A fun mystery from Sam

BlankFrom this morning's Columbus Dispatch, Frank. Are you home and do I have your correct phone numbers? Blaine gave me 813-310-8772. Hint- Ignore the suggested sex in the pic.




Sam

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who and where did you get the ad?







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A fun mystery ....

The attached ad caught my eye this morning as some baby I remember. I only had to think a little while studying the pic. I would appreciate any guesses. It was one of the Kegley brood of McConnell Ave. in Portsmouth, Ohio a while back.



Sam

WW II interrogation Center PO Box 1142 Thanks good friends! Long!

I have seen the Fort Hunt signs on DC Transit Bus route signs but never


knew exactly where it was nor what/when it was a Fort until now. Maybe

someday when I am in the area I will go visit it. You old-timers who served

will appreciate this.

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P.O. Box 1142



An offhand comment from a park visitor unveiled the untold story of a

secret Virginia facility where clever interrogation techniques and good

old-fashioned eavesdropping helped secure victory in World War II. Now the

Park

Service is racing to unearth all the details before the last remaining

witnesses vanish.



By Heidi Ridgley



It's a steamy summer night in 1943 in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside

the nation's capital, and another Army bus with dark windows is rumbling

down the George Washington Memorial Parkway, headed for a nearly

forgotten

fort dating back to the Spanish-American War. The frequent arrivals at

Fort

Hunt no longer raise an eyebrow among locals, who assume the newly

constructed facilities, complete with barbed wire fences and guard

towers, simply

support a World War II officer's training school. But there's a lot more

to

the story.



More than 65 years later, the activities conducted at Fort Hunt are

emerging as one of the best-kept secrets of the last century: The men and

the few

women assigned here took oaths of secrecy to their graves. When the

government began bulldozing the 100 or so buildings in 1946, this quiet

spot

along the Potomac became a place for simple Sunday pleasures like picnics

and

softball.



Since 1933, the plot of land has been managed by the Park Service, but

during World War II, the War Department took it over to house a

top-secret

military intelligence center, referred to then as P.O. Box 1142. The site

included prisoner-of-war interrogation programs run by the Army and Navy

known

as MIS-Y (Military Intelligence Service-Y) and Op-16-Z (Operation-16-Z).



>From July 1942 to November 1946, the U.S. military shepherded more than

4,000 prisoners of war (POWs) through Fort Hunt, housing, interrogating,

and

surreptitiously listening to the highest-ranking enemy officers,

scientists, and submariners. Notable members of the Third Reich

questioned here

include rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, spymaster Reinhard Gehlen,

and Heinz

Schlicke, inventor of infrared detection.



The intelligence that American military personnel uncovered primarily

focused on the Germans' rocket and submarine technology, which was

superior to

the Allies'. It may have played a role in the decision to bomb Hiroshima

and the subsequent victory for the Allies, helped rocket the United

States to

the top of the space race, defined Cold War strategies, and was a

forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency. Amazingly, the site's

historical

significance might have been lost forever had it not been for a

serendipitous

moment between a park ranger and a park visitor three years ago.



In late 2006, a ranger told a tour group about Fort Hunt's history as

part

of George Washington's farm, as a hospital and camp for World War I vets

marching on Washington to demand their war pensions, and as a Civilian

Conservation Corps camp in the 1930s, and one of the visitors offered,

"My

neighbor used to work here during World War II." The neighbor's name was

Fred

Michel, and he had since moved to Louisville, Kentucky. When park

personnel

phoned him, he revealed, "Yes, I worked at P.O. Box 1142 during World War

II, and I'd love to tell you everything about it," recalls Vincent

Santucci,

chief ranger at George Washington Memorial Parkway, the park unit that

oversees Fort Hunt. "We did some great stuff there," Michel told park

staff.

"But I signed a secrecy agreement."



P.O. Box 1142 documents were declassified in waves, starting in 1977 and

continuing through the 1990s. "But no one had told the vets that," says

Santucci. "They lived in isolation, not even telling the closest people in

their

lives." P.O. Box 1142 veteran Wayne Spivey, 89, a chief clerk who managed

the database of information gathered during Nazi interrogations, says, "I

didn't tell anybody because I didn't think anybody would believe me. When

people asked me what I did during the war, I told them I was stationed at

P.O. Box 1142," he says. "One fellow thought I worked for the post

office, and

I just let it go."



