"But it was more likely a moment of sadness, since for the second time in three years I heard a man with nearly no integrity lecture an incoming class on the importance of integrity at Princeton"
"Cibola Burn" by James Corey, "The Expanse" series of novels, Book 4
Chapter 25: Basia
Alex said. "I barely figured out my own mess. Don't ask me to figure out yours."
"What was her name?" Basia asked.
"Talissa," Alex said. "Her name *is* Talissa. Even just sayin' it makes me feel like ten kilos of manure in a five-kilo sack."
"Talissa," Basia repeated.
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19810911-01.2.21&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Daily Princetonian, Volume 105, Number 77, 11 September 1981
Who Speaks For Honor?
by me, Kerry Burgess: 08/13/2019
I've described some reasons why this Public Relations endeavour I *seem* to have been forced into is futile.
One reason is because those kids today are unable to relate to people who are now old, such as I.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a figure I've singled out lately because of her popularity with the mainstream media, as best I can figure was only in the 8th grade back in 2005 when I was forced onto the path I am now stuck on. My life has been in some sort of coma forced on me since then.
Today I checked the Bureau of Labor CPI Inflation Calculator. I quit my full-time employment at Microsoft Corporation in Seattle for the very same reasons I document here just about every day. I had a great salary, I was considered a "rising star", as I was accustomed to all my life before then, along with all the great perq.'s that went with my full-time employment - that ended with my *career* because of my *legitimate* complaints - I left an $80,000 yearly base-salary that was only going to increase every year *beyond* any sort of inflation increases, which was never an explanation for my salary increases. My salary was almost $30,000 higher after my 5-years of full-time employment at Microsoft Corporation. What gets me today, as a further indication of how much time has passed as I feverishly bang away at this stupid keyboard on this stupid computer at this stupid desk is the CPI calculator I checked today. That $80,000 in February 2004 is now $110,000 in July 2019. That's just for inflation. My initiative was working at a much greater pace.
Everything about this operation seems so neat and tidy. And it seems to be for the purpose of me creating here a public record. Information developed and collected by *me* and delivered to any person in the public who wants to read it here.
NASA Astronauts Retweeted
https://twitter.com/Astro_Christina/status/1161281732781510657
Christina H Koch
Verified account
@Astro_Christina
7:21 AM - 13 Aug 2019
My favorite way to spend free time on @Space_Station is looking out the cupola window, admiring and capturing the beauty of our home.
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 3/30/2022 ( Today, Wednesday ) is 5792 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/11/1981 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Who Speaks For Honor? ) is 5792 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 3/30/2022 ( ) is 19642 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/13/2019 ( ) is 19642 days
From 9/6/1977 ( premiere US TV series "Washington: Behind Closed Doors" ) To 3/30/2022 ( Today, Wednesday ) 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 United States Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8138 days
From 8/29/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal ) To 3/30/2022 ( ) is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 5/16/1992 ( the landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 3/30/2022 ( ) is 10910 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/16/1995 ( premiere US TV series "The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat" ) is 10910 days
From 1/17/1990 ( United States NASA announces the selection of the Group 13 Astronauts ) To 3/30/2022 ( ) is 11760 days
11760 = 5880 + 5880
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/8/1981 ( from Los Angeles Times newspaper: Lockheed Corp. said it will phase out production of its loss-plagued L-1011 TriStar widebody jetliners ) is 5880 days
From 6/27/1994 ( the US NASA Stargazer Pegasus rocket failure ) To 3/30/2022 ( Today, Wednesday ) is 10138 days
10138 = 5069 + 5069
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/19/1979 ( premiere US TV series "Struck by Lightning" ) is 5069 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: August 29, 2006
Here is an actual entry I made in my journal one night when I was asleep in the Pioneer Square gulag. I was completely oblivious at the time to the possibilty that I was a pilot in the military.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: August 29, 2006
My doctor asked me why I wanted to return as Thomas Ray. As I was riding back on the bus, I decided that the real reason is
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiV8Mi54-_OAhVLxmMKHcWBBvoQFgghMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dod.mil%2Fpubs%2Ffoi%2FReading_Room%2FPersonnel_Related%2FPress_Releases.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHnwzCrl-kM1zOf6irloN-25C9GZQ&sig2=_GWDCtwAAZH1QIWYkxwYRg
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/bush_records/index.html
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/bush_records/PressReleases.pdf
From Immediate Release
spl to The Houston Post
and The Houston Chronicle
w/art
Office of Information
147th Combat Crew Training Group
Texas Air National Guard
Houston, Texas 77034
Ellington AFB, Tex., March 24, 1970---George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed. Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics
After his solo, a milestone in the career of any fighter pilot, Lt. Bush couldn't find enough words to adequately express the feeling of solo flight.
