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Saturday, November 30, 2013

"RECON: STOLEN VALOR"

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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 watch, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this official video recording from THE PENTAGON CHANNEL web site, created in 2011, and posted at the YOU TUBE web site on Wednesday 27 June 2012 by THE PENTAGON CHANNEL.


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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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Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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NEWS FROM NORTH KOREA

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UPDATE: According to a breaking news report from the Associated Press, as of Saturday 07 December 2013, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has released Merrill Edward Newman, and he is safely back with his family in the United States of America.
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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 watch, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this video recording seen at the REUTERS NEWS AGENCY web site.


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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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SILVER STAR MEDAL
The following is the text of the apology by eighty-five (85) year old Merrill Edward Newman, a veteran of the Korean War who was decorated with the Silver Star Medal, currently held prisoner in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, posted this day by myself, John Robert Mallernee, at 1139 Hours Central Standard Time on Saturday 30 November 2013 at my own personal web site, OUR ETERNAL STRUGGLE.
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MERRILL NEWMAN SIGNING CONFESSION WITH THUMBPRINT.
For a larger view, please click on the photograph.
Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) — The following is an apology U.S. citizen Merrill Newman presented to a relevant institution after his detention in the DPRK:
    I am Merrill Newman living in California, USA.
    During the Korean War, I have been guilty of a long list of indelible crimes against DPRK government and Korean people as advisor of the Kuwol Unit of the UN Korea 6th Partisan Regiment part of the Intelligence Bureau of the Far East Command.
    As I gave 300 people with barbarity gone to the South who had ill feelings toward the DPRK from Chodo military education and guerilla training they later did attack against the DPRK although the armistice was signed.
    I also gave 200 soldiers under my command in Mt. Kuwol the task to harass the rear base such as collecting information on the movement and the arm equipment in KPA, attacking and destruction on the communication system, the rice storage, railroad and munitions train by dispatching the several elements to Hwanghae Province Area.
    According to my order they collected information of the KPA and attacked the communication system and killed 3 innocent operators, delayed the munitions supply using explosives obtained from attacking the mine and they attacked the KPA and harassing operations of the rear base 10 times in the Hwanghae Province Area.
    They killed about 50 soldiers in the process of the operation. In the process of following tasks given by me I believe they would kill more innocent people.
    As I killed so many civilians and KPA soldiers and destroyed strategic objects in the DPRK during the Korean War, I committed indelible offensive acts against the DPRK government and Korean people.
    Although 60 years have gone by, I came to DPRK on the excuse of the tour as a member of 33 Tour Group from U.S. on October 17, 2013.
    Shamelessly I had a plan to meet any surviving soldiers and pray for the souls of the dead soldiers in Kuwol Mt. during the Korean war. Following the itinerary I asked my guide to help me look for the surviving soldiers and their families and descendents because it was too hard for me to do myself.
    If I had the opportunity to visit Kuwol Mt. I was going to pray for the souls of dead soldiers. If I saw surviving soldiers in Mt. Kuwol, I was going to connect them with the members of the Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association which I had already connected with, anti-Communist strategic plot organization.
    All the members of the Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association escaped from the DPRK to South Korea. So I asked the guide to help me to look for their families and relatives living in DPRK and I gave the document written with their address and e-mail address to the guide in the Yanggakdo Hotel.
    I also brought the e-book criticizing the Socialist DPRK on this trip and criticizing DPRK.
    Although I committed the indelible offensive acts against the Korean people in the period of the Korean War, I have been guilty of big crimes against the DPRK government and Korean People again.
    I realize that I cannot be forgiven for my offensives but I beg for pardon on my knees by apologizing for my offensives sincerely toward the DPRK government and the Korean people and I want not punish me.
    Please forgive me.
    I will never commit the offensive act against the DPRK Government and the Korean People again.
    On this trip I can understand that in US and western countries there is misleading information and propaganda about DPRK.
    If I go back to USA, I will tell the true features of the DPRK and the life the Korean people are leading.
    Merrill Newman
    Nov 9, 2013
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Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) — The following is an apology U.S. citizen Merrill Newman presented to a relevant institution after his detention in the DPRK:
    I am Merrill Newman living in California, USA.
    During the Korean War, I have been guilty of a long list of indelible crimes against DPRK government and Korean people as advisor of the Kuwol Unit of the UN Korea 6th Partisan Regiment part of the Intelligence Bureau of the Far East Command.
    As I gave 300 people with barbarity gone to the South who had ill feelings toward the DPRK from Chodo military education and guerilla training they later did attack against the DPRK although the armistice was signed.
    I also gave 200 soldiers under my command in Mt. Kuwol the task to harass the rear base such as collecting information on the movement and the arm equipment in KPA, attacking and destruction on the communication system, the rice storage, railroad and munitions train by dispatching the several elements to Hwanghae Province Area.