To assure veterans like Spivey and Michel that they could talk freely,

Santucci and other Park Service personnel had to go to great lengths. As

far as

these veterans knew, their work at P.O. Box 1142 remained classified,

their sworn oath to secrecy still a matter of national security. Then,

about

two years ago, Santucci appealed to the military intelligence community

for

help. The result: The chief of Army counterintelligence wrote letters to

each veteran, encouraging them to share their stories with the Park

Service,

telling them, "We need to preserve the important information and the

lessons

learned from the work that you did," says Santucci.



It wasn't a moment too soon. In fact, with so few World War II vets still

around, it's actually about 10 years too late, says Santucci. "This

information is going extinct like an endangered species," he says. (Fred

Michel

died as this article was being written.) "The things these veterans told

us

need to be in the history books," he adds. "We've now interviewed more

than

50 veterans, and we've found out about multiple top-secret programs." But



those who worked in one program didn't know about the other programs or

even

what others in their same program were working on. "It was very

compartmentalized," says Santucci. "That's the way intelligence works."

Further

confounding matters is how hard it is to track down living vets: Separated

by

their secrets, few stayed in touch.



But this much we know: P.O. Box 1142 housed two military intelligence

programs in addition to MIS-Y and Op-16-Z. The MIS-X (Military

Intelligence

Service-X) program helped American personnel overseas to evade capture

and

communicated with those held captive. This was the stuff of James Bond-or

Hogan's Heroes. The duty of an American POW was to escape or cause enough

chaos

in the prisoner camp to keep the German soldiers preoccupied and off the

frontlines. With the help of several manufacturing companies, personnel

at

1142 sent care packages to American POWs containing items like cribbage

boards and baseballs with radio receivers that could tune in to the BBC

for

coded messages. Decks of cards, pipes, and cigarette packs might contain

hidden escape maps, saws, compasses, or money to help POWs escape.



Another key program was MIRS-the Military Intelligence Research

Section-which studied documents to support tactical decisions but also

aided efforts

to extract information from POWs. This group armed American interrogators

with details that made them appear to know far more than they actually

did.

For example, after Army researchers spotted a newspaper photo of German

General Erwin Rommel surrounded by other generals at his daughter's

wedding,

they used it to corner a general who was eventually captured and

delivered

to 1142. "An interrogator would say, 'We already know most of the

information we need,'" says Santucci. "'And by the way, how was the

wedding? We know

you were standing next to general so and so, who was also captured and

gave

us plenty of information, so you might as well talk.'"



Personnel also interrogated prisoners and monitored them covertly. "They

even bugged the trees," says Santucci. "Although it's hard to believe

they

called them bugs-they were two-feet long." Often the agents eavesdropping

had little or no understanding of the details they were recording or the

significance of the information, which was then passed on to other

agents. Take

the V1 and V2 rockets, the weapons of mass destruction at the time. Set

on

a course toward England, the world's first long-range missiles flew until

their engines gave out and then simply fell wherever they were. At 1142,

monitor Werner Moritz recalled overhearing two German naval officers

talking

in their room: "Don't worry, once the work at Peenemunde prevails,

Germany

will be victorious." It took the Allies about a month to determine

Peenemunde's location, where the rockets were being made; soon after the

British

bombed the site.



In another instance, George Mandel, now 85, was assigned to a POW working

on purifying uranium, though at the time Mandel had no idea why. "In my

mind, I was just writing reports," he says. "Of course months later, when

Hiroshima happened, it all made sense."



At first, the prisoners were primarily U-boat captains and crew members

who had surrendered in the Atlantic. But as the war's end neared,

prominent

scientists surrendered or were recruited with the promise that if they

talked, they could pursue their studies in the United States. "The

Russians

captured more German scientists than the Americans," says Santucci. "But

we

captured the hall-of-famers to help in the Cold War." One such person,

believed

to have passed through 1142, was Wernher von Braun, the rocket scientist

who would eventually become a key part of NASA's efforts to put a man on

the

moon.



General Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's top spy against the Russians, also

surrendered to the Americans and ended up at Fort Hunt. "He probably

should've

gone to Nuremberg and been prosecuted for war crimes," says Santucci.

