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Friday, August 30, 2013

"DRY VALLEY WALTZ"

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For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!), performing this original composition, "DRY VALLEY WALTZ", written by Idaho cattle rancher, Wayne Nelson, one of the original Cowboy Poets of Idaho, while accompanying myself strumming simple chords "by ear" on my Yamaha G-130A classical guitar.



I recorded this on Sunday 21 February 2010, while residing in Washington, D.C. at the Ol' Soldiers' Home.

AAAAAND, furthermore - - - ,

It happens to be a TRUE story of a genuine Western romance!
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"DRY VALLEY WALTZ"

Words and Music by:
WAYNE NELSON

VERSE # 1:
The Depression was on,
The Country gone wrong,
But, he hand dug a well
And sold cream.
From the city, she came,
With no more than her name,
Still too young to be
Scared of her dreams.
In a little cafe
Down Montpelier way
Where she worked
Waiting tables at night.
And the coffee he drank
Would've filled a stock tank.
You could tell it was
Love at first sight. 

CHORUS:
And they danced to
The Dry Valley Waltz
Where the moon
On the junipers shines.
And they blamed all their luck
On an old REO truck
On the night of
The Dry Valley Waltz. 

VERSE # 2:
Well, his face turned to red
As he hawed and he hemmed
About asking her
Out to the dance.
When she smiled her reply,
He said, "Let's go for a drive.
I could show you
Some things I've got planned."
He bought curtains of lace,
For he showed her the place,
And she laughed
When the porch step fell in.
When they kissed by the stove,
She said, "It's time to go,
'Cause at seven,
The dance will begin." 

VERSE # 3:
Well, the truck
Wheezed and slowed,
With a mile left to go,
So, they left it to
Cough and spurt steam.
As they strolled hand in hand,
The noise of the band
Came from over
The hill clear and clean.
So, he dodged some red ants
And he asked her to dance,
And they waltzed 'neath
The stars bright and clear.
And a punch bowl and friends
Were the only loose ends
To an evening
They always held dear. 

VERSE # 4:
Well, the townsfolk remained
For a while and complained.
Then they drifted
Back home from the hall.
For the bus had broke down
Just south of Georgetown,
And the band
Never showed up at all.
Oh, but out in the sage,
Where the music still played
And the crickets
Kept time with no fault.
Boots and slippers did glide
Through the Idaho night
On the night of
The Dry Valley Waltz.

CODA:
Boots and slippers did glide
Through the Idaho night
On the night of
The Dry Valley Waltz. 
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WAYNE NELSON  
COWBOY POETS OF IDAHO
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

MY FAVORITE CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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This dangerously illegal and highly immoral subversive underground resistance message is being surreptitiously monitored by the Beaming Internet Government Broadband Radio Oscillation Telecommunications Hearing Electronics Reconnaissance (i.e., "B.I.G. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.") as part of a coordinated clandestine domestic surveillance investigation, in cooperation with the National Administration of Zealous Interrogation (i.e., "N.A.Z.I.") and the Commission on Message Monitoring Investigative Electronics (i.e., "C.O.M.M.I.E.").

Serious felony criminal charges are pending, with extreme penalties yet to be determined!

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

All week long, I impatiently wait for Sunday to roll around once again, so I can eagerly work the most intellectually challenging FREE (!) crossword puzzle that I've thus far been able to find on the computer Internet, i.e., the "POST PUZZLER" crossword puzzle at the WASHINGTON POST newspaper web site.

All of the other crossword puzzles are just too easy, so they're not nearly as much fun.

For the best effect, please be sure and enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this SLIDE SHOW consisting of four (04) JPEG format screen shots of the "POST PUZZLER" crossword puzzle for Sunday 11 August 2013 in the WASHINGTON POST newspaper.



Thank you.

John Robert Mallernee
Armed Forces Retirement Home 
1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 
Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 

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"JOHNNY OPTIMISM"

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Here is the hilarious "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, created by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., for today, Friday 09 August 2013 - - - ,

For a larger view that's easier to read, 
please click on the comic strip.
"What doesn't kill you, makes you stranger."

The "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, which is drawn by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., appears on the computer Internet each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Please be sure and visit the "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" web site in order to enjoy reading the assorted amusing comments posted by fans and/or detractors.

