by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/29/2023
Today would have been such a great day outside here in Spokane for nature-photography
You narcissistic First Worlders see a camera and immediately get bowed up because you think everything is about you and your pathetic, meaningless life.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/29/2023
All of the content for this note had been established by me today before I write this paragraph. The local time now is 5:48 PM. I paused my work on this note to finalize it for posting and watched a biting investigation by Debora Patta on CBS Evening News with Dopey Norah on tv
She really sticks it to Mars corporation for their use of child-labor in manufacture of candy-bars
From 1/20/1953 ( Jeffrey Epstein ) To 11/29/2023 ( Today , Wednesday ) is 25880 days
25880 = 12940 + 12940
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/7/2001 ( ) is 12940 days
https://nypost.com/2001/04/07/viagra-sale-cyberprank-arouses-gates-fury/
New York Post
VIAGRA-SALE CYBERPRANK AROUSES GATES’ FURY
By Andy Soltis
Published April 7, 2001, 4:00 a.m. ET
A young British hacker obtained Bill Gates’ credit card number and used it to order Viagra sent to the software czar in an effort to show how vulnerable the Internet is, it was reported.
Raphael Gray, 19, was arrested by FBI agents and British police in his Welsh hometown of Clynderwen and will be sentenced for unlawful hacking later this month, The Sun of London reported.
Gray said he sent Microsoft an e-mail, warning it that cybercrooks can obtain the credit card details of people who shop online.
When Microsoft showed no interest, Gray, then 17, decided to “do something that might grab their attention.”
He said he broke into customer databases of dot-com firms and found Gates’ credit card number in one of them.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: July 29, 2023
"Make American Great Again"
The perfect rallying call for old white guys who were never really that effective as young men and now are complaining that Viagra is overpriced.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/candy-company-mars-uses-cocoa-harvested-by-kids-in-ghana-cbs-news-investigation-finds/
CBS News
Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids in Ghana, CBS News investigation finds
CBS News found children in Ghana as young as 5 years old using machetes nearly as big as themselves to harvest the cocoa beans that end up in some of America's most-loved chocolates like M&Ms and Snickers. Debora Patta reports.
11/29/2023
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/29/2023
I followed another track that led me to this next illustration. I got to this point by making a mistake and I wasn't going to reference but decided to include it anyway. This stuff was never meant to be used for any sort of official purpose, anyway, on its face
I qualify it that way because nothing immediately obvious to me that I've seen would suggest it was done deliberately. For example, is "chocolate" ever mentioned in "WarGames"? I can't think of anything that would lead me that way
From 6/3/1983 ( premiere USA film "WarGames" ) To 11/29/2023 ( Today , Wednesday ) is 14789 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/30/2006 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Girls Just Want to Have Sums" ) is 14789 days
Meanwhile, in other news here today...
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/29/2023
Sure feel better after stepping away from those UFO-bunkers, such as David Grusch and Mike Colangelo and their ilk, on Twitter. I noted recently my observations about my abandonment of Twitter.
What a load of ridiculous crap they infested this world with
Kevin Day knows NOTHING! about RADAR!
Sean Cahill knows nothing about radar!
And so then that Mike guy is blabbering away about how "they" - whatever "they" are - have "cracked anti-gravity"
Some other moron is raging at the US Navy not revealing "sensor data"
What a bunch of gullible morons
So desperate to escape their mediocrity
All that OCD wasted when they could have put it to better use demanding to know why solar technology is not more efficient.
And if they want to bitch about something important then they should demand to know where NASA moved these documents to after some NASA dumbass broke all the links:
https://www.nasa.gov/news/releases/archives/index.html
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/6-alien-worlds-waltzing-perfect-160000852.html
Yahoo! News
Robert Lea
Wed, November 29, 2023 at 8:00 AM PST
Details about the peculiar system, named HD 110067, were published Nov. 29 in the journal Nature.
excerpts
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2023/11/today-is-11292023.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me at 2:03 AM , November 29, 2023
Today is 11/29/2023
Stargate Universe - "Visitation" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/23/2010
(The footage ends. Eli switches off the screen and turns to look at the others. Nobody speaks, all of them lost in their own thoughts.)
[ excerpts ends - by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me at 2:03 AM , November 29, 2023 ]
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19520320-01.2.17&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Princeton University
Daily Princetonian, Volume 75, Number 207, 20 March 1952
From 3/20/1952 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Backward Nations Need Democracy, Not 'Coke' ) To 4/16/2010 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Stargate: Universe"::"Faith" ) is 21211 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/29/2023 ( ) is 21211 days
From 2/13/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) To 11/29/2023 ( ) is 13073 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/2001 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Around Space"::"Journey Through the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope" ) is 13073 days
From 5/8/1979 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Greatest Heroes of the Bible [ Superstition ]"::"The Ten Commandments" ) To 11/29/2023 ( ) is 16276 days
16276 = 8138 + 8138
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/13/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8138 days
From 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 US Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 11/29/2023 ( ) is 10571 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/12/1994 ( premiere USA film "Bosna!" ) is 10571 days
From 2/18/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth - extravehicular activity #5 completes the mission's servicing and refurbishment of the Hubble Space Telescope ) To 11/29/2023 ( ) is 9780 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/12/1992 ( Henry Hudson appointed as Director, US Marshals Service ) is 9780 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 11/29/2023 ( ) is 12551 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/14/2000 ( premiere USA film "Erin Brockovich" ) is 12551 days
From 9/18/1968 ( premiere USA TV series "The Outsider" ) To 11/29/2023 ( ) is 20160 days
20160 = 10080 + 10080
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/6-alien-worlds-waltzing-perfect-160000852.html
Yahoo! News
6 alien worlds have been 'waltzing' in perfect rhythm for 4 billion years
Robert Lea
Wed, November 29, 2023 at 8:00 AM PST
Astronomers have discovered a remarkable star system with six planets unlike any in our solar system. According to new research, all six planets orbit the same star in resonance with each other, following an unwavering rhythm that has lasted billions of years.