"Instead he became chief of Russian counterintelligence during the Cold

War. That

could be another reason why the military wanted to erase the things that

happened at Fort Hunt years ago." Mandel says Nazi party membership was

overlooked in some cases because the U.S. military was already gathering

intelligence on its next immediate worry: containing the Russians. "We

didn't like

the idea that we were treating Nazis well," says Mandel. "Many of us were

Jewish-not necessarily religious-but we knew how the Germans had made

life

difficult for Jews in Germany. Still the feeling was that we should

extract

as much information as we could."



In fact, many men stationed at P.O. Box 1142 were refugees from

Germany-Jews who were young boys when their family fled from Hitler in the

late

1930s. Some of them, like Henry Kolm, 84, lost relatives to the Nazis.

These men

were selected for their loyalty and their basic science skills but also for



their proficiency in German and their cultural background, which could

prove useful during interrogations. For example, Kolm recalls a

conversation

he had with one of his "customers" while playing chess. In an age when

discussions of "enhanced interrogation techniques" have arisen regarding

the

Middle East conflict, POWs housed here were wooed with kindness and

camaraderie. If they coughed up information voluntarily, they might get

treated to a

dinner in town or a shopping trip into Washington, D.C. In this case,

Kolm's colonel reminisced about his favorite remote mountain lake in

Austria.

Coincidentally, it was the same vacation spot Kolm's father had taken the

young Kolm, so he knew exactly what it looked like-down to the two small

sleeping huts. The stunned colonel was convinced "ever afterwards that

American

intelligence had a dossier on every detail of his entire life," says

Kolm.

"Very useful for my interrogation."



Even as the war came to an end, the work continued. When Germany accepted

defeat and the U-234 submarine surrendered at sea, the entire crew was

transferred to 1142. Among the sub's cargo: an unassembled jet fighter and

a

load of uranium oxide. "Not the stuff you could make a bomb out of," says

Kolm. But it indicated the Germans were on the right track. Interrogators

found

out the submarine's destination had been Japan. "If that had gotten to

Japan, we would've been facing kamikaze pilots flying rocket planes,"

says

Kolm.



Mandel recalls interrogating a prisoner about faster planes and proximity

fuses that could blow things up simply by getting close to a target. "We

didn't have any of that," he says. "German fighter planes suddenly became

so

much faster we couldn't catch them. So I asked a German prisoner what was



happening and he told me their planes didn't use propellers anymore-they

had

jet engines." It was this sort of technological ingenuity that almost

allowed the Germans to win the war. But as we know, that didn't happen.

The

Allies defeated Hitler thanks to innovative interrogation techniques at

Fort

Hunt. But the site's crucial role in the war would have been lost forever

had

it not been for the persistence of park staff who, once they discovered

the secret, doggedly pushed for more, realizing their race against time.

"We're losing the last generation of World War II vets," says Santucci.

"We

need to find as many as we can and hang on to their stories. Thousands

and

thousands of books have been written on WWII, but what we've uncovered at

Fort

Hunt is changing what we knew about military intelligence history. It's a



shame it didn't occur 10 years ago when more veterans were around. But

we've got it now and we're never going to let it go."





SIDEBAR: TELLING THE REST OF THE STORY

Now that the secret's out, there's a big story to tell at Fort Hunt. The

Park Service's plan is to create a visitors center at Fort Hunt, perhaps

in

a 1903 building used during the World War II era-the noncommissioned

officers' quarters. If funding is found, park personnel plan to install

interpretive signs, old photographs, and maybe even some war

paraphernalia. Although

the men who served at P.O. Box 1142 were instructed not to take photos or

mementos, many veterans have a small stash that they have since shared

with

the Park Service.



The Park Service is also hoping to mirror the experience of those agents

eavesdropping on the German POWs, by allowing visitors to don headphones

and

listen in as if they were monitoring a conversation. Using actual

transcripts from 1142 recovered at the National Archives, they hope to

hire native

German speakers to record the original dialogue in the mother tongue, so

visitors can listen in and read the English translation in front of them.

For

now, visitors will find little more than a public park with a flag, a

plaque, and a few interpretive panels. But with any luck, the full story

will

be told here within a few years' time.



Heidi Ridgley lives a few miles from the site of P.O. Box 1142, and she

hopes to be one of the first people to walk through its visitors center.





