tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8239482024-03-27T11:16:19.336-12:00PoetslifeThe purpose of Poetslife is to promote the art and discipline of American Tactical Civil Defense for families and small businesses and to contribute practical American civil defense preparedness guidance for all Americans through my articles in the The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA.ORG) Journal of Civil Defense and leadership as the volunteer Vice President of TACDA.Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comBlogger320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-75053606378351197822023-12-28T08:03:00.003-12:002023-12-28T08:07:16.643-12:00Our Broken Military can be Fixed<div style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; 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--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><a href="https://www.nationalmuseumofcivildefense.org/gallery" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Civil defense</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> grew out of the United States military and has always depended on service members with a skill stack they developed in the service </span><a href="https://tacda.org/journal-topic/journal-of-civil-defense/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">to protect property and save lives from natural and manmade disasters</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">As an advisor to the </span><a href="https://www.nationalmuseumofcivildefense.org/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">National Museum of Civil Defense</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, I am well aware that the </span><a href="https://www.nationalmuseumofcivildefense.org/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">sacrifice and skills</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> of the American military members are vital to American tactical civil defense.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Because our military is disintegrating American Tactical Civil Defense will deteriorate along with it. Our military is only as good as our country, and our civil defense is only as good as our military, and, sadly, our country has not been good of late.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">With millions of millions of military-age men pouring across the Southern border of the United States and then being transported to major American cities and the heartland and being given billions in assistance when tens of thousands of Vets are homeless and slowly dying, every compassionate, aware, intelligent, and devoted American Veteran knows something is seriously wrong.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">We have </span><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dept-of-defense-blasted-for-failing-5-audits-missing-61-of-assets-all-gone-to-zelensky" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">depleted our military stockpiles, weapons, equipment, and logistical support</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> on a </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=180u1IkUjtjpdJWnIC0AxTKSiqK4G6Pez&hl=en_US&ll=47.52421795238474%2C40.91944261844622&z=7" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">useless war </a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">defending a corrupt nation’s borders when we do not defend our own border anymore. How did we come to this?</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Now that Russia has won that war, the consequences for our position among nations worldwide is dire as BRIX will take its revenge on the American Empire. If we are not to be </span><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/foreign-policy/china-military-recruitment-efforts-us-trailing" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">slaves of our enemies</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, especially the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_OHBCDfN74" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Communist Chines Party (CCP), we must act fast</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">When </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/air-force-academy-diversity-training-tells-cadets-to-use-words-that-include-all-genders-drop-mom-and-dad" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">America’s elite military academies</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> are more interested in </span><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/the-dei-threat-to-our-military-academies" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">teaching Marxist/Leninist theory and practice disguised as “DEI,” “CRT,” and “ESG,” </a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">rather than military war tactics, techniques, policies, procedures, and history, something is seriously wrong.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; 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border-radius: 6px; cursor: pointer; display: flex; height: var(--size-32); justify-content: center; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: var(--size-12); top: var(--size-12); transition: all var(--animation-timing-fast) var(--animation-smoothing); width: var(--size-32);"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">When thousands of the best USAF pilots, Navy SEALS, Marine MARCOM, and Army Green Beret’s left the service rather than get the deadly, illegal, and un-Constitutional biological weapon injected into their Temple of the Holy Spirit, something is seriously wrong.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">And with the CCP enjoying a 50 to 1 cyberwarrior advantage over the United States, how long before they choose to use that advantage to take us down? Consider also they are smart enough to partner a Hong Kong cyber criminal with a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officer to combine the street cunning and the military discipline in a force multiplier. This is one of the main reasons they are able to crawl all over our commercial, military, government, medical, financial, transportation, and other data centers to </span><a href="https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/cyber-risk-management/news/china-backed-hackers-hit-us-infra/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">download whatever digital information </a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">they can accumulate for when they conduct a cyberattack on us.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I could go on with the myriad somethings that are seriously wrong with the American military right now, but choose to move on from “how did we get here” to “what can be done to fix the sorry state of the American military?”</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">You can research many </span><a href="https://substack.com/@theconstitutionalrepublic" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">others who have covered the “how did we get here” part</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, so I will offer ideas about what can be done to fix the current cluster#### so life and a future for our children and grand children in the great American Republic Experiment is not only possible, but probable.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">To take one example, the capabilities of drones have surpassed the capability of human piloted fighter jets to compete, as </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKJ-uS55mhM" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">pointed out so masterfully by Elon Musk</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> to USAF general Thompson at the Air Force Association in 2020 when he said, “The fighter jet era has passed…it’s drones.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">This is one of </span><a href="https://armedforces.press/pacific-sitrep-ccp-satellite-comms-inside-us-ndaa-deep-dive-12-21-23/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">hundreds of thousands of tasks</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> the new American Administration must begin to fix in 2025 in the American military.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Obviously, the senior military leaders who have been so incompetent and useless recently must be put out to pasture and replaced with better, more skilled younger leaders.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">One of the best place to begin to see how to fix it is to be found in the company </span><a href="https://www.anduril.com/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Anduril’s</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> policy piece, </span><a href="https://blog.anduril.com/rebooting-the-arsenal-of-democracy-anduril-mission-document-67fdbf442799" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">. </span><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">NOTE: The f</strong><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">ull Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy policy paper can be found </span><a href="https://www.rebootingthearsenal.com/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><a href="https://blog.anduril.com/scalinginnovation/home" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Anduril</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> is at the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/traestephens" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">tip of the spear</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> creating innovative integrated software and hardware to keep Americans safe. Below are a few paragraphs from their website that explain how unique they are and how important to our national security. </span><a href="https://blog.anduril.com/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Anduril</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://www.spacex.com/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">SpaceX</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://www.starlink.com/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Starlink</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, and other great American companies are the way out of the current chaos. Currently, the </span><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/10/national-debt.asp" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Executive Branch </a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">and </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-communications-commission-elon-musk-starlink-ef5b4b28" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">it’s minions</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> are sabotaging such innovative companies. The next Administration must enable their innovation.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><figure style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; 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--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Anduril in it’s Own Words </span><a href="https://warontherocks.com/2022/06/rebooting-the-arsenal-of-democracy/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Here</a><div class="header-anchor-widget offset-top" id="§anduril-in-its-own-words-here" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; height: 26.0938px; left: -56px; position: absolute; top: -72px; width: 56px;"><div class="header-anchor-widget-button-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; display: flex; height: 1.2em; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 72px; width: 40px;"><div class="header-anchor-widget-button" href="https://poetslife.substack.com/i/140094299/anduril-in-its-own-words-here" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">"Despite spending more money than ever on defense, our military technology stays the same. There is more AI in a Tesla than in any U.S. military vehicle: better computer vision in your Snapchat app than in any system the Department of Defense Owns; and until 2019, the United States' nuclear arsenal operated off floppy disks."</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">As war rages in Europe, citizens of the world’s democracies would be forgiven for wondering what went wrong.</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Just about three decades ago, the Soviet Union fell, and some proclaimed an “</span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-History-Last-Man/dp/0743284550" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">end of history</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.” Former Soviet states appeared to be on the path to liberalization. The Chinese Communist Party would, with economic growth and globalization, become a </span><a href="https://tnsr.org/2019/02/after-the-responsible-stakeholder-what-debating-americas-china-strategy-2/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">responsible stakeholder</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> of world order — or so leaders assured us.</span></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">But things took a different direction. Today, the world’s leading democracies do not have the technology they need to deter revisionist powers that, as Russia has shown, are willing to launch major wars to achieve their aims.</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://warontherocks.com/membership/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">BECOME A MEMBER</a></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">America’s defense industrial base, which once produced technology straight out of science fiction, all but stopped innovating. China and Russia aggressively modernized their armed forces, building weapons specifically designed to neutralize America’s. The results are sobering: Today, in U.S. Defense Department wargames that model conflicts with China, </span><a href="https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2021/07/it-failed-miserably-after-wargaming-loss-joint-chiefs-are-overhauling-how-us-military-will-fight/184050/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">China wins</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Only superior military technology can credibly deter war — but our defense companies are losing the ability to build it. In decades past, the West’s greatest scientific minds dedicated their careers to national security. </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-von-Neumann/World-War-II" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">John von Neumann</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/alan-turing-betchley-park" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Alan Turing</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, and </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-22-me-6115-story.html" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Kelly Johnson</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> worked on cutting-edge science and engineering in the national interest. War research and development turned futuristic dreams into household staples: </span><a href="https://web.mit.edu/STS.035/www/PDFs/flamm.pdf" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">personal computing</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-09/history-of-gps-navigation-how-it-changed-the-world/11749104" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">GPS</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/15/how-the-internet-was-invented-1976-arpa-kahn-cerf" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">the Internet</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/history-of-flight/The-jet-age" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">commercial air travel</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, and much more.</span></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Today, there is more AI in a Tesla than in any U.S. military vehicle and better computer vision in your Snapchat app than in any system the Department of Defense owns. Until 2019, America’s nuclear arsenal operated off of </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">floppy disks</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">How did it come to this? Starting in the 1960s and building steadily in the decades that followed, our defense industry and government leaders became more interested in process than progress. Unlike other industries, defense companies are not asked to innovate — they await painstaking specifications instructing them what to build. Defense firms are also reimbursed by taxpayers for every hour they work, well before they’ve built a working product. And if delivery schedules slip, what is the government to do? Cancel the contract, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars and potentially bankrupting the company in the process? Or salvage the program with even more money? The infamous city planner </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/30/obituaries/robert-moses-master-builder-is-dead-at-92.html" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Moses</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> knew the answer: “Once you sink that first stake,” he said, “they’ll never make you pull it up.”</span></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><figure style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; 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--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The result is a defense industry that spends a measly </span><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jan/14/2002565311/-1/-1/0/FY20-INDUSTRIAL-CAPABILITIES-REPORT.PDF" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">1 to 4 percent of revenue</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> on internal research and development, compared to 10 to 20 percent at major tech companies and </span><a href="https://www.bcg.com/publications/2019/software-companies-using-research-and-development-more" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">40 percent or higher</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> at technology startups. Why innovate when you have no competition? The 10 largest defense companies account for </span><a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/tw/Documents/manufacturing/tw-aerospace-defense-trends.pdf" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">upwards of 80 percent</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> of the industry’s revenue. Nearly two-thirds of major weapons-systems contracts in the United States have just </span><a href="https://www.economicliberties.us/our-work/courage-to-learn-defense-aerospace/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">one bidder</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">. Those who take on the defense giants must fight the bureaucracy tooth and claw. Both SpaceX and Palantir, arguably the only two defense-technology success stories in recent decades, had to </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/elon-musks-spacex-to-sue-government-over-space-launch-contract/2014/04/25/1001aa6e-cca6-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">sue</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> their </span><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/land/2016/10/31/judge-rules-in-favor-of-palantir-in-lawsuit-against-us-army/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">customers</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> for a fair shot at winning large contracts.</span></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">It’s time to reboot the arsenal of democracy. My company </span><a href="https://www.anduril.com/mission/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Anduril</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> is just one of a slew of new companies building technology for our warfighters based on a few simple principles.</span></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Outpacing the Threat</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">In 2018, Under Secretary for Research and Engineering </span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/442de9aa-e7a0-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike Griffin noted</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> that, on average, it takes the United States 16 years to deliver an idea to operational capability, compared to under seven years for China. In the Middle East, well-financed terrorist organizations and militias iterate monthly on their armed drones. Simply put, we need defense companies that are fast, that build off their own dime, and sell their products “off the shelf.”</span></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Build to Mission, Not to Spec</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Elon Musk</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, and other great tech entrepreneurs had distinct images of the future and how their products would shape it — images independent of, and often directly contradicted by, the opinions of those around them. The next great defense companies will behave exactly like this — listening to customers, working closely, and then coming up with solutions of their own, without recourse to onerous program specifications.</span></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Software First</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Software is finally </span><a href="https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">eating the battlefield</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, whether the defense industry likes it or not. Autonomous systems, networked weapons, cyberweapons, and more are enabled in part or in total by software — and new companies must build it. The prime contractors are used to slowly developing large, exquisite hardware systems like fighter jets. Software, by contrast, is developed by shipping a minimum viable product out the door as quickly as possible and seeing where it fails. The next generation of software-defined defense companies will respond rapidly and continuously to the performance of their products, to such an extent that deployment and iteration will be elements of the development process itself.</span></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Controlling Defense Budgets</strong></em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The biggest lie of the political debate surrounding defense spending is that we are stuck in a dichotomy between doing “more with more” or “less with less.” This is a false choice: The essence of technology is doing more with less. With unmanned systems performing the dull, dirty, dangerous jobs of defense work, companies privately funding research and development and cutting costs, and a swell of competitive new entrants into the defense industry, we can rejuvenate our military’s technology while saving taxpayers billions of dollars.</em></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">There is no secret government silo of advanced technology that will save us if war breaks out: You must build it. Whether you are an engineer looking for a higher purpose than building photo filters, a government leader who wants to make a difference, or an entrepreneur founding a company — if you have read this far, you care about the future of our collective defense. Help us to reboot the arsenal of democracy and make that future safe, prosperous, and free.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><figure style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; 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--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Call it a </span><a href="https://17sog.substack.com/p/power-deception-and-control-part-e2c?publication_id=998110&post_id=140058695&isFreemail=true&r=1v34ay" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">turning point</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://17sog.substack.com/p/power-deception-and-control-part-c55" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">inflection point</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, historical moment, whatever, the year 2024 will be one of those years that determines not just a year or decade or century but a millennium. This is especially true for our broken military.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">U.S. enters 2024 with its smallest military in over 80 years as active-duty troop numbers sink to less than 1.3 million and all branches (except Space Force) missed their recruiting goals.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">In 2023, the U.S. military service branches faced significant recruitment shortfalls. The Army, Navy, and Air Force all missed their recruitment goals by substantial margins. Here are the numbers:</p><ol style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-8) 0 0 var(--size-32);"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding-left: var(--size-4);">Army: The Army fell short of its goal by approximately 15,000 recruits.</p></li><li style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-8) 0 0 var(--size-32);"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding-left: var(--size-4);">Navy: The Navy missed its goal by around 8,000 recruits.</p></li><li style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-8) 0 0 var(--size-32);"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding-left: var(--size-4);">Air Force: The Air Force was short by approximately 10,000 recruits.</p></li></ol><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">All the </span><a href="https://ahnafibnqais.substack.com/p/part-iii-of-men-and-djinn?publication_id=1064113&post_id=139931884&isFreemail=true&r=1v34ay" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">signs are there</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">This shortfall of recruits is on top of the best warriors leaving because they did not want to get the deadly, cancerous, heart-attack causing, experimental drug the White House, NIH, CDC, and military leaders mandated without allowing a religious exemption.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">For the </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/Foundations-of-the-American-republic" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">American Republic</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> to continue and to prosper, and for our American military services to be fixed for our children and grandchildren and for the future of American Tactical Civil Defense, we need to learn, honor, do, and teach what the Founding Fathers created for us under the </span><a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Constitution</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and the </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bill-of-Rights-United-States-Constitution" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Bill of Rights</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and the </span><a href="https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Federalist Papers</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">We have work to do.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; 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Reflecting on the sacrifices of my brother-in-law </span><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2012/11/ruggles-orchard.html" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Sgt. Kenny Ruggles, Jr.</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, who died December 27th, 2022, I decided to write this Substack on the anniversary of his going to a better place. I miss his humor, courage, knowledge of how to grow fruit, and family and military leadership and other skills terribly. May I live and be worthy of his sacrifice.</span></p></div></div></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-55945195176540900942023-12-25T01:35:00.003-12:002023-12-25T01:35:51.514-12:00Cybertruck for Civil Defense<p> </p><p><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: none; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2045197-de7d-4fcb-b5af-344e89b8a342_990x990.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":990,"width":990,"resizeWidth":480,"bytes":2122294,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="480" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2045197-de7d-4fcb-b5af-344e89b8a342_990x990.png" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2045197-de7d-4fcb-b5af-344e89b8a342_990x990.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2045197-de7d-4fcb-b5af-344e89b8a342_990x990.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2045197-de7d-4fcb-b5af-344e89b8a342_990x990.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2045197-de7d-4fcb-b5af-344e89b8a342_990x990.png 1456w" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; cursor: default; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="480" /><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: none; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;">Way out of my price range, but if I were to buy a truck, this Cybertruck would be the one to protect my family. The </span><a href="https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; font-family: Spectral, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;" target="_blank">Cybertruck</a><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: none; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"> is a fun, versatile, innovative, durable, tough, remarkable civil defense tool. It is ideal for camping, transportation, safety, family, and whatever the future holds.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: Spectral, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-line: unset; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"> out of my price range, but if I were to buy a truck, this Cybertruck would be the one to protect my family. The </span><a href="https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; font-family: Spectral, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;" target="_blank">Cybertruck</a><span style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: Spectral, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-line: unset; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"> is a fun, versatile, innovative, durable, tough, remarkable civil defense tool. It is ideal for camping, transportation, safety, family, and whatever the future holds.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: 1.125em; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); text-decoration-line: unset; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;">How Tesla Describes the Cyber Truck on Their Website</span></p><div class="editor-scroll dragging" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; clip-path: inset(0px); color: #404040; flex: 1 1 0%; font-family: Spectral, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; overflow: hidden auto; position: relative;"><div class="post typography container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 0px auto; min-width: 300px; padding: 24px 0px 0px; width: 728px;"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-gap-24 pc-reset" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 24px; list-style: none; text-decoration: unset;"><div class="post-editor markup mousetrap" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin-bottom: var(--size-16); word-break: break-word;"><div class="tiptap ProseMirror mousetrap" data-testid="editor" dir="auto" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; font-feature-settings: "liga" 0; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 570px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-bottom: var(--size-48); position: relative; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;" translate="no"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">EXOSKELETON - Cybertruck is built with an exterior shell made for ultimate durability and passenger protection. Starting with a nearly impenetrable exoskeleton, every component is designed for superior strength and endurance, from Ultra-Hard 30X Cold-Rolled stainless-steel structural skin to Tesla armor glass.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">ULTRA-HARD 30X COLD-ROLLED STAINLESS STEEL - If there was something better, we’d use it. Help eliminate dents, damage and long-term corrosion with a smooth monochrome exoskeleton that puts the shell on the outside of the car and provides you and your passengers maximum protection.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">VERSATILE UTILITY - <strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">RUGGED STRENGTH - </strong>With the ability to pull near infinite mass and a towing capability of over 14,000 pounds, Cybertruck can perform in almost any extreme situation with ease.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY - Now entering a new class of strength, speed and versatility—only possible with an all-electric design. The powerful drivetrain and low center of gravity provides extraordinary traction control and torque—enabling acceleration from 0-60 mph in as little as 2.9 seconds and up to 500 miles of range.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">This is the <a href="https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Tesla Cybertruck</a>. You can order one <a href="https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck/design#payment" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><h4 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Cybertruck for Natural and Manmade Disaster Survival</h4><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Natural and manmade disasters happen everyday. Fires, floods, tornadoes, power outages, brown outs, blizzards and other disasters depend on power to get life back to normal.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">For example, skilled construction workers must use chain saws to cut downed trees and power lines so police, fire, emergency medical, foot and water supplies and other recovery assistance can arrive.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Reliable transportation and a power source are essential to that effort.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The Cybertruck provides both reliable transportation and a power source in the form of a 240 and two 120 power connections. During a power outage, you can power your house off the Cybertruck. And this energy flow is bidirectional</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Bidirectional charging enables electricity to flow both ways. The idea is to use bidirectional charging equipment to push and pull energy from electric vehicles at any given time. It enables high-capacity lithium-ion batteries to power EVs but also as backup storage cells to charge other electric devices or your home.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">There is a camper you can purchase to add to the Cybertruck bed. Should your house disappear due to a hurricane, flood, fire, tornado or earthquake, you can camp out in the bed and find shelter while saving on hotel bills.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">And there is a HEPA filter to purify the outside air that enters the Cybertruck. This is especially useful for anyone living in areas with forest fires and the dangerous and toxic smoke that results when they occur.</p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><figure style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 0px auto; width: 728px;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" contenteditable="false" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" draggable="true" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64b8e749-8e9d-4520-b50f-b261e9efdd29_860x484.jpeg" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; border: 0px; cursor: zoom-in; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: auto; 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--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64b8e749-8e9d-4520-b50f-b261e9efdd29_860x484.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64b8e749-8e9d-4520-b50f-b261e9efdd29_860x484.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64b8e749-8e9d-4520-b50f-b261e9efdd29_860x484.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64b8e749-8e9d-4520-b50f-b261e9efdd29_860x484.jpeg 1456w" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" title="The Cyber Camper Double" width="860" /></picture><div style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"></div></div></a></figure></div><h4 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Cybertruck Protection from Civil Unrest</h4><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">We see everyday how crime in American cities is out of control. Soros-financed district attorney’s are not enforcing the law. Details <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1719464077284827634" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">With riots and gangs stopping drivers in quick strikes stealing possessions or even your vehicle, <a href="https://armormax.com/knowledge-base/will-the-tesla-cybertruck-be-bulletproof/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">you need a vehicle that keeps you and your family safe</a>. You, because you keep your family safe, and your family because you are responsible for their safety when out in the world, need to purchase this safety device.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The Cybertruck is the solution to the current American crime and riot manmade disaster. </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">You need protection between yourself and bullets being fired at you and your family by predators. This is true walking the streets in American cities now. You can wear a bullet proof shield in your backpack to protect yourself when you are walking about the city.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">But what about when you are driving into, out of, and around the city? You need a <a href="https://www.teslaoracle.com/2023/10/20/cybertruck-bulletproof-test-with-submachine-gun-video/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">bullet proof vehicle</a>. And the Cybertruck is the only vehicle, except for the <a href="https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/98343/all-the-presidents-cars-the-amazing-limos-that-carry-the-world-s-leaders" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">President’s Beast bullet and bomb proof vehicle</a>, that can give you that advantage right now.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybertruck-bulletproof-elon-musk-tommy-gun-test-al-capone-2023-10" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Critics of the bullet-proof Cyber Truck are ridiculing the idea</a> that it is bullet proof, but <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/17cj0z3/tesla_cybertruck_undergoes_successful_bulletproof/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">the word is getting out</a> that this vehicle is, indeed, bullet proof. </p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1244" /></picture><div style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">As our military learned in Iraq when they had half million dollar bullet and bomb proof vehicles, nothing is absolutely bullet or bomb proof. But this truck increases your safety and the safety of your family in American cities right now. </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Life is always a balance. Many laugh at preparing for thermonuclear war. They believe Hollywood’s 75-year lie that only 10 percent of Americans survive a thermonuclear war when actually 90 percent survive. So, based on false information, they do not <a href="https://tacda.org/resources/#clearnuclear" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">take measures to ensure they will survive</a> a manmade of natural disaster. In a phrase, they whistle past the graveyard.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">You saw the riots in American cities from May to August 2020. I lived through the riots in Philadelphia in 1965 and 1968. My father had to scream at a mob in 1968 when they surrounded our car with his wife and 8 children to scare them with his strength so we escaped being attacked. </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Crime is real. Riots happen. This Cybertruck is a gift to help you and your family stay safe given our current <a href="https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">crime and riot realities in American cities right now</a>.</p><h4 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Advantages of the Cybertruck for Tradesman</h4><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Plumbers, electricians, construction workers, painters, mechanics, stone masons, roofers, arborists, and other tradesman will find the <a href="https://www.caranddriver.com/tesla/cybertruck" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Cybertruck a game changer </a>to <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1701068043831689604" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">protect themselves</a> and their tools when working in crime infested areas of American cities.</p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; 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--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; border: 0px; cursor: zoom-in; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; white-space-collapse: collapse; width: auto;" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: flex; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1103" /></picture><div style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">When my brother had a home improvement company in Seattle, Washington, criminals broke into his truck 3 times when he was on the job and stole his tools. By stealing his tools, they were stealing his livelihood. Despite what the Soros DA’s have done in making theft a non-crime in cities, theft takes another persons livelihood. This is especially true for a tradesman.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Check out the remarkable <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ2DBwQv6qM" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">tradesman features </a>of the Cybertruck <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFUAE7gBoXg" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">The tool-stealing thieves succeeded the first 2 times. The third time he was able to put a firearm to the head of the thief who immediately dropped his tools and ran. Self protection is a Biblical value.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">This Cybertruck gives the tradesman the advantage of self protection in dangerous cities by enabling him to safely travel to and from the job site and protect his tools and equipment while at the job site so he does not have to draw his firearm to protect his livelihood.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">No other truck can do that.</p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><figure style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1456" /></picture><div style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">NOTE: </strong>I pray that Tesla develops a way to prevent the Cybertruck from being purchased and used by the cartels, Communist Chinese Party/People’s Liberation Army (CCP/PLA) agents, Iranian terrorists, and other military-age aliens currently pouring into the United States. This is a classic duel use technology. It can do so much good for Americans. But it can also be used by alien invaders who have arrived by the millions to further their invasion and conquer plans, strategies, tactics, and unrestricted warfare objectives. </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><br /></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2CgpcCQLDSIT5VZyHRfMkD2tJOkpeJpii_jeuEK4wNvh8gTTCZWuWEHs48EAj-E6Tv6hTxP_wI3-XQcVlZxUvECm74sGPHrgc73JKALpwpdYT3ICBsvGMkW-kB-AeZTQ5OWw46AhuIk8DN7EpJvSUcjmjNUjEfQN3_pznNmDp3TLBfGvF/s3024/IMG_20211113_202904_316%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2CgpcCQLDSIT5VZyHRfMkD2tJOkpeJpii_jeuEK4wNvh8gTTCZWuWEHs48EAj-E6Tv6hTxP_wI3-XQcVlZxUvECm74sGPHrgc73JKALpwpdYT3ICBsvGMkW-kB-AeZTQ5OWw46AhuIk8DN7EpJvSUcjmjNUjEfQN3_pznNmDp3TLBfGvF/w200-h200/IMG_20211113_202904_316%20(1).jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Never did I think American mothers
would not be able to get baby formula for their babies.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But just that happened in 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This was the result of a manmade disaster. Overzealous federal
government regulators closed baby formula factory production lines down. The
result was a catastrophic baby formula shortage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a disaster on one vector, but when a manmade
disaster hits, as with the current food shortages and hyperinflation, natural
disasters and other secondary disasters do not stop. They just get more
difficult due to those food shortages and hyperinflation. So, you need to
prepare yourself and your family for these realities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Even if you can find the food your family needs, the
hyperinflation means you may not be able to afford it. Studies show that over
60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck. That leaves little
margin for extras, let alone basics like nutritious food.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But there is hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Get to Know your Local Farm Market Now<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhy1gGB22XzDCGlbz6-bjBkAxj8nmrU5tYPsS3d02JjPK4r4_UjZkWc4oaj_GrgMtokDC9601R1nkJu_3E_3zs-2Wi4ebpi3X6OF1JaTGNK59uwpABMm-lL16ehK_o8cG3XrGiR4dU-vgKsf2DMJEsSSX9kN-6ZUoKxHy3qK_uK7biUpOK/s3024/IMG_20220405_091449_624.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhy1gGB22XzDCGlbz6-bjBkAxj8nmrU5tYPsS3d02JjPK4r4_UjZkWc4oaj_GrgMtokDC9601R1nkJu_3E_3zs-2Wi4ebpi3X6OF1JaTGNK59uwpABMm-lL16ehK_o8cG3XrGiR4dU-vgKsf2DMJEsSSX9kN-6ZUoKxHy3qK_uK7biUpOK/w200-h200/IMG_20220405_091449_624.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Do not wait for disasters to multiply. Get to know where
your local farmers market NOW so you can use it wisely to mitigate food shortages.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Farmers markets offer fresh, highly nutritious, healthy,
hearty, good food at a price that is usually less than grocery stores, big box
stores, and certainly convenience stores.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Identify your nearest farm market.
Fortunately, the Spring Valley Farm Market (<a href="https://springvalleyfarmandorchard.square.site/">https://springvalleyfarmandorchard.square.site/</a>)
is down the road from us. They are a small family-owned farm that produces a
large amount of food for other Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span color="windowtext">Remember: Fresh</span> food
from the farm available in your farmers market is good for your health and
immunity. Processed food from the factory, usually bad. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Impact of the War on Fossil Fuels and Farmers<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNd82cQGc0W8ZuJ-ALpUqpAUGR3ycdFQzq3oMKki0JA2lWI6Jm-q2vKu6Otk2CCCTcsrEwyNKfsKGum6jkDsZOSkTUaoL7pgsp-CU5qdUqsKMbc93MK0cSv73lwxBQ_kbZbSLn_KnQVKeE-Sfyma0XMT4au5kRTZc4yoKRxh-ru4Ty0aX/s720/IMG_3917.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNd82cQGc0W8ZuJ-ALpUqpAUGR3ycdFQzq3oMKki0JA2lWI6Jm-q2vKu6Otk2CCCTcsrEwyNKfsKGum6jkDsZOSkTUaoL7pgsp-CU5qdUqsKMbc93MK0cSv73lwxBQ_kbZbSLn_KnQVKeE-Sfyma0XMT4au5kRTZc4yoKRxh-ru4Ty0aX/s320/IMG_3917.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Due to the war on fossil fuels, the food shortages will only
get worse. As proof, I offer the example of my brother-in-law and his orchard. He
owns a small family-run orchard. Multiply his experience by
millions of others of changes that are happening, and you will have an idea of
what is going on.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He could not afford fertilizer this year as the cost
quadrupled, or sprays as the cost tripled, or diesel fuels as the cost doubled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All these inputs are necessary for him to
produce apples, peaches, cherries, plums, corn, potatoes, asparagus, and other
foods that feed other Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And with only around 1% of Americans farming in 2022, you
depend on his productivity to make sure your family has food.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He and his family will be fine as they grow all they need on
their orchard. As he says, "The government can collapse and all it means
to me is I pay less taxes."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But you will not be fine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You will pay far more for what he is growing. And you will
pay even more for what is passed through the middleman that you buy at the
grocery, big box, and convenience store.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Study history. The Great Depression in the United States was
preceded by a farmers Great Depression for ten years before it hit the rest of
the American people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And the time span for the impacts from
his and other farms, orchards, and ranches on your family are far shorter these
days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For this reason, I moved to West Virginia from Maryland to
be within one to five miles of food for my family within a few miles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">From my house, I can now buy eggs from 12 farms, fruits, and
vegetables from 4 farm markets, meats, chicken, milk and more from the
Mennonites, Amish, and other American farmers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you are in a rural area like me there are farmer's
markets everywhere. If you are in the suburbs, you are within driving distance
of farmers markets. If you are in the city, well, not so much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I include photos of my local farm market to show you just
how healthy, nutritious, and beautiful the fruit, vegetables, bread, milk, and
other foods are in this wonderful local market.<span style="color: blue;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How TACDA Can Help<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJm9GDo2Z3RMmhM-_Zi-NC-lX7Wn87eH-dMD03X_vQQpW1z5ylcpG0DLdScYFe3Gc8AgSaqb8kfvuOU4SphtRqWnh6y7su0N0fwKgr9_XHmgR-2jtUotJReNcSibIrl5vctA_3M_qW22lkJu1ok1B6DhlPqRrrIaJ7chRnNwiO1mgEHQea/s2640/20220511_190857.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="1488" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJm9GDo2Z3RMmhM-_Zi-NC-lX7Wn87eH-dMD03X_vQQpW1z5ylcpG0DLdScYFe3Gc8AgSaqb8kfvuOU4SphtRqWnh6y7su0N0fwKgr9_XHmgR-2jtUotJReNcSibIrl5vctA_3M_qW22lkJu1ok1B6DhlPqRrrIaJ7chRnNwiO1mgEHQea/w113-h200/20220511_190857.jpg" width="113" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Search our decades of the Journal of Civil Defense to gain
deep civil defense knowledge to survive the coming challenges. You can also
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Store</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/823948/671135514908954307">Tacda.org</a> has
so many resources to help you and your family. Please visit our website, learn,
and use them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And develop the skills that will be necessary to make sure
your family will survive and prosper. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As always, remember the fundamentals:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Grow your own food if you can.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Build what you need to survive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Stay close to your family and friends as you
will need them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And pray always.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-48641905570945256422023-06-28T09:41:00.000-12:002023-06-30T09:32:19.440-12:00Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Plan Outline<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eujspJpJTXE/V-bkUIuX3lI/AAAAAAAAo8o/OSEzixQdHSwVGJosRCQ5b_wK0IZRqv9WgCLcB/s1600/IMG_0973.JPG" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eujspJpJTXE/V-bkUIuX3lI/AAAAAAAAo8o/OSEzixQdHSwVGJosRCQ5b_wK0IZRqv9WgCLcB/s200/IMG_0973.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why create and use a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan (BCDRP)?</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />
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For the same reason you have a health plan, a car insurance plan, or a home owner’s policy...to prepare for, respond to, and successfully overcome a disaster. If you experience a major disaster, and man-made and natural disasters happen daily, having a BCDRP may make the difference between your business surviving or going out of business. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As importantly, having one may mean the difference between who lives and who dies. Think of it as life insurance YOU write that helps ensure that you, your loved ones, your employees, and your business go on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What follows are some of the major parts of any BCDRP. It is only a guide. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Every BCDRP must be custom written and tested to your unique needs and circumstances. Use this for ideas of how to create your plan, but make sure you create a plan that reflects your needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Disaster Management Plan Purpose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The purpose of the BCDRP is to ensure that a clearly define BCDRP structure and accountable and responsible Disaster Management Team is in place to quickly, efficiently and effectively recognized and respond to any business disruption to:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Ensure the safety of our employees and the security of our property</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Coordinate continuity of high quality service to customers</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Coordinate communication (both external and internal)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Prioritize recovery efforts</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Activate the BCDRP</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Invoke emergency authorization to procure and allocate resources and support</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What is a Disaster</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Anything that causes harm to people or
significant damage to property</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Anything that adversely affects the value or
financial survival of the company</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Anything that disrupts routine business
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<span style="color: #00b0f0;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BCDRP Guiding Principles</span></span></div>
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Any good BCDRP includes the following tested and proven principles:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Describe the business impact</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Identify impacted stakeholders</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Identify who does what and when</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Do not use overly technical information</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Provide an escalation point for issues and concerns</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Test the plan and incorporate lessons learned for future plans</span></span></li>
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In addition, here are some fundamentals your basic plan should cover:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Develop and practice a contingency plan that includes a succession plan for your leadership.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Train backup employees to perform emergency tasks. The employees you count on to lead in an emergency will not always be available.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Determine off site disaster meeting places and disaster communication plans for all your employees.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Practice disaster communication with employees, customers, suppliers and the outside world.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Invest in an alternate means of communication in case the phone networks go down.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Make sure that all employees are involved in the exercises so that they get practice in responding to an emergency.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Make business continuity exercises realistic enough to tap into employees' emotions so that you can see how they'll react when the situation gets stressful.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Form partnerships with local emergency response groups (firefighters, police and EMTs) to establish a good working relationship. Let them become familiar with your company and site.</span></span></li>
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test, and work toward constant improvement.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Conduct continuity and disaster recovery exercises
to reveal any changes and weaknesses. Technology, personnel and facilities are
in a constant state of flux at any company.</span></span><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">
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<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">BCDR Plan Outline</span></div>
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Aa6QgNQMO0/V-bmR4r38zI/AAAAAAAAo9M/NrSLwhpd3MoI2UR0dgMLG7aHcwweCvN4QCLcB/s1600/IMG_1012.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Aa6QgNQMO0/V-bmR4r38zI/AAAAAAAAo9M/NrSLwhpd3MoI2UR0dgMLG7aHcwweCvN4QCLcB/s200/IMG_1012.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The most important fact about the BCDRP is that those who need the information can get it quickly, efficiently, and easily. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One way to accomplish that goal is to separate the plan into two major sections: the plan itself and the material that supports the plan that goes into the appendix. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is a suggested outline that has worked well for many companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Disaster recovery planning is the process of creating a document that details how your business will recover from a catastrophic event. These steps include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Create a List of Jobs: Know all the office jobs that would have to be relocated to an alternate location.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Create an Inventory Necessary Office Equipment: For each employee, list only the essential office equipment and furniture that they need to perform their jobs. Remember, in the event of a disaster, space, time and money will be at a premium.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Create a Catalog of Supporting Software and Computer Equipment: Create a catalog of the essential office computer software and equipment you use.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Identify an Alternate Office Space: Now that you have a list of people, furniture and computer software, networks and equipment, you will need a physical place to put them. Find several alternative places to relocate your office.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Create an Insurance and Budget Document: After you decide where to put people, you will need to start buying them the stuff they need to do their jobs. Estimate how much each piece will cost to buy or lease. The time spent up front on this task will shave days off of the recovery process because you will be able to provide a list to your insurance agent of what you need.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Share It and Store the Plan Off-site: Share your plan with several people and keep it in several places.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">See the table below for a suggested table of contents that should be included in any BCDRP.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Recommended BCDRP Table of Contents</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Business Continuity Contact List<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Name, phone, email, home address, home numbers. Placing it upfront makes it easier to find in an emergency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Disaster Recovery Contact List<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Name, phone, email, home address, home numbers. Placing it upfront makes it easier to find in an emergency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Disaster Recovery Escalation Process<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Clearly identify who is to be notified and who has the title and responsibility for declaring an event and activating the plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If Disaster Recovery Plan is Activated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Concise immediate steps that must be taken once a disaster is declared. Goal is to preserve life, prevent injury, and protect property and to lay the foundation for restoring normal business operations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Disaster Recovery Plan Major Steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Clearly identified major steps that must be taken to resume routine business operations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Disaster Recovery Facilities Location<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xK8KzwJkDRQ/V-bmMlzq7-I/AAAAAAAAo9I/1SuVZlIC_FYH_cIrwg21esDWPyH4kPDvwCLcB/s1600/IMG_1002.JPG" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xK8KzwJkDRQ/V-bmMlzq7-I/AAAAAAAAo9I/1SuVZlIC_FYH_cIrwg21esDWPyH4kPDvwCLcB/s200/IMG_1002.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Location of the alternative recovery location along with instructions for whom to contact and what to do when there. It can be held in readiness for use during the disaster to recover technical assets and for recovery of business processes. For small- and medium-sized businesses, this can mean employees working from home using their laptops.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Resuming Daily Business Operations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Establish the goals, milestones and metrics that will indicate that the disaster recovery has succeeded and routine business operations have resumed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span>See the table below for what material belongs in the appendix to the BCDRP. By organizing your document in this way it is easier to write, organize, and update.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Recommended BCDRP Appendix Sections</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Appendix A: Disaster Management Team Activation Guide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rules for the activation and the Incident Commander, Coordinator and the rest of the Disaster Management Team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Appendix B: Emergency Evacuation Procedure and Safe Assembly Areas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Instructions for when and how to evacuate and where to gather once out of the building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Appendix C: Exit, Fire Extinguisher, Fire Alarm and Hose Locations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Description of how to exit the floor and building, and the location of the emergency equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Appendix E: Shelter-in-Place Instructions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Instructions for when and how to shelter in place if necessary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Appendix F: Reporting Disasters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Instructions for how and to whom to concisely and accurately report disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Appendix G: Floor Plan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Drawing of each floor with employee name, phone, and email on the drawing, along with clearly identified exits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Additional Appendixes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Add any sections that are necessary to your plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Increasing, using social media correctly to respond to a disaster is one of the most critical parts of your BCDRP. To ensure your social media presence is ready for a disaster, make sure that you:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When the Incident Commander convenes the Disaster Management Team (DMT), he or she also authorizes the BCDRP and declares an emergency. Each member of that team has specific responsibilities that are listed below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Leads the CMT. Provides guidance to the team and is the final decision maker in the case of conflict or lack of consensus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Assembles the team at the request of the Incident Commander. Schedules meetings, assists with meeting facilities and general support, and completes additional tasks requested by the Incident Commander. Informs other levels for the Incident Commander.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Participate in discussion and take ownership of actions to ensure resolution of issues within their area of expertise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Documents all CMT meetings to capture discussion points, actions, owners and deadlines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Social media expert who has preexisting accounts on social media platforms who professionally and accurately communicate with external and internal customers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trusted Advisor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Provides detailed specialized knowledge to provide additional capacity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0r2P6Whlm621SbmMrsJSrZQTzRBdVm_3FLrDjvD1Zxtp_CdkpH_wmvzH1zFPvPclIxIl3UGYroMgg6r2fo89C2YU_kEiUygt6ImQoJ2SGmBqsZDQy_fgSMUMfzBPDwFLIVQ0/s1600/Bleeding+Control+Kit.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0r2P6Whlm621SbmMrsJSrZQTzRBdVm_3FLrDjvD1Zxtp_CdkpH_wmvzH1zFPvPclIxIl3UGYroMgg6r2fo89C2YU_kEiUygt6ImQoJ2SGmBqsZDQy_fgSMUMfzBPDwFLIVQ0/s320/Bleeding+Control+Kit.PNG" style="cursor: move;" width="236" /></span></a><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Every BCDRP requires a test to prove that it works and to identify areas that need improvement, also known as a tabletop exercise. Each participant undertakes the actions and tasks as they would during a real disaster. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After the exercise, the team members identify the plan strategies that worked and did not work. Then they identify and implement actions that improve the plan, including adding them to the plan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Description</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Awareness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">To create understanding of basic BCDRP issues and limitations. This will enable staff to recognize threats and respond accordingly. Examples of creating such awareness include: distribution of posters and flyers targeted at company-wide audience or conducting specific business continuity briefings for executive management. </span><span face="arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Backup<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">A process by which data, electronic or paper based is copied in some form so as to be available and used if the data from which it originated is lost, destroyed or corrupted. </span><span face="arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Backup Generator<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">An independent source of power, usually fueled by diesel or natural gas. </span><span face="arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Business Continuity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Capability of the organization to continue delivery of products or services at acceptable predefined levels following disruptive event </span><span face="arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Business Continuity Plan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Documentation that contains all alternative activities to recover and continue disrupted business activities on an acceptable minimum level, including the transition back to normal operations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Business Recovery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Recovery steps taken to resume the business within an acceptable time frame following a disruption.</span><span face="arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Call Tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">A structured cascade process that enables a list of persons, roles or organizations to be contacted as a part of information exchange or plan invocation procedure. Includes a document that graphically depicts the calling responsibilities and the calling order used to contact management, employees, customers, vendors, and other key.</span><span face="arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Communications Recovery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">The restoration or rerouting of an organization’s telecommunication network so that it continues to work with few or no interruptions.</span><span face="arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Desktop Exercise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EGiW816Tcag/V-bdz9xRUQI/AAAAAAAAo64/LB7TzBmMoTAqQH-C_VVAk3FRCmvdWHk3wCLcB/s1600/IMG_0949.JPG" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; font-family: symbol; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EGiW816Tcag/V-bdz9xRUQI/AAAAAAAAo64/LB7TzBmMoTAqQH-C_VVAk3FRCmvdWHk3wCLcB/s200/IMG_0949.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Technique for training emergency teams in which participants review and discuss the actions they would take according to their plans, but do not perform any of these actions; can be conducted with a single team, or multiple teams, typically under the guidance of exercise facilitators. You can conduct them at your office, off-site, or in th e back of a truck. During a disaster, you don't always get to choose the best setting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Disaster Management<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Involves the management of an event appropriate to the severity and the impact of the event.</span><span face="arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="arial, sans-serif">It consists of the communication that occurs within the response phase of the continuity event management scenarios.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Disaster Recovery Plan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This refers to the management approved document that defines the resources, actions, tasks and data required to manage the technology recovery effort. It is the result of the Disaster Recovery Planning effort. Documentation that defines the resources, actions, tasks and data required to manage the technology recovery effort. Usually refers to the technology recovery effort. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Emergency Evacuation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The immediate and rapid movement of people to a place of safety away from an area that is subject to a potential imminent major disruption such as natural disasters or terrorist attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Emergency Management<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Refers to the actions taken in response to an event that has occurred, or is anticipated, and the planning that precedes those actions. This primarily includes safety of employees and security of facilities. Medical alert teams, Floor Warden programs and regular fire drills would all be considered part of Emergency Management. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Emergency Response<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">The response of an organization to a disaster or other significant event that may significantly impact the organization, its people, or its ability to function productively. Emergency response may include evacuation of a facility, sheltering in place, ensuring the health and safety of employees, performing a damage assessment, and any other measures necessary to bring an organization to a </span><span face="arial, sans-serif">more stable status after an event.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A bag, backpack or other easily transportable carrier, pre-filled with items individuals should have with them if directed to evacuate their home or workplace. The Go Bag should only be taken during the evacuation if it is immediately available and will not create a danger to others during the evacuation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Negative consequence, which may be financial, e.g. loss of revenue or cash, or non-financial, e.g. loss of information, goodwill, economic value, function, natural resources, ecological systems, environmental impact, health deterioration, mortality, morbidity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Off-Site Storage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Any place physically located a significant distance away from the primary site, where duplicated and vital records (hard copy or electronic or equipment) may be stored for use during recovery. Or, the process of storing hard copy or electronic records at a secure location removed from the normal place of use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-44795386817296907132023-05-25T08:04:00.001-12:002023-09-06T08:25:25.094-12:00How to Live, Love, Learn, and Survive from Sgt. Ken Ruggles<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How You Live is How You Survive</span></h1><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBP3TnseWS_hBPlrW690_OndX7S7Jt8In8ebdrPQkx5aqGWZ7y3d4OeVGmIskam9s6VwL1WXipPTregB7NFRbKUuxsE3PXOzOYwtR3w1EUJd90JWI8eSpdDyblm6yUUx7BYnbb/s1600/DSC01240.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBP3TnseWS_hBPlrW690_OndX7S7Jt8In8ebdrPQkx5aqGWZ7y3d4OeVGmIskam9s6VwL1WXipPTregB7NFRbKUuxsE3PXOzOYwtR3w1EUJd90JWI8eSpdDyblm6yUUx7BYnbb/s200/DSC01240.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div>Sgt. Kenneth "Socrates" E. Ruggles, Jr. lived from December 7, 1949 to December 26, 2022.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He was the best brother-in-law I could have asked for.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I loved him dearly and am heartbroken he has gone to Heaven while we here on earth who had the privilege to know him grieve</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He was a living example of how to live, love, learn, and survive.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj09uClxHVMS_r2slm8QF-FM2n9lR-tkrWvZDAYCmIPwV2qKKDga924Ok5NrYNdzkzJEZDqD0y4gBljuUH-wee6375oVp4Z8_HHaHb9Qs1x4-8uQHC0oT1X9UuJmm00iscHKwxe/s200/DSC01120.JPG" width="200" /></span>As I was honored to know him for 38 years as my wife's brother, fellow Veteran, and civil defense practitioner, I present here lessons from his life that will help you survive any natural or manmade disaster.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kenny is how I addressed him so I will use that name in this memorial.</span></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Eternal Lesson</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You see, how you live determines how you not only survive but triumph over any disaster that you experience...and also how you leave this world. And as sure as the Bible is God's Holy Word, you will encounter disasters in your brief visit to this earth before you return to the Father.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Study Kenny's life to know what you need to prepare for, deal with, overcome, and know what survival on this planet means.</span></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Life Skills</span></h3></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge4eI9G5TDLYHQ4m_hai5V80fu-AUzyGia242KCG9ZWitAWmtJhx8xYHoGYG2tkkluMYgn7-Gbc_5ChwL79Wg9qfdcEc-LI42nYdlqAuYaNKVIl74GYh-_lCYB69sfWe9L4XNz2K5v6fH4v7Q6uBtM_M8KMha6vLc8Lo-skoBv-mGXOAlA/s4032/20190825_134512.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="4032" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge4eI9G5TDLYHQ4m_hai5V80fu-AUzyGia242KCG9ZWitAWmtJhx8xYHoGYG2tkkluMYgn7-Gbc_5ChwL79Wg9qfdcEc-LI42nYdlqAuYaNKVIl74GYh-_lCYB69sfWe9L4XNz2K5v6fH4v7Q6uBtM_M8KMha6vLc8Lo-skoBv-mGXOAlA/w320-h157/20190825_134512.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Kenny learned well all the skills necessary to work and operate an orchard, and then some.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He had that remarkable ability to learn life skills hands on or to read and read up on a skill until he mastered it, but always by doing it by hand to prove he mastered it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is a partial list of the life skills he mastered in his life:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4MVjbMGSFZ2_55Yc5fmWeomKsXYva5ERgXfSLZ_0ju9I3AVUsV1SPBQbsvZnKELLglz5PACSbDWa3Sm1zDAURZP4zHTB6FgmZ7byJZGPOCnlk24Q-iubl0YGcRhLiuE7YPaUd7gKyNicGrajgQVOx0BlnuaO0wLL_qlIeyOCjyBPlkDgp/s5312/20141127_141512_019.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2988" data-original-width="5312" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4MVjbMGSFZ2_55Yc5fmWeomKsXYva5ERgXfSLZ_0ju9I3AVUsV1SPBQbsvZnKELLglz5PACSbDWa3Sm1zDAURZP4zHTB6FgmZ7byJZGPOCnlk24Q-iubl0YGcRhLiuE7YPaUd7gKyNicGrajgQVOx0BlnuaO0wLL_qlIeyOCjyBPlkDgp/w200-h113/20141127_141512_019.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Good Son</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Loving Father</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wise Grandfather<br /></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Devoted Husband</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Master Carpenter</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2ztwmmKmTrCnVeVejx0VMgv3rDP29aK9Ao9czX9cUCWxwcp84PuV7jKalQlDrs_d1ibShriHzwDUlYkne8_oYB-4wyDGeWfzr-rlK2QV55V273741-tWehNIq6Xkwq6Ni6qCYxNt8V6tCR5Y4lNlv5kyQHRGlH_nD-L8p9ZZ0qLR8d8R/s256/11-D320E58D-965473-800.