Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
If this is the first blog-post by me you're reading then you are galactically uninformed.
This Is What I Think.
Monday, October 12, 2026
Today is 10/12/2026
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-sets-trial-date-next-134245429.html
Judge sets a trial date for next May in Trump's classified documents case in Florida
Fri, July 21, 2023 at 6:42 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents.
The May 20, 2024, trial date, set Friday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon
From 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) To 5/20/2024 ( ) is 7409 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/1986 ( premiere USA film "The Delta Force" ) is 7409 days
To 6/29/1984 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official US Navy enlisted records includes: Part III - Record of Clearance ) From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) is 6814 days
13628 = 6814 + 6814
From 1/27/1987 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: "Date Enrolled" Terrier Mk152 Guided Missiles Fire Control Computers Complex, Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, 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 Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 5/20/2024 ( ) is 13628 days
From 6/29/1984 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official US Navy enlisted records includes: Part III - Record of Clearance ) To 5/20/2024 ( ) is 14570 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/2005 ( premiere USA TV series episodes "Battlestar Galactica"::"Pegasus" and "Stargate: Atlantis"::"Aurora" ) is 14570 days
From 6/27/1994 ( the US NASA Stargazer Pegasus rocket failure ) To 5/20/2024 ( ) is 10920 days
10920 = 5460 + 5460
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/14/1980 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th president of USA federal government 1977-1981: Privacy Protection Act of 1980 ; Statement on Signing S. 1790 Into Law ) is 5460 days
Stargate Atlantis
"Aurora"
TV-series season 2 episode 9, 09/23/2005
VIRTUAL AURORA.
CAPTAIN: All this time I thought we had evaded the enemy. Instead, I've been unwittingly assisting them.
SHEPPARD: No, sir. She didn't succeed -- and if you tell me the information in the communique, we may be able to defeat the Wraith once and for all.
CAPTAIN: The information is in the ship's computer. I can give you my access codes.
SHEPPARD: We checked. It's all been erased. Can't you tell me yourself?
CAPTAIN: I'm afraid I was never made aware of its contents, Colonel Sheppard. The Council feared the possibility of our capture was too great. The information in that communiqu is gone. (He sighs.) Ten thousand years. Even in stasis, our physical bodies must be ...
SHEPPARD: ... very old. Too old.
(The Captain looks around the Bridge at his people working busily.)
CAPTAIN: My crew deserves to know.
SHEPPARD: Yes, they do
by me, Kerry Burgess: July 15, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L1011
Lockheed L-1011
In the early 1990s, Orbital Sciences began to use a converted L-1011-100 named Stargazer to launch Pegasus rockets into orbit around Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_rocket
The first successful Pegasus launch occurred on April 5, 1990. Initially, a NASA-owned B-52 Stratofortress served as the carrier aircraft. By 1994, Orbital had transitioned to their "Stargazer" L-1011, a converted airliner.
by me, Kerry Burgess: July 27, 2006
This seems important:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_rocket
"OCA", Orbital Carrier Aircraft
Launch History
June 1994- STEP-1: Failure (destroyed during first-stage flight)
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/lvs/pegsusxl.htm 1994 Jun 27 - - 21:15 GMT. LV Configuration: Pegasus XL
s/n F6
Launch Site: Vandenberg
Launch Complex: RW30/12
FAILURE: Destroyed on launch
STEP 1 Spacecraft: Eagle
Payload: STEP M1 / P90-1
Destroyed on launch
IMDb
Broken Arrow (1996)
Quotes
[on whether to disclose the loss of a stealth bomber]
Giles Prentice: Wait. We're making a mistake.
Secretary Baird: Giles? You, uh, have some input you wish to share with us?
Giles Prentice: Yes, sir. Aviation Week has been following the development of the B3 for years. They have "stringers" - guys camping out in lawn chairs all night out by the Whiteman perimeter fence - watching just in case one of these things take off. Now, they're gonna know that one took off last night, and they're gonna know that it didn't come back. Now, we put out a press-release saying a C141 went down in Utah, they're gonna put two and two together. Aviation Week is gonna run a story, everyone's gonna know what really happened, and we're all gonna look extremely stupid. We're better off just telling the truth.
Secretary Baird: The truth? How'd you get this job?
1990-04-05_1-1
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/17/07 10:36 PM
There has got to be a way to disconnect these false "memories" and reconnect my real memories into my consciousness.
What about that conflicted memory of being on Stampede Pass that day? How could I remember that? I had no vehicle that could have got me up there back in those days. I never drove my Jeep Wrangler up there. That has got to mean something. If I could just see it.
03/17/07 10:38 PM
And when I remember it, I'll know where to go. They're waiting for me now, but I have to consciously remember. I think they send people to walk around me that I should recognize but that I still do not consciously recognize.