    According to my order they collected information of the KPA and attacked the communication system and killed 3 innocent operators, delayed the munitions supply using explosives obtained from attacking the mine and they attacked the KPA and harassing operations of the rear base 10 times in the Hwanghae Province Area.
    They killed about 50 soldiers in the process of the operation. In the process of following tasks given by me I believe they would kill more innocent people.
    As I killed so many civilians and KPA soldiers and destroyed strategic objects in the DPRK during the Korean War, I committed indelible offensive acts against the DPRK government and Korean people.
    Although 60 years have gone by, I came to DPRK on the excuse of the tour as a member of 33 Tour Group from U.S. on October 17, 2013.
    Shamelessly I had a plan to meet any surviving soldiers and pray for the souls of the dead soldiers in Kuwol Mt. during the Korean war. Following the itinerary I asked my guide to help me look for the surviving soldiers and their families and descendents because it was too hard for me to do myself.
    If I had the opportunity to visit Kuwol Mt. I was going to pray for the souls of dead soldiers. If I saw surviving soldiers in Mt. Kuwol, I was going to connect them with the members of the Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association which I had already connected with, anti-Communist strategic plot organization.
    All the members of the Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association escaped from the DPRK to South Korea. So I asked the guide to help me to look for their families and relatives living in DPRK and I gave the document written with their address and e-mail address to the guide in the Yanggakdo Hotel.
    I also brought the e-book criticizing the Socialist DPRK on this trip and criticizing DPRK.
    Although I committed the indelible offensive acts against the Korean people in the period of the Korean War, I have been guilty of big crimes against the DPRK government and Korean People again.
    I realize that I cannot be forgiven for my offensives but I beg for pardon on my knees by apologizing for my offensives sincerely toward the DPRK government and the Korean people and I want not punish me.
    Please forgive me.
    I will never commit the offensive act against the DPRK Government and the Korean People again.
    On this trip I can understand that in US and western countries there is misleading information and propaganda about DPRK.
    If I go back to USA, I will tell the true features of the DPRK and the life the Korean people are leading.
    Merrill Newman
    Nov 9, 2013
    -0- - See more at: http://www.kfausa.org/forum/kcna-dprk-official-news-agency/apology-of-u-s-citizen-for-his-hostile-acts-in-dprk/#sthash.V9xfo9Si.dpuf
Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) — The following is an apology U.S. citizen Merrill Newman presented to a relevant institution after his detention in the DPRK:
    I am Merrill Newman living in California, USA.
    During the Korean War, I have been guilty of a long list of indelible crimes against DPRK government and Korean people as advisor of the Kuwol Unit of the UN Korea 6th Partisan Regiment part of the Intelligence Bureau of the Far East Command.
    As I gave 300 people with barbarity gone to the South who had ill feelings toward the DPRK from Chodo military education and guerilla training they later did attack against the DPRK although the armistice was signed.
    I also gave 200 soldiers under my command in Mt. Kuwol the task to harass the rear base such as collecting information on the movement and the arm equipment in KPA, attacking and destruction on the communication system, the rice storage, railroad and munitions train by dispatching the several elements to Hwanghae Province Area.
    According to my order they collected information of the KPA and attacked the communication system and killed 3 innocent operators, delayed the munitions supply using explosives obtained from attacking the mine and they attacked the KPA and harassing operations of the rear base 10 times in the Hwanghae Province Area.
    They killed about 50 soldiers in the process of the operation. In the process of following tasks given by me I believe they would kill more innocent people.
    As I killed so many civilians and KPA soldiers and destroyed strategic objects in the DPRK during the Korean War, I committed indelible offensive acts against the DPRK government and Korean people.
    Although 60 years have gone by, I came to DPRK on the excuse of the tour as a member of 33 Tour Group from U.S. on October 17, 2013.
    Shamelessly I had a plan to meet any surviving soldiers and pray for the souls of the dead soldiers in Kuwol Mt. during the Korean war. Following the itinerary I asked my guide to help me look for the surviving soldiers and their families and descendents because it was too hard for me to do myself.
    If I had the opportunity to visit Kuwol Mt. I was going to pray for the souls of dead soldiers. If I saw surviving soldiers in Mt. Kuwol, I was going to connect them with the members of the Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association which I had already connected with, anti-Communist strategic plot organization.
    All the members of the Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association escaped from the DPRK to South Korea. So I asked the guide to help me to look for their families and relatives living in DPRK and I gave the document written with their address and e-mail address to the guide in the Yanggakdo Hotel.
    I also brought the e-book criticizing the Socialist DPRK on this trip and criticizing DPRK.
    Although I committed the indelible offensive acts against the Korean people in the period of the Korean War, I have been guilty of big crimes against the DPRK government and Korean People again.
    I realize that I cannot be forgiven for my offensives but I beg for pardon on my knees by apologizing for my offensives sincerely toward the DPRK government and the Korean people and I want not punish me.
    Please forgive me.
    I will never commit the offensive act against the DPRK Government and the Korean People again.
    On this trip I can understand that in US and western countries there is misleading information and propaganda about DPRK.
    If I go back to USA, I will tell the true features of the DPRK and the life the Korean people are leading.
    Merrill Newman
    Nov 9, 2013
    -0- - See more at: http://www.kfausa.org/forum/kcna-dprk-official-news-agency/apology-of-u-s-citizen-for-his-hostile-acts-in-dprk/#sthash.V9xfo9Si.dpuf
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Please click on this computer Internet link to read the text of the news report from the FOX NEWS web site, which I saw posted at the DRUDGE REPORT web site.