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="192" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2ztwmmKmTrCnVeVejx0VMgv3rDP29aK9Ao9czX9cUCWxwcp84PuV7jKalQlDrs_d1ibShriHzwDUlYkne8_oYB-4wyDGeWfzr-rlK2QV55V273741-tWehNIq6Xkwq6Ni6qCYxNt8V6tCR5Y4lNlv5kyQHRGlH_nD-L8p9ZZ0qLR8d8R/w150-h200/11-D320E58D-965473-800.jpg" width="150" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Master Mechanic<br /></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Master Stone Mason</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Master Electrician</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Master Plumber</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Master Roofer</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Accountant</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rancher (Cows and Pigs)</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXKSsKY3j7txnXbY-26lyACWQHUOKij4RqwVkelD_zqsSqunghxY0BhGxKy0O56TV7WVopOp5lhqGWSAWwpTAhsPyK65sXjnxUjvqAdNeRkBxSgs0zVn7vNV1C2HHEg4KoVskQB7z_RmUYfhx_2O5oQmcOg5Hghgxmyb5_UU7XL9mEfm2c/s4032/20181228_154248.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="4032" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXKSsKY3j7txnXbY-26lyACWQHUOKij4RqwVkelD_zqsSqunghxY0BhGxKy0O56TV7WVopOp5lhqGWSAWwpTAhsPyK65sXjnxUjvqAdNeRkBxSgs0zVn7vNV1C2HHEg4KoVskQB7z_RmUYfhx_2O5oQmcOg5Hghgxmyb5_UU7XL9mEfm2c/w200-h98/20181228_154248.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Farmer<br /></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Orchard Fruit Grower</span></li></ul><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrasy74dP5D3b0QYfJQJa-PF6f5tpi8ia53BCdoWrvS6R4j01ojllANEEkogmDoHXFskSY_oAKsyKYZ2l8nWxuPBLunO85R7uB5poMl1_P_8AjkPn-n0rWLVGYBggvaK8t_6v3/s200/DSC01175.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It may seem hard to believe that he mastered all these skills and more, but he did and I saw it with my own eyes.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Running a family orchard, the <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2023/01/few-americans-orchard-these-days-that.html" target="_blank">Ruggles Orchard in Levels, WV</a>, requires this skill stack to keep it operating and making money.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As money is always in short supply, he had to learn these skills to keep the operation operating like clockwork AND to save the money from paying others so it would go to his children instead.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My wife told me that the only outside tradesman she can ever recall him hiring was the man who put the refrigeration unit in the cold storage buildings that stored and preserved the fruit.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Although he built the large cold storage shed to store the peaches and apple crops, the refrigeration unit is a large commercial one that requires exquisite expertise to install properly.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was such a complicated and specialized job he had to hire an outside expert, so he did, but mostly because he did not have, and could not afford, the specialized tools and equipment required to install that unit.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ZEtnixlo0FOHeRRMsZz8TcAo0RSO6Bb_IclcaOHs5FdxuCHoyn2YyLKYBnCab0bgyLWUU-jQlqZX7E2IlFl-RcksIwqxXRBRXP77lqS4QahXSGfZZ93vpn7Qi6KP04tyTZJ6Vqa8jSESje_IjedjipHtygLAjBCQm1TCAQE5C5-mbLRd/s1920/VideoCapture_20190831-161355.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ZEtnixlo0FOHeRRMsZz8TcAo0RSO6Bb_IclcaOHs5FdxuCHoyn2YyLKYBnCab0bgyLWUU-jQlqZX7E2IlFl-RcksIwqxXRBRXP77lqS4QahXSGfZZ93vpn7Qi6KP04tyTZJ6Vqa8jSESje_IjedjipHtygLAjBCQm1TCAQE5C5-mbLRd/w200-h113/VideoCapture_20190831-161355.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Once Kenny told me, "The U.S. Government could collapse and all it would mean to me is that I will pay fewer taxes."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He would continue to run his orchard, provide for his family, husband the land, feed others, and serve Jesus.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There is a survival lesson in that.</span></div></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Naval Academy</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPcbgSDbClK2micSOQ7H-t6l7WFdZb_CLtHCJcU0SWroH30XHqSQBTHZIM65hcpI8L2t76lKhdMGzRt6twFCHXXozzNVV3v6EUum7cAJCEstP4cJ5TW6ysiFLH_SlX5V91AZYI/s200/DSC01238.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Kenny was awarded an appointment to the United States Naval Academy. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">W</span><span style="font-family: arial;">hile there, he boxed and beat Oliver North. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">He exceeded all the requirements...but one, the secret one. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">When he attended in the 1960's, the Naval Academy still had a strict "non-official" hazing regime. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">As a moral man, he hated it, refused to participate in it as an upper classman, and was shunned. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Eventually, he left them in the rear view mirror, had an honorable discharge, and moved on.</span></span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Army National Guard</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSjNjBjncclLa9_tfmqbR-Uf6cr2vXU2qcjp6Z-hy2C-T0sGacy_NEmIOAYof5hc8VeNfUQ2hXSVtI11YpID8q0XB1p-a1twzHHUqei1XksEGnVCkTl01mi2ySK4lZ6PyMqMOEnJ5-e7KKXxxw6wokWnBZMEtz7gY0_Wd4_LVgmrz8_rz/s5312/20150809_132850.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5312" data-original-width="2988" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSjNjBjncclLa9_tfmqbR-Uf6cr2vXU2qcjp6Z-hy2C-T0sGacy_NEmIOAYof5hc8VeNfUQ2hXSVtI11YpID8q0XB1p-a1twzHHUqei1XksEGnVCkTl01mi2ySK4lZ6PyMqMOEnJ5-e7KKXxxw6wokWnBZMEtz7gY0_Wd4_LVgmrz8_rz/w113-h200/20150809_132850.jpg" width="113" /></a></div>At 35, patriotic and needing health care for his growing family, he swore in with the West Virginia Army National Guard.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Given the skills listed above, it was not long before he was invited to try out for the Rangers, and then Delta Force.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Missions</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kenny went on multiple missions worldwide.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Out of respect for the fact that he was a quiet warrior, I will skip those here, except one, the story of his mission to locate the remains of a downed American pilot in Laos as it compromises no secrets and was a public MIA recovery mission.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Because it has lessons that apply to the current politicized and weaponized senior officer corps in the Pentagon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When Kenny was assigned to go to Laos to verify if the remains a village in Laos claimed were of an American pilot, his preference was to go alone.</span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitSircZuwKoF2trCIENlWMYSGscRA4gSCsl_HIFFYR-ejuD6nh5Lx5TUx0MfxztIzPV2PwEGdm6E0-2XWeoTE1lCbiJyFRo0QbuTO-0oKQ15pb_TBBGRE_a_Ux1kGO45iPRuJA/s200/DSC01123.JPG" width="200" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">However, an obese Army Lt. Colonel wanted to "punch his ticket" and insisted that he accompany Kenny on the mission.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I can still see him pointing to a large amount of gear in his living room and saying, <br /><br />"See that? Army Reg's say that is what I am required to take on this mission. See that over there? [It was about one-tenth the size of the other pile.] That is what I am actually taking with me."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He did not tell me at the time what that mission entailed, just that he would be gone, but he did fill me in later.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When he returned, we were sorting apples in the cold storage shed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Remember that mission you saw me packing for?"</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhACM50NM-MiALMc-31c5uLhPlIuylEpV11L_bASmnhj2SGkxxsQ185wr-ZnI6bbslLP2XmLmLEt0b9dczun4GIpozsFv_9v5SMfgwqV7HQREtnd_k_zyjqpjYx7w2nUwQO7qkQ7qF0VyQj3rxNUYEKPu5g_W1Nw8D85jWZ69EZKnmbfb6g/s4032/20190825_134523.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="4032" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhACM50NM-MiALMc-31c5uLhPlIuylEpV11L_bASmnhj2SGkxxsQ185wr-ZnI6bbslLP2XmLmLEt0b9dczun4GIpozsFv_9v5SMfgwqV7HQREtnd_k_zyjqpjYx7w2nUwQO7qkQ7qF0VyQj3rxNUYEKPu5g_W1Nw8D85jWZ69EZKnmbfb6g/w200-h98/20190825_134523.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Sure." I answered.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Well, I think the Lt. Colonel who accompanied me is having me separated from the Army right now."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Why? I asked.</span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-44UVbtRG2uc/ULgx7GmXUHI/AAAAAAAALM8/DMTNxJ-jTk4/s200/DSC01146.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Well, he was fat and a smoker. When we got to the village in Laos, I told the locals to feed him good. Then I told him I was going to hump to the crash site and find out what I could. I was not hopeful. Most of the time these locals know the Americans pay good money for remains, so they give you dog bones or chicken bones and claim they are from an American."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"When the Lt. Colonel figured out I was leaving him behind in the village, he went nuts and started cursing at me. Then he threatened to have me, get this, busted out of the service after I served a stint in Fort Leavenworth for disobeying his direct order to take him with me on the mission."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So I asked him, "Colonel, you smoke, right?"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"What does that have to do with anything Sgt. Ruggles?"</span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_lezsyAbJqyoOrH3sssrCYLqaW5sfTvZZXpBp7MEDTA1vZ-tlcVMgq9JbmBklaEuDnh4Brp0P_p_Khc1bHmt9CxvrqFahx4z9pN6QWUSuS6yzAbXPlqPetJ_qwXPfdsmv_zWU/s200/DSC01119.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Well, a bad sniper will see you 1,000 yards out. A good sniper will see you 2,000 yards out when you light that cigarette. I have a wife and four children I intend to return to so it's best you stay here."<br />"He cursed me up and down but I went on that mission for two weeks without him. He swore the whole way across the Pacific on the return flight that he was going to have me prosecuted for disobeying a direct order."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Turns out today I am to get a call from them determining my fate."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A half hour later, Kenny's wife came and said he had a call from the Pentagon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Well, I guess that's it for me." he said as he walked to answer the phone.</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRexPwTesJrgurJ642ikQ9HFzHRw7emeCBdPQp6H9wuChN9aEkNloAjisLLssbkseMHsp4J1ZljYLaFku5mXHmNFXQ7TWEWPzWvIO5N3LpFTQOhTTnBM66IYJXgIrGGy5QRtOw7-Nsf5RX0amuO1nGtCilsUaIdXnvBaZiGL4s71brZYX/s3456/IMG_1496.JPG" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="3456" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRexPwTesJrgurJ642ikQ9HFzHRw7emeCBdPQp6H9wuChN9aEkNloAjisLLssbkseMHsp4J1ZljYLaFku5mXHmNFXQ7TWEWPzWvIO5N3LpFTQOhTTnBM66IYJXgIrGGy5QRtOw7-Nsf5RX0amuO1nGtCilsUaIdXnvBaZiGL4s71brZYX/w200-h133/IMG_1496.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When he returned, he had a huge smile on his face. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />When I said, "Why are you laughing? This is messed up."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He smiled even bigger and said, "Remember that jackwagon Colonel I told you about? The one who threatened me with jail time in Fort Leavenworth?"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Yeah. I remember you told me about him."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Guess what? He was just introduced by a two star who told me the Colonel wanted to apologize to me, which he just did. Ain't that some shit!"</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Afghanistan</span></h4><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzxQRI1s00xk2eOnMCqxA2SBtf9FczUCxNkzE6v4kyLkOb0Mz12PhTPn_P2ohUbWDQcm0Ai1ASAUe2dFFUoecbRNXr0CKINzYQE5ZaV2U5qioYRa8MjJLXc8yhv45FocnUQx3e/s200/DSC01121.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here I will only speak of his unclassified missions in Afghanistan.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On his free time, his translator asked Kenny to go with him to visit his "cousin" in Kabul who he said owned a bookstore.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Any translator who worked with the Americans was in danger of being assassinated, so Kenny agreed to accompany him to protect him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kenny dressed in Afghan attire to fit in better and agreed to stay in the car they used when his translator visited his "cousin."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When they reached the bookstore in Kabul, the translator went into the bookstore and Kenney remained in their car.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Five minutes passed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK_OGreeba0CXuG3qKGFxNcFXxAJldPZ30clJxypL_Nnn9lEpzuslxbJqAP39eDxRSDY7F_tWCwGdPDDzv2AOUuyVxgiPCkgN_K92y-zRo4zRAXtsOutrNw2e8MPuoADr24x0gZtI8olsWEeqzYGzX_6RfkPT9o3j_ct_fw0j-AZ5MWaHZ/s5312/20161112_163852.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2988" data-original-width="5312" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK_OGreeba0CXuG3qKGFxNcFXxAJldPZ30clJxypL_Nnn9lEpzuslxbJqAP39eDxRSDY7F_tWCwGdPDDzv2AOUuyVxgiPCkgN_K92y-zRo4zRAXtsOutrNw2e8MPuoADr24x0gZtI8olsWEeqzYGzX_6RfkPT9o3j_ct_fw0j-AZ5MWaHZ/w200-h113/20161112_163852.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Then 10...then 15...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Out of nowhere, a HUGE Afghan appeared with a rock, stood in front of Kenny, and indicated through body language he planned to hurl it at Kenny.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Then another Afghan with a rock joined him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kenny said he kept thinking, "Where the hell is my translator to talk these people down?"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More Afghan's with rocks gathered around the HUGE Afghan until there were about 25 of them.</span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vaQmv3Aqz10/ULgzCBDqsKI/AAAAAAAALNg/aOqjdKq1RuU/s200/DSC01150.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kenny had a pistol and a rifle he kept hidden on his lap, but did not want to use it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He started praying his translator would show to deflate the situation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When the HUGE guy pulled back his arm to toss the rock at him, Kenny said he thought of his wife and 4 children and decided he was not dying.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He quickly opened the door, took a kneeling position, and pointed his rifle at the HUGE Afghan, placing a red laser dot on his forehead.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kenny said you would not believe how fast that guy went from a look of total rage to a big smile.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He dropped the rock and the other 25 did the same.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I remember him saying once, "I don't know what happened. We went from Kazakhstan to Tora Bora and we had 'em whooped in 2022."</span></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Final Years</span></h1><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQdimVhg8PcTuqQs2hkzlkwMJQz8SenJ1BcJw_UOJ267qKsIelK3Fd4I1jFTZp1H_-wC3XNA5QDR51hNs80UUP_F74BQfUQCYC9y7pq4VgO9iQ_dQox6UuVxdKwHaL0JAVrDnc/s200/DSC01126.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kenny lived on his own terms and ultimately left this world on his own terms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When he visited our house in Martinsburg, WV for the remarkable Thanksgiving dinner his sister and my wife Robin Rae Ruggles Curley prepared, I had one last chance to talk to him the month before he died.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I asked him, "Are your knees ruined (the doctors told him they were bone on bone and needed to be replaced which he refused to do) and your back ruined due to climbing up and down ladders with 40 pound sacks of peaches and apples?"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm74nPWFJ4CaaKigtjJ_szNQJh5MgknL-0VfV5mcrVi-NZB68s76Ct2257nhCEp3ds8FmEYDFCWwyRf00mf_5jCoxF1Eii64pSqV_uHB9kC689TGg1AY2G0Q75dDj__V5vAR0ELCPm1NFEWn2Zcb8QIo-o7irMUYGUJp-HimGIhZfDXvj3/s4032/20170507_162435.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm74nPWFJ4CaaKigtjJ_szNQJh5MgknL-0VfV5mcrVi-NZB68s76Ct2257nhCEp3ds8FmEYDFCWwyRf00mf_5jCoxF1Eii64pSqV_uHB9kC689TGg1AY2G0Q75dDj__V5vAR0ELCPm1NFEWn2Zcb8QIo-o7irMUYGUJp-HimGIhZfDXvj3/w150-h200/20170507_162435.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br />He responded, "No. It was the rucksack runs and the parachute jumps. In the Army we had to run miles and miles with a heavy rucksack on our backs. The worst runs were on the beach because you couldn't get get traction. And parachute landings with rucksacks, especially at night or on HALO jumps, destroyed my knees and back."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When he went to the VA in his Sixties and Seventies, he got the usual VA suggested remedies: painkillers and surgery.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Having seen how excessive VA painkiller prescriptions turned so many Vets into zombies, and how the knee replacement his father had made his ability to walk even worse, Kenny refused both.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">My final memory of him is his excruciatingly painful walk from down the stairs of my back deck across the yard to my Irish cottage, and then back.</span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7pryJiFgPlJE0xjuqKa-_B6OwWFukrTmQOn-HCqapj2DWVq7drzGsunU3uYHGz7S7lIPq01lfd6o_QhPZ8vF3uzkGTaQU723dh2Mrlj8Pb1kN0I99S8EX3cgzTdx-2VpW5DZA/s200/DSC01210.JPG" width="200" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He was in agony, but never complained, then or any other time, about the pain.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You could see the pain reflected in a facial wince, but he never did what so many other elderly do and just complain about their medical issues nonstop...or become pill poppers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He ate the pain and soldiered on.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Legacy of Sgt. Kenny "Socrates" Ruggles</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Like so many men who were living legacies when alive, Kenny left many legacies to his kin, friends, neighbors, and nation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My reflections on his legacy are above.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bill, his SF Delta teammate, when viewing photos of Kenny in Afghanistan at his funeral viewing, paid Kenny a high compliment: "He was always steady in combat like he was born for it, completely calm, never got distracted."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My wife, recalling one memory of Kenny said after he passed, "He was always so handsome and my hero. When I was five, he took me on a motorcycle ride in the nearby ball park and up and down stairs. I held on for dear life and loved every minute."</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMF93QGg67n4kJctyDm_q_rijy5WM7KfoUFPRXXTB6Gt6oPvGa8bfpvtft8kP3Fey5wIeBe_DwpjhYXlVxQ3dO8GyusI-qWVkWx7WNteeFXNW26Pe9lqvQiZJUnSDKK5c2JyH8VThbY7TIz85vYF-MKZ4Ju_-XOhJLhZNU24poeG6LaF3O/s4032/20170507_162422.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMF93QGg67n4kJctyDm_q_rijy5WM7KfoUFPRXXTB6Gt6oPvGa8bfpvtft8kP3Fey5wIeBe_DwpjhYXlVxQ3dO8GyusI-qWVkWx7WNteeFXNW26Pe9lqvQiZJUnSDKK5c2JyH8VThbY7TIz85vYF-MKZ4Ju_-XOhJLhZNU24poeG6LaF3O/w150-h200/20170507_162422.jpg" width="150" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">His greatest legacy is that he was a quiet warrior.<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPC5cjPDaSY-_nCl5xbEuRMdtIX82GqnDgHPxx7j_zt0pAsOntepfcHWUvLtIKbxD5G1AtDg2EsmVCba9cHroB6ImaljZgDlG_jnJYGuYsx7fcTlk40SL_c-2ybU-VZnRfhYvmMh_MnGxNz8u2V95aOZ9DM6WS9joXAzlp_rPGJn7Pk4jU/s5312/20161112_184942.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2988" data-original-width="5312" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPC5cjPDaSY-_nCl5xbEuRMdtIX82GqnDgHPxx7j_zt0pAsOntepfcHWUvLtIKbxD5G1AtDg2EsmVCba9cHroB6ImaljZgDlG_jnJYGuYsx7fcTlk40SL_c-2ybU-VZnRfhYvmMh_MnGxNz8u2V95aOZ9DM6WS9joXAzlp_rPGJn7Pk4jU/w200-h113/20161112_184942.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I offered once to write his biography, he cut me off quickly with, "Why? I didn't do anything 15,000 other guys didn't do just as well."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I created a think piece 20 years ago called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/President-Hostage-Paybacks-Bitch/dp/1520207719/ref=sr_1_1?crid=EL7M8DSMLJM4&keywords=the+president+is+hostage&qid=1664731444&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjAzIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-1" target="_blank">The President is Hostage: Payback's a Bitch</a> that has his personality woven into the main character.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Out of respect for Kenny, I will write a much better novel that is worthy of his legacy at some point.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Warriors Know Warriors</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9SFzHfoMK_V8DzRlaPjtX_WvFCNjqGbPad3H3xfQM02r8wru4vP7aBSu5E3zCNMQ9bwj1SrRVXnfHh2SDqMxk6fgIlIwKeqqjjUGpQxPkB6iBBdd_IPBwCd7c72Jdmso9Uj_Y/s200/DSC01122.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When we went to the Ruggles Orchard to comfort Kenny's surviving family, his son showed me a Bible Kenny took with him on all his missions.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">His Bible had a bookmarker with a photo of my <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2005/12/frank-j-curley-mia-usaaf-in-memoriam.html" target="_blank">MIA Uncle 1st Lt. Frank J. Curley</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I had sent him a photo of my uncle's B-24 crew many years before but had no idea he used it as a bookmarker in his Bible.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Warriors know warriors and I thank him for the respect he showed my Uncle Frank by using his crew photo as his Bible bookmark.</span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5qKO_qPmk8RjOnkmAehO59zN18e8Wszdql_PC-Abq28Bkfbz0jq7QMA8QXwwUVlroF98lp3ZPgbTRAcAhxjcHs22iLrhtdjCcrKL4tNgMTTV8nIU6bSFJ0X-pKKjrhOooXR4Oni_IQJXFwdFROx1QMPqQxOrT4GzGmhWXgWSbhKMpMTlw/s5312/20160807_134856.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2988" data-original-width="5312" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5qKO_qPmk8RjOnkmAehO59zN18e8Wszdql_PC-Abq28Bkfbz0jq7QMA8QXwwUVlroF98lp3ZPgbTRAcAhxjcHs22iLrhtdjCcrKL4tNgMTTV8nIU6bSFJ0X-pKKjrhOooXR4Oni_IQJXFwdFROx1QMPqQxOrT4GzGmhWXgWSbhKMpMTlw/w200-h113/20160807_134856.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>In recognition of his dedication to growing fruit for his fellow citizens and in tribute to his work ethic, in 2018, the Ruggles Orchard was named the <a href="https://bestthingswv.com/apple-picking/">#1 family orchard in West Virginia by the Best Things in West Virginia media company</a>.</span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1QjRPIZ1gtlK0PccHFRnJLwrb-t7YaQJzYwBAPjgGkWFprp-NVfnPvFAeCFVQMRZLo70UkdBTJGj_pFIb0WV-_pXz4QJaG_rtkeTr2B906v9a2gdCbcG1ZH5YN6tps9_rMWD/s200/DSC01169.JPG" width="200" /><br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Below are photos of the beautiful orchard Kenny worked for 54 years. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Enjoy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And remember a Vet you know.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maybe take him or her out for coffee and just listen.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For many years, as a volunteer, I have written resumes for special forces guys transitioning to the civilian world. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is not easy for them to go from military life to civilian life.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A resume is one of the hardest things for them to write because evaluations and ratings in the military are so different from the civilian world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As I get to know them and their experiences to translate it to a civilian language.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is a great feeling for me when they land a job, and they are always appreciative.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Most importantly, we break the anxiety/depression/suicide ideation/suicide reality cycle because they have a mission, a purpose, and can provide for the families.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The combat nightmares begin to become less frequent, and they can have a great work, family, and community life.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One essential is to listen to them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For an introduction, maybe visit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCyApoJr-mNmdMNwdk22xEQ" target="_blank">Combat Stories</a> on YouTube to get an idea of what I am talking about.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As the WWII Ranger and Paratrooper <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2012/05/click-any-photo-to-enlarge-it.html" target="_blank">Jack Womer</a> said on the final page of his book Fighting with the Filthy Thirteen, "Remember us."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Remember them with whatever talent God has given you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; 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font-size: medium;">Ever since I discovered the wonder of Civil Defense at 27 in doing contract work inspecting Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs) on Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) all over the United States and teaching emergency managers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, I have been fascinated by how critical it is to this nation's survival. (More <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/search/label/Civil%20Defense%20Redux" target="_blank">here</a>.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just before that, I practiced Civil Defense the United States Air Force without knowing it as an additional duty helping the disabled service members and veterans vacate the Eglin Air Force Base hospital during monthly hurricane exercises in the early 1980's,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(For more background, please see my bio at The American Civil Defense website where I am the volunteer Vice President https://tacda.org/about/#board.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I believe deeply in American Civil Defense because I have been involved in it professionally and as a volunteer for 40 years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite being seen as a throwback to a Cold War era with little contemporary use, civil defense is alive and well, especially among the elite who take it very seriously.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge I would like to share with other Americans, especially Moms, Dads, Grand Moms, Grand Dads, and small business owners.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why them?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Well, for the last 3 years I have handed out over 5,000 civil defense business cards with contact information for how to prepare for natural and manmade disasters and parents and small business owners have been the most receptive, even grateful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Given the high rate of heart attacks, blood clots, and other medical complications that have resulted from the medical experiments since we were attacked 3 years ago by the Communist Chinese Party bioweapon, hopefully you realize your health and survival are your responsibility.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If the Bible teaches us anything, it is to be prepared for this life…and the next.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here, I will concentrate on being prepared for this life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I would like to help you meet that responsibility for yourself and your family, friends, neighbors, and nation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I will post Civil Defense Hacks to make the year more fruitful, productive, interesting, loving, disciplined, virtuous, good, holy, and beautiful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I share my civil defense knowledge, plans, practices, and tips in the Civil Defense Hacks below.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Please join me.</span></p><h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CIVIL DEFENSE LIFE HACK <strong>#1</strong>: MATERIAL PREPARATION IS THE EASIEST PART OF CIVIL DEFENSE</span></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><picture style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":158,"width":158,"resizeWidth":202,"bytes":11120,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="202" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35aee790-8f7a-471b-8b1f-bc92708e9964_158x158.jpeg 1456w" width="202" /></picture><div></div></span></div></a></figure></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://tinyurl.com/59upvann</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I was interviewed on Civil Defense Radio several years ago, I was asked what the difference was between FEMA, Preppers, and Civil Defense.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My answer was this: FEMA shows up a month after a natural and manmade disasters and writes you a check eventually...if you qualify.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Preppers, God love 'em because they are trying, concentrate too much on the materialistic and solitary, when it is through strategy, plans, friends, family, and neighbors you survive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Civil defense, in contrast, is as old as the Bible and had survived the test of time and the prepares you to not just survive, but to triumph over natural and manmade disasters.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Material preparations for disasters is important, but it is the easiest part of the plan.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is a link to tested, verified, and practical items to prepare you and your family for such events.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I especially recommend purchasing WaterBricks (clean water is THE essential to survival), Waterproof USB drives (data preservation is critical to your family and business), and the Go Dark Bag (because there are tyrants with bad intent, sadly.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://tacda.org/the-survival-store/</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><strong>#business</strong> <strong>#data</strong> <strong>#love</strong> <strong>#strategy</strong> <strong>#events</strong> <strong>#water</strong> <strong>#civildefense</strong> <strong>#waterbricks</strong> <strong>#water</strong> <strong>#fema</strong> <strong>#preppers</strong> <strong>#prepare</strong> <strong>#smallbusiness</strong> <strong>#family</strong> <strong>#familybusiness</strong> <strong>#civil</strong> <strong>#tacda</strong></span></p><h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CIVIL DEFENSE HACK <strong>#3</strong>: IT'S ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S FUTURE</span></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><picture style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1941,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":302,"bytes":9168591,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="320" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb44c8573-11a3-4a16-ab3f-cb70d6c0fefd_4032x3024.jpeg 1456w" width="240" /></picture><div></div></span></div></a></figure></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now a grandfather, I think in terms of generations and centuries, not just years or decades.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am planting trees from which I will never enjoy the fruit, but I am happy to do so to benefit my progeny.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nothing is more important for our future generations than teaching children civil defense. The rugby player is is my wee one in the photos.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He is gifted in music, engineering, athletics, and many other areas, but if he does not know how to survive, the rest does not happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After years of teaching him the importance of survival skills, he knows how to survive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Many times, he now teaches me new skills.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I could leave the earth today and be confident he will survive and survive well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just yesterday I went over my last will and testament with him and given his reaction I am confident he is a highly skilled, intelligent, mature, loving, giving, Christian man who knows the facts of life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the link above to my blog post, you can discover ways you can be sure your children and grandchildren will survive...and PROSPER because they know how to survive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You can also read my article Children and Civil Defense in the TACDA.ORG Journal of Civil Defense </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> https://tacda.org/journal/journal-of-civil-defense-2018-vol-51-no-1-emergency-water-storage/</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I worked many months to make the TACDA.ORG search engine optimization terms relevant, so please explore other civil defense topics in the Journal of Civil Defense's illustrious 65-year history of knowledge based articles while you are there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><strong>#future</strong> <strong>#engineering</strong> <strong>#music</strong> <strong>#civil</strong> <strong>#teaching</strong> <strong>#children</strong> <strong>#childrensfure</strong> <strong>#love</strong> <strong>#family</strong> <strong>#survival</strong> <strong>#survivalskills</strong></span></p><h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #4: MACRO CYBERSECURITY</span></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><picture style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":971,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":334,"bytes":681871,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="222.74313186813185" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1b197-c874-444c-b459-6bf12594fb1a_1920x1280.jpeg 1456w" width="334" /></picture><div></div></span></div></a></figure></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2017/10/when-state-hackers-take-aim-at-power.html</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As with micro and macro economics, there is micro and macro cybersecurity.<br />Think of whatever you put your hands on for personal communication as micro cybersecurity.<br />Think of all the systems you depend on to make sure those personal computers and phones depend on as macro cybersecurity.<br />Here we are concerned with macro cybersecurity, or who watches the watchers.<br />Most Americans don't realize that right now a disciplined People's Liberation Army Lt. Colonel under the direction of a Communist Chinese Party (CCP) commissar actively owns, or is seeking, details on their DNA, emotional IQ, habits, weaknesses, and thinking.<br />That Lt. Colonel is working with creative Chinese criminal hackers who were given the choice of death or helping the CCP to dominate the world.<br />Despite the years of CCP data breaches of local, state, and federal government data centers and the exfiltration of that data to the CCP, and the parallel pirating of private sector data to CCP data servers, Americans generally are oblivious to the threat.<br />As proof, tens of millions of Americans freely and enthusiastically send terabytes of their personal data to the CCP via TikTok every day.<br />That will change soon.<br />Once Russia conquers the territory it wants soon, the world will change and this hidden war will become more visible.<br />Data breaches against the West, and especially the United States, that could have only been imagined in the past, will become reality.<br />I do not want this to happen, but after much research it looks like it will happen.<br />Civil defense is about thinking about the impossible and improbable and gaming it out just in case.<br />Still, it is not all bleak.<br />There are professionals who work 24/7/365 to countermand this CCP/Russian/North Korean/Iranian stealth digital plan to take down the American system.<br />I include links with a brief introduction to those government and private sector actors who are responsible for protecting our safety and security.<br />If you doubt me, recall that "someone" just took down our Air Traffic Control system...nationwide.<br />It is one more reminder of how vulnerable we are in our advanced, electricity based civilization.<br />I wrote <a href="https://lnkd.in/eDkHniiH" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/eDkHniiH</a> in 2017.<br />You can also read my piece in the The American Civil Defense Association Journal of Civil Defense.<br /><a href="https://lnkd.in/eg88CGSi" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/eg88CGSi</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Has anything improved since then?<br />Not really, so I pray every day that Americans wake up in time, aware that John F. Kennedys great book Why England Slept is now Why America Slept as we now, like England then, is mostly asleep.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=cybersecurity&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=people&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#people</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=work&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#work</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=data&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=digital&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#digital</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=research&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=security&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=cloud&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#cloud</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=communication&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#communication</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=insurance&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#insurance</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=safety&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#safety</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=creative&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#creative</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=mortgage&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#mortgage</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=medical&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#medical</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=banking&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#banking</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=gaming&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=civil&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#civil</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=electricity&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#electricity</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=iphone&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#iphone</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=change&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#change</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=macroeconomics&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021267542195195904" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#macroeconomics</a></span></p><h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #5: MAKE A BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN</span></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><picture style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1092,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":280,"bytes":10609689,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="210" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27263c04-afb9-4b9d-b82f-36fec5f62e16_4032x3024.jpeg 1456w" width="280" /></picture><div></div></span></div></a></figure></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2016/09/business-continuity-disaster-recovery.html</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Very large insurance and other corporations have detailed business continuity plans.<br />Why?<br />To survive if a manmade or natural disaster strikes suddenly.<br />But small businesses need such a plan even more.<br />If you run a business as a plumber, HVAC, electrician, small store owner, painter, mechanic, etc., you need a business continuity plan.<br />I attach a link to a continuity of business plan on my civil defense blog you can use to complete to help make sure your business survives a major dislocation.<br />Use what is useful in this plan and disregard the rest.<br />One tip is that businesses now go out of business not from the flood, fire, earthquake, hurricane, riot, etc....but due to data loss.<br />So, back up your data...daily.<br />We have a simple waterproof, EMP hardened, USB drive you can purchase at the <a href="http://tacda.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">TACDA.ORG</a> survival store.<br />In addition to backing up your data, these USB drives have our disaster coursework so you can learn how to deal with all the threats on the threat matrix.<br />The time is growing late to get started on this plan, so please start on it now.<br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=help&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#help</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=business&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=smallbusiness&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#smallbusiness</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=data&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=event&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#event</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=insurance&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#insurance</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=hvac&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#hvac</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=civil&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#civil</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=corporations&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#corporations</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=corporations&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#corporations</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=insurance&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#insurance</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=continuity&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7021868560536739840" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#continuity</a><br /><a href="https://lnkd.in/eUzYSrw3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/eUzYSrw3</a></span></p><h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #6: ALWAYS PREPARE IN ADVANCE</span></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><picture style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1456,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":288,"bytes":2387003,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="200" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62ebf8f8-1804-46cd-a0de-59e60a0d16c2_3024x3024.jpeg 1456w" width="200" /></picture><div></div></span></div></a></figure></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Consider how you prepare for a newborn baby.<br />Take that enthusiasm to your preparation for natural and manmade disasters.<br />To illustrate the point, years ago I prepared an emergency management plan for the Town of Mount Airy, MD where I lived at the time.<br />It was a comprehensive plan but, most importantly, it included a memorandum of understanding (MOA).<br />These are agreements signed in advance of an event.<br />They enable the rapid marshalling of the services, people, and resources needed immediately after a manmade or natural disaster strikes.<br />In hack #7, I will show how this memorandum of understanding, when activated after a tornado hit Mount Airy, MD, helped make the recovery faster and easier.<br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=people&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022225038518964224" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#people</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=civil&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022225038518964224" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#civil</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=event&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022225038518964224" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#event</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=emergencymanagement&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022225038518964224" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#emergencymanagement</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=memorandumofunderstanding&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022225038518964224" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#memorandumofunderstanding</a></span></p><h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #7: EF1 TORNADO LESSONS</span></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><picture style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":971,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":372,"bytes":2837414,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="213" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19522bce-be60-4154-8a0a-7d41438fb2a7_3456x2304.jpeg 1456w" width="320" /></picture><div></div></span></div></a></figure></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/11/ef-1-tornado-lessons-from-mt-airy-md.html<br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>NOTE:</b> I use a tornado example here, but these tips apply to the whole threat matrix.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With a Memorandum of Understanding (MOA)in place with Wal-Mart, Ace Hardware, a rubble removal company, and others, the recovery from this tornado in Mount Airy, MD, because this simple task was done in advance, the town returned to operation quickly.<br />As with all natural disaster planning, the fundamentals must be repeated.<br />1. Learn IN ADVANCE what you must do to prepare to save yourself, your family, your pets, and your neighbors when disaster strikes.<br />2. Stockpile, within reason, items you will need to survive ( water, food, medical, electronic, etc.).<br />3. Exercise for an event. Make if fun with children . This is vital. You will discover holes in your plan, supplies, contacts, etc. you will need to fill.<br />Here are natural disaster lessons explored in greater detail in the link below.<br />1. The Media Only Reports Part of the Story<br />2. Dishonest Contractors will Always Show up Post Disaster.<br />3. Your Insurance Only Covers Part of the Cost<br />4. Drones are the Future of Planning for and Recovering from Natural and Man-Made Disasters<br />5. Have a Damage Survey Form Template Ready<br />7. Good Government Governance and Communication Tools are Critical<br />8. Neighbors Must Help Neighbors<br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=future&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#future</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=help&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#help</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=communication&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#communication</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=food&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#food</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=insurance&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#insurance</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=contractors&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#contractors</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=media&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=medical&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#medical</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=water&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=civil&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#civil</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=hardware&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=civildefense&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#civildefense</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=event&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#event</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=planning&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022227844713869312" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">#planning</a></span></p>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-47876944665779571512023-05-14T12:11:00.000-12:002023-05-15T06:13:24.143-12:00Lift Aircraft Hexa Flying Inside the Drone<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS_JoQipLW6emPCXVp9HeGGMmrWJz-G-e7j53b5eawYj-dyOR1FnlxV4hZGyZz8WYolUjur-nFte4Gwsb8mrAerBIMouulVB6GZP5DC4bTSkvAGRSW5Zz7a_fB4pP0HLUypCk/s1600/Drone.PNG" style="clear: right; 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font-size: medium;">Latest update on <a href="https://www.liftaircraft.com/" target="_blank">LIFT here</a>.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Endgaget LIFT <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2018-12-12-lift-aircraft-passenger-drone-flights.html" target="_blank">review here</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">New Atlas LIFT <a href="https://newatlas.com/lift-aircraft-manned-multirotor-drone-experience/57605/" target="_blank">technical review here</a>.<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I knew the day of flying INSIDE a drone was not far off, but I'm amazed it is<a href="https://www.liftaircraft.com/reservations"> here</a> so soon.<br />
Learn about the aircraft <a href="https://www.liftaircraft.com/aircraft">here</a>.<br />
And see how you fly it <a href="https://www.liftaircraft.com/">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;">BE ONE OF THE FIRST TO FLY IN YOUR CITY! </span><span face=", , , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #605e5e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Starting in 2019, we're opening LIFT Flight Centers in scenic, </span></span></span><span face=", , , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #605e5e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">uncongested areas around major cities in the U.S. </span></span></span><span face=", , , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #605e5e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We've selected <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-anchor="dataItem-jphu0nlz" href="https://www.liftaircraft.com/reservations" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">25 candidate cities</a></span> and will choose our first locations</span></span></span><span face=", , , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #605e5e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">based on reservation and membership totals.</span></span></span><span style="color: #ffb71b; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">FOR A LIMITED TIME, SPECIAL PRE-SALE PRICE OF $149 PER FLIGHT * </span><span>* Save 40% off of $249 regular price, no prepayment required, cancel anytime, limit 5</span></span></div>
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Matt is founder and CEO of LIFT Aircraft, which is launching the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">first experiential entertainment business based on an entirely new type of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">personal, electric aircraft. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;">While getting his MBA at The University of Texas in 2003, Matt founded uShip - the first and largest online marketplace for shipping with over $200M in annual gross sales. Matt served </span>world’s <span style="text-align: center;">as uShip’s CEO until 2016 and received a Best CEO award by</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"> the Austin Business Journal (2012), has earned Austin Under 40 and Texas “Rising Star” honors (2011), and was an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year finalist (2010). Prior to business school Matt was an engineer at Boeing in Seattle, where he worked on the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">F-22 Fighter, Airborne Laser and other advanced aerospace projects. Prior to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Boeing, Matt studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at U.T. and was a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;">NASA scholarship recipient. </span><span style="text-align: center;">Matt is a pilot, an avid sailor and scuba diver, and has completed the Texas </span><span style="text-align: center;">Water Safari - known s the “World’s Toughest Canoe Race”. Matt lives in Austin with his wife and two children.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>LIFT Aircraft Press Release </span><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif">Austin, Texas </span><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif">December 11, 2018</span><span face=", , , sans-serif" style="color: #605e5e;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LIFT Aircraft unveils personal multirotor aircraft, experiential entertainment plans</span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt Chasen, founder of uShip, is unveiling a new venture today called <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.liftaircraft.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">LIFT Aircraft</a></span> (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.liftaircraft.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">www.liftaircraft.com</a></span>). LIFT has developed an electric, vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and plans to open up LIFT locations where anyone will be able to rent aircraft and experience an entirely new kind of flying - pilot's license not required.</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Flying is probably the oldest and most enduring of human aspirations. Personal aviation is available today but it’s only accessible to the lucky few with the money, time and skill to get the extensive training needed to fly traditional aircraft. At LIFT, we’re making flying so simple, safe and inexpensive that anyone can do it with very little skill or special training. We’re truly consumerizing flying for the first time in history”, says Chasen.</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LIFT is launching the world’s first experiential entertainment business leveraging eVTOL aircraft, and plans to own and operate fleets of aircraft in scenic and uncongested areas near major metro areas, tourist destinations and entertainment hubs. After training in their virtual reality simulators, anyone over the age of 18, and up to 6’ 5” tall and 250 lbs, will be able to fly for up to 15 minutes at a time.</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“LIFT is doing for flying what iFLY does for skydiving - making an expensive and inaccessible experience available to everyone”, according to Alan Metni, the founder of iFLY Indoor Skydiving.</span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The aircraft, named Hexa , resembles a large drone with 18 sets of propellers, motors and batteries. It has one seat for the pilot and weighs only 432 lbs - which qualifies it as a Powered Ultralight by the FAA so no pilot’s license is required to fly.</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Electric multirotor aircraft fly using something called distributed electric propulsion (DEP), which allows an aircraft to be controlled simply by varying the speed of multiple electric motors - a task that is accomplished by flight control computers.</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The pilot is not flying the aircraft in the sense of traditional helicopters and fixed wing airplanes” says Colin Guinn, a drone industry pioneer who has held leadership roles at DJI, 3D Robotics and Hangar Technologies. “With DEP aircraft, like with drones, the flight computer is keeping the aircraft stabilized and the pilot merely provides control inputs using a joystick”</span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chasen believes that modern drone technology and autonomy can be used to make flying ten-times safer than with today’s general aviation aircraft. “The vast majority of accidents are the result of pilot error - running out of fuel, controlled flight into terrain, flying in bad weather, etc.” Hexa is semi-autonomous so, regardless of what the pilot does, it will only fly in a safe manner within the limits programmed into the autopilot computer. </span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Autonomy is actually much easier in the air than for cars on the ground - there are far fewer obstacles, no roads, no traffic lights, and you have 3 dimensions to move around”, says Chasen. For example, the aircraft is continuously calculating the energy required to “return to home” based altitude, wind speed and direction. Regardless of what the pilot does, the aircraft will automatically return and land when the battery approaches this level plus a reserve, and it can also automatically land in designated safe landing areas, if necessary.”</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unlike traditional helicopters, Hexa can even fly with up to six of its eighteen motors out, has a ballistic parachute that autonomously deploys in the event of an emergency, has 5 floats to safely land on water, and can be controlled remotely by LIFT trained safety pilots in the event of an emergency.</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“LIFT’s safety will come not just from the simplicity and redundancy of the design, but also from the fact that flights will take place in very controlled environments - 3D mapped areas where on-board sensors and ground based radars can track every aircraft and obstruction… and flights will only take place in good weather conditions”, says Charlie Justiz, the former Chief of Aviation Safety at NASA.</span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chasen and his international team of designers, engineers and flight technicians have been busy - in just the last year and a half they have designed, prototyped, manufactured, assembled and tested their first production design aircraft. After four months of unmanned flight testing, Chasen flew Hexa for the first time last month and says, “It was an absolutely thrilling experience - I think it will be the most exciting thing that most people do in their entire lives.”</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chasen thinks leveraging Ultralight eVTOL aircraft for recreational flying is a necessary step for the nascent eVTOL industry before it’s ready for commercial transportation. “Multi-seat eVTOL air taxis, especially those that are designed to transition to wing-borne flight, are probably 10 years away and will require new regulations and significant advances in battery technology to be practical and safe.” Hexa’s “pure hover” design with rotors up high like a traditional helicopter was a result of Chasen’s desire to develop an aircraft that is safe, stable and can fly using technology that exists today. “We didn’t want to wait for major technology or regulatory breakthroughs to start flying.”</span><span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=", "roboto" , sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Companies ranging from small startups to aerospace giants like Boeing and Airbus are pursuing opportunities in this new eVTOL industry, including Uber - who is developing an air taxi service. “What’s unique about what we’re doing is that we’ll be flying years before anyone else - in fact, starting today we’re letting people join our waitlist for flights in 25 cities and will open up locations based on where we get the most demand."</span></span></div><div class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For the first time here, Airmen remotely controlled the aircraft during multiple take offs, flights and landings. 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The goal training the Airmen was twofold. The first was to validate the HEXA’s training program by having the Airmen execute it in a controlled, test environment. The second was to serve as a proof of concept for how to develop responsive training for government operators on uncrewed EVTOL aircraft. With more uncrewed cargo EVTOLs on the way, the overall goal is to field the systems as soon as they are ready.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Successfully completing this training is a huge milestone and confidence boost to allow us to meet this challenge,” said Maj. Riley Livermore, 413th FLTS Futures Flight commander. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The three Airmen, an officer and a senior NCO from the 413th Flight Test Squadron and a senior NCO from Air Education and Training Command’s Detachment 62, have background in rotary wing aircraft. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Our team's prior rotary wing experience gave us a framework of reference to work from regarding aerodynamics that apply to vertical takeoff and lift aircraft, crew resource management, and general flight operations at a military airfield,” said Maj. Victoria Snow, a 413th FLTS helicopter pilot who participated in the HEXA training. “Even though the technology is vastly different, understanding the mechanics of helicopter flying translates well to operating the HEXA."</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The team began with classroom and simulator training before getting behind the controls of the HEXA aircraft during the two-week familiarization. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The flight requires a two-person team. One person controls the movement of the aircraft, while the other monitors the aircraft systems, batteries, outside variables, etc.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; 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The unit, located at Duke Field, provides the coordination, logistics and support for the Lift team’s developmental ground and flight-testing operations.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The goal of this Air Force and civilian partnership is to leverage the industry’s commercial investment and innovation to effectively satisfy military use cases.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“By helping these companies reach their commercial goals, we can learn from this technology and transition it for possible military use,” said Livermore. </span></span></p></span></span></div>
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</div></div></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-10366297051384270582023-05-10T05:04:00.000-12:002023-05-12T03:06:10.797-12:00When State Hackers Take Aim at the Power Grid<div class="MsoBodyText">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6gbe5sD9RLWzgKB_rtE4wzH1wb72YooUyi0mYcoqpq6z_C5Q30_DGJfDST8_2BQ-LD7iRyj9u-0A9LcyUHdBP-xpG3AQZCRwCjukfa_ME0Wnszr7z11KPQR5ZCGb1uy_MM4/s1600/20150819_194653.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6gbe5sD9RLWzgKB_rtE4wzH1wb72YooUyi0mYcoqpq6z_C5Q30_DGJfDST8_2BQ-LD7iRyj9u-0A9LcyUHdBP-xpG3AQZCRwCjukfa_ME0Wnszr7z11KPQR5ZCGb1uy_MM4/w179-h320/20150819_194653.jpg" width="179" /></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span style="background-color: white;">“To me, the most terrifying form of warfare would be if there was some simultaneous cyber attack on our grid, on the banking system, and on our transportation system. That would be quite a devastating thing, and yet in theory, absent some real protective measures, that could happen.” – Wilbur Ross</span> , U.S. Secretary of Commerce, </span><span style="background-color: #e7e7e7; color: #333333;">Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, </span><span>Confirmation Hearings, 1</span>/17/2017</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Unfortunately, the prescient warning by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has only become more serious since 2017.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>To bone up on cybersecurity and other natural and manmade disasters, search 65 years of the J<a href="https://tacda.org/journal-topic/journal-of-civil-defense/" target="_blank">ournal of Civil Defense</a> by <a href="https://tacda.org/" target="_blank">The American Civil Defense Association</a> (TACDA.ORG).</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>I am the <a href="https://tacda.org/about/#board" target="_blank">volunteer vice president</a> and can vouch for TACDA's deep experience in civil defense protecting American families since 1962.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Recently, much of our work, of necessity, has been learning about and presenting cybersecurity hardening options.</span></span></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Two Tools to Mitigate Cyber Threats</span></span></span></h4><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>One of the greatest myths about cyber attacks is that they only strike big companies.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>That is false because big companies employ hundreds of information technology (IT) and defensive cyber operations (DCO) professionals.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Result?</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>They suffer business losses due to cybersecurity attacks far less frequently than smaller and mid-size enterprises.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The situation changed recently with the creation of <a href="https://adlumin.com/" target="_blank">Adlumin</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Their <a href="https://adlumin.com/security-operations-platform/" target="_blank">platforms</a> offer tools smaller and mid-sized enterprises can employ to detect and countermand cybersecurity attacks.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>If you are a larger company, possibly the best cybersecurity firm currently is </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/dragos-inc./" target="_blank">Dragos</a><span>. </span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>If you have cybersecurity issues, in addition to the help those listed in the table below. be sure to contact </span><a href="https://www.dragos.com/" target="_blank">Dragos</a><span> for assistance.</span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>There are overseas criminal organizations that work 24/7/365 to take down your business for profit.</span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The biggest criminal organization is the Communist Chinese Party (CCP).</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The CCP uses "Unrestricted Warfare" (war by hundreds of means instead of kinetic warfare) to take down non-CCP businesses in the West.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">They view it as a zero-sum game: They win if you lose.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here is an excellent </span><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/black-market-boom-the-dark-web-ep2-documentary_5039030.html" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;" target="_blank">documentary</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> that details this operation.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cybersecurity SITRP </span></h4><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
question is no longer IF hackers will take aim at the power grid. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">They
already have. </span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As one example, stories of hackers penetrating our energy sector regularly appear
in the news.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB">See,
for example, “Dragonfly: Western energy sector targeted by sophisticated attack
group...</span><span>Resurgence in energy sector attacks, with
the potential for sabotage, linked to re-emergence of Dragonfly cyber espionage
group.” (</span><a href="https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/dragonfly-western-energy-sector-targeted-sophisticated-attack-group">https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/dragonfly-western-energy-sector-targeted-sophisticated-attack-group</a><span>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span> Or, from the New York Times: “Since
May [2017], hackers have been penetrating the computer networks of companies
that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities, as well as
manufacturing plants in the United States and other countries."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Among the
companies targeted was the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, which runs
a nuclear power plant near Burlington, Kansas ((July 6, 2017 </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/technology/nuclear-plant-hack-report.html"><span>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/technology/nuclear-plant-hack-report.html</span></a><span>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZtB4R8SHtMg6YwIqc36qr_FaJUKCLfNbvFeBAjWVMjTBpjNoFO6otevm3UMqlm0rcD0qSdUp4-eLpAlWv_Cz2i1F2EkU9Bq53XphlM1MFpLVtTX1nBEzfBoef7TurYVKRuE/s1600/IMG_1392.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZtB4R8SHtMg6YwIqc36qr_FaJUKCLfNbvFeBAjWVMjTBpjNoFO6otevm3UMqlm0rcD0qSdUp4-eLpAlWv_Cz2i1F2EkU9Bq53XphlM1MFpLVtTX1nBEzfBoef7TurYVKRuE/s200/IMG_1392.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span> Enter “hacker’s + power grid” in a search engine</span><span> and see just how this prior
abstract danger has become a clear and present one.<o:p></o:p></span><span> </span><br />
<span> Recently, U.S. prosecutors have charged three Chinese "citizens" from Guangzhou with hacking into various businesses (Siemans, Moody's, etc.) to steal their secrets. The indictments were handed down in Federal court in Pittsburgh regarding attacks for the past six years. (Click <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-china-indictments/siemens-trimble-moodys-breached-by-chinese-hackers-u-s-charges-idUSKBN1DR26D">here</a> for details.) </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span>Given the ease with which such foreign actors prey on our systems, there is every reason to believe they can, do, and will undertake the same attacks on our power grid. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><span>Unfortunately, the most common image of a hacker is the one created by Hollywood...usually a smart, gifted if lonely
teen in his bedroom with a hankering to explore the deep recesses of the Web.
(Think of Matthew Broderick in the movie WarGames.)</span><span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> The real world of real hackers is
very different. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoR2tPiIhd0CwQQHQ3b2gaWznumATmwwtgnjAHwHBce_dgVwdD4-DZAlO61imMJ4qSTDFwjgoEThPyX49NSam-4fuJ2vnGdU3OoqqCzTG-m4CofMpt9Cw6hWFpDoCNLOfic_s/s1600/20150818_123224.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoR2tPiIhd0CwQQHQ3b2gaWznumATmwwtgnjAHwHBce_dgVwdD4-DZAlO61imMJ4qSTDFwjgoEThPyX49NSam-4fuJ2vnGdU3OoqqCzTG-m4CofMpt9Cw6hWFpDoCNLOfic_s/s200/20150818_123224.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For
example, the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) has entire divisions in their military
devoted to hacking, discovering and exploiting American infrastructure vulnerabilities. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They have a 10,000 year history of conquest using stealth and deception to exploit their enemies weakness to their benefit, and they are following this strategy to conquer the world via hacking operations carried out 24/7/365.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Their
genius is that they pair a hacker criminal, say from Hong Kong, with a
disciplined lieutenant colonel from the Red Chinese People’s Liberation Army
(PLA). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is a variation on the old option judges would give teens in this
country: jail time or join the U.S. Marines. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The
Red Chinese version is they give the Chinese national hackers they arrest the
option of jail time or — use your hacking skills to advance the superpower
ambitions of the Communist Chinese Party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08Jm43QG19C5DXe0g6moHbMiKFAGXJJM5rYKWZ40KZito6nNrVnJT3Q2uVm12PCZ-OZrofcSxPMhxtcrpgL_72V_0u9bFXpuYv0q7Hst5YmLwvlLZ0-qOUFmYh6btKBi2ev4/s1600/20150821_093512.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08Jm43QG19C5DXe0g6moHbMiKFAGXJJM5rYKWZ40KZito6nNrVnJT3Q2uVm12PCZ-OZrofcSxPMhxtcrpgL_72V_0u9bFXpuYv0q7Hst5YmLwvlLZ0-qOUFmYh6btKBi2ev4/s200/20150821_093512.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The
Red Chinese learned decades ago it was easier to steal American technology
advances to accelerate their economic development in a spectacularly rapid
pace. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They have continued this strategy in the cyberwar sphere. Their command
strategy has as its first tenant the taking down of digital capabilities in the
US. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Taking out our power grid is a primary tenant of that strategy. They prefer to take our systems down in a
digital manner without dropping one bomb or firing one bullet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And
they are succeeding in their probing until they decide to launch the apocalyptic
cyber-attack on our energy grid. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They
are not alone. North Korea, Russia, Iran and other nations have the same plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6arqlI0_1PTMmFsBAYHzCoXFrHqDTfclPRCxyejTvVy6M16F06Yz1nkn-VGE18-bwiA-_GDI9nuhTaupMXMoQ_OoXIw95wlklkT-oN7nOrObkREwdoPF8vCifRuHrWXR-hc/s1600/IMG_1254.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6arqlI0_1PTMmFsBAYHzCoXFrHqDTfclPRCxyejTvVy6M16F06Yz1nkn-VGE18-bwiA-_GDI9nuhTaupMXMoQ_OoXIw95wlklkT-oN7nOrObkREwdoPF8vCifRuHrWXR-hc/s200/IMG_1254.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Incidents
of foreign network penetration and espionage …conducted by the Chinese
government have recently become both more frequent and more clearly
attributable to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) rather than independent
nationalist hackers, and 33% of all cyberattacks in the third quarter of 2012
seemingly originated from China.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This
PLA attack on our critical infrastructure was identified over five years ago
and has only increased in the intervening years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Unfortunately,
they are not alone. There are many other nations (Russia, North Korea, Iran,
etc.) that have realized the same strategy. And they are probing and
penetrating our systems daily. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Cybersecurity —</span><span face=""helvetica" , "sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #333333;"> t</span><span>he ability to protect or defend
the use of cyberspace from cyberattacks — is a goal that requires many layers,
much creativity, and eternal vigilance. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Below I list organizations that
exercise those skills daily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<h2>
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What is to be Done<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>In
the world of cybersecurity, given the potential harm that can be done immediately
to our entire way of life, the old reactive strategy (Think —Decide—ACT) has
been replaced by a proactive strategy (Decide—Act—Think). </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>The Websites below
act as the cybersecurity canary in the dark Web mine. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>To be proactive, you need
a proactive toolset. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Signs of an impending cyberattack may be identified by
such entities before the actual attack starts. The organizations below will be
among those who are the first line of defense to that attack.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqlsxSkMkxik1W_I79y0wxj0HcwZF2J431C4XEXN9YXAYyyGqi9FBi0c6MNeqxtrjGY-CRtmsAiQhqQOOljF4Y5hX2BW-xxNTT6JvZBN_3-fVWug1tgVHghHUA30AwH9DgTWE/s1600/IMG_1360.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqlsxSkMkxik1W_I79y0wxj0HcwZF2J431C4XEXN9YXAYyyGqi9FBi0c6MNeqxtrjGY-CRtmsAiQhqQOOljF4Y5hX2BW-xxNTT6JvZBN_3-fVWug1tgVHghHUA30AwH9DgTWE/s200/IMG_1360.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span> </span>The good news is we have quiet professionals, cybersecurity experts, who daily countermand the cyber hackers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They would be the first line of defense were the current probes turn into a complete attack on the power grid. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I highlight some of our canaries below.</span></div>
<h2><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
Who Handles the Hackers — Private Sector<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There
are numerous private sector companies that handle the day-to-day threat of
hacker probes and penetrations of our critical infrastructure. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Were there to be a hacker attack on the power
grid, they are the first line of defense. A few are listed below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Organizations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Description<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CyberSecure IPS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.cybersecureips.%20%0Dcom/"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://www.cybersecureips.