Lt. Bush is the son of U.S Representative George Bush, who is a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat of Senator Ralph Yarborough.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/25/1085393/-Dan-Rather-got-it-right-George-W-Bush-DID-go-AWOL#
DAILY KOS
WED APR 25, 2012 AT 01:33 PM PDT
Dan Rather got it right George W. Bush DID go AWOL
by Lefty Coaster
I always suspected something like this was the case. The new issue of Texas Monthly delves into the long neglected story of George W. Bush less than stellar military career in the Texas Air National Guard. The Texas Monthly lays out the surprisingly complicated mechanizations that led to the Junior Bush landing this plumb spot in the T.A.N.G.
That George W. got special treatment at a time when draftees were likely to end up slogging through the jungles of Viet Nam shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to anyone who knows how America routinely gives special treatment to the offspring of the 1%.
From 1/3/1953 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: Memorandum on the Secretary of State's Recommendation in the Case of John Carter Vincent ) To 4/14/1977 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed nuclear-pulse propulsion spaceship returned to the planet Earth from solar system deep space from his successful strike in the outer solar system beyond Saturn to divert Comet "Lucifer", with extinction threatening the existence of all life on this planet Earth ) is 8867 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/11/1990 ( ) is 8867 days
From 7/13/1974 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Proclamation 4303 - United States Space Week, 1974 ) To 2/11/1990 ( ) is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 6/6/1923 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: George Jefferson Dwire ) To 12/25/1971 ( George W. Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 17734 days
17734 = 8867 + 8867
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/11/1990 ( ) is 8867 days
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nelson-mandela-released-from-prison
History
This Day in History: 1990 February 11
Nelson Mandela released from prison
Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years on February 11, 1990.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_Vincent
John Carter Vincent
From Wikipedia
Fall from office
in December 1952, the Civil Service Loyalty Review Board found reasonable doubt on Vincent's loyalty by a margin of one vote. In 1953, Secretary John Foster Dulles requested Vincent's resignation. Dean Acheson, Truman's Secretary of State, steadfastly defended Vincent, just as he had done for Alger Hiss, and thought that the China Hands generally were being unfairly and demagogically maligned for honestly conveying inconvenient facts.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/05/archives/john-carter-vincent-dies-specialist-on-china-policy-diplomat-was.html
The New York Times
John Carter Vincent Dies; Specialist on China Policy
By Alden Whitman
Dec. 5, 1972
December 5, 1972, Page 50
John Carter Vincent, a China specialist and former director of the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs, died Sunday night of lung failure at Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Mass. He was 72 years told and had lived in Cambridge since 1953, when he was summarily retired from the department by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
An old China Hand, Mr. Vincent was No 2 on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's list of 81 State Department officials alleged to have Communist leanings. A Civil Service Loyalty Review Board found “reasonable doubt” about Mr. Vincent, a finding that Mr. Dulles reversed, simultaneously retiring him on a pension of $6,200 year.
In a diplomatic career that began in 1925, Mr. Vincent served extensively in China, and was Counselor of Embassy in Chungking from 1942 to 1943. The following year he was chief of the State Department's Division of Chinese Affairs in Washington. He headed the Office of Far Eastern Affairs in 1945.
Mr. Vincent's troubles with Senator McCarthy and the socalled China Lobby, an informal but powerful group of Congressmen and citizens supporting Chiang Kai‐shek, centered on the Marshall mission to China in 1945–47. This mission, headed by General of the Army George C. Marshall, was dispatched by President Harry S. Truman. One of its aims was to urge Chiang to cooperate with Mao Tse‐tung's Communists in order to establish stable national government.
