by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/25/2026 3:22 PM
This is a continuation of a topic from my previous blog-posts
I forgot to include a trivial detail and it expands another less-than-trivial detail I noted earlier.
You really think that scumbag is reading my blog-posts?
No. That scumbag does nothing unless it benefits him personally.
People with no real problems obsessing over people with actual power over their pathetic, mediocre life.
Those melodramatic rabble are roused.
Real problems continued to be ignored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)
Contact (1997 American film)
From Wikipedia
News footage of Bill Clinton was digitally altered to make it appear as if he is speaking about alien contact.
Shortly afterwards, Clinton gave a speech about the Martian meteorite fragment Allan Hills 84001, which was used in Contact. Zemeckis said: "I swear to God it was like it was scripted for this movie. When he said the line 'We will continue to listen closely to what it has to say', I almost died. I stood there with my mouth hanging open."
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT8T9bjj65O/
barackobama
5h [retrieved by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/25/2026 3:30 PM west-coast USA]
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American
From 1/17/1991 ( Operation Desert Storm begins AND 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 1/24/2026 ( Saturday ) is 12791 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/9/2000 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Friends"::"The One with the Nap Partners" ) is 12791 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-signing-the-veterans-claims-assistance-act-2000
The American Presidency Project
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
42nd President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Statement on Signing the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000
November 09, 2000
Today I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 4864, the "Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000." The Act reaffirms and clarifies the duty of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assist claimants in developing evidence pertinent to their claims for VA benefits. It eliminates the previous requirement that a claim be wellgrounded before VA's duty to assist arises. The Act requires the Secretary to make reasonable efforts to assist a claimant in obtaining evidence to substantiate his or her claim unless it is clear that no reasonable possibility exists that the Secretary's assistance would aid in substantiating the claim. As under current law, the Secretary must consider the entire record of evidence, and when there is an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence regarding an issue material to the determination of a matter, the Secretary must give the benefit of the doubt to the claimant.
Veterans seeking benefits from this Government are deserving of all reasonable assistance that VA has to offer. The benefits administered by the Secretary are a means by which the Nation expresses its profound gratitude for the many sacrifices our veterans have made to protect and defend our freedom. Veterans Day, a day set aside to honor all veterans, is an especially appropriate time for us to ensure that we will continue to pay our debts to these men and women. This Act demonstrates to veterans and to all those currently serving in our military and to those who may serve in the future, that America honors its commitments to those who have served. I am very pleased to approve this new law.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
The White House, November 9, 2000.
NOTE: H.R. 4864, approved November 9, was assigned Public Law No. 106-475.
http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1991/October%201991/1091apache.aspx
Air Force Magazine
October 1991
Apache Attack
By Richard Mackenzie
The helicopters would open the war. They had to take out Iraq's early warning net, and they had to get it all.
At ten seconds before 2:38 in a moonless sky over Iraq, eight US AH-64 Apache helicopters zeroed in on their targets. On their forward-looking infrared screens appeared the images of two Iraqi radar sites just north of Saudi Arabia, placed there to detect intruding fighters. They were linked to four Iraqi fighter bases and to the Intelligence Operations Center in Baghdad.
The unseen Apaches hovered low, four miles south of the radars. At the controls of Number 976, 1st Lt. Tom Drew broke radio silence. "Party in ten," he said. On cue, ten seconds later, the helicopters unleashed a salvo of laser-guided Hellfire missiles. "This one's for you, Saddam ," muttered CW03 Dave Jones, the pilot of another Apache.
The shots, fired in the predawn hours of January 17, 1991, marked the start of Operation Desert Storm and were among the most critical of the war, blinding Iraq's early warning net at a key moment. US Central Command relied entirely on the Apaches and USAF special operations helicopters to do the job. "If something had happened and we didn't do 100 percent [destruction]," said one gunner, CW04 Lou Hall, "a lot of people were going to get hurt."
The Apaches did achieve 100 percent destruction, or close to it. Eyewitnesses report that, when the Hellfires hit the targets, the radar bases evaporated in clouds of smoke and flame. In the four and a half minutes it took to complete the task, the Apaches had, in the words of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, "plucked out the eyes" of Iraq's Soviet-supplied air defenses.
Encyclopædia Britannica
Geronimo
Geronimo, Indian name Goyathlay ("One Who Yawns") (born June 1829, No-Doyohn Canyon, Mex. - died Feb. 17, 1909, Fort Sill, Okla., U.S.), Bedonkohe Apache leader of the Chiricahua Apache, who led his people’s defense of their homeland against the military might of the United States.
IMDb
Casualties of War (1989)
Quotes
Eriksson: Who got hit Sarge?
Hawthorne: The cherry. Man, that boy was bagged and tagged the minute they cut his orders to this place. They should've just shot him at home.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:40 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 01/25/2026
