IS IT TRUE NOVEMBER 11, 2015

1. The EPD spokesman some how developed the arrogance of a fighter pilot crossed with a surgeon. Here is an attention getter you are assigned to talk to the media that’s it.

2. “IS IT TRUE the University of Evansville has just created a public relation nightmare when they announced they are using 25 of 68 Handicap parking spaces for VIP parking during basketball games?”

   Sometimes one has to plant your feet and quickly raise your voice enough to make your point of concern. ” Evansville has a elitist problem” centered on the smallish section of that places old downtown. You have a whole other community surrounding that, that continues to drift into oblivion without any concern from the strictly local powers that might be.
   People of Evansville your voice is your power, and where in fact you spend your money is your social hammer. Raise your voices and grab and hold your hammer strong. Do not contribute to the elitists menagerie, and thus the boycott will allow them die on the vine, or somehow find success if worthy, so to speak. Just don’t support them until they support you. This example should be a moniker, and a mold of just how a community actually can move forward. Raise your voices.

   http://www.courierpress.com/news/local/ue-reverses-decision-on-civic-center-basketball-game-parking-2430f580-b05f-687e-e053-0100007fec15-345184662.html

   • This was almost as big of a shitstorm as when U of E tried to annex Walnut street several years back. Shouldn’t there be SMART PEOPLE working for the university instead of the STUPID MORONS that come up with these brilliant ideas?

     Grandpa always told me that BS, MS, PHD stood for Bullshit, Moreshit, Piled High & Deep!

3. Thanks to all veterans.

4. I’m glad teachers,the post office, and government entities have this day off. I will commit that in the future any veteran in my employ will have this day off with pay.

   • The guy standing out in front of your shop with the wrench is me. Ready to work. One day a year is about the best I can do. Pay me now and save a stamp.

     • Always someone looking for something for nothing. Even among us veterans. I see some are very clever.

     • If you have a broom you’re in. A wrench? You might become the wrench in my works.

     • Oh wait, Gail has already applied for that job.

5. Thanks to ALL veterans who served their country so honorably!

   • We need to say this every day, not just one day a year. My mind is boggled by their actions and sacrifices.

6. Thank you to all who serve and continue to serve. A special thank you to my friend, 97 year old Harold Trinkle who interrupted his education to volunteer for flight training. Harold was graduated from training early, two weeks after Pearl Harbor, and sent as co-pilot to take five DC 3 planes commandeered from commercial airlines to General Stillwell in the China theater. His pilot was only out of school six months ahead of him. Their plane was one of two that made it to South America and across the ocean to Africa. When they reached China there first mission was to fly 12 China Communication Officers and beacons to landing fields to direct Doolittle’s raiders first raid on Japan to safe areas. The plane usually had a crew of five but for the mission they left out the engineer and navigator. The plane had five parachutes so when they flew off in to the monsoon and mountainous terrain carrying the 12 Chinese Officers bailing out, which was common was not an option. His story should have been part of the Doolittle raiders movie.
   Harold continues to fight to keep our young men and women out of what he considers unnecessary battles.
   Hats off to day to all service men and my personal hero – Harold Trinkle.

   • Great story George! These old timers are a breed of their own – from a time – forgotten.
     Here’s to Harold Trinkle and others who aspire to valor!
     “Salute!”

     • It really is a great story that was not recorded in history because it would disclose some of the screw ups that Harold claims were the cause of loosing all the aircraft and many of those men from that first raid over Toykyo. Harold offers a different account than the histories provide. His plane is mentioned in only one or two of the dozen or so books I have on the raid. The government is silent or says Harold’s mission failed. But Harold has a much different account. I guess 75 yeas ago was not much different than things today – no matter how big a screw up – Generals claim success, blame the little guy, and move on.

7. I can easily personally thank the Veterans of the United States of America for service rendered in the second world war. If not for those young men I would not be who I am today. In my nation we are at a human crossroads . I would suppose the Norman roots smack into many peoples genetics back thousands of years. In my home region we speak French, Dutch, and German as a norm, English is a secondary language as well. When traveling and working in my calling in the studies of the oceanic sciences I never forget who’s sacrifices even allowed me to even exist. The American Army and its Air corps saved my country from the Nazi dogma. That by those individuals shear outright valor and courage in battle. Thank you, America, days like this, knowing my families history it always brings tears to this girls steadfast eyes.
   Today this planet is changing, its a challenge for the entire human race , however together we can move towards solutions, hopefully the American soldier will not be called upon to stand fast to support that again.

   One other thing if one more person bangs out a selfie with me and wants a autograph I’ll just scream. Just happened again as I was boarding a flight today, No, mister! I’m not Jessica Chastain, nor am I Nicole Kidman as well. I’m simply Ellie. L. It can be trying to be a dreaded doppelganger I suppose. 😛

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   To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
   From: Tomas Young

   “I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.

   I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.

   I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.

   Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.

   I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.

   I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.

   I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.

   My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.”

   —Tomas Young

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