Thoughts about this article? Comments you'd like to share with the

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Some Mound Park Portsmouth Ohio memories

Thanks Bob Looney and Ronnie Walters!

Sam

I am just finishing my eighth book, Bob. It takes a while to do a book, normally a year. None know how many years are left in our lives.




My earlier years were shared with neighborhood kids around McConnell ave. and Vinton and normally at Mound Park just up McConnell from us. Ronnie Walters was on his crutches from an early age and he moved faster on those helpers than most any of us could run. Skip Beekman and his sister Nancy, Walt Rowe and his sister, Barbara Swishelm (Married Carole Howell, the Trojan and Ohio State star). Nancy McFarland (Schlichter), the Tannions and others lived there. Our 1227 McConnell address was just above the flood marks of 1937. Jack Duschinski was your immediate neighbor on one side where Lovell Meadows and his beautiful olive skinned sister lived before. On your north was Pidgy and Jim Zeisler. C.A,. Hartley lived on Vinton later with his mother and sisters. Bob Staley and Don Ginn lived up the street a bit. Bill and Nancy Thomas, the Gemperlines and later Boomer with Bill and Nancy Thomas and Bill and Fred Colliers and their brood also lived closer to the park.



After you passed all of those kids you arrived at Mound Park, the true "Cultural Center of Our Universe".



There the Clark twins, Jim Smith, Don Flowers and I, kids in my grade at Highland School, played king of the hill and football and other things from dawn to dusk. Later we met 'Looney and Lyles' a seemingly inseparable pair, the Moseleys, Steve Clark and his brothers, and played baseball in the deserted dirt court tennis courts. We were Babe Ruth, Hank Sauer (Cincy Reds), and  Eddie Miller as the towering hits soared 100 feet or so over the eight foot fence in left and center field and gave us the 'star' thrill.



Dick Klitch and his dad were often coaching (Dick was a coach on the field even then) the Grandview Cubs. So many urchins shared the fun of that park. My faded memory tells me that Mr. Labold, who donated Labold field down by the stadia, donated the park and had willed it to the kids who played there. The local power people in Portsmouth politics reportedly won that away from us, but, even if the will came to million bucks, there were so many of us urchins we may have received a nickel apiece. :)



I had a few fist fights in the park and I know many others did. There were always instant audiences for the fisticuff events that happened on the spot. Ray Benner had the most, no doubt. Ray was tough but he tried Don Thomas, our resident giant and Dave, Mary, and Earl's brother, but never could beat Don as Don tells me now, matter-of-factly. I missed all of those Thomas-Benner events, but they were mainly on their way to school. Shorty, whom Ray protected as a little brother, probably witnessed all of them. Ray was a neighbor of Shorty Vallance and his sister, Wayne Widdig, Donnie Widdig and sister(s) on Logan extending westward from the park and Highland School. We hardly saw Wayne through the early forties when I was 8 to 12 years old. He, my brother, Ted Dunham,  and so many others were fighting in WW II, the Big One, which hasn't stopped all wars as was hoped and died for. When he returned though and they had the great softball tournaments in Mound Park, Wayne became that unbeatable fast pitch pitcher, almost in the class of Eddie Feigner, The King of 'The King and His Court".



Mound Park was like Highland School's home turf for grade school ball games and Sunday afternoon football games.   Our A, B, and C teams played there a lot.



There Bob. You got my memories flowing a little. There may be a few books from the park and our neighborhood. Jack Plymale, Frank Hunter, Blaine Bierley, my deceased brother-in-law, Don Lundy and many others could tell of the Mabert Road people, such as the storied Ray Pelfrey, east of us park urchins. Al Oliver, Larry Hisle, and the many fine black athletes of Portsmouth dearly love their kid days at Bannon Park and the Fourteenth Street Community Center. It isn't only for me to tell. My brothers George, Jim, and Paul have tales of their park eras. It was mostly a 'boys park' as parents probably didn't want their young girls among us rough necks.



Gib Lakeman and Gus Thompson and their ilk came later after 1945 and the wars end. We heard many war stories, some gruesome, in the park during the 52-20 days. The vets received $20 a week for 52 weeks, a full year, which afforded them loafing days in the park. They had terrific baseball pepper drills with line drives and hard grounders. Lee Brady, Don Delaney, Red Glasgow, Laken Warnock, Gib, Gus, and so many fine athletes hit and fielded the line drive shots in rapid succession. Of course, Lamoin Elliott, Ray Pelfrey, Walt Young, and Gib Lakeman liked to boot punts from the Sugar Bowl west side of the park towards the tennis courts on the east side.