Because of this peculiar resonance, the outermost planet in the system completes one full orbit of its star in the same time it takes the innermost planet to complete six orbits. The remaining four planets follow similar rhythmic patterns, moving in what the researchers call a precise cosmic "waltz."
Details about the peculiar system, named HD 110067, were published Nov. 29 in the journal Nature.
"The HD 110067 system is remarkable for a few reasons," study co-author Hugh Osborn, a scientist at the University of Bern, told Live Science in an email. "The first is that all six planets have orbits that are perfectly tuned to each other in a so-called resonance, which is rare. The second is that the star is so bright. It's the brightest star yet discovered to host more than four transiting planets."
Related: Astronomers spot violent afterglow of 2 massive planets that collided in a distant star system
Investigating a peaceful planetary system
The six extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, orbit a bright-yellow star located around 100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. These distant worlds have widths between that of Earth and the ice giant Neptune, making them mini-Neptunes or "sub-Neptunes."
Though sub-Neptunes are the most common planets in the Milky Way, worlds of this size are absent from the solar system. Therefore, the HD 110067 system could help astronomers study how exoplanets like this evolve and why the solar system lacks sub-Neptunes.
The fact that the six planets are still rhythmically linked tells scientists a great deal about the peaceful existence they have enjoyed thus far. This is because when collapsing clouds of gas and dust around infant stars create planets, these proto-worlds are often in resonance, but violent events wipe out this rhythm.
"We know that these resonances form while the planets are forming, so this means that the planets must have remained pretty much unchanged — with no orbital shuffling, collisions, or mass loss for billions of years," Osborn explained.
The team began investigating this system in detail in 2020, when observations made with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) showed a dip in light of the star HD 110067 that indicated an undiscovered planet was crossing — or "transiting" — its face, blocking some of its light as seen from Earth.
Following this observation, TESS detected several more dips, prompting the team to look more closely with the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS), which revealed that the signals were from six planets, all transiting the face of their star — a rare arrangement indeed.
"With the data we had from TESS and CHEOPS alone, the orbits of the outer three planets were unknown," Osborn said. "But because we saw they were in a resonance chain, this allowed us to perfectly predict their orbits, with later observations revealing that our predictions were correct. That's the first time these resonances have been instrumental in discovering new planets."
The resonance means the closest world to the star completes an orbit in 9.1 Earth days, the next planet out orbits in 13.6 days, the third in 20.5 days, the fourth in 30.8 days, the fifth in 41 days, and the outermost planet in 54.7 days. So, for every orbit of the outer star, the inner star completes six orbits — a 6:1 resonance. The other resonances between different pairs of planets in the system are 3:2, 3:2, 3:2, 4:3 and 4:3.
Planets with rhythm and more
In addition to this resonance, the planets of the HD 110067 are interesting in their own right, lead study author Rafael Luque, an astronomer at the University of Chicago, noted at a news conference Tuesday (Nov. 28).
He said the planets are two to three times the diameter of Earth. And while the team isn't entirely sure of the planets' compositions, they seem to be made of ice or rock, with low densities that point to extended atmospheres of hydrogen and helium. There may even be more planets orbiting HD 110067.
Because all of the planets pass in front of their star and this star is so bright, these worlds have been some of the easiest exoplanets to characterize. These kinds of systems are "worth their weight in gold," Osborn said, and he is certain that the James Webb Space Telescope will soon be able to observe their planetary atmospheres, potentially detecting molecules such as methane, which could indicate underlying oceans.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess {me}
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess {me}
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 9/28/2006 7:13 PM
This sounds very interesting. In my memory of taking Physics my Senior year at Ashdown, I remember being very interested in the class, but we didn’t cover such an interesting topic.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/present/
Ayan Chatterjee (left) and Mark Daly measure piano strings as part of a lab project for professor Pierre Piroué's freshman seminar on "Sound, Music and ... Physics."
9/28/2006 7:37 PM
I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.
9/28/2006 7:47 PM
I actually do remember... something... I can’t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don’t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.
9/28/2006 8:34 PM
A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn’t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Salesman
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109319/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Bosna!
Release info
United States October 12, 1994 (New York City, New York)
The carnage in Sarajevo provides the focus of this French documentary which seeks to call attention to the terrible conflict in the hopes of finally ending it.
From 8/31/1931 ( from Wikipedia: Al Haynes ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 21142 days
21142 = 10571 + 10571
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/12/1994 ( ) is 10571 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, APRIL 05, 2012
You know, if you embrace my theories the way I do then I am actually not surprised there are NOT overt signs of cornfields in this film, I think to myself writing this sentence as I have the DVD paused to make this note. Then just before I was about to make this post I thought back to the scene of "Angel" caressing the statue of Jesus Christ in the church, and I barely recall that brief scene but I recall the smirk on her face and I think again about how seriously annoyed I was with the mannequins I kept seeing but my real-life companion in that world did not see mannequins but actual mechanized beings and they told her to not tell me they were mechanized and I did not know about that until she told me about it in the real world.
I mean sure, I think now remembering what I had wrote earlier in my blog about the cornfield. I was on that flight, while everyone else had ducked and covered and I was still sitting up so I could maintain custody of the prisoner, then everything went kind of fuzzy for a second, even more so, and then the quietness was staggering. I have written about that before, that sense in my mind of sudden quietness, and that was me sitting precisely as I had been on the airplane and there was nothing around me but tall stalks of corn and I was still sitting in the same airplane seat but I was all alone in that cornfield and it was suddenly blaring and maddenly blaring quietness. It drives me crazy now just trying to thing again about that.
http://articles.philly.com/1989-07-23/news/26132950_1_flight-attendants-plane-united-airlines-flight
philly.com
The 42-minute Drama Of Flight 232
This article was written by Inquirer staff writer Larry Eichel based on reporting by Fawn Vrazo in Denver, Gilbert M. Gaul in Chicago and Paul Nussbaum and Andrew Cassel in Sioux City, Iowa. Inquirer staff writers Dwight Ott and John Way Jennings also contributed to this article
POSTED: July 23, 1989
They all remember the sound and the feel and not knowing what it was.
