Iraq War
From Wikipedia
In 2013, the total cost of the war to date was estimated at $1.7 trillion by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. However, some economists argue the total cost to the US economy could range from $3 to $6 trillion, including long-term interest and veterans' costs
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me August 08, 2022
A joke isn't as funny if it has to be explained but I shall do so anyway
See, I had never before today thought to check the association of 5/14/1990 and that ruinous, pointless war in Iraq in 2003
ONLY BECAUSE of that post by a Usual Suspect at KREM, did I think to check
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: Monday, May 22, 2006 1:55 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Journal May 22, 2006
I made a list today of the step-fathers I remember my mother being married to, it seems important. My father was a truck driver. She remarried to a guy named James who was a U.S. Marine. I think he went back into the service after they married and then we moved around to the bases he was stationed at. I think first we went to Santa Ana. I think that is where the El Toro base is at. Then we were at a base in McAlester, OK, where I think he was a guard. She then married Dale Parker, the guy who was electrocuted. He was some kind of hospital worker when they got married and then went on to work in construction, building houses. We were living with his parents for a while. I remember mowing their lawn one day and getting the notion to carve out some kind of message in the grass that people above in aircraft could read. Then she married the Vietnam veteran. He was a pretty nice guy when he was sober, but when he got drunk he was beserk. From what she told me, he had stepped on a landmine in Vietnam. The doctors told him he would never walk again but he made out ok. I remember finding his Purple Heart medals. I think he had three. This was also the time I liked to play around with live ammunition, pulling apart cartridges and shells for the gunpowder so I could blow up the model ships and aircraft I had put together.
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: July 31, 2006
There is also that memory I have written about before where I climbed up on Randy Romine's 100 foot HAM radio antenna. One time I went up there with my first model rocket, the one that was fashioned as R2D2 from Star Wars.
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: July 30, 2006
Randy Romine bought that Pontiac Bonneville for my mom. I think that was '77 or '78. I'm pretty sure it was a 1978 model.
by Kerry Burgess
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Dale Parker was electrocuted one day, 1976 I think, while I sat inside the house where we lived with his parents as I sat there alone in house watching cartoons on television. I came outside to find the rest of the family in the driveway and his step-father trying to revive him, after they all had returned home to find him unconscious on the ground. He had been trying to install a trailer hitch on Thedia's VW "bug" car and the power drill electrocuted him as he was lying there under the car on the wet ground.
Find A Grave
Everette Dale Parker
Birth: Nov. 11, 1952
Death: Jun. 17, 1977
Family links:
Parents:
Aldridge Allen Parker (1921 - 1981)
Dorothy Alice Parker (1924 - 1998)
Burial:
Redmen Cemetery
De Queen
Sevier County
Arkansas, USA
posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:16 PM Pacific Time USA Friday 08 June 2012 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-long-has-there-been-redman-cemetery.html
How long has there been a 'Redman Cemetery' in De Queen Arkansas?
Only after posting here my last note did I notice the name of that cemetery on Google Maps that I had already opened.
I knew the cemetery was there because I recall that is where Dale Parker was buried.
I really wish I could get a good nights sleep.
Earlier I woke from a vivid dream where I again was aware that I was wearing the ribbon for the Navy Cross on my US Marine Corps uniform. I have been having those dreams for a while and today I was thinking afterwards, possibly not for the first time, that I am dreaming of actual memories of when I started wearing that ribbon on my uniform and what I am dreaming of is the memory of me noticing the reactions of other people who see that ribbon on my uniform shirt. So anyway, in this most recent dream, a woman, who seemed to be a civilian working in the same office I was attached to, asked me to look at a trash can there in one room of the office. There was something about civilian, perhaps her manager, wanted it looked at because another person, apparently a civilian had been in there and I not really clear what that was all about. So I am looking at the trash can, which is plastic and green and could have been a recycling bin, and the top cover has become warped and so the cover will not seal over the container. Then I, for some unknown reason, have turned over the container and I am looking at the light that tries to pass through the plastic structure that separates my line of sight from the light fixtures in the office building ceiling. That's when I notice there is a rectangular object casting a shadow as though there is a false bottom in the trash can and there is a rectangular object stored in the false bottom. I decide right then to try to catch that unknown civilian before he leaves the building, I am running or walking briskly through the hallways, someone might have commented then about my Navy Cross, then I am yelling at the security guards, who were fairly heavily armed with hidden weapons I could see as I came up behind them and their security guard desk counter but the person is already at the building's front door before they hear me and they can't stop him. I am then outside and had grabbed some paper from an office printer near the front door so I can write down the license plate of the car he runs to while I yell at him to stop. The last thing I hear is from the woman driving the car and she yells back to me, after I get almost beside her front door, "We're going to sue you!" I think she said more but that was the basic message.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: A child?
