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Charles Aldieri and Jack Jewell are Wednesday Heroes

Mar 172010

Cpl. Charles Aldieri (Ret.) & 1st Lt. Jack Jewell (Ret.)

U.S. Army

Lt. Col. David Hurley, commander of Schweinfurt, Germany’s 15th Engineer Battalion, presents unit coins to two 9th Infantry Division World War II veterans — Charles Aldieri, a former corporal with the 746th Tank Battalion (shaking hands) and Jack Jewell, a former first lieutenant with Company B, 39th Infantry — during a March 8 ceremony honoring the division’s efforts in capturing the famed Remagen Bridge in the closing days of World War II. The commemoration took place in the Remagen Bridge and Peace Museum now housed in the remains of the span, which collapsed 10 days after its capture on March 7, 1945.

William Hafford Sharp, USS Indianapolis Survivor, dies at 83

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Mar 162010

William Hafford Sharp, a longtime Jacksonville resident who survived four days in shark-filled waters during World War II, died Sunday. He was 83.

Mr. Sharp’s daughter, Molly Jenkins of Jacksonville, said he died after falling in his home and striking his head.

A native of Decatur, Alabama, Mr. Sharp was a 19-year-old seaman aboard the USS Indianapolis when it was torpedoed by the Japanese a few minutes after midnight July 30, 1945.

He was one of about 900 men out of a crew of 1,196 who made it into the water before the heavy cruiser sank abut 450 miles from the Philippines. For four days Navy officials were unaware that those men, most left floating in the Pacific without food and water, were surrounded by sharks.

Raj Patel: Food Sovereignty (VIDEO)

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Mar 162010

Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing, explains what food sovereignty means, and why people around the world are fighting to have a say in their own food system. This is as much a fight for social and economic justice as it is a fight to protect the environment, along with the ability of communities, states, and nations to determine their own food and agriculture policies.

Jihad Jamie Lonely, Insecure According to Her Mother (Video)

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Mar 152010

Jihad Jamie is lonely and insecure according to her mother, Christine Mott. The Leadville, Colorado woman who became known as ‘Jihad Jamie’ was indicted on March 9, 2010 of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft. Her real name is Jamie Paulin-Ramirez. She has been confused with Colleen R. LaRose aka Fatima LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman arrested on similar charges. In the video below you can see her distraught mother express concern for her daughter, but mostly for her six-year-old grandson, Christian Carreon, who has been taken into the world of Global Terrorism by his mother.

The mother’s concerns are certainly legitimate. As she states in the video below, her daughter is in real danger now that she’s been released from jail if she is no longer useful to the terrorists she has been working with. Worse, she has drawn her son into the world of jihad.

Jason L. Dunham is Wednesday Hero

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Mar 102010

Cpl. Jason L. Dunham
22 years old from Scio, New York
Rifle Squad Leader, 4th Platoon, Company K, Third Battalion, Seventh Marines (Reinforced), Regimental Combat Team 7, FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced)
April 22, 2004

U.S. Marine Corps.

For The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Corporal Jason L. Dunham, United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a Rifle Squad Leader, 4th Platoon, Company K, Third Battalion, Seventh Marines (Reinforced), Regimental Combat Team 7, FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced), on 14 April 2004.

Charlie McGowen is Wednesday Hero

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Mar 032010

This Weeks Post Was Actually Written By Sgt. McGowen A Year Before He Passed Away. He Was Suggested By His Granddaughter, Leigh, To Honor Him.

Sgt. Charlie McGowen
August 22, 1921 – December 5, 2009
U.S. Air Force

1940-1945

In 1942 he was drafted into the Army Air Corps. He was sent to England. His trip there took him through Warrior, Alabama, Ft. McClellan, Ft. McPherson, Gulf Port, Mississippi, Chanute, Salt Lake City, El Paso, Alamorgoro, and New York City. Then he took the Queen Mary to the Fifth of Clyde in Scotland. Upon arriving he was sent to the Wending base in England. In his military service he was part of the World War II: 32 Bomb Group 578 and 579 Bomb Squadron Second Air Division, 8th Air Force, ETON 117 Wending, Norfolk, England.

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