It was "sort of like a sonic boom," said Jerry Milford, 38, of Indianapolis, traveling with his family in Row 37, the second-to-last row of United Airlines Flight 232.
It felt like "a sudden, strong jolt," said A. Upton Rehnberg, 52, of Rockford, Ill., an executive with an aircraft-parts manufacturer, seated in Row 9 at the front of the coach section.
It was "kind of like an explosion. . . . It almost felt like you hit something," said Donna Treber, 47, of Westminster, Colo., a businesswoman seated in Row 15.
What they heard and felt at 3:16 CDT Wednesday afternoon six miles over Iowa was the rear engine blowing apart on their DC-10 jumbo jet with 296 people on board.
Precisely what happened to that General Electric CF6-6 engine will be determined by federal investigators in the weeks ahead. What happened inside the plane is already seared forever in the memories of the survivors.
They will never forget the sense of imminent doom, the frightening approach to the Sioux Gateway Airport, the impact of the plane crashing into the cornfield, the flash of flame, the moment they realized they were not going to die and the moment they realized that many of their fellow passengers had not been so fortunate.
One hundred eighty-six people survived. One hundred ten died in the crash, the 10th worst in U.S. history.
Their ordeal began with the sound, which came as the eight flight attendants were clearing away a lunch of chicken fingers and potato chips. When it happened, it was cause for concern but not alarm - even if it was strong enough to knock the flight attendants to the floor.
The plane shook, took a brief nose dive. There were a few little screams. But then the plane leveled off, albeit a little unsteadily.
Those on board started worrying not so much about life and death as about dinner plans that might have to be changed, about connecting flights that might be missed, about friends and relatives who had planned to meet them and might be inconvenienced by any prolonged delay.
They were not just people from the Denver area, where the flight originated, or from Chicago, where it was headed, or from Philadelphia, which was to have been its ultimate destination.
Many had started the day in cities west of Denver; others planned to change planes in the "Crystal Palace" that is United's glittering new terminal in Chicago and fly on to other cities in the East and Midwest.
Like almost any commercial jetliner, particularly one traveling across the middle of the country in the middle of the summer in the middle of the day, Flight 232 carried a cross-section of America.
In Row 1 of the first-class section, two couples from New Jersey, Harlon and Joann Dobson of Pittsgrove Township and William and Rose Marie Prato of Vineland, all in their 40s, were returning home from a three-week dream vacation in Hawaii. They had been given first-class upgrades because mechanical problems had forced them to miss their scheduled flight.
In Row 5, at the back of first class, Tom and Ellen Hughes, ages 30 and 27, of Exeter Township, Berks County, Pa., were coming home from a Hawaiian honeymoon.
In Row 14, on the left side of the plane, Jenny Hudspeth, 61, of Cheyenne, Wyo., was traveling to Columbus, Ohio, for family reasons - to meet with an older sister and an aunt and then return home with her 100-year-old father.
In Row 23, in the second of the two coach sections, Jerry Schemmel, 29, deputy commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, was also flying to Columbus, where the basketball league was planning to hold its draft of college players. He and the league commissioner, Jay Ramsdell, 25, were standby passengers, having held tickets for an earlier flight that had been canceled; they were the last two people to get on the plane.
In Row 38, the very last on the DC-10, Yisroel Brownstein, the 9-year-old son of a Denver rabbi, was flying alone for the first time, traveling to Philadelphia to visit a friend. Before he took the flight, he said a prayer in Hebrew, a prayer for safe passage that is recited by all observant Jews before making a trip.
STRUGGLING IN THE COCKPIT
For the first hour of the flight, most of them had ignored their seatmates, as airline passengers often do, burying their faces in their books or shutting out potential conversation by jamming airline-provided headsets into their ears. But now they turned to one another and started to talk about where they were going, why they were going there and the experience they were sharing.
They did not know how perilous their situation was. They did not know that in the cockpit, Capt. Alfred C. Haynes, who had served as a Marine fighter pilot in the Korean War and had flown for United for 33 years, was struggling to control the wounded plane.
The co-pilot, William R. Records, had been at the controls when the engine blew. But now both pilot and co-pilot were wrestling with the steering yokes in front of them, pulling left as hard as they could.
At 3:17, flying at 31,000 feet, Haynes reported to air traffic controllers in Minneapolis that the 15-year-old plane was losing all the pressure in its hydraulic system. Without hydraulics, he could not control the wings, the tail or the rudder; in essence, he could not steer the plane. The controllers directed him to land in Dubuque, on Iowa's eastern edge, the next reasonably large airport on his flight path.
Back in the cabin, Dennis Fitch, a United flight training supervisor who was riding as a passenger, had heard the engine blow. He grabbed a flight attendant, identified himself and had her take him to the cockpit.
Haynes put him right to work. He had Fitch get down on his knees between Haynes and Records and manipulate the throttle. For the rest of the flight, Fitch never let go. He did not rise from his knees until the final seconds, when he had to be belted into a seat.
ON THEIR OWN
At 3:20, Haynes radioed that the plane was experiencing "complete hydraulic failure." He said he had an emergency on his hands. The controllers rerouted him to the closest airport, Sioux City, which he had passed a few minutes earlier on his flight east.
