Reminders from Our Flag
for Wednesday, September 12, 2018
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Today's Star-Spangled Inspiration
... US Marine Robert Leckie recalls one of his memories from the Battle of Guadalcanal in his book, Helmet for My Pillow ...
“It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I could not see, but I dared not close my eyes lest the darkness crawl beneath my eyelids and suffocate me. I could only hear. My ears became my being and I could hear the specks of life that crawled beneath my clothing, the rotting of the great tree which rose from its three-cornered trunk above me. I could hear the darkness gathering against me and the silences that lay between the moving things.”
for Wednesday, September 12, 2018
[ GO HERE to perform this week's Pre-Pledge Tribute (PPT) - ideally done on #FlagDayFriday to make Pledge of Allegiance more engaging and meaningful. ]
Today's Star-Spangled Inspiration
... US Marine Robert Leckie recalls one of his memories from the Battle of Guadalcanal in his book, Helmet for My Pillow ...
“It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I could not see, but I dared not close my eyes lest the darkness crawl beneath my eyelids and suffocate me. I could only hear. My ears became my being and I could hear the specks of life that crawled beneath my clothing, the rotting of the great tree which rose from its three-cornered trunk above me. I could hear the darkness gathering against me and the silences that lay between the moving things.”
Historical Moment to Remember
... a decisive World War II battle in the Pacific ...
... a decisive World War II battle in the Pacific ...
On September 12, 1942, the decisive Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign began. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field, a strategic airfield for American forces on Guadalcanal, were repeatedly attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces for 3 days. When the Japanese withdrew, they had 850 killed to the Marines 104. This "decisive battle of the war" in the Pacific helped propel America's forces with confidence to win back more islands from the Japanese.
Slice of 1950s Americana
OTD, September 12th, in 1953, John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline "Jackie" Bouvier got married in Newport, Rhode Island. At that time, Kennedy was serving as a US Senator representing Massachusetts. Just in January of 1953 Kennedy had sworn in as a Senator after serving a few terms as a Congressman in the US House of Representatives.
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