Today is 05/21/2024, Post #1

by me, Kerry Burgess, 05/21/2024 04:56 AM

Uncharacteristically walking outside my apartment here a few hours ago, as the daylight faded towards nighttime last night, I walked to a nearby store for food

Thought it was odd to see in the distance on the apartment complex street a young boy running towards me

He wasn't running actually towards me. He stayed near the curb on the other side of the street, as did I on my side, as he approached me, in heavy exertion

Seemed strange to me at the time seeing that

Nothing I've done in the past day(s) would suggest that I would make the completely random choice at this hour to watch the 2015 "Terminator Genisys" and observe a scene I would have never recalled in a million years.

There's no sort of proof or grand truth again here this morning, just another observation from a movie about time-travel. Searched through my journal to see what I would find

People out there watching me as though they are noticing me noticing them watching me









https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340138/releaseinfo/

IMDb

Terminator Genisys

Release info

United States July 1, 2015

Full Cast & Crew

Emilia Clarke ... Sarah Connor

Jai Courtney ... Kyle Reese









From 1/25/1925 ( ) To 5/21/2024 ( Today , Tuesday ) is 36276 days

36276 = 18138 + 18138

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/1/2015 ( ) is 18138 days









excerpts

Los Angeles Times

Reaching Out to a Forgotten Past : Profile: A scarred veteran of the streets might have been a Marine who served his country in three wars, but a friend who is trying to help says the proof is hard to find.

October 03, 1993

Palmer, who maintains he was born Jan. 25, 1925









Terminator Genisys (2015)

Quotes

[first lines]

Kyle Reese: [narrating] Before they died, my parents told me stories about how the world once was; what it was like long before I was born; before the war with the machines. They remembered a green world, vast and beautiful, filled with laughter and hope for the future. It's a world I never knew. By the time I was born, all this was gone.

Kyle Reese: "Skynet," a computer program designed to automate missile defense. It was supposed to protect us, but that's not what happened. August 29th, 1997, Skynet woke up. It decided all of humanity was a threat to its existence.

[scenes of mass destruction]

Kyle Reese: It used our own bombs against us. Three billion people died of nuclear fire.

Kyle Reese: Survivors called it Judgement Day. People lived like rats in shadows, hiding, starving, or worse, captured and put into camps for extermination. I was born after Judgement Day, into a broken world ruled by the machines. The worst were infiltration units that posed as humans. We called them Terminators.

Terminator: [finding young Kyle in subterranean tunnels] Are there others down here?

Kyle Reese: And then one man found me. His name was John Connor, and he changed everything. John showed us how to fight back; how to rise up. He freed prisoners. He taught us how to slash the machines to scrap. People whisper about John and wonder how he can know the things he does. They use words like prophet. But John's more. We're here because tonight, he's going to lead us to crush Skynet for good.









http://articles.latimes.com/1993-…/…/we-41782_1_david-palmer

Los Angeles Times

Reaching Out to a Forgotten Past : Profile: A scarred veteran of the streets might have been a Marine who served his country in three wars, but a friend who is trying to help says the proof is hard to find.

October 03, 1993 JEFF KRAMER TIMES STAFF WRITER

CULVER CITY — Wearing an orange construction helmet and reduced to sweeping gutters for spare change, David Palmer looks every inch the shell-shocked U.S. veteran he claims to be.

Scars and tattoos crisscross his wiry frame. He rambles incoherently, occasionally shouting to make points only he seems to grasp. A racking cough suggests what doctors have recently diagnosed: Palmer is suffering from lung and brain cancer and has only months to live.

It's a sad story--but one whose full tragedy has yet to be revealed, according to a man who has befriended Palmer. The friend, Charles Keefe, a self-described starving artist who lives in Palms, contends that Palmer is a former Marine who saw combat in three wars only to lose his true identity after a mysterious robbery 21 years ago.

As a result, Keefe says, Palmer has been deprived not only of official recognition of his service, but of tens of thousands of dollars in veterans benefits--as well as access to a Veterans Administration hospital.

"If he was a Marine for 30 years--if he was a Marine for one day in Vietnam--he deserves proper treatment," Keefe said. "I don't want to see him dying in the street as a psychotic."

With Palmer unable to remember key dates or places that might help to verify any service record, Keefe's claims rest on conjecture and anecdotal evidence. He has pieced together what he thinks is Palmer's chronology based on hours of conversations with a man who is clearly sick and confused.

At this point, however, the only physical evidence is a less-than-conclusive still photograph gleaned from a television documentary on the Vietnam War.

Keefe says he was watching the 1987 documentary, "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" on KCET last April when he spotted a soldier who resembled Palmer. Up until that time, Keefe says, he had known Palmer only casually and had largely ignored his periodic references to military service.

Emboldened by the face in the documentary, Keefe has doggedly set about trying to prove that Palmer is who he says he is: a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, whose past was wiped out when his original name, David Robert Palmer, was somehow switched to David Louis Palmer.

A key element of Keefe's inquiry is a 1972 robbery in Los Angeles, in which Palmer claims he was robbed of all of his personal papers, including his birth certificate, Social Security card and military discharge papers.

Before the robbery, Keefe contends, Palmer was receiving state disability and welfare benefits made out to "David Palmer." After the robbery, however, Palmer began receiving government checks made out to a "David Louis Palmer," with a new Social Security number and birth date.

Any attempts to get officials to rectify the alleged errors--and Keefe says Palmer made many--have failed. Palmer, who maintains he was born Jan. 25, 1925, still receives state Medi-Cal stickers that identify him as being born on Jan. 25, 1937. For years, he has stubbornly "fixed" offending documents by hand, writing in what he believes is his true birthday.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, meanwhile, says it has no record of Palmer under any name. In August, Keefe took Palmer to the VA Hospital in Westwood only to see him released after 10 days. "Pt (patient) is not a veteran," the discharge form states.

A letter to Keefe from Dennis Kuewa, who works in the Department of Veterans Affairs regional office in Los Angeles, states, "We have been unable to identify Mr. Plamer (sic) in our computer system."

But Keefe is not giving up. Working off Palmer's claim that he was born in Hemsburn, W. Va., Keefe is trying to obtain his friend's birth certificate. He also has persuaded Robert Clayton, the acting chief of services for the Los Angeles County Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, to send Palmer's fingerprints to the FBI to see if they match those of some former serviceman.

Clayton, who has yet to hear back from the FBI, said there's a chance Keefe's claims are true.

"It's quite possible, but until I can get something concrete I really can't comment," Clayton said. He cautioned, "We have a lot of guys running around saying they were Green Berets and it turns out they weren't even in the service."

Another glimmer of hope is provided by James Lorenz, a retired serviceman who lives in a camper in the Venice area. Lorenz, 55, came forward after he saw an item in a Culver City weekly detailing Palmer's identity problems.

Lorenz contends that a former friend from the mid-1950s, a woman he can identify only as Eunice, spoke often of a Lt. David Palmer, whom she described as an ex-boyfriend. Eunice, Lorenz recalls, showed him documents that stated Palmer had been discharged from the Navy in 1956 as the result of a head injury.

"I believe he's the David Palmer she was talking about," Lorenz said, although he acknowledged that he has no way to know for sure.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 05:14 AM Pacific-time USA Tuesday 05/21/2024