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Mike Ley

Date: February 27, 2010
Email: mmannley@aol.com
City: Sonora
State: calif
Comments: Served with c troop 1st 4th vietnam 69-70

1/4th Cav (QH) HISTORY

Alan Benoit forwarded this information to me. It is some of the first Loc Ninh battle information that I have seen.

On the Map of Our AO should be this battle. It was NOT a Small Battle but seems to have been Misplaced somewhere.
I dont know what criteria is needed for a Major Battle but the Battle I was wounded in was an attack on the 2nd Plt, C troop, 1/4 Cav at Cassion V, just North of Con Thanh on 23 Nov - 24 Nov 1967.
(147 Enemy Killed) Local VC and some 272 NVA Regulars.

Follow is some dialoge provided by Alan taken from a Web-page on line. It offers some insight into the battle as told by individuals who were in the battle. BB


Battle of Loc Ninh, Oct - Nov 1967

John McCoy's comments:
My memories of Loc Ninh are as strong as any from my tour in Vietnam. That said, I know there is an awful lot that I have forgotten in the 34 years since our experience at Loc Ninh in 1967. There is still more that I did not know until recently. Therefore, I will count on not only my memories, but those of others that were there, and use information gained while doing research for this website.
Here is what Colonel Kasik remembers -
After 17 October there were only 2 effective rifle companies in the 2/28th: B and C. A and D were going through a massive rebuild. We had been moved up to Quan Loi in late October, the place of red laterite dust, to training and secure the area. On 29 Oct there was a major attack on Loc Ninh, 2/28 sent 90mm recoilless rifles with crews to blow the VC out of bunkers they had occupied on 30 Oct. VC bodies literally covered the runway after the battle that night. On 31 Oct B and C Companies were airlifted by Ch47's to the airstrip at Loc Ninh where we began to dig in and secure an artillery battery on the south end of the airstrip. B Company's positions were inside the rubber and had we stayed there, I believe there was a chance we would have been over-run. Before we finished digging in, we were ordered to airlift to An Loc as it was believed that a major attack would take place there. C Company shortened the perimeter outside the rubber. At An Loc we dug in in a terrible place filled with prickly brush and the hardest dirt I ever saw.
Here is what John McCoy remembers of the area near An Loc -
after being choppered in from Loc Ninh, Lt. Bracey, Platoon Leader of third platoon, informed our platoon they were expecting this area to get hit hard that night, so we were doing all we could to get dug in. I remember we used grenades under sandbags to loosen the hardpan dirt enough to dig a little, then we would use another grenade and sandbag. Eventually, we got throught the hardpan and were able to dig in deep enough to make a respectable bunker. When we were done, I remember looking around and seeing some equipment I didn't usually see on an operation. We had truck-mounted rockets of some sort or another in our NDP, and we had some soldiers with listening devices set up on tripods. The soldiers operating these devices told me they could pick up movement outside out perimeter up to 500 meters, and could tell if it was two-legged or four-legged. I believed them (and still do). Then they told me they could tell if it was male or female. I knew the bull was starting up and my jungle boots leaked, so I headed back to my bunker before I got anything inside my boots. Fortunately, nothing happened that night. At least at our NDP. Loc Ninh Airstrip, where we had left earlier that day, got hit hard.
Here is what Don Koch remembers -
My bunker was to the right of where the snake was being held. That is looking up the run way. I remember the first night we spent about 30 feet into the rubber trees. As soon as it was dark and we had just gotten to sleep, bugs started biting us. Big bugs -- they looked like ants, but much bigger. Maybe termites? But I sure remember how bad they bit us. I was glad when we came back from An Loc and our bunkers were no longer inside the rubber trees and near those bugs. Also I remember the jets coming in so low, close and fast dropping bombs. The V.C. hit the drum of fuel up the runway. Once it started burning things died down for a time. All I could think was that the fuel would run down the runway, and the flames follow. At that point I was more worried of that than the V.C.
Back to Colonel Kasik's memories -
On the night of 1-2 November there was a 2d major attack on Loc Ninh. C company and the Artillery Battery really raised havoc with the VC who appeared to not know they were there at the south end of the strip (part of their main attack went through the rubber were we had previously dug in). We returned on the 2d after being relieved by a Company of the 26th Infantry commanded by a dear friend of mine, Capt Len Tavernetti. We still joke about this as the command bunker we built collapsed as he was sitting on it (construction was a little weak). Tavernetti was later badly wounded in a battle in the rubber around Loc Ninh. His Battalion Commander was killed. When we returned to Loc Ninh we took over part of C Company's perimeter and added extra bunkers. We stayed there for awhile -- perhaps a week -- during which time there were several more attacks. It is now believed that this was a cover for NVA forces moving south to prepare for Tet. Also, the famous snake capture took place.
More thoughts from John McCoy -
