by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/05/2026 04:01 AM
That ship was commissioned into active service on 11/04/1989
That is one of the very few days I can actively recall from my personal memory
That seems normal to me. How many memory details of the past are enough to form a sense of identity in our minds?
Back then, I was work-center supervisor of Missile Plot by that time on the USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, beginning there in 1987 as operator and advanced electronics technician as my primary assigned duty, my NEC specialization
On that same day, we were deployed to the Mediterranean Sea as scheduled
In my notes from 20 years ago, I mention Barcelona and 11/04/1989.
Just checked the so-called cruise-book and it reports (with mistakes in the listed ordering) we were inport from 11/03/1989 to 11/08/1989.
Until checking it just now, I would have said we arrived on the fourth. That could have been how I remember it because the 4th could have been my first day of liberty and my memory is vague of that time.
I can recall visual details of the thoroughfares crowded with people of Barcelona, Spain, with me walking around on patrol in my US Navy dress-blues one night when I had duty as Shore Patrol from the ship. If the ship was in port for 6 full days then I would have had duty at least twice. I can recall one time I was responsible for driving the US Navy Shore Patrol transport van around through Barcelona. Maybe that was actually Mallorca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Robert_Smalls
USS Robert Smalls
From Wikipedia
USS Robert Smalls (CG-62) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser built during the Cold War for the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1989, the warship was originally named USS Chancellorsville for the American Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville. In March 2023, she [sic] was renamed for Robert Smalls, a former slave who freed himself and others by commandeering a Confederate transport ship.
Ship renaming
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 created a new Naming Commission to examine names across the US armed forces that honor the Confederate States, the group of states that attempted to break away from the US during the American Civil War. Chancellorsville was explicitly named in early news reports about the commission due to its clear association with the Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville, which included a portrait of generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in the cruiser's wardroom. The painting was removed in 2016. The commission's report noted that Chancellorsville's crest also included an inverted wreath that commemorated the death of Jackson during the Battle of Chancellorsville.
In September 2022, the Naming Commission recommended that the US Navy rename two shore installations, USNS Maury (T-AGS-66) (named for Matthew Fontaine Maury, who chose to fight for the Confederates), and Chancellorsville. The choice of what to rename them to was left to the Secretary of the Navy. As part of its report, the Commission judged that the ship celebrated the Confederacy.
On 27 February 2023, the Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the US Navy would rename Chancellorsville after Robert Smalls, a slave who commandeered the Confederate ship CSS Planter in 1862. The name change was made effective on 1 March 2023
From 1/24/1985 ( the US Navy submarine warship USS George Washington SSN-598 (formerly SSBN-598) decommissioned from US Navy active service - the first SSBN of US Navy ) To 3/1/2023 ( ) is 13915 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/8/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) is 13915 days
From 1/8/1966 ( US Navy warship USS Wainwright CG-28 (as DLG-28) commissioned into US Navy battle force fleet active service ) To 3/1/2023 ( ) is 20871 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/24/2022 ( ) is 20871 days
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
Prosna: Shh, it's the old man.
Adama: Too late. What's up?
Other Tech: (As they all salute) Nothing sir, just another leak in that frakking window. Pardon me, sir.
Prosna: It's supposed to be a battlestar, not a museum. Sorry for saying so, sir.
Adama: I couldn't agree with you more. Be careful out there, all right? (We follow him into the command center as he goes over his speech again.) The Cylon War is long over, yet we cannot forget the reasons why...
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted on the internet by me: 12:51 AM December 24, 2022 Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022
by me, Kerry Burgess: 09/27/07 6:35 PM
The thought occurred to me today or yesterday, I think it was, that I would hear a word some point. After I heard that word, when I woke up the next morning, I would have my memories back.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted on the internet by me: 12:35 AM December 24, 2022 Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022
10/11/1958 ( premiere US TV series "U.S. Marshal" )
From 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 US Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 2/27/2023 ( ) 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 11/5/1985 ( Houston Chronicle reports that Soviet warships are being watched in Gulf of Mexico by the USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy, my permanent {1984-1986} enlisted duty assignment ) To 2/27/2023 ( ) is 13628 days
13628 = 6814 + 6814
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/1984 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official US Navy enlisted records includes: Part III - Record of Clearance ) is 6814 days
Houston Chronicle
Soviet warships being watched in Gulf
Houston Chronicle News Services
TUE 11/05/1985 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
A U.S. Navy vessel is closely monitoring the movements of two Soviet warships that entered the Gulf of Mexico and came within 40 miles of the Texas coast, the U.S. Navy said.