Haynes made radio contact with his airline's maintenance center in San Francisco, asking for mechanical help. Like most other commercial pilots, he had not been trained what to do when all three hydraulic systems fail. The reason, National Transportation Safety Board member James Burnett told reporters Friday, was simple. "There is nothing that can be done" when all three systems fail, he said.
No one at the maintenance center could suggest anything other than what Haynes, Records and Fitch were already doing - trying to guide the crippled plane by varying the power in the two remaining engines, one mounted on each wing. They were on their own.
A minute or two later, a member of the cockpit crew calmly announced to the passengers that the crew had "lost" the number-two engine, the one mounted halfway up the DC-10's distinctive tail, and that the plane would be late getting into Chicago.
That announcement, of course, was meant to be taken literally. The plane had not just lost power in that engine, as many passengers assumed; it had lost pieces of the engine itself, as well as sections of the tail.
Indeed, a few minutes later, workers returning from a coffee break at Alta, Iowa, 60 miles east of Sioux City, would discover an 8-by-12-foot piece of the airplane in a field. Four miles away from them, Allen and Phil Jahde would find three pieces of the plane scattered in their cornfield. Phil Jahde said one piece was a 6-foot-long metal band, engraved ENG 2.
But the matter-of-fact tone of the announcement inside the DC-10's cabin made it sound as if all of this were some relatively minor annoyance.
"Everyone was talking about how you could fly with one engine and not to worry," said Nell McDonnell of Denver, a financial writer.
"There was no alarm whatsoever," said Robert Manz, a state tax auditor
from Tiffin, Ohio. "In fact, for most of the time, the seat-belt sign was off, and you could get up and go to the bathroom."
In the cabin, as passengers watched a videotape showing scenes from horse racing's Triple Crown, more experienced fliers were beginning to figure out that their situation was serious.
Rehnberg, a pilot himself, noticed a change he found most alarming. He listened to the sounds of the two remaining engines, mounted on either wing. What he heard and what he felt was a pilot alternating the power in the two remaining engines to turn the DC-10.
That, he knew, was something a pilot would do only if he had no other way to steer the plane, and it led to a frightening conclusion. "His flight controls apparently weren't working," Rehnberg said.
In the cockpit, the situation was getting ever more desperate. At 3:24, Haynes radioed an "Alert 2" to air traffic control, an indication of major problems with an inbound aircraft.
"The aircraft could only be turned to the right," Burnett said.
'WE NEED AN AIRPORT'
And Haynes began spiraling down toward the earth in three long, slow, unsteady 360-degree turns. As he did, he became increasingly uncertain that he would get to Sioux City.
"We need an airport, an interstate," the pilot radioed, "a gravel road, a field. We're coming down someplace."
On the ground, local authorities were preparing for a disaster.
Dr. David J. Greco, 34, director of the emergency department of the Marian Health Center in Sioux City, had been off-duty, preparing to leave on vacation
from his home 20 miles outside the city, when the emergency dispatcher called him to say an airliner was heading for the airport and might not make it.
Five minutes later, at 3:30, when the DC-10 was still 32 miles out, a helicopter landed outside Greco's country home, picked him up, flew to the airport and hovered 500 feet off the ground, watching the plane approach.
Dr. Fahina Qalbani, also alerted by the dispatcher, called the pro shop at the Sioux City Country Club, where her husband, Askar, director of the Marian Health Center's laboratory, was playing golf on the 13th hole with three other physicians.
"Get all the doctors out," she demanded, according to her husband.
That and other calls began the process that doctors, paramedics and others had been preparing for in Sioux City for years.
A team of National Guard workers with several trucks was ready and waiting. At the city's two hospitals, dozens of doctors were preparing to receive trauma patients. Within hours, more than 100 physicians, nearly three-fourths of the Sioux City area's medical community, would be in action.
On the plane, passenger Rehnberg saw the chief flight attendant walking around, staring into a manual. He figured this was not a good sign.
At 3:40, Haynes informed the passengers that the tail section was damaged and that the plane was en route to Sioux City for an emergency landing.
With that, the mood inside the cabin changed entirely. Immediately, the flight attendants began conducting a practice drill for survival in a crash landing. They told the passengers to keep their seat belts fastened tightly, to put their heads between their legs and grab their ankles. They stressed that passengers should hold that position until the plane stopped moving.
As the captain tried to bring the plane down, its problems became increasingly obvious.
"It felt like it was getting worse all the time," Schemmel said. "We were dipping more, shuddering more." Investigators later described this movement as "porpoising." Said Schemmel: "We kept turning to the right all the time. There were a lot of times we would turn so sharply to the right we'd have to clutch something."
Schemmel remembered that, about a month ago, he had taken out a new life insurance policy but had forgotten to tell his wife about it. He pulled a piece of Continental Basketball Association stationery from his briefcase ''and left a note about the insurance policy: If something happens, there's a life insurance policy and the papers are in so-and-so."
He signed his name.
Passengers were reassuring one another that everything would be all right. ''People were saying, 'We're going to make it; it's OK,' " Treber said, ''but everyone knew it was pretty serious."
At 3:51, the control tower at Sioux Gateway radioed Haynes.
"I'm going to bring you in away from the city," the voice from the tower said.
"Whatever you do," Haynes replied, "keep us away from the city."
About four minutes before reaching Sioux City, another warning was given. This time, it came from Capt. Haynes. He said it was going to be a hard landing, possibly very hard, and to be prepared for the worst.
The DC-10 headed down, its wings teetering from left to right, making grinding noises, flying, one passenger said, as if it were a drunk, staggering in a desperate, semiconscious attempt to retain its balance.
McDonnell started thinking "about what would be the best way to die." She began to recite an Emily Dickinson poem.
In Row 14, Jenny Hudspeth was bent over, awaiting the impact with a friend she had made in the last few minutes, her seatmate, an elderly widow from the Chicago area whose name she did not know. As the plane was about to crash, the woman said to Hudspeth: "Tell my children I love them."