Impossible Demands Cited
One of the architects of the mission, Mr. Vincent was later accused of helping to draw up a directive to General Marshall that placed impossible demands on Chiang.
Mr. Vincent was also accused of counseling the American Government — after the Marshall mission had failed — to curtail sharply its military and economic aid to China. His argument was that Chiang was bound to lose the civil war then raging and that financial support to him would be money ill spent. By 1949 the Chinese Communists were victorious, and Chiang, his forces discomfited, had fled to Taiwan.
Ironically, Mr. Vincent had earlier been a supporter of assistance to Chiang. His draft of the Marshall directive, according to an article by Ross Terrill, a China speciialist, in The Atlantic Monthly for November, 1969, differed little from a draft submitted by the Pentagon. However, after the Communists swept China, Senator McCarthy asserted that the Marshall mission policy had turned 450 million friends of America into 450 million foes.”
Although Mr. Vincent was never officially rehabilitated, his assessment of Chinese events was vindicated by the rout of Chiang's regime, according to many China experts. In a tribute to Mr. Vincent yesterday, O. Edmund Clubb, a longtime colleague and former director of the State Department Division of Chinese Affairs, said.
“He was one of the outstanding officers of the State Department's small China service, an expert interpreter of complex Chinese events and skilled representative of his country.
“A director of the Far Eastern Division in the postwar period, he battled strenuously and courageously, under adverse domestic political conditions, to give intelligent direction to our China policy.”
Picture‐Book Diplomat
Mr. Vincent was almost picture ‐ book diplomat. Tall, elegant, mustached, with penetrating blue eyes and bushy brows, he possessed the courtliness of what a friend yesterday described as “an old‐fashioned Southern gentleman.”
Actually Mr. Vincent was born Aug. 19, 1900, in Seneca, Kan. He was, however, educated at Mercer University, Macon, Ga., and entered the Foreign Service in 1925. Learning to speak Chinese with exceptional fluency, he served for 10 years as a diplomatic and consular officer in Changsha, Honkow, Peking, Mukden, Dairen and Nanking.
He was transferred to Washington, serving with the Division of Far Eastern Affairs until 1939. Subsequently he was consul at Shanghai, Embassy counselor in Chungking and member fot eh American delegation to the United Nations conference in San Francisco in 1945. From 1947 to 1953 he served in Switzerland, as Minister, and then in Tangiers, also as Minister.
In China, Mr. Vincent was on friendly terms with virtually every political, economic and military personality. He was esceemed by, among others, Premier Chou En‐Lai of the Chinese People's Republic. Mr. Chou made a point last year of inviting Mr. Vincent to visit China, but he was too ill to accept.
The first questioning of Mr. Vincent came in 1952, and it astonished him. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, under Senator Patrick V. McCarren, suggested that he was, or had been, a member of the communist party. This was a charge that Mr. Vincent steadfastly denied. He admitted, however, to being “a Wilsonian Democrat.”
Following the committee hearings, Senator McCarthy made the charge of Communist affiliation against Mr. Vincent. This led to a State Department Loyalty Board hearing, which cleared the diplomat. Whereupon he was obliged to face a Civil Service Loyalty Review Board, which concluded, 3 to 2, that there was “reasonable doubt as to Vincent's loyalty to the United States.”
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Following this verdict, Secretary Dulles ruled in March, 1953, that, although there was “no reasonable doubt as to the loyalty” of Vincent, he had shown “a failure to meet the standard which is demanded of a Foreign Service officer.” He was given the choice of retiring or being dismissed.
Comment By Acheson
Commenting later on Mr. Dulles' action, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson said:
“Mr. Dulles's six predecessors, under all of whom Mr. Vincent had served in the China field, did not find his judgment or services defective or substandard, On the contrary, they relied on him and promoted him.”
Mr. Vincent lived quietly in Cambridge, doing occasional writing and lecturing. He was associated informally with the East Asian Research Center at Harvard and with the Radcliffe Seminars.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/04/world/john-service-a-purged-china-hand-dies-at-89.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
The New York Times
John Service, a Purged 'China Hand,' Dies at 89
By John Kifner
Feb. 4, 1999
John S. Service, the first of the ''old China hands'' purged from the State Department in the McCarthy era, died yesterday in Oakland, Calif. He was 89.