<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.cybersecureips.%20%0Dcom/">com/</a></span><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Provides protection against
critical infrastructure intrusion attempts and dispatches first response
teams in real-time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Palo Alto Software<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/">https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/</a><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Software prevention to reduce cybersecurity risk to a
manageable degree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Groups and
Operations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/y74n28el">http://tinyurl.com/y74n28el</a></b><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The sheet is maintained by a select group of editors
and includes data of APT activity (by China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc.),
their tools, operations, and targets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FireHOL IP Lists<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://iplists.firehol.org/">http://iplists.firehol.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Analyzes security IP feeds to identify cybercrime and
malware trends and data analytic tools to track unique IPs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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IBM X-Force Exchange<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/">https://exchange.xforce.</a></span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/">ibmcloud.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Exchange threat platform (malicious IP addresses, botnet
distributions) with a security intelligence blog and forum for responders to
post information on common vulnerabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Malware Check<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://malwarecheck.org/">http://malwarecheck.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Monitors URLs for suspicious malware, virus, worm,
phishing and other activity by a search engine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MalwareTech Botnet Tracker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.malwaretech.com/">http://www.malwaretech.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tracks active botnets by looking at their type,
geographic distribution, and unique IPs on a live map that displays every
incident and type that has occurred in the past 5 minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Phishtank<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.phishtank.com/">https://www.phishtank.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Current, community based tracking of domains
connected to phishing attacks along with downloadable databases. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SysAdmin, Audit, Network and Security (<span style="color: #2b2c30;">SANS) Institute Internet Storm Center<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.sans.org/">https://www.sans.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Offers data and analysis on future <a href="https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/analyst/threat-hunting-open-season-adversary-36882" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">threat hunting trends</span></a><span color="rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.7)"> and malware threats<span color="rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.701960784313725)"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvWSuMEYb2flRlBRz7asBarlR5QCvW_IppVZqUv_adaGjNpN4nhB4ulvFpkuWt7WHKZyGz5FYSFOdqr3Zl98a0CmADbp9AFCy2-ykmS_b7hXp_kX59DZhB1Bcf87LseKPX9Y/s1600/IMG_1361.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1587" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvWSuMEYb2flRlBRz7asBarlR5QCvW_IppVZqUv_adaGjNpN4nhB4ulvFpkuWt7WHKZyGz5FYSFOdqr3Zl98a0CmADbp9AFCy2-ykmS_b7hXp_kX59DZhB1Bcf87LseKPX9Y/s200/IMG_1361.JPG" width="198" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> Who Handles the Hackers - Government</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just
as the private sector has organizations that will be the first line of defense
against an attack on the power grid, there are numerous government organizations
that handle the day-to-day threat of hacker probes and penetrations of our critical
infrastructure. A few are listed below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Organization<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Description<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Electricity Subsector <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Coordinating Council<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(ESCC)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.energy.gov/oe/%20activities/cybersecurity%20%0d-critical-energy-infrastructure">https://www.energy.gov/oe/
activities/cybersecurity <o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.energy.gov/oe/%20activities/cybersecurity%20%0d-critical-energy-infrastructure">-critical-energy-infrastructure</a></span><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The ESCC serves as the principal liaison between the
federal government and the electric power sector, with the mission of
coordinating efforts to prepare for national-level incidents or threats to
critical infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The National Cybersecurity and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
Communications Integration Center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
(NCCIC)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.dhs.gov/"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">DHS</span></a></div>
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Part of the Department of Homeland Security that
would act as the central command point where the government collects and
analyzes data on the impact of any hacker attack on the power grid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) AIS (Automated
Indicator Sharing)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.dhs.gov/ais">https://www.dhs.gov/ais</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Automated indicator sharing to help government and
private sector entities exchange info on threat indicators. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Supervisory Control and Data <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Acquisition Systems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
(SCADA)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://energy.gov/oe/downloads/21-steps-improve-cyber-security-scada-networks">https://energy.gov/oe/downloads/21-steps-improve-cyber-security-scada-networks</a><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Software used by manufacturers, nuclear plant
operators and pipeline operators to monitor variables to monitor and diagnose
unexpected problems, such as a hacker attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The United States House <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Permanent Select Committee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
on Intelligence (HPSCI)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span>https://intelligence.house.
gov/cyber/</span></span><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Cyber criminals, often supported by hostile
governments, are increasing their attacks on U.S. networks and American
businesses. The HPSCI acts to mitigate this growing problem.</span><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The National Security<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Agency (NSA)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/cybersecurity/index.shtml">https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/cybersecurity/index.shtml</a><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Part of the
U.S, DOD, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence, that
protect U.S. Communications networks and IT systems.</span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b2c30;">The North American
Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) </span><a href="https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/docs-filing.asp?csrt=12291926386149977967">https://www.ferc.gov/industries/ electric/indus-act/reliability/cybersecurity.asp</a><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Regulatory authority that assures the reliability and
security of the bulk power system in North America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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U.S. Security and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
Exchanges Commission (SEC)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.sec.gov/">https://www.sec.gov/ spotlight/cybersecurity</a><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Identifies and manages cybersecurity risks and ensures
that market participants — including issuers, intermediaries, investors and
government authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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National Institute of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
Science and Technology (NIST)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nist.gov/">https://www.nist.gov/ topics/cybersecurity</a><span style="color: #2b2c30;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Practical, innovative security technologies and
methodologies that enhance the country’s ability to address current and
future computer and information security.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span>
<span><span> </span><span> </span>Fortunately,
everyday there are highly gifted, very creative, and extremely skilled American cybersecurity and engineering experts manning the protective firewalls of the
cloud and network-based data systems in this nation. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>I know because I’ve
worked with them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They
are well aware of the challenge. They know their duty. They are quiet
professionals as important in the cyber world as the Special Forces quiet professionals we depend
on every day are in the physical world,.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And
they deserve the same level of respect, resources and support.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">#James
Dohnert, ‘Akamai study finds a third of all cyber-attacks originate from
China’, V3.co.uk, 25 January 2013,
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2238996/akamai-studyfinds-a-third-of-all-cyber-attacks-originate-from-china.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">For more information, see <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/electric-power-research-institute-wrong-about-powe/">https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/electric-power-research-institute-wrong-about-powe/</a></span><br />
<br />
And <a href="https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2018/01/17/time_to_protect_vulnerable_us_grid_110271.html">here</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The CCP is the greatest threat to our national cybersecurity. For more detail, <a href="https://silentbreach.com/BlogArticles/fighting-back-against-ransomware/" target="_blank">click here</a>.</span></div>
Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-12466742243953926332023-05-05T03:01:00.003-12:002023-05-08T04:14:06.316-12:00Substack: Free Speech Rises<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5XaFH8o2kP5qIdMTFoHoUlrDjP3XKxpNzokNMHcDjnZ-z_45YSuxMwzplNe4CBxtlyjj1ynzzxVZ0uBeCDwTURa1nr3C7oQnw8ekk7AgtDsQr8wCOdvMJ7XzX0D6a5d9opINbJcewZpwGDyOhMNz8ExbbFZJCfV38GL7XrfYy1Y0Wis1X/s4032/20200331_140018.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5XaFH8o2kP5qIdMTFoHoUlrDjP3XKxpNzokNMHcDjnZ-z_45YSuxMwzplNe4CBxtlyjj1ynzzxVZ0uBeCDwTURa1nr3C7oQnw8ekk7AgtDsQr8wCOdvMJ7XzX0D6a5d9opINbJcewZpwGDyOhMNz8ExbbFZJCfV38GL7XrfYy1Y0Wis1X/s320/20200331_140018.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Please join me on <a href="https://poetslife.substack.com/" target="_blank">Substack</a>.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is a free speech platform where many of the best minds around are sharing ideas that will help you know the truth from the lies. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Given our present culture, that is a critical survival gift.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I noticed last year a number of intellectuals I respect had migrated to Substack. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I saw more and more of them there, I began to look into it. Now, I post my civil defense strategies, tips, and knowledge there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Because on Substack you will find the good, the true, and the beautiful...the opposite of what our current culture promotes. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here are a few of my posts on Substack.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://poetslife.substack.com/p/famers-markets-solution-to-american" target="_blank">Farmers Markets: Solution to American Food Shortages</a></span></p><p><a href="https://poetslife.substack.com/p/children-need-civil-defense-skills" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Children Need Civil Defense Skills</span></a></p><p><a href="https://poetslife.substack.com/p/cybersecurity-for-your-family" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cybersecurity for Your Family</span></a></p><p><a href="https://poetslife.substack.com/p/data-situational-awareness" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Data and Situational Awareness</span></a></p><p><a href="https://poetslife.substack.com/p/when-state-actors-take-aim-at-the" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When State Actors Take Aim at the Power Grid</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Overcome the despair by following t</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">he eternal wisdom. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Join us at <a href="https://substack.com/browse/recommendations" target="_blank">Substack</a>..</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-4692527640451775882023-05-02T02:52:00.001-12:002023-09-19T06:32:07.170-12:00Cybersecurity for Your Family<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKMu1dOxRXkiaSl2OuUAibTudBn-qKB9Dqqk88Hu4gpgfBM6WrqiszgMJXmlw_rFNu80QXfoc41lCDk4SInZh5Jc6GZ9n7lSCmOUQuCPnt6-M-yna6_4NTH1KLRDt3yNzbEyeVGHxQ8Iy6jKvckKLlcwmQhmELd9jsIvfvZ-BgpdECH8UP/s2589/Bruce%20Curley%20TACDA%20Card.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1485" data-original-width="2589" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKMu1dOxRXkiaSl2OuUAibTudBn-qKB9Dqqk88Hu4gpgfBM6WrqiszgMJXmlw_rFNu80QXfoc41lCDk4SInZh5Jc6GZ9n7lSCmOUQuCPnt6-M-yna6_4NTH1KLRDt3yNzbEyeVGHxQ8Iy6jKvckKLlcwmQhmELd9jsIvfvZ-BgpdECH8UP/s320/Bruce%20Curley%20TACDA%20Card.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Cybersecurity is Everyone's Business</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like civil defense, cybersecurity is everyone's business and is especially critical for families.</span></span></div><div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Protection from cyberattacks is no longer just the business of the government or experts. It is a fundamental responsibility of every American family.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You must know how to defend against social engineering ruses, phishing attacks in all their variations, cell phone calls from cybercriminals, and other cyber threats. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More importantly, you must train your children and grandchildren in the tools they need to deflect and defeat and triumph over these real-world threats to their freedom.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Daily, small businesses and average Americans are being fleeced out of money by cybercriminals. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some of these operate on their own. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWUhVjkNPuMAui1kHWh_1lu9nZF6b9Z_xP8xKX4kJmv1bWI-xSuMmqIjVkC8_7mJZZL2PlpV4nnslCgYzHiNtChGDtNZrfKAzeLBERdNYZtP8QBXYkRdZ398b5XJRFT5FPL6UQb5lOMl0yLrw09mQ5Myy7dVL-UPAv7PmMnA5wjrigo-rH/s2668/20220415_131747.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2348" data-original-width="2668" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWUhVjkNPuMAui1kHWh_1lu9nZF6b9Z_xP8xKX4kJmv1bWI-xSuMmqIjVkC8_7mJZZL2PlpV4nnslCgYzHiNtChGDtNZrfKAzeLBERdNYZtP8QBXYkRdZ398b5XJRFT5FPL6UQb5lOMl0yLrw09mQ5Myy7dVL-UPAv7PmMnA5wjrigo-rH/w200-h176/20220415_131747.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some are employed by their governments like the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfFwBWABsNk" target="_blank">50 Cent Army</a>. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And some cybercriminals act on their own and with their governments approval to steel money, intellectual property, property like home titles, reputations, and other goods and services from Americans.</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">WWIII has already begun, but it is not being fought with tanks and ships. Rather, it is a battle of 1's and 0's being waged over fiber optic lines worldwide.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have already addressed state-sponsored hackers in my civil defense blog post <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2017/10/when-state-hackers-take-aim-at-power.html" target="_blank">When State Hackers Take Aim at the Power Grid</a>.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here, I will analyze what you can do when criminals and hackers strike at you and your family. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why? Because our mastery of cybersecurity will determine if our children and grandchildren are free or slaves.</span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Predator Cybercriminals Prey on Americans Daily</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Everyday, Americans are fleeced out of millions of dollars by predator cybercriminals, mostly foreigners.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What you read in the media of cybercriminals stealing millions from Americans is the tip of the iceberg. The issue is much bigger as most companies, and individual Americans, are so ashamed to have fallen for a grift they do not report it to law enforcement.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-fq-sqcLvW44n1R4tdTeOLOzrivoT-W3sO8j0SYgZWQO0BecqKCzU5gOutaLegFvSPJqANwe50iNUY9luy3tNZCt_0nYTJlbg6Xzn2l4yQuD2BlMIww8MdD3OUPQn_Bp2KX25v85-rieJRhmBjBGUR4--MT6aFeTBdxnjFsECfCbYLnJg/w150-h200/IMG_2756c135-b943-4029-905e-cbe42e5baedb%20(1).jpg" width="150" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And even if they do report it to law enforcement, local law enforcement does not have the resources to investigate it. And national law enforcement knows that most cybercriminals are overseas and, therefore, the reality is that 99.9% of them will never be caught or prosecuted.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You are on your own.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So you need to learn to identify cybercriminals when they attempt to manipulate you to gain access to your credit card, money, bank account, or data. </span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How to Protect Your Data and Money from Cybercriminal Cell Phone Calls</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are many variations on this attack, but it goes something like this.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Out of the blue, you get a call. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It is not from family or friends or anyone you know. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">On the other end, someone identifies themselves as a representative from Microsoft and says your computer has been hacked and they need to take over your system to help protect your data.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Or you get a call and a cybercriminal claims they are the police and your grandchild needs $1,000 bail or they will spend the night in jail.</span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span>Americans are a good, honest, and trusting people. </span>This is a character trait that is exploited by the predator criminals.</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">So they will bait with something clever like, "I am calling from your bank because there has been unusual activity on your account."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">When you get these calls, hang up.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">They have a more sophisticated way to get your data and money than any door-to-door salesman you would turn away.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3OIWMY_zYCQZREergryELJjvZH9YszgSAsfg0pkTwhHfDrzLve2vtls5if_YAOohh2zcHLAy7oyRf2Z9cYPCVkO4bco71CZ470x4URr-eVDg7AbrX9av78o38bjW7jlURDmhb9nIEs7DsEtyVUt-CJsVqvRU99uGvEMbQ3IOuO0sVm5uq/s2684/20201215_201435%20(2).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2684" data-original-width="2318" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3OIWMY_zYCQZREergryELJjvZH9YszgSAsfg0pkTwhHfDrzLve2vtls5if_YAOohh2zcHLAy7oyRf2Z9cYPCVkO4bco71CZ470x4URr-eVDg7AbrX9av78o38bjW7jlURDmhb9nIEs7DsEtyVUt-CJsVqvRU99uGvEMbQ3IOuO0sVm5uq/w173-h200/20201215_201435%20(2).jpg" width="173" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">They are trained.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">They are skilled.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">They are clever.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">They are devious.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">They will manipulate you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Do not allow them to have access to you or your thoughts.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Much as you think you would not fall for their scams, they are professionals at grifting and will fleece you out of your assets.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">I have known multiple cases of very wealthy and successful people who have been fleeced by these cybercriminals.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Like them, you will not even realize it until after you are robbed.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Check your Bank Accounts for Unusual Activity</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">The most common grift for cybercriminals is that they will gain access to your credit card or checking account and try to run a $9.99 or some other small amount to see if it clears.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">If it does, they return and clean out your account.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">I had this happen 3 months in a row with 3 different debit cards.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">The cybercriminal would try to put through small $9.99 charges on my debit card. When I noticed them as they were for gaming sites and I do not game, I contacted my bank and got a new card.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">But the scumbag was able to access the next 2 cards.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOjOyMvL858DChZ7xg6bCAZiEIRzH0VQA1zJ4bxF-ZGgWRdc2wHqBMDEZi6gglHGUJmlFQ1ro7nCLyMI9_WHIJWepIfUPiHota6koskhzwQTgffTFQqFlbRVTPDvmc_2ptYdhAUzvVKUGq1x0GHzfZtrSy_EA6fpJuUWmC7cykwSOKjDY/s4032/20200425_093418.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOjOyMvL858DChZ7xg6bCAZiEIRzH0VQA1zJ4bxF-ZGgWRdc2wHqBMDEZi6gglHGUJmlFQ1ro7nCLyMI9_WHIJWepIfUPiHota6koskhzwQTgffTFQqFlbRVTPDvmc_2ptYdhAUzvVKUGq1x0GHzfZtrSy_EA6fpJuUWmC7cykwSOKjDY/w200-h150/20200425_093418.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">How?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Neither I nor my bank could find out.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">But this is a common scam and one you can prevent by closely monitoring your checking, savings, debit and credit accounts for unusual charges or activity.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">True, your bank can identify certain unusual activities, but not all.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You are on your own.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Practice Zero Trust</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Only answer your cell phone if you know the number or person calling.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you do not recognize the number, do not answer.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If the person calling is legitimate, like a call from a doctor's office, they will leave a message.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEwTtVVJoXrPWczGkK6CYQQTmRmShYBlZT9KZlisOO9PCc1QTe5U_2reJaY88Vxo0KBtIC51kKUvdwQkahdm0rGPeaa6rGZuK4x5jnmIMm168-amQGm4asv7DDN8qsV0zvwdxIDPIw00prOS0Pnl0AcB0vh2x7tT0oke2V-jBoj9q0Ae5G/s4032/20210706_091845.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEwTtVVJoXrPWczGkK6CYQQTmRmShYBlZT9KZlisOO9PCc1QTe5U_2reJaY88Vxo0KBtIC51kKUvdwQkahdm0rGPeaa6rGZuK4x5jnmIMm168-amQGm4asv7DDN8qsV0zvwdxIDPIw00prOS0Pnl0AcB0vh2x7tT0oke2V-jBoj9q0Ae5G/w240-h320/20210706_091845.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Dishonest cybercriminals, for the most part, will not leave a message.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They will simply move on to the next mark.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Americans are a good, intelligent, honest, and trusting people.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is not true of much of the world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is an example.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have given out 5,000 TACDA.ORG (The American Civil Defense Association) business cards in the past 3 years.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mostly, I identify Moms with children (often at Mass on Sunday) and small business owners and workers (plumbers, electricians, painters, HVAC repairman, telephone and fiber line repairman, construction workers, truck drivers, sales clerks, policeman, fireman, and many others.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I approach them and say, "I am a civil defense volunteer with the American Civil Defense Association. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The information on this card will help keep you and your family safe from natural and manmade disasters. Please spread the word to other Americans."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Of the 5,000 Americans I have approached, only 2 have refused to take my card.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Because American's are good, intelligent, honest, and trusting people.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And they know I am only trying to help them and my family.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I do not identify a mark to use to commit a crime.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">American's know that, trust me, and take the card as they know it is of benefit to them and their families to keep them safe.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Not so with foreign cybercriminals. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Treat them like they are a disease and avoid everything about them, including their sales pitch.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Beware the Tag Team</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some cybercriminals practice a very sophisticated tag team methodology.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is one of many scenarios they use.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One foreign cybercriminal calls and states that you have been identified as spending money on child pornography by the FBI due to charges on your bank account.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When you laugh at them and say that is impossible, they will ask you to hold and claim a representative of your bank is on the other line and they will patch you through to them.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQpSi_Vnr122e90QiruwuUDlyZGPmZzvm4GEF-M9dt5aSI5MEF7CdbqdTwfYJ1Rk31tSVeTDfo1RhhAkW0kVDQtH7BbhBbuJp3_FVp9wbOOdUqWksTRmBH3exp0u50n0o_FnWpNNa5H6RPXq9I39ZsOin8gHABkqU2fC6wgmY_ErzQSVC3/s2640/20210620_092140.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1980" data-original-width="2640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQpSi_Vnr122e90QiruwuUDlyZGPmZzvm4GEF-M9dt5aSI5MEF7CdbqdTwfYJ1Rk31tSVeTDfo1RhhAkW0kVDQtH7BbhBbuJp3_FVp9wbOOdUqWksTRmBH3exp0u50n0o_FnWpNNa5H6RPXq9I39ZsOin8gHABkqU2fC6wgmY_ErzQSVC3/w200-h150/20210620_092140.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Another perp will come on the line and state he is a representative from your bank and that there are, indeed, payments on your account paying for child porn.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He will identify your bank and explain that he needs to take control of your computer and review your account for unusual activity.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Then another perp will come on and announce that he wants to work with you to keep the remaining amount in your account safe.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He will ask you to withdraw it to protect it and go to a crypto ATM to transfer it back to the bank.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are many variations on this scenario, but it is a technique they use to convince honest Americans to empty their bank account.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hang up before they get to the team tag.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You are on your Own</span></h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhaW2V-Prr9AM9wt5bAvh-M7Kfke0ERiWmjKBpglAfai6PzdE1toTzjRsz5_DLo4Maugn_QfA126EQFnWdHDTCz4yBf4DTT_XRXKt09ROjMYGC7ngi3BF0uVnTyve9VN8RjK5GNWPe5bqZO8GFL4rWXVbNB7uhcxw3MUrr0A1wgoR8xh8/s4032/20210718_165408.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhaW2V-Prr9AM9wt5bAvh-M7Kfke0ERiWmjKBpglAfai6PzdE1toTzjRsz5_DLo4Maugn_QfA126EQFnWdHDTCz4yBf4DTT_XRXKt09ROjMYGC7ngi3BF0uVnTyve9VN8RjK5GNWPe5bqZO8GFL4rWXVbNB7uhcxw3MUrr0A1wgoR8xh8/w150-h200/20210718_165408.jpg" width="150" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You must be aware of cybercriminal threats and attacks.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They are endless.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Once a cybercriminal steals your data or money, they will not be identified or prosecuted as they are safe overseas.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So, learn what you need to do to protect yourself.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are many resources to help you learn what to do.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is one.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/saugenbaum/" target="_blank">Scott E. Augenbaum's Welcome to the SyberSecure Mindset Challenge Movement to keep your family safe</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-44751547922416805062023-05-01T05:37:00.000-12:002023-05-03T11:01:27.295-12:00EMP or Electromagnetic Pulse Impacts<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2018/Nov/28/2002067172/-1/-1/0/LP_0002_DEMAIO_ELECTROMAGNETIC_DEFENSE_TASK_FORCE.PDF" target="_blank"></a></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2019/ph241/rogers1/" target="_blank"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGfQ16nlLpZcbJgQqVKb0XeMDUTPULWz2iicavCR96d5-LIRvh3MqKh6GRtd34qWMFQjUh_aWEzm2JWSDyEvyJu_v5zAqFAmAVAH5GfpJC-GAEXww6e2xAeoLEazGOwOKIvI/s2048/20210825_160632.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGfQ16nlLpZcbJgQqVKb0XeMDUTPULWz2iicavCR96d5-LIRvh3MqKh6GRtd34qWMFQjUh_aWEzm2JWSDyEvyJu_v5zAqFAmAVAH5GfpJC-GAEXww6e2xAeoLEazGOwOKIvI/w240-h320/20210825_160632.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2019/ph241/rogers1/" target="_blank"></a><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Electromagnetic pulse or <a href="https://www.legion.org/magazine/241763/threat-we-fail-address" target="_blank">EMP </a>is real and you need to know about it.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Communist Chinese Party (CCP) and the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) are actively working on an EMP strike as one of their options. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Forewarned is forearmed. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Dr. Lowell Wood's <a href="https://spp.fas.org/starwars/congress/1999_h/99-10-07wood.htm" target="_blank">EMP testimony</a>.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114hhrg96952/html/CHRG-114hhrg96952.htm" target="_blank">The EMP Threat</a>: The State of Preparedness Against the Threat of an </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Event</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security </p><p style="text-align: left;">U.S. House <a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/security/has280010.000/has280010_0.HTM" target="_blank">Electromagnetic Pulse Threats</a> to U.S. Military and Civilian Infrastructure </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Dr. Michael J. Frankel's </span><a href="http://www.empcommission.org/bios/frankel.php" target="_blank">EMP Commission reports and links</a></p></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am the <a href="https://tacda.org/about/#board" target="_blank">volunteer vice president</a> of the <a href="https://tacda.org/" target="_blank">American Civil Defense Association</a>. We publish the <a href="https://tacda.org/product-category/journal-of-civil-defense/" target="_blank">Journal of Civil Defense</a>. The Volume 55, 2021 Fall/Winter issue II of our <a href="https://tacda.org/journal-topic/journal-of-civil-defense/" target="_blank">Journal</a> is dedicated to teach you about EMP from multiple perspectives.</span></p><p><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHeMcerFC2fwvAkSpCCu6CY6hdrxjJ8dvDSiz41V5h-qUqYPuvC9oOXqp1x6zn_jPMbvBHnoQeS081cdzlVG92QeAQeSJYnSxSAuVzYYXql8BnLDTKUKFiynTRBFXaAkxYhgc/w320-h240/20210624_202345.jpg" width="320" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Soviet Union had an EMP capability all during the Cold War. They never used it because then there was the jointly agreed upon principal of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2020/06/25/china-develops-first-strike-capability-with-electromagnetic-pulse/" target="_blank">mutually assured destruction (MAD)</a> between the United Soviet Socialist Republic and the United States of America.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The CCP has a different view. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They believe, and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2020/06/25/china-develops-first-strike-capability-with-electromagnetic-pulse/" target="_blank">are pursuing, a first strike capability to take out the United States of America</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They believe they can destroy us before we even know they have launched. Their spy balloon over the continental United States in February, 2022 is part of this strategy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>NOTE: </span><a href="https://chris-said.io/2020/06/18/everything-ive-learned-about-solar-storm-risk-and-emp-attacks/" target="_blank">Solar storms</a><span> can also cause disastrous EMP events.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For more details about EMP see back issues of The American Civil Defense Association (<a href="http://TACDA.ORG">TACDA.ORG</a>) <a href="https://tacda.org/#375" target="_blank">Journal of Civil Defense</a>, see <a href="https://tacda.org/?s=emp&post_type=product&dgwt_wcas=1" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-1134573205519324512023-04-03T01:11:00.001-12:002023-04-06T13:56:02.889-12:00Civil Defense Redux<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/1600/Buzz%20Aldrin%20First%20Step%20on%20the%20Moon.3.png"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/200/Buzz%20Aldrin%20First%20Step%20on%20the%20Moon.0.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="183" /></a>I worked for a guy who was heavily involved in <a href="http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/introduction.htm"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">NASA's</span> Apollo space program </span></a>who liked to say, "It took 450,000 private contractors and 50,000 government contract managers to put an American on the moon."<br />
That ratio also applies to civil defense.<br />
</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Insurance and Civil Defense</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
So much civil defense and disaster preparedness involves insurance: Review your homeowners insurance policy regularly to make sure you have enough coverage, and the right kind of coverage, for YOUR home, family, and things.<br />
Know what is not covered by your insurance policy (such as floods).<br />
UNDERSTAND what is, and is not, covered.<br />
Make sure you have the best insurance company working for you.<br />
(Great civil defense lessons can be found at <a href="http://www.tacda.org/" style="color: #3333ff;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">TACDA</span></a>)<br />
In a former life, I had the honor of working with emergency management professionals. I taught a class at the <a href="https://training.fema.gov/emicourses/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000099;">Emergency Management Institute</span> </a>and monitored Emergency Operations Centers in Texas, Utah, North Dakota, and Arizona.<br />
</span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/1600/Gravestone%20NDIA%20CD.9.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="150" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/320/Gravestone%20NDIA%20CD.5.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was also able to write articles for <span style="font-style: italic;">Hazard Monthly</span>. Two articles included: <span style="font-style: italic;">Two Fine Volcano Books Produced by Smithsonian Project</span>, about <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Krakatoa</span> 1883 - The Volcanic Eruption <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">and its</span> Effects by Tom <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Simkin</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Volcanoes of the World - A Regional Directory, Gazetteer, and Chronology of Volcanism During the Last</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> 10,000 Years</span>, by Tim <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Sinkin</span>, see <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Siebert</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">et</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">al</span>. (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Krakatau</span> darkened the word's sky's for 4 days.)</span><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My Civil Defense History</span></h4><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
I worked on civil defense in the early 1980's when it was square and old fashioned and...basically...forgotten by most Americans. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After all, the Russians were no longer a real threat, the Chinese were our new trading friends...what else could happen? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">National priorities shifted and civil defense became a distant memory. <br />
</span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/1600/Stained%20Glass%20CD.1.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="191" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/320/Stained%20Glass%20CD.1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now it is back in the news everyday...and if no longer forgotten...often ignored. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But just as it was <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">forgotten</span> and dismissed as passé in the 1980's an 1990's and events in 2001 forced us to dust it off and rediscover it, civil defense began to be taken seriously by the American people.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Many called themselves "preppers" or "survivalists" but they were basically continuing a long civil defense plan that began during the beginning of the Cold War.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CCP/PLA SITREP</span></h3><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Given the war manual for the the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) </span><a href="https://www.c4i.org/unrestricted.pdf" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Unrestricted Warfare</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, they clearly state if they cannot take us over by bribing our political, business, academic, health industry, Hollywood, and other corrupt Americans, they will consider a nuclear strike on us an option.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The CCP is not shy about saying they consider the United States future one where we supply their massive population with food from our rich farmland and buy their products at prices they set.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On top of this threat matrix, there is another threat matrix that dictates the importance of American civil defense.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With wars, inflation, riots, and massive numbers of manmade and natural disasters, the need for civil defense expertise became evident to me.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fortunately, I was able to discover a source of civil defense expertise: <a href="https://tacda.org/" target="_blank">The American Civil Defense Association.</a><br />
As before, there is much misinformation, more good information, many professionals, and many other fast-buck artists out there on the web promoting their products, plans and systems. </span></div><div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/1600/TACDA%20Icon.0.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="106" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/200/TACDA%20Icon.0.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With two decades of experience providing leadership and vision for TACDA, and interacting with its highly expert board of directors and members, I can vouch for their usefulness, honesty, dedication, expertise, and desire to educate Americans about civil defense, as hey have since 1962.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Although viewed by many as a relic of he Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States of America, civil defense still has many followers overseas, especially in Russia, Switzerland, China, and many other nations. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It even has followers in the United States still. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-once-a-relic-idea-of-civil-defense-still-finds-2005oct17-story.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="">Read how civil defense still has supporters here.</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">TACDA understands the threat matrix and they have located material, systems, companies, policies and planning systems that work and, more importantly, adapt to various situations. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why I Believe in the TACDA Mission</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I believe so deeply in the TACDA mission that I have donated thousands of hours to promoting our organization.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am the <a href="https://tacda.org/about/#board" target="_blank">volunteer vice president </a>of The American Civil Defense Association. I started writing articles for the Journal of Civil Defense in 2008, was invited to join the Board of Directors, and eventually role to the position of vice president.</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7B3cVyiJEv86x2ZoWyZEi1TD5ladkTJrYTFrk8qqbIKty6wqIozpgiBbezCENW84fmD9I50rEdc4xAIXjfZsSsCzr97_Er6_MEbxThQ7fT549MMhWmrsF0b1HQ5OTIB0aRLJ-EmhHbZuu6rMt0Jk0HFdYrMQw90KH_pxmjC7YCacyx-3X/s4032/20210115_064556.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7B3cVyiJEv86x2ZoWyZEi1TD5ladkTJrYTFrk8qqbIKty6wqIozpgiBbezCENW84fmD9I50rEdc4xAIXjfZsSsCzr97_Er6_MEbxThQ7fT549MMhWmrsF0b1HQ5OTIB0aRLJ-EmhHbZuu6rMt0Jk0HFdYrMQw90KH_pxmjC7YCacyx-3X/w150-h200/20210115_064556.jpg" width="150" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Over the years, I have written over a dozen civil defense articles for the Journal of Civil Defense.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My last article was "Children and Civil Defense."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My latest article is "Farm Markets: Solution for American Food Shortages."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I also spent months uploading 60-years of prior TACDA civil defense articles to the TACDA website.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">From my emergency funds, I have printed up thousands of TACDA business cards and handed them out, mostly to Moms and men and women with small business, the backbone of the American Dream.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Distributing 5,000 TACDA cards one on one to other Americans I have only had 3 people refuse to take one.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So, 4,997 Americans were willing to take it to the benefit of themselves, their families, and their businesses.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The demand for civil defense is there.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is just not being met.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To Search TACDA's Vast 65-Year Library</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For ease of searching the vast knowledge contained in this material, I added deep <a href="https://tacda.org/journal-topic/journal-of-civil-defense/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> terms to help you find exactly the civil defense expertise you want to learn.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">TACDA's Survival Store</span></h3><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
<a href="https://tacda.org/the-survival-store/" target="_blank"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">TACDA</span> sells a number of useful mitigation and preparedness products.</a> I especially recommend the personal <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">evacuation</span> kit for anyone who works in an office.<br />
Consider <a href="https://www.mettag.com/">METTAG'</a>s if you need a triage card to note casualties.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">TACDA</span> understand the fundamentals of emergency management which depend on details, like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">mettags</span> <a href="https://tacda.org/mettag-triage-tags/" target="_blank">http://www.mettag.com/</a><br />
I encourage you to join <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">TACDA</span>. If you do join you and your family will get a big return. Here is the contact information: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">TACDA</span><span>, </span>www.tacda.org, info@tacda.org, 800.425.5397,800.403.1369 (fax).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Also consider </span><a href="https://www.narescue.com/pre-hospital-care-ems-products.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">North American Rescue</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> to CAT Tourniquet's, medical bags, and professional survival equipment.</span></span></div><div><div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/1600/Curley%20Housefile%20Engaged.0.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="133" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/320/Curley%20Housefile%20Engaged.0.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My own house burned down some years ago due to a defective circuit board on an electric mower. As you can see in the photo that was taken by a neighbor, it was a bad fire. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Because we had adequate <a href="https://www.usaa.com/?akredirect=true" target="_blank"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">USAA</span></a> insurance, we were able to rebuild a better house quickly. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The new house is beautiful, but I would give it all back not to have the memory of my wife being <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">medivaced</span> out to the Johns Hopkins Burn Unit. Disasters happen, and taking steps to be prepared is common sense.<br />Fires, floods, earthquakes, windstorms, power outages, terrorist attacks and other natural and manmade disasters happen. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It's a story as old as the Bible. </span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/1600/Curley%20House%20Fire%20Shell%20%202003.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="150" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/320/Curley%20House%20Fire%20Shell%20%202003.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" width="200" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Do you and your family and neighbors a favor and make sure you are prepared. Even if it never happens, it's like insurance. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You never know you need it until you need it and then it is too late to get it. Mitigate and smile.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Natural and Manmade Disasters Happen Daily</span></h4><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
Like volcanoes, other natural disasters have create monumental catastrophes. We have been dealing with these events for thousands of years. There are valuable lessons, principles, procedures, and policies learned from dealing with these natural disasters that we can apply to civil defense (now called homeland defense).<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;">One article I wrote in Hazard Monthly (June 1984, p. 12) was titled, <span style="font-style: italic;">H</span>ow <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">FEMA</span> Works With/Battles/Is Guided by Congress. It outlined the Byzantine process of how emergency management funding works its way through the House and Senate. The lessons then apply today. Here are a few quotes:<br />
"At times, a program my be authorized and no funding is set aside to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">make<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1M8nsnC3XLIl9GcklCrP6fu5xyztdVkwofZWdSK2dN2vg5vbPu3m2lGbjT9ziZI6LGEHTMujTlje1AsojUMIsrPi7ZWEyPAd1C4KA21q5dyqL-pybNX5mwwBRX_UZzJcBLSoypvyO4H4vtB0fJtq1x_u3CTew61vv7hd6PITt-KBWcXMK/s3024/20221013_115558.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1M8nsnC3XLIl9GcklCrP6fu5xyztdVkwofZWdSK2dN2vg5vbPu3m2lGbjT9ziZI6LGEHTMujTlje1AsojUMIsrPi7ZWEyPAd1C4KA21q5dyqL-pybNX5mwwBRX_UZzJcBLSoypvyO4H4vtB0fJtq1x_u3CTew61vv7hd6PITt-KBWcXMK/w200-h200/20221013_115558.jpg" width="200" /></a></span> it go. In that case, the program is as good as dead.<br />
Accounts you read in the media oftentimes do not distinguish between</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> authorizations and </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31" style="font-family: arial;">appropriations</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. Yet, they're quite different and can </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32" style="font-family: arial;">cause</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> much confusion if not clarified from the very beginning.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
If you have any questions about any of these programs, contact a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">staffer</span> on the particular Committee or Subcommittee that deals with it."<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Funny...even though since 9/11 billions of dollars have been authorized, appropriated, and spent in this area, after being neglected so in the 1980's and 1990's, the valuable civil defense lessons, principles, procedures, and policies learned from our past experience (from early exploration in this continent to the present day) must be relearned each generation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And if you read the Old and New Testament, the lessons are all there. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is human nature to want to ignore the painful lessons and to celebrate the fun lessons, but life is a mix and we need to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate life's emergencies, mindful of the past and anticipating the future.<br />
One lesson I learned is how well prepared many of my fellow <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">American's</span> (in this case the Church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS)) are for such natural and man-made disasters. </span></div><div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/1600/IMG_0038.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="150" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/320/IMG_0038.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And because they are so well prepared for other disasters, they are prepared for the full threat matrix.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For example, I navigated a mountain outside Salt Lake City in the early 1980's and viewed the entire city under water. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Because of the LDS experience and history, they take survival seriously, to their credit. In <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">th</span>is case, because they had sandbags, shovels, plastic sheeting, food, water, etc. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">preplaced</span>, they worked together to channel the Great Salt Lake that was overflowing at the time through the city and down to Lake Provo. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Result? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Very few injuries and they returned to normal quickly. A case study of how to do it right.<br />
For those who are so negative as to believe there is nothing we can do to prepare for and beat this current terrorist threat, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I suggest you consider that some in the World Trade Center who experienced the 1993 bombing relocated to a safer location. What did they figure out that it took a second lesson for others to learn?<br /></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/1600/Photo%20%2040.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="150" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/320/Photo%20%2040.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" width="200" /></a><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Additional Emergency Preparedness Tips</span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Natural and manmade disasters, terrorism, toxic trail derailments, tornadoes, floods, fires, all will hit the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> again. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">The good news is you can take steps to protect your family from these events.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Take terrorism as an example.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Israeli <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Juval</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">Aviv</span> h</span><span style="color: black;">as written two books: <i>Staying Safe: The Complete Guide to Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Business</i> and </span><i>The Complete Terrorism Survival Guide: How to Travel, Work and Live in Safety.</i><br />
Some of his advice:<br />
Since mass transportation is the next attack, take a bottle of water, a small towel and a flashlight. What happened in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> is exactly a point to look at. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Those people who were close to the bombs died, then others were injured or died from inhaling the toxic fumes or getting trampled. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The reason you take a bottle of water and a towel is that if you wet the towel and put it over your face; you can protect yourself against the fumes and get yourself out of there.</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Don't be bashful. If your gut feeling tells you when you walk onto a bus there is something unusual or suspicious, get out and walk away. You may do it 10 times for no reason, but there will be one time that saves your life. Let your sixth sense direct you. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Be wary of someone paying an usual amount of attention to a prominent landmark; someone nervous or jumpy or trying to access off-limit areas; someone trying to hide something. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Keep an eye out for unattended items when using mass transit or in airports.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Try to break your routine. If you travel during rush hour every day, try to get up a little earlier and drive to work or take the train when it's still not full. Terrorists are not going to waste a bomb on a half-empty train. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBpotYAboTK-RVKOWGmvueSnFJRKzh6Enxa-euVvO-MzY-utM-Ah9Z4D_68kWMVPzxKH9TBFnTGS_xMRHmiNGVsfgUpYsOau3eMoFzFjqfrCL7LFxSGPakyFsCIhKmqOE1t7rFUpvRV7Se_FfZi4CezlDXChuZ_ATfAO2fpQg5D8NHHDlC/s4032/20210115_064840.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBpotYAboTK-RVKOWGmvueSnFJRKzh6Enxa-euVvO-MzY-utM-Ah9Z4D_68kWMVPzxKH9TBFnTGS_xMRHmiNGVsfgUpYsOau3eMoFzFjqfrCL7LFxSGPakyFsCIhKmqOE1t7rFUpvRV7Se_FfZi4CezlDXChuZ_ATfAO2fpQg5D8NHHDlC/w200-h150/20210115_064840.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Don't rely solely on the government to provide you with crisis or threat information -- do your own research, too. (Our Department of Homeland Security has done a miserable job of providing us any information, e.g. what the difference between the color codes is.)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Have a plan on where/when to meet family members in case of attack; map assorted evacuation routes from home/work.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Keep extra copies of your passport/birth certificate/social security card, other records. Keep copies in storage or with relatives, friends. Carry copy of your passport when traveling overseas.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Never order room service in foreign hotels. Workers may poison the food or spit in food meant for Americans.<br />
Never check luggage at curbside check-in at airports; carry luggage on board with you. Carry as few bags as possible.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Spend as little time at the airport as possible. Avoid heavily glassed areas.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When traveling abroad, don't advertise your corporate affiliation or title on luggage or other items. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Stay in an American chain hotel; security is usually tighter. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When in a foreign country, don't advertise you're American by speaking loudly, holding up maps, exchanging currency at airports, showing American flags, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">etc</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Avoid crowded areas. Avoid public transportation and major tunnels and bridges during heavy commuting times.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Never stay in a hotel with an underground parking garage and never park in such a garage -- terrorists love car bombs.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Store a decent amount of cash someplace in case AT<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Ms m</span>alfunction. Carry only essential money cards and identification.</span></li>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Homeland Security Parable</span> Poem</span></h4><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjavPR2GsNO2SwAFJlVUarxtWG3taIsYNJCxkjjMOCUn6nqkNKqG4hSaauSS9u_3dGntgXE4_Oh-7c_oI0N-SG3kYoqNIFY8fRqsRuy3vsCmjc8Lb1vkjqB_0ST5ogjfQ_1leJq_mFyb9QoQETkXtUIT_7WBNAYkUYG8tNDISNciH2R3lC2/s4032/20210115_064604.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjavPR2GsNO2SwAFJlVUarxtWG3taIsYNJCxkjjMOCUn6nqkNKqG4hSaauSS9u_3dGntgXE4_Oh-7c_oI0N-SG3kYoqNIFY8fRqsRuy3vsCmjc8Lb1vkjqB_0ST5ogjfQ_1leJq_mFyb9QoQETkXtUIT_7WBNAYkUYG8tNDISNciH2R3lC2/w150-h200/20210115_064604.jpg" width="150" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Homeland security, done right, has many aspects of civil defense woven into its planning.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My Homeland Security Parable poem was published by <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Lynx Eye</span>, Pam Mc<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Cully a</span>nd Kathryn Morrison Editors, c/o Sc<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">ribblefest L</span>iterary Group, 581 Woodland Drive, Los Os<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">os, </span>CA 93402 Volume XII, Nos. 1 & 2, Summer 2005, pages 5-7. In it, I try to convey the spirituality behind civil defense. Hope you like it.<br />
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<span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Homeland Security Parable</span></span><br /></span><br />
<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>Here's the secret to homeland security.<o:p></o:p><br />
My truck blew a tire<br />
On a suicide curve<o:p></o:p><br />
In a forest so remote<o:p></o:p><br />
My cell phone would not work<o:p></o:p><br />
And I was stuck in a forest.<o:p></o:p><br />
The wind chill factor was minus 5.<o:p></o:p><br />
I had to pick up<br />
my eight-year old Eamon<o:p></o:p><br />
In a half hour from day care <o:p></o:p><br />
Or I would be charged<br />
a year's mortgage payment.<br />
<o:p></o:p>When I tried to get the spare tire off<o:p></o:p><br />
The underside of the truck carriage,<o:p></o:p><br />
It was frozen solid and would not budge.<o:p></o:p><br />
My clothes became filthy in forest dirt<o:p></o:p><br />
As I tried in vain for 45 minutes to remove the tire.<br />
<o:p></o:p>I went into the truck to get warm and think.<o:p></o:p><br />
I had water and beef jerky in the truck cabin,<o:p></o:p><br />
So I still had time. I had a full tank of gas for heat.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />
But the phone... I tried to call my wife. No signal.<o:p></o:p><br />
I tried to call my brother. No signal. <o:p></o:p><br />
Then...eureka! What about 911?<o:p></o:p><br />
They must have a stronger skip tower.<o:p></o:p><br />
It just makes sense.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p>I called 911.<br />
Where are you?<br />
<o:p></o:p>In <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Bennet</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Regional</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Park.</st1:placetype></st1:place><br />
You want the Park Police<br />
No...wait... but he transferred me.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Park Police...I'm stuck in <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Bennet</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Regional</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Park...</st1:placetype></st1:place><br />
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You want the regional Park Police.<o:p></o:p><br />
We're the federal Park Police.<br />
No...wait...I can't get a signal<o:p></o:p><br />
From my cell phone where I am.<o:p></o:p><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
Can you call my wife and tell her<o:p></o:p><br />
To pick up Eamon and to call USAA<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/1600/Sun%20Behind%20Clouds%20CD.0.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><o:p></o:p><br />
To get me a tow truck out here<o:p></o:p><br />
Sure. He took the information.<o:p></o:p><br />
An hour later, she and the tow truck arrived.<o:p></o:p><br />
But it was not over.<o:p></o:p><br />
The tow truck took me to Pep Boys<o:p></o:p><br />
Where no one spoke English and, worse,<o:p></o:p><br />
No one wanted to fix the flat.<o:p></o:p><br /><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On to Wal-Mart where they stated<o:p></o:p><br />
Emphatically they were closing in 10 minutes.<o:p></o:p><br />
I told the truck driver to take me to God's Country,<o:p></o:p><br />
Mount Airy, where I moved 3 weeks after 911<o:p></o:p><br />
When I saw biological attack circle maps<o:p></o:p><br />
Did not reach when they hit <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place><o:p><br />
</o:p>On the way the driver said,<o:p></o:p><br /><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wait. In <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Damascus</st1:place></st1:city> there's a garage I know<o:p></o:p><br />
Where the guy is in my AA group. <o:p></o:p><br />
You can't say anything because <o:p></o:p><br />
It's all supposed to be anonymous.<o:p></o:p><br />
You said you do volunteer civil defense, right?<br />
Yeah. I answered.<o:p></o:p><br /><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Well then he has to help you. He's a firefighter.<o:p></o:p><br />
Law enforcement has to help each other<o:p></o:p><br />
When they're in a fix like you are.<br />
But I'm not law enforcement! I protested.<o:p></o:p><br />
I'm a volunteer for homeland defense.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />Doesn't matter. He said. He has to help you.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsBdthY6lEnj8e_fdBc0aub4C9BK4FbhnIVBTQEbC6k428J_llv5jkgsZTeT5t-5kUMgcnnBYrYsFddi-w1Up97CAQyo1hfHEia_KSlG5LcGAgULH1QD2-TqXewSVyS4Hkm7IZxSrroHUIUBJPdSrv2mnlA3S5O18m59fzAUgS_DF5ulp/s4032/20210115_064618.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsBdthY6lEnj8e_fdBc0aub4C9BK4FbhnIVBTQEbC6k428J_llv5jkgsZTeT5t-5kUMgcnnBYrYsFddi-w1Up97CAQyo1hfHEia_KSlG5LcGAgULH1QD2-TqXewSVyS4Hkm7IZxSrroHUIUBJPdSrv2mnlA3S5O18m59fzAUgS_DF5ulp/w150-h200/20210115_064618.jpg" width="150" /></span></a></div></div>
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A few minutes later, the firefighter<o:p></o:p><br />
Who owned the garage opened the door,<o:p></o:p><br />
My truck was in, and fixed, in minutes.<o:p></o:p><br />
I returned the next day and bought<o:p></o:p><br />
Four new tires from the same man.<o:p></o:p><br />
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That's the secret to homeland defense.<o:p></o:p><br />
You depend on other people,<o:p></o:p><br />
And they depend on you.<o:p></o:p><br />
Some call it the golden rule.<o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping"></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-73398465425994506022023-02-19T23:01:00.009-12:002023-02-22T04:14:24.456-12:00Billy and the Curley Brothers and the Gift of Music<div class="separator"></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCg3yjcrZ6IzZujW0DW3rXBZTjjJ9X-Od3IVjjf5cYa7cT6D9BfWy_tUfDcObMC7D2stePxLtGIzy2HQCw3yisp_8pPmLxHey0NYlyEHwLAxnMU2Y9UbOe8xeXT6tBgLKmdy0/s2543/20200307_140259.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCg3yjcrZ6IzZujW0DW3rXBZTjjJ9X-Od3IVjjf5cYa7cT6D9BfWy_tUfDcObMC7D2stePxLtGIzy2HQCw3yisp_8pPmLxHey0NYlyEHwLAxnMU2Y9UbOe8xeXT6tBgLKmdy0/w157-h320/20200307_140259.jpg" width="157" /></a></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Join Us for St. Patrick's Day (Week)</span></span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My older son, Josh Curley (on guitar), is a self-taught guitar player. My younger son, Eamon Curley (on violin), is a classically trained violinist who trained himself on guitar, banjo, piano, and mandolin.</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Josh and Eamon create beautiful classic American music. </span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They mix and blend Irish, rock, blues, folk, Appalachian, country, Western, and other traditions in weekly performances at microbreweries in the Frederick, MD, Northern Virginia, and the Martinsburg, WV, area for the past 3 years.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">T</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">o hear Eamon's original American music creations, go </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2SvN5nIJwUeYYfmwTzqhGd" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span></span></p><h4 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Billy and the Curley Brothers </span></span></h4><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>After they have played in these local microbreweries and vineyards, weddings, and for other venues, many have told me it is great to hear their sweet American music live.</span></span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIxr-E2OPKE0IDXkaDdNXXHeourawviLF2N8v0obFYwgwhJLzD0WnETo-eDTfiQSzD-LYdcreJ3Gqe10ezRiyy6CxitjMLGLTTAmtNhgfYtyzGnsBjYdNMOxb6nn2uapnv02E/w157-h320/20200307_140305.jpg" width="157" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Often, they compliment my wife and I on raising such beautiful and musically gifted sons.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But the thousands of hours of practice to get to this level were done by them, so they deserve the credit.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I love to watch the way their music gets people laughing and talking and communicating at microbreweries, vineyards, parties, weddings and other places where they perform.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They took my Irish American roots and my wife's West Virginia American roots and created their own musical sound, tone, spirit, and beauty.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The world needs beautiful music right now.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'm proud my sons, and Billy, are providing it.</span></div><div><span>The name of their group is </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/billyandthecurleybrothers/?hl=en">Billy and the Curley Brothers</a><span>. </span></div><div><span>Billy Czajkowski is the drummer...and he is GOOD.</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Both Josh and Eamon got degrees in mechanical engineers, but work as sound engineers. I think this professional expertise contributes to their American musical gift that comes through in the artistry of their live shows.</span></p><h4 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Music Heals the Soul </span></h4><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-EoBhw-R4iG1pjC-gn-hbIlMHIywDZamP2IsUFAV7xdjj_YrVNXzmV-wVwQv3neCsyay7wR0zhrTrhHR6N591AeMCjbu3CrOfSjjSlbGsQfXfLivvnlGDotdenGx6iXbT1SQ/w200-h150/20200628_144743.jpg" width="200" /></span>The Government closed the country down in 2020 the day after they performed for St. Patrick's Day. Now, in 2023 the music continues.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After 800 years of slavery, the oppressor was never able to take the music, poetry, literature, language, joy, spirit, or life out of the Irish, or Irish Americans.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite the Vikings arriving every few decades and using their broad axes on them, the English and Cromwell slaughtering them and stealing all their land, livelihood and imposing the penal laws, and the horrors of the the Great Hunger, the Irish, rather than complaining, continued to laugh, loved, believe in God, and create...family, poetry, literature, laughter, love, dance, and music...lots of music.</span><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXocm_Mh01uZx3HvvSpnIgXANY1jHYBRcHq0IV_wajaabMfGeahyphenhyphenzY_f9DTdRJOrhVUEDfu-1-KDUYy2fWx-iYfUYMNptVDIfZo-ofa9xJuPepqh6VQDyWaVsbPe1sC0gekls/s2048/20200626_191553.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXocm_Mh01uZx3HvvSpnIgXANY1jHYBRcHq0IV_wajaabMfGeahyphenhyphenzY_f9DTdRJOrhVUEDfu-1-KDUYy2fWx-iYfUYMNptVDIfZo-ofa9xJuPepqh6VQDyWaVsbPe1sC0gekls/w200-h150/20200626_191553.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And they passed on this dealing with disasters and horror with humor, music,, poetry, dance, stories, mature love, and beautiful smiles to Irish Americans, at least those who understand the ancient struggle, who celebrate the God's Gift of Life every St. Patrick's Day. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A bit about St. Patrick <a href="https://www.ireland-information.com/articles/saintpatrick.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In a summary of this tough Irish survival mentality, my dad said to me once, "If a man pays you to clean up horse shit, you clean up horse shit. You can always wash your hands. You can't always earn another dollar."</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And in a statement that indicated that the Great Hunger was still in the DNA memory, when informed I was going to Ireland after going to school in France, he said, "Why would you go to Ireland. It's terrible there. Why do you think they all left and came to America?"</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I include a poem with my dad's humor and wisdom, "Eamon's Poem," below. I went to the American College in Paris when I was 19. They published in in their magazine, Au Courant, Summer/Autumn 2000, p. 6.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0coAAesDEWAXUKfSm9iFHxGGYuM6V5LjkKLEozidqrZI-Sxubiyo4BrQFztRvSGP9IAGWmWMQwHtJRXwzaRhVjnsSCm_mDf2bUMmaVHVOGx1dtorB3qNbjGmrTcbAYuoY_tj2bjzSfJAY-Uz0IvKe-8Lxbi3DRogOQvmFbWJf_ExQzM5Q/s720/IMG_3565.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0coAAesDEWAXUKfSm9iFHxGGYuM6V5LjkKLEozidqrZI-Sxubiyo4BrQFztRvSGP9IAGWmWMQwHtJRXwzaRhVjnsSCm_mDf2bUMmaVHVOGx1dtorB3qNbjGmrTcbAYuoY_tj2bjzSfJAY-Uz0IvKe-8Lxbi3DRogOQvmFbWJf_ExQzM5Q/w200-h133/IMG_3565.JPG" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Irish, and Irish Americans, always knew how to survive death, horror, disease, starvation, war, oppression, slavery, and other life difficulties with humor and music.</span><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Enjoy Irish music with us if you can.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The lads will perform for many hours during St. Patrick's week.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Join us for some good craic!</span></p><h4 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Eamon Patrick’s Poem</span></h4><div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59_VcYwUO2TlKpMbP1QW4f8LHIbSlTJ2bWLsmsOT0AKGhvSw77IFUOUSSa4OldnzGqAuHUxpPmjSD76gvK1x3OIQNzfmJNDeEr9Asrsy0NTkesyapX0pJsy4mkKimvur-eac/w150-h200/20200816_143056.jpg" width="150" /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kicking your mother<br />from inside the liquid<br />universe of the womb<br /> <br />I feel so crippled<br />and broken<br />when considering<br />I have so much to teach you<br />and only the remaining<br />lifetime to do so.<br /> <br />It is hopeless, really,<br />except these two gems<br />that came down from a long, long,<br />line of men and women who survived<br />centuries of Viking invasions<br />whose barbarity was only surpassed<br />by the neighbor invader<br />who considered genocide<br />by the rule of law<br />such a jolly good adventure<br />and stole all the food<br />in the very middle<br />of the famine of all famines.<br /> <br />Through it all,<br />your ancestors survived<br />tenaciously creative<br />and green as moss<br />on the back of a stone<br />on the gentle Shannon river<br />and these two gems skip across<br />that great river to the Delaware<br />where once, when wondering<br />of ancestral roots I asked my father,<br />“Dad, what is it to be American?”<br /> <br />“Work.” “What?” I asked.<br />“Work.” he repeated. <br />“Your grandfather worked.<br />I worked. You’ll work.”<br />“That’s all?” “That’s all.” he answered.<br /> <br />“Then what is it to be Irish?”<br />“Hilarity.” He didn’t miss a beat again.<br />“Hilarity. You gotta make ‘em laugh.”<br />So, there it is Eamon Patrick. <br /> <br />If God takes me<br />before I get to teach you<br />all you need to know,<br />let these two words suffice: <br />work and hilarity.<br /> <br />Work and hilarity<br />saved your people<br />over centuries of warfare, pestilence,<br />invasion, slavery, defeat, and famine<br />and eventually defeated<br />the greatest power on earth<br />so that I could write you this poem.<br /> <br />Work and hilarity<br />can carry you to the universe<br />and to the other planets<br />and when you find<br />a particularly hard planet,<br />name it “Work,”<br />and when you find<br />an especially funny planet,<br />name it “Hilarity.”<br /> <br />No matter what the planet or year,<br />work and hilarity are in your genes,<br />as am I, and all my dreams.<br /> <br />Bruce Curley<br />Germantown, MD<br />February 10, 1996</span></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-31670183257518950872023-01-29T01:30:00.004-12:002023-03-07T06:16:41.143-12:00Data Situational Awareness: Ransomware and Bitcoin<div class="MsoNormal">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvDKaIwOMmYm7fiu36hCsUx6wew2cEMd45oaSAGjt4QwNE5dy__UwfUEOSsXaBljKqFmaWsz33v5haHH8sD_7lJ_-plgnB0EqkZQs2xLKpJ_P4mFDgZBfxABckbo5XJLkBJjg/s1600/Selman_Army_Airfield_Louisiana_19_May_1943.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnl0BdcDdLOSZAVkhIa_KMy9hCZggTLpB7cvt5QahCMIkVLWkKK1LIpU6ND9xMR5UvSOzqGdmZpYQTExlseJBsC51WVa6HPj88Iudw_ZUOSlswUTZjGsq6NGiTI_sJTWztmpKdJRkzfRMZZXGsKr8FxrrEPempNyezJV5QNzVO-IVLfciZ/s2896/Brashear%20Crew%20Hit%20Parade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2896" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnl0BdcDdLOSZAVkhIa_KMy9hCZggTLpB7cvt5QahCMIkVLWkKK1LIpU6ND9xMR5UvSOzqGdmZpYQTExlseJBsC51WVa6HPj88Iudw_ZUOSlswUTZjGsq6NGiTI_sJTWztmpKdJRkzfRMZZXGsKr8FxrrEPempNyezJV5QNzVO-IVLfciZ/w200-h134/Brashear%20Crew%20Hit%20Parade.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
Everyday You Exercise Situational Awareness</span></h4></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maybe your son is about to do yard work. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You remind him it is critical, as a red head, to put on and reapply sunscreen
to avoid pain and skin cancer. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As skin cancer can be prevented by wearing sun
screen, applying sunscreen is an excellent way, or strategy, for preventing
skin cancer.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />The same strategy applies to your data. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Like applying sunscreen to prevent skin cancer, you can apply a variety of
measures to prevent your data from being stolen or compromised.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I’d like to
suggest you apply that common sense situational awareness you apply to other
areas of your life to protecting your data.<o:p></o:p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCUB-YEmTbnoMFIJ2wMWSgGfQSwJdi6IcDjLFaQP97UqBSGxJ3rbb9xPt2Stw6LekWg3kzQlnhYUArHa5d70PO0H3RXJRFccfjdq4VWtNIDdUB5l7yQkWZTv3RofZbRJ3UyspW-sA3nununp7MDfWZafM_8AHqlsznT536xwSogfNRj9nS/s800/Bill%20Curley%20w%20Silver%20Star-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="800" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCUB-YEmTbnoMFIJ2wMWSgGfQSwJdi6IcDjLFaQP97UqBSGxJ3rbb9xPt2Stw6LekWg3kzQlnhYUArHa5d70PO0H3RXJRFccfjdq4VWtNIDdUB5l7yQkWZTv3RofZbRJ3UyspW-sA3nununp7MDfWZafM_8AHqlsznT536xwSogfNRj9nS/w200-h151/Bill%20Curley%20w%20Silver%20Star-1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hackers are like the Sun</span></h4><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">They are out
there 24/7 probing, locating data they can steal, and stealing it. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Like the
sun, they are a reality and you must deal with them. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Also like the sun, they
are not going away.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For your data situational awareness, be
aware that hackers are always probing your device (tablet, computer, cell phone,
etc.) but what they want is your data. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Therefore, you must have a multi-layered
strategy to protect your data from very real threats…like ransomware that can:</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Prevent you from accessing
Windows.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Encrypt files so you can't use
them.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Stop certain apps from running
(like your web browser)</span></li></ul></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All ransomware will infect your device
and demand that you pay a ransom to get access to your computer or data. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiU3BQxCyfFbM3X-ZlMyxgPWKQHlS4SHUPyQVOfI3ExB8Vf2CLprddIJ_x7le_tP26K1m_QCU85duGFdMN1dYm9ypag8OfUI2Bujj4Yv0rE9Lq4Z20Ha8cO9F27ekMTS9Pbm9ne0fTEodi7cwN6-_hfzJxPYacEw2FFiA3vpg21blzsitG/s480/Curley%20Family%20Perkasie%20PA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="480" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiU3BQxCyfFbM3X-ZlMyxgPWKQHlS4SHUPyQVOfI3ExB8Vf2CLprddIJ_x7le_tP26K1m_QCU85duGFdMN1dYm9ypag8OfUI2Bujj4Yv0rE9Lq4Z20Ha8cO9F27ekMTS9Pbm9ne0fTEodi7cwN6-_hfzJxPYacEw2FFiA3vpg21blzsitG/w200-h120/Curley%20Family%20Perkasie%20PA.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">DO NOT
let that happen. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here are some tips to prevent it from happening in the first
place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ransomware: WanaCry Example</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One of the most recent hacking probes
occurred on Friday, May 12, 2017. It was known as WannaCry. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It attacked computer system data on approximately 350,000
computers in more than 150 countries within the span of 48 hours. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">WannaCry
is a unique ransomware strain that exploits a critical Microsoft Windows Server
Message Block (SMB) vulnerability to spread like a worm, lending to its rapid
propagation after just a few hours of initial detection. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The exploit spread
across network shares, encrypted data on the shares and left users unable to
access their data unless they paid a ransom in the form of untraceable Bitcoin
currency.<o:p></o:p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOMijcQdVCUq89X1o1Ou15kdG9U5YGVWlJQpWXD8Gwolp-8D3IqYF4rA4Yxjkk2iJY3sA9EbduGzi8oL7iP8poPsacuaGckXc9supMaWCUpPnKb3F0wJe7635rtIOznUTMSAHP8XIZPtey-3JuUsMeJLYMWNQeTc2_4JXbzV20ZRho2p9/s278/Curley%20Family%20Cape%20May%20House.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="223" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOMijcQdVCUq89X1o1Ou15kdG9U5YGVWlJQpWXD8Gwolp-8D3IqYF4rA4Yxjkk2iJY3sA9EbduGzi8oL7iP8poPsacuaGckXc9supMaWCUpPnKb3F0wJe7635rtIOznUTMSAHP8XIZPtey-3JuUsMeJLYMWNQeTc2_4JXbzV20ZRho2p9/w160-h200/Curley%20Family%20Cape%20May%20House.png" width="160" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thousands
of users turned on their computers that day to see the following message:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>"This
massive ransomware attack was less successful than it would have been had they
not sought their ransom payment in bitcoin. As criminals who use bitcoin to
hide their activity to avoid being discovered, arrested and prosecuted, they
assumed everyone knows how to obtain and pay them in bitcoins. </i></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Bad strategy on
their part because, for all the computers they attacked the best estimate is
that they only collected approximately $40,000 in bitcoin ransomware payments. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Although
this attack eventually fizzled, we may not be so fortunate the next time.