"We're going to make it; we're going to make it," Hudspeth assured her, gripping her hand.
To some of the passengers, it seemed that the impact would never come. But it did. The crew members yelled "Brace!" to passengers as the plane approached the runway, making a sharp drop at the last minute.
"To me it felt like we dove straight in," Jerry Milford said.
At 3:58 p.m., United Flight 232 crashed into a cornfield a half-mile short of Runway 22 at Sioux Gateway Airport. It was traveling at 218 knots, faster than normal, and descending at a rate of 2,500 feet per minute, far more steeply than normal.
The plane's right wing dipped and scraped the ground. The DC-10 cartwheeled in a flaming ball and skidded into an adjoining cornfield, scattering wreckage over an area the size of three football fields.
"You could hear the plane coming apart, grinding against where the runway should be," said David Landsberger of Caldwell, N.J. Then, he said, "we were stopped dead. The lights went out, and we were hanging upside down in our seats. I remember thinking that this is what dying is like."
'ALL OVER THE PLACE'
"Everything was just flying all over the place," Milford said. "It was just like a gumball machine."
The plane bounced once and came down. A hole was torn open in the left side of the plane near the front of the coach section, and a small ball of fire flashed inside the plane.
"It was just a momentary, instantaneous flash, but it was horrible," said Rehnberg, whose arms and face were burned.
"It was very brief, like when you light a gas fire and there's too much gas," said Hughes, the honeymooner from Reading. "Then I remember debris hitting me as we skidded down the runway. It just kept hitting me. And there was this incredible level of noise. It was like being on a roller coaster and having people throwing things at you."
Everyone watching on the ground, and Greco watching from his helicopter, thought that there would be few, if any, survivors. Other parts of the plane - the nose section and much of the rear - had seemed to disintegrate.
"We could not believe anybody could walk away from it," Greco said.
But a section in the middle, containing Rows 9 through 21, had broken away intact, rolled over and skidded to a stop in a cornfield. And in the two minutes after the crash, about 70 people would walk away from it.
Not right away, though. Inside that section, Rehnberg and several dozen other passengers were left hanging upside down. After managing to release
himself, Rehnberg fell to the floor. "I saw light in the aisle and tried to go forward toward the cabin."
Treber saw smoke and fire outside and heard a small explosion. But she and the passengers around her were virtually unscathed; all of them escaped on their own, into the cornfield, through an end of the broken plane body. Treber ran as fast as she could in her two-inch red high heels, while people around her shouted, "It's going to go! We have to get out!"
Hudspeth, too, ran out into the corn stalks, which seemed to her as if they must be 10 feet tall. She had suffered only a bruise behind one ear. The white skirt she was wearing was still perfectly clean.
In the chaos after the crash, she lost track of the widow who had been seated next to her, although she recalled gripping the woman's hand. "All I saw was a hand clutching" out of the debris, Hudspeth said.
A seating chart of the flight, obtained by the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, listed Hudspeth's seatmate as L. Couleur. Yesterday, a Linda Coulerer was listed as among the dead.
Schemmel, after freeing himself from his upside-down seat, helped unstrap an elderly couple and then Sylvia Tsao, who had been sitting in the seat directly in front of him, holding her 2-year-old son, Evan.
"I remember grabbing her and pushing her into the aisle," Schemmel remembered. "She said, 'No, I can't find my baby.' She was screaming and pulling things around to look for her baby."
The passengers in Schemmel's part of the plane began coughing and choking in thick, dark smoke.
"I said to her, 'We've got to get out. We don't have very much more time.' But she said, 'No, I've got to get my baby.' "
Schemmel told her, "I'll get your baby. . . ."
But he couldn't find the boy. So he too ran out into the cornfield. As soon as he did, though, he heard a baby cry and ran back into the plane.
By now the plane was full of smoke. He heard the cry again. He pulled some debris and seats away. Now the cry was louder.
"I reached down into what was a hole," Schemmel said, "and pulled a baby's leg from what I guess was (an overhead) storage bin (on the upside-down plane). I clutched her to my chest and ran out. When I looked back at the plane, the opening was in flames."
The baby, who was not seriously hurt, was later identified as 1-year-old Sabrina Michaelson. Sylvia Tsao's son is missing and presumed dead.
Schemmel waited outside for what seemed to him like half an hour before help arrived. He was taken to a rescue area, then returned with National Guardsmen to the cornfields near his escape route, looking for a friend, Jay Ramsdell. He never found him. He ended up in the cornfield, alone.
https://cultivateconnections.org/legends-the-winged-ear/
The DEKALB Winged Ear logo is one of the most identifiable agriculture symbols anywhere in the world.
Tom asked Ken Kramer, an employee in sales, for ideas on a trademark to represent the company. Kramer thought the obvious choice was to use an ear of corn, but Tom wanted something more unique. When Ken Kramer suggested wings on the ear of corn, Tom immediately approved.