The USS Taylor, American guidedmissile frigate, has been tracking the Soviet ships - a guided-missile destroyer and a guided-missile frigate - since they left Havana Thursday, said Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley, a Navy spokesman in Norfolk, Va.
The Taylor is always "within visual range" of the Soviet vessels that were last reported about 100 miles southwest of Tampa, Fla., and moving in a southeasterly direction, possibly toward Cuba, said Quigley.
However, there was no way to determine whether the Soviet warships were preparing to leave the Gulf and return to Havana. "They can always change rudder at a moment's notice," he said.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081873/
IMDb
Hill Street Blues (1981-1987)
Quotes
[repeated line]
Sergeant Phil Esterhaus: [at end of roll call] All right, that's it, let's roll. And Hey!... let's be careful out there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey_Epstein
Relationship of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
From Wikipedia [retrieved by me, Kerry Burgess, for the first time on 06/05/2026]
Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, developed a social and professional relationship with financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
An anonymous affidavit by "Tiffany Doe" said that Epstein had paid her directly from 1991 to 2000 "to attract adolescent women" to parties at his mansion (Herbert N. Straus House). In the summer of 1994, she lured a minor who expressed interest in modeling. In her affidavit, she said that both "Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old. I personally witnessed four sexual encounters" between Trump and the 13-year-old. In one of the alleged incidents, a 12-year-old girl was simultaneously victimized, and in another, Trump continued assaulting the 13-year-old "despite her pleas to stop". She said that Epstein likewise attempted to rape the 13-year-old on two occasions that she witnessed or learned of. "Tiffany Doe" said she personally witnessed both Trump and Epstein threaten to kill the 13-year-old if she were to tell anyone what had happened and that Trump further warned the victim that he was "capable of having her whole family killed". She signed the affidavit in 2016.
https://www.courthousenews.com/tiffany-doe-affidavit/
Courthouse News Service
Tiffany Doe Affidavit
Declaration in Support of Protective Order in Epstein Case
06/18/2016
From 2/22/1959 ( ) To 6/18/2016 ( ) is 20936 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/2023 ( ) is 20936 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Daytona_500
1959 Daytona 500
From Wikipedia
The 1959 First 500 Mile NASCAR International Sweepstakes at Daytona (now known as the 1959 Inaugural Daytona 500) was the second race of the 1959 NASCAR Grand National Series season. It was held on February 22, 1959, in front of 41,921 spectators. It was the first race held at the 2.5 miles (4.0 km) Daytona International Speedway.
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 3/18/2022 ( Friday ) is 20936 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/2023 ( ) is 20936 days
https://theweek.com/russia/1011510/putin-quotes-jesus-to-justify-invasion-of-ukraine
The Week
Putin quotes Jesus to justify invasion of Ukraine
GRAYSON QUAY
11:53 AM 03/19/2022
During a pro-war rally in Moscow on Friday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked the words of Jesus Christ in order to justify his invasion of Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
Robert Smalls
From Wikipedia
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician who was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. During the American Civil War, the still enslaved Smalls commandeered a Confederate transport ship in Charleston Harbor and sailed it from the Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it.