The famous snake capture! That is a story all by itself. It was a LARGE Python. I mean a really huge Python. It took about 8 or more men to pick it up. It was at least 12 feet long, maybe a lot longer. I have never seen a longer or bigger Python before or since. We were out on patrol, headed back in to the NDP at the south end of the Loc Ninh airstrip, when Lt. Fortenberry walked up, holding the front of the snake, followed by several men from his platoon trying to hold the rest of this enormous constrictor. He informed me that we had all just walked over the snake. That didn't make me feel too comfortable. The snake apparently had eaten recently, as it had a bulge about the size of a small pig about three or four feet back from its head. We all speculated on what it had eaten. Lt. Fortenberry managed to find a large cardboard box, about the size of a refrigerator, and put the snake in that. They named the snake "Lurch." [I used to have a picture of Lt. Fortenberry and half a dozen men holding Lurch. I lost that picture, and all my pictures, in a house fire many years ago. If anyone has a picture of Lurch, please let me know. I would like to put it up here.] Either that night, or the next night, we came under attack again. I remember Fred Hill and I were heading for our bunker when the first mortar rounds started dropping in on the runway. Fred looked over at the box that had held Lurch, and realized the box had been tipped over somehow and Lurch was loose. When Fred brought this to my attention, I hesitated to jump in the bunker, as I figured Lurch just might be in there. The mortar rounds were moving down the runway, falling closer to our bunkers, so I opted to take my chances with the snake and jumped in the bunker. I may have let Fred go first. Lurch wasn't there, and we never saw him again. I hope he crawled out to the rubber trees and scared a few VC to death. One thing I remember about Loc Ninh - we were trying something new so the jet pilots and gunship pilots could identify the perimeter of the NDP at night: we had been told to take an empty C-ration can and fill it 3/4 full of sand, then saturate it with either diesel fuel or gasoline. When darkness came and the attack started, we were to reach as far out of the firing port of our bunker as we could and place the can there, then light the fuel. The pilots could see the burning fuel in the cans from the air, but it was not visible to the VC on the ground. This trick seemed to work very well. Those pilots never fired inside our NDP, but sure hugged up close on the outside of the NDP a few times. I am convinced that those pilots saved our lives.
What Fred Hill Remembers:
It was my turn to sit guard in our defensive bunker. It must have been 0100 or 0200 hours. I was eating a Tootsie Roll and directly in front was one of the hugest explosions I have ever seen. Must have been about thirty yards to our front. The fit then hit the shan. I remember looking at the crater when the Sun came up. You could have dropped 3/4 Ton Truck into it. I also remember that we didn't have it too bad. For the most part we remained in the NDP and let the VC bring the fight to us. Which they did on a nightly basis for some time.
John McCoy:
Another thing I remember about Loc Ninh - I believe this was the first night that B Company was there when the NDP came under attack - I was a machine gunner, and I remember firing my gun so long that the barrel turned red. It was glowing in the dark. It became so hot it was transparent. Fortunately, M-60 gunners are furnished with a second barrel, so you switch barrels and go back to work. In the morning, when all was quiet and we came out of our bunkers, I remember seeing the tail fin of a 62mm mortar on top of the bunker. I remember thinking at the time that the sandbags did there job. I was also thinking it was just a coincidence that it landed on my bunker. It retrospect, I believe my bunker had been an intentional target for a VC mortar man or mortar crew that knew what they were doing. I am now sure they were trying to knock out my machine gun. I didn't know it at the time, but there were three other American NDP's set up in the general area of Loc Ninh. We were all within a five to six kilometers of the town of Loc Ninh. Two companies of the 1/26, along with B battery of the 2/33 artillery were north of Loc Ninh, Two companies of the 1/18th, along with A Battery of the 2/33 Artillery were west of Loc Ninh, we (Bravo Company) along with Charlie Company and A Battery, 6/15th Artillery were at Loc Ninh Airstrip; the 2/12 (25th Division) was placed under operational control of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division and placed in an NDP about five miles to the northeast of us. The placement of the NDPs, in effect, made a box shape around the 272 VC regiment. This was by design of General Hay. The General also placed two companies of the 1/28 as a blocking force on escape routes between Loc Ninh and the Cambodian border. Having effectively boxed in the 272 VC Regiment, they had little choice but to attack to try to break out. Sooner or later, all of these NDPs came under attack during the general period that we were at the Loc Ninh Airstrip. In aggragate, 993 VC bodies were counted in the area of the four NDPs. Considering the VC did all they could to remove their dead, it is a safe assumption that more than 1,000 VC and/or NVA were KIA. Dave Berry has donated an arial photograph of Loc Ninh. It is a large picture and takes a bit to load, but it shows a lot more than just the airstrip at Loc Ninh. If memory serves me right, Bravo Company was set up at the extreme lower right had corner of the picture in November of 1967.