How lucky we were, Bob and Ron! Besides that we had the Terrace Club Swimming Pool and stories there.



Now, you guys tell some ... ,





Sam















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Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:46 PM

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SAM--I ENJOY IT WHEN YOU WRITE ABOUT THE GREAT TIMES WE HAD AT MOUND PARK. WHAT MEMORIES WE HAVE. GIB LAKEMAN WAS "ONE OF A KIND," WE WERE VERY FORTUNATE TO GROW UP THERE. THERE WAS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON. I WISH YOU WOULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THOSE TIMES AND GIB LAKEMAN AND OTHERS.



BOB

Long letter to the PUSA but worth your while. Thanks Shovers!

My oldest son is 54 and the youngest is 48. this 53 year old lady says so much to the arrogant one in office of PUSA that should let him know how we Tea Party people feel. m He isn't really concerned with that.





I would only add that if immigrants want to come in legally they are certainly welcome.




Sam





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From: M Shover





Subj: FW: A 53 Year Old Women's Letter to Obama and Congress





Couldn't have said it better myself.







The Letter Everyone Is Talking About!





Please take a few minutes to read and absorb just what this woman had to say, and then hopefully everyone will pass it to their entire mailing list and theirs to theirs until it circles the nation

Time is short and arrogance, stupidity and ignorance abound...





The following letter read on Glenn Beck's show, is rapidly circulating around the country. Americans everywhere identify with this 53-year-old woman. She has given us a voice. Once you read this, you will want to forward it to all of your friends...



GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona . She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership:





I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. Instead, we are burdened with Congressional Dukes and Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they are supposed to represent.



There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now.

You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut-job am I? Well, these briefly are the views and issues for which I seek representation:



One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This is not to be confused with legal immigration.



Two, the STIMULUS bill. I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.



Three: Czars. I want the circumvention of our constitutional checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution, and honor it.



Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There are many conflicting opinions and it is too soon for this radical legislation. Quit throwing our nation into politically-correct quicksand.



Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision that will burden me, my children and grandchildren. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night without even reading it. Slow down! Fix only what is broken -- we have the best health care system in the world -- and test any new program in one or two states first.



Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. More is not better! Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real [Constitutional] obligations. Why don't you start there?



Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes -- how did they pull that one off? Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with any of our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.



Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs -- and that is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person! Why do you want me to hate my employers? And what do you have against shareholders making a profit?



Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.



Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Every company must sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. (Have you ever ripped off a Band-Aid?) We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.



Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please stop trying to manipulate and appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.



Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now. Take a breath. Listen to the people. Slow down and get some input from non-politicians and experts on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed-reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.



I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children? We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is needless urgency and recklessness in all of your recent spending of our tax dollars.



From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on bringing our concerns to Washington . Our president often knows all the right buzzwords like unsustainable. Well, no kidding.. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.



We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work, pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone... and we are now looking at you.



You have awakened us, the patriotic freedom spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office.



We have canceled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us who will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.



Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution, and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them... Because we will get you fired and they will not save you.



If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are.. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming.

We the people are coming.





In GOD We Trust















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Fourth sign of a stroke Thanks Tom & Carolyn!

I will continue to forward this every time it comes around!




STROKE:Remember the 1st Three Letters....S.T.R.



My nurse friend sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word.

I agree.



If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.

Seriously..



Please read:



STROKE IDENTIFICATION:



During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) .she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.



They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening



Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 PM Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die. they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.



It only takes a minute to read this...



A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally . He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.



RECOGNIZING A STROKE



Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR . Read and Learn!



Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.



Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:



S *Ask the individual to SMILE.

T *Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)

(i.e. It is sunny out today.)

R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.



If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.



New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your Tongue



NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue.. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other,that is also an indication of a stroke.



A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.



I have done my part. Will you?

The Silent Sermon- Thanks Dr. Hovermale!

THE SILENT SERMON








A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending services

regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the pastor decided to visit

him.



