by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/18/08 7:44 PM
Bill Clinton presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on 7/26/1995 to Jim Lovell for Apollo 13.
That must be the source of that dream I wrote about with the plaque. Every time I read about that, I have some kind of sense associated with Jim Lovell personally but I cannot articulate it.
I have been thinking for a while that he was on Earth during that time as my personal CAPCOM, perhaps, or some similar role, and he was living under that same conditions in the simulator equipment as we were in space.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/19/2025
I do not know who reads my blog-posts here
I feel completely certain that any person routinely reading my blog-post does not need a lecture from me about Constitutional law in the USA
Because they must certainly know more about it I ever will.
As I understand it, any person within the USA has the right to seek 'due process' from the courts system.
That means some little tyrant - of which all USAmericans aspire - cannot just drag them off the street, throw a bag over their head, and dump them into some shitty little Third World country
And that is what the mainstream-media is blowing up about with that guy from El Salvador. He was here illegally in the USA for over 14 years. Got sent by mistake to a harsh, foreign prison. Now the mainstream-media is screaming because he won't get sent back here to the USA. More than 99.9999% of USAmericans certainly do not care if he ever comes back to where he should not have been illegally in the first place.
A reason that could be important is because of that douchebag Donald J. Trump.
That Salvadoran guy must have found out the truth - that grand horrible truth - about weak, little guy Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump has been a weak, little guy for his entire pathetic life and he is susceptible to negative influence by foreign-power because he, Donald J. Trump, has been a weak, little guy all his life.
Because the mainstream-media has blown up over that guy, I decided to take a closer look at it.
I insist there is some sort of ulterior motivation behind all this is and all this must be part of the overall conspiracy that has forced me to live this sort of life and that somewhere in here is the answer that gets me out of it.
Space: Above And Beyond
"...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best"
Sunday 02 June 1996
Episode 23 Season 1 (final episode of the tv-series)
US Marine Corps lieutenant-colonel T.C. McQueen: I wanted to bring you up to date. Looks like the envoy is legit. Each side with now present each other with a list of criteria to be met before negotiations can begin including a list of Tellus and Vesta colony prisoners. It looks good.
US Marine Corps first-lieutenant Vanessa Damphousse: Sir, you saw it. What does a Chig look like?
McQueen: Admiral Stenner doesn't want it talked about, so I won't.
US Marine Corps first-lieutenant Paul Wang: Colonel, what'll you do if the war's over?
McQueen: Well, I'll find a quiet place, alone, and ask forgiveness for the lives I've taken. Then I'll pull out the accordion, get naked and polka around the flight deck.
US Marine Corps Captain Shane Vansen: Pray for war.
Vanessa Damphousse: Did you know Coop's sentence is up?
US Marine Corps first-lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: I can go home.
McQueen: To what?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deported-el-salvador-trump-immigration-what-know-rcna201708
https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1396906/dl?inline
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-presenting-the-congressional-space-medal-honor-james-lovell-jr-and-exchange-with
https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap13fj/08day3-problem.html
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 03/17/08 8:50 PM
I just woke up a few minutes ago from I guess about 5 or 6 hours of sleep. I still feel exhausted. I am now wondering of the series of scenes and images in one dream was actually a representation of my flight into space as the commander of the first space shuttle launch.
03/17/08 8:54 PM
The dream, though, seemed to be set on the USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7. I am not certain how I linked that setting to FFG-7 but I am certain I was on a FFG-7 class ship and the notion lingers in my mind that it was the FFG-7.
