Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts

Friday, January 16, 2015

THE WALL Vietnam...


The Wall
A little history most people will never know
Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.
The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 57 years since the first casualty.
The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.
There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.
8,283 were just 19 years old.
The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.
12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.
5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.
One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.
997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam.
1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam.
31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.
Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.
54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . I wonder why so many from one school.
8 Women are on the Wall, Nursing the wounded.
244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.
Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons
West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall. 
The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest . And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.

The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam . In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Ken nedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.

The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred. 
For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.

Please pass this on to those who served during this time, and also to those who Care.

Friday, January 31, 2014

Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules...

America’s Karma and World War Two Gold Theft


And the Gold Recovery Attempts of the Korean and Vietnam Wars
By JC Collins
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This essay serves as an Addendum to one of my previous posts titled “China to Purchase the Federal Reserve”. The article itself has generated a lot of interest and many questions. Such things are not easy to prove and take book length discourses to fully understand and grasp the complexity of not just the process, but also the history behind it. Such are the expectations of pivotal events.
Let’s back track 100 years to 1913 and the creation of the Federal Reserve. The Fed was set up as the central bank of the United States. It has a 100 year mandate (there are questions about extensions) and quickly went to work printing money and building up the American war machine for World War One which began the very next year.

The hidden purpose of World War One was the take down of one of the two last monarchies in Europe. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a “dual monarchy” created in 1867 as an agreement between Hungary and Austria for the purpose of defense against the onslaught of revolutions initiated by banking powers. These revolutions started with the French Revolution as a means to overthrow Europe’s monarchy’s and plant the design of the modern state in the minds of the people. The form of government and banking systems that spewed forth from this injustice slowly crawled from country to country, digging its roots into the industries and cultures of the conquered lands.
The second monarchy was Russia. Also by design, the bankers created dismal economic conditions within Russia which in turn, through propaganda, was blamed on the Romanov royal family. This, as we know, led to the Bolshevik Revolution and the installation of the synthesis to democracies thesis, communism. See my previous post for a brief explanation on the usage of the Hegelian Dialectic.
The bankers quickly went to work in Austria on a plan to economically destroy Germany and build it back up as the Third Reich. Similar patterns were unfolding in Asia with the rise of Imperial Japan.
World War Two officially began in September of 1939. Like World War One, there was a hidden purpose. This time it was the theft of gold held in both Europe and Asia. The lands conquered by both armies were stripped of their gold reserves which were then sent back to the vaults of the western banks. Most of this gold eventually ended up in Fort Knox as both official and unofficial gold deposits of the Federal Reserve System. There is plenty of information available on Nazi Gold to satisfy the inquisitive mind so I will not elaborate here.
Gold Storage
Once the gold hoards were shipped west, America finally became embroiled in the war to help clean up the debris left over from the bankers gold theft. This afforded the bankers another opportunity to earn great returns as they funded both sides of the war and literally made a killing.
But the Japanese did something unexpected. They hid some of the gold in the tunnels and caves of the lands they conquered in Asia. The bankers quickly caught on to this scam riding under their scam and became furious enough to drop two atomic bombs on Japan. Fat Man and Little Boy aside, the bankers never got the gold and it was quietly moved into other locations. Most likely it never stayed in one place for too long.
Not to be deterred, the bankers continued to build up their war machine into the American military industrial complex and set it loose upon Korea and eventually Vietnam in search of the Yamashita Gold.
There are many reasons why the bankers wanted this gold. Traditionally gold moves towards regions that manufacture and the western world was modernizing with manufacturing as the driving force. In order for manufacturing to continue increasing, it needed funding. Funding came from the debt creation system that put money into circulation. In order to print more debt, somebody needed to hold it. The U.S. could not hold all the debt within the country because it would cause too much inflation. As such, inflation needed to be exported to countries with markets which had been “engineered” specifically to import that inflation. Obviously the people of these countries suffered the inflation through poor living standards and working conditions.
Note: This is exactly what has been happening and will continue to happen in America as manufacturing has fled its shores too cheaper markets. The gold soon followed and the living and working conditions have been getting poorer and poorer for the majority of average Americans. This is the karma which is being exacted upon America for endless war and debauchery.
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The history of our world and its wars is the history of the movement of gold. From ancient Babylon to today, gold is the backbone of development and economic security. Anything you hear different is simply propaganda spewing forth from the feces spigots of television sellouts who are milking an almost empty system before discarding the carcass upon the heap of history.
Gold is on the move once again. In a big way. Much of it going to the Chinese government and the People’s Bank of China. Things have increased even more dramatically in the last few weeks as the Shanghai Gold Exchange has had 159 tons of gold withdrawn since January 1st. The JP Morgan gold vault has seen 44% of its inventories depleted just in the last 4 days. Let’s not forget that the JP Morgan vault is now owned by China. Where is this gold going?
China has been setting up gold vaults throughout Asia. Vaults will not sit empty for long.
The new economic system being slowly implemented through the I.M.F. with the support of China is paying greater attention to the geographical locations of central bank gold vaults. These locations will be in the ASEAN members as well as mainland China. Some of the countries importing gold into central bank vaults are Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia.
The gold which was stolen is being returned. It took a world war to get the gold but there will be no war to get it back. It’s already moving. This deserves repeating, there will be no major war over this gold movement.
In the near future the Comox will no longer price gold as the Shanghai Gold Exchange will set the fixed rates along with the I.M.F. SDR framework agreements. Gold trade settlements will be structured in SDR’s but managed through the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. From there we drop another level to the RCEP, or Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, comprised of the ASEAN members as well as Japan (no war with China), South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and India.
In a future essay I will be focusing on the re-emergence of Vietnam into the global economy. But for now I’d like to bring notice to the fact that their economic growth is astounding with a middle class that is swelling and an economy that is attracting huge investment. Vietnam has the lowest unemployment rate on the planet. Samsung is moving its factories into Vietnam. Russia has signed an agreement with Vietnam to build a $28 Billion oil refinery, the second largest in all of Asia, with more to come. Even Starbucks is getting into the Vietnam craze.
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The Vietnamese people hold 300 to 400 tonnes of personal gold. That is equal to or greater than the gold holdings of Great Britain. The State Bank of Vietnam is planning on converting this gold into dong deposits with the intent of strengthening the currency. Add this to the gold that will be imported into the vaults of the central bank through the Shanghai Gold Exchange, and you have the makings of a very strong regional power. I would suspect that Vietnam will become a contributing member too the BRICS Development Bank and the SDR compositions for the region.
A long way Vietnam has come from the American military onslaught and attempted Yamashita gold theft. It’s almost fitting that the small country and its people which were bombed and killed by the Federal Reserve military machine will now be the partial holder of the official gold that once sat within the hollowed walls of the now empty Fort Knox.
Could this be the ultimate triumph of Confucianism over Platonism? The shame of the Asian Confucian cultures once subjected to the western idealism of Plato. And now the guilt that the west must feel as the karma is balanced.
And now the Federal Reserve System is almost dead, as the Chinese pick at the bones of what was once their tormentor. The new Federal Reserve will issue the U.S. foreign bonds in the form of SDR compositions. These bonds will be for international use only. The Trans Pacific Partnership will be the pipeline for these international SDR’s as they are spewed forth from the Federal Reserve. The allocation will be structured around the SDR basket compositions as I’m detailing in “SDR’s and the New Bretton Woods”.
The internal U.S. dollar will be issued through the Treasury. Guess who will purchase these bonds? If you guessed your pension fund, then you’re on the right track. The timing of the MyRA announcement was not coincidental. Nothing is. – JC