Another version of the Battle of Loc Ninh. BB
The War: Death Among the Rubber Trees
Friday, Nov. 10, 1967
The district town of Loc Ninh, some 70 miles north of Saigon, was a company town and, until last week, a tranquil and prosperous one. Most of its 10,000 inhabitants worked for a giant French rubber plantation, the Societe des Caoutchoucs d'Extreme-Orient, whose trees marched away row upon row, mile after mile, across the low hills toward the Cambodian border.
Overlooking the town stood the red-roofed villas of the French plantation managers. Tropical flowers climbed their villa walls from green lawns, and their country club boasted a large swimming pool and a red-clay tennis court —the remnants of a prewar colonial past.
The wartime present in Loc Ninh was embodied in four understrength Vietnamese irregular force companies and an American Special Forces unit, both of which were assigned to guard the town's airstrip and the district sub-sector headquarters, a rambling set of old French buildings and bunkers ringed by concertina wire and crowned by an improbable, rickety observation tower. Down the airstrip from the headquarters (see map) was an only slightly more substantial, diamond-shaped Special Forces camp, its walls made of logs and earthworks like something out of the old American West. To the Viet Cong's main-force 272nd and 273rd Regiments, assigned the task of spoiling South Viet Nam's inaugural week with a major victory, Loc Ninh must have seemed an ideal target: a district headquarters defended by underforce irregulars and a handful of Americans, close both to the Viet Cong's source of supplies and to the sanctuary of the Cambodian border only nine miles away. They were wrong: in a week of fighting, the Viet Cong suffered their biggest defeat since the twelve-day battle around Khe Sanh last May, when they lost 1,200 men.
The Viet Cong struck just after midnight one night last week, pouring a rain of rocket and mortar rounds on the Special Forces camp and on the sub-sector compound. Part of their 273rd Regiment roared into the undefended town itself, took it over and used its dispensary to treat Viet Cong wounded. At the same time, other elements of the 273rd attacked the subsector compound from the north and west, filtering through the gloom of the rubber trees and throwing themselves against the guns of the 105 men inside.
Despite bombing and strafing by U.S. jets and helicopters zooming in to aid the defenders, the headquarters soon appeared doomed. Punching through the wire, the Viet Cong raced from building to building, setting each afire. They silenced the bunkers one by one, dropping grenades through their slits. Soon only the command bunker and one other were still firing back, and in the command bunker Captain Tran Minh Cong and his twelve men were running out of ammunition. So Captain Cong radioed for Vietnamese army artillery to zero right in on his bunker. The artillerymen were reluctant to do so at first, but Cong, as he explained later, was unworried: "This is the best bunker in Viet Nam, even if you hit it with a B-52." Thereafter, every time the Viet Cong swarmed over the bunker, fused shells set to go off in the air blasted them. By dawn, a South Vietnamese relief company, helilifted to the rescue from Phu Loi, 60 miles away, was able to launch a counterattack out of the Special Forces camp. They drove the Viet Cong back into the rubber trees, forcing them to leave behind more than 100 of their dead.
Bleeding White Sap. Meanwhile, the U.S. 1st Division's reaction force was moving in reinforcements. The first to arrive were two helilifted batteries of 105-mm. howitzers and two rifle companies, the vanguard of two battalions. A third battalion later followed and began sweeping the rubber groves east of Loc Ninh. It proved an eerie enterprise. Moving down the corridors between the evenly spaced, parallel rows of trees, the troops were frequently brought up short by jungle birds whose screeches mimicked the whine of bullets. The almost purple earth underfoot teemed with a fierce breed of red ant whose bite meant torment. But the battalion soon did some tormenting of its own. Running into a company of Viet Cong, it killed 83 in a four-hour firefight that left the bullet-punctured rubber trees bleeding white sap.
Despite their heavy losses, the Viet Cong tried again next day, this time attempting a two-pronged attack from the east across the airstrip runway. It was a disastrous tactic; a howitzer at the south end of the field was in a position to fire right down the runway—"like shooting down a bowling alley," as one of the gunners put it. As the Viet Cong, 30 and 40 at a time, tried to sprint across the strip, the big howitzer shells exploded in their midst. The gunners fired off 575 rounds during the battle, blistering the paint on the lone gun's barrel. Helicopter gunships laced the Viet Cong from above with their mini-guns, and Air Force jets made one screaming run after another, dropping anti-personnel bombs. The few Viet Cong who survived the lethal gauntlet to reach the strip's west side were caught in a murderous crossfire between the Special Forces camp and the subsector compound. Again, more than 100 Viet Cong died Douse That Light! Next day was the only quiet one in Loc Ninh's bloody week. The Vietnamese irregulars dug huge pits for the Viet Cong dead, washed their clothes in the French Club's swimming pool and helped themselves to the wine cellar. Because the Viet Cong had returned each night to occupy the town itself for a few hours, the villagers were evacuating it by the thousands. To try to build up their morale, the 1st Division sent in medics and armored personnel carriers, and the division band went oompahing through the streets in full battle dress, brass horns gleaming in the sun. The effort was unsuccessful. Understandably frightened by the ferocity of the battle, the villagers continued to stream southward, their possessions on their backs. By week's end Loc Ninh was virtually a ghost town.
To the surprise of U.S. commanders, the Viet Cong stayed around despite their losses. Next night the fighting resumed, in perhaps as weird a contact as either side has made in the war. About 8 p.m. a group of men walked through a U.S. company's command post, one of them with a flashlight in his hand. "Douse that light," snarled a U.S. sergeant major, at the same time noticing that the offender was wearing black pajamas and carrying a Chinese AK-47 gun. But the group kept right on walking, and it was several startled seconds before everybody started firing. Four of the Viet Cong were captured, one by a young lieutenant who hit him with a football body block and a right to the jaw. Later that same night, the Viet Cong massed among the trees for another attack across the runway but were driven off by U.S. jets. Still another large force of Viet Cong tried to overrun a U.S. battalion positioned west of Loc Ninh; they were forced back in bloody combat, suffering 200 dead.
By the fifth day of the battle for Loc Ninh, the enemy had lost more than 900 men in their frantic, futile efforts to seize it. Allied losses were fewer than 50 dead.