USS Oliver Hazard Perry
From Wikipedia
USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) was the lead ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates.
continues:
03/17/08 8:54 PM
In a somewhat confusing part, I walked out of a room with two people in it, where a junior person was getting a medal, for someone reason, as I was looking on, onto the weatherdeck. The person who had got the medal, which was a medal I can visualize but that I do not recognize, followed out onto the deck, I think. I can still visualize the calm blue water and also looking out onto the shore and the sky line of some city we were near but that I cannot recognize either after waking up. I do remember that I commented to the other person that I enjoyed being back out to sea, and I feel compelled to note that I might have said to him that I enjoyed especially being out to sea when we we just floating around, as we were then. Then, for some strange reason, I was over the edge of the deck and I was hanging onto the low railing, trying to keep myself from falling over into the water. But the gravity was strange and that might be why that part seems weird, in retrospect of the dream. I almost want to say that my feet were drifting upwards instead of downwards towards the ocean. I cannot remember what happened next. On one hand, it seems understand that I was hanging onto that railing but I am also somewhat baffled, as I ponder the dream after waking up, why I was even hanging from that railing in the first place.
I also remember something, vaguely, about Iceland, maybe. Something related to flying aircraft. Perhaps I was stationed at some point as a pilot in Iceland. I remember hearing some comments about someone's skills as an aircraft pilot. I remember something about looking at an aircraft runway and seeing the remains of the de-icer material they use. This all seemed to happen as I was sitting on the boat and I could actually see those other locations, such as the runway and the office, while I was in another far away location. That might be the result of remembering a past experience while having a dream. Something like that. A memory within a memory. I also remember sitting there in that boat that I was holding some kind of award plaque but I cannot remember what was writting on that award plaque. I think the award plaque had been given to Jim Lovell but I am not certain what that means. I can still visualize certain words on it but I cannot remember enough to describe those words. I remember that some letters were missing in the words.
Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off on Difficult Maiden Flight : Science: The mission includes three spacewalks, practice for space station assembly and rescue of a communications satellite.
May 08, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Dodging gusty winds and threatening thunderstorms, the shuttle Endeavour, the nation's newest orbiter, found a hole in the clouds Thursday and blasted off on its maiden voyage.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/231840/Geronimo
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.
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.
Last Man Standing (1996)
(from internet transcript)
(first lines)
John Smith (narrating) It's a funny thing. No matter how low you sink... there's still a right and a wrong... and you always end up choosing. You go one way so you can try to live with yourself. You can go the other and still be walking around... but you're dead and you don't know it. I was coming through Texas on my way to Mexico. I needed some time to hide out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Princeton_(CG-59)
From 10/2/1987 ( launch in the shipyards of the US Navy warship USS Princeton CG-59 ) To 7/26/1995 ( ) is 2854 days
2854 = 1427 + 1427
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/29/1969 ( the USA Congressional Space Medal of Honor established ) is 1427 days
From 9/16/1963 ( premiere USA TV series "The Outer Limits"::series premiere "The Galaxy Being" ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10858 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/26/1995 ( ) is 10858 days
From 4/14/1988 ( the minefield damage to US 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 - CF-Division, Missile Plot, guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex - during Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will and directly leading to Operation Praying Mantis with my personal commendation ) To 7/26/1995 ( ) is 2659 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/12/1973 ( the United States Operation Homecoming begins ) is 2659 days
From 1/17/1991 ( 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 7/26/1995 ( ) is 1651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/11/1970 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report on Operation of the International Coffee Agreement. ) is 1651 days
From 2/18/1991 ( ) To 7/26/1995 ( ) is 1619 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/9/1970 ( ) is 1619 days
Puppet-in-chief, Bill Clinton, scumbag.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-presenting-the-congressional-space-medal-honor-james-lovell-jr-and-exchange-with
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
42nd President of the United States: 1993 ‐ 2001
Remarks on Presenting the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to James A. Lovell, Jr., and an Exchange With Reporters
July 26, 1995
https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19700409-01.2.9&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------
https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap13fj/00crewchange.html
excerpts
https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap13fj/08day3-problem.html
USA NASA official
Apollo 13 Flight Journal
056:09:07 Lovell: That's AC, okay. Yeah, that's - that's a - good with AC and it looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are - We are venting something out into the - into space.
In this remarkable comment from Jim, he calmly finishes talking about the AC power situation before he announces the startling news that he can see something leaking from the ship.