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

WOMAN OF THE YEAR


I CANNOT IMAGINE ANY OF THE EMAIL FRIENDS I SEND EMAIL  TO WHO DO NOT THINK JANE FONDA IS A SORRY PIECE OF EXPLETIVE DELETED AND SHE SHOULD BE  RANKED ALONG WITH THE DEVIL AND OTHERS OF HER ILK. IF THIS EMAIL DISTURBS YOU ARE MAKES YOU THINK LESS OF ME, SO BE IT.  LET ME KNOW AND I'LL REMOVE YOUR NAME FROM MY EMAIL LIST. MJK

Got this from a good friend.  I also remember the stuff Jane Fonda did and what she stood for.  Thus I am sending this to my friends who also may remember and to some who are too young to remember but should know....


I am         sending this one out because so many do not know this truth...and also         because she was on TV 3 times recently         talking about her new book...and how good she feels in her 70's...she         still does not know what she did wrong. Her book just may not make the         best list if more people knew... also...


Barbara Walters               said:
Thank you all. Many died in Vietnam for our               freedoms.  I did not like Jane Fonda then and I don't like               her now.  She can lead her present life the way she wants and               perhaps SHE can forget the past, but we DO NOT have to stand by               without comment and see her "honored" as a "Woman of the Century."              

For those who served and/or died. . .(I remember this               well)

NEVER               FORGIVE A TRAITOR - AND SHE REALLY WAS A               TRAITOR!!

and now President OBAMA wants to honor               her......!!!!

In Memory of LT. C.Thomsen Wieland who spent               100 days at the Hanoi Hilton [Famous North Vietnam               Prison]

IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE               FORWARD THIS SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!!!!!!

A TRAITOR IS               ABOUT TO BE HONORED.  KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS               AMERICA.

This is for all the kids born in the 70's and               after who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that               our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to               bear.

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the '100 Women               of the Century.'

BARBRA WALTERS WRITES:



Unfortunately, many               have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms.               Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men               who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War. The first part               of this is from an F-4E pilot.  The pilot's name is Jerry               Driscoll, a River Rat.  In 1968, the former Commandant of the               USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison the ' Hanoi               Hilton.'

Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell,               cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to               describe for a visiting American 'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and               humane treatment' he'd received.

He spat at Ms. Fonda, was               clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he               fell forward on to the camp Commandant 's feet, which sent that               officer berserk.

In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still               suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying               career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden               baton.