Lurch, the python captured during the battle of Loc Ninh

TROOPER IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE

The following is directed at you "C Troopers" or anyone else who can remember this trooper or any of the occurances. BB

Anyone having knowledge of William R. Jourdain, C Troop, 1963 to Aug 66. We need to first establish that Bill was in vietnam and in combat. We also would like to establish that he was wounded by shrapnel on several occasions. The VA is saying they cannot prove that he was in combat based on information on his DD 214. Bill was a tanker and was not with the main body of C Troop for for the period Aug 65 to Jan 66. The tanks were taken from the troops and consolidated initially at Bein Hoa AFB and later at Phu Loi until they returned to the troops in Jan 66. The tankers were utilized in Maint and Training mostly during this period but occasionally they were used on patrols. It was during one of these patrols that Bill was wounded with shrapnel in his right arm. His name appears of the "1/4th Cav Historical Report" for the period 1 Jul 65 to Dec 66 as "Wounded in Action" WIA, however, no administrative action was ever submitted to higher Hqs, or it was possibly lost, to obtain the Purple Heart Medal for him. He was later wounded by shrapnel again in 1966 but can't recall the date of the action. Anyone who can certify that they Remember William Jourdain serving with C Troop and/or a combat situation please contact Bill Baty, e-mail: bbaty1@hughes.net or phone: 863-674-1331.

TROOPERS CORNER - SOUND OFF!!

Some good survival information submitted by Skip Bell. BB

Given recent events in Haiti, this might be good information to have.
Carl Bell

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EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE: "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.

I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries...

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under its desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the time know that the children were told to hide under something.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This space is what I call the "triangle of life".

The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the "triangles" you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.

TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY

1) Most everyone who simply "ducks and covers" WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE are crushed to death. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.

2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You should too in an earthquake... It is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.

3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.

5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, or large chair.

6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!

7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different "moment of frequency" (they swing separately from the main part of the building). The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads - horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not damaged.

8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible - It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.

9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway... The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.

10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.

Spread the word and save someone's life... The Entire world has always experienced natural calamities so be prepared!

"We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly".

In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology to be correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul, University of Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did "duck and cover," and ten mannequins I used in my "triangle of life" survival method. After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building collapse, showed there would have been zero percent survival for those doing duck and cover.

There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people using my method of the "triangle of life." This film has been seen by millions of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe, and it was seen in the USA , Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.

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Good information for you busy bodies sent in by Tom Witter. BB

press release
Discount for Active, Reserve, Retired and Disabled Military Personnel and Immediate Family Members
MOORESVILLE, N.C., Feb 10, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Lowe's Companies, Inc. announced today it will expand its support of the military by offering an all day, every day 10 percent discount to all military personnel who are active, reserve, retired or disabled veterans and their family members, with a valid, government-issued military ID card.
All other military veterans will receive the discount on the Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Veterans Day weekends.
"Lowe's was founded on the heels of World War II by veterans Jim Lowe and Carl Buchan and has always been a supporter of the military," said Larry D. Stone, Lowe's president and chief operating officer. "The year-round discount program is one way we are reaffirming our commitment to the thousands of men and women who are serving throughout the world, as well as their family members at home."
The discount is available on in-stock and Special Order purchases up to $5,000. Excluded from the discount are sales via Lowes.com, previous sales, and purchases of services or gift cards.
While Lowe's has had a military discount program in the past during select times of year, the new policy will allow those who are serving to benefit from the discount whenever they need it the most.
"What a great way to say thank you," said Sloan Gibson, president and CEO of the USO. "We salute Lowe's for the company's commitment to helping military personnel and their families who served and continue to serve our nation." The USO was also selected as one of the beneficiaries of the Lowe's Employee Giving Campaign in January. This initiative allows Lowe's employees to donate directly from their paychecks to support those who are serving our country.
In addition to offering military discounts at specific times during the year, Lowe's has extended benefits for its employees serving in the military and offers employment opportunities to military personnel after their military service has ended. Currently, more than 12,000 Lowe's employees are military veterans or reservists.
About Lowe's
With fiscal year 2008 sales of $48.2 billion, Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE(R) 50 company that serves approximately 14 million customers a week at more than 1,700 home improvement stores in North America. Founded in 1946 and based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world. For more information, visit Lowes.com. Follow us on Twitter @Lowes or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lowes.
SOURCE: Lowe's Companies, Inc.

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This one from Fred Currier makes sense to me. BB

HOW TO PROPERLY PLACE NEW EMPLOYEES

1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room. 2. Put your new employees in the room and close the door. 3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours. 4. Then analyze the situation:

 
   a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department. 
   b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing. 
   c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put then in Engineering. 
   d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put 
      them in Planning. 
   e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations. 
   f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security. 
   g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in 
      Information Technology. 
   h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources. 
   i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are 
      looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales. 
   j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Marketing. 
   k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning. 
   l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been 
      moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management ...

Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Government.

WARNING!...TROOPERS JOKES..MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNG-INS AND THE TENDER AT HEART

And this from Joe Birrindelli who lives in Sunny Mobil, AL. BB

3 REASONS TO LIVE IN A WARM CLIMATE ONE

and The Other Two

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I think the weather is beginning to get to a few of us. Heres one from Bill Bowker. BB

ANOTHER TWO FEET OF SNOW!!!!!!