Hackers continuously analyse where they went wrong, redo their code, and send
out a variation on the original ransomware several times after the original
ones. Maybe you can take the steps suggested here before the follow up WannaCry
code or other ransomware attacks your data."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You
need a strategy to prevent data loss from ransomware and other attacks. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here
are a few suggestions for how to get started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h2>
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Simple Ways to Prevent Loss of
Data</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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them frequently<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Keep all your software up-to-date<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Add the most recent software patches<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Double check every email to
confirm it is safe<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Verify that you know the email
sender before opening it<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Verify any link in the email is
safe before you click it<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Back up your data (more below)<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
Back Up your Data</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A
basic strategy is to keep device, offline, or cloud backups of your data. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And to
be able to use your data, you will also want to back up your software programs
at least once.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For
ransomware attacks like this WannaCry, having backed up your data prior to the
attack enables you to ignore it.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you have all your data backed up, you
cannot be fleeced out of your money. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB">Adopting
a strategy of redundant backup is a good practice. </span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB">The table below lists
several tools that will help you ensure that you can back up your data so it is
available when you need it. </span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB">Chose one or two that are most useful to your
circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tools<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cloud Computing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cloud computing is taking services, including backup
services, and moving to shared systems. Applications and services are
accessed via the Web, instead of your hard drive. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The services are delivered
and used over the Internet. The cloud infrastructure is maintained by the
cloud provider (such as https://aws.amazon.com/). </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a strategy that
particularly applies for those who use their device and data outside their
office. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Online Data Backup as a Company Service<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are many companies that will store your data
at their data center on their servers, for a fee (such as Carbonite, Rackspace,
etc.) and many other companies will backup and protect your data daily, for a
fee online backup service that will automatically backup and synchronize your
data across multiple devices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BASICTableBody">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">An online backup service makes it easy to access
data from a mobile office. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Even if you have just one computer, this is a
great way to ensure consistent backup and accessibility of your data after a
system crash, ransomware attack, natural disaster, or other threats to your
data.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">External Hard Drive<o:p></o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo5TnbURVT0GnJjO6Hj6onbfe8-1qzRtm3KIji_x_Wg0OdymszdGcd3z37JYTBj0FeFtIaTCTpUmCDyBd1ddREctvLk5K3wWjs3sXXDit4lATv234KsMTeI5C0I0tjvoRrUfuiFPbOxzpr-gxch8tTxlstrUb_mQWluv4Gp3ulTAOIZNpn/s480/Frank%20J.%20Curley,%202nt.%20Lt%20USAAF,%20WWII%20Phila.%20Memorial%20w%20Surviving%20Family.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="394" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo5TnbURVT0GnJjO6Hj6onbfe8-1qzRtm3KIji_x_Wg0OdymszdGcd3z37JYTBj0FeFtIaTCTpUmCDyBd1ddREctvLk5K3wWjs3sXXDit4lATv234KsMTeI5C0I0tjvoRrUfuiFPbOxzpr-gxch8tTxlstrUb_mQWluv4Gp3ulTAOIZNpn/w164-h200/Frank%20J.%20Curley,%202nt.%20Lt%20USAAF,%20WWII%20Phila.%20Memorial%20w%20Surviving%20Family.jpg" width="164" /></a></div></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">An external hard drive is a storage device located
outside of a computer that is connected through a USB cable or wireless
connection. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">An external hard drive is usually used to store media that a user
needs to be portable, for backups, and when the internal drive of the
computer is already at its full memory capacity. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">These devices have a high
storage capacity compared to flash drives and are mostly used for backing up
numerous computer files or serving as a network drive to store shared
content. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">External hard drives are also known as removable hard drives. Available
online or in retail stores such as Best Buy, Wal Mart, or Staples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">USB Flash (Stick, Jump, Thumb) Drive<o:p></o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBM7p0Q90VYR0HWN_rzQJqqNgU9jzT4P2Zgionv0iDjanXUsHUEVOw-kCuyac9djEDUnik0Ys48jmhVqfxdklZQF0-wwX4an6EHYFddA_QwzT8iAtZv8a_MqoVUfqFbxJTlDJ5iy6RH4hglSvYGZrqFmzzlBY3h8wU0e2kAOesGFUuotAv/s4032/20210718_165408.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBM7p0Q90VYR0HWN_rzQJqqNgU9jzT4P2Zgionv0iDjanXUsHUEVOw-kCuyac9djEDUnik0Ys48jmhVqfxdklZQF0-wwX4an6EHYFddA_QwzT8iAtZv8a_MqoVUfqFbxJTlDJ5iy6RH4hglSvYGZrqFmzzlBY3h8wU0e2kAOesGFUuotAv/w150-h200/20210718_165408.jpg" width="150" /></a></div></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Insert to your device USB port. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They are removable
and rewritable. They are storage capacity has risen and their price has
dropped. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is a good practice to keep one with your keys so you always have
it available to copy files, especially in an emergency. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">USB sticks are
constantly increasing in capacity and are highly useful for quick data
backups. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They are highly portable. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Available online at The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA.ORG) website at our Survival Store.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our thumb drive is waterproof, EMP hardened as it is titanium, and contains our how to prepare for natural and manmade disaster course work you can master in your free time to keep your family safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Backup Ghost Computer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you have valuable business or family data, you
can invest in a backup computer or device. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Keep all your data on two devices
and if one goes down you will have another one with all your vital data. </span></div><div class="BASICTableBody"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Computer prices have fallen so much in the past few years this is an option.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Do
not risk being locked out of your data. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Create a backup system NOW that
includes archiving and routinely back it up. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You can do this manually or
automatically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Auto Install or Manually Install
Patches</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Consider
that those who applied readily-available Microsoft Windows patches on a regular
basis BEFORE the WannaCry attack were protected. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Other companies installed
patches immediately upon hearing of the WannaCry malware and were protected.
Both strategies worked, but is it always better to install the patches via auto
install well in advance of an attack.<o:p></o:p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX2RgpozcB3BytPhXW57AOwy0QqLJPzGqFOAMsjz56ggoQbt-oUWyYAbhLdaIa7wl9JSIefoNntJFDNUaMQsPaIqAH8MUj6xC9XaHETE4gP76PstLI_zdLCT7QMI9TJoP4-JByPldfPZzbBnok01isgtgy6DQNR_uKo35H_gYs_c0YWCdD/s2640/20221009_145614%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="1488" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX2RgpozcB3BytPhXW57AOwy0QqLJPzGqFOAMsjz56ggoQbt-oUWyYAbhLdaIa7wl9JSIefoNntJFDNUaMQsPaIqAH8MUj6xC9XaHETE4gP76PstLI_zdLCT7QMI9TJoP4-JByPldfPZzbBnok01isgtgy6DQNR_uKo35H_gYs_c0YWCdD/s320/20221009_145614%5B1%5D.jpg" width="180" /></a></div></div>
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Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, and
Other Data Protection</span></h4>
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There are many
excellent antivirus, antimalware and other data protection software packages
available. Prices and features vary. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Many free ones are available online. Here
is a link to a few: <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388652,00.asp">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388652,00.asp</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Don’t Fall for Phishing Scams</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Phishing
is a leading way that cybercriminals steal data. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You receive an email that has
an urgency to it. Inside the mail is a link that the sender urges the recipient
to click. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The link takes the user to a fake website and your data can be
compromised. </span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial;">NOTE: N</span><span style="font-family: arial;">EVER open a phishing email!</span></span></h4>
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Power On</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Final
Tip: Data depends on devices (computers, tablets, laptops, cell phones, etc.)
that depend on POWER. To make sure you can access your data, make sure you
always have power by maintaining extra that transmit power to your devices by
remembering to have these items working and available.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Mouse batteries.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Computer batteries</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Power cords</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Surge protector</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Laptop batteries</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Generators (solar, diesel, gas)</span></li></ul></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Update: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-official-north-korea-is-behind-wannacry-1513642537">North Korea Source of the WannaCry Malware</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For more tips on how to identify and fight ransomeware, <a href="https://silentbreach.com/BlogArticles/fighting-back-against-ransomware/" target="_blank">click here</a>.</span></div>
Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-78226324894397814402023-01-17T13:12:00.000-12:002023-01-28T04:18:31.769-12:00James O'Keefe Breakthrough<div style="text-align: left;">
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-liUK-WkyLFc/UoI3U8BftUI/AAAAAAAATF4/bVX_slChsJM/s1600/James+OKeefe+Breakthrough.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-liUK-WkyLFc/UoI3U8BftUI/AAAAAAAATF4/bVX_slChsJM/s200/James+OKeefe+Breakthrough.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I wrote about James O'Keefe's courage in 2013.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ten years later, I stand by what I said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have have had the privilege of seeing courage, grit, moral fiber, certitude, and what what the Irish call "The Magics" only a few times in my life.<br />
The Magics, for the Irish, are a God-given, extraordinary, almost superhuman ability, a special gift (poetry, politics, music, warfare, business) to understand and create for the greater good.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
My brother-in-law, in addition to raising fruit for 48 years (no small task given the vicissitudes of rain, drought, too much sun, too little sun, pestilence, flood, rot, too much rain, deer who eat every seedling, and the 10,000 elements that prevent any orchard man or farmer from delivering God's good food and fruit every year to the millions) has The Magics.<br />
I've seen it.<br />
The first time I asked for my wife's hand in marriage, he came out of his 1972 Ford 150 and trained his sky-blue eyes on me and measured my mettle as a man...eyes that went right through me...and offered his hand in trust...knowing I would defend my wife, his sister, and his family and his neighbors and his nation...and I would. He knew it when he looked at me and I knew it. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And we've been brother's ever since.<br />
As a member of Delta Force, I respected his ability to defend us and to protect us from Central America to Vanuatu to Afghanistan. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I honored him in a book loosely based on his character that I hope outlasts us both. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is a link.<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-President-Hostage-Paybacks-ebook/dp/B00CG6NBX4">http://www.amazon.com/The-President-Hostage-Paybacks-ebook/dp/B00CG6NBX4</a><br />
Kenny has courage, proven courage. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So, too, does James O'Keefe.<br />
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I recently attended a book signing by James O'Keefe. He just wrote <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Guerilla-Expose-Fraud-Democracy/dp/1476706182">"Breakthrough: Our Guerrilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy."</a><br />
Imagine a book that opens with this paragraph in the opening chapter: Through the Plexiglas.<br />
"On the evening of January 25, 2010, I woke curled up in a fetal position, on a green mattress stained with seminal fluid, to the sound of my fellow prisoners chanting the Qu'ran."<br />
Wow.<br />
How the Feds can bring superior power down on your head if they believe you are not in line with their group think.<br />
He won me over immediately.<br />
He is real. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">His stories are real.<br />
He is a Mic who has been tested in fire (the Feds have come down heavily on him with all their weapons) and he has come out stronger for the bows, arrows, false accusations, the false arrests, government tyranny, and blind-sided by the horrors of a rogue government.<br />
He is, as my working-class roots say, "real people."<br />
Read his book.<br />
It is a tale of courage.<br />
Real courage.<br />
Not manufactured media courage.<br />
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He lists a number of Veritas (truth) rules in the tome. Here are a few:<br />
Veritas Rule #1: Content is king.<br />
Veritas Rule #2: You must do what you can with what you have.<br />
Veritas Rule #3: Use their own flawed construct to put them into a position where either way they can't win.<br />
Vertias Rule #4: Find someone who can act and take action.<br />
Veritas Rule #5: The law will always surround you. Learn it.<br />
</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-acLD1jyfJIY/UdoW96eHk4I/AAAAAAAAQ4Q/UYNdwxdd99o/s1600/DSC01562.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-acLD1jyfJIY/UdoW96eHk4I/AAAAAAAAQ4Q/UYNdwxdd99o/s200/DSC01562.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Veritas Rule #6: Always use props.<br />
Vertias Rule #7: Resist the temptation to work or live in the Beltway. Restrict visits to twenty-four hours.<br />
Veritas Rule #8: Expect the media to invest Gandhi: First they fight you, then they laugh at you, then they ignore your, then you win.<br />
Vertias Rule #9: Think of the worst thing they can say and prepare your response.<br />
Veritas Rule #10: Your manner matters more than your costume.<br />
Vertias Rule #11: If you do your job right, expect to break new legal ground.<br />
Veritas Rule #12: If you're creative, you can always make the news.<br />
Veritas Rule #13: Safely extract the ta;e. If you don't, they'll say anything and be believed.<br />
Veritas Rule #14: No journalist can speak truth to power unless they are willing to be slandered and arrested.<br />
Veritas Rule #15: Stick to the facts.<br />
Veritas Rule #16: Know who your friends are and stay loyal to them.<br />
Veritas Rule #17: Never let your guard down. You are always behind enemy lines.<br />
Veritas Rule #18: Obsess over getting your subject in frame.<br />
Veritas Rule #19: When the content is strong enough, the publicity will take care of itself.<br />
Veritas Rule #20: If you're doing your job, the government will be paying attention.<br />
Veritas Rule #21: Stay on script.<br />
Veritas Rule #22: Expect to be held to a higher standard than Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists.<br />
Veritas Rule #23: Watch out for moles!<br />
</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R-IPZNwFYB0/UdoW5SOc9jI/AAAAAAAAQ3w/IsCi9KUIHZ8/s1600/DSC01561.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R-IPZNwFYB0/UdoW5SOc9jI/AAAAAAAAQ3w/IsCi9KUIHZ8/s200/DSC01561.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Veritas Rule #24: Walk a mile in your enemy's head.<br />
Veritas Rule #25: If it feels wrong, abort and get out safely.<br />
Veritas Rule #26: Guerrilla tactics are inherently antibureaucratic. It is sometimes necessary to operate at your own risk.<br />
Veritas Rule #27: The truth is manifestly damning.<br />
Veritas Rule #28: They may never understand your ideas, but they will be forced to understand your results.<br />
Veritas Rule #29: Rock beats scissors. Journalism beats anti-journalism.<br />
Veritas Rule #30: Don't blow your cover while inside the place.<br />
Veritas Rule #31: Keep your mind open to people who know more than you do.<br />
Veritas Rule #32: Brand your action, a nd it will have legs.<br />
Veritas Rule #33: You will get a wave of creative adrenaline from to time. Go with it.<br />
Veritas Rule #34: Double-check your facts before going public.<br />
Veritas Rule #35: Be prepared to release your unedited tape. Ask your adversaries to do the same.<br />
Veritas Rule #36: Mau-mau the flak catchers.<br />
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Veritas Rule #37: Ask forgiveness, not permission.<br />
Veritas Rule #38: Remember, some journalists are more equal than others.<br />
Veritas Rule #39: Big things have small beginnings.<br />
<br />(The photos you see in this post are from my son and his football teammates. I admire his courage on the football field. It is time for me to show the same courage on the life field.)<br />
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James O'Keefe spent time in the Federal Pen. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He did the time. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He kept his sense of humor, courage, class, humor, wit, intelligence, grace.<br />
I have only met a few great men in my life. James O'Keefe is a great man. He is young, but he is creative, bright, courageous, true, independent, and funny.<br />
He is a Fenian warrior, although he may not know it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am at the other end of life so I can pronounce him and celebrate him for that.<br />
</span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0GbnXcc5FIc/UdoXBDBAPbI/AAAAAAAAQ4w/P3e4YDKfTuk/s1600/DSC01577.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0GbnXcc5FIc/UdoXBDBAPbI/AAAAAAAAQ4w/P3e4YDKfTuk/s200/DSC01577.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This bizarre cabal of pretenders and sophists that have captured the power have no idea what they are up against.<br />
Good.<br />
Those who persecute him have control of all the levers of power...but it does not matter.<br />
They are amateurs and in the end, the CITIZEN journalists like him will win.<br />
And their time will pass as quickly as Nero, Stalin, Mao and all dictators do.<br />
Celebrate James O'Keefe...his vision, courage, intelligence, wit, wisdom, and wonder.<br />
And read his book Breakthrough.<br />
It's a great manual.<br />
I will defend him, American life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, freedom, my family, and Christianity to the end of my days.</span></div></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-4101773366542252752023-01-08T13:41:00.006-12:002023-01-08T13:43:20.884-12:00How to Grow Fruit<p> So few American's see an orchard these days that the work involved in growing fruit is not widely known, especially among the young, so here are few pictures of an orchard..</p>My wife's family has been growing<a href="http://www.ourfarmersmarket.org/ruggles/"> apples, peaches, cherries, plums</a> and other fruits and vegetables for 40 years at their f<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ruggles-Orchard-265138563670274/">amily orchard.</a> They take a chance every year that the weather will be right, the harvest abundant, the customers numerous, the deer few, and the trucks, plows, tractors and other farm equipment will function.<br />The pictures, videos and poem below give a small idea of the work involved keeping this family orchard producing fruit (despite man-made and natural obstacles). These photos and videos were taken in Fall during Thanksgiving week after the harvest and markets and before pruning season.<br />In 2018, the Ruggles Orchard was named the <a href="https://bestthingswv.com/apple-picking/">#1 family orchard in West Virginia by the Best Things in West Virginia media company</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBjPcsmfmNfRieaddUNoDAVbtcrxAZn9razls4dphpxhiK8CQLf_C4ZBtii6xd_jSSvwhyphenhyphenvdmEPrKtQmsYdluklsV5XZqxTAuO3G6S9SZPCAtUu398TbFrs_sqdOQRsT5Tjg/s1600-h/DSC04144.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272349164274635410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBjPcsmfmNfRieaddUNoDAVbtcrxAZn9razls4dphpxhiK8CQLf_C4ZBtii6xd_jSSvwhyphenhyphenvdmEPrKtQmsYdluklsV5XZqxTAuO3G6S9SZPCAtUu398TbFrs_sqdOQRsT5Tjg/s200/DSC04144.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; height: 150px; width: 200px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzGDmUqbGYs6gHNaOprOCYtbbaktSmUHmOy-GD2btzcg5Ag-dM4dls7LYLts7MzTp1VjncQeGm7o2tnteeCKi3-uc3tg2SWQmRC7up7cLjV0s4U6ODu0lMX-VqkOMnf30YwGg/s1600-h/DSC04051.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272349179062021042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzGDmUqbGYs6gHNaOprOCYtbbaktSmUHmOy-GD2btzcg5Ag-dM4dls7LYLts7MzTp1VjncQeGm7o2tnteeCKi3-uc3tg2SWQmRC7up7cLjV0s4U6ODu0lMX-VqkOMnf30YwGg/s200/DSC04051.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; 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Like a general,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">he summons his wife and sons</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">for their wise counsel, in-gathers family and friends,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">marshals tractors, machinery and tools.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">also like a general, he feels</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">the enemy's approach long before</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">the dust appears on the horizon.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">he works to prepare for the opening skirmishes</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">while dreading the battles that follow.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">He squints at the sky and knows it is time.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">he musters his people, machines and knowledge</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">to fight off the most ancient enemies of man:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">drought, pestilence, disease, insects, ignorance.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">The Orchard man has seen the fury of war</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">in the Pacific in world War II as a marine.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">He knows this will be like al the other wars,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">and, therefore, fears the expected surprise.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">Too much water, too little water,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">Too much sun, not enough sun,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">insects and brown rot, hailstorms and lightning,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">floods and drought <span style="font-family: "symbol";">¾</span>nature's arsenal is endless.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">He looks at the sky again and curses the weather.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">he stands alone and shakes a fist at cloudless sky.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">In fall, each row a cathedral of trees gleams light;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">light of pink flowing through the rose windows</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">of the golden delicious apple trees,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">bowed branch nave to the altar</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">the trees yield their fruit</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">the way God gives us children</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">by the unity of seed, spirit,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">and organic material blending</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">over myriad and passing seasons,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">through storms that assault and cleanse:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">and animals that eat buds and branches</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">until the fall comes and the trees</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">form this cathedral of blinding light</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">and these trees are alive,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">these trees want to be handled tenderly,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">these trees demands careful, loving,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">selfish love before they yield their fruit.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">The hands that love these trees</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">know how to stroke each twig and branch</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">tenderly so as to yield all its fruit</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">until the storage bins are heavy</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">and full and luscious with sweet fruit,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">and the full harvest brings full measure.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">In Harvest, the feast is set before</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">the Orchard family's spare table.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">The families of apples' dance</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">a ballet of sweet nourishment:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">applesauce sweet rich from the goldens</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">and johnnies and grannies fills the bowl.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">Honey-colored apple juice is poured.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">The new baby is fed diced <st1:city st="on">Yorks</st1:city>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">Cinnamon and sugar explode on her tongue</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">and the fruits of labor, human and divine,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">in that very feeding from father to daughter</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">and from mother to son, ensure again,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">the continuances of the eternal plan.</div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzlDqYnslDk-A3WjdDy_cTONKupvVMdo6C1A-7KQ8n6EttkxrdRrFASf-_uSYItV9Tg-dDOtYHyfA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-6863147772961137712022-12-15T03:11:00.000-12:002022-12-16T13:01:28.113-12:00Merry Christmas Vets: Flowers Can Heal <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkwFiKBC58McX4PlWWc5WZ4dxBNapshW0biWM6w9HRs8OqJBuyh8b-oJuq3e8-jSEEatbs7mGrQD4TKTGXv1JQRfg5GBQLbW_lUzNNaRCd86TVM_5bOeyr7N8i6342y2vp_G2xgHUedAiWTvSTgxQszGrZqmM_34K-yaMLyOZ7S_Ld3XY/s3024/20221126_132646.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkwFiKBC58McX4PlWWc5WZ4dxBNapshW0biWM6w9HRs8OqJBuyh8b-oJuq3e8-jSEEatbs7mGrQD4TKTGXv1JQRfg5GBQLbW_lUzNNaRCd86TVM_5bOeyr7N8i6342y2vp_G2xgHUedAiWTvSTgxQszGrZqmM_34K-yaMLyOZ7S_Ld3XY/w200-h200/20221126_132646.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div><h3><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Christmas Letter to my Fellow Veterans</span></h3></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://colonialfarm.net/" target="_blank">Colonial Farm Nursery</a> down the road from me at 9008 Tuscarora Pike, Martinsburg, WV 25403, 304 263 5232, owner Carl Ay, has remarkable poinsettias. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">My wife discovered this hothouse with all these beautiful poinsettias. </span></span><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47UXWpozxs47viTQ89Y3aDDY2yu3W1ZrwJcOHbmfd1oqne_daLj5J-ESN3J_94YeLWFYfbooFoMEuuZ6vD6WskFIaIBVPiVgeCwnIkipgMCE79CNqRUpQ_hrf0UvMa8atE3AqU_yPnxMGwFd34asVaCUWARRdnTp1CoYI7Gn0893d9Q6P/s3024/20221126_132738.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47UXWpozxs47viTQ89Y3aDDY2yu3W1ZrwJcOHbmfd1oqne_daLj5J-ESN3J_94YeLWFYfbooFoMEuuZ6vD6WskFIaIBVPiVgeCwnIkipgMCE79CNqRUpQ_hrf0UvMa8atE3AqU_yPnxMGwFd34asVaCUWARRdnTp1CoYI7Gn0893d9Q6P/w200-h200/20221126_132738.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">She kept raving about their variety and beauty. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">She brought me to seem these unusual flowers. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Her female capacity to see beauty, as here, stuns me. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">And seeing the beauty of these flowers led me to write this Christmas letter to my fellow American Veterans.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV7b8tfflCl-HltctreguxXglkVSj7bG0K4BZ494SapjgmU1J8qrgkR0L1myWiC1aRpGx28B5mdMh1GKkwjXz1StqCJRYFqlHV8a9fdkqidhdE0BSLyoZex2fAZS2CAFT6d5Y-p-Fr9TORctc56axlrYDJEUkNoDfueH0iewhG9AUR683H/w200-h200/20221126_132722.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Flowers can heal. I know this because my wife has taught me this over 38 years of marriage. </span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She brought me to this nursery to show me the beauty of the poinsettias. I was not keen to go as I thought all poinsettias were the same: red flowers and green leaves. Boring. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Was I ever wrong.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Look at these flowers. Like humans, they are every color, size, weight and variety under the sun. And a human cared enough to cultivate these plants, God's gift to us on this earth, to achieve this beauty.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I did not know that until I was open to my wife's suggestion that we go look at them.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-D3lYIuNHAeIKdwqxDVTvyzr17MMGlA7isNWLMQ-IChWXLUDBhshcXrbzefIMjD7gumxqlKTJ05Ty9FrU40qKw_QcUnoaoJq_ECH_31xJC7rjWlDwYIEISKW6dYTrXUDRaqlYFmlaMUJb7dDLaEsKwVQUhuZY3FeUZne2B9CY8vONYiKS/s3024/20221126_132819.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-D3lYIuNHAeIKdwqxDVTvyzr17MMGlA7isNWLMQ-IChWXLUDBhshcXrbzefIMjD7gumxqlKTJ05Ty9FrU40qKw_QcUnoaoJq_ECH_31xJC7rjWlDwYIEISKW6dYTrXUDRaqlYFmlaMUJb7dDLaEsKwVQUhuZY3FeUZne2B9CY8vONYiKS/w200-h200/20221126_132819.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lessons from Viewing these Poinsettias</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1. My wife loves me and has my best interest at heart and I must ALWAYS listen to her as she only wants the best for me and to make me better.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2. God's beauty, as in these flowers, is all around us for our pleasure and to heal us.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3. Trust those who love you to open your eyes to God's love through their love.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">These are all vital healing lessons.</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5zPs6-LleN3eVVkH9GebbWR7QfJXYTW5Hbhlfv7wqfMy7Yxx6Ff-bs-B4m35Y2si4cEBOLnMHVRfqE2RSUoQLBx47Sye83SE5u9KTj8tZrn7DTil48WzNfSIU9kOCmra2IGnkw34T0bDZk8OQr2vcva7yjwEfkN_OQzmyrmIKytE6nxxC/s3024/20221126_132836.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5zPs6-LleN3eVVkH9GebbWR7QfJXYTW5Hbhlfv7wqfMy7Yxx6Ff-bs-B4m35Y2si4cEBOLnMHVRfqE2RSUoQLBx47Sye83SE5u9KTj8tZrn7DTil48WzNfSIU9kOCmra2IGnkw34T0bDZk8OQr2vcva7yjwEfkN_OQzmyrmIKytE6nxxC/w200-h200/20221126_132836.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I know the Christmas season can be rough on all Veterans, even rougher than Veteran's Day or Memorial Day.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My plea in this letter is that you open your eyes to those who love you and want you around. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I am tired of buying Vets who die from self inflicted wounds, be it alcohol, fentanyl, crack, heroin, or obesity. </span></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKyuj5JKOL0UODsRJY3q3RSAFyVB2ts4k-78vmrZ3Mrf-ocyXmtJjfsSYEmvgH6lppz8T0eMeErMo3_CerJxuN408kpTTude8t_I7hW4OvUlAcckmF_H_tFesGI7Sdcv4hbZOBWbN4dyWZD0oKfwNT43DwqgjidOgn6AnlUZh1mM099QFu/s3024/20221126_132859.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKyuj5JKOL0UODsRJY3q3RSAFyVB2ts4k-78vmrZ3Mrf-ocyXmtJjfsSYEmvgH6lppz8T0eMeErMo3_CerJxuN408kpTTude8t_I7hW4OvUlAcckmF_H_tFesGI7Sdcv4hbZOBWbN4dyWZD0oKfwNT43DwqgjidOgn6AnlUZh1mM099QFu/w200-h200/20221126_132859.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Continue your Tradition of Service</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The skills you learned when you were in the service are needed by your family, neighbors, co-workers, bosses, underlings, and your fellow Americans.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yes, your service when you were in the service was critical, but the service you render the remainder of your time on earth is even more important.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpSnczfLNbHiTE-bXm44LEdV7J9uo7BzzJYl_YJQbLv2Z4NVl89l0Vj7yA01SpmlSTPCUOEiEnsuqMxFQmroqGQ_YIeY3C3jG7amixj2oAqtES42GCsz6kSK7dwtnU4pDQenDfEP1E2ARSVdnwxIYJG7Qdkohv35lGlke39E6DkzsGFrZJ/w200-h200/20221126_132911.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You were just a kid when you were in the service.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Once you leave, having acquired vital skills, you must apply those skills to help your family and others.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbliVdo0rMmCVjktd6yKQTnJcDEWyzCZlj9cAGGXfvozYDFvw3eJ_6iufVVE8PdR80VCPp9CJNXI2LVbTCf9G134yCBsHU95deq2p9gVfTRnh3perYavpdrm9XTo1Kg1eDaRQEoWyYmfBUoWa2zVaXTyWJgv0ldvoMqLNotbPhDYfPO_-k/s3024/20221126_132938.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbliVdo0rMmCVjktd6yKQTnJcDEWyzCZlj9cAGGXfvozYDFvw3eJ_6iufVVE8PdR80VCPp9CJNXI2LVbTCf9G134yCBsHU95deq2p9gVfTRnh3perYavpdrm9XTo1Kg1eDaRQEoWyYmfBUoWa2zVaXTyWJgv0ldvoMqLNotbPhDYfPO_-k/w200-h200/20221126_132938.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For example, when I served in the USAF, I did extra duty in emergency management exercises helping to get patients out of the massive hospital at Eglin AFB once a month for hurricane drills.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This led to a post service job as vice president of an innovative emergency management company inspecting emergency management centers, teaching at the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, MD, and writing article for their publication Hazmat Monthly.</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiiEEqOSPgqZx0Lf86pkyzJ6BJv56vg6-s1iTFq6BfMAkI3IcAorUjYiWflHw_0hSnTUoHjGMAS6ua9aZdnSESbILR12zQc8KzXJC99AlXG_ZUioIRYcEOz4265XjLTpd7GOxn-xez-slZw3Z5fNiKrY8a5FKELr6Emz6vC-AKr_tLhjxl/s3024/20221126_132955.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiiEEqOSPgqZx0Lf86pkyzJ6BJv56vg6-s1iTFq6BfMAkI3IcAorUjYiWflHw_0hSnTUoHjGMAS6ua9aZdnSESbILR12zQc8KzXJC99AlXG_ZUioIRYcEOz4265XjLTpd7GOxn-xez-slZw3Z5fNiKrY8a5FKELr6Emz6vC-AKr_tLhjxl/w200-h200/20221126_132955.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That let to me getting involved in <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/search?q=eplex" target="_blank">emergency management exercises.</a> and creating this <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2008/08/tornado-emergency-exercise.html" target="_blank">civil defense blog to educate my fellow Americans</a> about how to prepare for and overcome <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/11/ef-1-tornado-lessons-from-mt-airy-md.html" target="_blank">natural </a>and <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2015/05/cbrne-low-probability-high-impact.html" target="_blank">manmade</a> disasters for their families.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Eventually, my civil defense blog came to the attention of <a href="https://tacda.org/" target="_blank">The American Civil Defense Association</a> and they invited me to join their Board of Directors.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(TACDA has been educating American families about civil defense since 1962.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ2hZS_mhyFESX66GAjakHo34Yzie8gEeTDh7l1a2MYHIA0_JBD26sO6n_JFvwYT_sgxc8O_DHcrUt-7q0B2SjiGaH2BkDormhSyqOurfc-b3O7UxGXAcB2XDNsT8UzWumB3n6JusIUhfkVSPj6xpfVak4E23yiG8ymIpZVT4igICFVnE_/w200-h200/20221126_133019.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have been writing articles for their <a href="https://tacda.org/product-category/journal-of-civil-defense/" target="_blank">Journal of Civil Defense </a>for 16 years, suggesting products such as <a href="https://tacda.org/product/standard-waterbrick-blue-10-pack-3-5-gallon/" target="_blank">WaterBricks</a> for the <a href="https://tacda.org/the-survival-store/" target="_blank">Survival Store</a>, and providing leadership, strategy, and guidance.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With my own money, I have bought thousands of business cards with TACDA's website on it and given it out to thousands over the years to spread the good word. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDHV9QxpHHuk3nkLbJ63QI1voP1EmdDJHK-OKDejc5i7XMV7DQzfuw6Fv7v7ZrwPE0eL1ItNT9iS9rDPYPxCEn3RJQ5pwahZ26sSR_cmFbFy4JEoadwTIsPJpZVJDVJdczC8EfPpcr2v23D87g3gLzzPelpQmanctAJ2sYoJLBLA-xu5mo/s3024/20221126_133042.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDHV9QxpHHuk3nkLbJ63QI1voP1EmdDJHK-OKDejc5i7XMV7DQzfuw6Fv7v7ZrwPE0eL1ItNT9iS9rDPYPxCEn3RJQ5pwahZ26sSR_cmFbFy4JEoadwTIsPJpZVJDVJdczC8EfPpcr2v23D87g3gLzzPelpQmanctAJ2sYoJLBLA-xu5mo/w200-h200/20221126_133042.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To honor my </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2005/12/frank-j-curley-mia-usaaf-in-memoriam.html" target="_blank">MIA Uncle Frank J. Curley</a>, o</span><span style="font-family: arial;">n the back of the card I have a photo of him and his B-24 Braesher Crew that was shot down off HaHa Jima on February 10, 1945.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In my experience giving this card to people, 99.9% are happy to get it as everyone wants to be prepared for disasters, and to prepare their families.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheubF_92JLdA75dky5wOo2IZRN7tNKdQCAJidD1lzjUzRzJZGSBScWarG1uTh8UKm2OE64oGDfr-nh24wBm0ILTxJE_wQ6jLEuHvR2qvuS_1y7ZDue0rlncOnA99xHUYpAqtRnHfwYFjd8E8DmJJIFQNHiE_Q_O_qhQAZiZRF4AkS2OSNF/w200-h200/20221126_133105.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Forty years ago when I left the USAF, I could not have imagined I would one day be the volunteer vice president of a civil defense charity, but I am. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The skills and knowledge I gained in the USAF from an additional duty no less, gave me the ability to keep defending, protecting, and yes, loving, my fellow Americans, and especially American Vets.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Mystery of Beauty to Relieve Stress</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What does this have to do with the beauty of poinsettias?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2fD1aMjISzLXERjRxYZN5dUty3rQ3N-Gr2H8H3sySbX1xw0_yAoAJ_lyle7EK93wzUKxwMqtJmRE3ema47r4DbyeZv5zHHvxRDgA6PTQ_Ja3xTlkOdcD-ij5AVmh_qNWJYJ0wsDQCbdNjwa_4etjForN7SABD43TcSmNKtDh3ig2SW1A/s3024/20221126_133124.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2fD1aMjISzLXERjRxYZN5dUty3rQ3N-Gr2H8H3sySbX1xw0_yAoAJ_lyle7EK93wzUKxwMqtJmRE3ema47r4DbyeZv5zHHvxRDgA6PTQ_Ja3xTlkOdcD-ij5AVmh_qNWJYJ0wsDQCbdNjwa_4etjForN7SABD43TcSmNKtDh3ig2SW1A/w200-h200/20221126_133124.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I walked into the nursery, I had a mystical, spiritual revelation about the beauty of these flowers and the beauty of my wife's love bring me there.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I realized I never would have survived the past 40 years without the love of my wife and her patience educating me about the beauty of flowers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPpxJWDK41Q9vsWzb_SZpZn7xWayWicu13fKzKrB7BUZpJYEfpgklkZi69ogoeHOb9kOHt3Z13Ra_hjEvemBwWFP7cs4brrKnAFazA1HeWuzQ-tk6cnUOYS533MilbvQxZRgXiJbFu-BDUgzC5tF2YFYY9PvtaGZY67eJVyXzi0t41ufpL/w200-h200/20221126_133208.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I do cyber work. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It is hard, and frankly, scary at times knowing the cyber threats this nation faces.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I do an outstanding job according to the C-Suite at my employer, but it is hard.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Normally, I write user manuals, quick start guides, checklists, blog content, and other documents typical of my role as a senior technical writer.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEE0jBBan_noqXuxIcS_oRJHe5YjLuE6MVJU-fF4UKWL7ayp9WKZsXUU1QOByboCrGEjH6k1RxI0ZvvXVChixnF-ZgeYxhPMvZiLUzYXX5m7eErS28yVTURNVR9Vi5gKbJOe_fJdLkZgxdwU_mEZnrbq3ImP26NiK6IIcqtL13BCsXUgzD/s3024/20221126_133231.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEE0jBBan_noqXuxIcS_oRJHe5YjLuE6MVJU-fF4UKWL7ayp9WKZsXUU1QOByboCrGEjH6k1RxI0ZvvXVChixnF-ZgeYxhPMvZiLUzYXX5m7eErS28yVTURNVR9Vi5gKbJOe_fJdLkZgxdwU_mEZnrbq3ImP26NiK6IIcqtL13BCsXUgzD/w200-h200/20221126_133231.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But, lately, I have been writing our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It is hard work as I have to keep many spinning plates in the air while writing the 12 documents that feed into the master plan and they all must relate to each other in that bigger plan.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-SCABIwWCbPUQPtvvWM05Zq-GZkNVkiYeIcLkwqG98clESr2_hUlMz24xfZv9tIuJuu7OeplhKaJyXPbveFWC1F_6hB8q6t-uuOFkU9OtAtrtuSlzCoR1Ae_CksmwnSd88YY-G8f7o1KVa_By-9_X1dp5-3ETQxUDtFAVHQgmu7Pmbmfl/w200-h200/20221126_133251.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sometimes I get too far into it, live in my head, and disconnect from the outside world. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">And that is where my wife and her ability to make me see the beauty of flowers comes in.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By taking a break and seeing the beauty of these flowers, and the wonder of the hand-made crafts this nursery also offers, I recover, refresh, and live to fight another day.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I encourage you to do the same.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCsKH-WJsGmemVLyP9OVA6kpwigOtSIQlDNfhUhUp9bno8KGqIPVmwCf1NMO519XGSKKBqIrKwJhutEXt5qzkztBW6D_uqtzZgZapB6LN4xAUQQvk-2OfvQOWRUPdu8_i2_yLy7Mq-72QkksFtGUr_3fDnTPR6PVhPV3d5PVQR5cNbFQf-/w200-h200/20221126_133321.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Enjoy </span><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-letter-from-h-norman-schwarzkopf.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Christmas</a></span></h4><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2019/07/st-patricks-mountain-ireland-vacation.html" target="_blank">Christ </a>came to save us all. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Advent is here and we prepare to celebrate His birth.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipY1S5U7Sd8ZM6Liuqs4f0J85CWBLUUpGUWX53KYJzPRf6NC2q6Rt3QbS5rQEHwP50FfBcip9xp34BX668MnF3xtWseC7jN8dLZ2qFgBEN96gEqs7co-BH4her_rurQayNypT4Wbln7w32-348KvZNnRYjRDQSXhKSo3TC1EPmUPtpo7mE/w200-h200/20221126_133335.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Keep Christ in your Christmas. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Shop, decorate, and give gifts, yes, but mindful that it is Christ's birth and willingness to sacrifice his life for us that creates this beautiful season. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Most importantly, take care of your health, mental, physical, and spiritual.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsYO2mxbopkd7mEkMTwBqJ2Vhj9qyTsMUZAuoJj0LmCs3ZYtkudseiVrS9FvuDNgNaSq8LPDQxrobyMue5OhHVY1XzVLClU8zJsuPV6a-OczWZh1wrNOXyeJAXR7X61nAWDIvHiDf3rcw9nQ2idcy1tMUXnhV-fbjL45sbGfEKtInmQMrC/w200-h200/20221126_133358.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I am tired of <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2017/12/honoring-sacred-american-flag.html" target="_blank">early burials of Vets</a> who had so much to give to their families and themselves and this nation still but are no longer with us due to poor decisions. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">To avoid going early, one tactic you can use to keep yourself young,</span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> spry, and intellectually challenged is to do volunteer work. Maybe join me at </span><a href="https://tacda.org/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">TACDA</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">By helping others, you help yourself. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It has done wonders for my life. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">And really look at the flowers.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Merry Christmas 2022 to all American Veterans!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">God love you and protect you and your families!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfN_l9WQmfyIFKYFAgMEvcMpN7n7PqxNqJaU4pjpTvOqP9Fs-dEAUfqrnCea9eb6hZ5N-6U2z-WkQO3btTOMNFNHdWboXyLKEKOVTJvRb-LgiyQNiTzHsabxQyZZeFbtcyf81kCPSYajQ2sqaapTJ58sypGbZAD-zyVhdGjXlvzQrouVnV/s3024/20221126_133441.jpg" style="clear: left; 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float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="3456" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7jn9E79SDGncRoY_AS9JaHj_QXdz7FGmDf7x0zx-_bOLszdR6PU3YPzmGWcERE2Hl1NeVCCs9cZUdgJ6wBO6uK8WNQNTSJKPz1PQIZbejWLcgc9b1oM0tz2t2XT5ERlGVf2HqHSvYfNYtq0qRlEsbj7UeZMFRJGBlkbBTCzt_Ac_tYpGQ/s320/IMG_1754.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Marine</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />The Marine holds his wife's hand<br />Going from Mass to his car<br />Covered in stickers of his Marine service:<br />A flag of Vietnam where he fought,<br />A Marine logo on the back window,<br />The Purple Heart WV license plate.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They hold hands and softly walk.<br />His wounds now make it impossible<br />For him to drive<br />So his wife takes the wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQr5WavCZwA4TOT2Qz5M4w9mFA0F0mTLQj4L2T3QpXt01Naptfh1_RKBuCXCE_2ppHatemobaJXLnwtv852PRUADj5HLZ8vKPy1w8_4LWoGhOi37yw9dHMlMDg57L_4zc02EoPzA5QWXfKdLdiMj9uCk4ray4PJJqddJUItjbdW8qunUm/s3456/IMG_1758.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="3456" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQr5WavCZwA4TOT2Qz5M4w9mFA0F0mTLQj4L2T3QpXt01Naptfh1_RKBuCXCE_2ppHatemobaJXLnwtv852PRUADj5HLZ8vKPy1w8_4LWoGhOi37yw9dHMlMDg57L_4zc02EoPzA5QWXfKdLdiMj9uCk4ray4PJJqddJUItjbdW8qunUm/s320/IMG_1758.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />The violence he suffered in Vietnam<br />Is still buried deep inside the hidden room<br />Every warrior protects and hides<br />From the preying eyes of those others<br />Who will never understand the total horror<br />Of mortar fire exploding a friend<br />He loved like his own brother.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />Or the sight of blood flowing from arteries<br />In a bleed out of life in seconds,<br />The screams of the wounded Brother Marines<br />Faint due to rocket, bullet and shell concussion.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />The Marine has made his peace<br />With the loved ones he lost when young<br />In a war that stole his youth.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />He knows God understands his suffering,<br />Why he had to take life and risk his life,<br />Now places his trust in his good wife<br />Who drives him out of the church parking lot.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">She will soon receive the American Flag<br />A grateful nation will provide her</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">At the cemetery plot where she will<br />One day join him in the ground.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />He understands devotion to duty<br />Requires making it to the long run, <br />Surviving infirmity due to the wounds,<br />Physical, psychological, and spiritual, yes, <br />But more importantly, the devotion to the God Who<br />When the bullets took his brothers,<br />For whatever Divine Reason, spared him.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />He grew comfortable with that mystery<br />And lived in service to his family,<br />Community, and nation for 60 years<br />After his life was spared in the jungle heat,<br />Rats, disease and boiled flesh of combat<br />Long ago in sacrifice in Vietnam.<br />He knows devotion and duty are Divine<br />And only Marines know why.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a poem I wrote today to honor an old Marine Vet and his wife holding hands and very slowly walking to their car after the 11:00 a.m. Mass at St. Bernadette's Catholic Church, Hedgesville, WV</span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> December 11, 2022</span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Bruce Vincent Joseph Curley</span></p></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-1134352909093182742022-11-16T14:42:00.009-12:002024-03-01T05:08:10.551-12:001st Lt. 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Curley, MIA, USAAF In Memoriam<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/320/FCpicthumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" width="230" /></div></div><div class="separator"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /></span></div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">.</span></div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Frank Joseph Curley's Life Story</span></h4><div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkA7cFS3vrGK1qK64KLr8y6zM2-NLTiAZ8qlBVuPVxWyljOCKmvdjuM_4akr5f-2WoogYdq-NfTIr5XMHMS4V_2w8escG-PSM1c29aPnzMnQeZRkFRTnAO_elaoZaEF1Qgtc/w240-h320/20210907_174505+%25282%2529.jpg" width="240" /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisczLs_Wbheh4xjID31bemefBRAPTjOkJnQoVY7a3FrQEbA0pZXyhyphenhyphen66vPmlvs9SCMPSHa2rwr1r6IAw45pXNjvyBAHW7dZZUNOGFXHXus0QrKO39vmFo8vFAuanQ338lbEqM/s2048/20210907_174528+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is the story of Frank Joseph Curley who died on February 10, 1945 (but is still listed as MIA) on his 40th and last mission (some reports say 35th or 39th, others say 40th) on the B-24, Hit Parade in WWII, in the Pacific Theater.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><font><a href="https://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-24/44-41465.html">Brief Mission Story Here.</a></font></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For the history of the attack on Pearl Harbor's 11th Bombardment Group, see <a href="https://www.jba.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/338190/paradise-lost-the-legacy-of-the-11th-bomb-group/" target="_blank">Paradise Lost: The Legacy of the 11th Bombardment Group</a>.<br /><span style="color: black;">For a quick overview, see <a href="http://11thbombgroup.org/photoswwiinew41411/lopercurley.html">here</a>.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">B-24 Liberator 1st Lt. Frank Curley, B-24L Liberator Serial Number 44-41465 and </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f5f6; color: #212124; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">B-24J-1-CO serial no. 42-73002</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">, 7th AF, 11th Bomber Group, 26th Bomb Squadron.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Additional information at: <a href="http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-24/44-41465.html">Pacific Wrecks</a> and the <a href="http://11thbombgroup.org/linksupdate9102011.html">11th Bombardment Group</a> websites.</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">To see what these Pacific Theater air crews went through in WWII, see the </span><a href="http://voxvocispublicus.homestead.com/morrow.html" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Story of 666 here</a><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For the history of the 7th AF, 11th BG, see: Grey Geese Calling: A History of the 11th Bombardment Group Heavy (H) in the Pacific, 1940-45,W.M.Cleveland, Editor. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">History of the B-24, the most produced bomber ever, </span><a href="https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/b-24-liberator-bomber.html" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Abstract:</span> This blog post seeks to answer the question: "Who was Frank Joseph Curley and what happened on 10 February 1945 on his fatal 35th? mission in WWIII in the Pacific over Ha Ha Jima that meant that I would never know him?"</span></div>
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His death had a HUGE impact on Frank's parents (see my poem Screaming Like a Banshee" below), my Dad and his brothers and sisters, and therefore on us, the next generation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCSCsB8us3R2mGDcnxR_yBmwTPQ57DfD2He_1SyckG9I9EaOFradbtlofl5buzSX-Mm610g16GQKEUjHQ2nFyalYbSCmNORI28GdlTv45UKuTquq0p8LEob826q__1oI3Ucw-f/w246-h400/Scan_Pic0013.jpg" width="246" /></span>The effect of any military service death or disability cascades through a family and generations, but especially that of an MIA because the questions never end.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This photo shows Frank looked as a child with his father and brothers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Frank's brothers Bill and Ray followed him into the service and after long military careers are both now buried at <a href="https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Find-a-Grave" target="_blank">Arlington National Cemetery</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">At the top of this blog entry is a photo of how Frank looked as a newly minted Lieutenant (Frank Curley head shot photo: First Lieutenant Frank Joseph Curley, Army-Air Forces Navigation School, Selman Field, Monroe, Louisiana, graduation photo (courtesy of Tony Bartoletti "44-01").</span></div>
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This is the story of my 40-year search to find answers to the mystery of how he died. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I hope it helps others who are looking for ways to find out about a loved one who has been categorized by the U.S. Government as Missing in Action (MIA).</span></div>
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Note:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">My thanks to the 11th Bomb Group Association for contacts that helped me to create this memoriam (Phil Gudenschwager - Secretary, 4116 N 66th Place, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, 11bga@cox.net, 480 945 9119).</span></span></div>
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For quick results on an MIA search, check out the <a href="http://www.abmc.gov/">American Battle Field Monuments Commission</a> and <a href="https://www.abmc.gov/node/525156#.VrorqDZzJcY">here</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is the result when I entered <a href="http://www.abmc.gov/search/detailwwnew.php" style="color: #000099;">Frank Curley</a> in the <a href="http://www.abmc.gov/search/wwii.php">search engine</a>.<br />
More information on <a href="https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=AssignmentExt&ID=283422">Together We Served</a>.<br />
Here is Frank's listing on <a href="https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=167999">The Honor Wall</a>. Please add your family member or friend here. Too many MIA's have never been listed.</span></div>
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Frank J. Curley, First Lieutenant,U. S. Army Air Forces Service # 0-707235, 26th Bomber Squadron, 11th Bomber Group, Heavy Entered the Service from: Pennsylvania. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Died: 10-Feb-4 Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Another MIA resources is the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency</span><span> </span><a href="https://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/Documents/WWIIAccounting/pennsylvania.html" target="_blank">DPP MIL website</a><span>. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><table style="border-spacing: 5px; color: black; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="c1" style="background-color: #c2d69b; padding: 2px; vertical-align: top;">CURLEY, FRANK J.</td><td class="c1" style="background-color: #c2d69b; padding: 2px; vertical-align: top;">1st Lt</td><td class="c1" style="background-color: #c2d69b; padding: 2px; vertical-align: top;">O-707235</td><td class="c1" style="background-color: #c2d69b; padding: 2px; vertical-align: top;">UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES</td><td class="c1" style="background-color: #c2d69b; padding: 2px; vertical-align: top;">2/10/1945 12:00:00 AM</td><td class="c1" style="background-color: #c2d69b; padding: 2px; vertical-align: top;">26 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 11 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)</td><td class="c1" style="background-color: #c2d69b; padding: 2px; vertical-align: top;">PHILIPPINE SEA</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>
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Had I had these simple data points (service number, bomber group, date of death) when I began my research 40 years ago, all the false starts would not have happened. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I encourage you if you are looking for an MIA to use this incredible, if unknown, resource.<br />