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"WHO WAS THAT GIRL?"

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For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!), performing, by ear, my original composition of, "WHO WAS THAT GIRL?", as I accompany myself by strumming simple chords on my Yamaha G-130A classical guitar.



"WHO WAS THAT GIRL?"

Words and Music by:
JOHN ROBERT MALLERNEE
Thursday 01 August 2013
Gulfport, Mississippi 


VERSE # 01:
Who was the girl
That I dreamed of last night?
Her sparkling eyes
Filled my soul with delight!
We strolled hand in hand,
Exchanging love's kiss.
My poor lonely heart
Knew a moment of bliss. 


CHORUS:
Who was that girl?
Oh, what was her name?
She smiled at me;
Set my heart all aflame.
Who was that girl?
Oh, where can she be?
Is it only in dreams,
That my love, I can see? 


VERSE # 02:
Lonely am I,
While I'm still awake.
Maybe I'll see her
When slumber, I take.
When she looks at me
And she giggles with joy,
I'm no longer such
A poor sad lonely boy. 


VERSE # 03:
It's three in the morning,
And I'm not asleep.
So, I wrote this song
Of the vision I keep.
An angel from Heaven
Came down from above.
But only when dreaming,
Can I know her love.


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* * ! ! ! WARNING: CONTAMINATED WATER ! ! ! * *


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*************** WARNING ! ! ! ***************

This dangerously illegal and highly immoral subversive underground resistance message is being surreptitiously monitored by the Beaming Internet Government Broadband Radio Oscillation Telecommunications Hearing Electronics Reconnaissance (i.e., "B.I.G. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.") as part of a coordinated clandestine domestic surveillance investigation, in cooperation with the National Administration of Zealous Interrogation (i.e., "N.A.Z.I.") and the Commission on Message Monitoring Investigative Electronics (i.e., "C.O.M.M.I.E.").

Serious felony criminal charges are pending, with extreme penalties yet to be determined!

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

WARNING ! ! !

Do NOT drink the water here at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi!

I just now learned that the water in the drinking fountains is CONTAMINATED with hydrogen. 

Not only that, but it's possible that some oxygen might also be mixed in with the hydrogen.

Because this place is a military facility, I strongly suspect deliberate sabotage by enemy agents.

I wonder - - - , is it still safe to drink bottled water?

Who is in charge of inspecting and testing our drinking water, to ensure it is free of contamination by hydrogen and/or oxygen?

Become alert, and stay alert.

Your country can always use more lerts.

Thank you.

John Robert Mallernee
Armed Forces Retirement Home 
1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 


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"DOING THE BEST I CAN"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!), performing, by ear, the Elvis Presley hit record, "DOING THE BEST I CAN", from the Hollywood motion picture, "G.I. BLUES", as I accompany myself by strumming simple chords on my Yamaha G-130A classical guitar.



"DOING THE BEST I CAN" 

COMPOSER(S) UNKNOWN 
( i.e. - - - , unknown to me) 

VERSE # 01:
I gave my heart, I gave my love.
Oh, my darling, my love is true.
Doing the best, the best I can.
But, it's not good enough for you.


VERSE # 02:
I tried so hard, so hard to please.
Oh, my darling, what more can I do?
Doing the best, the best I can.
But, it's not good enough for you. 


BRIDGE:
You know I was the kind who'd run
Any time you'd call.
I guess I was the only one
Who didn't mind at all. 


VERSE # 03:
I'll be a dreamer, I'll be a fool,
Oh, my darling, my whole life through.
Doing the best, the best I can.
But, it's not good enough for you.

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One of the reasons I like the movie, "G.I. BLUES", so much, is because in 1968 and 1969, I was a Private First Class, trained as a Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Repairman (MOS 31L20), in the United States Army, stationed at Kleber Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany with Company "A" of the 11th Air Defense Signal Battalion of the 32d Army Air Defense Command, with the majority of my time assigned to Repair Team A-2 at Spangdahlem Air Force Base.

 













Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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MY BRAND NEW JOKE - - - "A NEAR MISS"


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*************** WARNING ! ! ! *************** 

This dangerously illegal and highly immoral subversive underground resistance message is being surreptitiously monitored by the Beaming Internet Government Broadband Radio Oscillation Telecommunications Hearing Electronics Reconnaissance (i.e., "B.I.G. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.") as part of a coordinated clandestine domestic surveillance investigation, in cooperation with the National Administration of Zealous Interrogation (i.e., "N.A.Z.I.") and the Commission on Message Monitoring Investigative Electronics (i.e., "C.O.M.M.I.E.").