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Thanks to Fred Currier for this one. BB

Hung Chow calls into work and says, " Hey, I no come to work today, I really sick. Got headache, stomach ache, and legs hurt. I no come to work."

The boss says, "You know something, Hung Chow, I really need you today. When I feel sick like you do, I go to my wife and tell her to give me sex. That makes everything better and I go to work. You try that."

Two hours later, Hung Chow calls again and says, " I do what you say and I feel great. I be at work soon......... Oh, and you got nice house!"

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I like this one sent in by Charles Murawski. BB

Roger's wife, Lucy, had been after him for several weeks to paint the seat on their commode. Finally, he got around to doing it while Lucy was out. After finishing, he left to take care of another matter before she returned.

She came in and undressed to take a shower. Before getting in the shower, she sat on the commode. As she tried to stand up, she realized that the not-quite-dry epoxy paint had glued her to the commode seat. About that time, Roger got home and realized her predicament.

They both pushed and pulled without any success whatsoever.

Finally, in desperation, Roger undid the commode seat bolts. Lucy wrapped a sheet around herself and Roger drove her to the Hospital Emergency Room. The ER Doctor got her into a position where he could study how to free her. Lucy tried to lighten the embarrassment of it all by saying, "Well, Doctor, I'll bet you've never seen anything like this before." The Doctor replied, "Actually, I've seen lots of them. I just never saw one mounted and framed before."

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O Lord I pray she didn't hear that stupid thing I just said. Sent in by Smokey. BB

Once a Marine, Always a Marine.......

On their 50th anniversary, a wife found the negligee she wore on her wedding night and put it on.

She went to her husband, a retired MARINE, and asked, "Honey, do you remember this?"

He looked up from his newspaper and said; "Yes dear, I do. You wore that same negligee the night we were married."

She said, "Yes, that's right. Do you remember what you said to me that night?"

He nodded and said "Yes dear, I said;
Oh baby, I'm going to suck the life out of those boobs and screw your brains out."

She giggled and wiggled and then said; "Yes, that's exactly what you said. So now its fifty years later, and I'm in the same negligee. What do you have to say tonight?"

He looked her up and down and said,
"Mission Accomplished."

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Old Grouchy found a good one. BB

FIRST TIME SEX .............

A girl asks her boyfriend to come over Friday night to meet, and have a dinner with her parents. Since this is such a big event, the girl announces to her boyfriend that after dinner, she would like to go out and make love for the first time. The boy is ecstatic, but he has never had sex before, so he takes a trip to the pharmacist to get some condoms. He tells the pharmacist it's his first time and the pharmacist helps the boy for about an hour. He tells the boy everything there is to know about condoms and sex. At the register, the pharmacist asks the boy how many condoms he'd like to buy, a 3-pack, 10-pack, or family pack.

The boy insists on the family pack because he thinks he will be rather busy, it being his first time and all. That night, the boy shows up at the girl's parents house and meets his girlfriend at the door. 'Oh, I'm so excited for you to meet my parents, come on in!' The boy goes inside and is taken to the dinner table where the girl's parents are seated. The boy quickly offers to say grace and bows his head. A minute passes, and the boy is still deep in prayer, with his head down. 10 minutes pass, and still no movement from the boy.Finally, after 20 minutes with his head down, the girlfriend leans over and whispers to the boyfriend, 'I had no idea you were this religious.' The boy turns, and whispers back, 'I had no idea your father was a pharmacist.'

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..Here are some Senior Jokes sent in by Joe Birindelli. BB

Aging

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Here's another keeping sent in by Wayne Paddack. BB

A precious little girl walks into a pet smart shop and asks, in the sweetest little lisp, between two missing teeth, "Excuthe me, mithter, do you keep widdle wabbits?"

As the shopkeeper's heart melts, he gets down on his knees so that he's on her level and asks, "Do you want a widdle white wabbit, or a thoft and fuwwy, bwack wabbit, or maybe one like that cute widdle bwown wabbit over there?"

She, in turn, blushes, rocks on her heels, puts her hands on her knees, leans forward and says, in a tiny quiet voice, "I don't think my python weally gives a thit."

HERES TO YOUR HEALTH

Dr. Edmond Hayes Weekly News
Drug Delivery Breakthrough.
A team of scientists led by Dr Simon Richardson at the University of Greenwich has got a step closer to one of the holy grails of drug delivery.
The goal - to find a vehicle that can carry drugs not just to a specific cell but a specific organ (organelle) inside the cell, and accurately measure how it behaves when it gets there - has proved elusive despite two decades of research, according to the Journal of Controlled Release, a top international scientific publication. Now the journal has given the new research front page billing, saying in an editorial that Richardson and colleagues provide direct evidence, for the first time, that nanomedicines can be delivered to select organelles and manipulated to carry beneficial agents like genes.
Dr Richardson says: "Drug delivery is important for everyone because it has the potential to deliver new treatments for diseases which are currently incurable; and to deliver existing drugs more effectively." Study Finds Higher Omega-3 Fatty Acid Levels Associated With Less Biological Aging in Cardiovascular Disease Patie

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UCSF scientists have discovered that higher blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids.
correspond to a lower rate of shortening of telomere length in patients with coronary artery disease.
The finding, they say, indicates the possibility that omega-3 fatty acids may protect against cellular aging.
The study is reported online and in the Jan. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Telomeres are tiny units of DNA that seal off the ends of chromosomes, which contain the body's genes - similar in concept to the tips that keep shoelaces from unraveling. Telomeres protect the integrity of genes and maintain chromosomal stability and accurate cell division. They also determine the number of times a cell divides, and thus determine life span.