It was a chilly evening. The pastor found the man at home alone, sitting

before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his pastor's visit, the man

welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair near the fireplace and waited.



The pastor made himself at home but said nothing. In the grave silence, he

contemplated the dance of the flames around the burning logs. After some

minutes, the pastor took the fire tongs, carefully picked up a brightly

burning ember and placed it to one side of the hearth all alone then he sat

back in his chair, still silent.



The host watched all this in quiet contemplation. As the one lone ember's

flame flickered and diminished, there was a momentary glow and then its fire

was no more. Soon it was cold and dead.



Not a word had been spoken since the initial greeting. The pastor glanced

at his watch and realized it was time to leave. He slowly stood up, picked

up the cold, dead ember and placed it back in the middle of the fire.

Immediately it began to glow, once more with the light and warmth of the

burning coals around it.



As the pastor reached the door to leave, his host said with a tear running

down his cheek, 'Thank you so much for your visit and especially for the

fiery sermon. I will be back in church next Sunday'.



We live in a world today, which tries to say too much with too little.

Consequently, few listen. Sometimes the best sermons are the ones left

unspoken.



The Lord is my Shepherd ----- that's a Relationship!



I shall not want ----- that's Supply!



He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ----that's Rest!



He leadeth me beside the still waters -----that's Refreshment!



He restoreth my soul ----- that's Healing!



He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness --that's Guidance!



For His name sake ----- that's Purpose!



Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death--that's

Testing!



I will fear no evil ----- that's Protection!



For Thou art with me ----- that's Faithfulness!



Thy rod and Thy staff comfort me -----that's Discipline!



Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies------that's

Hope!



Thou annointest my head with oil ----- that's Consecration!



My cup runneth over ----- that's Abundance!



Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life----that's

Blessing!



And I will dwell in the house of the Lord -----that's Security!



Forever ----- that's Eternity!



Face it, God loves you!



Send this to the people you love. I thought this was pretty special, just

like YOU!



What is most valuable is not what we have in our lives, but WHO we have in

our lives.

Thanks to my former Denison fellow employees.

Thanks Denisonite friends!




I agree but I still worry that Americans voted this guy into the office of the Presidency and he has access to all of our military and our defense. Every representative of the USA should withstand a security clearance as I, and all employees did at Goodyear Atomic back in the fifties. None of the voted-in people must now. That shocks me!



He can destroy more than a group of airplane attacks on heavily populated areas did on 911. What will osama have him do before we get a chance to vote him and all elitistts, so-called representatives, Democrats and republicans, out of office?



I, in my worry, hope that I am wrong, but the blatant lies o spreads are apparently not seen by the libs who spearheaded his election. My hope lies in the cliche' that "I've had a lot of troubles in my life, but most of them never happened". That is a definition of worry.



I tend not to be a worrier, but now ... And I still believe that our God is in control. Catastrophes still happen without ceasing, but God remains omnipotent and none can fool Him.



Sam





Subject: FW: Fw: Thank God For BARACK OBAMA





That is right – I will say it again - - THANK GOD FOR BARACK OBAMA!!!







He single handedly destroyed the Clinton Political Machine – Driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary’s Presidential aspirations – something no Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you!







He single handedly killed off the Kennedy Dynasty – No more Kennedy’s trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer tonight!







He is single handedly destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!



Dennis Moore had never lost a race – quit



Evan Bayh had never lost a race – quit



Byron Dorgan – had never lost a race – quit



Harry Reid – bid for re-election doesn’t look good



These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has destroyed! By the end of 2010 dozens more will be!



In December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party.



In one year Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the house, if not the senate back to the Republicans.







He has single handedly completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they really are. Every Generation seems to need to relearn the lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very well!



Liberals tax, borrow and spend – check



Liberals won’t bring themselves to protect America – check



Liberals want to take over the economy – check



Liberals think they know what is best for everyone – check



Liberals aren’t happy till they are running YOUR life - check







He has single handedly brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan



In One year he rejuvenated the Conservative movement and brought out to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans



Name me one other time in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America!







In all honesty one year ago I was more afraid than I had ever been in my life. Not of the economy but of the direction our country was going. I thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends, strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the Greatness and Wisdom of the American people was flat out wrong.







When the American People wake up, no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them!



Barack Obama woke up these Great Americans.







Again I want say Thank you Barack Obama!