From 5/4/1984 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my Ashdown, Arkansas, High School Class of 1984 awards ceremony when I was awarded the Dekalb Agricultural Award ) To 5/25/2002 ( ) is 6595 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/23/1983 ( premiere USA TV series episode "St. Elsewhere"::"A Wing and a Prayer" ) is 6595 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 5/25/2002 ( ) is 4693 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/8/1978 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: United States Parole Commission ; Nomination of Richard T. Mulcrone To Be a Commissioner ) is 4693 days
From 2/9/1950 ( from History dot com: What is known as "McCarthyism" began ) To 5/25/2002 ( ) is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/25/1991 ( 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 as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 3/3/1959 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 9/23/1995 ( premiere USA TV series "JAG" ) is 13353 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/25/2002 ( ) is 13353 days
From 6/19/1968 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the 1st United States Navy Medal of Honor date of record of my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy officer and Thomas Reagan is the only United States of America military fighter jet ace-in-single-day during United States involvement in the Vietnam War ) To 5/25/2002 ( ) is 12393 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/8/1999 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Forever in a Day" ) is 12393 days
From 8/24/1954 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA: Statement by the President Upon Signing the Communist Control Act of 1954 ) To 3/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly - or something - the date of the top-secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can theorize only ) is 13353 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/25/2002 ( ) is 13353 days
From 12/5/1917 ( Edmund John James Reid dead ) 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 26706 days
26706 = 13353 + 13353
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/25/2002 ( ) is 13353 days
From 5/30/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA: Remarks to Congressional Medal of Honor Winners. ) 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 13353 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/25/2002 ( ) is 13353 days
http://www.au.af.mil/au/goe/eagle_bios/2008/day_2008.asp
Air University
On 25 May 2002, Sioux City airport honored Day by renaming their airport Colonel Bud Day Field.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Day
Bud Day
From Wikipedia
George Everette "Bud" Day (24 February 1925 - 27 July 2013) was a United States Air Force officer, aviator, and veteran of World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War. He was also a prisoner of war, and recipient of the Medal of Honor and Air Force Cross.
http://www.midamericaairmuseum.org/air-field.html
MidAmerica Museum of Aviation & Transportation
Sioux City, Iowa
The Colonel Bud Day Air Field
The Mid American Museum of Aviation & Transportation is located at the Sioux Gateway Airport/Colonel Bud Day Field. The airport was renamed to honor Colonel George E. "Bud" Day on May 25, 2002.
album: "Fashion Nugget" (1996)
Cake
"The Distance"
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns.
'Cause he's going the distance.
He's going for speed.
She's all alone, all alone
In her time of need.
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 9/17/1996 ( ) is 2617 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/1/1973 ( Exxon Corporation founded ) is 2617 days
From 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) To 9/17/1996 ( ) is 10552 days
10552 = 5276 + 5276
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/13/1980 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Galactica 1980"::"The Night the Cylons Landed - Part 1" ) is 5276 days
From 5/12/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: disguised as McLaren driver Ayrton Senna, I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) To 9/17/1996 ( ) is 1955 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/11/1971 ( premiere USA film "THX 1138" ) is 1955 days
From 7/15/1953 ( premiere USA film "Stalag 17" ) To 9/17/1996 ( ) is 15770 days
15770 = 7885 + 7885
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) is 7885 days
From 12/25/1991 ( 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 as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 9/17/1996 ( ) is 1728 days
1728 = 864 + 864
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/15/1968 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Bread and Circuses" ) is 864 days
From 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 US 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 9/17/1996 ( ) is 2070 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/4/1971 ( debut of Project Gutenberg ) is 2070 days
From 5/13/1992 ( 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 commissioned-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 ) To 9/17/1996 ( ) is 1588 days
1588 = 794 + 794
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/5/1968 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Gamesters of Triskelion" ) is 794 days
From 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) To 9/17/1996 ( ) is 1197 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/11/1969 ( Jennifer Aniston ) is 1197 days
From 2/9/1906 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: PRINCETON PUBLISHING CO. ; Scope Of Alumni Organization Greatly Widened By Recent Purchases. ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 22554 days
22554 = 11277 + 11277
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/17/1996 ( ) is 11277 days
https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/cake-interview-fashion-nugget-anniversary-9631006/
Billboard
‘Excess Ain’t Rebellion’: How Cake Has Made Moderation Sound Fun For the Past 30 Years
As two of Cake's biggest albums turn 25 and 20 respectively, the way that Cake carved out their own little quiet, anti-rock corner of the then-massive alt rock zeitgeist seems at risk of fading into o…
By Natalie Weiner
09/16/2021
Fashion Nugget, released 25 years ago this week on September 17, 1996, took the Sacramento band from nearly anonymous to platinum in eight months, thanks to the monumental success of propulsive anti-jock jam "The Distance." They remained a fixture of alternative rock radio for the next decade and a half, with four top 10 hits on the Alternative chart (though no two from the same album) and one, the 1998 single “Never There,’ that also reached the Hot 100. "Weve been a 'one-hit wonder' every single time, so I've started to get used to it," quips McCrea.
As two of their biggest albums turn 25 and 20 — Comfort Eagle was released July 24, 2001
U.S. Marshals (1998)
(from internet transcript)
Sheriff: Hey, they found the two that fell from the plane. That Chinese fellow dropped in some poor old boy's roof and into the bathtub. Looked like a big bowl of gumbo -
Gerard: I get the picture, sheriff.
From 5/5/1942 ( Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of USA: Message to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright Praising the Defenders of Corregidor ) To 3/6/1998 ( ) is 20394 days
20394 = 10197 + 10197
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/3/1993 ( the Battle of Mogadishu Somalia begins ) is 10197 days
From 4/14/1988 ( the minefield damage to United States Navy warship USS Samuel B. Roberts FFG 58 while I US Navy FC2 Kerry Wayne Burgess was somewhere in the area in my permanent assignment until 1990 onboard the US Navy warship USS Wainwright CG 28, Missile Plot, guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex, during Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will and leading to Operation Praying Mantis ) To 3/6/1998 ( ) is 3613 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/24/1975 ( premiere USA film "Three Days of the Condor" ) is 3613 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 3/6/1998 ( ) is 1172 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 1/17/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Mark of Gideon" ) is 1172 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa ) To 3/6/1998 ( ) is 3152 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 6/20/1974 ( premiere USA film "Chinatown" ) is 3152 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120873/releaseinfo
IMDb
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Release Info
USA 6 March 1998
Full Cast & Crew
Tommy Lee Jones ... Samuel Gerard
Jonathan M. Wainwright (general)
From Wikipedia
Jonathan Mayhew "Skinny" Wainwright IV (August 23, 1883 - September 2, 1953) was a career American army officer and the Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II. Wainwright was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his courageous leadership during the fall of the Philippines.
excerpts
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/the-forgotten-lessons-of-black-hawk-down.html
The New York Times
OPINION
The Forgotten Lessons of Black Hawk Down
The disaster in Somalia offered America a glimpse of the future of warfare. No one listened.