Civil War
Escape from slavery
In April 1861, the Civil War began with the Battle of Fort Sumter in nearby Charleston Harbor. In the fall of 1861, Smalls was assigned to steer the CSS Planter, a lightly armed Confederate military transport under the command of Charleston's District Commander Brigadier General Roswell S. Ripley. Planter's duties were to survey waterways, lay mines, and deliver dispatches, troops and supplies. Smalls piloted the Planter throughout Charleston harbor and beyond, on area rivers and along the South Carolina, Georgia and Florida coasts. From Charleston harbor, Smalls and the Planter's crew could see the line of federal blockade ships in the outer harbor, seven miles away. Smalls appeared content and had the confidence of the Planter's crew and owners, but, at some time in April 1862, he began to plan an escape. He discussed the matter with all of the other enslaved people in the crew except one, whom he did not trust.
On May 12, 1862, the Planter traveled ten miles southwest of Charleston to stop at Coles Island, a Confederate post on the Stono River that was being dismantled. There, the ship picked up four large guns to transport to a fort in Charleston harbor. Back in Charleston, the crew loaded 200 lb (91 kg) of ammunition and 20 cord (72 m3) of firewood onto the Planter.
On the evening of May 12, the Planter was docked as usual at the wharf below General Ripley's headquarters. Its three white officers disembarked to spend the night ashore, leaving Smalls and the crew on board, "as was their custom." (Afterward, the three Confederate officers were court-martialed and two convicted, but the verdicts were later overturned.) Before the officers departed, Smalls asked Captain Relyea if the crew's families could visit, which was occasionally allowed, and he approved on condition that they depart before curfew. When the families arrived, the men revealed the plan to them.
This was the first the women and children had heard of it, although Smalls recently had told [his wife] Hannah. She had known that Smalls longed to escape but hadn't realized that he was formulating a plan and intended to execute it. She was taken aback but quickly regained her composure and told him, “It is a risk, dear, but you and I, and our little ones must be free. I will go, for where you die, I will die. The other women were less steadfast. They cried and screamed when they learned what they had stumbled into, and the men struggled to quiet them.... Later, once the shock had worn off, those women admitted that they were glad for a chance at freedom....
At some point, three crew members pretended to escort the family members back home, but they circled around and hid aboard another steamer docked at the North Atlantic wharf. At about 3:00 a.m. on May 13, Smalls and seven of the eight enslaved crewmen made their previously planned escape to the Union blockade ships. Smalls put on the captain's uniform and wore a straw hat similar to the captain's. He sailed the Planter past what was then called Southern Wharf and stopped at another wharf to pick up his wife and children and the families of other crewmen.
Smalls guided the ship past the five Confederate harbor forts without incident, as he gave the correct steam-whistle signals at checkpoints. The Planter had been commanded by Captain Charles C. J. Relyea, and Smalls copied Relyea's manners and straw hat on deck to fool Confederate onlookers from shore and the forts. The Planter sailed past Fort Sumter at about 4:30 a.m.
As the nearly-free slaves approached Fort Sumter, their apprehension grew. It was the most heavily armed of the Confederate forts and tended to be manned by the most suspicious soldiers. One of the men aboard later said, “When we drew near the fort every man but Robert Smalls felt his knees giving way and the women began crying and praying again." As the Planter approached the fort, several men urged Smalls to give it a wide berth. Smalls refused, saying that such behavior would almost certainly arouse suspicion. He steered the ship along its normal path, slowly, as though he were merely enjoying the early morning air and in no particular hurry. When Fort Sumter flashed the challenge signal, Smalls again gave the correct hand signs. There was a long pause. The fort didn't immediately respond, and Smalls now expected cannon fire to shred the Planter at any moment. Finally, the fort signaled that all was well, and Smalls sailed his ship out of the harbor.
The alarm was only raised after the ship was beyond gun range, for, rather than turn east towards Morris Island, Smalls had headed straight for the Union Navy fleet, replacing the rebel flags with a white bed sheet that had been brought by his wife. The Planter had been seen by the USS Onward, which was about to fire until a crewman spotted the white flag. In the dark, the sheet was difficult to see, but the sunrise arrived which allowed viewing.