SPOCK: Yes, captain, a child. Evolving, learning, searching, instinctively needing.
DECKER: Needing what?
McCOY: Spock! This thing is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth Now what do you suggest we do? Spank it?
From 6/17/1977 ( ) To 12/6/1979 ( ) is 902 days
902 = 451 + 451
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/27/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA federal government 1963-1969: Remarks at the Signing of the Treaty on Outer Space ) is 451 days
From 4/18/1955 ( biographical - Albert Einstein dead ) To 5/21/1969 ( described only by me, the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) is 5147 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/6/1979 ( ) is 5147 days
From 7/21/1969 ( disguised, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon - his 1st of his 6 Earth-Lunar lunar-landings with USA Project Apollo, strictly in planning and preparation for his personal activities in this solar-system's deep-space 1975-1977 ) To 12/6/1979 ( ) is 3790 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/19/1976 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Yoga commune members teach, meditate, find 'path to fulfillment' ) is 3790 days
From 6/1/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Changing of the Guard" ) To 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts comet nicknamed "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn and diverts it away from our planet Earth ) is 5147 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/6/1979 ( ) is 5147 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Release Dates
USA 6 December 1979 (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
From 6/2/1953 ( the coronation ceremony of my biological grandmother Britain's Queen Elizabeth II ) To 12/6/1979 ( ) is 9683 days
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 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-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 ) is 9683 days
From 4/14/1977 ( ) To 7/21/1979 ( ) is 828 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/8/1968 ( premiere USA film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 828 days
IMDb
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Quotes
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: That's bull-shit MacCawley... but it's very, very good bull-shit.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after 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:
02/05/07 4:41 PM
The Hubble space telescope launched with STS-31 on 4/24/90. Between the dates 3/3/59 and 4/24/90, there are 11376 days. Dividing 11376 by 3 is 3792. The date difference of 3/3/59 and 7/21/69 is 3792 days, meaning that the first steps on Luna occurred 1/3 of the way between my birth and the launch of the Hubble telescope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-31
The 35th Space Shuttle mission, STS-31 using Space Shuttle Discovery, launched April 24, 1990, and returned April 29.
The primary payload was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
03/28/07 9:00 AM
From 3/3/1959 to 12/7/1979 is: 7584 days
The date 12/7/79 was when "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" released.
7584 / 2 = 3792
From 3/3/1959 to 7/20/1969 is: 3792 days
This means ST-TMP is the anchor of the Apollo 11 landing - precisely.
https://www.startrek.com/news/the-motion-picture-opened-38-years-ago-today
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Published Jan 4, 2019
Celebrating The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuted in movie theaters on December 7, 1979
By StarTrek.com Staff
World Premiere
The TMP world premiere was held at the K-B MacArthur Theater in Washington, D.C. The screening took place on December 6, 1979
04/21/07 11:48 AM
From 3/3/1959 to 7/20/1969 is: 3792 days
From 7/20/1969 to 12/7/1979 is: 3792 days
12/18/07 1:23 AM
From 12/11/1972 ( Apollo 17 lunar landing and I was an Apollo 17 astronaut walking on the Moon surface ) to 9/16/1993 ( television series premiere "Frasier" ) is: 7584 days
7584 = 3792 + 3792
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 7/20/1969 ( The Eagle has landed and I was onboard that Apollo 11 lunar lander ) is: 3792 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106004/
"Frasier" (1993)
TV series 1993-2004
Release Date: 16 September 1993 (USA)
Plot Outline: Dr. Frasier Crane moves back to his hometown of Seattle where he lives with his father and works as a radio psychiatrist.
Kelsey Grammer ... Dr. Frasier Crane
11/20/2006 1:58 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/quotes
Memorable Quotes from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Captain James T. Kirk: I'm sorry, Will.
Commander Willard Decker: No, Admiral. I don't think you're sorry. Not one damned bit. I remember when you recommended me for this command. You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped you'd find a way to get a starship command again. Well, sir, it looks like you found a way.
03/22/08 5:09 AM
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 7/20/1969 ( The Eagle has landed and I am one of the Apollo 11 astronauts walking on the Earth's moon ) is: 3792 days
From 7/20/1969 ( The Eagle has landed and I am one of the Apollo 11 astronauts walking on the Earth's moon ) to 12/7/1979 ( premiere US movie "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) is: 3792 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Release Date: 7 December 1979 (USA)
Plot Outline: When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.