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Use of Acetaminophen in Pregnancy Associated with Increased Asthma Symptoms in Children
Children who were exposed to acetaminophen prenatally were more likely to have asthma symptoms at age five in a study of 300 African-American and Dominican Republic children living in New York City. Building on prior research showing an association between both prenatal and postnatal acetaminophen and asthma, this is the first study to demonstrate a direct link between asthma and an ability to detoxify foreign substances in the body. The findings were published this week in the journal Thorax.
The study, conducted by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, found that the relationship was stronger in children with a variant of a gene, glutathione S transferase, involved in detoxification of foreign substances. The variant is common among African-American and Hispanic populations. The results suggest that less efficient detoxification is a mechanism in the association between acetaminophen and asthma.
The researchers assessed the use of analgesics during pregnancy and found that 34 percent of mothers reported acetaminophen use during pregnancy, and 27 percent of children had wheeze, an asthma-related symptom. The children whose mothers had taken acetaminophen were more likely to wheeze, visit the emergency room for respiratory problems, and develop allergy symptoms, compared to those children whose mothers did not take acetaminophen. The risk increased with increasing number of days of prenatal acetaminophen use. The children in this study live in neighborhoods of New York City that have been the hardest hit by the asthma epidemic: Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx.

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Flower Power May Reduce Resistance to Breast Cancer Drug Tamoxife
Combining tamoxifen, the world's most prescribed breast cancer agent, with a compound found in the flowering plant feverfew may prevent initial or future resistance to the drug, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The finding, reported online Feb. 12 in FASEB, provides new insight into the biological roots of that resistance, and also tests a novel way to get around it. "A solution to tamoxifen resistance is sorely needed, and if a strategy like this can work, it would make a difference in our clinical care of breast cancer," says the study's lead investigator, Robert Clarke, PhD, DSc, a professor of oncology and physiology & biophysics at Lombardi, a part of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). Clarke is also the interim director of GUMC's Biomedical Graduate Research Organization.
Clarke added that the purified research chemical they tested, parthenolide, a derivative of feverfew, is being tested by other scientists as treatment for a variety of cancers, as well as other health conditions. Feverfew has long been a staple of natural medicine, and is particularly known for its effects on headaches and arthritis. Latin for "fever reducer," feverfew is a common garden bush with small daisy-like flowers.

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Vitamin B3 Shows Early Promise in Treatment of Stroke
An early study suggests that vitamin B3 or niacin, a common water-soluble vitamin, may help improve neurological function after stroke, according to Henry Ford Hospital researchers.
When rats with ischemic stroke were given niacin, their brains showed growth of new blood vessels, and sprouting of nerve cells which greatly improved neurological outcome.
Now research is underway at Henry Ford to investigate the effects of an extended-release form of niacin on stroke patients. Henry Ford is the only site nationally conducting such a study.
"If this proves to also work well in our human trials, we'll then have the benefit of a low-cost, easily-tolerable treatment for one of the most neurologically devastating conditions," Michael Chopp, Ph.D., scientific director of the Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute.

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Combined Drug Therapy to Treat TB and HIV Significantly Improves Survival
Initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) during tuberculosis therapy significantly reduced mortality rates by 56 percent in a randomized clinical trial of 642 patients co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis. The study, which provides further impetus for the integration of TB and HIV services, lays to rest the controversy on whether co-infected patients should initiate ART during or after TB treatment. Findings are published in the February 25th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Tuberculosis is the most common opportunistic disease and the most frequent cause of death in patients with HIV infection in developing countries, and the number of patients with co-infection continues to grow rapidly.
"Despite World Health Organization(WHO) guidelines supporting concomitant treatment of the two diseases and urging more aggressive management initiation of antiretroviral therapy, treatment often has been deferred until completion of tuberculosis therapy because of concern about potential drug interactions, overlapping side effects, a high pill burden, and programmatic challenges," said Salim S. Abdool Karim, MD, PhD, professor of clinical epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, pro vice-chancellor (research) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, and principal investigator of the study.

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New Cancer Fighting Strategy Emerges from Antibody Signaling Discovery
The research also suggests that a drug already in use for more than a decade to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma might also be useful in treating some solid tumors. This strategy is unusual in that it would employ drugs that target cells or functions of the immune system to fight solid tumors, rather than cancers that arise in cells of the immune system.
A research team led by Lisa Coussens, PhD, a professor of pathology at UCSF and a pioneer in studies of inflammation and cancer, has found a cancer-promoting role for a specific molecule of the immune system. The study appears online in the scientific journal Cancer Cell. Already Coussens is collaborating with pharmaceutical industry scientists to explore therapeutic strategies arising from this molecular discovery.