(My thanks to Michael A. Norbury, Jr, Engineering/Chief Information Officer, <a href="http://www.abmc.gov/search/wwii.php" style="color: #000099;">American Battle Monuments Commission</a>, norburym@abmc.gov who told me about this resource. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He is the husband of the woman who provided child care for my younger son, Eamon. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I met him at a picnic for the parents. Once again, serendipity...as here... is so much a part of the search for information on a MIA. Expect many blind leads...and occasional blinding light discoveries and breakthroughs when you search for an MIA loved one.)<br />
<a href="https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/curley%3Dfrank-0" target="_blank">Frank's listing with the ABMC.</a></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNOhKUQXS6lVnx0PcVCYrohKpCBts8PwWPZnoZ4rYvA8rLXM_9Ke3RDPn3wqbZT2m68vuE3Wj3HfyaVTpxMbLI9KF6h4VXtkyJiKZh1OUe1SSgGWewWsIhy-SitNRv1KqfS5y/s1600/francis+curley+1943+1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNOhKUQXS6lVnx0PcVCYrohKpCBts8PwWPZnoZ4rYvA8rLXM_9Ke3RDPn3wqbZT2m68vuE3Wj3HfyaVTpxMbLI9KF6h4VXtkyJiKZh1OUe1SSgGWewWsIhy-SitNRv1KqfS5y/s320/francis+curley+1943+1.jpg" width="187" /></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Photo of Frank Curley in his USAAF uniform. (Courtesy of Sister Agnes Curley. Lansdale, PA.)<br />
There were two brothers, Harry Curley and Billy Curley, who left the family farm in Perkisie, PA to work for the Reading Railroad. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Billy settled in Landsdale, PA and had 11 children. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sister Agnes is from that family. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Harry settled in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, PA and had 9 children. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Francis "Frank" Joseph Curley was Harry Leo Curley Sr's oldest son.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sr. Agnes was an 88-year old who showed up at my sister Sue's house. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">She said, "Are you the Curley who has the brother doing a Web page on Francis Curley?"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif">This February 22, 1945 obituary from the Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia is courtesy of Agnes Curley, Landsdale, PA.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"> I don't know her, but she's apparently a second cousin. She showed up one day at my sister Sue Curley (Gillen's) front door and said:</span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">"Are you the Curley who's brother is writing the story about Francis?"</span></div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="279" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFamo9uPBiG7ARfl01ZwKXlqiewLFsA9BJtE1KYTSBPl3IYlBR1D2zzo2FSFwk15YBAXSbc8oNEBX0HIukSzDcsgvlUmouaDStCNpf7e3qe8COyMKtLHdKrUwXB6iT7pUiOg/w226-h320/Ray+Curley+Flying+Cross.png" width="226" /></span><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Agnes opened a large pocket book and pulled out two things. One, is Frank's obituary to the left. The second was a photo of Frank in uniform before a lattice fence.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">"Here. These are for him. I've carried these around for 65 years. By the grace of God you make sure your brother gets these. Can I count on you to do that?"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">"Yes. Will you please come in?"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">"No. I've done what I came her to do. You just get those pieces about Francis to your brother."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And she turned to go.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Sue asked her "Can I at least help you down the stairs?"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Sue said Agnes was very old and very frail.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">"No. I got up them and I can get back down them. Just keep your word."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">With that, Agnes was gone.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Sue relayed to me that Agnes was the sister of an elderly nun in Lansdale at St. Stanislaus who is a Curley.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Sue does the Eucharist Adoration program there and discovered that she was a cousin of the Curley nun. They would talk, and the nun relayed the story of my blog about Frank to her.</span></div></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbVEAjMcF98WyQqfBeizOzWTnpvLvIacvUReOhszJBHGuxlKijw5Q2AxO-z-99glFEQHWwfLP2PpporhaNoBVrzo5dByUY5yvsNEcEYSq-mvOq90HYqLVrWwYVbahwK1LVfCzVVIKhXowCLupydt1j6q9i2mZYqkS7VupikFoS7upkx99/s801/Hit%20Parade%20Tarawa%201944%20Frank%20J.%20Curley.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="801" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbVEAjMcF98WyQqfBeizOzWTnpvLvIacvUReOhszJBHGuxlKijw5Q2AxO-z-99glFEQHWwfLP2PpporhaNoBVrzo5dByUY5yvsNEcEYSq-mvOq90HYqLVrWwYVbahwK1LVfCzVVIKhXowCLupydt1j6q9i2mZYqkS7VupikFoS7upkx99/w400-h254/Hit%20Parade%20Tarawa%201944%20Frank%20J.%20Curley.png" width="400" /></a></div><span><span style="color: blue;"><h2 style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: #f3f5f6; color: #212124; font-weight: 400;">Photo: Awards ceremony for 7th Air Force aircrews on Tarawa. "Hit Parade" was a B-24J-1-CO serial no. 42-73002 from the 26th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, 7th Air Force.</span></span></span></span></h2></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Breakthrough: Frank's MACR (Missing Air Crew Report) Some 28 years into my research (mostly wasted hours at the National Archives in Washington, DC) I would obtain his MARC that stated that he was a navigator/bombardier with the 7th Air Force (AF), 11th Bomber Group (BG), 26th Bomber Squadron (BS) in 1944 and 1945 in the Pacific.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
By talking to the pilot (Harry Gibbons) who was behind Frank when his plane was hit, I got details of that mission. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By talking to Richard Chandler, the sole survivor of the crew with Frank that day, I was able to get a photo of Frank's crew (as well as <a href="http://poetslife.blogspot.com/2005/12/richard-chandler-sole-survivor.html">Richard Chandler's own incredible survival and rescue story</a>).</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpYMIwPi5zknCo-uEwnlJFAVE_19ShJg3aWXLDLyVVbZwOsOBrBadm43aGvmOCA2vF88m4xSpv_BfSM9k-6dHp_9h-p5BL8y1y__4XYyB98BRQiFUjXrxDgs8G8aHy7RqUYe-P/s1600/Brashear+Crew+Hit+Parade.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpYMIwPi5zknCo-uEwnlJFAVE_19ShJg3aWXLDLyVVbZwOsOBrBadm43aGvmOCA2vF88m4xSpv_BfSM9k-6dHp_9h-p5BL8y1y__4XYyB98BRQiFUjXrxDgs8G8aHy7RqUYe-P/s320/Brashear+Crew+Hit+Parade.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">According to the MACR, members of this crew flew missions over Iowo Jima, Truk, Marcus, ChiChi Jima, Ha Ha Jima, and Wake and many other pacific island the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army had invaded and occupied.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I got the photo of Frank's B-24 going down in the Pacific from MACR 12052 - 10 Feb 1945.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For a quick summary of Frank J. Curley's timeline and awards, see T<a href="https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=167999">ogether We Served</a>. <span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><br /> </b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>The Fatal 10 February 1945 Ha Ha Jima Mission</b></span></span><br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vymfDtntWctwQUD9fo5XMX5SYwvYqrG5AJnroA3SHnn7Al0XWXl7RERXpZsb8YElTXzU4_NFA-3UUvA1l1_6DXhreAw6LrkIeWXV9fJF_H5fLfHQMgyV-N4MxyK60PjUhyg/s1600/Albert+C.+Reynolds+Graduation+Photo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="199" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vymfDtntWctwQUD9fo5XMX5SYwvYqrG5AJnroA3SHnn7Al0XWXl7RERXpZsb8YElTXzU4_NFA-3UUvA1l1_6DXhreAw6LrkIeWXV9fJF_H5fLfHQMgyV-N4MxyK60PjUhyg/s200/Albert+C.+Reynolds+Graduation+Photo.jpg" width="115" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">According to the sole survivor of the Ha Ha Jima mission, Richard Chandler, Frank and his crew were shot down bombing a Japanese airfield on HaHa Jima so the Marines and Navy would have an easier time invading Iowa Jima. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is a photo Mr. Chandler sent of the Braesher crew, of which he and Frank were members. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He also told me that Frank came running to the plane before he left that day because he was assigned to it at the last minute. Such is war.<br />
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) First Lieutenant Frank Curley's B-24L Liberator (Serial Number 44-41465) and crew sometime before the 10 February 1945 mission to Ha Ha Jima in the Pacific Theater. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Not shown is Major Robert W. Holland (0350 194) who joined them for that mission as a passenger (and got them all killed by making them slow down and fly back over anti-aircraft batteries - something they did not do in prior missions> I was told this by the pilot Harry Gibbon's who was flying behind my Uncle Frank's plane when it was shot down that day. See Harry's letter below.)</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As today, crews were mixed and matched according to available members and the mission. In the photo above, Cecil K Decker and Robert M. Stites are to the right in the place of John Kerexki. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This was Frank's 34th (Chandler) or 39th (Gibbons) mission, or 40th in the newspaper story about his death. I have not been able to get a definitive(government record) number.<br />
1st Lt. Albert C. Reynolds <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Carlsbad Army Air Field bombardier graduate, Class 43-18. </span></span></div>
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Harry Gibbon's for me was a real break through that answered a number of questions about what happened. He was the pilot directly behind Frank's plane that day.<br />
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Harry, who was flying in the plane behind Frank's when it was hit and exploded, was kind enough to send me a hand-written, six-page letter in March of 1999 that gave details about the mission and Frank. Here it is. <a href="https://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-24/44-41465/gibbons.html">Pacific Wrecks</a></span></div>
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"Bruce,<br />
There is so much to be said about any war.</span></div>
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Historians say 60,000,000 people died in WWII, about 250,000 Americans. We were relatively lucky. But try to tell that to the parents of the deceased, including my parents who lost a Lt. navigator over Germany.<br />
As to Lt. Frank Curley, I knew him and I remember him. This part is strange because after 54 years you remember so few of your fellow flyer's.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrkkwqiDDTQFvpe5fbIeZjvH6dEZtOgAMX-j1T64Tm-sHXMHi9bgE-1WIJQ2gvOLDAOza1nccGppxr_AlAnvhBDuCKzywPAHhPjiFNd0ssH5F7-M7SVWIlgxWhxzYjv2Z2aKt/s1600/Hit+Parade+Crew+-+Frank+Curley+Pacific+Theatre.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrkkwqiDDTQFvpe5fbIeZjvH6dEZtOgAMX-j1T64Tm-sHXMHi9bgE-1WIJQ2gvOLDAOza1nccGppxr_AlAnvhBDuCKzywPAHhPjiFNd0ssH5F7-M7SVWIlgxWhxzYjv2Z2aKt/s320/Hit+Parade+Crew+-+Frank+Curley+Pacific+Theatre.jpg" width="211" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was a 21 year old pilot flying in the right seat for the McCullam Crew. We were together with the Brasher and Bienwith Crew. There were older crews ahead of us and younger crews behind, but we always seemed to be together. We flew sub search out of Oahu. We moved up to Kwajalein and bombed Watje, Truk, etc</span></div>
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We moved up to Guam in the 26th squadron, 11th bomb group. We flew 9, 10, 11 plane raids. Brasher was generally the lead plane. He was good.<br />
We bombed Iwo Jima on February 8, 1945. A Jap kamikaze fighter rammed Bienbwith's plane and created an instant ball of flame. No one could have possibly gotten out.<br />
The reason I tell you this is because Major Holland (see photo) enters the picture. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He was considered a very popular officer when he flew. He was returning to Guam from his rest leave after flying 30 missions. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He did not impress the war weary young kids who had seen tougher action that he ever saw. He seemed arrogant and autocratic, i.e. I'll show you guys how we did it in the old days. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He took over. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He set up a mission for the 10th, two days after Bienwith went down.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrOdxlslK_MqEqYGszu6v0ZL3nMKyplYOkBa_A1FlfYdjW6wTJxkwQRVlkDnfhaBXjDmKya02C9E7U6VaGVrxAb0lXEJDGenTMVbnzUJyXxV6y96sjwFTCon9A-E1T5ub-rU/s1600/image1.jpeg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="1600" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrOdxlslK_MqEqYGszu6v0ZL3nMKyplYOkBa_A1FlfYdjW6wTJxkwQRVlkDnfhaBXjDmKya02C9E7U6VaGVrxAb0lXEJDGenTMVbnzUJyXxV6y96sjwFTCon9A-E1T5ub-rU/s200/image1.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />
Major Holland (I always felt he had been promoted to Lt. Colonel about that time) then set up what we called a milk run, an easy mission where there would be no fighters and light ack-ack, certainly not Iwo 9 days before the invasion.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4piAXbqoPylsrm3o4EHcoi1E_VitMBxlBTl79WZ4tG3dD1gZgkVucmRTzwE43Oks-ZgmwvR28NW4EhG8joNbODlyCHbPYOpMrcCTeb73ldWq6Ihy7q2BrldpuE7iYK989B0/s1600/image2.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="1600" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4piAXbqoPylsrm3o4EHcoi1E_VitMBxlBTl79WZ4tG3dD1gZgkVucmRTzwE43Oks-ZgmwvR28NW4EhG8joNbODlyCHbPYOpMrcCTeb73ldWq6Ihy7q2BrldpuE7iYK989B0/s200/image2.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Holland picked Ha-Ha Jima, a couple hundred miles north of Iwo. Therefore, we needed monstrous rubber tanks for gasoline carried in the bomb bays. If he were Laurel and Hardy he couldn't have fouled up the mission any worse. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We flew from the West about 15,600 feet up. We had a tail wind.<br />
We always flew at 165 MPH indicated.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> However, at that altitude with a strong wind we were probably doing close to 400 MPH. Holland, flying the ship, turned off the target for reasons unknown.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfuJqabL3F38CLCw1hxq7-Cjs3DETnTiJ_C56QUPXfC3t3IpWgLHZulUAthQ6jTyAwSwAhkcfN6PkZPJSGyEHF03rsoJcLmZYgRH47yCBrueh7zha4AfWJ8x_kgFjQ4mIEzGc/s1600/Article.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1128" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfuJqabL3F38CLCw1hxq7-Cjs3DETnTiJ_C56QUPXfC3t3IpWgLHZulUAthQ6jTyAwSwAhkcfN6PkZPJSGyEHF03rsoJcLmZYgRH47yCBrueh7zha4AfWJ8x_kgFjQ4mIEzGc/s400/Article.jpg" width="281" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He did a shallow 180 degree turn. He had to with other planes in the formation. He turned and approached the target from the other direction. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We are now flying up wind and probably doing 160 MPH. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After flying in view of the island for possibly 5 minutes the Japs had good time to figure our altitude. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was when we released our bombs that his plane took a direct hit in the bomb bays...remember the gas-filled auxiliary tanks?<br />
It was an inferno. Brasher's plane turned out of control and headed back into the formation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">From a distance it seemed two or three flyers got out (the tail gunner was rescued). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The others had to be the waist window gunners. No one could have gotten out of the cabin.</span></div>
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What a tragedy! Here was a crew that had shown enough leadership to be the lead crew and then have the ship taken over by an... "I'll show you guys how to fly combat" kind of guy. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It's sick.</span></div>
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As to Frank himself, we were a reasonably close squadron. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We lived in 16 x 16 pyramidal tents, dirt floors, outdoor latrines, 50 gallon overhead tanks for showers, indigestible food, warm beer (2 cans per day, perhaps).</span></div>
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<a href="http://poetslife.blogspot.com/search/label/Richard%20Chandler%20Sole%20Survivor" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/400/Richard%20Chandler%20Letter.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" width="287" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We played softball together, but I don't ever remember him drinking with us or playing poker with us. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There were about 12 crews in our squadron, some coming, some going.<br />
We lived in a circular area, that is, the tents were in a circle. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Frank was of good height, well conditioned and extremely good looking. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I remember that he had gone to LaSalle College High School about the class of 1942. I went to North Catholic, class of 1940. Later I graduated from LaSalle College, class of 1948.<br />
Enclosed is a map of the area to give you an idea of the war that "we" had, but it was going on all over the world.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Harry J. Gibbons</span></div>
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</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Below are notes Harry J. Gibbons </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Co-pilot of the 11th BG3/15/1999"</span><span style="font-family: arial;">kept of this mission. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Against orders (in case he was shot down and captured), Harry kept a diary. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He sent me the two pages concerning this mission that he wrote on the 3' x 5" homework pad that every parochial school child keeps. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is his introduction to me and the diary entry for this mission--Dangerous Critter. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_1ITabhhi9udwjWMcHkGip2M-Jot_1oDoLfPkaqnNAauqax_8__wqipJw5rm47lGRNGbB4mKyhhGIBYdCAs6NOFumw5Z82nCFFGitM02EApV7jJ1TC4i2R0O3c31tZWaTuyM/s2048/20210916_151050.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_1ITabhhi9udwjWMcHkGip2M-Jot_1oDoLfPkaqnNAauqax_8__wqipJw5rm47lGRNGbB4mKyhhGIBYdCAs6NOFumw5Z82nCFFGitM02EApV7jJ1TC4i2R0O3c31tZWaTuyM/w266-h354/20210916_151050.jpg" width="266" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">"Another rough one. I feel a little uneasy. No appetite. Stomach upset a little. We were supposed to have an easy mission to-day, but the lead ship (A-1) picked up some ACK-ACK in the bomb bay tank and caught fire right after bombs away. It was just a flying torch. A few fellows got out but some of them didn't have chutes on.</span><span style="font-family: arial;">"That's two ships in two missions...not so good. Had some very good friends on it, too...a 10 plane formation hit HA HA at 15,600...bomb hits (unreadable). I sweated this mission out but bad, and then to see that plane peel off in front of us aflame sure put the finishing touches to it. I sometimes wonder if we'll ever get home. These extra missions are sure rough. Last crew was on No. 34. We lead B flight again."<br /></span></span></div><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Bruce...From my diary that I kept and recorded on the flight back home from every target. It was </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">against all rules</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> to keep such a diary, just in case that you were captured by the Japs. But you know us wild Irishmen. Tell us not to do something and..." Harry 3/16/1999 HA HA JIMA No. #35 Dangerous Critter</span></span></div></div><div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When we arrived at Ha-Ha, </span>it was overcast and we were making our bomb run by radar from about 26,000 feet.</div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Second Eye Witness Bill Tarczy</span></h4><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">A second witness, Bill Tarczy, who was in a B-24 in the formation with Frank Curley sent me a letter with the following account.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">"Bruce Curley,</span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">My name is Bill Tarczy. I was a tail gunner on the last B-24 over the target flying the Diamond on the mission over Ha-Ha Jima. Major Holland (our Group Commander) was in the lead plane with Lt. Brashear's crew. <img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1489" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuAKh7wbXTUq0QFd9PQfnpAv_56MIdPFlpnVAGAVP-kJVpaM-wv1eQUKJacfflAru5GnDxb_FxAWIaOa8nrbIMolGqGcWgmxZdfsqhiFI3H9rdLXYH-1PdqhNuqWdHx3kueUk/w291-h400/Bill+Tarczy+Letter+re+Frank+Curley+Ha+Ha+Mission+1.jpg" width="291" /><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcaC3VnwcTiuumw49z1frQr5K42ns-7iyh45U2u6cLKBHt91mo7hwoN0Epc8cyrC3geXUTOHJ3v0HTcNBnkuCEn1FD3TaY34dvR1ktDMoVI6rWuCLO-ik_YFOFBOFxmq-6-Mg0/s200/Washing+Uniform+in+Kettle.jpg" style="background-color: white;" width="200" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">During briefing on weather on the mission, we were told Ha-Ha was overcast. We took off around 4:00 to 4:30 A.M. and arrived over target at about 10:00 A.M. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The trip to Ha-Ha was overcast. The trip to Ha-Ha usually took 11 to 12 hours over and back to Guam. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Due to the distance, we had to carry a 500 gallon tank of gas in the left forward bomb bay. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjY0wJOlTL0Jg2sZuaEzCwU9aBx34jVU-_80KGzg9EoKOD9eDDDLE9hIScHgJqWaha9KSRePhleKDwlmS6k4GktsP4uv5PY9IK74S2TQxb_P53Wm4DQMY0uKG9kxeQdRurCNkZu71jnEFGgaXWOuitxPGEum0rMFcsdJTNSN0-oQ7m8QHf/s4032/20220525_123905%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjY0wJOlTL0Jg2sZuaEzCwU9aBx34jVU-_80KGzg9EoKOD9eDDDLE9hIScHgJqWaha9KSRePhleKDwlmS6k4GktsP4uv5PY9IK74S2TQxb_P53Wm4DQMY0uKG9kxeQdRurCNkZu71jnEFGgaXWOuitxPGEum0rMFcsdJTNSN0-oQ7m8QHf/w150-h200/20220525_123905%5B1%5D.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>The tank was full over the target.</span></div><div>Once we started the run, the clouds opened and the target was visible, we got orders from lead plane to close bomb doors to make a visual run. As we left the target flack was also around us and it was phosphorus. </div><div>They knew we carried extra gas so that was what they used instead of regular flack.</div><div>We circled and made a visual run. </div><div>As soon as bombs were dropped, Brashear's plane was hit in the bomb bay and it caught fire and started losing altitude and went down.</div><div>It was hard to tell how far we got from the target because the formation all moved away from Brashear's plane.</div><div>Richard Chandler, who was the gunner did bail out and was picked up by a Navy B-24 (PBM) that can land on water. </div><div>The B-24 that they flew that day was a B-24L. </div><div>The plane was a new model.</div><div>The waist windows and tail gun positions were encased in plexiglass. </div><div>From what we were told, Chandler wore his parachute and had his goggles on. </div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1489" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBdK4KQmZuFANDsGdawQuqYFIUbZNGoMIn7paOCBhSgXHnBC7lTBpa-dMaxD81nBs_5VMRpHOH9Jz5sd2ZGdmylKGVKVRdgRlc44fOyXr7ZR1GzNISp937MwmChIQ8ep0UGc/s320/Bill+Tarczy+Letter+re+Frank+Curley+Ha+Ha+Mission+2.jpg" /></span>When they got hit, he ran to the rear hatch in waist and bailed out. </div><div>According to him, the waist gunners got flash burn and could not see what they were doing. </div><div>We never wore parachutes on missions. </div><div>They were always on racks in the waist. </div><div>The reason Chandler wore it that day was because on February 2nd a Kamikaze Jap Zero rammed into one o four B-24 destroying it in mid-air. </div><div>The tail section broke off in one piece and a couple of parachutes opened from impact. </div><div>That crew was flying their 40th mission (last one) as was your uncle and rest of crew. </div><div>I personally did not know your uncle other than riding out to the airfield on our missions. </div><div>I did know the enlisted crew members since our tents were next to each other. The officers slept in another area.</div><div>I hope this information will enlighten you.</div><div>Yours, </div><div>Bill Tarczy"</div><div>Another member of the mission in another B-24, Barnard Protine of Colusa, CA sent me a letter as well. The letter has an image of the B-24 on the top and "B-24 Liberator" at the bottom.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilKQPq_-iI08ZuPZwbUxRMd-RahJhPZS_23BLUIvv8YH7g1mGxFcoV0Lo8nu8zTp4vnjuR9266lFAuGRPggt3NpFK2gXc1N2sHkYphbUvQBVUGhRxlgbeKsiadEfeMg9OtS8qNIsiMV__qh_5U_HgvhHPqQ_ZiuSSxilSnGlrn3UM43VT8lL0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="483" height="607" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilKQPq_-iI08ZuPZwbUxRMd-RahJhPZS_23BLUIvv8YH7g1mGxFcoV0Lo8nu8zTp4vnjuR9266lFAuGRPggt3NpFK2gXc1N2sHkYphbUvQBVUGhRxlgbeKsiadEfeMg9OtS8qNIsiMV__qh_5U_HgvhHPqQ_ZiuSSxilSnGlrn3UM43VT8lL0=w407-h607" width="407" /></a></div><br /><br /></div></span></div></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjquOPbZSDy1H5hDYlUinGicgIqKC5PL-tTsOwTnlzCLyscgfcQMYb2ZC_2AsURSGWTfrKxabodOOY79A9NfC_yDPQ0pQiJh1e8DtHcnKPHi8ZQ2hWXZThSj5ARMfNuvR3i5e2V/s200/Study+in+Bunk+Area.jpg" width="133" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Hello Bruce,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was on this mission. This info is from the book Grey Geese Calling: A History of the 11th Bombardment Group Heavy (H) in the Pacific, 1940-1945 by W.M. Cleveland, Editor. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is the history of the 11th Bomb Group.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">HaHa Jima and ChChi Jima were bombed because they had better harbors for shipping than Iow Jima.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sorry I couldn't be more help.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That was a long time ago.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Barnard Protine</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ball Turret Gunner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Barney"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1400 Wescott Road</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Colusa, CA</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">95932-3122</span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoc1OaL_9KQU63Ts427pCCqTt924X2nOZz18zy2PbeO4qAsGCJHCcjUA7-Fz6D3d14IceSHNCRLyRgELWi_fkBjxPnAq6JtXgZOB22iYnnZi1BFJI9dQS4DkQgu90N11omrCQ/s320/Nose+Art+-+Copy+(2).jpg" width="233" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span>In January, 2011, I received an email from Tom Loper, of Austin, Texas, whose mother was married to Frank's crew's pilot, Lt. Edwin Brashear. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Tom's birth father had died recently and his mother</span><span> was asking him to conduct some research on Lt. Brashear. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tom's birth father fought with the 3rd Marine Division on Iwo Jima, Guam, at the same time that Lt. Brashear's crew was operating in the area, small world (war). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Iwo Jima, Ha Ha Jima, and Ti-Ti Jima are all part of the Bonin Island's and the first part of territorial Imperial Japan.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tom's dad planned ahead for his mother, knowing that after his death, she would be eligible to receive a death benefit from having once been married to Lt. Brashear, now an MIA, which she had previously never received.</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67y1qzI4Bt1MLfnI0qFKprmbMTMZGbcrShoY1yJKQpbmWenVZMmlh3kh7rOpjWHzzTSOvtI9pVyHHMzJlHJCM73WWl3Wc_wifE8tlGEsRcY0EqrRD14xnMfNB5W5TnGZ1pdIb/s1600/Brashear+at+his+Tent.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a></div>
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<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67y1qzI4Bt1MLfnI0qFKprmbMTMZGbcrShoY1yJKQpbmWenVZMmlh3kh7rOpjWHzzTSOvtI9pVyHHMzJlHJCM73WWl3Wc_wifE8tlGEsRcY0EqrRD14xnMfNB5W5TnGZ1pdIb/s200/Brashear+at+his+Tent.jpg" width="200" /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoc1OaL_9KQU63Ts427pCCqTt924X2nOZz18zy2PbeO4qAsGCJHCcjUA7-Fz6D3d14IceSHNCRLyRgELWi_fkBjxPnAq6JtXgZOB22iYnnZi1BFJI9dQS4DkQgu90N11omrCQ/s1600/Nose+Art+-+Copy+(2).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In his research on Edwin Brashear he discovered this blog. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We exchanged a few emails and he sent me these photos of the Edwin, Frank and and the crew as they lived in those years. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The photo's are from his mother's photo/wedding album. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In turn, I sent him a packet with the sources I have discovered over the years.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After reading the intel report on how the plane, carrying 500 pounds sacks of fuel and bombs was hit by Jap ack ack and blew up and all reports from pilots behind them only saw one survivor parachute out, I'm amazed he was listed as an MIA, </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">USAAF Bombardiers T</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">ook an Exacting Oath:</span></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Mindful of the secret trust about to be placed in me by my Commander in Chief, the President of the United States, by whose direction I have been chosen for bombardier training...and mindful of the fact that I am to become guardian of one of my country's most priceless military assets, the American bomb sight...I do here, in the presence of Almighty God, swear by the Bombardier's Code of Honor to keep inviolate the secrecy of any and all confidential information revealed to me, and further to uphold the honor and integrity of the Army Air Forces, if need be, with my life itself."</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzlAmKlEheBYaZJVP2gUyFgsx8UxB33sbmXyGdKA7u4BLSufpwcAoz405QOEdJFC1p1gSwcRv7Rdcs9cWWVSivqIHOwqeGpIHxZ7cig2H1TVNjse8dXS9we2SJ-BYghyphenhyphenLGWUx/s200/francis_joseph_curley_1942.jpg" width="145" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
(Photo: Frank Curley, LaSalle College High School, Philadelphia, PA, 1942. Photo courtesy of Christopher M. Carabello '82 Director of Communications and Public Relations La Salle College High School 8605 Cheltenham Avenue Wyndmoor, PA 19038 (215) 402-4810 direct (215) 836-4502 fax, carabello@lschs.org, <a href="mailto:carabello@lschs.org" target="_blank">carabello@lschs.org</a>, <a href="http://www.lschs.org/" target="_blank">www.lschs.org</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=70120" style="font-family: arial;">Bruce McClelland</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> posted Frank's information on </span><a href="https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=167999" style="font-family: arial;">Air Force Together We Served </a><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDRM1g-eeoceYFRy9LFYUOeJu4JFgF7EiOeYCQUptXFWMM4ymdwBRlMlr4rZR8AjP4rLCGnX6-lnllSikxOhLg8B_oKDkMJI9eh6UWHHn3X6uSMLlZEXB3x97Mg8A_-h0e2ZHr/s1600/Frank+Curley+WWII+Memorial.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw13LzSsDRIFzsVzhcpT_zVjNC1ZdCF5O0eHVDXBaXpfj3uw8H5pu0OOy-zn38SDYZUCd4CFlzEKujM-FNp3RZEgX3lQ5g2BxFHaVYfqD9aiTdVdsSd1goJV3eiZapSRPmY0CM/s1600/Harry,+Margaret+Curley+WWII+FC+Memorial-1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Frank's page is <a href="https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=167999">here under Fallen</a>. Bruce sent me this link July 25, 2013. Unfortunately, I did not see his Facebook message until October 10, 2018 because I never used messenger until that day.<br />
The same day I opened another Facebook message from October 16, 2015 from Adam Khlor:</span></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoXVFn0uNWn0FhhFw5Z8X-CGHbx0g72bPPZqj0QaEg5S96S3Sb7anUeeI5r8zyDIzhuCSu5LFpXKzP63XK-pFqJOW0Skw7gWQKb6e2m1JMCbFdMSDJ4hOJx3T8HLSxv9ave0/s1600-h/Nose+Art.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235583377189427490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoXVFn0uNWn0FhhFw5Z8X-CGHbx0g72bPPZqj0QaEg5S96S3Sb7anUeeI5r8zyDIzhuCSu5LFpXKzP63XK-pFqJOW0Skw7gWQKb6e2m1JMCbFdMSDJ4hOJx3T8HLSxv9ave0/s400/Nose+Art.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" width="291" /></a>
"Mr. Curley, I came across your post (poetslife) about your
uncle's service in WWII. My grandfather was in the 26th from mid 1943-1944. I
was wondering when your uncle was there? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>My grandfather was a photographer by
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trade and took lots of pictures. Unfortunately he didn't write names
on most of them. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>I do have a few of Maj. Holland (I'm guessing it's the same
one), but most I have no idea who they are. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>If their dates of service crossed,
I'll be glad to e-mail them to you to see if you can identify anyone. The only
person I've talked with from the officer group was Robert Madonheimer. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>He was
the original co-pilot of GunSite (my grandfather was tail gunner) and later Mr.
Masonheimer became the captain of Smokey Stover. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>My grandfather's 30th and
final mission was in May of 1944, but I don't know when he was sent out of the
theater. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Adam"</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Mobile WWII Wood Memorial</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw13LzSsDRIFzsVzhcpT_zVjNC1ZdCF5O0eHVDXBaXpfj3uw8H5pu0OOy-zn38SDYZUCd4CFlzEKujM-FNp3RZEgX3lQ5g2BxFHaVYfqD9aiTdVdsSd1goJV3eiZapSRPmY0CM/w164-h200/Harry,+Margaret+Curley+WWII+FC+Memorial-1.jpg" width="164" /></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDRM1g-eeoceYFRy9LFYUOeJu4JFgF7EiOeYCQUptXFWMM4ymdwBRlMlr4rZR8AjP4rLCGnX6-lnllSikxOhLg8B_oKDkMJI9eh6UWHHn3X6uSMLlZEXB3x97Mg8A_-h0e2ZHr/w159-h200/Frank+Curley+WWII+Memorial.jpg" width="159" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a mobile WWII wood memorial that was created after WWII for those from Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill and Germantown, Philadelphia of those who died in the war. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was rotated to those neighborhoods to honor those who died to defend the American Republic in WWII.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My dad, his mother, and Joe and Nancy Curley, Frank's youngest brother and sister, are pictured here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Zero Zero</b></span></div></div><div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMcPmbJL2C5IvwEZ9wQtxFxK53B70ECTbEZzCNs1m558bevgq-Zo7Noex-90iQdP435zATUb5LQ_ELtojsYflOMD26n4an1oNetqFjWqcnwWRXHW2TTja01CCUhPd6ivRUEHc/s1600/Selman+Field+Navigator+Memorial.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMcPmbJL2C5IvwEZ9wQtxFxK53B70ECTbEZzCNs1m558bevgq-Zo7Noex-90iQdP435zATUb5LQ_ELtojsYflOMD26n4an1oNetqFjWqcnwWRXHW2TTja01CCUhPd6ivRUEHc/w200-h133/Selman+Field+Navigator+Memorial.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #111111;">During World War II, the Army Air Corps, later known as the Army Air Forces, operated a navigation training school in Monroe at Selman Field, Louisiana.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKKJthsUKBXhsJT6YXUkt7e2Jxlhw-O4r4fBdM2_ooJHmR-uhvXR1L-eC8-dWdeUrUtSAoPr0bvQ-1l5xnwfoQsXs2eayvg8Lvnu7UA-m5wmqQwL_Zd6QaT_VCd13nuv0V50/s1600/Selman+Memorial+Field+Frank+Curley.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On June 15, 1942, Selman Field was activated and Colonel Norris B. Harbold, a pioneer in the navigation training program, was named commanding officer. Within three months, the field was a full-fledged military establishment consisting of the Pre-Flight School (Bombardier-Navigator) and the Advanced Navigation School. Selman Field continued to grow in size and stature and became, the nation's largest navigation training school during World War II.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1NzJIPMinIN7GSr6nMVJXXYX3ulHx9QQrn6v4BuJWdeBMIL-x1kMyKQTBl8mC8cLCWsgFV0znFPs6Ms0c-waAJ74ssjDZm9JGrxZY5BMRbZy12va-9Sk87RAd-r8MsL1WeVg/s1600/Selman+Field+Memorial+Frank+Curley.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The curriculum consisted teaching selected young men how to "Get `em There and Get 'em Back."</span></div>
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<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="1596" height="52" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKKJthsUKBXhsJT6YXUkt7e2Jxlhw-O4r4fBdM2_ooJHmR-uhvXR1L-eC8-dWdeUrUtSAoPr0bvQ-1l5xnwfoQsXs2eayvg8Lvnu7UA-m5wmqQwL_Zd6QaT_VCd13nuv0V50/s400/Selman+Memorial+Field+Frank+Curley.JPG" width="400" /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ7-EplQN5CQynq7FlFe-MgsPknpGZ9D-VN_jURbgZcBqMsd4KDtKhbkLA72c_Zy6E9JHgGa5kpu7OarGUH734mGtIaMnCy7p-yyb9TFa7wsLtDYd7omdDVUPMzIoXrqrZvKQ/s1600/Selman_Army_Airfield_Louisiana_19_May_1943.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Zero Zero" was the navigator's ultimate objective. It means navigating through hundreds of thousands of miles of space, cloud rack, wind, and weather and hitting a dime-sized objective "on the nose" at the precise second you said you would hit it on the nose. </span></div>
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The first is pilotage, or navigating by landmarks, using maps and charts. The second is dead reckoning, which consists of keeping track of how far you have gone and in what direction since you started, using instruments which measure various aspects of the plane in motion, such as speed, deviation, wind drift, and-so on. The third method is radio navigation which consists of "riding the beam" from one station to another until you progress to where you want to go. The final way to navigate is by celestial navigation — by the stars and other celestial bodies. These are immutable, but you must be able to identify them in their different configurations in all quarters of the heavens at all times of night and day. Armed with the best knowledge and training possible, the navigation cadets graduated and became members of combat crews.<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="698" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ7-EplQN5CQynq7FlFe-MgsPknpGZ9D-VN_jURbgZcBqMsd4KDtKhbkLA72c_Zy6E9JHgGa5kpu7OarGUH734mGtIaMnCy7p-yyb9TFa7wsLtDYd7omdDVUPMzIoXrqrZvKQ/w200-h126/Selman_Army_Airfield_Louisiana_19_May_1943.jpg" width="200" /></span></span></div>
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One inch off i's not Zero Zero. It means right on the button, right on time — perfection. Selman Field met the challenge and provided 15,349 navigators during WWII.</span></div>
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For an oral history of their deeds, see <a href="http://www.hannapub.com/ouachitacitizen/news/selman-field-society-unveils-wwii-veteran-oral-history-kiosk/article_9d7ce9c2-48d4-11e3-81fe-0019bb30f31a.html">here</a>.<br />
More information on the history of Selman Field is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selman_Army_Airfield">here</a>.<br />
The <a href="https://chennaultmuseum.org/history/">Chennault Aviation Museum</a> is located in the last remaining WWII building.<br />
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<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I wrote "Screaming Like a Banshee" based on memories of my Uncle Frank, his mother, and my youngest Eamon when he was a baby. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was published in Feile-Festa Literary Arts Journal, NY, NY, Spring 2010, p. 46.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>
Screaming Like a Banshee</b></span></div>
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to cover wailing with neutral sound</span></div>
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when my toddler Eamon fights her</span></div>
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and refuses to take a nap.</span></div>
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I hear Grandmom Curley screamed</span></div>
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like a banshee when the telegram arrived </span></div>
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from the War Department in 1945</span></div>
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to tell her the oldest, Frank, the one</span></div>
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who was supposed to be the Jesuit,</span></div>
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instead had been killed in action</span></div>
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when the Japanese ack-ack</span></div>
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turned his B-24 into a fireball </span></div>
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on his 39th mission over Haha Jima</span></div>
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in an ocean grave in the South Pacific.</span></div>
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Grandmom Curley screamed</span></div>
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and shot electricity through her brain</span></div>
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to cover wailing with neutral sound.</span></div>
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She never screamed like a banshee again.</span></div>
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Instead, she wailed so deep down for 20 years</span></div>
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because the hole in her heart was so vast</span></div>
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laughter was no longer a planet in her galaxy</span></div>
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and the only way people would describe her was,<br />
“She was never the same after Frank died in the Pacific.”<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkj2t5GkHgmG0PlL2fhsm_kINsfOj-XIlB7AWEvdrHZKaehSlkQmT_xGKdVkj8UvK4v91hMoUzFn2JIyunMGTO6lSzEzvAP-4f7K777uptMVPLngIaizi32_NzRwGql41Y9qdH/s1600/Phyllis+Watson+Curley+Mom.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkj2t5GkHgmG0PlL2fhsm_kINsfOj-XIlB7AWEvdrHZKaehSlkQmT_xGKdVkj8UvK4v91hMoUzFn2JIyunMGTO6lSzEzvAP-4f7K777uptMVPLngIaizi32_NzRwGql41Y9qdH/s1600/Phyllis+Watson+Curley+Mom.png" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7FFEPCO5V4UuwWjjB90-UWrhyphenhyphen4EWvoApTVokbSrBtjBz9X0ZoB_WeJWqSEJ1GM2Hz9wtoDJTaW4nV03-ElZyDdeW75zBu4MuCnUMXmBGLkgmELiFARDUyzs4kyCLUmWzCtjmQ/s1600/Harry+Leo+Curley.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7FFEPCO5V4UuwWjjB90-UWrhyphenhyphen4EWvoApTVokbSrBtjBz9X0ZoB_WeJWqSEJ1GM2Hz9wtoDJTaW4nV03-ElZyDdeW75zBu4MuCnUMXmBGLkgmELiFARDUyzs4kyCLUmWzCtjmQ/s1600/Harry+Leo+Curley.png" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is Harry Leo Curley on his wedding day to my mother Phyllis Mary Watson Curley. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My father was Frank's next younger brother of 6 brothers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All served but for my Dad and Joe (although Joe was a recreation director for various Army, Navy and Marine bases around the world.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My Dad tried to enlist in WWII, but was too young to go in without his parents, Harry Leo Curley and Margaret D'Arcy Curley, signing for him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> As Frank kept sending letters home saying, "War is hell. Don't let Harry join up" and due to his age my Dad was never able to go in.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqvs_FHp8FKv43jaiJta72D5DgMnAh7UtN9VKP8NYP7b_IDoLf0i8YxR3FobHDDrhHakR7sboC3ieyEVpq5Kes0Zoj21UmzauHeLtLAPeGjiNPBn_tEgPTbk_qkrUQyNk0EBQ/s1600/scan0007.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSuqkfMkKTAMuHNfGzIXAXw1P6R_WGL4GG6OytijFgViMMa8BBHJy2xHFUmJNeG6IsskezS6duUK4RBOMYEVesnJLmd2ds60-obpCnZfcgUL8WXQZQUOyFeV0pqG3VqGnaSd3r/s200/DSC02854.JPG" width="200" /></span>This is my uncle, Joe (Joseph) Curley. Notice his first name is Frank's middle name. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He was conceived and born shortly after my grandparents received the telegram from the War Department saying that Frank was an MIA and presumed dead. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joe was named for Frank.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSuqkfMkKTAMuHNfGzIXAXw1P6R_WGL4GG6OytijFgViMMa8BBHJy2xHFUmJNeG6IsskezS6duUK4RBOMYEVesnJLmd2ds60-obpCnZfcgUL8WXQZQUOyFeV0pqG3VqGnaSd3r/s1600/DSC02854.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After Frank was killed, the War Department sent my grandparents an <span class="Apple-style-span">Inventory of Effects that list everything Frank owned on this earth when he was killed. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is a remarkable document. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is almost about what a monk would own.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKYqQo_mmuHdezQjO2S_ZZFkZlawuvcrCo7voTIcbzBD4mSisbVVboFMNWPSRiDEUNt7K4lcJCMFvEBjWP-xWmNg8GTa9W6z-R-2BXnn8NL5GRdMgKEtq4uuY8J0kuZUdWsvY1/w200-h133/Brashear+Crew+Relaxing.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">He had a shoebox worth of earthly goods, $68, some religious items (rosaries, miraculous medals, etc.), and two changes of clothes and shoes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">My Grandmother was a very religious woman and no doubt sent them to him or gave them to him before he left.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Rosary and Holy Cards are of particular interest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Frank was a devout Catholic who loved Christ and was called to Heaven when God wanted is Soul back home.<span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Harry Gibbons states that Frank did not party buy did his job.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With God's help to judge by his last possessions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;">How to and How Not To Find Out About Your Fam</span><span style="color: #3333ff;">ily MIA</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">1977 </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">- After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, I took a job in Washington, D.C. Curious about Frank's mission, I went to the National Archives and looked in the military records and talked to staff at the National Archives. I found nothing, but continued off and on for 20 years on a free Saturday. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="text-align: center;">This is long before Internet search engines were free and widely available.</span></span></div></div></div><div><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are some records there, all in different formats. Some on big index cards...front for your life, back for your death. 500,000 deaths, 50,000 MIA...yes, 50,000 still listed, with 18.000 in the Pacific. And no way to correct or update them, and no current list of remains that can possibly be recovered or identified by modern forensic technology. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;">This is a photo of my great grandparents, Frank's grandparents, on their farm in Perkisie, PA. From solid stock like this did we defeat the Nazi and Bushido threat. </span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bill and Harry Curley</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">These two brothers, Bill and Harry Curley, left the farm in Perkisie and worked for the Reading Railroad. Bill settled in Landsdale, PA and had 11 children. <img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvvM-QIwKD3oAEkMVPkx3zH6-EromjyZkALl67zPy3jckgIuNhyphenhyphen52rXF5HCHfkNgrv6HfC1G6VGgWcqsvaIsaV_bGIgfKeIY0YpFUSE09ep45iztl0Ykja6O1zTyQ5fvFfFpLN/s200/scan0001.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="200" /></span></div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqvs_FHp8FKv43jaiJta72D5DgMnAh7UtN9VKP8NYP7b_IDoLf0i8YxR3FobHDDrhHakR7sboC3ieyEVpq5Kes0Zoj21UmzauHeLtLAPeGjiNPBn_tEgPTbk_qkrUQyNk0EBQ/s200/scan0007.jpg" width="135" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Harry settled in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, and had 9 children.<br />Here is the chronology of my search for Frank's story, who is Harry's oldest. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I offer it in hopes it may help another American MIA family to find out about what happened to their loved one. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There were many dead ends, false leads, and rude and lazy bureaucrats over the years, but there were also some extremely helpful veterans and veteran's associations, along with numerous individuals who love this country and understand the sacrifice military families make for this country, who were especially helpful.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqvs_FHp8FKv43jaiJta72D5DgMnAh7UtN9VKP8NYP7b_IDoLf0i8YxR3FobHDDrhHakR7sboC3ieyEVpq5Kes0Zoj21UmzauHeLtLAPeGjiNPBn_tEgPTbk_qkrUQyNk0EBQ/s1600/scan0007.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My main suggestion would be for the U.S. government to declassify these missions while living family members can discover what happened to their loved ones. <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In Frank's case, they kept the mission classified far longer than it needed to be. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As anyone who has an MIA in their family knows, the U.S. Government is not a great deal of help (although it has gotten better due to the diligence of the Vietnam-era MIA families). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I recommend private researcher to really find out the truth.<br />
Matt Holly (matthollymarshalls@yahoo.com) POB 319, Majuro, MH 96962 has done extensive research on the Marshall Island's Campaign. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As he said in a recent 11th Bomb Group (H) Association, Inc. (Progression Sine Tirmore aut Praejudicio) mailing: "Believe it or not, the US Government does not have a current listing of all USA losses in WWII. </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJpFIKjNm4LD85WE-i_QmZQgKynJNnn7Cw1v6CTwPbNuOvCuxf2V0Hb0-R-7oyXRE1m84gMwm_J791324TKYFo9g5ueah3Ma0auJxkqKYy-QU2P_L30-qNW6WXbEeCSpK-Y_XCJmMP1j9nk8FJN4ypU4sib-al_vPeEVI-ExRxsimd0Ut/s3403/Pacific%20Bombing%20Data.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3403" data-original-width="2612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJpFIKjNm4LD85WE-i_QmZQgKynJNnn7Cw1v6CTwPbNuOvCuxf2V0Hb0-R-7oyXRE1m84gMwm_J791324TKYFo9g5ueah3Ma0auJxkqKYy-QU2P_L30-qNW6WXbEeCSpK-Y_XCJmMP1j9nk8FJN4ypU4sib-al_vPeEVI-ExRxsimd0Ut/s320/Pacific%20Bombing%20Data.jpg" width="246" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Do you realize how many Peal Harbor remains are not identified?"<br />
Mr. Holly is right.<br />
If I ever fall into the big money, my one goal would be to dive off HaHa Jima and find Frank's B-24 off Ha-Ha Jima.<br />
If by the grace of God I could also locate his remains, I would bring his and any others from his crew to the surface and back to the U.S. for a Christian burial.<br />
After four decades of research, I have half-solved the mystery (why Major Holland was there that day and got them all killed is part of the unsolved half) of what happened to First Lieutenant Frank Curley on 10 February 1945 off Ha Ha Jima.<br /><br />
<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPtZzoh-vPVq40Q2AEATBYN9QwfG7IyRxMXEwi1H7TPPOeQ0SKAOHda0M50BjBhGUiy0heI5fD0-LjU8gzqzMqDoGKpB0LwUFqWdRtzYmZwOShuUO_reO1u5GDzG6RR96jw5DL/w222-h320/Harry,+Bill,+Peggy+Curley.jpg" width="222" /></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A Special Thanks</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So many helped me in this search. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I would have never been able to piece together this story without those mentioned below, and those who wrote the intelligence reports after the fatal mission.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Special thanks to all, and especially Richard Chandler, Harry Gibbons, Richard Mansfield, Jack Lopez, Bill Tarczy, and the woman from Selman Field, and Bill Curley, who helped me solve the mystery of this mission. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bill Curley let me know in a call to him on Saturday, September 4, 2021 that when he worked for the Department of Defense in 2015, he met with the remains office at the Pentagon and shared the information in this blog post with them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So, when the Army contacted Joe and I six years later for a DNA sample most likely was due to that meeting.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thank you Bill with all my heart for that Christian Act of Charity.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some Suggestions for How to Find Information about your MIA Loved One</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here are a few suggestions for what was helpful and what was not in my 40-year search.<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1955- 1977</span> - Once in a great while I would hear a vague reference to Frank, that he died in the Pacific, and that he won some medals but not what those medals meant or what for.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I heard that my grandmother Margaret D'Arcy Curley was a beauty with jet-black hair that Frank also had, and that she was a happy woman before but "she was never the same after Frank died in the Pacific."<br />
To the day she died, she never accepted that he was an MIA and instead believed that he was captured by the Russian's and ended up in Siberia in the Gulag.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0OT_45vzoVJDDIw9s4ivesZ16o-gA1KccCXVr_iOEo-7ToQVdEApGoGWzGfg4iBGVC4l0tMpVaCnC_5W-6hCJ4p8kQ8JnJTV8M9FAmkzoNH5_wJhaTCOGBfZTbfesBnZU_ZA/s1600/Harry+Peggy+Lyn+Cape+May+001_001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" border="0" height="298" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235606551282914226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0OT_45vzoVJDDIw9s4ivesZ16o-gA1KccCXVr_iOEo-7ToQVdEApGoGWzGfg4iBGVC4l0tMpVaCnC_5W-6hCJ4p8kQ8JnJTV8M9FAmkzoNH5_wJhaTCOGBfZTbfesBnZU_ZA/w320-h298/Harry+Peggy+Lyn+Cape+May+001_001.jpg" style="margin-top: 0pt;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Photo: My father, Harry Leo Curley with his first daughter Madeline in Cape May, NJ a few years after Frank's death.) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I asked at one point if there were any pictures of Frank, I remember being told that his mother had destroyed them all after he died because they were too painful for her to see.<br />
As a child, for a few weeks each summer, I stayed at a huge Victorian mansion in Cape May, New Jersey...back when it was affordable.<br />
I was told that it was purchased with the survivor's check the government sent after Frank died, that Grandmom Margaret D'Arcy Curley used to put it in the collection basket every Sunday at Holy Child Catholic Church in Mount Airy, Philadelphia for two years and the priest would return it each Monday until they bought the Cape May Victorian to rent out.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As with so much of our military and other history, this was relayed to me by a woman, my mother, Phyllis Mary Watson Curley. My father never really talked about Frank, his older brother by two years. It was just too painful.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3-C9po2pnA12cY_0UYpxgdq8rITar7hv9WPn11f4Zs4ZV34duh7-xXrNMR_JdAdBzw4zOXWeuNhEYf7Qhkj6FrfvW4CfvG403Puqb8aP_0MuolTG2Q10NP3Ve111SNAxwyBB/s200/Lt's+Brashear+and+Curley+Sailing+in+Pacific+-+Copy+(2).jpg" width="200" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1999</span> - Breakthrough - After entering "B-24" in a search engine, I find the Selman Field Memorial website. A very kind woman there put me in touch with Richard Mansfield 44-10, VP, SFHA. Then, while surfing the Web under USAAF and B-24 and MIA I found Aviation Archives, a research firm that specializes in cutting through the red tape of the U.S. government. I research their website, discover it is only $35.00 for them to get Frank's MARC, and send the check. Two weeks later, Frank's Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) arrives with the declassified file and intelligence, details of the mission, including the photo of his plane going down. I encourage anyone who has an MIA to contact Jack Lopez of Aviation Archives.</span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><b>
Aviation Archives</b><br />
12624 Orchard Brook Terrace<br />
Potomac, MD 20854-2326<br />
Telephone: (240) 432-0038<br />
E-mail: aviationarchive@comcast.net<br />
Contact Person: Jack R. Lopez<br />
(The 1945 Bombers Chapel programs (above) and the nose art (below)
courtesy of Mr. Donald MacLaine who lived in the tent next to Frank's
on Guam.)<br />
- Harry Gibbons contact initiated (courtesy of Richard Mansfield 44-10, VP, SFHA) - by phone, he reveals the mission verbally and follows up with a four-page, hand written letter (above). He told me that he went to a reunion at the Punch Bowl in Hawaii and overheard Major Holland's widow bragging about the Major's accomplishments. He said it was all he could do to bite his tongue and not ask her if the major's accomplishments included getting all those good, young flyer's killed over Ha Ha Jima on 10 February 1945 due to his fatal incompetence.</span></div><div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrzT105u_V24f4Ovvl9dBSKg0ZFi7y3EwuwKOtaeHGlC5HdeRBVLG09P9Pw4cQD1c4nNV0JT_5tKFb86Ma6XUEFZuY-0rtRlOIJfNjF4Qf1cgBFSXXdjyrX_ML3GnIsIsxMsg/s1600/IMG_2074.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>2011</b> - I attended the funeral of <a href="http://poetslife.blogspot.com/search/label/Ray%20Curley%20Good%20Man%20Air%20Force%20Man">Ray Curley</a> who is given full military honors at Arlington. I meet up with Bill Curley, my cousin, whom I met briefly at his father Billy Curley's military funeral (see below) at Arlington three years before. He had mentioned at his Dad's funeral that he had a Curley family history that mentioned that the Curley who came from Ireland was in the IRA and fleeing the British. I laughed and said that made as much sense as my Mom's statement once that we all had American Indian blood in us (Just look at your noses!" was her only proof).</span></div>
<div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrzT105u_V24f4Ovvl9dBSKg0ZFi7y3EwuwKOtaeHGlC5HdeRBVLG09P9Pw4cQD1c4nNV0JT_5tKFb86Ma6XUEFZuY-0rtRlOIJfNjF4Qf1cgBFSXXdjyrX_ML3GnIsIsxMsg/s200/IMG_2074.JPG" width="133" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I asked Bill for some proof and he mentioned that he had a genealogy report that showed it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">At <a href="http://poetslife.blogspot.com/search/label/Ray%20Curley%20Good%20Man%20Air%20Force%20Man">Ray's funeral</a> I brought it up and he said he would dig through some boxes in the garage and get it to me. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV_Fs_8EIrnyUxaWeSlw5R2E3MF9zH10Qsq_SqC2TeAm7dk9isY0o9f3x9IefyAwyYBsBFm5O5zPLCTaUsyWL1U0nN7Iyx_u2FtLdo3daOS45gWHLlxIejczYIbYIWtNz-lCs/s1600/IMG_2041.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a></div>