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 11:40 AM Sunday, January 02, 2011
Stampede Pass
I must have been lying in bed for over four hours last night and could not fall asleep for that much time and longer because I started thinking during the night last night that Stampede Pass is where I materialized after the L-1011 Stargazer spiraled down from over forty thousand feet after breaking into pieces and then crashed with such force that it virtually vaporized on contact with that ground. I started thinking of how that scene with "Picard" and his wife announcing that dinner was ready could be a detail I created to represent the details I read about the source of the name for Stampede Pass, as well as how "Kirk" mentions that he smell something burning in the kitchen. I thought over many details last night as I hoped to fall asleep and I was thinking of how the dialog with the statue in the 1996 film "Star Trek: First Contact" is about how after I understood that my aircraft was unflyable because, for one reason, a wing had just broken off due to impact with debris from the Pegasus rocket that had just exploded in front of my windshield, I was turned around part ways in my seat as the pilot and I had my had outreached to shake the hand of Kerry Burgess and I spoke that flying with had been an honor but the aircraft was spinning too fast for us to shake hands. When I materialized at Stampede Pass I felt as though I had materialized about one inch or two above the ground and I found myself standing there in the woods on that dirt road with absolutely no idea where I was and I was standing there with my hand still reaching out to shake his hand.
dark-matter_s2e6-2026_00h-21m-09s
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Quotes
Regina Jackson: My name is Regina Jackson. I'm the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America.
Klaatu: This body will take some getting used to.
Regina Jackson: I've been sent here to determine who or what you represent and what your intentions are.
Klaatu: It feels unreal to me. Alien. It will take time to adapt.
Helen Benson: What were you before you were human?
Klaatu: Different.
Helen Benson: Different how?
Klaatu: It would only frighten you.
From 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004, employed as technical accounts manager in Microsoft Premier Support for Enterprise and then Microsoft Premier Support for Developers - title: Applications Development Consultant ) to 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle suburb Bellevue beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 1887 days
From 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle suburb Bellevue beginning 12/07/1998 ) to 4/7/2009 ( ) is 1887 days
WIRED
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Here’s a look ahead at upcoming DVD releases flagged during their theatrical run by Wired.com
The Day the Earth Stood Still
DVD release date: April 7
amazon
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Product Details
DVD Release Date: April 7, 2009
From 6/4/1973 ( the United States patent granted for the automatic teller machine ) To 6/12/2026 ( ) is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/7/1992 ( first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 ) is 9683 days
From 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle suburb Bellevue beginning 12/07/1998 ) To 6/12/2026 ( ) is 8162 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, 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 8162 days
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/spacex-prepares-for-debut-as-75-billion-ipo-breaks-record-1
Bloomberg Law
SpaceX Prepares for Debut as $75 Billion IPO Breaks Record
June 12, 2026, 2:47 AM PDT
Bailey Lipschultz
Bloomberg News
SpaceX made history with a $75 billion IPO that instantly turned it into one of the biggest public companies in the world. Now it has to win over the market.
Friday’s trading will be a critical test for the $1.8 trillion rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company and Elon Musk, its founder. Even after raising the largest-ever amount in an IPO, SpaceX still needs the market’s validation of its ambition to dominate AI and carry humans to the moon and Mars, as well as the company’s controversial governance regime that promises Musk near-total control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Elon Musk
From Wikipedia [retrieved by me, Kerry Burgess, on 06/12/2026]
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and former public official known for his leadership of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as of June 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$982 billion.
Born into the wealthy Musk family in Pretoria, South Africa
The Simpsons
"GI (Annoyed Grunt)"
Homer Simpson: (offering recruiter pamphlets to passersby in shopping-mall) Are you tired of waiting for sanctions to work? I know I am.
From 1/27/1963 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Jetsons"::"G.I. Jetson" ) To 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 14985 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/12/2006 ( ) is 14985 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0864054/
IMDb
The Simpsons
S18.E5
G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)
Episode aired Nov 12, 2006
https://www.legion.org/stories/other/retreat-hell-we-just-got-here
The American Legion
"Retreat, hell! We just got here."
DEC 11, 2014
America entered World War I to reinforce the battered French and British troops waging a desperate fight against Germany. On June 2, 1918, a division of Marines was sent to support the French army at Belleau Wood. As the Marines arrived, they found French troops retreating through their lines. A French colonel, attempting to acquaint the Americans with the realities of the situation and not trusting his spoken English, scribbled a note to the officer in charge of the Americans ordering them to retreat. The Marine officer looked at the Frenchman coldly and said, Retreat, Hell! We just got here. That officer was Capt. Lloyd W. Williams, commanding the 51st Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment.