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Believe it or not

Woman says her love handles saved her life
Florida woman said her love handles saved her life when she was shot entering an Atlantic City bar. Samantha Lynn Frazier said she heard two pops when she walked into Herman's Place early Saturday. The 35-year-old then felt pain and saw blood on her hand after she grabbed her left side. Atlantic City police said Frazier was an innocent bystander.
Detective Lt. Charles Love said the gunman was aiming for a man who escaped with a bullet hole in his down jacket. The suspect remains at large.
Frazier told The Press of Atlantic City that 'I could have been dead. They said my love handles saved my life."
Frazier also told the newspaper that she had been "hollering" that she wanted to lose weight. She now said "I want to be as big as I can if it's going to stop a bullet."

DA-VA-VETERAN NEWS

Again this week I am posting pending congressional and senate Bills that would affect all veterans. BB

H.R.82 : Veterans Outreach Improvement Act of 2009 to expand retroactive eligibility of the Army Combat Action Badge to include members of the Army who participated in combat during which they personally engaged, or were personally engaged by, the enemy at any time on or after December 7, 1941. Sponsor: Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny [FL-5] (introduced 1/6/2009) Cosponsors (18) Committees: House Armed Services Latest Major Action: 1/30/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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H.R.147 : Designate a Portion of Tax Payment for Homeless Vets. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Israel, Steve [NY-2] (introduced 1/6/2009) Cosponsors (87) Committees: House Veterans' Affairs; House Ways and Means Latest Major Action: 3/4/2009 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held. To support this bill and/or contact your legislators send a message via http://capwiz.com/usdr/issues/alert/?alertid=12922516&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]

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H.R.190 : Veterans Health Equity Act of 2009 to amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that veterans in each of the 48 contiguous States are able to receive services in at least one full-service hospital of the Veterans Health Administration in the State or receive comparable services provided by contract in the State. Companion Bill S.239. Sponsor: Rep Shea-Porter, Carol [NH-1] (introduced 1/6/2009) Cosponsors (1) Committees: House Veterans' Affairs Latest Major Action: 1/6/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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H.R.236 : Social Security Protection Act to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to protect Social Security beneficiaries against any reduction in benefits. Sponsor: Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny [FL-5] (introduced 1/7/2009) Cosponsors (1) Committees: House Rules; House BudgetLatest Major Action: 1/7/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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H.R.247 : Protect Our Veterans Memorials Act of 2009 to amend section 1369 of title 18, United States Code, to extend Federal jurisdiction over destruction of veterans' memorials on State or local government property. Sponsor: Rep Green, Gene [TX-29] (introduced 1/7/2009) Cosponsors (None) Committees: House Judiciary Latest Major Action: 2/9/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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H.R.333 : Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated less than 50 percent to receive concurrent payment of both retired pay and veterans' disability compensation, to eliminate the phase-in period for concurrent receipt, to extend eligibility for concurrent receipt to chapter 61 disability retirees with less than 20 years of service, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Marshall, Jim [GA-8] (introduced 1/8/2009) Cosponsors (124) Committees: House Armed Services; House Veterans' Affairs Latest Major Action: 2/6/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. To support this bill and/or contact your legislators send a message via http://capwiz.com/usdr/issues/alert/?alertid=12406456&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id] and http://capwiz.com/usdr/issues/alert/?alertid=12888756

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H.R.403 : Homes for Heroes Act of 2009 to provide housing assistance for very low-income veterans. Sponsor: Rep Green, Al [TX-9] (introduced 1/9/2009) Cosponsors (41) Committees: House Financial Services; House Ways and Means Latest Major Action: 6/17/2009 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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H.R.442 : Veterans' Heritage Firearms Act of 2009 to provide an amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can register certain firearms in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Rehberg, Denny [MT] (introduced 1/9/2009) Cosponsors (145) Committees: House Judiciary; House Ways and Means Latest Major Action: 2/9/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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H.R.671 : In Memory Medal for Forgotten Veterans Act to direct the Secretary of Defense to issue a medal to certain veterans who died after their service in the Vietnam War as a direct result of that service. Sponsor: Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] (introduced 1/26/2009) Cosponsors (3) Committees: House Armed Services Latest Major Action: 2/6/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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H.R.746 : Safeguarding America's Seniors and Veterans Act of 2009 to provide for economic recovery payments to recipients of Social Security, railroad retirement, and veterans disability benefits. Sponsor: Rep Adler, John H. [NJ-3] (introduced 1/28/2009) Cosponsors (11) Committees: House Ways and Means; House Veterans' Affairs Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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H.R.775 : Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act to repeal the requirement for reduction of survivor annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan to offset the receipt of veterans dependency and indemnity compensation. Sponsor: Rep Ortiz, Solomon P. [TX-27] (introduced 1/28/2009) Cosponsors (319) Companion Bill S.535 Committees: House Armed Services Latest Major Action: 2/17/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. To support this bill and/or contact your legislators send a message via or http://capwiz.com/usdr/issues/alert/?alertid=12541746

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H.R.952 : Compensation Owed for Mental Health Based on Activities in Theater Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Act to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the meaning of "combat with the enemy" for purposes of service-connection of disabilities. Sponsor: Rep Hall, John J. [NY-19] (introduced 2/10/2009) Cosponsors (94) Committees: House Veterans' Affairs Latest Major Action: 6/10/2009 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