As a young Foreign Service officer in World War II, he filed prescient reports on the rival forces battling the occupying Japanese -- Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists and Mao Zedong's Communists -- and observed the corruption and weakness of the former.
But after the war, as what became known as the China Lobby swung American policy strongly behind the failing Chiang Government -- the Communists gained full control of the mainland in 1949, driving the Nationalists to Taiwan -- much of the blame fell on what was said at the time to be a pro-Soviet conspiracy in the State Department.
''Who lost China?'' became a major election slogan that shaped American political life for many years. It helped make the careers of Joseph R. McCarthy and Richard M. Nixon and, according to some historians, helped shape American involvement in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
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Mr. Service once predicted wryly that although he never used his middle name, only the initial, his obituary would identify him not only as an official once accused of espionage, but as ''John Stewart Service.''
The accusers of those men spelled out their full names, and so they went down in history: John Stewart Service, John Carter Vincent, John Paton Davies, Oliver Edmund Clubb. All were forced out of the Foreign Service. All were eventually vindicated, but neither they nor, some thought, the Foreign Service itself ever fully recovered.
Their ordeal actually began during World War II in the efforts of an American mission led by Gen. Joseph W. (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell to expand the Chinese war effort against Japan. The China experts, traveling through the areas controlled by various warlords, reported that Chiang's Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, was dragging its feet, reserving its American-supplied arms for an eventual showdown with the Communists.
The old China hands predicted that in such a fight, the Communists would win. They called instead for American pressure on Chiang to reform his Government and direct his forces against the Japanese, in cooperation with the Communists.
''Selfish and corrupt, incapable and obstructive,'' were a few of the words Mr. Service used to describe the Chiang Government in a 1944 memo to General Stilwell.
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Like many of his generation of China hands, Mr. Service was born in China of missionary parents, on Aug. 8, 1909, in Chengdu, where his parents had founded a branch of the Y.M.C.A.
He grew up in Sichuan province, attended high school in Shanghai and studied art history at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he also was captain of the track team. Returning to China in 1932, he married an Oberlin classmate, Caroline Schulz, the daughter of an Army officer.
After a brief stint in a bank, he joined the Foreign Service, and when the Japanese entered Beijing, he escorted American refugees through the lines to safety.
He was assigned to the new Nationalist capital at Chongqing as a political officer in 1941. His job was to gather information from all factions and parties, including the Communists. As political officers do today, he gave briefings to visiting American journalists, including Theodore H. White and Eric Sevareid. Those activities were later cast in a controversial light.
A lifelong amateur runner, Mr. Service hiked around China with a sleeping bag, eating as well as he could off the land. E. J. Kahn Jr., in his book ''The China Hands,'' quotes a State Department colleague as saying: ''Jack had uncanny instincts. He could walk along a Chinese street and by the kind of matches sold or the clothing worn or the food being cooked, could analyze the structure of the local society.''
As the war progressed, Mr. Service warned that a civil war was widely regarded as inevitable, under conditions that would lead to an undemocratic, probably pro-Soviet Communist government.
In July 1944, he finally managed to get to Mao's headquarters in Yanan. He wrote that he felt he had ''come into a different country,'' one marked by hard work, cooperation and ''the absence of banditry.''
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Recording his first impressions, he wrote: ''There is an absence of show and formality, both in speech and action. Relations of the officials and people toward us, and of the Chinese themselves, are open, direct and friendly. Mao Zedong and other leaders are universally spoken of with respect (amounting in the case of Mao to a kind of veneration).''
This was in sharp contrast to the ''crisis'' of the Chiang Government he described in a crucial memo to General Stilwell that Oct. 11. ''Recent defeats have exposed its military ineffectiveness and will hasten the approaching economic disaster,'' he wrote.
But the memo was reportedly leaked to the Nationalist Government. The powerful China Lobby back home was furious, and both General Stilwell and Mr. Service were recalled to Washington. President Roosevelt replaced General Stilwell as his personal envoy with Gen. Patrick J. Hurley.
Mr. Service got back to China as an Army adviser, visiting both sides, but was soon in trouble again. He drafted a letter, signed by the rest of the diplomatic staff in the Nationalist capital, Chongqing, urging that the United States provide aid to the Communists in order to reduce casualties in an expected Allied invasion from the sea. General Hurley charged betrayal and got him recalled, this time for good.