Oct. 3, 2018
Casualties mounted. In response, President Bill Clinton ordered an elite commando task force to Mogadishu with the specific assignment of eliminating Mr. Aidid.
By most measures — training and discipline, firepower and mobility — Task Force Ranger had Mr. Aidid’s irregulars outclassed. His forces were technologically backward while the American troops had all the best gadgets that money could buy.
In the end, little of this mattered. Mr. Aidid himself proved both frustratingly elusive and far shrewder than the Americans expected. On six “snatch” attempts, the Rangers came up empty-handed. On the seventh, the enemy forces that the Americans disparaged as "skinnies" and "sammies" were waiting.
U.S. Marshals
Quotes
Sam Gerard: Newman, with me on the right... MOVE!
From 3/7/1913 ( from The Daily Princtonian publication, Princeton University: DR. FOSDICK DISCUSSES LOYALTY TO CONVICTIONS ; Men Who Stand On Middle Ground Show Weakness Of Character ; DECISIONS MUST BE MADE ) To 8/7/1960 ( ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 8660 days
From 8/7/1960 ( ) To 5/14/1990 ( departing as enlisted US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2)(E-5) Kerry Wayne Burgess my Honorable Discharge from US Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 10872 days
10872 = 5436 + 5436
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/20/1980 ( premiere USA TV series episode "In Search of..."::"UFO Coverups" ) is 5436 days
From 8/7/1960 ( ) To 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) is 10075 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/3/1993 ( Princeton University, Class of 1993, Commencement Week begins ) is 10075 days
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000141/bio/
IMDb
David Duchovny
Born August 7, 1960 New York City, New York, USA
David earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton University
excerpts, comments by me, Kerry Burgess
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19130307-01.2.13&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Princeton University
Daily Princetonian, Volume 38, Number 10, 7 March 1913
DR. [ of Superstition and circular-reasoning ] FOSDICK DISCUSSES LOYALTY TO CONVICTIONS
Men Who Stand on Middle Ground Show Weakness of Character
DECISIONS MUST BE MADE
Suspended Judgment Tends to Destroy All Sense of Morality
The Rev. [ Superstiton ] H. E. Fasdick, of Montclair, N. J., spoke in Murray Hall last evening on "The Uncommitted Man." In discussing his subject, the speaker devoted his attention to the American college men who go through their university courses without giving heed to the struggle for Christian [ Superstiton ] advancement which is going on about them.
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 11/21/1996 ( ) is 2682 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/7/1973 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "The Six Million Dollar Man" ) is 2682 days
From 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) To 11/21/1996 ( ) is 1262 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/17/1969 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "Medical Center" ) is 1262 days
From 5/16/1956 ( premiere USA film "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "While the City Sleeps" ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) is 11342 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/21/1996 ( ) is 11342 days
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19961121-01.2.13&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Princeton University
Daily Princetonian, Volume 120, Number 116, 21 November 1996
University may pay millions for computer recalibration
By MARSHALL M. BURKES
The imminent arrival of the year 2000 isn't causing much celebration among some university administrators. Computer systems used by many of the university's administrative departments have already begun to fall victim to a widespread glitch known as "the 2000 problem," Vice President for Computing and Information Technology Ira Fuchs said. The problem occurs when older computer systems, like many of those the university uses, try to do calculations involving dates after Dec. 31, 1999. Most of these systems only use the last two digits of a year, and therefore cannot distinguish between years such as 1996 and 2096.
It may cost the university between $800,000 and $5 million to correct the 2000 problem, Associate Provost Georgia Nugent '73 said. The expenses of fixing the 2000 problem have been grouped with a larger effort to update the university's computer systems, Fuchs said. That plan, known as "Partnership 2000," may cost $50 million, he added. Under Partnership 2000, all university departments will evaluate their computer systems and upgrade them, he explained.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Flying+the+first+mission+of+d…
THE FREE LIBRARY
The Free Library > Science and Technology > Military and naval science > Air Power History > March 22, 2012
Suddenly, the lights began to go off. One of the pilots mused, "I think they know we are here." Thirty seconds prior, the Apache crews turned on their ranging lasers. At exactly 2:37:50 AM, White Team Apache pilot 2d Lt. Tom Drew keyed his radio and broadcast, "Party in ten." Precisely ten seconds later all crews began firing their Hellfire missiles. Twenty seconds later, the deadly weapons began to detonate against the structures. The generators were hit first, then the command bunkers, and finally, the radar dishes themselves. Several Iraqi enemy soldiers died in the barrage.
Once all the Hellfires had been expended, the helicopters flew toward the sites and ripple-fired their rockets. Two thousand meters from the sites, they opened up with their 30 mm chain guns and riddled what remained of the compounds with every bullet they had. Four minutes after it started, it was over. The Apaches had expended twenty-seven Hellfire missiles, 100 Hydra-70 rockets, and 4,000 rounds of 30 mm cannon fire. They turned south, rejoined with the Pave Lows, and headed home. En route, Captain Martin's crew observed what appeared to be the launch of two SA-7 missiles. They utilized their on-board defensive systems and some aggressive maneuvering to escape the missiles.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 05/14/07 9:12 AM
but I think what this all represents is me flying into Iraq, running out of fuel because I engaged enemy fighters, and then having to land and find fuel. I also found myself reading that book by Claire and having a hard time to believe we didn't get swarmed by enemy fighters.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:43 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal June 20, 2006, Supplemental
I wonder if I was the first American to strike Saddam.
https://military-blog.com/ah-64-apache-helicopter/
AH-64 Apache Helicopter
Tom brad
Last updated: 2023/11/15 at 8:22 AM
Agile and Deadly – Maneuverability of the Apache Helicopter
The AH-64 Apache helicopter is not just a powerful weapon; it is also an incredibly agile and maneuverable aircraft. The Apache’s design allows it to perform tight turns, rapid changes in direction, and precise hovering. This level of maneuverability is crucial in combat situations, where the ability to quickly evade enemy fire and engage targets with precision is paramount.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X08 - FLESH AND BONE
Original Airdate: February 25, 2005 (USA)
Caprica #6 - Does he love you?