>From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the               47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the ' Hanoi Hilton'...the               first three of which his family only knew he was 'missing in               action'. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His               group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in               preparation for a 'peace delegation' visit.

They, however,               had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they               were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of               paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his               hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked               the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging               snippets like: 'Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?' and 'Are you               grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?'               Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver               of paper.

She took them all without missing a beat.. At               the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the               shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge               and handed him all the little pieces of paper...

Three men               died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost               number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of               her actions that day.  His story:

I was a civilian               economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the               North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held               prisoner for over 5 years.

I spent 27 months in solitary               confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year in a               'black box' in Hanoi . My North Vietnamese captors deliberately               poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a               leprosarium in Banme Thuot , South Vietnam , whom I buried in the               jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only               about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs)

We were Jane               Fonda's 'war criminals....'

When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi ,               I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be               willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her               about the real treatment we POWs received... and how different it               was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and               parroted by her as 'humane and lenient.'

Because of this,               I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms               outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and               beaten with a bamboo cane.

I had the opportunity to meet               with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she               would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer               me.

These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone               who should be honored as part of '100 Years of Great Women.' Lest               we forget....' 100 Years of Great Women' should never include a               traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many               patriots.

There are few things I have strong visceral               reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason,               is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people               as you possibly can.. It will eventually end up on her computer               and she needs to know that we will never forget.

RONALD D.               SAMPSON, CMSgt,
USAF 716 Maintenance Squadron,
Chief of               Maintenance DSN: 875-6431 COMM: 883-6343


PLEASE HELP BY               SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE               SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE.

Monday, May 7, 2012

You're 19 wounded lying in the jungle...


You're a 19 year old kid. 
You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .. 
It's November 11, 1967.                          
LZ (landing zone) X-ray. 


Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the helicopters to stop coming in. 


You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out. 


Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. 


As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. 
You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it. 


Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. 


He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. 


Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.


And he drops it in and sits there in                         the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board. 


Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. 


And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!! Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. 
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.


Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed                         Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise ,                         Idaho




May God Bless and Rest His Soul.


I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure heard a whole bunch about                         WhitneyHouston, Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that                         sicko Sandusky , and a 72- day sham                         marriage.

Shame on the media !!! 


Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman


Now... YOU pass this along. Honor this real hero.                          


Please.

Friday, December 9, 2011

GOD trade alive and well [GOLD, OIL, AND DRUGS]


War on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:22:47 -0600
Nothing changed since Vietnam. Drug farms in Nicaragua, Mexico and Central America not enough. The world is not enough…

http://www.naturalnews.com/034289_Afghanistan_opium_trade.html

War on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews)
Afghanistan is, by far, the largest grower and exporter of opium in the world today, cultivating a 92 percent market share of the global opium trade. But what may shock many is the fact that the US military has been specifically tasked with guarding Afghan poppy fields, from which opium is derived, in order to protect this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and various other groups that profit big time from this illicit drug trade scheme.

Prior to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Afghanistan was hardly even a world player in growing poppy, which is used to produce both illegal heroin and pharmaceutical-grade morphine. In fact, the Taliban had been actively destroying poppy fields as part of an effort to rid the country of this harmful plant, as was reported by thePittsburgh
Post-Gazetteon February 16, 2001, in a piece entitledNation's opium production virtually wiped out(http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...).

But after 9/11, the US military-industrial complex quickly invaded Afghanistan and began facilitating the reinstatement of the country's poppy industry. According to the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), opium cultivation increased by 657 percent in 2002 after the US military invaded the country under the direction of then-President George W. Bush (http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-ma...).

CIA responsible for reinstating opium industry in Afghanistan after 9/11 More recently, The New York Times (NYT) reported that the brother of current Afghan President Hamid Karzai had actually been on the payroll of the CIA for at least eight years prior to this information going public in 2009. Ahmed Wali Karzai was a crucial player in reinstating the country's opium drug trade, known as Golden Crescent, and the CIA had been financing the endeavor behind the scenes. (http://www.infowars.com/ny-times-af...).

"The Golden Crescent drug trade, (also known as the GOD trade: Gold Oil and Drugs) launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation forces and the British military," wrote Prof. Michel Chossudovsky in a 2007 report, before it was revealed that Ahmed Wali Karzai was on the CIA payroll. "The proceeds of this lucrative multibillion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan" (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/A...).

But the mainstream media has been peddling a different story to the American public. FOX News, for instance, aired a propaganda piece back in 2010 claiming that military personnel are having to protect the Afghan poppy fields, rather than destroy them, in order to keep the locals happy and to avoid a potential "security risk" -- and FOX News reporter Geraldo Rivera can be heard blatantly lying about poppy farmers being financially supported by the Taliban, rather than the CIA and other foreign interests.

You can watch that clip here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b...

So while tens of thousands of Americans continue to be harmed or killed every year by overdoses from drugs originating from this illicit opium trade, and while cultivation of innocuous crops like marijuana and hemp remains illegal in the US, the American military is actively guarding the very poppy fields in Afghanistan that fuel the global drug trade.
Something is terribly wrong with this picture.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b...
http://www.InfoWars.com