Serious felony criminal charges are pending, with extreme penalties yet to be determined! 

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

I've lived an adventurous life of danger, travel, and intrigue, which has led to a number of near misses.

But, each time a miss got near, she'd slap my face and run off with someone else.

I guess you could call those hit or miss situations.

I got hit, and somebody else got the miss.

Hardee, Har Har!

Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!

(That there was an original joke that I only just now thunk up all by myself, which means it's now copyrighted, patented, and properly stolen from the public domain.) 

Thank you. 

John Robert Mallernee
1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311
Gulfport, Mississippi  39507


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ANOTHER BRAND NEW ORIGINAL PUN


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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

Quite a few years ago, I volunteered to be a bone marrow donor.

Well, my bone marrow was never needed, and now, after all these years, I'm no longer eligible to donate bone marrow.

But, if I had been able to donate bone marrow, the specific medical procedure would have been called - - - ,

"A MARROW ESCAPE" ! ! ! 

Thank you.
Armed Forces Retirement Home 
1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311
 Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 

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"DUDE'S LAMENT"

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For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!), performing, by ear, my original composition of, "DUDE'S LAMENT", as I accompany myself by strumming simple chords on my Yamaha G-130A classical guitar.  



"DUDE'S LAMENT"

Words and Music by:
JOHN ROBERT "SAIGON" MALLERNEE
26 December 1995
Saint Anthony, Idaho 


VERSE #1:
I'm not a genuine cowboy
'Cause I'm just a little too fat!
But when I strum my guitar
And sing my songs,
I wear my cowboy hat!
I never learned to ride a horse,
'Cause the horse was smarter than me,
And all I know of cowboy life
Is what they show on TV! 


BRIDGE:
In this great land
There is a place
Where folks wear Western clothes.
They know how to ride
And they know how to rope,
But I'm not one of those! 


VERSE # 2:
I strolled down to the General Store
To buy a pair of jeans.
A cowgirl looked at me and said,
"That dude is full of beans!"
I'm not a genuine cowboy.
That's what the cowboy's say.
But I'm in love with a cowgirl,
So, I'll be a cowboy someday!


REPEAT BRIDGE AND SECOND VERSE

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HOW DID HITLER DO IT?

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I just now saw this posted at the "BLUE'S BLOG" web site, and considered it so significant and of such import that I decided to also post it here.

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"Don't forget that he also got the rest of the population to turn a blind eye and keep their mouths shut while their friends and neighbors were taken to the camps, never to be seen or heard from again."

Quoted from "BLUE'S BLOG"
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* * * ! ! ! ALERT ! ! ! * * *

Please click HERE to read the official, highly classified United States Army field manual,
"FM 3-39.40   INTERNMENT AND RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS", written in 2010, which was illegally ( - - - or patriotically?) leaked on the computer Internet and made available to the general public in 2012.
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For the best effect, please be sure and watch this automated video recording series in "FULL SCREEN" mode of two (02) MTV network television commercials which have been deliberately suppressed.



To this day, I still wonder why those two (02) television commercials have been suppressed?

The YOU TUBE web site warns that some folks find the material offensive, which naturally makes me question why?

Even if it is offensive to some people, why make efforts to censor it, or keep other folks from seeing it?

Considering the times we now live in, I see this information as extremely critical for our survival, and essential to any hope of organized spontaneous, armed rebellion against the despotic tyrants ensconced within our own government.
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NEW DEVELOPMENT ! ! !

For a larger, easier to read version,
please click on the photograph of this LETTER.
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SOMETHING TO REMEMBER - - -

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The ship is safe in the harbor.

USNS GENERAL M. M. PATRICK, T-AP-150
MV MAJ BERNARD F FISHER T-AK 4396
But, that's NOT what ships are made for, is it?