Waiting for reassignment in Washington in April 1945, Mr. Service received a phone call from Mark Gayn, a freelance journalist who was at the time working for Amerasia, a tiny left-wing magazine with strong views on China similar to Mr. Service's own.
Mr. Service met several times with Mr. Gayn and Amerasia's editor-publisher, Philip Jaffe, and lent them copies of some of his reports, a few of which he himself had classified as secret. He later agreed with his accusers that this was an indiscretion, but contended that it was common procedure.
Amerasia was under surveillance by the F.B.I., and agents had repeatedly entered its offices and several apartments, and had taken or photographed documents, including those provided by Mr. Service.
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A grand jury looking into the question of whether documents had been illegally obtained voted unanimously against indicting Mr. Service. Others were indicted, and as the result of a plea bargain some were fined and one case was dismissed.
The effects of the case endured, however. The Chinese Communists treated it as proof of American hostility. To American supporters of Chiang, it was proof of an anti-Nationalist conspiracy in the State Department. And in the ensuing years, the right would charge that there was a cover-up in the case.
In 1996, a book based on recently released F.B.I. files suggested there had indeed been a fix in the case, but not the kind the right had charged. In ''The Amerasia Spy Case'' (University of North Carolina Press), Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh wrote that Thomas Corcoran, the prominent former New Dealer turned Washington fixer, had a hand in the case, lobbying the Justice Department to go easy on Mr. Service.
One of Mr. Corcoran's clients was Chiang's Government, and he feared that if the Foreign Service officer went on trial, Mr. Service, like-minded State Department advisers and above all General Stilwell -- who was under a Presidential gag order -- would testify about corruption and other failures of the Nationalists.
Cleared by a State Department loyalty board -- by his count he would eventually pass nine such inquiries -- Mr. Service was to go to Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. But as the cold war sharpened and the Chiang Government disintegrated, the search for culprits intensified. Other espionage cases, the Alger Hiss affair, the Soviet explosion of an atom bomb and the Korean war further embittered the dispute.
On the night of Feb. 9, 1950, Senator McCarthy held up a sheaf of paper during a speech in Wheeling, W. Va., and declared, ''I have here in my hands a list of 205, known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.''
Pressed in Congress, Mr. McCarthy eventually produced 14 names, among them that of Mr. Service, who he charged was a ''a known associate and collaborator with Communists.''
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He was cleared by a Senate committee, which declared that he should not be penalized ''by destroying his career and branding him as disloyal for writing what appears to have been the true facts as he saw them.''
But on Dec. 13, 1951, a Loyalty Review Board named by President Truman ruled there was ''reasonable doubt as to his loyalty.'' Secretary of State Dean Acheson dismissed him the same day.
He fought the ruling, and in 1956 the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 0 that the Presidential board had no right to review the State Department's findings and that Mr. Acheson had no right to dismiss him. To the surprise of many, he rejoined the State Department and retired from an obscure post in the Liverpool consulate in 1962.
At 53, Mr. Service enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley, received a master's degree and became library curator of its Center for Chinese Studies. With the thaw in Chinese-American relations in the early 1970's, he was able to revisit China several times.
He published several books on China, including a volume of his wartime dispatches, ''Last Chance in China'' (Random House, 1974).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Katzenbach
Nicholas Katzenbach
From Wikipedia
was accepted into Princeton University. Katzenbach was a junior at Princeton in 1941, enlisting right after Pearl Harbor, and served in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II.
He spent over two years as a prisoner of war in Italian and German POW camps, including Stalag Luft III, the site of the "Great Escape", which Katzenbach assisted in. He read extensively as a prisoner, and ran an informal class based on Principles of Common Law.
He received his B.A. cum laude from Princeton University in 1945 (partly based on Princeton giving him credit for the 500-odd books he had read in captivity).
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/nicholas-katzenbach-unsung-hero-of-americas-desegregation/256957/
The Atlantic
Nicholas Katzenbach, Unsung Hero of America's Desegregation
By Andrew Cohen
MAY 9, 2012
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
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
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.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 5:27 PM Pacific-time USA Wednesday 03/30/2022