From 4/8/1977 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Students gaze through telescopes at planets, stars, galaxies, infinity ) To 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) 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 3/13/1914 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: MENTAL PROCESSES ARE RESULT OF MECHANISMS Says Dr. Stewart Paton In His Fourth Lecture On Study Of Human Activities ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 28942 days
28942 = 14471 + 14471
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/2005 ( ) is 14471 days
From 4/20/1776 ( from founders.archives.gov: From George Washington to the New York Committee of Safety ) To 7/18/1855 ( from This Week in Princeton History: Princeton has banned secret societies and students will be required to sign a pledge not to join one. Any student found to be in a secret society will be promptly dismissed. ) is 28942 days
28942 = 14471 + 14471
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/2005 ( ) is 14471 days
From 1/16/1955 ( premiere USA TV series episode "You Are There"::"The First Flight of the Wright Brothers (December 17, 1903)" ) To 6/16/2005 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States 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 9207 days
From 12/25/1991 ( 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 ) To 6/16/2005 ( ) is 4922 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/25/1979 ( premiere USA TV "You Can't Go Home Again" ) is 4922 days
From 9/23/1952 ( the Checkers televised speech by Richard Nixon ) To 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-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 ) is 14471 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/2005 ( ) is 14471 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 commissioned-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 6/16/2005 ( ) is 4779 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/3/1978 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"The Living Legend - Part 2" ) is 4779 days
From 7/26/1947 ( the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America established ) To 3/9/1987 ( "The Joshua Tree" by U2 ) is 14471 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/2005 ( ) is 14471 days
From 4/15/1959 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: Hundreds turned out in Oklahoma City to see whether Otis T. Carr would launch a flying saucer ) To 11/27/1998 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Origin of Species" ) is 14471 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/2005 ( ) is 14471 days
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 7/5/2004 ( premiere USA TV series "UFO Files" ) is 14471 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/2005 ( ) is 14471 days
From 5/14/1990 ( departing as enlisted {non-commissioned officer} US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2)(E-5) Kerry Wayne Burgess my Honorable Discharge from US Navy active service ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 4692 days
4692 = 2346 + 2346
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/5/1972 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Marines Seek Princeton Sign-Ups In Student Center ) is 2346 days
From 9/4/1976 ( George W. Bush arrested again by police in the United States ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 9692 days
From 11/2/1965 ( me ) To 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 commissioned-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 ) is 9692 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 2312 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/2/1972 ( launch from planet Earth of the United States Pioneer 10 crewless spacecraft ) is 2312 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 2820 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/23/1973 ( described publicly only by me, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the 1969 medical-doctor graduate of Princeton University and 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England, passes the United States of America Multistate Bar Examination ) is 2820 days
From 6/29/1995 ( see above: STS-71 ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 2820 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/23/1973 ( Monica Lewinsky ) is 2820 days
From 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 lawfully to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico leading to his desertion and conspiracy to desert from USA military obligations ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 11407 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/25/1997 ( biographical - Jeane Dixon dead ) is 11407 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States 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 3/19/2003 ( ) is 4444 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/2/1978 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: New Delhi, India Remarks Before the Indian Parliament ) is 4444 days
From 7/23/1961 ( Michael John Durant ) To 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle-Bellevue until 02/06/2004 ) is 13651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 13651 days
From 9/17/1965 ( premiere USA TV series "Hogan's Heroes" ) To 2/1/2003 ( inflight destruction of USA space-shuttle Columbia ) is 13651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 13651 days
From 7/5/1988 ( from Los Angeles Times newspaper, article by the author Tom Clancy: Now, Something Worse in the Gulf Than War: What if You Do Everything Right and End Up Killing 300 Civilians? ) To 4/5/2063 ( the famed, fictional date setting established in the 1996 film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 27302 days
27302 = 13651 + 13651
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 13651 days
[deserter-in-chief] GEORGE W. BUSH
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-iraq-0
The American Presidency Project
GEORGE W. BUSH
43rd President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Address to the Nation on Iraq
March 19, 2003
My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations
https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving
Drunk Driving
Every day, about 34 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that's one person every 42 minutes. In 2023, 12,429 people died in alcohol-impaired driving traffic deaths. These deaths were all preventable.
Iraq War
From Wikipedia
The primary rationale for the invasion centered around false claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and that Saddam Hussein was supporting al-Qaeda. The 9/11 Commission concluded in 2004 that there was no credible evidence linking Saddam to al-Qaeda, and no WMD stockpiles were found in Iraq.
Los Angeles Times
Bush's 1976 Arrest in Maine Is Revealed
November 03, 2000
Responding to reports Thursday
Bush repeatedly questioned the timing of the Maine news reports. "I think that's an interesting question," he told reporters. "Why now? ... I've got my suspicions."
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:11 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 11/06/2025