056:09:08 Kranz (FLIGHT): Roger.
056:09:16 Kranz (FLIGHT): Crew thinks they are venting something!
056:09:18 Liebergot (EECOM): I heard it, FLIGHT.
056:09:22 Lousma: Roger. We copy your venting.
056:09:27 Lousma (CAPCOM): Copy that, FLIGHT?
056:09:29 Lovell: It's a gas of some sort. [Long pause.]
excerpts
https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap13fj/08day3-problem.html
USA NASA official
Apollo 13 Flight Journal
Lovell, from 1970 Technical debrief: "To the best of my knowledge, Jack, you were in the left-hand seat."
Swigert, from 1970 Technical debrief: "I was in the left-hand seat."
Lovell, from 1970 Technical debrief: "I was in the LEB, and Fred was somewhere up in the LM. We all heard the explosion together."
At 55 hours, 55 minutes, 4 seconds, INCO communications data shows that the spacecraft suddenly switches to wide beam communications. A strange crackle is heard on the otherwise very quiet recording of the radio loop, which can be interpreted as a disturbance of the radio link to the spacecraft due to the explosion.
Lovell, from 1970 Technical debrief: "There was a dull but definite bang - not much of a vibration, though. I didn't think there was much vibration - just a noise."
Swigert, from 1970 Technical debrief: "Just a noise."
Lovell, from 1970 Technical debrief: "Probably came through the structure."
Haise, from 1970 Technical debrief: "I felt just a slight shudder."
Lovell, from 1970 Technical debrief: "Maybe I was floating at the time; I didn't feel it."
055:55:19 Swigert: Okay, Houston...
055:55:19 Lovell: ...Houston...
055:55:20 Swigert: ...we've had a problem here. [Pause.]
055:55:26 Fenner (GUIDO): FLIGHT, GUIDANCE.
055:55:27 Kranz (FLIGHT): Go GUIDANCE.
055:55:28 Lousma: This is Houston. Say again, please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Princeton_(CG-59)
USS Princeton (CG-59)
From Wikipedia
USS Princeton (CG-59) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy.
On the morning of 18 February 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, Princeton was patrolling 28 nautical miles off Failaka Island in the Persian Gulf, on the west side of the decoy United States Marine Corps and naval invasion forces afloat. At exactly 7:15 AM local time two Italian-made MN103 Manta bottom-mounted influence mines detonated, one just under the port rudder and the other just forward of the starboard bow, the second explosion most likely being a sympathetic detonation caused by the first. The blasts cracked the superstructure, buckled three lines in the hull, jammed the port rudder, flooded the #3 switchboard room through chilled water pipe cracks, and damaged the starboard propeller shaft. Three crewmembers were injured, one seriously. Despite the severe damage, the forward weapons and the AEGIS combat system were back online within 15 minutes.
by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:25 AM Monday, March 07, 2011
Ticonderoga
Looking closer at photos of the later US Navy Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers, I note details that suggest my dream the other night could be accurate in terms of how I see the layout of the weatherdeck next to the helicopter landing deck.
In my artificial memory, I have never even stepped foot on any ship in that class. The closest observation I have in my mind was one day when we were deployed to the Med on the USS Wainwright CG 28 and we were arriving in Rota Spain near Gibraltar and either the Ticonderoga itself or one other early ships of that class was already in port and I was impressed to see that ship, which I remember featured the missile rail launchers instead of the later VLS system. That is the only actual "memory" I have of ever seeing a ship of that class. I don't think I had ever even seen close by an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer until I saw the Momsen anchored nearby on 3 March 2006 in that park where I had been going to sit.
So in the dream of the Ticonderoga, there was a lot of details I still remember from the dream but the interesting part is that I was in a secluded area on the weatherdecks looking up I could see the helicopter landing deck and there was a small arms range target still in place on the edge of the deck above me and it had a very large hole in the center as though it had been hit by a lot of bullets. Looking at the image on a later Ticonderoga class ship I can see that such a sight is possible when standing on the weatherdecks. I was on the starboard side and I seemed to be near the aft end of the helicopter deck, which was inside and above me, and there was something someone said about how I was in officer's country, as though that area had been set aside as an area of seclusion for officer's as though they were sitting in deck chairs on a leisure cruise ship.