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"SHIELD OF THE FREE WORLD"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: 

The ARMISTICE AGREEMENT FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE SOUTH KOREAN STATE concluding hostilities at Panmunjeom, Korea, and establishing the Demilitarized Zone (i.e., the "DMZ") along the Thirty-Eighth Parallel, was signed on Monday 27 July 1953.
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NOTE: For a larger view, please click on each of the photographs in this message.
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Please note that, to this very day, a state of war continues to exist between the forces of the United Nations, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the People's Republic of China, for all the Armistice actually did was formally declare a temporary cease fire.

For the best effect, please be sure and enjoy watching this episode of, "THE BIG PICTURE", television series in "FULL SCREEN" mode.



The video recording of "SHIELD OF THE FREE WORLD", an episode of the United States Army official weekly television broadcast, "THE BIG PICTURE", was posted at the YOU TUBE web site on Sunday 06 January 2013 by AIRBOYD.
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COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER 

Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. 

Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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Both my father and I served in the Republic of Korea with the Eighth United States Army, exactly twenty (20) years apart.


(From left to right) Master Sergeant William Vincent Mallernee (Owensboro, Kentucky), Sergeant First Class N. Huck (Indianapolis, Indiana), Master Sergeant R. Gorman (Pittsburg, California), Master Sergeant J. Colligan (Brooklyn, New York), Sergeant First Class C. Lyshek (Rosemead, California), Private First Class T. Skinner (Baltimore, Maryland), and Corporal A. Seasvance (Jersey City, New Jersey) show the tots of the Sung Kwang Orphanage at Inchon, Korea the items of clothing donated to them by the personnel of Headquarters Compamy, 21st Transportation Motor Pool, and the crew of the MS JUMPER HITCH (C1-M-AV1), Inchon, Korea. Photographed by Sergeant S. M. Machon, 304th Signal Operations Battalion
My father, Master Sergeant William Vincent Mallernee, United States Army, being decorated with the Army Commendation Medal at Ashiya Air Force Base, Kyushu, Japan.
Army Commendation Medal
During my own tour with the Eighth United States Army in the Republic of Korea, I was with the 307th Signal Battalion in Won Ju, and the 142d Military Police Company in Yong San.

For a larger view, please click on the MAP.
While I was serving in the Republic of Korea, I had the pleasure of taking a United Services Organization (i.e., the "USO") guided tour of the DMZ. 

I get a real kick out of being able to tell folks that, just like in the Hollywood motion picture production and on the long running popular television series, "M*A*S*H", I received surgery on my left ear at "the 121st Evac in Seoul". 

Also, I was present, and shook hands with him, when Spencer Woolley Kimball organized the Seoul Stake, the FIRST stake of The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints (i.e., the "Mormon" church) in the Republic of Korea.

Armed Forces
Expeditionary Medal
Korea Defense 
Service Medal
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For the best effect, please be sure and enjoy watching my homemade amateur video recording in "FULL SCREEN" mode.

Written by a fourteen (14) year old boy, the lyrics refer to a lonely, depressed dentist serving with the United States Army in the Republic of Korea, whose nickname is, "Suicide", and who specializes in pain free dentistry.




"SUICIDE IS PAINLESS"
(The Theme From "M*A*S*H")

Lyrics by: MIKE ALTMAN
Music by: JOHNNY MANDEL

VERSE # 01:
Through early morning
Fog, I see
Visions of the
Things to be.
The pains that are
Withheld from me,
I realize and
I can see,

CHORUS:
Suicide is painless.
It brings on
Many changes,
And I can take
Or leave it
If I please.

VERSE # 02:
I try to find a
Way to make
All our little
Joys relate
Without that
Ever-present hate.
But, now, I know
That it's too late.

VERSE # 03:
The game of life
Is hard to play.
I'm gonna lose
It anyway.
The losing card,
I'll someday lay.
So, this is all
I have to say,

VERSE # 04:
The only way
To win is cheat
And lay it down
Before I'm beat,
And to another,
Give my seat,
For that's the
Only painless feat.

VERSE # 05:
The sword of time
Will pierce our skins.
It doesn't hurt
When it begins.
But, as it works
Its way on in,
The pain grows stronger,
Watch it grin.

VERSE # 06:
A brave man once
Requested me
To answer questions
That are key.
"Is it to be, or not to be?"
And I replied,
"Oh, why ask me?"
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Nifty, huh?

Thank you.

John Robert Mallernee
Armed Forces Retirement Home 
1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 
Gulfport, Mississippi  39507

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