From 4/6/1917 ( the US Navy Cross medal first established ) To 10/14/1993 ( Mike Durant released from captivity in Somalia ) is 27950 days
27950 = 13975 + 13975
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 13975 days
From 6/12/1918 ( Lloyd William Williams killed by enemy action during World War I ) To 12/20/1994 ( an aviator 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 27950 days
27950 = 13975 + 13975
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 13975 days
From 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) To 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 3895 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/2/1976 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Gregg v. Georgia, holding by a 7 to 2 majority that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual and was a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment ) is 3895 days
From 6/14/1927 ( from On This Day: Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow), dies ) To 9/17/1965 ( premiere USA TV series "Hogan's Heroes" ) is 13975 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( - and arriving soon in Spokane Valley ) is 13975 days
From 5/5/1978 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th president of USA federal government 1977-1981: Spokane, Washington - Remarks at Dedication Ceremonies for Riverfront Park ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 9408 days
9408 = 4704 + 4704
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/19/1978 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th president of USA federal government 1977-1981: Executive Order 12082 - Armed Forces Promotion and Disability Separation Limitations ) is 4704 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and for me after 05/10/2006: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 5315 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/22/1980 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th president of USA federal government 1877-1981: Spokane, Washington - Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters Following a Meeting With State and Community Leaders ) is 5315 days
From 1/9/1913 ( Richard Nixon ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and for me after 05/10/2006: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 27950 days
27950 = 13975 + 13975
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 13975 days
From 2/21/1997 ( landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me 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 ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 2541 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/17/1972 ( Britain's Queen Elizabeth II {for me after 05/10/2006: my biological genetic paternal-grandmother along with Prince Philip } visits Yugoslavia ) is 2541 days
From 10/13/1952 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Hollywood Opening Night"::"Let George Do It" ) To 1/17/1991 ( 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 ) is 13975 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 13975 days
From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 11129 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/22/1996 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Danspeckgruber Reports On Bosnia ) is 11129 days
From 4/9/1946 ( Joseph Wayne Burgess - as Kerry Wayne Burgess, I maintain he was never my biological father and I maintain you're an idiotic moron to doubt any claim made by me ) To 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) is 13975 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 13975 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 3388 days
3388 = 1694 + 1694
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/23/1970 ( at University of Cambridge, Prince Charles becomes the first heir of the British monarchy to obtain a college diploma ) is 1694 days
From 1/1/1997 ( the Emergency Alert System becomes operational in the United States ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 2592 days
2592 = 1296 + 1296
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/21/1969 ( described publicly only by me, the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD ) is 1296 days
From 5/15/1984 ( officially accepted for enlistment US Navy on 05/21/1983 for the Advanced Electronics Field, as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as US Navy enlisted seafarer as scheduled for this day ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 7206 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/26/1985 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA federal government 1981-1989: Statement of Administration Policy: S. 1195 - Missing Children ) is 7206 days
From 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th president of USA federal government 1981-1989: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) To 2/6/2004 ( ) is 7206 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/26/1985 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th president of USA federal government 1981-1989: Statement of Administration Policy: S. 1195 - Missing Children ) is 7206 days
From 1/20/1953 ( Jeffrey Epstein ) To 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 18644 days
18644 = 9322 + 9322
From 11/2/1965 ( me ) To 5/12/1991 ( disguised as McLaren driver Ayrton Senna, I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix as the unpublished Formula One driver and the financial partner of McLaren Honda and the legitimate agent of Interpol ) is 9322 days
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 journal: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2006 6:12 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Microsoft might take a new look at lethal injection
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/261975_lethal07.html
A decade ago, when Microsoft executives made lethal injection the primary way to execute pesky competition, it was considered less barbaric than hanging and less likely to bring long, costly trips to the woods.
Bill Gates has called lethal injection "undoubtedly innovative" and said that ruling otherwise would be "tantamount to forbidding the death penalty altogether for our competitors."
But now, as death row competitors in other states claim it's cruel punishment because it may not bring a peaceful death as once believed, some managers say Bill Gates will likely have to look for another more painful method.
"It's pretty clear that this method of execution has the potential to cause a great deal of pain -- and maybe even more pain than some of the methods we're using now and we like that."
posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:36 PM Sunday, September 11, 2005
Yesterday, I started thinking that maybe no one is going to just give me the explanation I have been waiting on. Instead, what I think is going to happen is someone is going to hand me a set of keys and say "Here you go. One shiny, pre-owned Microsoft. Have fun." I just wonder if Bill Gates is a smoker and if so, whether I will be able to get that smoky smell out of it before I take it for a drive.
