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21/12/2021

George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945 ✝️)

75 years today we lost one of the best 4 star general of all wars.

Patton was buried in the American military cemetery of Hamm in Luxembourg, alongside the other soldiers of the 3rd Army in accordance with his desire to be buried with his men.

04/12/2021

Charlie Chaplin attending the premiere of his newest film 'City Lights' in Los Angeles 1931. He is accompanied by Albert Einstein.

23/11/2021

Yesterday exactly 58 years ago we lost JFK. Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

09/11/2021

On this day in 1918 the abdication of the German emperor was announced. Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the German kaiser (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I (1914-18).

On November 10, the former emperor took a train across the border into the Netherlands, which had remained neutral throughout the war. He eventually bought a manor house in the town of Doorn, and remained there for the remainder of his life. After two decades in exile, he died in the Netherlands on June 4, 1941, at the age of 82.

26/10/2021

18/10/2021

General Colin Powell, soldier and diplomat.

Colin Luther Powell was born in Harlem, New York on April 5, 1937. His parents, Luther and Maud Powell, were immigrants from Jamaica.

After graduating from college in 1958, Powell joined the army as a second lieutenant. After basic training, Powell got his first assignment in Germany as a platoon leader in the 48th Infantery.

In 1963, Powell was sent to Vietnam as an advisor to the South Vietnamese army. Powell returned to Vietnam again in 1968. He had been promoted to the rank of major and was sent to investigate an incident called the My Lai Massacre. When the helicopter he was in crashed, he was wounded but returned to the helicopter and saved his fellow soldiers.

After a tour of duty in Korea, he worked several different postings. He was promoted to colonel in 1976 and brigadier general in 1979. By 1989, Powell had been promoted all the way to a four star general. 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed Colin Powell as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was the youngest ever and the first African-American. An exceptional achievement.

In 1991, Powell oversaw the U.S. operations in the Persian Gulf War including Operation Desert Storm.

In 2000, Powell was appointed to the position of secretary of state by President George W. Bush. He was the first African-American to hold a position this high in the U.S. government. As secretary of state, Powell played a major role in the Iraq War. The US invaded Iraq but the weapons of mass destruction were never found. Powell took the blame. He resigned as secretary of state in 2004.

Today General Colin Powell died of Covid-19 complications. He was 84 years old.

13/10/2021

Non nobis domine Non nobis. Sed nomine tuo da Gloriam. 13-10-1307

01/09/2021

(August 31, 2021) Yesterday a true hero passed away. Colonel Carl Cooper, a veteran of WWII, Korea and Vietnam. He was 101-year-old.

Colonel Carl Cooper was born in Clanton on March 18, 1920, and was the seventh of ten children, Colonel Cooper was the only one of his siblings to go to college. He was studying biology and on his way to medical school when his life and the world changed.

He registered for the draft Sept. 3, 1941, according to military record. He enlisted in the Marines on April 1, 1942 and was a member of the 6th Marine Division.

He left Guadalcanal for Okinawa on April 1, 1945. Okinawa was the site of the greatest casualties in the Pacific during World War

On the Fourth of July, Cooper left Okinawa aboard a ship headed for Guam.

After the war, he returned home to his wife and met his 1-year-old son. He and his wife later had a daughter, and Cooper said he was able to be present for her birth.

Cooper spent some time as a teacher and coach in Marion before serving in the Korean War. When he returned from that war, he became Mountain Brook Junior High School’s first principal.

He served as principal there for eight years until he was called to serve in the Vietnam War.

On April 1, 1980 – the same day of the year on which he had been sworn into the Marine Corps 38 years before – Cooper retired at 60 years old.

“You feel lonesome,” he said about retiring. “You miss it. But I knew it was going to come. This happens to us all.

During the Gulf War, he even tried to get on Operation Desert Storm.

Cooper has outlived his wife and two children. He has four grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

One of the last true heroes of the Golden Generation. Rest in peace.

27/08/2021

Last week, we walked in the footsteps of the E-company of the 101st Airborne Division. At the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, the last German push westwards. Fierce combat attack close ranged, battered by German artillery for day after day they resisted the enemy’s advance and delayed it until reinforcements could finally reach the surrounded remains of the Easy Company. In the series immortalizing the men and their company as a whole, C Carwood Lipton quotes a phrase from Shakespeares King Henry V:

From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother

The pictures are showing the memorial in Bastogne, which also shows the 82nd Airborne Division, a unit which attended al important Battles too, Jacks Wood, Bastogne, the Konigstiger at La Gleize and the memorial in rememberance of the massacre in Malmedy.

24/08/2021

Very sad news.. Charlie Watts has died aged 80. After joining The Rolling Stones in 1963, Watts was one of the longest serving members of the band. His publicist said the musician "passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family".