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What is more important is that Bill dug up some old Curley family photos his father kept in his "Shadow Box." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The photo next to my "Screaming Like a Banshee" poem of my grandmother Margaret D'Arcy Curley and my Dad at the Honor Roll where Frank Curley was placed is one. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Younger grandad Harry Leo Curley with his tow-head sons on the stone staircase is another. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He also sent me a short list of Curley's who still serve the country. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They are listed below <span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">at the end of this blog.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Qe2ebkET5fzr86Q34m56A2r9xmc8NDk8PsmY5wD76w3EMR_rI1We3iMvwLVZeZm2QwZaKEgsmPh5cufu8oFHYeiAGjkxuwIQjawMy_9TxSMhXoZWXMid_sx2nK_v1Oydp7M/s200/IMG_2076.JPG" width="133" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>2017</b> Tom Loper, whose mother was the widow of Lt. Edwin Braesher, provides an update of his, Frank, and the crew's service on The <a href="http://11thbombgroup.org/photoswwiinew41411/lopercurley.html">11th Bombardment Group</a> webpage.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>The poem by Irish poet W.B. Yeats, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">An Irish Airman Foresees His Death</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">, has always reminded me of Frank's mission. I post it for that reason.</span></span></div>
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</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/memorialday" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); letter-spacing: 0.2px; overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap, none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break, none);">#MemorialDay</a></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a great mystery I hope to answer if I can discover from the Army the story of how his remains were recovered from the Pacific Ocean grave and somehow ended up in the Pearl Harbor grave.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is the latest update on this my now 40-year search to discover what happened to him on that last mission.</span></div><h4><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Past Conflict Repatriation Branch Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Operations Division Contacts Me Out of the Blue</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvyebTwluKUaRxyRQAyIv_NDBE1wA4PW22d0e4AQhT1gftRSjFpXG_ENTX60Vy-djwD6TvjX_5YcI87oNiHnR-XdH0PeJUjV_8MLTtqxJDx-H3GqvC-ri3jrHn_Cwfm8nLvJE/w200-h150/20210904_120706%255B1%255D.jpg" width="200" /></span>On August 26, 2021 I received a phone call from a Case Manager (CM) for my Uncle Frank's remains.</span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">As it sounded like a sales call, I almost hung up on the person, especially as she asked me if "Bob" served and died in the Army.</span></font></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6v5LGJflCrevlsiXaq7zOmrTu5oowhKBGWIb_Kkih_caemMZfXrM0wocJQRZombMHp7-B1GN3OlSgfG86NLNzlGQnetiHyHQGQh5plOLs4NFP7YjbX7Z2KbBSwiQKeXvD2Xs/s2048/20210908_161638.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6v5LGJflCrevlsiXaq7zOmrTu5oowhKBGWIb_Kkih_caemMZfXrM0wocJQRZombMHp7-B1GN3OlSgfG86NLNzlGQnetiHyHQGQh5plOLs4NFP7YjbX7Z2KbBSwiQKeXvD2Xs/w150-h200/20210908_161638.jpg" width="150" /></a>"No. Bob is my brother, but my Uncle Frank served in the Army Air Corps in WWII."</span></font></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS5Ptl1vRHwRRp5-CyM1-EpyKYXEZBL15SD-1-EdAKUjQCO6QyEUMt65dMU7a5ewttQv0IZmKn3kk-P8Db7wi0AGDn_ExACCw8ToBOPkfvUKDqhE5M69A6fHqMY6Q2xleCA50/s2048/20210907_174340+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><font><span>CM: "We may have your uncle's remains but we need a </span></font></span>DNA sample from you to confirm it."</span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">You could have knocked me over with a feather.</span></font></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1T9VXR_YJTdkfY3A7HdgLwIaN8MoX7lybsRXvuJIyY8vC_-4Bms6GvmaD5QedN5DnO2GGfxBCnY1F_9KJyhouila7o7SPM2hA05Mzt8eSUyWHp4grsbstjBk_VizMG2eO4A/s2048/20210907_174350+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><font><span>Here I thought I was going to scrape together enough money </span></font></span>during retirement to h<span><font><span>ire a diving crew to search for his remains off HaHa Jima, Japan, where his B-24 Liberator exploded, split in two and went down on February 10, 1945...and she was telling me her office may be able to identify his remains using my DNA.</span></font></span></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">CM: "We also need the DNA of one of his siblings. Are any still alive?"</span></font></span></div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv54adVCxzLBPMeTlDzd-Vq2EgKD_nJRQEiBLIa1g_8NzB4bWzUeWgWts4yq32UVieqw6-NUfIhr4pS0D0-OZ17NLfIYT78T1f9MOxg17E-UY1rzCJdwxbDy7e6lUBRYsmB08/w161-h200/20210908_161645.jpg" width="161" /></span><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Yes. His youngest brother Joe. His name is Joseph Curley. He was born the year Frank died and given his names to honor his sacrifice."</span></font></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">I gave her Joe's contact information. </span></font></span>She stated she would be sending Joe and I a DNA kit via FedEx.</div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I informed Joe, and he was speechless, and Joe is a loquacious man and rarely speechless. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I could hear the emotion in his voice which broke several times. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv54adVCxzLBPMeTlDzd-Vq2EgKD_nJRQEiBLIa1g_8NzB4bWzUeWgWts4yq32UVieqw6-NUfIhr4pS0D0-OZ17NLfIYT78T1f9MOxg17E-UY1rzCJdwxbDy7e6lUBRYsmB08/s2048/20210908_161645.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div></div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1T9VXR_YJTdkfY3A7HdgLwIaN8MoX7lybsRXvuJIyY8vC_-4Bms6GvmaD5QedN5DnO2GGfxBCnY1F_9KJyhouila7o7SPM2hA05Mzt8eSUyWHp4grsbstjBk_VizMG2eO4A/w240-h320/20210907_174350+%25282%2529.jpg" width="240" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When Joe spoke to the Case Worker, she informed him that Frank's remains may be in a grave at the <a href="https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/nmcp.asp" target="_blank">National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific</a>, otherwise known as the Punch Bowl.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This blows my mind.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If he went down in the ocean (see below), how did his remains end up at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Anyway, I created this <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985" target="_blank">Poetslfie blog</a> at first as a way to figure out what happened to Frank and to honor Frank's sacrifice. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Given the 47 years of research that have gone into this task, I decided to include all the research links I found to help other MIA families locate their loved ones.</span></div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyMsj3oCEbeVpcA9hcAsDQwoYTRpSPK6KKWiy_WJgBpHn3FS5atlC4hQWq2sXKu9RDI8o9CPQ41WVnGRHQ9ekYsI7e5UhoM7TSq_kN_F84dCdepL48yd2Rl9oSKp7zD6e1lR8/w240-h320/20210907_174434+%25282%2529.jpg" width="240" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This Poetslife blog eventually morphed into a civil defense blog as another way to honor Frank's sacrifice.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I wanted to help protect American lives and property from evil as he did but in a way that was more in line with my skill stack.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CM: "Fort Knox is where my office is located. We used to be at Arlington, but we ran out of space and relocated to Fort Knox, Kentucky. </span>So, for any who did not know this as I did not, here is the current Army MIA location office.</div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisczLs_Wbheh4xjID31bemefBRAPTjOkJnQoVY7a3FrQEbA0pZXyhyphenhyphen66vPmlvs9SCMPSHa2rwr1r6IAw45pXNjvyBAHW7dZZUNOGFXHXus0QrKO39vmFo8vFAuanQ338lbEqM/w240-h320/20210907_174528+%25282%2529.jpg" width="240" /></span><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />U.S. Army</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Department of the Army</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Attn Past Conflicts AHRC-PDC-R</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">1600 Spearhead Div. Ave, Dept. 450</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Fort Knox, KY 40122-5405</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Tel: 1 (800) 892-2490</span></span></font></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></font></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">For those whose MIA served in other branches, each service branch has it's own office. See: <a href="https://www.dpaa.mil/Families/Contact-Information/" target="_blank">Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Contact Page</a>.</span></font></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></font></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: red;"><b>NOTE:</b></span> At the end of this post you can see the latest update from Craig Gardner, Chief, Past Conflict Repatriation Affairs Operations Division, Department of the Army, U.S. Army Human Resources Command, 1600 Spearhead Division Avenue, Department 450, Fort Knox, KY 40122-5405. It shows the Case Summary Review. This is a document you want to request about your MIA loved one. It is a wealth of information, details and fills in the gaps in their story. And extremely well written.</span></font></span></div></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1600" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1HC_5hyphenhyphenVHGXU6znlqG_vxYwxabTYJTz3QPMQGGcH5OSR8z3hxJmTjjNFqY-OTQk0eqQkYkZusVWcR7wM5uEg3wnj-X_iFuQ7gXH568WdsXbAizCMDsYBn3qNZvgG9OJgfpM/s320/BomberChapel1.jpg" width="320" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif">An Irish Airman Foresees His Death</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif">I know that I shall meet my fate</span><br />
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Somewhere among the clouds above;</span></div>
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Those that I fight I do not hate,</span></div>
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Those that I guard I do not love;<br />
My country is Kiltartan Cross,<br />
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor;<br />
No likely end could bring them loss<br />
Or leave them happier than before.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1HC_5hyphenhyphenVHGXU6znlqG_vxYwxabTYJTz3QPMQGGcH5OSR8z3hxJmTjjNFqY-OTQk0eqQkYkZusVWcR7wM5uEg3wnj-X_iFuQ7gXH568WdsXbAizCMDsYBn3qNZvgG9OJgfpM/s1600/BomberChapel1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,<br />
</span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pgfWf4PPZiY/Tsgm-v01t_I/AAAAAAAAHl0/U8WeUhkq9fk/s1600/Harry%252C+Margaret+Curley+WWII+Frank+Curley+Honor+Roll.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,<br />
A lonely impulse of delight<br />
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;</span></div>
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I balanced all, brought all to mind,</span></div>
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The years to come seemed waste of breath,<br />
A waste of breath the years behind</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipKFLRnz0gRgRXoz9CD0YeCCt3LMKUYefa3tqTR2q2IqOT6jIWIxdLlllGAYn8qzlGT_37fEPDZwKw3n1df8KfNE6VtqhyA4NvY5VIubJmXlPVnA9kM17jsbDVsH9jz-VSh-0/s1600/Bomber+Chapel+2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In balance with this life, this death.</span></div>
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Note:</b> <i><b>One Damned Island After Another: The Saga of the Seventh</b></i> by Clive Howard and Joe Whitley is a very clearly written account about the USAAF 7th from Pearl Harbor to the end of WWII. The realistic illustrations and photos alone are worth the read. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">James Bradley's </span><span class="Apple-style-span">book </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Flyboys </span>provides great background on these missions.<br />
Especially powerful, but unknown to most, is that the Imperial Japanese officer's were eating the body parts of American flyers (see pages 222 -236). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I kid you not. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The U.S. Government at the time and until today has kept it quiet. </span></div><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjg8mLzJKhxowluJ_mlavDGhyphenhyphen8OF4hiKV__CXiZ0hKyo9Fgozddb9GTcmW8C_MWy4hM_73odKRS2DzSGWLcZsf5dkdxOhvX38Acosd3GnGPRldVtN0HMno_rzQDputEA-IQaz/s320/Eamon+WWII+Memorial.png" width="108" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They knew that if the American public knew of these WWII Japanese atrocities, it would inflame them, so they buried it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: #3333ff;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;">The Next Generation</span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span>...and the next</span>...</span></span></div>
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<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><br />My brothers and I are the next generation...and we are the fathers of the next generation after us. And now I have to add cousins to</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> that. </span></span></div><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8BLxK5-V0Grvnz-jPsyd1WvJDP6NL6v5aptQHpMJkjjgVH3r9wiJKJSSeigYv4CVJNWjF3HikcvOFrj3jZEzi0ccK3kIvZH07YcEYzv6wo4Ohzzr5pS5nkBEecm5XdDmwsA/w150-h200/20210904_121509%255B1%255D.jpg" width="150" /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All of us have children. What does such sacrifice mean if it is not conveyed to the next generation who then conveys it to the next? My grandson knows what a B-24 is, what Frank accomplished, and what it meant to our freedom. Each generation passes down it's legacy or the legacy dies.</span></div><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="248" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6758/7/400/Eamon%20Flying%20Glory.jpg" width="320" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For Christmas years ago, I received this drawing "Flying Glory" from my then 9-year old Eamon. You will notice that in the drawing...one plane is going down...but another is completing the mission. The story continues...</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFamo9uPBiG7ARfl01ZwKXlqiewLFsA9BJtE1KYTSBPl3IYlBR1D2zzo2FSFwk15YBAXSbc8oNEBX0HIukSzDcsgvlUmouaDStCNpf7e3qe8COyMKtLHdKrUwXB6iT7pUiOg/s1600/Ray+Curley+Flying+Cross.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a></span></span></div>
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Now, when Bill Curley sent me the photos from his dad Billy Curley, my uncle, his dad had kept the same photo Sister Agnes gave my sister Sue with him all his life of Frank in uniform before a lattice fence. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Additional Resources: For more information see:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Qe2ebkET5fzr86Q34m56A2r9xmc8NDk8PsmY5wD76w3EMR_rI1We3iMvwLVZeZm2QwZaKEgsmPh5cufu8oFHYeiAGjkxuwIQjawMy_9TxSMhXoZWXMid_sx2nK_v1Oydp7M/s1600/IMG_2076.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></span><a href="http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~webermd1/Liberator-Info.html">The B-24 LIberator</a><br />
<a href="http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~webermd1/wwII.html">For You the War is Over</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grey-Geese-Calling-Bombardment-1940-1945/dp/B009FNZF26" target="_blank">Grey Goose Calling: A History of the 11th Bombardment Group Heavy (H) in the Pacific, 1940-45, W. M. Cleveland, Editor</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flyboys-Story-Courage-James-Bradley/dp/0316159433/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=flyboys&qid=1611512714&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42135156-one-damned-island-after-another" target="_blank">One Damned Island After Another: The Saga of the Seventh by Clive Howard and Joe Whitley</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-us">Charles Curley</span><span lang="en-us"> –</span><span lang="en-us"> US Army 1970-199</span><span lang="en-us">2 (22 years)</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVQmhA2Xkez1kFQOxMCwpN_NhxOf0xZ4LixUsLxrPUic90zr1QUp6Ie3p3xngH7uPRr-MXzngZR67C0XtqgNXmQKMgAS5yuuwse_f_YKalL8JOzkR52bjCTw5TzW_mh_us_iM/s1600/IMG_2056.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-us">Tom Curley</span><span lang="en-us"> –</span><span lang="en-us"> Air National Guard 1979</span><span lang="en-us"> –</span><span lang="en-us"> present<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235605823377875762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw5SN8HPwzTy4TsjAdhgDofQ_1g4n1QEPC7jd8pXq6iGkQDo7-wZ9vLIwyiTAKbySVu8oWQpGVgnIpDgOIDCZ4s6cpEG6UXqG3cKomvdMtvglrxFIFz7bjXSmxQYrb9mAhQeo/s200/DSC03602.JPG" /></span></span><span lang="en-us"> (assigned to the 101</span><span lang="en-us"><sup>st</sup></span><span lang="en-us"> Air Refueling Wing Bangor, Maine).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-us">Dave Curley</span><span lang="en-us"> –</span><span lang="en-us"> Air Force</span><span lang="en-us"> 1983-2005 (22 years) </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;">Bill Curley IV</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"> –</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"> Air Force 1980-2000 (20 years</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"> –</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"> Desert Shield/Storm Vet)</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;">. Stationed in Arizona, England, Singapore, Dover AFB, DE, Columbia, Middle East. </span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"> Member of the Ground Launched Cruise Missile program</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"> –</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"> instructor for 4 years. On the mission</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"> “</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;">Scath</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;">e</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"> Mean</span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;">” </span><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;">in 1991.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVQmhA2Xkez1kFQOxMCwpN_NhxOf0xZ4LixUsLxrPUic90zr1QUp6Ie3p3xngH7uPRr-MXzngZR67C0XtqgNXmQKMgAS5yuuwse_f_YKalL8JOzkR52bjCTw5TzW_mh_us_iM/s200/IMG_2056.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Here is how it is done as one family member contacts another family member to contact another family member that our shared DNA is to be interred at Arlington. </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Dad's burial ceremony is set for Monday, 11 August at
1:00pm. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">The 12th </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">of August was not available for the Air Force honor guard. He is
being </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">buried with full military honors. A Catholic priest will preside over </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">the graveside ceremony. It will be hot here during August so dress </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">lightly. Also, the gravesite is on a slope so you might want to wear </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">shoes that will provide some traction. </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Billy</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span class="nfakpe" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="nfakpe" style="font-family: arial;">"Joe</span><span style="font-family: arial;">, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Please let everyone know we are holding a reception
at the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Holiday Inn in Waldorf after the Arlington Service on the 11th. All
are welcome. There will be food provided. We set this up so all of
us </span><span class="nfakpe" style="font-family: arial;">Curley</span><span style="font-family: arial;">'s could get together. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>The Holiday
Inn is located on </span><st1:place w:st="on">St. </st1:place><span>Patrick's Drive off of Route 301. The best way to get there is</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">From Arlington</div><div style="text-align: left;">Take Memorial Bridge to Independence Ave</div><div style="text-align: left;">Independence Ave to Maine Ave</div><div style="text-align: left;">Maine Ave to I-395 East</div><div style="text-align: left;">I-395 to I-295 south</div><div style="text-align: left;">I-295 turns into Route 210</div><div style="text-align: left;">Take Route 210 (Indian Head Highway) to route 228 (about 15-20 minutes)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Take 228 to Route 301 and turn right</div><div style="text-align: left;">Turn right at the second light (St. Patrick's Drive)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Holiday Inn is on the right.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I hope everyone can attend the reception. FYI, have everyone show up at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Arlington</st1:city></st1:place>
1/2 hour early at the Administration building. When you drive up to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Arlington</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:placetype></st1:place>
go all the way to the end (straight ahead). The guard will stop you along
the way. Tell the guard you are attending a service. At the end of
the road turn left. The admin building will be on the left just a few
yards up the road. Give me a call if you want any other information.
I look forward to seeing you and the family. FYI, I'm starting a new job in the Pentagon on Monday, 4 Aug. My home email is:"</div><p></p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><div>The Distinguished Flying Cross</div></span>
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjg8mLzJKhxowluJ_mlavDGhyphenhyphen8OF4hiKV__CXiZ0hKyo9Fgozddb9GTcmW8C_MWy4hM_73odKRS2DzSGWLcZsf5dkdxOhvX38Acosd3GnGPRldVtN0HMno_rzQDputEA-IQaz/s1600/Eamon+WWII+Memorial.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif">For
his service in the Pacific with the USAAF in the 26th </span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvdUi-bInPBSqUnw0C7KSHi2OBfW70k-osknsvibijnPSQM0ZW8785ECOKeQqf__D-D94GV_MHaLtNxm42YJznuNi81ScW1D8Y6WHlokUjbMkvOabSo8xysHE9wRR3rDO-O8/s1600-h/Eamon+Salute+2.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239623026248261106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvdUi-bInPBSqUnw0C7KSHi2OBfW70k-osknsvibijnPSQM0ZW8785ECOKeQqf__D-D94GV_MHaLtNxm42YJznuNi81ScW1D8Y6WHlokUjbMkvOabSo8xysHE9wRR3rDO-O8/s200/Eamon+Salute+2.png" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" width="143" /></a>Bomber Squadron,
11th Bomber Group in WWII, Frank Curley was awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross, </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">an air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters, and a
Purple Heart. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Frank's younger brother Ray was also awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As he was a true quiet professional, I have no idea what Ray did in the Air Force.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But you can see photos of his life <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2011/07/ray-curley-good-man-air-force-man.html" target="_blank">here</a> on another blog post I created using photos about his life.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0pt;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235589623770296834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiUBw402lqFFUBIIoUQvynIlbgXGK539gcWTNIGxmD2o8uD-UvQuk_Qih-LI2yfklqxU_cUZaF3UI88ZUBS-Zo8hUBWwxkiGL-0lckJEL3xZS__Zo1ExBvOjOGlv1ifepbu5Q/s200/Distinguished+Flying+Cross.png" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" width="104" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Distinguished Flying Cross medal is awarded to any
officer or enlisted man or woman of the Armed Forces of the United
States who shall have distinguished himself in actual combat in support
of operations by "heroism or extraordinary achievement while
participating in an aerial flight, subsequent to November 11, 1918."</span></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8BLxK5-V0Grvnz-jPsyd1WvJDP6NL6v5aptQHpMJkjjgVH3r9wiJKJSSeigYv4CVJNWjF3HikcvOFrj3jZEzi0ccK3kIvZH07YcEYzv6wo4Ohzzr5pS5nkBEecm5XdDmwsA/s2048/20210904_121509%255B1%255D.jpg" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
The
decoration may also be given for an act performed prior to November 11,
1918, when the individual has been recommended for, but has not
received the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, or
Distinguished Service Medal.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />The
Distinguished Flying Cross, authorized by an Act of Congress of July 2,
1926 (amended by Executive Order 7786 on January 8, 1938), was awarded
first to Captain Charles A. Lindbergh, of the U.S. Army Corps Reserve,
for his solo flight of 3600 miles across the Atlantic in 1927, a feat
which electrified the world and made "Lindy" one of America's most
popular heroes.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The first Distinguished Flying Crosse to be awarded to a Navy man was to Commander Richard E. Byrd of the U.S. Navy Air Corps on May 9, 1926 for his flight to and from the North Pole.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Both these famous aviators also received the Medal of Honor with the Distinguished Flying Cross.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Aviatrix Amelia Earhart also received the Distinguishes Flying Cross.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here was the only such award, as an executive order on March 1, 1927, ruled that it should not be conferred on civilians. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For more information on the Distinguished Flying Cross, contact DFCS, Editor, 4442 Vandever Avenue, San Diego, CA 92120.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The President is Hostage: Payback's a Bitch</span></h4></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>As Americans have a short memory of how tenuous our freedom is, I wrote a novel called The President is Hostage: Payback's a Bitch. <br />There are lessons there for those who are willing to learn them. <br />Here is a link: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">The President Hostage: Payback's a Bitch</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was originally written during the Reagan Administration.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A friend who worked in the White House asked me to write a white paper on the security gaps in the perimeter at that time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I did so and the powers that be laughed at it then.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But in the following years, they used 18 of the 19 suggestions for improvement I made.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The primary one was to shut off the Pennsylvania Avenue stretch or road in front of the White House as it presented too great an opportunity to create damage.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I wrote the book as a way of fleshing out the white paper.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I had to create it quickly and have not been able to return to it to correct the many spelling errors in the original.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maybe some day.<br /></span><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">MIA Research Resources</span></h3></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Photos of Frank and his crew may be found at:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">11th Bombardment Group Heavy (H) "The Grey Geese" </a><br /><br />Pacific Wrecks does a great job of providing detailing of USAAF Pacific plane wrecks, especially MIA sites.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Here is Frank's Pacific Wrecks MIA page</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br />The American Battle Monuments Commission is a great way to find basic dates that will help you begin your research for your MIA family member.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Here is Frank's American Battle Monuments Commission page.<br /></a><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Find a Grave website has a good search engine to locate your family service members gravesite.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Here is Frank's Find a Grave page.</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The National Archives has a database with basic information on 9 million WWII service members.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span><a href="https://www.archives.gov/college-park" target="_blank">National Archives at College Park</a><br />Here is Frank's National Archives page.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9nXK20u5x_RGMpWck0tqARYZF992-gY8lMUW935VJHYS_Nws0G9Eo207q5RnSN0HL11NP_tOqT95y2esbZ3lkc007gEAvhgbyr1GoxXar_w6rDRSOLMZYOGGnb3QkeTKjKg/s1600/IMG_2172.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span><br /></span></a></span></div><h4><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">Honoring All Combat Veterans</span></font></span></h4><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8v43RwupWtifX0o-4OrA3tm1r7v4CEUlxCSZxybJr6iNXkxcmT0071OxcL_O2GsbgExjcF7a21V81Yjd20vFIW3mevRUKwDW5BucHxupbymRHngK9TDdhyphenhyphen8eKgF4JNtqQMIc/s2048/20210531_102827%255B1%255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8v43RwupWtifX0o-4OrA3tm1r7v4CEUlxCSZxybJr6iNXkxcmT0071OxcL_O2GsbgExjcF7a21V81Yjd20vFIW3mevRUKwDW5BucHxupbymRHngK9TDdhyphenhyphen8eKgF4JNtqQMIc/w200-h150/20210531_102827%255B1%255D.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Wow. June 6th 2021 just passed with little mourning or celebration by our national leaders of our D-Day victory over real Nazi's...not the fictional ones so in vogue these days.</span></font></span><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">The last line of Jack Womer and Stephen C. Devito's book Fighting with the <i>Filthy Thirteen: The World War II Story of Jack Womer - Ranger and Paratrooper</i> is "Remember us."</span></font></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">The book is about his 5-year paratrooper fight against Nazi Germany in close quarters combat in Europe with the most infamous squad of paratroopers in the 101st Airborne Division. </span></font></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">He landed behind enemy lines on June 6th, 1944. </span></font></span></div><div><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">His story <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2012/05/click-any-photo-to-enlarge-it.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So...I am going to remember them...and what their sacrifice created: The United States of America, the Constitutional Republic, Freedom, Liberty and Opportunity.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Read on, especially you children and grandchildren.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Keep the Faith</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I started the research on MIA 1st Lt. Frank Joseph Curley over 47 years ago. I thought I was alone in this quest.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That was a mistake. There are many other American's out there on the same quest. Talk to them, help them, enjoy them.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I say this as I just returned from the Family Update POW/MIA Accounting meeting held in Norfolk, VA on November 19, 2022 hosted by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), http://www.dpaa.mil.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I met many family members who are trying to give the last measure of dignity to their loved ones sacrifice by identifying their remains so they may be given a military burial to honor their ultimate sacrifice.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioAoKsDUKvBzN05Fz3Th8yyNEDXlrpJSsHybOhXkRKj9f4SpuzLl04dAFLi1NECYEQ13VDAuszKkdCEM4rz7-l9oTrhIoFBjAbaXo88Tj8-RvsHpIYujdnQUxkk4_UzCja_ksuBLpDJgUVIsDyZx_dMIhYIm-s4qfCiBvh8kalsRM3H_N4/s3024/20221120_182939%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioAoKsDUKvBzN05Fz3Th8yyNEDXlrpJSsHybOhXkRKj9f4SpuzLl04dAFLi1NECYEQ13VDAuszKkdCEM4rz7-l9oTrhIoFBjAbaXo88Tj8-RvsHpIYujdnQUxkk4_UzCja_ksuBLpDJgUVIsDyZx_dMIhYIm-s4qfCiBvh8kalsRM3H_N4/w200-h200/20221120_182939%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Below, I will list numerous ways to begin to identify your loved one along with my own search for information about Frank's last mission. My prayer is that you do not go down the rabbit holes I did for decades and waste the time I did trying to locate information that is now readily available by contacting the resourses listed here.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">OK. There were not these resources in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 2000's, or 2010's...until in 2015 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency was created to provide answers for missing service members families. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That is all in the past. Given what I saw and heard at the November 19, 2022 DPAA meeting, they have changed their formerly bureaucratic and frankly, cold ways, to realize they are on a holy quest to recover remains of the best warriors willing to die in horrible battles to secure our freedoms.</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4FWkl22D2ekVPZc-LHK_ETfLdo0wt81At-GdQYI7E_--btB3LcZAIDG8n-kWEzC2YF-e7yj3aC_ROG4n4PbxOuY6YaKeCbWPgz2Vq1ZE8jJDXJx1au0XId7Gq0mzPtaPKSkPdWiVmQofJCUSHjjkkJ-wPFcwkq5W_km3NW3LKYMMN6AB/s3024/20221120_182744%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4FWkl22D2ekVPZc-LHK_ETfLdo0wt81At-GdQYI7E_--btB3LcZAIDG8n-kWEzC2YF-e7yj3aC_ROG4n4PbxOuY6YaKeCbWPgz2Vq1ZE8jJDXJx1au0XId7Gq0mzPtaPKSkPdWiVmQofJCUSHjjkkJ-wPFcwkq5W_km3NW3LKYMMN6AB/w200-h200/20221120_182744%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I say this because I sat through a session where family members spoke of their loved ones and the hole left in their lives by the passing of their loved ones with no resolution to their last time on earth or where they perished.</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So many families told stores of their loved ones. I will briefly note one that hit me hard.</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One elderly woman on oxygen machine support spoke of her uncle tying his boots and telling her at 5 and her sister at 3 that "He had to go away but would be back to see them." He was killed in combat in Vietnam and never returned.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCxN8u0MecOpzpCTOv9OZjVWDEDlAkV1BfdDWqQlJMmi10FRITNUsA2zpH69SyhN5XWBKTinKtr1RQnnpLJd5x-kZUicxHMiszBVv4wNdvlJ3erwM3-3Nr3X60QJZ16QAkuolZlzgEUrAljMnQTh1FJBqUh0CDs8o-rM_Vd66d2j3xo7AV/s3024/20221120_182713%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCxN8u0MecOpzpCTOv9OZjVWDEDlAkV1BfdDWqQlJMmi10FRITNUsA2zpH69SyhN5XWBKTinKtr1RQnnpLJd5x-kZUicxHMiszBVv4wNdvlJ3erwM3-3Nr3X60QJZ16QAkuolZlzgEUrAljMnQTh1FJBqUh0CDs8o-rM_Vd66d2j3xo7AV/w200-h200/20221120_182713%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">She spoke eloquently about seeing various funerals over the years of seeing funerals on TV of previously undefined remains of servicemen being returned for burial and praying each time, "Uncle Tim, you will be next."</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That is faith. That is God's miracle unfolding in belief that defies all odds. I salute her for her courage fully aware that it is civilians and family members who ensure the success of our warriors overseas.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj10NE8hH-0dhSZ1-wJLN3hNnpHGTHhqu5kS6jghXBqfsRiebISX94wJ9lAJ565p29lQmte88gUlWMFv-2PTqaUy-6qjwL8ZglO7p4mHG61zRk71M3nPHSRg3oF42KihOQLu9Vv0DLtI8bC1T_Bwk_Uw4-XKIC8LcbO183rVCrkc4xAV4r/s3024/20221120_182619%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj10NE8hH-0dhSZ1-wJLN3hNnpHGTHhqu5kS6jghXBqfsRiebISX94wJ9lAJ565p29lQmte88gUlWMFv-2PTqaUy-6qjwL8ZglO7p4mHG61zRk71M3nPHSRg3oF42KihOQLu9Vv0DLtI8bC1T_Bwk_Uw4-XKIC8LcbO183rVCrkc4xAV4r/w200-h200/20221120_182619%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Below are resources to help you find the story of your loved ones military record and final hours.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">God Bless You in your Search. May it end in successful identification and burial of their remains.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In Frank's case, the Historical Analyst who spoke to me was clear. She stated:</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1. The violence of the Imperial Japanese ack-ack hitting the bomb bay with 500 pound sacks of fuel and 500 pound bombs created such a blast no remains of the crew members inside, including Frank, could possible have provided any remains.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2. Even if their were remains, given that they were in the salt water Pacific Ocean for 80 years, nothing would remain to be recovered.</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Even with these facts, she said she was not an expert in underwater remains but would talk to the DPAA underwater diver remains experts to see if they believed any remains were recoverable from where Frank's crews was shot down.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUybS4NTM_GpnqC6MR9mTIcohkmZDPm-R1ju3dGBEPF9HGGgqhHyUiqvk7HlUBQo6dOH87cwydIqlJouQB_xDqBJp8YYfQencMSx847_QwtFK-Jqdpl4rZ39Sx2Du7erLM66sWWTNn5I7VJFSNmxUXXjcd6AeO-S7MxUOPl26hxxCwuXo/s3024/20221120_182552%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUybS4NTM_GpnqC6MR9mTIcohkmZDPm-R1ju3dGBEPF9HGGgqhHyUiqvk7HlUBQo6dOH87cwydIqlJouQB_xDqBJp8YYfQencMSx847_QwtFK-Jqdpl4rZ39Sx2Du7erLM66sWWTNn5I7VJFSNmxUXXjcd6AeO-S7MxUOPl26hxxCwuXo/w200-h200/20221120_182552%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I thanked her and said I understood she had a tough job, telling the majoring of MIA families that there were no remains to recover, and thanked her for her work, concern, professionalism, and effort.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I did speak at the Family Update to inform the 200 families who attended that I had Internet links on this post that could help them in their search. I said I brought my card that they were welcome to take to further their research.</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Feeling the sadness in the room, I tried to read my poem "Screaming Like a Banshee" (below) I wrote in my 20's that started me on this quest. Unfortunately, as I tried to locate it on my phone, the writing was too small to read. The Marine who held the mike for me to find it was kind to do so, but I was unable to bring it up on my phone to read it. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibXhCMyjx3uUpMDzDa_UooVKaYCOcqKCZsN7A6ZeZtzYzA6j0AwRS957aoSQEJ-uKnBavnqR63KT50pofFK-ZJ8jWpu5uLxcSFuTMZx1cygCEe9sEk748W6kJ5K3QiEj1D2CFKEOq-UER3CxPEqYgkTHkB6pZH-iXW3K3grVmGE54eDDTk/s3024/20221120_182642%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibXhCMyjx3uUpMDzDa_UooVKaYCOcqKCZsN7A6ZeZtzYzA6j0AwRS957aoSQEJ-uKnBavnqR63KT50pofFK-ZJ8jWpu5uLxcSFuTMZx1cygCEe9sEk748W6kJ5K3QiEj1D2CFKEOq-UER3CxPEqYgkTHkB6pZH-iXW3K3grVmGE54eDDTk/w200-h200/20221120_182642%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Embarrassing, but I apologized and said I had brought cards with my blog post about Frank (here) to help with their research. Many came up and took my card afterwards. And that made the embarrassment of not finding the poem worth it.</span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Special Note: Poetry can heal the soul. I offer the poem below in hopes they provide solace to all Veterans, but especially those who served in Afghanistan.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I wrote it for a friend who served two tours with the Army Special Forces in Vietnam. His niece's SEAL husband, after 20 years of duty most of which was in Afghanistan, and with three children, decided to end the pain by killing himself. Pete asked me to write a poem to read at the burial at Arlington. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It was one of the hardest poems I have ever written. I pray it provided some solace to his wife, three children, my friend, and their friends and family. It is below. It provided solace to the widow. My attempt to read "Screaming Like a Banshee" was to provide solace to the families a the POW/MIA DPAA Family Update in Norfolk, VA on November 19, 2022.<br /><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_KI4iXd1yduaf5ljYS87dCUdM-MtSYLPwj4Edf73R8OcZgiogLNhhu5RM2aChWLJxdcBEQL1T_wP0lX5n80Xr92liQM-yroDgrZBphzT0p3Wsr4iJSQckxWq2gbPp5L1knrn3zOeg0FtzSuToX_vr6dy_XJTR6QLnlNdfeRc6UeGLe7vh/s3024/20221120_182921%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_KI4iXd1yduaf5ljYS87dCUdM-MtSYLPwj4Edf73R8OcZgiogLNhhu5RM2aChWLJxdcBEQL1T_wP0lX5n80Xr92liQM-yroDgrZBphzT0p3Wsr4iJSQckxWq2gbPp5L1knrn3zOeg0FtzSuToX_vr6dy_XJTR6QLnlNdfeRc6UeGLe7vh/w200-h200/20221120_182921%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Special Note: Poetry can heal the soul. I offer my poems below relevant to this subject in hopes they provide solace to all Veterans, but especially those who served in Afghanistan.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The first one I wrote fore a friend who served two tours with the Army Special Forces in Vietnam. His niece's SEAL husband, after 20 years of duty most of which was in Afghanistan, and with three children, decided to end the pain by killing himself. Pete asked me to write a poem to read at the burial at Arlington. <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It was one of the hardest poems I have ever written. I pray it provided some solace to his wife, three children, my friend, and their friends and family. It is below.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p></span><h3><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Soft Feet Walk the Wet Green Grass at Arlington</span></span></h3><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Soft feet walk the wet green grass at Arlington,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Where a young mother cradles her baby and sons<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Weeping softly in death-caused grief and pain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As her warrior husband is interred and remembered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Many sing praises of his courage, bravery and strength</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Under enemy fire in fierce battles in foreign lands.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">She feels the baby move at her neck and cry out,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Hungry for food but unaware of the greater hunger.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The mother hears more words of praise from the chaplain,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">She tries to maintain, but the knot of grief grabs her throat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">She sees the two boys fidgeting and looking about<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And wonders how she will explain their father to them one day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Her pain is now to a degree she knows as few do<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The sword that has pierced her heart can never be removed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In this lifetime, and will stay with her until her own death:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Until then there are three children who must be raised.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As Christ hung on a Cross and Mary saw her son taken</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">So the Holy Spirit could be revealed to the human race,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">This mother must protect, nourish, love and kindle<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The spirit of these children co-created with her husband.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The wind blows and she looks up to see a man and a flag</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Telling her how grateful the nation is for her husband’s sacrifice.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">She knows now what every warrior’s widow must know,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The truth of his life work that became his mission:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">His love for her was the reason he was willing to die,<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">That sacrificial love the reason these children live.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">She cradles the baby and flag, takes the boys hands,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Stands and walks, despite the grief, to her destiny and duty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; 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</div></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comHahajima Retto, Hahajima, Ogasawara, Tokyo 100-2211, Japan26.6734996 142.1540754-1.6367342361788459 106.99782540000001 54.983733436178845 177.3103254tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-960645799552688122022-11-01T23:34:00.001-12:002023-01-15T03:13:10.305-12:00Civil Defense - Winning Practical and Tactical Steps <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2pBHLUkFYNJ__uEq-Eh46SDaU8ASsvtJeL8eld57gq8Zk9bRUbeVz0E5nBo3dySpu3NVV_-88Qv8E0hAibQ1CYc_Pc2Eo_TS2TRLk4k1-D58Mac9XJCrqNi8swEr3mV4vFuw/s2048/Robin+Bruce+at+Josh%2527s+Wedding.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2pBHLUkFYNJ__uEq-Eh46SDaU8ASsvtJeL8eld57gq8Zk9bRUbeVz0E5nBo3dySpu3NVV_-88Qv8E0hAibQ1CYc_Pc2Eo_TS2TRLk4k1-D58Mac9XJCrqNi8swEr3mV4vFuw/w150-h200/Robin+Bruce+at+Josh%2527s+Wedding.jpg" width="150" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Civil Defense has been around since the Old Testament. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And for good reason.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It will save your life, your family members, your neighbors, your state, and your nation. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Look it up.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is my <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/sitchradio/ep-83-children-and-civil-defense?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=user%3A10696393&utm_term=episode_title" target="_blank">Civil Defense Radio </a>interview that provides a good introduction the field of civil defense and how it can help you and your family prepare for and respond to natural and manmade disasters.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here, I will explore practical and tactical steps to win in Civil Defense.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Brief Definition of Civil Defense</span></h3><h2><o:p></o:p></h2><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Civil defense as used here includes all the tasks taken to ensure the safety of citizens from attack (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) as well as from the negative impacts of natural disasters.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">At the very core of civil defense is the protection of children. In the United States, it is mostly done by unpaid volunteers in support of front-line emergency personnel with oversight by the government.<o:p></o:p><br />For background, see the <a href="http://www.coldwar.org/">Wold War Museum</a> and the <a href="https://titanmissilemuseum.org/">Titan Missile Museum</a> websites.</div><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Civil Defense History: WWII to Today</span></h3><h2><o:p></o:p></h2><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglS7-2Tvh0X-GRcE-b4t0mlEtzEGzPh3i2voK866zxsiIehIbuSNRYuvdbXgVPzhCYAyZ0lhH20jT0ygN9sScSCfYtZakhWJMbKJ0ZphtuL-ktU_wGphVZHtYfmpdn2rE4tdo/s1600/IMG_2614.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglS7-2Tvh0X-GRcE-b4t0mlEtzEGzPh3i2voK866zxsiIehIbuSNRYuvdbXgVPzhCYAyZ0lhH20jT0ygN9sScSCfYtZakhWJMbKJ0ZphtuL-ktU_wGphVZHtYfmpdn2rE4tdo/s200/IMG_2614.JPG" width="200" /></a>Civil defense for children has been practiced from the beginning of time, but here we will briefly analyze civil defense from the end of World War II until today. I will then offer several ways to help children with various aspects of good civil defense planning, supplies, and tactics.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">From the end of World War II through the 1950’s and 1960’s, the emphasis was on training children on how to “duck and cover” or find shelter from incoming nuclear weapons.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">There was also an emphasis on building shelters, often in the basement or backyard. Fallout shelters were built because nuclear war at the time were a good possibility and they were one way to reduce the loss of life should the unthinkable happen.<br /><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">For the Duck and Cover film that was widely shown to children in the 1950’s and 1960’s, see: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWH4tWkZpPU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWH4tWkZpPU</a></span>). For fallout shelter videos, see: History Brief: For Family Fallout Shelters, see the History Brief at:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLoiQ9pZjfk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLoiQ9pZjfk</a></span>)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Today there are many YouTube videos mocking these videos, viewing them as laughable because the nuclear war they prepared for never happened or the shelters and supplies gathered were never going to save anyone.<br /><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBh1BPwUORGUoZUU3eCnuPghQTYdnDOv_VnOuz-k95TNyukDNEVUe064vEpcctda-8zD06GcGmWqATIxSwhDai6JdftrCDAxqKVe8SchCOaQol7rFViA0fL1jg3ULkeJiZQE/s1600/IMG_2634.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1493" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBh1BPwUORGUoZUU3eCnuPghQTYdnDOv_VnOuz-k95TNyukDNEVUe064vEpcctda-8zD06GcGmWqATIxSwhDai6JdftrCDAxqKVe8SchCOaQol7rFViA0fL1jg3ULkeJiZQE/s200/IMG_2634.JPG" width="200" /></a>I disagree.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Given the international tensions at the time and how close we came to nuclear war (I know a Marine who was in Guantanamo Bay and another who was in Florida ready to deploy during the Cuban Missile Crisis…both assure me we were one call away from a nuclear war at that time), those preparations were prudent.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Moreover, preparing to live by preparing to deal with known contingencies (civil defense) has been essential to human survival for thousands of years.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">And before laughing too hard, consider that citizens then knew the threats and took measures to prepare to meet and overcome them. How many citizens can say the same today? Witness the panic buying as hurricane Florence approaches.</div></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Physical and Health Civil Defense</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Build your immune system with walking, exercise, sunshine, Vitamin D, Play and Fun.</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> This is critical to maintaining your health to counter the effects of virus, germs, bacteria and the other ancient enemies of mankind. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Rinse your mouth with <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2020/12/goat-milk-soap-and-hydrogen-peroxide-to.html" target="_blank">hydrogen peroxide daily</a>. </b>It kills germs, bacteria and viruses. Notice your dental hygienist now makes you rinse with hydrogen peroxide before working on your teeth. They know.</span></span></div><div><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUk2quSQK_HLBHlIOCut0exptIonnGuCDK3-LeQtWdzaq3755POECC4TJyEMuj48hjlyHKpqee5PLYu5Bf7TNwgUGAowKvCaqU4dZRfQWQgNRjPN9aAelMGmrJ_CaIOT0zCbs/w200-h150/20200425_093418.jpg" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Back in March of 2020, our local mayor shut down children's playgrounds and put police tape around the equipment.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I asked him why and told him he was doing the worst thing possible, he said, "This is what Governor Hogan ordered."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I said he could show courage and stand up to the Governor as the Governor was compromised by CCP money, he threatened me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I know because I donated $3,000 of my personal emergency fund to supply the Mt. Airy Police and the Maryland State Troopers at the Frederick barracks with proper PPE (gloves, masks, etc.) from North America Rescue.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, this same Governor appeared in the news stating he was supplying Maryland first responders with PPE. False.</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Result? Children who should have been building their immune system at the playground instead were isolated at home and played computer games.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As <a href="http://www.firesigntheatre.com/" target="_blank">Firesign Theatre Radio</a> taught us: "Everything you know (about the Wuhan Flu) is wrong!"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now that this pandemic is ending, consider what was done correctly and what was done wrong. These lessons can be applied in the future.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUk2quSQK_HLBHlIOCut0exptIonnGuCDK3-LeQtWdzaq3755POECC4TJyEMuj48hjlyHKpqee5PLYu5Bf7TNwgUGAowKvCaqU4dZRfQWQgNRjPN9aAelMGmrJ_CaIOT0zCbs/s4032/20200425_093418.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Use goat milk soap: It will</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://tacda.org/how-soap-destroys-covid-19/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;" target="_blank">melt the fat</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> in the fat anneals of the Wuhan Flu. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkprvc19wDw_Vbv7X0Fw1QjP5YN5lnG8h_m73amdsd4grgWCe8Jsbp8jSKcoyv7FZ43KqmoVhJBPuq6K4IOOsT6Z66hV0uJe8RiODCdkHvE2vU_SOEH5o6yyhHzx4nNkjp8bg/s1600/IMG_2590.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkprvc19wDw_Vbv7X0Fw1QjP5YN5lnG8h_m73amdsd4grgWCe8Jsbp8jSKcoyv7FZ43KqmoVhJBPuq6K4IOOsT6Z66hV0uJe8RiODCdkHvE2vU_SOEH5o6yyhHzx4nNkjp8bg/s200/IMG_2590.JPG" width="200" /></a>Have an <a href="https://tacda.org/product/emp-resistant-waterproof-usb-drive/" target="_blank">EMP-Hardened thumb drive</a> and a <a href="https://www.americanwhistle.com/" target="_blank">Whistle</a> on your key ring: </b></span><span>After manmade or natural disasters, most small businesses go out of business due to the destruction of their data...not the event. Keep an <a href="https://tacda.org/product/emp-resistant-waterproof-usb-drive/" target="_blank">EMP-hardened thumb drive</a> on your key ring. Use it to back up your data daily.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Keep a <a href="https://www.americanwhistle.com/" target="_blank">whistle</a> on your key ring to contact others in an emergency.</b> Purchase a few extras to protect your girlfriend, wife, daughter, niece, aunt, grand mother, etc.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Buy WaterBricks: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Do not ever be in this situation: Water. Water. Water...everywhere, but not a drop to drink. <b>Buy </b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://tacda.org/product-category/emergency-water-storage-containers/" target="_blank">WaterBricks</a> now to have plenty of clean water for you, your family and your neighbors.</b> See <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2019/07/waterbricks-for-safe-water-storage.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2013/09/waterbricks-for-emergencies.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><b>Use My Blog Posts to Learn Natural Disaster CD:</b></span><span><b> </b>If you need to learn about tornadoes, see <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/11/ef-1-tornado-lessons-from-mt-airy-md.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2012/05/social-media-lessons-from-joplin.html" target="_blank">here</a>. For hurricanes, see <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-handle-huge-hurricaine.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-to-prepare-for-huge-hurricane.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.mountairymd.org/mayor-declares-state-of-emergency-for-irene/" target="_blank">here</a>. For fires, see <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2012/01/it-was-nothing.html" target="_blank">here</a>. For snow storms, see <a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/03/civil-defense-in-1958-and-2018-mt-airy.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Drive to a fire house if your car or truck breaks down</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1968" data-original-width="1968" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVDADvYkimtlRCUAfP_RUjaW4wC-FxeSlBG8gohGvrSyrDxom_qkuCFeN_7B7hrLPfIThj_p6h2vAFQk0EaXEK-EMpcFKjFlQXH0iWi-02V6BmmPf6beagbmQJtnfOa_TDhE/w200-h200/20200419_082011.jpg" width="200" /></b>Fire houses have men who know engines, electrical systems, software, tools, and what you need to get your truck or car fixed fast. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Drive to a clinic or hospital if your body breaks down:</b> </span><span>Hospitals and clinics have men and women who know the mechanics of the body and healing and what you need to get your body fixed quick.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span><div><span><b>Practice Smiling:</b> </span><span>You can actually trick the brain into positive thoughts by faking a smile, kind of a variation on fake it until you make it. I kid you not. </span><span>Practice smiling when at your computer, watching TV and videos, or driving.</span></div><div><span>Your body sends messages to the brain of happiness, endorphins are released, and you </span><a href="http://www.botoxfordepression.com/" target="_blank">prevent anxiety, depression, and suicide</a><span>. Vets...pay attention.</span></div><div><span>Just like a shot of </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395613003567" target="_blank">botox</a><span> can fool the brain into happiness, avoid anxiety, and PTSD, so too with just smiling. </span><span>Try it for a week. </span><span>You will be amazed at the results.</span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>It is OK to Cry:</b> </span><span>Grieve when you have to. That includes crying to get out your physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, and other pain. </span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmmD0R8PyjinRd7S0HYZXH-8TaC6CGDLFOHAKhNhoaIW1VHaLSROHDalTv6PgkMefx_Kc7gAmT-1UO_LiK40Rpdn8L8qDP8KV981IyzgeGx8r2TkpXpaoi0TktqgxbLbzHyNE/s4032/20200401_191530.