1652386 .jpg, from internet
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and for me after 05/10/2006: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 5/12/1991 ( ) is 662 days
662 = 331 + 331
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/29/1966 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Naked Time" ) is 331 days
From 1/10/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Long Morrow" ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and for me after 05/10/2006: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 9322 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/12/1991 ( ) is 9322 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Monaco_Grand_Prix
1991 Monaco Grand Prix
From Wikipedia
The 1991 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on 12 May 1991.
The 78-lap race was won from pole position by Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna, driving a McLaren-Honda.
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The Twilight Zone
The Long Morrow
Quotes
Commander Douglas Stansfield: [Voice over in suspended animation] I move now, I streak across the sky, I leave an Earth behind that changes beyond my closed eyes. From a warm place of leaves and trees to a cold orb hanging in a dark sky and growing smaller and smaller and smaller. And time passes. It inexorably passes. And I can do nothing about it.
1204982-senna .jpg, from internet
From 3/24/1970 ( hiring a fellow traitor against the USA to fake his qualifications, George W. Bush was never a pilot qualified and was never capable of controlled flight in any jet aircraft of any branch of the United States of America military, leading to his eventual desertion and conspiracy to desert from his lawful obligations to the United States Air Force and the United States of America - stemming from illegal narcotics-trafficking in Mexico by George W. Bush and his justified detention to Mexico federal prison ) To 10/26/2001 ( ) is 11539 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/6/1997 ( premiere USA film "Con Air" ) is 11539 days
From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 10/26/2001 ( ) is 10296 days
10296 = 5148 + 5148
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1979 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) is 5148 days
From 1/1/1956 ( premiere USA TV series episode "You Are There"::"Benedict Arnold's Plot Against West Point (September 23, 1780)" ) To 12/25/1991 ( for me after 05/10/2006: an aviator 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 13142 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/26/2001 ( ) is 13142 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-signing-the-usa-patriot-act-2001
The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States: 2001 ‐ 2009
Remarks on Signing the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001
October 26, 2001
Good morning and welcome to the White House. Today we take an essential step in defeating terrorism, while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans. With my signature, this law will give intelligence and law enforcement officials important new tools to fight a present danger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Belleau_Wood
Battle of Belleau Wood
From Wikipedia
The Battle of Belleau Wood (1 26 June 1918) occurred during the German spring offensive in World War I, near the Marne River in France. The battle was fought between the U.S. 2nd (under the command of Major General Omar Bundy) and 3rd Divisions along with French and British forces against an assortment of German units including elements from the 237th, 10th, 197th, 87th, and 28th Divisions. The battle has become a key component in the lore of the United States Marine Corps.
Fighting in Belleau Wood
The battle was now deadlocked. At midnight on 7 8 June, a German attack was stopped cold and an American counter-attack in the morning of 8 June was similarly defeated. Sibley's battalion having sustained nearly 400 casualties was relieved by the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines. Major Shearer took over the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines for the wounded Berry. On 9 June, an enormous American and French barrage devastated Belleau Wood, turning the formerly attractive hunting preserve into a jungle of shattered trees. The Germans counter-fired into Lucy and Bouresches and reorganized their defenses inside Belleau Wood.
In the morning of 10 June, Major Hughes' 1st Battalion, 6th Marines together with elements of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion attacked north into the wood. Although this attack initially seemed to be succeeding, it was also stopped by machine gun fire. The commander of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion Major Cole was mortally wounded. Captain Harlan Major senior captain present with the battalion took command. The Germans used great quantities of mustard gas. Next, Wise's 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines was ordered to attack the woods from the west, while Hughes continued his advance from the south.
At 04:00 on 11 June, Wise's men advanced through a thick morning mist towards Belleau Wood, supported by the 23rd and 77th companies of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, and elements of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Engineers and were cut to pieces by heavy fire. Platoons were isolated and destroyed by interlocked machine gun fire. It was discovered that the battalion had advanced in the wrong direction. Rather than moving northeast, they had moved directly across the wood's narrow waist. However, they smashed the German southern defensive lines. A German private, whose company had 30 men left out of 120, wrote "We have Americans opposite us who are terribly reckless fellows."
Overall, the woods were attacked by the Marines a total of six times before they could successfully expel the Germans. They fought off parts of five divisions of Germans, often reduced to using only their bayonets or fists in hand-to-hand combat.
On 26 June, the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, under command of Major Maurice E. Shearer, supported by two companies of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion and the 15th Company of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, made an attack on Belleau Wood, which finally cleared that forest of Germans. On that day, Major Shearer submitted a report simply stating, "Woods now U.S. Marine Corps entirely", ending one of the bloodiest and most ferocious battles U.S. forces would fight in the war.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:46 AM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 10/12/2026
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