his revolver, ordered the Turks to release me."
The French had advanced in similar fashion and reached the Turkish second line. This time they maintained a link with the British right and avoided the domino collapse which had so plagued the allies. This left the attack balanced between success and failure and the generals faced a difficult decision as to whether to continue with the afternoon attack. Valour once more prevailed as Hunter-Weston agreed to the 157th Brigade attacking in conjunction with a renewed assault by the French and 'tactical advances' where possible by the 155th Brigade. The second bombardment opened up on the Achi Baba Nullah sector and at 16.50 the 157th Brigade went forward to a repeat performance: initial success, confusion caused by the absence of the third trench and eventual consolidation in the Turkish second line in touch with the 155th Brigade on their right. The outcome was still in the balance. No breakthrough had occurred and although Turkish trenches had been captured they were extremely vulnerable to counter attack. The Royal Marine Brigade of the RND was moved up as a immediate reserve in any such emergency. With them was Lieutenant Arthur Chater of the Chatham Battalion, RND
"The Battalion moved from our rest area in the afternoon. As we approached the 52nd Divisional Headquarters which was in the position normally used by our own Brigade Headquarters when we were in the line, the CO said "I do not want to have to halt the Battalion here, so run on and find out where they want us to go". I reached the Headquarters dug-out, saluted, and asked for orders. A voice from the depths said "Don't stand up there my lad, you may get shot. Come down here and sit down". To my surprise I found myself being addressed by the Divisional General. His next remark was - "I have been up since four this morning, and feel so tired". I suppose that for years past, the old man had had an afternoon nap. Without it he was defeated. He was quite unfit to command in battle."
Overnight the troops in the newly captured Turkish trenches faced the hard graft of consolidation. Trenches had to be turned round, old communication trenches barricaded off, new communication trenches dug back to the old British front line, the wounded had to be evacuated and supplies brought up. All this against a backdrop of chattering machine gun fire, flares and shrapnel bursts.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/viking-1/in-depth/
NASA official website
Viking 1
On July 28, 1976, the lander’s robot arm scooped up the first soil samples and deposited them into a special biological laboratory that included a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer.
The cumulative data from the four samples collected could have been construed as indicating the presence of life (weak positive), but the major test for organic compounds using the gas chromatograph experiment (capable of detecting organic compounds that comprised more than 10-100 parts per billion in the soil) gave negative results.
Data showed an abundance of sulfur, certainly different from any known material found on Earth or the Moon.
While the primary mission for both Viking 1 and Viking 2 ended in November 1976, activities continued through the Extended Mission (November 1976 to May 1978) and the Continuation Mission (May 1978 to July 1979). Viking 1’s orbiter then continued a Survey Mission from July 1979 to July 1980.
The lander continued to return daily (and then eventually weekly) weather reports as part of the Viking Monitor Mission. In January 1982, it was renamed the Thomas Mutch Memorial Station in honor of Thomas A. Mutch (1931-1980) the leader of the Viking imaging team who had died Oct. 6, 1980.
The lander operated until Nov. 11, 1982, when a faulty command sent from Earth resulted in an interruption of communications. Further attempts to regain contact proved to be unsuccessful.
The orbiter, after taking many more high-resolution images of the planet and its two moons, far superior than those from Mariner 9, was shut down Aug. 7, 1980, after it ran out of attitude control propellant on its 1,489th orbit around Mars.
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/thing-another-world-1951
Warner Bros.
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951)
ORIGINAL THEATRICAL RELEASE
April 29, 1951
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/quotes
IMDb
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Quotes
Ned "Scotty" Scott: All right, fellas, here's your story: North Pole, November Third, Ned Scott reporting. One of the world's greatest battles was fought and won today by the human race. Here at the top of the world a handful of American soldiers and civilians met the first invasion from another planet.
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
(from internet transcript)
[One screen shows video from the probe. It's pictures of a room, and another Stargate. General West and Colonel O'Neil stand with several others analyzing the data.]
WEST
This is the information the probe sent back to us. Freeze and enhance. You can clearly see the 'gate on the other side. Both 'gates must have functioned as a doorway between our worlds.
JOHNSON
These readings tell us it's an atmospheric match. Barometric pressure, temperature, and most importantly, oxygen.
[One computer monitor shows reading results of "Life Support Possible." Daniel is looking at another screen showing close ups of the chevrons on the other Stargate.]
Doctor Daniel Jackson: These markings are different. They don't match the symbols on our 'gate.
WEST
That's why we may have to abort. This project is for naught without a reconnaissance mission.
JOHNSON
Once on the other side, we'd have to decipher the markings on their 'gate, and in essence dial home in order to bring the team back.
WEST
Based on this new information, I don't see how we can do that.
From 9/11/2001 ( ) to 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 878 days
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 1:50 PM Pacific-time USA Friday 01/21/2022