Nearby was a hatch that I went through and there was a very long stairwell that was not one long stairwell but that was closer to a stairwell you would see in a building but it was not as consistent in how it twisted around and the stairwell in the dream made seemingly random switchbacks. I see such stairwells in my dreams a lot. In this case, if I had written about this dream several years ago, I would have written that it was a foreign dream and that the narrator told me not to go all the way down the bottom and I did not, although I seemed to know the lower deck where the stairwell would end. There was a sink at one of the levels of the stairwell as it switched back and I washed my hands which is something I can never recall doing in a dream.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200319165928/https://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/cg59/Pages/Princeton-Excels-Earns-Distinguished-Spokane-Trophy.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/APImages/photos/today-in-history-dr-albert-einstein-and-his-daughter-arrive-on-june-22-1940-at-t/10155757297933865/
From 6/22/1940 ( ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 19344 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/19/2018 ( ) is 19344 days
From 10/4/2014 ( ) To 10/19/2018 ( ) is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 10/19/2018 ( ) is 16498 days
16498 = 8249 + 8249
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/3/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (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 8249 days
https://web.archive.org/web/20200319165928/https://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/cg59/Pages/Princeton-Excels-Earns-Distinguished-Spokane-Trophy.aspx
USS Princeton
"Honor and Glory"
Princeton Excels, Earns Distinguished Spokane Trophy
Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet
Posted October 22, 2018
181019-N-KG738-1149 SAN DIEGO (Oct 19, 2018) Ivan Urnovitz, president of the Spokane Navy League, presents a plaque to commanding officer Capt. Justin A. Kubu and the crew USS Princeton (CG 59) in recognition of their selection as the 2017 Spokane Trophy Award winner during a ceremony on board the ship Oct. 19. The ship was selected for being the most combat proficient ship in the Fleet for excellence in ship combat system readiness and demonstrated effectiveness during warfare operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Woody S. Paschall)
IMDb
Truth (2015)
Quotes
Mary Mapes: Do you know what it would take to fake these memos?
Dick Hibey: Mary...
Mary Mapes: No, this is important. It would require the forger to have an in-depth knowledge of the 1971 Air Force manual, including rules and regulations and abbreviations. He would have to know Bush's official record front to back to make sure none of these memos conflicted with it. He would have to know all of the players in the Texas Air National Guard at the time, not just their names, but their attitudes, their opinions including how they related to one another. He would have to know that Colonel Killian kept personal memos like this for himself in the first place. He would have to know how Killian felt at the time particularly about his superiors and then First Lieutenant Bush. He would have to know or learn all of this in order to fool us as you assume he did. Now... Do you really think that a man who takes this kind of time and precision, then goes and types these up on Microsoft Word?
[Small pause]
Mary Mapes: Our story was about whether Bush fulfilled his service. Nobody wants to talk about that. They wanna talk about fonts and forgeries and conspiracy theories, because that's what people do these days if they don't like a story. They point and scream. They question your politics, your objectivity, hell, your basic humanity. And they hope to God the truth gets lost in the scrum. And when it is finally over and they have kicked and shouted so loud, we can't even remember what the point was.
Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/10/1967
Episode Summary
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
(from internet transcript)
(From the doorway, the three see a swirly thing which then disappears. Cochrane comes in with a tray of drinks.)
KIRK: What was that?
COCHRANE: Well, sometimes the light plays tricks on you. You'd be surprised what I've imagined I've seen around here sometimes.
SPOCK: We imagined nothing, Mister Cochrane. There was an entity out there and I suspect it was the same entity which brought us here. Please explain.
Zefram COCHRANE: There's nothing to explain.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 6:23 PM Pacific-timezone Spokane USA Saturday 04/19/2025