Witness account:
Just as No. 3 port gun was being elevated, someone cried out, "I see something that looks like a white flag"; and true enough there was something flying on the steamer that would have been white by application of soap and water. As she neared us, we looked in vain for the face of a white man. When they discovered that we would not fire on them, there was a rush of contrabands out on her deck, some dancing, some singing, whistling, jumping; and others stood looking towards Fort Sumter, and muttering all sorts of maledictions against it, and "de heart of de Souf," generally. As the steamer came near, and under the stern of the Onward, one of the Colored men stepped forward, and taking off his hat, shouted, "Good morning, sir! I've brought you some of the old United States guns, sir!" [That man was Robert Smalls.]
The Onward's captain, John Frederick Nickels, boarded the Planter, and Smalls asked for a United States flag to display. He surrendered the Planter and its cargo to the United States Navy. Smalls's escape plan had succeeded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticonderoga-class_cruiser
Ticonderoga-class cruiser
The Ticonderoga class of guided-missile cruisers is a class of warships of the United States Navy
the ships in the class were originally named for noteworthy events in U.S. military history
From 7/11/1875 ( founding date of Tanaka Seizosho (Tanaka Engineering Works), the earliest direct ancestor of the modern Toshiba corporation ) To 3/2/1990 ( as Kerry Burgess my the official US Navy documents includes: departing overseas from USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, anchored in Monaco I returned to the continental United States and to Charleston South Carolina Naval Base for processing and Honorable Discharge from active duty US Navy AND premiere USA film "The Hunt for Red October" ) is 41872 days
41872 = 20936 + 20936
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/2023 ( ) is 20936 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba
Toshiba
From Wikipedia
Founded 11 July 1875; 150 years ago (as Shibaura Seisakusho) 1939; 87 years ago (as Toshiba)
Toshiba Corporation is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors, hard disk drives, printers, batteries, lighting, as well as IT solutions such as quantum cryptography. It was formerly also one of the biggest manufacturers of personal computers, consumer electronics, home appliances, and medical equipment.
In 1987, Toshiba Machine, a subsidiary of Toshiba, was accused of illegally selling CNC milling machines used to produce very quiet submarine propellers to the Soviet Union in violation of the CoCom agreement, an international embargo on certain countries
In late December 2016, the management of Toshiba requested an "urgent press briefing" to announce that the newly-found losses in the Westinghouse subsidiary from Vogtle Electric Generating Plant nuclear plant construction would lead to a write-down of several billion dollars, bankrupting Westinghouse and threatening to bankrupt Toshiba. The exact amount of the liabilities was unavailable. In January 2017, a person with direct knowledge of the matter reported that the company plans on making its memory chip division a separate business, to save Toshiba from bankruptcy.
In February 2017, Toshiba revealed unaudited details of a 390 billion yen ($3.4 billion) corporate wide loss, mainly arising from its majority owned US based Westinghouse nuclear construction subsidiary which was written down by 712 billion yen ($6.3 billion). On 14 February 2017, Toshiba delayed filing financial results, and chairman Shigenori Shiga, formerly chairman of Westinghouse, resigned. Construction delays, regulatory changes and cost overruns at Westinghouse-built nuclear facilities Vogtle units 3 and 4 in Waynesboro, Georgia and VC Summer units 2 and 3 in South Carolina, were cited as the main causes of the dramatic fall in Toshiba's financial performance and collapse in the share price. Fixed priced construction contracts negotiated by Westinghouse with Georgia Power left Toshiba with uncharted liabilities that resulted in the sale of key Toshiba operating subsidiaries to secure the company's future.
Westinghouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 29 March 2017.
In 1985, Toshiba released the T1100, the world's first commercially accepted laptop PC.
In the 1980s, a Toshiba team led by Fujio Masuoka invented flash memory
Toshiba has been judged as making "low" efforts to lessen its impact on the environment. In November 2012, it came second from the bottom in Greenpeace's 18th edition of the Guide to Greener Electronics that ranks electronics companies according to their policies on products, energy, and sustainable operations. Toshiba received 2.3 of a possible 10 points, with the top company (WIPRO) receiving 7.1 points. "Zero" scores were received in the categories "Clean energy policy advocacy"
On 28 December 1970, Toshiba began the construction of unit 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 07:33 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 06/05/2026