Caprica Boomer - I think so.
Caprica #6 - Has he said it?
Caprica Boomer - Not directly.
Caprica #6 - Then you're just guessing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache
Boeing AH-64 Apache
From Wikipedia
The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rosenthal
Joe Rosenthal
From Wikipedia
Joseph John Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war, and was replicated as the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot,_Part_1_transcript
LOSTPEDIA
Episode 1 - "Pilot, Part 1"
CINDY: [on the intercom] Ladies and gentleman, the pilot has switched on the "fasten seatbelt" sign. Please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts.
JACK: [to Rose] It's normal.
ROSE: Oh, I know. I've just never been a very good flier. My husband keeps reminding me that planes want to be in the air.
JACK: Well, he sounds like a very smart man.
ROSE: Be sure and tell him that when he gets back from the bathroom.
[The plane is really shaking now.]
From 2/27/1952 ( premiere USA TV series "That Reminds Me" ) 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 14204 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/22/2004 ( ) is 14204 days
From 1/30/1956 ( premiere USA TV series episode "TV Reader's Digest"::"Cochise, Greatest of the Apaches" ) 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 14204 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/22/2004 ( ) is 14204 days
From 10/9/1911 ( Joseph John Rosenthal ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 28408 days
28408 = 14204 + 14204
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/22/2004 ( ) is 14204 days
From 7/19/1954 ( from Time magazine publication: Aviation: Gamble in the Sky ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 14204 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/22/2004 ( ) is 14204 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0636289/
IMDb
Lost
S1.E1
Pilot: Part 1
Episode aired Sep 22, 2004
Lost
Episode 1 - "Pilot, Part 1"
More shaking and screaming. The oxygen masks come down. Jack and Rose put their masks on. Shot of another guy putting his mask on.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(1968_TV_series)
The Outsider (1968 TV series)
From Wikipedia
After briefly setting up the situation via narration, Ross will then (also via narration) say some variation of "I suppose you're wondering how I got here..."
excerpts
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2023/11/today-is-11292023.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me at 2:03 AM , November 29, 2023
Today is 11/29/2023
Stargate Universe - "Faith" - tv-series Season 1 Episode 13, 04/16/2010
CAINE: This planet was created for us, and we were led here for a reason.
MORRISON: Oh, for God's sake!
[ excerpts ends - by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me at 2:03 AM , November 29, 2023 ]
excerpts
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19520320-01.2.17&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Princeton University
Daily Princetonian, Volume 75, Number 207, 20 March 1952
Backward Nations Need Democracy, Not 'Coke'
Naturally, any kind of progress brings with it change and conflict with established ideals. An instinctive reaction to this process is to fall back on past traditions, and hence scholars and religious leaders cry, "Back to Confucius," "Back to the Qur'an," and so on. Even Gandhi wanted to go "back to the Vedas." People don't like to see their images undergo any changes, much less seeing them made into someone else's.
Also, progress in backward places
"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"
by Julian Jaynes (Author)
pg 320
But living also in these forms is a fervent search for what I shall call archaic authorization. After the collapse of the bicameral mind, the world is still in a sense governed by the gods, by statements and laws and prescriptions carved on stelae or written on papyrus or remembered by old men, and dating back to bicameral times. But the dissonance is still there. Why are the gods no longer heard and seen?
"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"
by Julian Jaynes (Author)
pg 320
The Psalms cry out for answers. And more assurances are needed than the relics of history or the paid insistences of priests. Something palpable, something direct, something immediate! Some sensible assurance that we are not alone, that the gods are just silent, not dead, that behind all this hesitant subjective groping about for signs of certainty, there is a certainty to be had.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: June 3, 2023
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Judge: Order in the court. Rev. Brown has asked me to announce meeting. "Pray for justice and guidance." All are invited.
Drummond: Your honor, I object to that commercial announcement.
Judge: "commercial announcement"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Randall
Lisa Randall
From Wikipedia
Personal life
In an interview she was asked whether she believes in God, she said:
"... I probably don't believe in God. I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true. This might earn me some enemies, but in some ways they may be even more moral. If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons."
Moral
From Wikipedia
A moral is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. A moral is a lesson in a story or in real life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity
Christianity
From Wikipedia
Christianity [ Superstition ] is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest religion, with about 2.5 billion followers.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 09/18/2018
One of my arguments against mortality is something you're too dim-witted to ever think up on your own. I argue against mortality for the *literal* reason of somnabulation.
I have other arguments. I don't believe immortality is ever possible.
Is *never* possible for *you*.
I contemplate immortality because of my discoveries associated with a fictional story from "Star Trek".
Star Trek means *nothing* literal to you. *Never* will mean anything literal to *you*.
To me, I have credible reason to believe that secret forces created some of those stories to accompany me later in life as a form of instruction. The code pattern is the basis for that instruction. All created because *I* was created as a human being cloned from another human being.
by me, Kerry Burgess, December 16, 2017 7:01 pm
Jesus Christ bible-thumpers, will simply change their story when the facts prove they are wrong. Million of monkey-men were wrong about Zeus so they simply invented a phony God easier to believe.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 10:40 PM Pacific-time USA Wednesday 11/29/2023