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmmD0R8PyjinRd7S0HYZXH-8TaC6CGDLFOHAKhNhoaIW1VHaLSROHDalTv6PgkMefx_Kc7gAmT-1UO_LiK40Rpdn8L8qDP8KV981IyzgeGx8r2TkpXpaoi0TktqgxbLbzHyNE/w150-h200/20200401_191530.jpg" width="150" /></a><span>God gave you a gift to relieve you of the pain...crying.</span></div><div><span>In disasters, fights, combat, and assaults I have been in, it is not unusual for the best to absorb the pain, ignore the emotions, and get the mission accomplished. </span></div><div><span>But the pain does not dissipate unless you work to make it go away.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Crying is a valuable tool to do that. Choose your time. Grieve. And you will be able to move on.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">For proof, read <a href="https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/10/14/reviewing-touching-the-dragon" target="_blank">Touching the Dragon: and Other Techniques for Surviving Life's Wars by James Hatch</a>. It is all in there.</span></div></span></div></span></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Spiritual Civil Defense</span></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><b>God can do for you what you cannot do for yourself:</b> </span><span>No one lasts long in Civil Defense without depending on God's help. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Basically, if you depend on your own skill stack and do not tap God's Skill Stack, you will burn out</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So...Rejoice always. Pray always. Rejoice always. Pray always. Rejoice always. Pray always. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bolder;">1 Thessalonians 5:16-18</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrpVaPxfblJT_KBFvCBjF_RrMQje4xass37ZLo8tFvkOvSGxb-qLM3_t1wv_fpURIYqzvBW-G1tTBg-22onXMwMEPwgWDrUDLK3dSsyMMn9R010-z5NvnUDE7hnfs062wgMkU/s1600/IMG_2589.JPG" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrpVaPxfblJT_KBFvCBjF_RrMQje4xass37ZLo8tFvkOvSGxb-qLM3_t1wv_fpURIYqzvBW-G1tTBg-22onXMwMEPwgWDrUDLK3dSsyMMn9R010-z5NvnUDE7hnfs062wgMkU/s200/IMG_2589.JPG" width="200" /></a> – "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><b>Share your Civil Defense gifts with others:</b></span><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It is the Golden Rule. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>You have a knowledge that saves lives and property. Share it with others. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>You serve with and through others in Civil Defense as in all earthly pursuits. Loners do not last long in Civil Defense. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div><span><b>Practice Chivalry:</b> </span><span>Sacrifice for the <a href="https://tacda.org/children-and-civil-defense/" target="_blank">women and children</a> you love.</span></div><div><span><b>You survive with and through others:</b></span><span> In manmade and natural disasters, loners go first. Do not be a loner. Reach out to others. More importantly, know who the others are who you need to survive and establish relationships with them now.</span></div><div><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-l0SUw1sm1aCYqm4RYpmdgG8Ozcx4xW-XzXcONJ6-sZlZ7N5CooVEVfR824UqxoeUMVchnM4I__qLlVq7_oqZGjujn5ueFYdCmGa7aGnuZy90OWhgf6EoKLXDVCzlDRQQcJU/s1600/IMG_2613.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-l0SUw1sm1aCYqm4RYpmdgG8Ozcx4xW-XzXcONJ6-sZlZ7N5CooVEVfR824UqxoeUMVchnM4I__qLlVq7_oqZGjujn5ueFYdCmGa7aGnuZy90OWhgf6EoKLXDVCzlDRQQcJU/s200/IMG_2613.JPG" width="200" /></a>Catholics know your faith: Remember the 7 sacraments, practice them, and enjoy the grace-filled life and joy of being Christian. </span></div><div><span>Go to Mass. Receive Communion. Make a good confession. Get your children and grandchildren baptized.</span></div><div><span>And...there are sacramentals that can help you get through. Say your rosary. Wear a scapular and blessed saints medals along with the BVM medal. Listen to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xuUx49qiKQ" target="_blank">Father Altman</a>. Listen to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DwRjVGjjtE" target="_blank">Taylor Marshall</a>. Avoid the Marxist Jesuit pope. Keep FAITH before fear.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6KjAvVRYzHs8Twf8BFdZyLp7EGZyCv1K94Bu32UL0mxD-0Fv5IUDuvNINbxDpd73ES_GnnDvbNfod7c0Sd5wNnRcjKDORfSGDV8T0lxEg0FrGny6zuPM5FPyEaeY7HgfPHs/s4032/20200331_143926.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6KjAvVRYzHs8Twf8BFdZyLp7EGZyCv1K94Bu32UL0mxD-0Fv5IUDuvNINbxDpd73ES_GnnDvbNfod7c0Sd5wNnRcjKDORfSGDV8T0lxEg0FrGny6zuPM5FPyEaeY7HgfPHs/w150-h200/20200331_143926.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><span><b>Depend on Jesus.</b> The government will not save you. </span></div><div><span>FEMA will not save you. Do not be that guy in the 9th Ward in New Orleans saying, "Where's FEMA? Where's FEMA? Where's the Man!" </span></div><div>The Man is not coming. </div><div>Politicians and bureaucrats will not save you or your family. </div><div>You must save yourself. </div><div>This is a Civil Defense fact I have witnessed for 35 years.</div><div>Take measures to prepare yourself and your family for natural and manmade disasters NOW. </div><div>They will continue to strike as they have for thousands of years. </div><div>Chance favors the prepared.</div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Strategic Civil Defense </span></b></h2><div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPCWTzsPGml9U45Y9sCHR0RDnZHlYr7g1Vsi295Av45A5xm5QncbH3kR4ro8HSosh2gLS4uXm9UgxgQiCoUjX-DXcJagGrdK3bSOv7Yz_XqbsgodCMghzkhR6EDtT5qA-wkg0/s2048/IMG_20201213_234451_142+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1970" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPCWTzsPGml9U45Y9sCHR0RDnZHlYr7g1Vsi295Av45A5xm5QncbH3kR4ro8HSosh2gLS4uXm9UgxgQiCoUjX-DXcJagGrdK3bSOv7Yz_XqbsgodCMghzkhR6EDtT5qA-wkg0/w193-h200/IMG_20201213_234451_142+%25282%2529.jpg" width="193" /></a></div><b>Introduction to Civil Defense: </b>Here is my <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/sitchradio/ep-83-children-and-civil-defense?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=user%3A10696393&utm_term=episode_title" target="_blank">Civil Defense Radio </a>interview that provides a good introduction the field of civil defense and how it can help you and your family prepare for and respond to natural and manmade disasters.</div><div>Visit the <a href="https://www.nationalmuseumofcivildefense.org/" target="_blank">National Museum of Civil Defense </a>to discover the rich history of Civil Defense planning, equipment, strategy and policies in the United States.</div><div>We just had our first <a href="https://www.facebook.com/USCivilDefense/" target="_blank">NMCD</a> board of directors meeting to create a valuable experience to learn the art and everyday practice of Civil Defense.</div><div>The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/USCivilDefense/" target="_blank">NMCD Facebook page</a> is absolutely brimming with Civil Defense history, equipment, strategy, tactics and knowledge. </div><div>Visit the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/USCivilDefense/" target="_blank">NMCD Facebook page</a> today.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Details will Save Your Life:</b> When I did physical training in the United States Air Force Officer Training School in San Antonia, Texas, a young enlisted guy would lead us from a stage. Over the public address system, he would repeat over and over again, "DETAILS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE!!!" .</div><div>Thirty five years later I have learned the truth of that saying.</div><div>Many times.</div><div>Details like wearing the proper foot gear on your feet to carry you quickly during a manmade or natural disaster.</div><div>It is essential to your safety and life. </div><div>For example, I use <a href="https://www.keenfootwear.com/" target="_blank">Keen boots</a> and <a href="http://www.whisperingmeadowsalpaca.com/store/vendorItemPage.aspx?id=14443&title=cozy-shoeboot-inserts" target="_blank">alpaca inserts</a> to assure proper footing in any situation. Both are American made.</div><div>It is a small detail, but comfortable, sturdy, dependable boots and a soft, germ fighting insert to wick away sweat are essential to make sure I can perform at an optimal level in an emergency.</div><div>Think of other details you need to address to survive, make a list, and address those details.</div><div>Your family depends on you so prepare in advance.</div><div>"DETAILS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE!!!"</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Poetslife Civil Defense Resources</h3><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html" target="_blank"></a><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2005/12/frank-j-curley-mia-usaaf-in-memoriam.html" target="_blank">1st Lt. MIA Frank J. Curley USAAF</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2014/03/active-shooter-bomb-threat-of-just.html" target="_blank">Active Shooter Bomb Threat or Rumor</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2015/05/cbrne-low-probability-high-impact.html" target="_blank">CBRNe: Low Probability High Impact</a></div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html" target="_blank">Children and Civil Defense</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2019/09/church-emergency-response-plan-example.html" target="_blank">Church Emergency Response Plan Example</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/09/church-tabletop-exercise-one-potential.html" target="_blank">Church Tabletop Exercise Template - Active Shooter</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/09/church-tabletop-exercise-two-category-4.html" target="_blank">Church Tabletop Exercise Template - Category 4 Hurricane</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2019/04/civil-defense-uavs.html" target="_blank">Civil Defense Drone UAVs</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/03/civil-defense-in-1958-and-2018-mt-airy.html" target="_blank">Civil Defense in 1958 and 2018: Mt. Airy Test Case</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2020/01/civil-defense-lessons-of-wuhan-flu.html" target="_blank">Civil Defense Lessons of the Wuhan Coronavirus Pandemic</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2019/01/civil-defense-museum.html" target="_blank">Civil Defense Museum</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2020/04/subscribestar-resources.html" target="_blank">Civil Defense PeriscopeTV Stress Test</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2021/01/civil-defense-practicaland-tactical.html" target="_blank">Civil Defense - Winning Practical and Tactical Steps</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/03/creating-church-emergency-response-plan.html" target="_blank">Creating a Church Emergency Response Plan</a></div><div><a href="https://www.thei3p.org/" target="_blank">Cybersecurity: Keeping the Pipe Open</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2019/01/duck-and-cover-ndsu.html" target="_blank">Duck and Cover NDSU</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2017/03/isis-use-of-social-media-as-force.html" target="_blank">ISIS Use of Social Media as a Force Multiplier</a></div><div><a href="https://www.airfiltersdelivered.com/c/disaster-preparedness" target="_blank">Natural Disaster Preparedness</a></div><div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2020/12/old-timey-hardware-survival-stores.html" target="_blank">Old Timey Hardware Survival Store</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2015/02/social-media-as-force-multiplier.html" target="_blank">Social Media as a Force Multiplier</a></div><div><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2017/10/when-state-hackers-take-aim-at-power.html" target="_blank">When State Hackers Take Aim at the Power Grid</a></div><div><br /></div></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">TACDA Resources</h3><div><a href="http://TACDA.ORG" target="_blank">TACDA.ORG</a> has disaster education coursework, years of the Journal of Civil Defense you can research, a blog, and many, many resources you can use to learn Civil Defense for you and your family. Please do.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://www.angieslist.com/articles/how-prepare-winter-storm.htm" target="_blank">To Prepare for a Winter Storm</a></div><div><a href="https://www.yourstoragefinder.com/self-storage-disaster-prep" target="_blank">Self Storage and Disaster Preparedness</a></div><div><a href="https://www.couponchief.com/guides/guide_to_saving_money_on_disaster_preparation" target="_blank">How to Save Money on Emergency Supplies</a></div><div><a href="https://www.thezebra.com/insurance-news/4674/emergency-preparedness-seniors-disabled/" target="_blank">Emergency Preparedness for Seniors and the Disabled</a></div><div><a href="https://www.redfin.com/blog/storm-spotting-for-children/" target="_blank">Storm Spotting for Children - A Valuable Life Skill</a></div><div><a href="https://fortifiedestate.com/burglary-calculator/" target="_blank">How to Harden your House Against a Burglar </a></div><div><a href="https://blog.strongtie.com/5-tips-homeowners-living-earthquake-zones/" target="_blank">Harden your Home for Earthquakes</a></div><div><a href="https://www.thealaskalife.com/blog/what-to-do-in-an-earthquake-and-after-its-over/" target="_blank">How to Survive an Earthquake</a></div><div><a href="https://www.nationalmuseumofcivildefense.org/" target="_blank">National Museum of Civil Defense</a></div><div><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/about/partnerships/office-of-partner-engagement/active-shooter-resources/responding-to-an-active-shooter-crisis-situation" target="_blank">How to Respond to an Active Shooter</a></div><div><a href="https://montemlife.com/how-to-make-a-survival-kit/" target="_blank">How to Make a Hiker's Survival Kit</a></div><div><a href="https://www.homecity.com/disaster-safety-for-renters" target="_blank">Disaster Safety for Renters</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsjiLHh0YwNUbVSDAW-f79aMqWVkWVoef2EDRM_KoXhlhlq7DfJVN5pkDEWQ-rzM6PK3yDXusfW2qlRVlofQZLHxfTBRFTvsbcXURoksF4_PHQ_wj8guzkROIwY2WCdGITps/s2048/original_file_home.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsjiLHh0YwNUbVSDAW-f79aMqWVkWVoef2EDRM_KoXhlhlq7DfJVN5pkDEWQ-rzM6PK3yDXusfW2qlRVlofQZLHxfTBRFTvsbcXURoksF4_PHQ_wj8guzkROIwY2WCdGITps/w150-h200/original_file_home.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Get some historical perspective about what we are going through in the United States now. It happened in France long ago.</div><div><a href="http://www.navispictures.com/category_s/34.htm" target="_blank">The War of the Vendee</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZo25_b3bWTP_SfCTPMjNXnKg4cwUZySM5dELfhslyV_fVvDrGgRQwsIFhNiBXjWmMTAkNgZhYw_XtUQMv6fNoPDT4oQquqye2bKw_cbEiUZRHU_ei07pYI8wj-k_SIIpNmqU/s1600/IMG_2581.JPG" style="clear: left; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZo25_b3bWTP_SfCTPMjNXnKg4cwUZySM5dELfhslyV_fVvDrGgRQwsIFhNiBXjWmMTAkNgZhYw_XtUQMv6fNoPDT4oQquqye2bKw_cbEiUZRHU_ei07pYI8wj-k_SIIpNmqU/s200/IMG_2581.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>P.S. Here are <a href="http://orau.org/ptp/collection/Atomicposters/atomicmovieposters.htm" target="_blank">fun atomic posters. </a></div><div><a href="http://orau.org/ptp/collection/Atomicposters/atomicmovieposters.htm" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div><br /></div></span></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-5906602353582099832022-10-27T04:30:00.000-12:002022-10-29T17:58:07.906-12:001721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic Lessons for the 2020-22 Red Chinese Virus<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmxhcMxXB6Wjpjz-dcdDGwP2_nin-er9TvO3vvvu8LVAzz0xpcdVKp9v3ULXExM65K3viS5-iOObiEn1v97oz03hKXQZV8HTT13806L-IL2Uaun-YrfkmYkeR_Hd8tT-TH-NY/s1465/IMG_0474.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="1465" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmxhcMxXB6Wjpjz-dcdDGwP2_nin-er9TvO3vvvu8LVAzz0xpcdVKp9v3ULXExM65K3viS5-iOObiEn1v97oz03hKXQZV8HTT13806L-IL2Uaun-YrfkmYkeR_Hd8tT-TH-NY/w200-h179/IMG_0474.JPG" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.keplers.com/book/9781476783116" target="_blank">The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic that Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss</a>, published in 2016, offers so many lessons that apply to the Red Chinese use of a bioweapon against the world. I explore just a few below.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1. The Freedom and Liberty to Pursue Knowledge, Including Medical Knowledge, is Critical.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the Fever of 1721 Coss describes how smallpox broke out in the city of Boston. But rather than as in the past when people just had to allow the horrors rage through their families and kill, disfigure and blind their loved ones, the Puritan preacher Cotton Mather was able to convince the one Boston doctor, Zabdiel Boylston, to experiment with a smallpox vaccination. As with the Covid 19 pandemic today, the medical establishment and politically powerful at the time tried to stop Dr. Boylston, but he persevered, saved hundreds, and began a process that eventually led to the worldwide eradication of smallpox. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2. The Human Spirit Triumphs over Authoritarianism and Tyranny</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgos3SMf6CMYLRKRh_ujHu-MucRmNDQVrjzWN4HaNJOraptWeIk5icbyMvUbFfBSEnJe69FnUks2U8Ay_vrCmGzuUR83y8BeCd8uZpXlaQqNO-OIVHMVreXz0M8r65tFVWpHtA/s2048/IMG_0500.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgos3SMf6CMYLRKRh_ujHu-MucRmNDQVrjzWN4HaNJOraptWeIk5icbyMvUbFfBSEnJe69FnUks2U8Ay_vrCmGzuUR83y8BeCd8uZpXlaQqNO-OIVHMVreXz0M8r65tFVWpHtA/w200-h133/IMG_0500.JPG" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A highly trained medical immigrant Scot named William Douglas was contacted by Cotton Mather and other doctors with a paper that explained how the Greeks in Constantinople used a smallpox inoculation, and the example of a Boston African slave named Onesimus who also used the same technique successfully like the Greeks, William Douglas dismissed it as quackery. And he ordered all the other doctors to ignore it. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Did Boylston stop? Temporarily. But as sick and terrified patients kept showing up at his house begging to be inoculated yet to be struck or to prevent full blown smallpox, he treated them. Even when he was cursed and threatened by other Boston citizens who agreed with William Douglas, he continued to treat sick patients and to inoculate healthy patients. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There was even an assassination attempt against Cotton Mather on November 14, 1721. Someone threw an incendiary iron ball and lit fuse inside his house where he was allowing three patients from outside Boston, against official lock down orders. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite the enormous pressure from the medical establishment and local government, Boylston continued to inoculate and treat Boston's citizens.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When Williams found out that Boylston was continuing to perform the procedure, he organized a kangaroo court to forbid him from continuing under penalty of imprisonment. Boylston waited a few days, and then continued to fight the authoritarianism and tyranny of the medical establishment and politicians by treating additional patients.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_y-J5Ma96KY5VGV4wPbf0_GHhF5LpyzynP4G3iE5zwtsMcq4Eq4-A-jTC2hhqc2EyXpv6PjHQi1YepvTi-EmSX5winPnnydv6zy7ToH4eSaOz8bfeAfea-IGg0UvQJ8VPD2s/s2048/IMG_0478.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2016" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_y-J5Ma96KY5VGV4wPbf0_GHhF5LpyzynP4G3iE5zwtsMcq4Eq4-A-jTC2hhqc2EyXpv6PjHQi1YepvTi-EmSX5winPnnydv6zy7ToH4eSaOz8bfeAfea-IGg0UvQJ8VPD2s/w197-h200/IMG_0478.JPG" width="197" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> 3. The Wealthy Boston Merchants Hid the Smallpox </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Coss describes how the wealthy merchants in Boston then kept the lid on the smallpox outbreak to prevent an interruption in the export and import business. The merchants, their representatives in the local assembly and the newspapers, pushed the lie that the lethality of smallpox in Boston was exaggerated and steadily diminishing. They did this over and over until the very end of the epidemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How truthful have current merchants been about the Red Chinese virus?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4. The Law of Unintended Consequences Applies to all Natural and Manmade Disasters</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The 1721 Boston Smallpox, like all natural and manmade disasters, resulted in unintended consequences. Coss describes how James Franklin, along with his indentured servant Benjamin Franklin, revolutionized and began to practice freedom of the press. Benjamin Franklin was thrown in prison for challenging the authority of the Crown. But he continued to fight, as did his younger brother Ben. So, too, did Elisha Cooke, a populist politician who took on the Crown. Cooke had dinners with a young Sam Adams who liked the ideas of freedom and the natural rights of man that he learned at dinners with him.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWB7rwfMTGM6jdHzYM98I4PlOBWuJVqVnyHFDIItccJSihuJX0oiEVnJJLAt8-sUlrIgwzsbrLClvvwGC7AWnb3EvzcaSxspdLauqEerzKi3AQGIpcNRw0cPCPYgDTEJEQ40/s2048/IMG_0482.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWB7rwfMTGM6jdHzYM98I4PlOBWuJVqVnyHFDIItccJSihuJX0oiEVnJJLAt8-sUlrIgwzsbrLClvvwGC7AWnb3EvzcaSxspdLauqEerzKi3AQGIpcNRw0cPCPYgDTEJEQ40/w200-h133/IMG_0482.JPG" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As today, the more repressive, untruthful and authoritarian the medical and political establishment became in Boston in 1721, the more the citizens resisted and supported Boylston. That process will repeat in 2022.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I encourage you to read the Fever of 1721 for the lessons it offers on disease, panic, lying, greed, authoritarianism, and the eventual triumph of freedom and truth.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As we come to the end of the virility of the Red Chinese Virus, the 1721 Boston smallpox epidemic offers these and many other lessons. We survived that one due to the ingenuity, courage, creativity, and grit of the American mind, spirit, and medical advances.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The same will happen again.</span></p>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-51259279021620845702022-10-23T09:40:00.005-12:002023-09-02T01:42:33.186-12:00Fentanyl Poison: CCP Revenge for the Opium Wars<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjptgHgQZwACgxZYNPYeIZYCkloG8nuA3tSrIMiTmuBAn9SH9NMxQjDUh25HWjsZruh4t7hHgKpFTQUw99ET3gyXRGMsYlhEY7JNFfTquryEX1rKINNb4R6XR6N1HX0rxD8Toz6eQpxe9Ymlj6Llt_lIVIaEzIc8CbQMTz35inikAnx2bA3" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="181" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjptgHgQZwACgxZYNPYeIZYCkloG8nuA3tSrIMiTmuBAn9SH9NMxQjDUh25HWjsZruh4t7hHgKpFTQUw99ET3gyXRGMsYlhEY7JNFfTquryEX1rKINNb4R6XR6N1HX0rxD8Toz6eQpxe9Ymlj6Llt_lIVIaEzIc8CbQMTz35inikAnx2bA3" width="217" /></a></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CCP Fentanyl Poisoning and Dead Americans</span></h3><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Communist Chinese Party (CCP) has flooded the U.S. with </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/parents-should-be-alert-for-colorful-fentanyl-pills-on-halloween-unlikely-to-be-found-in-candy-sheriff" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">"candy" rainbow fentanyl</a><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">They </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">want revenge for the </span><a href="https://infogalactic.com/info/Opium_Wars" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Opium Wars</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> and killing Americans with fentanyl poison is their chosen strategy to extract that revenge.</span></span></div><div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Last year, the CCP killed over 140,000 American's using fentanyl poison. For how serious this threat is, see <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/record-amount-of-fentanyl-meth-seized-in-arizona-texas_4728822.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Having killed millions worldwide when they released the Red Chinese Covviddeee 19 bioweapon <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-americans-bankrolled-the-chinese-regimes-war-against-us-frank-gaffney_4687389.html?utm_source=ai&utm_medium=search" target="_blank">by sending 5 million bioagents to every nation</a>, this 140,000 number may seem like peanuts soon.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">American Moms: Beware Fentanyl</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You do not want to be the mom who loses your precious child to Fentanyl poisoning. You do not want to be the mom who wakes up and go to sleep every day thinking about the beautiful child you lost to CCP fentanyl poisoning.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The CCP is flooding the United States with <a href="https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/in-the-news/capito-warns-of-rainbow-fentanyl-candy-as-halloween-nears" target="_blank">Fentanyl pills, including my state of West Virginia</a>, <a href="https://hartfordhospital.org/about-hh/news-center/news-detail?articleId=44733&publicid=395" target="_blank">most disguised as candy</a>, often as as "rainbow fentenyl" like Skittles, SweeTarts, and Nerds. This is no accident. They understand that children will innocently eat candy with fentanyl and kill themselves.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And fentanyl is just <a href="https://foreigndesknews.com/us/zombie-drug-is-wreaking-havoc-across-the-u-s/" target="_blank">one of many drugs </a>the CCP is making available to drug addicts.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If this sounds fantastical, enter the term "fentanyl candy" in a search engine, preferably <a href="https://brave.com/" target="_blank">Brave</a>, and you will see many articles about</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">about the <a href="https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2022/08/30/dea-warns-brightly-colored-fentanyl-used-target-young-americans" target="_blank">Drug Enforcement Agency</a> (DEA) and local law enforcement seizures of CCP candy fentanyl poison.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Be aware the CCP has plans to increase that number of dead Americans from Fentanyl poison overdoses exponentially.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For more background on how the CCP accomplishes killing foreigners, especially Americans, see my civil defense <a href="https://www.subscribestar.com/poetslife" target="_blank">SubscribeStar posts</a> about their methods spreading the Red Chinese virus death.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How the CCP Floods the United States with Fentanyl</span></h3><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The CCP manufactures the base elements for fentanyl in Wuhan, China. Then they ship them to Mexico where they are made into pills for distribution</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> and sale in North America. Or, American's order them <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or92kkwIAzI" target="_blank">online from CCP-owned companies</a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To accomplish this, the CCP is in a business partnership with the Mexican drug and human trafficking cartels. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Both are in it for money, but the CCP has the added goal of <a href="http://theepochtimes.com/the-chinese-communist-party-is-at-war-with-america_4725321.html" target="_blank">taking down the United States of America without firing a single shot</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Unlike us, they understand the lessons of 10,000 years of <a href="https://fee.org/articles/lessons-from-livy-on-how-great-civilizations-rise-and-fall/" target="_blank">civilization</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you doubt this, read what their own military planners have said for 25 years about <a href="https://infogalactic.com/info/Unrestricted_Warfare" target="_blank">unrestricted warfare</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Unlike American military planners who think and plan in terms of months and years, the <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-chinese-communist-party-is-waging-war-against-america-are-they-winning_4719396.html" target="_blank">CCP uses the ancient way of war</a> they have practiced for 10,000 years. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They believe it is smarter and easier to take down an enemy with <a href="https://www.c4i.org/unrestricted.pdf" target="_blank">bribes, influence operations, spying</a>, and identifying the weakness of their enemy and using it against them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is why the CCP agents are heavily embedded in federal, local, and state governments in the U.S. Just two examples are a U.S. Congressman who was controlled from his CCP honeypot operator from local councilman to U.S. Congress and an U.S. senator who had a CCP chauffer listen to her conversations for 20 years before he was identified.</span></p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">CCP United Front Penetration of the U.S. </span></h3></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The CCP United Front <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6efhELLQuvo" target="_blank">works to take down the American people 24/7/365. </a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The CCP and Mexican Drug Cartel Fentanyl operation is one of hundreds of influence operations the <a href="https://www.fpri.org/article/2018/02/weapon-without-war-chinas-united-front-strategy/" target="_blank">United Front runs in the U.S. and worldwide</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is first-rate analysis, <a href="by John Lenczowski PhD" target="_blank">Conquest Without War: The Threat of Chinese Political Influence Operations</a>, by John Lenczowski PhD of the CCP strategy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The <a href="https://www.uscc.gov/research/chinas-overseas-united-front-work-background-and-implications-united-states" target="_blank">United Front has penetrated every city, suburb, and small rural town in America</a>. And so has it's Fentanyl operation.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXtUcLC8z6WVks-OmYbdRdvJh32moi47ca_S1zAaThF6IOuTRDAQbUV43CtDagWk8XvTZQgvBeQxY8CvoP53u7u9T6WcAUpHQC8fmnQHIk0lb4UPUA5gbElr60rXJ4-j1KT49MSx98QVHPHBzTqrGJ0FKyLe-6kph9CR2nRR2ussw2gFo/s4032/20220908_104548%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXtUcLC8z6WVks-OmYbdRdvJh32moi47ca_S1zAaThF6IOuTRDAQbUV43CtDagWk8XvTZQgvBeQxY8CvoP53u7u9T6WcAUpHQC8fmnQHIk0lb4UPUA5gbElr60rXJ4-j1KT49MSx98QVHPHBzTqrGJ0FKyLe-6kph9CR2nRR2ussw2gFo/w200-h150/20220908_104548%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So many are dying, our fire companies, ambulance EMT's, doctors and nurses can no longer keep up with the disaster.</span><p></p><p></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So they are holding classes teaching municipal and county workers how to administer Naloxone to addicts when they find them overdosing on park benches, on the streets and roadsides, and in public restrooms.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here are photos of a Naloxone distribution tent I saw on September 8, 2022. Think long and hard about this. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Did you ever think you would see a time in the United States when the public health care system was so overwhelmed by drug addict overdoses they would have to deputize average citizens to inject Narcan to those addicts?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Does this parallel the <a href="https://asiapacificcurriculum.ca/learning-module/opium-wars-china" target="_blank">Ming Dynasty's inability to regulate the opium addicts</a> in their nation just before they fell and the war lords took over?<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Fentanyl poison war the CCP has been waging is one of hundreds of methods they are using in their unrestricted warfare on anyone who is not Han Chinese.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just one other example is the CCP <a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/pack-the-vatican-and-the-ccp" target="_blank">paid off Pope Francis with $2 billion a year</a> that Cardinal McCarrick hand carried to him to allow them to take out the underground Catholics in Red China and replace them with their controlled CCP "Catholics."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is why the CCP bought the top leadership of the American Republic in the years before the last election. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For a small amount of money, they get oil, drugs and agents swimming in the 5 million illegal aliens who have crossed the southern United States border, and those on the CCP payroll in Washington, DC return the favor by pretending the CCP is not our enemy or killing Americans through Fentanyl poisoning.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnHA7bwF_6iG5x3uSNlW7nMuLK1t2mRmumPStJDg8aHX1Z84oxk6G6fLxg3HiU0dYeP-syyfetKsHz1Z3VFMQmrtCB4C9iVzPhSJi0BapSyXBCeEk6TnbL4LjbunL3g0sA293oaWFMcaZhBw-oV-s_vFOFfFmEj4JSzi_xh7eMfihUrmP/s4032/20220908_104603%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnHA7bwF_6iG5x3uSNlW7nMuLK1t2mRmumPStJDg8aHX1Z84oxk6G6fLxg3HiU0dYeP-syyfetKsHz1Z3VFMQmrtCB4C9iVzPhSJi0BapSyXBCeEk6TnbL4LjbunL3g0sA293oaWFMcaZhBw-oV-s_vFOFfFmEj4JSzi_xh7eMfihUrmP/w200-h150/20220908_104603%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Look up what Mao wrote about how to </span><a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/ch06.htm" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">infiltrate agents among the masses</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> about how small fish can swim among the big fish and do much damage.</span></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Americans who Profit from the CCP</span></h3><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Of course, the CCP would not be able to pull off their multi-front attack on the people of the United States without the cooperation of <a href="https://www.blackrock.com/hk/en/investment-ideas/investing-in-china" target="_blank">Blackrock</a>, <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/04/81081/" target="_blank">Hollywood</a>, <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/09/03/why-is-wall-street-expanding-in-china?utm_medium=cpc.adword.pd&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=a.22brand_pmax&utm_content=conversion.direct-response.anonymous&gclsrc=ds&gclsrc=ds" target="_blank">Wall Street</a>, <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/12/gutmann-confirmation-hearing-german-ambassadorship-2021" target="_blank">university presidents</a>, <a href="https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/story/highlights-from-an-evening-with-penn-president-amy-gutmann/" target="_blank">university organizations</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/confucius-institutes-collapse-us-campuses" target="_blank">professors</a>, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/14/cnn-publishes-paid-ad-by-china-state-media-touting-olympics/" target="_blank">corporate media</a>, <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facing-hostile-chinese-authorities-apple-ceo-signed-275-billion-deal-with-them" target="_blank">silicon valley</a>, and others they pay, influence, and control, but that is a matter for another post.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If this sounds like a "conspiracy theory," just as the facts of the sending <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-americans-bankrolled-the-chinese-regimes-war-against-us-frank-gaffney_4687389.html?utm_source=ai&utm_medium=search" target="_blank">5 million Wuhan Chinese bioagents on the world are coming out</a>, the facts about the CCP influence operations in the West, including the Fentanyl attack, will come out over the next few years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here, we concentrate on their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi74AipPUJs" target="_blank">Fentanyl weapon</a> which is only one of hundreds of weapons they are using to take down the West.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Be aware, i</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">n the past, the CCP only had the Mexican Cartels lace heroin and meth with Fentanyl.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That changed recently.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Exponential Increase in the Fentanyl Poisoning Threat </span></h3><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now, they are lacing the marijuana the Mexican Drug Cartels are growing in Mexico and California with Fentanyl poison.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So this will be added to the Fentanyl poison pills already on the streets.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If this sounds like a "conspiracy theory," talk to fire fighters, police, emergency medical technicians, emergency room doctors and nurses, and other who administer NARCAN, often 5 to 8 times, to those who overdose on Fentanyl daily. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ask them if their caseload is increasing or decreasing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So, the 140,000 dead American each year will increase to numbers we cannot even imagine.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is a civil defense threat to the United States that must be addressed by the incoming national leadership if we are to have a chance of defeating it in time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And soon Americans who care about their children and grandchildren, as they have done from the French and Indian War to the Afghanistan Global War on Terrorism, again, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593331044" target="_blank">will have to eliminate this Fentanal poison threat</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That's just the way it is.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Homework</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.cryptome.org/cuw.htm" target="_blank">Selections from Unrestricted Warfare</a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://fee.org/articles/lessons-from-livy-on-how-great-civilizations-rise-and-fall/" target="_blank">Brigadier General Robert S. Spaulding III</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/stealth-war-how-the-us-can-counter-chinas-takeover-attempts/" target="_blank">Stealth War: How the U.S. Can Counter China's Takeover Attempts</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.hudson.org/experts/1265-robert-spalding" target="_blank">Robert Spalding, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-YQD9lC8H8" target="_blank">Stealth War</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8IEtlOVzq4" target="_blank">China's Silent Takeover while America's Elite Cooperated</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8IEtlOVzq4" target="_blank">CCP's Stealth War</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/book/426154267/Stealth-War-How-China-Took-Over-While-America-s-Elite-Slept?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google_search&utm_campaign=3Q_Google_DSA_NB_US&utm_term=&utm_device=c" target="_blank">Stealth War by CCP</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/youre-either-standing-for-freedom-or-youre-with-freedoms-enemies-you-have-to-choose-gaffney_4707873.html?utm_source=ai&utm_medium=search" target="_blank">China in Focus</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-americans-bankrolled-the-chinese-regimes-war-against-us-frank-gaffney_4687389.html?utm_source=ai&utm_medium=search" target="_blank">How U.S. Government Financed CCP's Bioweapons and Biowarfare</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-americans-bankrolled-the-chinese-regimes-war-against-us-frank-gaffney_4687389.html" target="_blank">CCP Gain of Function Bioweapons Coveedeee 19 from Wuhan Lab</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Expeditions-with-MCUP-digital-journal/To-Win-without-Fighting/" target="_blank">Strategies for Combatting the CCP's Plan to Win without Fighting</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi74AipPUJs" target="_blank">Kensington Philadelphia Ground Zero of Fentanyl American Deaths</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSGSqRgpyCQ" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Impact of Fentynal in a U.S. City</span></a></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinas-psychiatric-hospitals-have-become-dark-places-to-persecute-dissidents-report_4689991.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2022-09-06&utm_medium=email&est=VMywgCtCWJnJE1vl2tgKWLxslH%2Fr8Dfnt4g%2BSeFP8h1WgwQkBs76nt4WmKpscAs%3D" target="_blank">Mental Hospitals in Red China</a></span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4ryYokLzU" target="_blank">Can you Criticize the CCP in the West</a></span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caay18H9QvY" target="_blank">CCP will Not Collapse Soon</a></span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: arial;">“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: arial;"> </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Winston S. Churchill</span></span></p></div></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-58769935203206960242022-10-12T11:09:00.000-12:002022-10-20T08:10:01.837-12:00How to Mitigate Nuclear Weapons Effects <div class="separator"><div class="MsoNormal" style="clear: left; float: left; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt6rpMOeRz59MZxDHxNF65IviTdD1W9ceTbuX3QtOmGCYOFPsT1ipxnVTfvpb99Yua6Ox3OQhdrqB8_IloGQcXMrKzr9F1ffAYOD0R5NtqPIairrwTckttKvt45jN1CTaqy5M/s200/IMG_2049.JPG" width="200" /></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzhiOb4Hsm40W4UrF9j05Lpfe06bdeDBHTGfpVdjeEJOe4q3ZLgHO0XLicjuPLFup0lB66dwGJHMejzTZqnIWnYKgMvJbZrTu08cjUItLAWPtRmJQuB6LDJDTHgax8rLuqokg/s1600/IMG_2104.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial;">For an excellent talk about radiation and other effects of nuclear weapons, go to the TACDA (The American Civil Defense Association) presentation on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AZsomUaD4g" target="_blank">YouTube by Sharron Packer</a>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1d2b53;">And to best prepare yourself and your family to handle a nuclear event, I highly recommend you go to our TACDA (The American Civil Defense Association) </span><a href="https://tacda.org/the-survival-store/" target="_blank">Survival Store</a><span style="color: #1d2b53;"> and get the items below.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1d2b53;">More important, go to our archives and </span><a href="https://tacda.org/resources/#TACDA-ACADEMY" style="color: #1d2b53;" target="_blank">read our extensive collection of courses</a><span style="color: #1d2b53;"> on nuclear and other disasters. It is your experience, brain, creativity, resourcefulness, grit, skill stack and knowledge that get you through a natural or manmade disaster. So bone up on your skills while also purchasing these items as a way of ensuring your survival and that of your family.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But you should buy and have on hand, at a minimum, the following TACDA items.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tacda.org/product/emp-resistant-waterproof-usb-drive/" target="_blank">EMP Resistant Waterproof USB Drive</a> to keep your essential data safe. Most small businesses go out of business after a fire or flood from loss of data, not the event. About 5% of the memory is our disaster preparation course work, so you can study up on that area. The other 95% is for you to back up your family and business data.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Communist Chinese Party and the Chinese People Liberation's Army have been very open their plans to take down the United States via a cyber war. That war has been ongoing for approximately 20 years. Back up your data daily to ensure you can start over quickly after a major cyber or EMP attack. Even if that never happens, you have a device to store your data to start over after a major disaster event.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tacda.org/product/potassium-iodate-kio3-170mg/" target="_blank">K-103 or Potassium Iodate </a>to protect your thyroid from nuclear fallout absorption in your body. We have had to restock our supply multiple times, so be patient if you cannot get it delivered immediately. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is worth buying ours and not the cheap Chinese CCP knock off product. So many in California bought that sawdust when they were worried about the Fukishima cloud fallout.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://tacda.org/product/standard-waterbrick-blue-10-pack-3-5-gallon/" target="_blank">WaterBricks</a> are essential to keep enough clean, safe drinking and sanitary needs water available for the long term. Most means of storing water, like the milk cartons people recyle, are not safe of sanitary as bacteria grows in them. </span><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2019/07/waterbricks-for-safe-water-storage.html" target="_blank">WaterBricks</a>, in contrast, keep your water safe until you need it. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Full Disclosure: I am the volunteer Vice President and have been writing civil defense articles for their <a href="https://tacda.org/product/journal-of-civil-defense-subscription/" target="_blank">Journal of Civil Defense</a> for 15 years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">NOTE: Burns are the most far-reaching of any of the immediate nuclear weapons effects. Thermal radiation can cause burns through absorption of the energy by the skin, or by ignition of clothing as a result of fires started by the radiation.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial;">So stock up on burn treatment supplies. <a href="https://www.narescue.com/" target="_blank">North American Rescue</a> is your best source for <a href="https://www.narescue.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=burns" target="_blank">burn treatment supplies</a>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2b53; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Introduction</span></b></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzhiOb4Hsm40W4UrF9j05Lpfe06bdeDBHTGfpVdjeEJOe4q3ZLgHO0XLicjuPLFup0lB66dwGJHMejzTZqnIWnYKgMvJbZrTu08cjUItLAWPtRmJQuB6LDJDTHgax8rLuqokg/s200/IMG_2104.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It's just regular science, not rocket science, and it is easy to learn again if we have the will to survive.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYWEohwAzboLP-7XV5gbbPvgiyfQsLKE-FB0N563MchRMChgjBS7In2GnRb3M1tqhS7TiLk5yETiJg41oMtWPCKW3YFsLCprrwIQnPmXcFfEGbdyMUiBjzi1TixwSfQfPihz4/s1600/IMG_2103.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">The energy characteristics and output from nuclear weapons
differ significantly from conventional weapons. Nuclear detonations
exhibit much higher temperature within the fireball and produce peak temperatures
of several hundred million degrees and intense x-ray heating that results in
air pressure pulses of several million atmospheres. Conventional chemical
explosions result in much lower temperatures and release the bulk of their
energy as air blast and shock waves.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mIsNUFbvVOhyu9vK4WgWWbIFs0_2zoXGCCY7LJY0ODR69Rz4S1o_gp7Ngv-QhPn5ZzeeSdFHiEzOUMzj_UBw-L7SqR5JW9b5UWUMjommfN9nviiUUXKUcl8gdroZiT6g0ew/s1600/IMG_2098.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mIsNUFbvVOhyu9vK4WgWWbIFs0_2zoXGCCY7LJY0ODR69Rz4S1o_gp7Ngv-QhPn5ZzeeSdFHiEzOUMzj_UBw-L7SqR5JW9b5UWUMjommfN9nviiUUXKUcl8gdroZiT6g0ew/s200/IMG_2098.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9u8srCTUI4PiEIRywUNgAH6j1DlaN9SzRxqxybXxi16-Mgo9xRsTSMniPaWX9SRsIKWwIzu54ZGocEL541gHxaIyNaKQZbx53P-H-RG86iqqg1diFhFpOvJPWRH91VrWstEE/s1600/IMG_2102.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">In an atmospheric detonation, such as was deployed in Japan, it
is the blast and thermal component of the nuclear explosion that is the major
factor in destruction and death, not nuclear radiation, as the public
believes. The effective range of immediate harm to humans from nuclear
radiation from the atmospheric explosion is much less than the effective range
from blast and thermal heating.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1uu68e4WQHW7zz-BIvk19pCR1iCeyVJOxeKI_uhyByyy9CQHyAJCLBK1sF7qN98n10MB80gg9JTBGHcT2eeuCPaUh4eY6Pazxny008TodEBJ4Gptg70ed_7lklKPivq-Cj0c/s1600/IMG_2106.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">In order to limit the discussion of weapons effects to
elementary terms, this discussion is based upon a single worst-case scenario.
Probably the largest weapon that might be employed against a population would
have a yield of less than one-megaton (or 1 million tons of TNT equivalent
energy or simply 1 MT). However, a crude terrorist nuclear device would
probably be in the range of a few thousand tons of TNT equivalent energy or a
few KT). The discussion here is based upon a nuclear detonation of 1 MT.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><span> </span></span><br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1uu68e4WQHW7zz-BIvk19pCR1iCeyVJOxeKI_uhyByyy9CQHyAJCLBK1sF7qN98n10MB80gg9JTBGHcT2eeuCPaUh4eY6Pazxny008TodEBJ4Gptg70ed_7lklKPivq-Cj0c/s1600/IMG_2106.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1uu68e4WQHW7zz-BIvk19pCR1iCeyVJOxeKI_uhyByyy9CQHyAJCLBK1sF7qN98n10MB80gg9JTBGHcT2eeuCPaUh4eY6Pazxny008TodEBJ4Gptg70ed_7lklKPivq-Cj0c/s200/IMG_2106.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Yield</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">The destructive power of a nuclear weapon, when compared to the
same amount of energy produced by TNT is defined as the ‘yield’ of the nuclear
weapon. A 20-kiloton (KT) weapon, such as was detonated over Japan in World War
II was equivalent in energy yield to 20,000 tons of TNT. A 1-MT yield
weapon is equivalent to 1 million tons of TNT.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF4k5IEyCcuCRBuCCP8KHNFVuu6HbUGX9V1_qktA8l6cNJ594POWtOmcliAXRNWOXv_psjkZoaQl2YPVJuxjnRRJAYHWmxlhzApQKRKUIqRIIga2BHT2BX4KJvbzeRLrQNbqI/s1600/IMG_2042.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Types of Nuclear Weapons</span></b></div>
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<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XzZ7hHUAf0AX0GFjiHiHmWFYjZSZvb2-P68MiUpQlH4fBEw5S1KQZRF3QuQKnTboxJWqbt-p4cLH4EnnW40QvRNvMAZj-laH1T2OqAHE9Fo9Gi9F_-QSTZb9rmpB2ASI9Qg/s200/IMG_2078.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Nuclear Weapons are much smaller in volume and mass than
conventional weapons. But nuclear detonation produce energy release
thousands of times greater and over a shorter time period (chemical explosion –
milliseconds, nuclear explosions – microseconds). The energy from a nuclear
detonation can result from two basic nuclear processes—nuclear fission and
nuclear fusion.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XzZ7hHUAf0AX0GFjiHiHmWFYjZSZvb2-P68MiUpQlH4fBEw5S1KQZRF3QuQKnTboxJWqbt-p4cLH4EnnW40QvRNvMAZj-laH1T2OqAHE9Fo9Gi9F_-QSTZb9rmpB2ASI9Qg/s1600/IMG_2078.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">The first nuclear weapons were only fission devices made from
either uranium-235 (a relatively scarce isotope of uranium), or from a man-made
isotope of plutonium, namely Plutonium-239.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">When certain isotopes of uranium or plutonium (U-235 or Pu-239
or fissile isotopes) are bombarded with neutrons, the nucleus of these isotopes
can split apart (fission) releasing about 200 million electron volts of
energy. This energy release is about a 100 million times greater than the
burning (oxidation) of a carbon atom in a fossil fuel. Furthermore,
during the fission process additional neutrons are released (typically two or
more) and these neutrons can fission other fissile isotopes. This process if
carefully designed can lead to a rapidly increasing chain reaction releasing a
great amount of energy before the remaining fissile material is blown apart by
the rapid increase of energy. Indeed, the essential design feature in the
design of an effective nuclear weapon is containing the fissile material
together for sufficient time to liberate the energy yield desired.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimA_Um26_O9ew_SbSyQP808ipmisn90OshbLrSiw6aWCaCw4PabnoH8I8pV1Qgs35QDNYFojWxZ5DUBVHVAkHPpsRXSFaK6Bf3Qn4N8fSOSkaExQqhZ4FS5jRwlOWgXluHUuI/s1600/IMG_2094.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimA_Um26_O9ew_SbSyQP808ipmisn90OshbLrSiw6aWCaCw4PabnoH8I8pV1Qgs35QDNYFojWxZ5DUBVHVAkHPpsRXSFaK6Bf3Qn4N8fSOSkaExQqhZ4FS5jRwlOWgXluHUuI/s200/IMG_2094.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjOAKmsptKXXJGPGqNoRyIvGXcUqCUhCUuEJOWvYE92yf1KzCfiS4kSLWLWYVzJrT5i3YeoCo25FNksDElSGTrvcQ9F8PnnwWbYagKW5P70o58LpkYJ3l1_ckVmyOzKloTgdk/s1600/IMG_2090.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt6rpMOeRz59MZxDHxNF65IviTdD1W9ceTbuX3QtOmGCYOFPsT1ipxnVTfvpb99Yua6Ox3OQhdrqB8_IloGQcXMrKzr9F1ffAYOD0R5NtqPIairrwTckttKvt45jN1CTaqy5M/s1600/IMG_2049.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCw51AfPezhFYYxLPjMSRr6xnIIuAUf5_cZlNALSKKp0hmCId8-aXwQcLsrUdQcs2qr8CSP5ghLHYIibPXeP-leuJcSvDnVl7cL6nchRr3YtmbIFV5h4iGKxPab1o40iGqLU/s1600/IMG_2040.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The fusion and fission reactions produce energy in different
ways. Fusion occurs when two light isotopes (usually deuterium and
tritium – heavy isotopes of hydrogen) at very high temperatures and pressures,
unite and form a heavier isotope (usually helium). A fission reaction can
produce both the high temperature and high radiation pressure required for
fusion to occur and so in the design of all fusion weapons (often called
thermonuclear systems) a primary fission reaction is used to initiate the
secondary fusion reaction. One pound of the hydrogen isotope can release as
much energy as is found in 26,000 tons of TNT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">During the fusion process, high-energy neutrons are also
liberated as in fission. These high-energy neutrons can cause a fission
reaction in the abundant isotope, uranium-238. Some large yield, thermonuclear
weapons use this fission-fusion-fission process.</span></span></div>
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desired effects to be maximized dictate the burst type. The burst types fall
into four basic categories:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Subsurface & Underwater Bursts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Surface bursts maximize the reach of high overpressures and
would most probably be used against hardened strategic targets such as missile
launch control centers, harbors and submarine pens, and large airports.
Destruction of ICBM silos, and deep underground shelters require ground bursts
of 300 KT and greater. Ground bursts are also indicated if a planner wishes to
maximize residual fallout radiation.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKl1s6DHU_6ze07-As18UAAgDA_Tm7OmQwdNzpxM_ZAvwdYDAaxRzOgc-B0ccAzPK_MoUXaQzb4d5yygu5q2OaVkWDxoywOFuxk1FuSuhQKXjqRcIK46p4FPX9e2z-ReP2KYM/s200/IMG_2076.JPG" width="133" /></span>
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">An airburst is defined as an explosion that occurs below 100,000
feet elevation, but high enough so that the fireball of this explosion does not
reach the surface of the earth. Airbursts extend the range of lower
overpressures. Maximum blast damage of soft targets (such as cities) would
occur from airbursts of MT yield weapons. Smaller yield air bursts exploded at
optimum height of burst give more targeting flexibility in destroying important
targets in a large city while allowing collateral damage to be held to a
minimum.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKl1s6DHU_6ze07-As18UAAgDA_Tm7OmQwdNzpxM_ZAvwdYDAaxRzOgc-B0ccAzPK_MoUXaQzb4d5yygu5q2OaVkWDxoywOFuxk1FuSuhQKXjqRcIK46p4FPX9e2z-ReP2KYM/s1600/IMG_2076.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRfKkOvaMZqADlI8wu0ZVS7za-R2OfvSncsEDn0CKkuPLiMbmtQDxM6UM8cbH6ioVK94z_0FTziuNHLHU_pyaA2ENDRr7s4z3Ozd-skmjnCptrclibg6cHsjtHg1PurTk_kM/s1600/IMG_2067.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Bursts occurring above 100,000 feet elevation are defined as
‘high-altitude bursts’. High altitude bursts are designed to cause an
electro-magnetic pulse (EMP). These high altitude radiations interact
with the atmosphere and cause rapid EM changes and ionization, which seriously
effect radio and radar signals and other critical electrical power dependent
equipment.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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detonations is contained below the surface. Much of the thermal and nuclear
radiation is absorbed within a short distance of the explosion, contaminating
the earth or water with radioactive fission products.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaneZQKcUN6k9yZtrDdJSwUzI2kimi572tQC7AmGPZxWsbBcMEGn_NL3ZN6cgXcXcgYxQQrLXkb0lxE7BovpeOiEv9XnU2Vyg_5TnAiJtKlBnImVtLBAONdzNrP4u542V2X2I/s1600/IMG_2069.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaneZQKcUN6k9yZtrDdJSwUzI2kimi572tQC7AmGPZxWsbBcMEGn_NL3ZN6cgXcXcgYxQQrLXkb0lxE7BovpeOiEv9XnU2Vyg_5TnAiJtKlBnImVtLBAONdzNrP4u542V2X2I/s200/IMG_2069.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Subsurface bursts are generally used during testing to minimize
radiation fallout, or in wartime by means of burrowing missiles, which penetrate
below the surface to destroy underground facilities.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thermal Radiation Exposure</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOLgoYb36LBP1CG_6qU96N-HkMHKrntFsmzkj8lKWWtZs-Vv8xj8xVCKfkCUc9iU2hPjUIDwpTPgsV_O-xMkcrtjlkanL0L7PGK-Sc2FpVPZN-Bo64IWc1oGvL_cc9baYk1c/s1600/IMG_2085.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOLgoYb36LBP1CG_6qU96N-HkMHKrntFsmzkj8lKWWtZs-Vv8xj8xVCKfkCUc9iU2hPjUIDwpTPgsV_O-xMkcrtjlkanL0L7PGK-Sc2FpVPZN-Bo64IWc1oGvL_cc9baYk1c/s200/IMG_2085.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Within less than a millionth of a second of the detonation,
large amounts of energy in the form of invisible x-rays are absorbed within
just a few meters of the atmosphere. This leads to the formation of an
extremely hot and luminous ionized mass called the fireball or plasma.
Even at a distance of 50 miles from a 1 MT burst, this fireball would appear as
many times the brightness of the noonday sun.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlFxoAPb7gYEgUApNyaof2FhmPDsbYKkTl9CdHmpieV6rXeiRBfyxilziKuv0U3gjl11VEYfVspwy71pXIfbdLXFV1XsfVekXHvwGncQDtv83W3gQph_hjmBNGfPTwyiZFY0/s1600/IMG_2065.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlFxoAPb7gYEgUApNyaof2FhmPDsbYKkTl9CdHmpieV6rXeiRBfyxilziKuv0U3gjl11VEYfVspwy71pXIfbdLXFV1XsfVekXHvwGncQDtv83W3gQph_hjmBNGfPTwyiZFY0/s200/IMG_2065.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">The heat from the fireball is emitted in the form of thermal
radiation or EM in the ultra violet, visible, and Infrared range. The EM
pulse travels at the speed of light and can persist up to several seconds,
depending on the yield of the weapon, local clouds, and the height of the
burst. The thermal pulse from a 1-MT weapon lasts about 8 seconds.