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H.R.1016 : Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act of 2009 to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide advance appropriations authority for certain medical care accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] (introduced 2/12/2009) Cosponsors (125) Committees: House Veterans' Affairs House Reports: 111-171 Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 111-81 To support this bill and/or contact your legislators send a message via http://capwiz.com/usdr/issues/alert/?alertid=12704096

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H.R.1017 : Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act to amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 and title 38, United States Code, to require the provision of chiropractic care and services to veterans at all Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and to expand access to such care and services. Sponsor: Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] (introduced 2/12/2009) Cosponsors (27) Related bill S.1204 Committees: House Veterans' Affairs Latest Major Action: 10/1/2009 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

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H.R.1203 : Federal and Military Retiree Health Care Equity Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums. Companion Bill S.491 Sponsor: Rep Van Hollen, Chris [MD-8] (introduced 2/25/2009) Cosponsors (204) Committees: House Ways and Means; House Oversight and Government Reform; House Armed Services Latest Major Action: 6/26/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia. To support this bill and/or contact your legislators send a message via http://capwiz.com/usdr/issues/alert/?alertid=12787701&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]

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H.R.2254 : The Agent Orange Equity Act to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam. Sponsor: Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] (introduced 5/5/2009) Cosponsors (247) Committees: House Veterans' Affairs Latest Major Action: 5/8/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. To support this bill and/or contact your legislators send a message via http://capwiz.com/usdr/issues/alert/?alertid=13301656&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]

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H.R.2506 : Veterans Hearing and Assessment Act to direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure the members of the Armed Forces receive mandatory hearing screenings before and after deployments and to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to mandate that tinnitus be listed as a mandatory condition for treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs Auditory Centers of Excellence and that research on the preventing, treating, and curing of tinnitus be conducted. Sponsor: Rep Teague, Harry [NM-2] (introduced 5/19/2009) Cosponsors (1) Committees: House Veterans' Affairs; House Armed Services Latest Major Action: 6/8/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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H.R.2926 : VA Special Care for Vietnam-era & Persian Gulf War Vets Exposed to Herbicides. To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide, without expiration, hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for certain Vietnam-era veterans exposed to herbicide and veterans of the Persian Gulf War. Sponsor: Rep Nye, Glenn C., III [VA-2] (introduced 6/17/2009) Cosponsors (5) Latest Major Action: 7/9/2009 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.

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H.R.3200 : America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Dingell, John D. [MI-15] (introduced 7/14/2009) Cosponsors (9) Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Education and Labor; House Oversight and Government Reform; House Budget Latest Major Action: 10/14/2009 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 168.

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H.R.3998 : Compensation for Combat Veterans Act to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the service treatable as service engaged in combat with the enemy for utilization of non-official evidence for proof of service-connection in a combat-related disease or injury. Sponsor: Rep Braley, Bruce L. [IA-1] (introduced 11/3/2009) Cosponsors (None) Committees: House Veterans' Affairs Latest Major Action: 11/6/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

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H.R.4051 : Cold War Service Medal Act of 2009 to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the award of a military service medal to members of the Armed Forces who served honorably during the Cold War, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Israel, Steve [NY-2] (introduced 11/6/2009) Cosponsors (23) Related bill: S.2743 Committees: House Armed Services Latest Major Action: 11/18/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

COMPUTER HINTS

Using the Print Screen Key (All Windows Versions)

Most keyboards these days have a Print Screen key. If yours doesn't, you can pick an inexpensive one up one from almost any store that sells computers.

The Print Screen key will take a snapshot of what is on your computer screen at that given moment. This is great for sending a screen shot to somebody, whether it be for technical support or to show off your desktop. It's also good if you're working in a program like Powerpoint, AutoCad, or Excel and the person you want to share your documents with doesn't have those programs. You can simply take a screen shot of the info you want to share and email it to them.

If you press the Print Screen key it will copy an image of your screen to the Windows clipboard. Once you do that, you can paste the image into a program such as Photoshop, Windows Paint, Word, or many other software programs that allow pasting of images.

The Print Screen key can be used in 2 different ways. First, if you want to take a picture of everything on your screen, press the Print Screen key and then copy it into your program of choice. If you're using more than one monitor, it'll take a screen shot of both your monitors, side by side. Second, if you use the key combination of Alt+PrintScreen, it will only capture the active window (which is whatever window you have up front).

Overall, this is the tip I myself use most. I'm always taking screen shots of various websites and graphics for my job. And until writing and researching this tip, I never even knew about using just the Print Screen key (I've always used it with Alt), so even I learned something from this one!

WEEKLY INSPIRATION


Prayer for Times of Fear

Almighty God, 
the Refuge of all that are distressed, 
grant unto us that, in all trouble of 
this our mortal life, we may flee to 
the knowledge of Thy loving kindness 
and tender mercy; that so, sheltering 
ourselves therein, the storms of life 
may pass over us, and not shake the 
peace of God that is within us. 
Whatsoever this life may bring us, 
grant that it may never take from us 
the full faith that Thou art our 
Father. Grant us Thy light, that we 
may have life, through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. 

Amen. 

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The Blessing of Unanswered Prayers

I asked for strength that I might achieve;
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy;
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life;
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I had asked for,
but eveything that I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered;
I am, among all men, most richly blessed. 

Amen

- Unknown Confederate soldier

Thats all the news for this week. Check back next Saturday. Thanks, Ole' Bill

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