If we were far enough away from the blast, and could drop and cover quickly, we
would minimize the burns caused by this pulse. At 8 miles from the
detonation, only minimal structural damage takes place, but flash burns caused
by the thermal pulse at that distance would cause severe burns if people were
unprotected. Every effort should be made to limit exposure time. ‘Drop and
cover’ is still a wise exercise to practice during a nuclear attack.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTKwvIbMiiyhpgi27BRkw1knTmOmv2kSkYg39dfMey2xMXvvSRdoU0Pw-60BzE9xLow1oVw92QmaBgLVtF-tJaQbTyKLaKwkZ8wRW6Ypk3wXEay9z8Wq7Al0fsV1Mz8GQq0Y/s1600/IMG_2051.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Skin burns are classified as 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree. Third
degree burns can occur out to 8.5 miles from a 1-MT burst.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNst3yt3y4NE3JHeg7Arerbx_4XznO8aViuJ6Ug__IxZMkicIPsq1slps2uUK46OxZWwf62pZoGZRHSFEH7vJQzp8HkaFdtWKDr2wIOz9aJ1x8wbxbgqu2dQYeAYoIHci-eIU/s200/IMG_2068.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Second-degree burns occur at about the same range as the 1.4-psi
overpressure level, which is about 10 miles from ground zero for a 1-MT
airburst. First-degree burns can occur from 10 to 12 miles from ground
zero. Evasive actions are required in order to limit harm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWvNsvPpgdC9g5LkOjMd-GJ-ceb433hVDkEo4p7PZBUTu2AiNYTuQjM2c8HoFE6p6Xn4QzANVS89ZzFgvkqZhEix7Wv5wn1D2NGmwnSp1ECOXD06CNik2S0YEW3G1dr9Xwi38/s200/IMG_2041.JPG" width="200" /></span>
<span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Much burn injury from large yield weapons can be avoided in the
low overpressure area (1 psi to 2 psi), if protective shielding is found in the
first seconds. The evasive action of ‘drop and cover’ should again be taught
and exercised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWvNsvPpgdC9g5LkOjMd-GJ-ceb433hVDkEo4p7PZBUTu2AiNYTuQjM2c8HoFE6p6Xn4QzANVS89ZzFgvkqZhEix7Wv5wn1D2NGmwnSp1ECOXD06CNik2S0YEW3G1dr9Xwi38/s1600/IMG_2041.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If there is any warning of incoming missiles, the best available
shelter should be taken. Ditches, culverts, basements, or large structures
would provide some shielding against the thermal pulse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Materials inside rooms of buildings (such as curtains,
upholstery, or papers) could be ignited by the thermal pulse of a nuclear
blast. If sheltering in the home, efforts must be taken to extinguish fires
that may be ignited in the home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">In areas of overpressure less than 2 psi, many residences will
remain intact. Test results suggested that if there is adequate warning time,
light colored drapes should be closed to shield upholstered furniture and beds
from the thermal pulse, and electricity and gas should be turned off to avoid
secondary fires.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvUBgRkeXcjCdB1GEO8q22tO6aPo2rSjHDhsrn5ZmOEH-0f0Dd41PDWeu6p0sur8uQlSd56VoUFJz73wi9aWCTkybqDtRYagARQVhUU_vAKJx_ZrAQ0CiloOjIGOuCPio0Dk/s1600/IMG_2043.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvUBgRkeXcjCdB1GEO8q22tO6aPo2rSjHDhsrn5ZmOEH-0f0Dd41PDWeu6p0sur8uQlSd56VoUFJz73wi9aWCTkybqDtRYagARQVhUU_vAKJx_ZrAQ0CiloOjIGOuCPio0Dk/s200/IMG_2043.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Experience has shown that ignition, such as would occur in
upholstery, might remain smoldering and later rekindled. It is advisable to
check for primary fires after the initial blast and then to check again after
15 minutes in order to extinguish any secondary fires that may be rekindled.
Fire extinguishers should be supplied in your sheltered area for this purpose.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Care should be taken never to look at the fireball. Because of
the focusing action of the eye lens, the eyes can be temporarily or permanently
injured and blinding may occur.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Underground shelters will give total protection from the thermal
pulse. Of course, this requires an effective warning system to know when
to enter the shelter.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">f there is an escalating crisis we should enter our shelters and
remain there. It is more probable, however, that a nuclear attack would
come as a surprise–particularly from a terrorist attack. The only
initial warning may come from the electro-magnetic pulse.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">EMP Cause</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvGY9ThcS_G_kEjIZbnMoIRK01GN0uPRisSsxpba-vUk-gPHEWIatXxCZ6iNHsP3jKn2Rd8Ye1vYhGf8v0zE-CDYW1_np3wc-yv3pZG3OKeZBJA-LO-gYOUa-iFnxncOLOqOQ/s1600/IMG_2053.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvGY9ThcS_G_kEjIZbnMoIRK01GN0uPRisSsxpba-vUk-gPHEWIatXxCZ6iNHsP3jKn2Rd8Ye1vYhGf8v0zE-CDYW1_np3wc-yv3pZG3OKeZBJA-LO-gYOUa-iFnxncOLOqOQ/s200/IMG_2053.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">All nuclear explosives induce sudden electrical currents and
voltages, which can damage or destroy unprotected electrical and solid-state
electronic equipment within line-of-sight of the explosion. The size of the
area affected by an EMP increases with the height of the burst. In a
nuclear explosion 50 miles above the ground, the affected area on the earth
will have a radius of about 600 miles. A high altitude EMP (HEMP) from a
nuclear explosion detonated at an altitude of 200 miles could produce a rapid
electrical energy pulse on the order of 60,000 volts per square meter and could
affect and even disable equipment within the entire continental United States.
Smaller EMP pulses produced at lower altitudes could cause cascading failures
in an already stressed electric power infrastructure (transmission lines,
transformers, etc) and also telecommunications.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNIrllFMp7438q-uxtoGxpBESaQ-UdL6lKyJJxBdZcoohfU0sy3GXCd-6VWh3N-Dao_odd4V3-l0kkU5MjznMRE9rN14-4QEhLHsMXvgXCNcTCE4177JZONYau9m97zs699AI/s1600/IMG_2092.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNIrllFMp7438q-uxtoGxpBESaQ-UdL6lKyJJxBdZcoohfU0sy3GXCd-6VWh3N-Dao_odd4V3-l0kkU5MjznMRE9rN14-4QEhLHsMXvgXCNcTCE4177JZONYau9m97zs699AI/s200/IMG_2092.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The affects of this type of weapon would not pose an immediate
danger to people. However, it could damage satellites, and computerized
ignitions in automobiles disrupt telephone and radio communications, destroy
navigational aids and computers, and would most probably cause electrical power
distribution to be lost for many months. Transportation would be
paralyzed, food refrigeration and distribution would cease and water
purification and sewer systems might fail. Financial institutions, hospitals,
trade and production of goods and services would cease functioning. Key
infrastructures and utilities are interdependent and very vulnerable to
electrical power interruption. A recent report to the Congress stated “an
EMP could have irreversible affects on our country’s ability to recover”. (Report
of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack; Volume 1: Executive Report 2004).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Terrorist countries and their organizations understand our
vulnerability and could use relatively unsophisticated missiles armed with
nuclear weapons to produce a high altitude EMP (HEMP).</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCw51AfPezhFYYxLPjMSRr6xnIIuAUf5_cZlNALSKKp0hmCId8-aXwQcLsrUdQcs2qr8CSP5ghLHYIibPXeP-leuJcSvDnVl7cL6nchRr3YtmbIFV5h4iGKxPab1o40iGqLU/s1600/IMG_2040.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCw51AfPezhFYYxLPjMSRr6xnIIuAUf5_cZlNALSKKp0hmCId8-aXwQcLsrUdQcs2qr8CSP5ghLHYIibPXeP-leuJcSvDnVl7cL6nchRr3YtmbIFV5h4iGKxPab1o40iGqLU/s200/IMG_2040.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Many nuclear strategists believe that if our country were
attacked in a limited exchange or full-scale nuclear war, the attack would be
initiated with a high altitude EMP to disable telecommunications. If this
weapon were deployed by a satellite, we would likely have no warning before the
explosion occurred. Immediately after the HEMP, missiles would be
launched against targets in the United States.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcuxDoGtoVTNEKkz9cPdRoQRtCaSCdGImfoJyxWgobCSIRcuYiSn-Z5RX4RrOw-8zUbWCSlO7w2rY-uxIEVymuve1egQz32eV5UrjXXsZyznRAxQP_dBtLP_4VB6LGvTEaJJU/s1600/IMG_2050.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Every occurrence of sudden power failure should be viewed as
possibly having been caused by a high altitude nuclear explosion.
Certain simple tests will quickly reveal an EMP verses power loss from a
natural cause.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">EMP Detection </span></b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF4k5IEyCcuCRBuCCP8KHNFVuu6HbUGX9V1_qktA8l6cNJ594POWtOmcliAXRNWOXv_psjkZoaQl2YPVJuxjnRRJAYHWmxlhzApQKRKUIqRIIga2BHT2BX4KJvbzeRLrQNbqI/s200/IMG_2042.JPG" width="200" /></span>
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">If an electrical power drop is detected, immediately check a
corded phone to see if the telephones are functioning. If there is no
dial tone, you should do a second test using a battery-powered radio.
Approximately 5% of the radio stations in the United States have been hardened
against EMP and could continue transmitting. However, if you are unable
to access several radio stations that normally transmit in your area, you
should take shelter immediately. Contact radio stations within your area
to locate frequencies that may continue to transmit during this kind of an
emergency.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">A simple power drop alarm can be constructed in the event the
EMP was to occur while you are sleeping. Ask a certified electrician to
construct such an alarm using a relay switch, a 12-volt gel-cell battery, and a
horn. However, no solid-state electronics should be employed in the
construction of this alarm.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Protection of Equipment</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF4k5IEyCcuCRBuCCP8KHNFVuu6HbUGX9V1_qktA8l6cNJ594POWtOmcliAXRNWOXv_psjkZoaQl2YPVJuxjnRRJAYHWmxlhzApQKRKUIqRIIga2BHT2BX4KJvbzeRLrQNbqI/s1600/IMG_2042.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">During an escalating crises and when not in use, all sensitive
equipment should be unplugged from the wall outlets. Power cords should
be wound into a coil. Wherever possible, electronic equipment should be
stored in an encompassing metal cage called a ‘Faraday cage’. Metal
garbage cans with tight fitting lids make good Faraday cages. Insulate
your equipment with toweling or cardboard before placing it into the can.
It is not necessary or even advisable to ground the can. As a further
precaution, fold metal screening material over the lip of the can before
closing the lid to assure tight metal-to-metal contact. Do not place the can directly
on a concrete floor.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Ammunition boxes make good Faraday cages. Remove any
gasket material from the lid and sand the painted areas where the lid fits to
the body of the can. Do not store the can on metal shelves, which contact
a concrete floor.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6ZQp3eqClD1o6BC4nea17C5JTLM4cPFC8EZ5DR3sU-m5XBZXkeqDNkrewsfR1dLye7G7PH48nvoFhi9GonyA8VtB99JrJGI1qiK9aWtXqX6UNOnlH38AKLdTY0HzFBQ-Ep8/s1600/IMG_2047.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6ZQp3eqClD1o6BC4nea17C5JTLM4cPFC8EZ5DR3sU-m5XBZXkeqDNkrewsfR1dLye7G7PH48nvoFhi9GonyA8VtB99JrJGI1qiK9aWtXqX6UNOnlH38AKLdTY0HzFBQ-Ep8/s200/IMG_2047.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Microwave ovens (not plugged in to an outlet) also make good Faraday cages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Radios should not be attached to any antenna longer than 30
inches. Remove all removable antennas and push all retractable antennas
to the shortest possible length.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Blast Effect and Over-pressure</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">In a 1 MT yield weapon, 10 seconds after the blast, the fireball
is over a mile wide. In one minute it has grown to 4 1/2 miles from the point
of burst.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">At the same time the fireball is forming and growing, a
high-pressure wave develops and moves outward from the fireball. This blast
wave is a moving wall of highly compressed air called a shock wave. In 10
seconds the blast wave has traveled 3 miles. In 50 seconds, it has traveled 12
miles and is then moving at slightly greater than the speed of sound (1000 feet
per second).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">We measure this pressure in pounds per square inch (psi). Normal
ambient atmospheric pressure is about 15 psi. Any pressure over and above this
level is considered to be ‘over-pressure’.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Many unsheltered people can withstand and survive this shock
wave and blast effect if they are outside the 5-mile radius of the detonation.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Dynamic Effect</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Cg3VA0bTTvww-YM4W7SGssjmQ4UdexMNiVY3VtuKXcEcg8pOW-Q2zd5HyKvLT7Kw25nVhbVYYEiMPTH7pS2O7yIXPW_m_qLGJg8_qlnEyK-hpSfXxRQ8z1Fb8X9ff0m5-yg/s1600/IMG_2056.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Cg3VA0bTTvww-YM4W7SGssjmQ4UdexMNiVY3VtuKXcEcg8pOW-Q2zd5HyKvLT7Kw25nVhbVYYEiMPTH7pS2O7yIXPW_m_qLGJg8_qlnEyK-hpSfXxRQ8z1Fb8X9ff0m5-yg/s200/IMG_2056.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">High velocity winds are associated with the blast effect, and
the effects from the wind blast must be added to the effects of over-pressure.
This effect is called the dynamic pressure. Dynamic pressure is proportional to
the square of the wind velocity and the density of the air behind the shock
front.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Divers experience about l0 psi of over-pressure at a 23-foot
depth and 20 psi at a 45-foot depth. If acclimatization to the pressure
increase has been gradual, no ill effects will be experienced even though the
pressure differential seems amazingly large. Over-pressures experienced in
a blast, however, are complicated by the sudden dynamic (blast wind) effect.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">A 20-psi over-pressure is associated with a wind velocity of 500
mph and without proper shelter; over-pressures of this strength cannot be
survived. Injuries at over-pressures under 20 psi are due almost entirely to
this dynamic effect. Blast winds at even 1-psi over-pressure can cause injury
from flying glass fragments and other small sharp objects.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Az8Mme4VH439mlzpbkZDSQBs2TcDVpiDWHn6O0vRTor8cWdZmjvIOo8T34sIIhZ3-eoVNKVZ2qkMJsKn_HKK8Ry3gsQHIkCibXGOF07d85LEdnO7scUJhn7ssbwELoa9NEM/s1600/IMG_2030.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Az8Mme4VH439mlzpbkZDSQBs2TcDVpiDWHn6O0vRTor8cWdZmjvIOo8T34sIIhZ3-eoVNKVZ2qkMJsKn_HKK8Ry3gsQHIkCibXGOF07d85LEdnO7scUJhn7ssbwELoa9NEM/s200/IMG_2030.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The over-pressure from a 1-MT weapon at 4 miles is approximately
5 psi and the wind velocity is about 160 mph. At this distance it is generally
believed people could survive outside a hardened blast shelter if they can find
adequate sheltering which would give protection from the blast wind. Structures
such as culverts, ditches, tunnels, caves, mines and basements could give
adequate protection at this over-pressure level if the occupants were protected
from falling debris. At over-pressures over 5-psi, however, a residential
basement would not provide adequate blast protection. A discussion of expedient
shelters is given in another lesson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Many thousands of people live and work in areas considered by
planners to be under the 5-psi over-pressure range, and would be saved if they
can seek shelter in their basements.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Radiation Effect and Fallout</span></b></div>
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<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtle3FJ5NxQKsVw8woJjtDXyJK2Hrb51BEGf0YgQL9ufGOSNbLwcN1rTrnjKaf3vHGOvpgRrSnmIz3LNk88gUpxafXALFFBuCUI8bRvXRW3LG2BlBgNMcHG8Hg6p-L1whUC5A/s200/IMG_2089.JPG" width="200" /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtle3FJ5NxQKsVw8woJjtDXyJK2Hrb51BEGf0YgQL9ufGOSNbLwcN1rTrnjKaf3vHGOvpgRrSnmIz3LNk88gUpxafXALFFBuCUI8bRvXRW3LG2BlBgNMcHG8Hg6p-L1whUC5A/s1600/IMG_2089.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Radiation is the most far reaching of all the weapons effects.
If the fireball of the weapon touches the ground, the blast is defined as
a ground burst. In a ground burst, rock, soil, and other material in the area
will be vaporized and taken up into the cloud. Strong winds cause dust, dirt,
and other particles to be sucked up into the fireball as well. All of
this debris is then mingled with fission products and radioactive residues and
becomes radioactive itself. As it cools, the debris falls from the cloud
onto the ground. This material is what we call radioactive fallout. It
has been estimated that for every ton of yield, an equivalent one-half to one
ton of matter is vaporized into the fireball. In a one megaton explosion,
there could be as much as 500,000 to l million tons of dirt and debris taken
into the fireball, which will later fall to the ground as radioactive fallout.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Protection From Fallout</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Time – </span></b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Radiation diminishes with
time in a process called radioactive decay. Each radioactive isotope has
a unique ‘half-life’. This is defined as the time required for the
radioactivity of that isotope to diminish (or decay) to one half of its
original value. The passage of 10 half lives for a given radioactive material
reduces its activity by a factor of 1000.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQfcUKw8Y9OpwOBz3bFK9NxQnfxkSEi2sd8E2WdBKw1lASt-aRtK_tLMLhX9EAkR-8UJyozY8LOg5t1jKpOZlhdsHtMFOJU4-epOJOitGnocDbyREuWwFA6CGY60kSXTNb40/s1600/IMG_2073.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQfcUKw8Y9OpwOBz3bFK9NxQnfxkSEi2sd8E2WdBKw1lASt-aRtK_tLMLhX9EAkR-8UJyozY8LOg5t1jKpOZlhdsHtMFOJU4-epOJOitGnocDbyREuWwFA6CGY60kSXTNb40/s200/IMG_2073.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">During the fission process in a nuclear detonation, hundreds of
isotopes with different decay patterns are produced. It has been found
that the average decay rate for these radioactive products can be estimated
with the 7 / 10 rule. Simply stated, this rule states that for every seven-fold
increase in time after detonation, there is a ten-fold decrease in the
radiation exposure level.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">7/10 RULE</span></b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> – To estimate radiation levels from
fallout by this rule, at 7 hours after the detonation, the level of radiation
would be expected to be 1/10th of the original level. At seven times
seven hours (49 hours or about 2 days), the level would be 1/100th of the
original level. At seven times 2 days (or two weeks) the level
would be 1/1000th of the original level.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Distance – </span></b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Radiation levels diminish
with distance as well as time. In a localized event, everyone within the
area of radioactive fallout should find shelter or evacuate and move as far as
possible from the location of the radioactive material.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Shielding – </span></b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Shielding also decreases
(attenuates) radiation levels. Four inches of soil will attenuate half of
the gamma radiation from fallout. This is called the ‘half-value’
thickness for shielding. One ‘hal</span><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">f value’ thickness gives a protection
factor (PF) of 2. This rule is multiplicative. A total of 8 inches of
soil will provide additional reduction, or a PF of (2 x 2)=4. Four more
inches (a total of 12 inches of soil) will provide 3 halving thicknesses, or a
PF of (2 x 2 x 2)=8. The half value thickness for concrete is about 3
inches. Ten layers of the halving thickness for any shield provide a
protection factor of over 1000.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Alpha Radiation</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH1T9Shdo-KnCAHgWrXPQyEZ96C6Zkc3znZ6BSR97rgwJ5QqkiObWZZYrPd07KFHG0NjqKE9sGCpzZ047VHELzgCPtWsGeGBuJRrUvEghTnAQptBy8pv67nrrRmJkyxr2OjuU/s1600/IMG_2070.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH1T9Shdo-KnCAHgWrXPQyEZ96C6Zkc3znZ6BSR97rgwJ5QqkiObWZZYrPd07KFHG0NjqKE9sGCpzZ047VHELzgCPtWsGeGBuJRrUvEghTnAQptBy8pv67nrrRmJkyxr2OjuU/s200/IMG_2070.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Alpha particles have a range of about 2 inches in air, and are
completely stopped by the outside layers of the skin. Therefore, alpha
particles are not an external hazard. However, they can do considerable
damage internally. So it is essential not to breathe in or ingest alpha
contaminated materials. Ventilation systems in fallout shelters should be
fitted with filters to remove these materials from the breathable air.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Beta Radiation</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Energetic electrons (called Beta Particles) have a range of up
to 12 feet. Most fission products are beta emitters. Beta radiation
poses a small external hazard if the fission products in the fallout come into
actual contact with the skin and remains there for an appreciable time.
This contact may result in a skin burn referred to as “beta burn”, which causes
damage similar to sunburn. Fallout should be brushed and/or washed from
the hair and skin as soon as possible.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Beta emitters cause considerable damage if they enter the
body. Alpha and Beta particles in fallout can enter the body through the
digestive tract (through consumption of contaminated food and water), through
the lungs, (by breathing contaminated air), or through wounds.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjOAKmsptKXXJGPGqNoRyIvGXcUqCUhCUuEJOWvYE92yf1KzCfiS4kSLWLWYVzJrT5i3YeoCo25FNksDElSGTrvcQ9F8PnnwWbYagKW5P70o58LpkYJ3l1_ckVmyOzKloTgdk/s1600/IMG_2090.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjOAKmsptKXXJGPGqNoRyIvGXcUqCUhCUuEJOWvYE92yf1KzCfiS4kSLWLWYVzJrT5i3YeoCo25FNksDElSGTrvcQ9F8PnnwWbYagKW5P70o58LpkYJ3l1_ckVmyOzKloTgdk/s200/IMG_2090.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Some radioactive elements tend to concentrate in specific organs
in the body. The body cannot distinguish between the stable chemical element
and the radioactive isotope of that chemical element. Radioactive
strontium and barium are similar in chemical nature to stable calcium and may
be deposited in the bones.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Care should be taken not to eat food, which has been
contaminated with radioactive materials. If the food has been carefully
washed, however, it can safely be eaten. Potatoes and carrots can be
peeled; apples and other hard skinned fruits and vegetables can be washed clean
of surface contamination. Soft foods, such as strawberries, lettuce,
bread, and such are not easily decontaminated and should be discarded unless
they are known to be uncontaminated. Canned food containers should be
washed before opening.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Animals, which have been exposed to radiation, may have
significant levels of strontium and barium in fur and in their bodies.
These animals, if healthy appearing, may be slaughtered and eaten, if the bones
and organs are discarded before the meat is cooked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTKwvIbMiiyhpgi27BRkw1knTmOmv2kSkYg39dfMey2xMXvvSRdoU0Pw-60BzE9xLow1oVw92QmaBgLVtF-tJaQbTyKLaKwkZ8wRW6Ypk3wXEay9z8Wq7Al0fsV1Mz8GQq0Y/s200/IMG_2051.JPG" width="200" /></span>
<span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Iodine-131 generally poses the largest threat to humans because
iodine chemicals are deposited in the thyroid. Iodine can enter shelters
in a gaseous form. Ventilation systems must have good high efficiency
filters to filter this radioactive element from the breathable air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTKwvIbMiiyhpgi27BRkw1knTmOmv2kSkYg39dfMey2xMXvvSRdoU0Pw-60BzE9xLow1oVw92QmaBgLVtF-tJaQbTyKLaKwkZ8wRW6Ypk3wXEay9z8Wq7Al0fsV1Mz8GQq0Y/s1600/IMG_2051.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Thyroid blocking agents (TBA) are available commercially.
They are inexpensive and have a long shelf life. TBA consists of iodine
in the form of potassium iodide or iodate. The thyroid fills with the
healthy iodide and the radioactive iodine is then removed biologically from the
body. Regular iodine is poisonous and should not be taken
internally. Use only the commercial TBA at its recommended dosages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">TBA agents have an extremely bitter taste and will need to be
consumed with other foods in order to cover the taste. Children, in
particular, will find the TBA to be distasteful. The tablet form of TBA
is more easily consumed than the liquid from the crystalline form.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYWEohwAzboLP-7XV5gbbPvgiyfQsLKE-FB0N563MchRMChgjBS7In2GnRb3M1tqhS7TiLk5yETiJg41oMtWPCKW3YFsLCprrwIQnPmXcFfEGbdyMUiBjzi1TixwSfQfPihz4/s1600/IMG_2103.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYWEohwAzboLP-7XV5gbbPvgiyfQsLKE-FB0N563MchRMChgjBS7In2GnRb3M1tqhS7TiLk5yETiJg41oMtWPCKW3YFsLCprrwIQnPmXcFfEGbdyMUiBjzi1TixwSfQfPihz4/s200/IMG_2103.JPG" width="133" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Iodine 131 has a half-life of 8 days and will be a threat for 10
half-lives, or approximately 3 months. Enough thyroid-blocking agent
should be stored for each person in the shelter for a 3-month period. If
there is no warning of an attack, TBA should be taken as soon as possible after
a nuclear attack. However, TBA is a strong medicine that has some
undesirable side affects. It should not be taken unless a nuclear attack
has occurred or is believed to be eminent. TBA should be left in its originally
packaging whenever possible until needed.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gamma Radiation</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Gamma radiation is highly penetrating electromagnetic radiation
and poses a sustained exposure threat for the first 2 weeks after a ground
burst. Gamma radiation is measured in Roentgens. In a full-scale
nuclear attack, over a two-week period, the accumulated radiation dose in some
areas can be several thousand Roentgens.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9u8srCTUI4PiEIRywUNgAH6j1DlaN9SzRxqxybXxi16-Mgo9xRsTSMniPaWX9SRsIKWwIzu54ZGocEL541gHxaIyNaKQZbx53P-H-RG86iqqg1diFhFpOvJPWRH91VrWstEE/s1600/IMG_2102.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9u8srCTUI4PiEIRywUNgAH6j1DlaN9SzRxqxybXxi16-Mgo9xRsTSMniPaWX9SRsIKWwIzu54ZGocEL541gHxaIyNaKQZbx53P-H-RG86iqqg1diFhFpOvJPWRH91VrWstEE/s200/IMG_2102.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Gamma Radiation is reduced or attenuated by limiting time near
the gamma source, distance from the source, and shielding (placing material
mass between you and the source). If whole body exposure is limited to
less than 175 Roentgens, no medical care should be needed and there will be few
if any anticipated deaths. To attenuate the exposure anticipated in a
full-scale nuclear attack to this level, a minimum radiation protection factor
of 40 would be required. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">If at any time the dose rate exceeds 10 Roentgens per
hour, the total exposure will exceed the 175 Roentgen level. (Note that the
value of 1 Roentgen is equivalent to about 1 rad or 1 rem).</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">TABLE – RADIATION PENALTY
TABLE</span></b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Acute
Effects</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Accum.
Exposure</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>1
Week</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Accum. Exposure</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>1
Month</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Accum. Exposure</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>4
Months</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Medical Care Not Needed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">150
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">200
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">300
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some
Need Medical Care<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Few
if Any Deaths<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">250
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">350
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">500
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Most
Need Medical Care<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">50%
+ may die<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">450
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">600
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">600
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lethal
Dose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">600
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJv6wNhlFKYA5Cdo_gdswQILjMltYWKZjYSJXXMvWWdcXoLJH_Uw5MdwLhoqxEZNUu50fhakFKZsKQkPwrGET8LHJpnaO9Z_eSTIkR0ijiDhk9Md99c2_sqlO64x2N63EDawk/s1600/IMG_2101.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><br /></span></span></div></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">The accumulated exposure should not exceed those in the first row. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="719" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJv6wNhlFKYA5Cdo_gdswQILjMltYWKZjYSJXXMvWWdcXoLJH_Uw5MdwLhoqxEZNUu50fhakFKZsKQkPwrGET8LHJpnaO9Z_eSTIkR0ijiDhk9Md99c2_sqlO64x2N63EDawk/s200/IMG_2101.JPG" width="200" /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">If radiation levels reach 10/R/hr i</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">n the sheltered area, the doses in the first
row will probably be exceeded. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">In this eventuality, the shielding
in the sheltered area should be increased. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">In a full scale attack, about
35% of our population would be expected to exceed the above doses.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">EXPOSURE AT 30 MILES
DOWNWIND (500 KT surface burst, 15 mph wind)</span></b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Time</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>In
Open</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>In
Shelter PF 15</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span>In
Shelter PF 40</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1
Week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3450
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">230
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">86
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1
Month<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4100
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">273
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">103
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4
Months<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4500
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">300
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">113
Roentgens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Initial Radiation</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Initial radiation exposure is considered to take place in about
the first minute after the nuclear explosion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">During the fission and
fusion process, high-energy neutrons, x-rays and gamma rays are expelled from
the fireball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRfKkOvaMZqADlI8wu0ZVS7za-R2OfvSncsEDn0CKkuPLiMbmtQDxM6UM8cbH6ioVK94z_0FTziuNHLHU_pyaA2ENDRr7s4z3Ozd-skmjnCptrclibg6cHsjtHg1PurTk_kM/s1600/IMG_2067.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRfKkOvaMZqADlI8wu0ZVS7za-R2OfvSncsEDn0CKkuPLiMbmtQDxM6UM8cbH6ioVK94z_0FTziuNHLHU_pyaA2ENDRr7s4z3Ozd-skmjnCptrclibg6cHsjtHg1PurTk_kM/s200/IMG_2067.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #1d1c1c;">The threat of this initial radiation exposure from the nuclear
explosion is confined to a radius of about 1.5 miles from ground</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"> zero. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">A very
small percentage of the surviving unprotected population would be within range
of this initial radiation. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">The blast and thermal effects would be fatal
within this radius for unsheltered people. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">However, in a hardened blast
and radiation shelter, people could survive all nuclear weapons effects,
including initial radiation, at distances of 1/2 mile or more from ground zero. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">In the absence of a hardened shelter, any practical, available, expedient
shelter should be utilized, since some shielding protection is offered from
blast, thermal heating, and nuclear radiation.</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">See...not so complex. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">Given the current nuclear threat, Americans need to learn again what they once knew for how to counter the effects of nuclear weapons.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d1c1c;">The first step is learning what it is...as above.</span></span></div>
Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-6711355149089543072022-09-14T08:37:00.031-12:002022-11-23T11:59:24.413-12:00Local Farm Markets to Deal with Food Shortages<div class="separator"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3MPkUHd9z67HUjiFxGChltpMmQ84Re6cLcQkQaXDAr52AUVB86RPDrLLnS7ptvaHtPrgqa5DR9UIyR6xVTdve0ou-jjPLi2b2AGNWbHuk_lXm7ix70Z_2-o3tYLl-PA9tpKyPkV_ykDmBvBr9U_YV0KOBs2dqCiVvrAwxvjgRCTXrB12/s4032/20220619_135212%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3MPkUHd9z67HUjiFxGChltpMmQ84Re6cLcQkQaXDAr52AUVB86RPDrLLnS7ptvaHtPrgqa5DR9UIyR6xVTdve0ou-jjPLi2b2AGNWbHuk_lXm7ix70Z_2-o3tYLl-PA9tpKyPkV_ykDmBvBr9U_YV0KOBs2dqCiVvrAwxvjgRCTXrB12/w150-h200/20220619_135212%5B1%5D.jpg" width="150" /></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span>"Owned and operated by Eli and Misty Cook. One of the main reasons I just moved to West Virginia was to be close to ample food supplies. For a variety of reasons, I saw what was coming several years ago. Food shortages are coming. Know where your local farm market is to make sure you and your family have plentiful and nutritious food..Located in Augusta, WV. Produce grown straight from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.Irrigated from the cool springs that flow through the valleys of Spring Valley Farm. Spring Valley Farm and Orchard is 800 acres of diversified fruits and vegetables. Hope you enjoy our products. Thanks and God Bless, Eli and Misty Cook, Augusta, WV 26704, 304 496 7788" From the Spring Valley Farm and Orchard Eli & Misty's Apple Cider.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Current American Food Shortage</span></b></span></div><div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Never did I think American mother's would not be able to get baby formula for their babies, although this may not be a bad thing. Maybe it will wake American parents up to how they need to prepare for their children's survival in an unusual time.<span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjBmULY9HwTSko3xb5XUccmu1F572ZwvIKNnMqfKzU7sqxLgc23TTCg0elCMF2u8StqwRS6WwoJhkzRZODqrNdnjDTPpT3FiuuvDxBvgXztZNgsg8TAkcaEuWhm-yJN2AzjFLk731jD2nFb4khRmEoOQwNRJPjFEJfSdLsJy_MHcPbmILL/s4032/20220621_111338%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjBmULY9HwTSko3xb5XUccmu1F572ZwvIKNnMqfKzU7sqxLgc23TTCg0elCMF2u8StqwRS6WwoJhkzRZODqrNdnjDTPpT3FiuuvDxBvgXztZNgsg8TAkcaEuWhm-yJN2AzjFLk731jD2nFb4khRmEoOQwNRJPjFEJfSdLsJy_MHcPbmILL/w200-h150/20220621_111338%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br />Mother's breast milk is a miracle. It provides babies with strength, comfort, growth, immunity from germs, viruses, and bacteria...and so much more. Goat's milk is the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">next best for nutrition and immunity, and then cows milk.</span></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>This country was built on cheap energy (coal, nuclear, natural gas, fossil fuels) and cheap food. Those days are over. Prepare for the new reality. Never in a million years did I think I would be seriously talking about food shortages in the United States of America, but given the war on fossil fuels, here we are. </span><span>For those who still doubt we are in a critical time feeding our families, I recommend you read this article from the </span><a href="https://www.armytimes.com/pay-benefits/mil-money/2022/07/01/feeding-our-paycheck-to-the-pumps-troops-families-deal-with-inflation/" target="_blank">Army Times</a><span>. Army families have not had the dual assaults of hyperinflation, high interest rates, supply line interruptions, poverty, and incompetent national leadership since after the oil shocks of the 1970's.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is a sample of the financial and other difficulties military members are facing.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRybOzmn7P3yhmaZ50B1QgpKUPAbtMeGTB1NcFTDMfGVe7_2Sl9qkNT93FvkEdVUmH6qP6LZYPLyWhsosulzZnj0r_dFO0MwZUm91YeQs_0nluzwlwgJjAQ29H5P9vfJrULh5aYvrU_5UKGtE2DMdBc17p0OLlSw6bBUI3hhaqZYBohtCP/s4032/20220619_140042%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRybOzmn7P3yhmaZ50B1QgpKUPAbtMeGTB1NcFTDMfGVe7_2Sl9qkNT93FvkEdVUmH6qP6LZYPLyWhsosulzZnj0r_dFO0MwZUm91YeQs_0nluzwlwgJjAQ29H5P9vfJrULh5aYvrU_5UKGtE2DMdBc17p0OLlSw6bBUI3hhaqZYBohtCP/w200-h150/20220619_140042%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf0HAuU4zJzBl0mlW3HOOaWnlCaox9tQgIMW6x3AljJ1JBev7IE81Qxg6d4apZ9-Bdiu6_QIftV5AZ2C4Zl4JJ97l1yWq511ZZ94py_ma-ROVD1QxGGpymqS-SKuIKv9KunERomVLxUMfU1v8xitceRx8n0kc5AdiDJHuBf9lnnS42TTS1/w150-h200/20220619_135624%5B1%5D.jpg" width="150" /></span>"We spend $200 a week on gas driving to work, medical appointments, school and sports. We now shop exclusively at the commissary although the shelves are often empty due to supply issues,” she said.<br />“We would like another child but we just can’t see how we could afford it. We are very stressed out about finances and something needs to change quickly,” said the officer, an O4.<br />“My husband and I say often, ‘We’ve never earned so much but felt so poor.’ "<br />Those who responded all cited food and gas prices as a top concern, and there are plenty of ripple effects."</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Secondary Disasters are Coming on top of the Hyperinflation Disaster</span></h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With this food shortage manmade disaster, understand that there are secondary's. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinev_uWuI8bPlnbFlSr98JvdgRnO7OrEHl-0aUjacHIwzykd6nn-GJPTytIW9zVe9QFz1dlML7ZE2il-HB26bs8T0qmvj1VxP38FKRitjomtnySGUS3nFEsxtKytkci75Gmg8tezK5bPt2ekj7A_ux-ivudowU1dYO3jhWE2-3ILHZ5jGR/s4032/20220619_135126%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinev_uWuI8bPlnbFlSr98JvdgRnO7OrEHl-0aUjacHIwzykd6nn-GJPTytIW9zVe9QFz1dlML7ZE2il-HB26bs8T0qmvj1VxP38FKRitjomtnySGUS3nFEsxtKytkci75Gmg8tezK5bPt2ekj7A_ux-ivudowU1dYO3jhWE2-3ILHZ5jGR/w150-h200/20220619_135126%5B1%5D.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>When a manmade disaster hits, as with this hyperinflation and food shortages, natural disasters and other secondary disasters will happen. It is a weird synchronicity. As we are in hurricane season, a <a href="https://agnes50-noaa.hub.arcgis.com/" target="_blank">Hurricane Agnes</a> disaster can come on top of this hyperinflation and food shortages and <a href="https://www.weather.gov/bgm/pastFloodJune1972" target="_blank">would be an example of a secondary</a>.Keep in mind that <a href="https://tacda.org/" target="_blank">The American Civil Defense Association</a>, the charity for whom I am a <a href="https://tacda.org/about/#board" target="_blank">volunteer vice president</a> and for whom I write articles for the <a href="https://tacda.org/product-category/journal-of-civil-defense/" target="_blank">Journal of Civil Defense</a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Search our decades of the Journal of Civil Defense to gain deep civil defense knowledge to survive the coming events. You can also find material to help your efforts at our <a href="https://tacda.org/the-survival-store/" target="_blank">Survival Store</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://tacda.org/resources/#meetinghttp://Tacda.org" target="_blank">Tacda.org</a> has so many resources to help you and your family. Please visit our website and use them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Reminder: As always, remember the fundamentals:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Grow your own food.</li><li>Build.</li><li>Stay close to your family and friends as you will need them.</li></ol></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you cannot grow your own food, at least identify your nearest farm market. Fortunately, the <a href="https://springvalleyfarmandorchard.square.site/" target="_blank">Spring Valley Farm Market</a> is down the road from us. They are a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/springvalleyfarmmarketromney/" target="_blank">small family owned farm</a> that produces a large amount of food for other Americans.</div></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Baby formula, as it is processed and manufactured in a factory, should be the last choice. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN36EWSRUf1vROYZejjtvY1LBLDVJYV2qUZ8zxFKAU2yqPGMz2Vy1WOGVkv7Lb0smUV6Ie24KWc8Itju1fySKALSJsWMJYMalST_geQMupKZogG45ZxFDuhHprKcz_eCH-tUo2kpOYwQRu2JfTHhTAukKuYXwXJGj-zc-7BEtJm74nvjLA/s4032/20220619_135137%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN36EWSRUf1vROYZejjtvY1LBLDVJYV2qUZ8zxFKAU2yqPGMz2Vy1WOGVkv7Lb0smUV6Ie24KWc8Itju1fySKALSJsWMJYMalST_geQMupKZogG45ZxFDuhHprKcz_eCH-tUo2kpOYwQRu2JfTHhTAukKuYXwXJGj-zc-7BEtJm74nvjLA/w200-h150/20220619_135137%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwF7-2NHJuZid_lFLoJEHNDyphRZpEcEBSzunzpiQab4Yba-jrHMZesBaiVC_6MmZ6Hzh8W82i74kSDf0v4U581vH8Vm3JYCg2jmDYl6wDQmuO19JL4QH3tutcVj9hww7kKSli1PHlEeh0d40PNKqy2OK2eOieRcVE-eMl70BL5tCCEkGJ/s4032/20220619_135541%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></a></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;">Remember:</span></b> Food from the farm, good. Food from the factory, usually bad. </span><p></p><p></p><p></p><h3><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Impact of the War on Fossil Fuels on Cost to Farmers</span></h3><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Due to the war on fossil fuels, the food shortages will only get worse. I offer the example of my brother in law and his orchard as an example. Multiply his experience by millions of others of changes that are happening and you will have a fair analysis of the chaos coming.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqXmzypnOZB86tOy3Pdv05aD2Lau7MoFrE208IleBTnTcMVHgKM6hG9n-g8pEVFWcpU2P5eCgIFx7eRL9EIDJ8LZSrn-AfWYZAijaAL26S_Toc0CNzRLPHv1LQN12cnRF0XsmgrFmeQqWXFEqWqF0AH0LLbc1SHSWocANWfYSZeMWcAwjN/s4032/20220619_135232%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqXmzypnOZB86tOy3Pdv05aD2Lau7MoFrE208IleBTnTcMVHgKM6hG9n-g8pEVFWcpU2P5eCgIFx7eRL9EIDJ8LZSrn-AfWYZAijaAL26S_Toc0CNzRLPHv1LQN12cnRF0XsmgrFmeQqWXFEqWqF0AH0LLbc1SHSWocANWfYSZeMWcAwjN/w150-h200/20220619_135232%5B1%5D.jpg" width="150" /></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He owns an orchard. It is a small family-run orchard. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He could not afford fertilizer this year as the cost quadrupled. He could not afford sprays as the cost tripled. He could not afford diesel fuels as the cost doubled.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5F5Bs4ONDAKhuVl8Eb4vPfFqRcqbrEewTOnl1xegsklohpAnWAN6RISMl_VJ_OBbukWuPmSwGkAWHPyPVovIPlsGiiIvTI011d7WEU-CuYC03ZRtFcKlWpYLO4igkHBRihFLRe5-4PiPXcKQKBj1GYhdvyl2rFe-OjkJBBqYd5A2HEKE/s4032/20220619_135149%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5F5Bs4ONDAKhuVl8Eb4vPfFqRcqbrEewTOnl1xegsklohpAnWAN6RISMl_VJ_OBbukWuPmSwGkAWHPyPVovIPlsGiiIvTI011d7WEU-CuYC03ZRtFcKlWpYLO4igkHBRihFLRe5-4PiPXcKQKBj1GYhdvyl2rFe-OjkJBBqYd5A2HEKE/w200-h150/20220619_135149%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfkgF4gIBf2LeS8lD49KqbRqKKuzjJNRjHmTXbqvHn0_vHOenjmBENdXStzz0ZiTwjfmID-iJrUnup_zeCim2GL_X3zcRvUeBOdfcX4YkJ7TJAh9ZvJNSYS7_4_O9VuxR6r_BppI5MmQjaH87-mp3McLXFHSaWVE0XNtRQnhl-YtLWbVFc/s4032/20220619_135710%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All of these inputs are necessary for him to produce apples, peaches, cherries, plums, corn, potatoes, asparagus, and other foods that feed Americans.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He and his family will be fine as they grow all they need on their orchard. As he says, "The government can collapse and all it means to me is I pay less taxes."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span>But you will not be fine. You will pay far more for what he is growing. And you will pay even more for what is passed through the middle man that you buy at the grocery, big box, and convenience store.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Study history. The Great Depression in the United States was preceded by a farmers Great Depression for ten years before it hit the rest of the American people.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Time spans for impact from farm to family are far shorter these days.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Get to Know Where your Local Farm Market is and Learn to Shop there Now</b></span></p><p></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For this reason I moved to West Virginia from Maryland to be within one to five miles of food for my family within a few miles of my Almost Heaven.</span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From my house, I can now buy eggs from 12 farms, fruits and vegetables from 4 farm markets, meats, chicken, milk and more from the Mennonites, Amish and other American farmers. <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">I live in a cornucopia of agricultural wealth and I thank God for bringing my family here when the chaos hits.</span></span><p></p><p></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you are in a rural area like me there are farmer's markets everywhere.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you are in the suburbs, you are within driving distance of farmers markets.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you are in the city, well...</span></p><p></p><p></p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf0HAuU4zJzBl0mlW3HOOaWnlCaox9tQgIMW6x3AljJ1JBev7IE81Qxg6d4apZ9-Bdiu6_QIftV5AZ2C4Zl4JJ97l1yWq511ZZ94py_ma-ROVD1QxGGpymqS-SKuIKv9KunERomVLxUMfU1v8xitceRx8n0kc5AdiDJHuBf9lnnS42TTS1/s4032/20220619_135624%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-SgH2KULCY0DWnMYAknhRAq7e7jDjKt9Sg9z3dO_DaWSNs0t7x90CAMD6WNJpcHFMS17rGvCnrzDKdWoB526ADinKm2gfwHMibikx7CNZ36t5KwaXCP6ag0iTDusPgV4kbNq2qzOExQguYRCYMRHRtg8bhRkI1NBlTEndm3XVquRTtN7/s4032/20220619_135348%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-SgH2KULCY0DWnMYAknhRAq7e7jDjKt9Sg9z3dO_DaWSNs0t7x90CAMD6WNJpcHFMS17rGvCnrzDKdWoB526ADinKm2gfwHMibikx7CNZ36t5KwaXCP6ag0iTDusPgV4kbNq2qzOExQguYRCYMRHRtg8bhRkI1NBlTEndm3XVquRTtN7/w200-h150/20220619_135348%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></span>There is a HUGE homesteading movement going on in this nation. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It gives me great hope we will survive and triumph despite the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) <a href="https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/crop-production/eyes-wide-shut-us-agriculture-faces-china-reckoning" target="_blank">buying off our top politicians to take us over without firing a shot</a>. With the <a href="https://www.northgwinnettvoice.com/opinion-foreign-owned-us-farmland-is-cause-for-concern/" target="_blank">CCP buying up our farm land</a> and <a href="https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/09/how-chinese-processed-chicken-was-approved-for-export-to-usa/" target="_blank">agricultural processing industry</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I include photos of my local farm market to show you just how healthy, nutritious, and beautiful the fruit, vegetables, bread, milk, and other foods are in this wonderful local market.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Grow your own food.</span><p></p><p></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Build.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUCZevQawAMfdTVKh8IJiH6vrB9uh1hfInXK8ZlfGY7vlhsc1cni9fWrbve3g1xy8jhbYtNeBCzuPwgnn24OkjF5HTGk5XQe6wBd-GPqMLhcjFaRwxMUJxigKsoMvyLtBpR6s63omc23jkOhiO1hRID0l7jqx0ipzB5Uk4A43t57oOAKMj/s4032/20220619_135430%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUCZevQawAMfdTVKh8IJiH6vrB9uh1hfInXK8ZlfGY7vlhsc1cni9fWrbve3g1xy8jhbYtNeBCzuPwgnn24OkjF5HTGk5XQe6wBd-GPqMLhcjFaRwxMUJxigKsoMvyLtBpR6s63omc23jkOhiO1hRID0l7jqx0ipzB5Uk4A43t57oOAKMj/w200-h150/20220619_135430%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We are in for a wild ride and you must protect your family.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And develop the skills that will be necessary to make sure your family will survive and prosper. <a href="http://TACDA.ORG">TACDA.ORG</a> can help you with that effort.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Grow...and s</span><span style="font-family: arial;">tay close to your family and friends as you will need them.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And pray always.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><h3><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h3><p><br /></p>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823948.post-19724993055477064012022-09-14T04:30:00.006-12:002022-09-24T05:38:09.150-12:00Disaster Lessons from the Malibu Fire<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijduJ4JZODPETxu_RnWWJwGes2sw47pMMHAwLbX6wLYVSxn0Rw9OoD2id1TJadGoA2aucpUsXEGn6Q1SSROkx7PsKlCqKdl9NWHPIrV6ZHAxTPOlAqbCxAReVHrgXpLzzfAeL3cPoRSddBMhO0tBjzUlO4CNB_z3ZKNhN-GAc3evjTlJSO/s2448/Housefire%201.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1632" data-original-width="2448" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijduJ4JZODPETxu_RnWWJwGes2sw47pMMHAwLbX6wLYVSxn0Rw9OoD2id1TJadGoA2aucpUsXEGn6Q1SSROkx7PsKlCqKdl9NWHPIrV6ZHAxTPOlAqbCxAReVHrgXpLzzfAeL3cPoRSddBMhO0tBjzUlO4CNB_z3ZKNhN-GAc3evjTlJSO/w200-h133/Housefire%201.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Every disaster offers lessons, and the Malibu fire of November 8, 2018 offers many.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Robert Kerbeck has written the definitive study of those lessons in his book <a href="https://www.robertkerbeck.com/book/malibu-burning/" target="_blank">Malibu Burning: The Real Story Behind LA's Most Devastating Wildfire.</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Having lost our house to fire, I identify with most of the lessons he states, even if ours was an individual loss and his book follows the burn of over 1,000 residences.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here are just some of the lessons he offers in his book.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Prepared Citizens can Save their Homes</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">According to Kerbeck, he had prepared for years for a fire as that was a regular natural disaster in Malibu, his hometown. He saved his home by having the means to keep it safe from fire, including sufficient water, a pump, and a chemical fire retardant, <a href="http://www.perimeter-solutions.com/en/" target="_blank">Phos-Chek</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Over the years I'd acquired other gear: Masks, nozzles, a specialized wrench to access the hydrant at the top of our driveway, and a flame-retardant chemical called Phos-Chek." Page 3</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">You Are on Your Own</span></h4><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU9qUP2gkOvB9b586cCOzGSLVto6dJZz9vzXHtzg3GjjpNszO3xxnaemlrH425_rj98AnMUiuEPUhKUDmCjwcmnlATzEIQJxzbIlBxPcJoF8Zfj5JKL2oRwl_mkQ_sPqlZK4OhLLiAb9CSgrgEwVp7bXbtf7n7pKCG3ZKsu0CdcT5OI1T9/s640/DSC00036.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU9qUP2gkOvB9b586cCOzGSLVto6dJZz9vzXHtzg3GjjpNszO3xxnaemlrH425_rj98AnMUiuEPUhKUDmCjwcmnlATzEIQJxzbIlBxPcJoF8Zfj5JKL2oRwl_mkQ_sPqlZK4OhLLiAb9CSgrgEwVp7bXbtf7n7pKCG3ZKsu0CdcT5OI1T9/w200-h150/DSC00036.JPG" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"A surfer buddy, Tim, once told me what gear to by for the inevitable wildfire. A lifelong local, Tim had also warned me that there would be no firefighters when the time came, that if I wanted to save my place I would need to stay and fight for it myself. Being from Philadelphia, I couldn't imagine firefighters not showing up. I wasn't sure I believed him, but it couldn't imagine firefighter not showing up. I wasn't sure I believed him, but it couldn't hurt to be prepared. He explained that the hydrant water would run out, so it was essential that I have a pump and my own water source." Page 2.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So many Americans are operate in disaster under the assumption that the government will rescue them in a disaster. This is not true.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Basically, you are on your own. Firefights choose what fires they will try to put out on their own. Sheriff's follow their superiors orders. The Federal Emergency Management Agency shows up weeks after the event.</span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Authorities Often Issue Contradictory Commands during a Disaster</span></h4><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In Chapter 9, Shelter in Place, Kerbeck explains how the fire chiefs and sheriff's were recommending that the students at Pepperdine University evacuate while the leadership of the school insisted the students shelter in place.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As you might imagine, these contradictory message resulted in many students driving away in their car fleeing the fire while others remained behind as the fire passed over them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">These contradictory messages happen in all natural disasters when the various layers of government (local, state, and federal) and agencies within each issue differing orders for what to do.</span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Firefighters Work for their Superiors, Not You</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"The group laid out the hose and hooked it to the hydrant on the ocean side of the highway. The four-inch hose was heavy even without water, but once it was filled it required Ryder and six or seven others just to move it around. Simeon manned the nozzle and blasted the flames on the ocean side, putting most of them out. The men then focused on knocking down the fire on the land side. As they did, at least twenty engines drove past. Occasionally, they ran over the hoses in the middle of the highway but they never stopped. Finally, Ryder flagged one engine down. The captain in the passenger seat rolled down his window, flashed a thumbs up sign, and took off. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The message was clear. the group of men - the Paradise Cove - were on their own." Page 123</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Many other citizens of Malibu requested and begged firefighters to protect their homes from the spread of the fire. Kerbeck documents that in almost every case of this request, the firefighters refused to roll down a window and simply drove away.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As shocking as this behavior was for most citizens of Malibu, they do not understand that those firefighters follow the orders of their chiefs who told them not to engage in front line firefights but to avoid engaging until the fire passed.</span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Outside Emergency Workers do not Answer to You</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"The LA County Sheriff's Department had set up roadblocks to prevent anyone from getting in or out of the city, but there were also roadblocks within the city. Ostensibly, they were resigned to keep looters out, but they also kept out resident who wanted to return to their neighborhood. The sheriff's didn't care if someone was a resident and had the ID to prove it. One elderly woman had heard a gas station was open in mid-Malibu. Anxious about being low on fuel, she went to fill up. On the way back she was stopped at a roadblock. She had to abandon her car and walk on foot past the checkpoint where she waited in the hopes that a neighbor could pick her up and drive her home. Fortunately, someone did."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>"The sheriffs didn't seem to grasp that those who stayed behind had saved hundreds of homes, possibly even preventing the fir from moving into the eastern part of the city. They often acted like the locals were getting in their way, not appearing to appreciate the fact that most Malibuites had seen no first responders during the fire." Page 135</span><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some Citizens Rise to the Occasion</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When the local and state politicians, fire fighters, law enforcement, and administrators provided no relief, the citizens in Malibu set up their own relief center with supplies for those left behind.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They called it the Point Dume Relief Center.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Relief supplies were brought in by boats from the ocean as the authorities had shut off all relief supplies by road.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"[Malibu City Manager Reva] Feldman seemed even to resent the presence of the volunteers at the Relief Center, Judy (Point Dume Relief Center Organizer) told me. With no help from the real government, community members had come together to create their own. The fire and its fallout quickly acquired a nickname. Locals called it the YOYO Fire, for You're on Your Own.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One week in, the city finally did send something.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Two Porta Potties." Page 138</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Citizens do not Rise to the Occasion</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"My across-the-street neighbor lived in a forest of flammable trees, so it was no shock when his house burned to the ground. What surprised me was that afterwards he cut down every tree on his property, even the ones that hadn't burned. He learned his lesson, but many other homeowners stubbornly refuse to remove dangerous trees, claiming they create privacy and add value to their homes. But what's the value of a burned-down house?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By cleaning your brush, you give yourself, your neighbors, and the fire department a fighting chance. I wonder how many homeowners would remove their flammable trees if firefighters said they would no longer defend such properties." Page 225</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Authorities do not Rise to the Occasion</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Experts I interviewed said the most important thing homeowners can do to mitigate the fire risk is to reduce the amount of available fuel. Yet more than six months after I begged members of the Malibu City Council to institute a flammable landscaping and materials ordinance, nothing has been done.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Living in California, for all its beauty and great weather, means being only a natural disaster away from living on the streets. Some people believe it was folly to build in Malibu in the first place, let alone to rebuild over and over...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To my knowledge, the city of Malibu hasn't instituted a single law to make Malibu more fire safe." Page 225</span></div></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Summary</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are many other lessons in Malibu Burning or human behavior when confronted by a natural disaster, a fire in this case. It offers deep analysis of what works and does not work. It is worth reading for the civil defense tactics and for how to deal with your families, neighbors, and the authorities.</span></div>Poetslifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967137681621055985noreply@blogger.com