Also, you will want to click on this computer Internet link to read further details contained within this news report at the REUTERS NEWS AGENCY web site.

As an added bonus, for the best effect, please be sure and watch, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this slide show of photographs taken in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.



At this point, I reckon about all we can now do is pray for his physical safety, and hope that he will be released from captivity and return home, alive and well, to his worried kith and kin.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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Friday, November 29, 2013

DOING WHAT JESUS CHRIST WOULD DO?

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Brethren and Sistren:

I just now saw this posted at the "DRUDGE REPORT" web site.

A bishop of The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints has made an experiment in Christian compassion.

For the best effect, please be sure to watch, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this video recording from WTTG-TV Channel 5 in Washington, D.C.

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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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Please click on this link, "LDS BISHOP DRESSES AS HOMELESS MAN TO TEACH LESSON", to read the complete text of the news report from the Associated Press.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

"JOHNNY OPTIMISM"

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

Oh, but the good doctor has done gone and did it AnotherGAIN ! ! !

Here is the Thanksgiving Day edition of the hilarious "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, created by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., for Wednesday 27 November 2013 - - - ,

For a larger view that's easier to read, 
please click on the comic strip
On Thanksgiving Day, I'll be thankful for the "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" 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.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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"CRAZY"

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********* WARNING ! ! ! ********* 

This dangerously illegal and immoral subversive underground resistance message is being surreptitiously monitored by the Beaming Internet Government Broadband Radio Oscillation Telecommunications Hearing Electronic Reconnaissance (i.e., B.I.G. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.) as part of a coordinated official 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:

The lyrics of the song, "CRAZY", by GNARLS BARKLEY, remind me of my dearly departed, long lost eternal companion, Bonnie Lou Hansen, who broke my heart when she ran off and married another guy, and what really made the pain even worse, was that the duly appointed leaders of my chosen faith, The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints, without even the courtesy of contacting, conferring with, and/or counseling me, went forth and actively aided, abetted, and fully supported her in this unholy action, even to the point of cancelling our sealing within the sacred walls of the Holy Temple.

When thus, my personal faith and testimony is so severely shaken, tried, and tested, I open up the pages of our Holy Scriptures and seek my guidance and reassurance in the words of JOHN 6:66-69.
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Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God."
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I never got over her, and I don't reckon I ever will.

Anyway, for the best effect, please be sure and watch, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!), which I created and posted in my room at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi on Saturday 29 June 2013, performing the 2005 GNARLS BARKLEY hit song, "CRAZY", as I accompany myself strumming simple chords on my Yamaha G-130A classical guitar.
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"CRAZY" 

GNARLS BARKLEY 
(2005)

I remember,
I remember when I lost my mind.
There was something pleasant
About that place.

Your emotions have an echo
In so much space
When you're out there
Without a care.
I was out of touch.
But, it wasn't because
I didn't know enough.
I just knew too much.

Am I crazy?
Was I crazy?
Did I go crazy?
Possibly.


I hope that you are
Having the time of your life.
But, think twice.
That's my only advice.

Come on now, who do you,
Who do you think you are?
Ha! Ha! Ha! Bless your soul.
Do you think

You're in control?
Well, I think you're crazy.
I think you're crazy.
I think you're crazy
Just like me.


My heroes had the heart
To lose their lives out on a limb.
All I remember
Is thinking, I want to be like them.

When I was little,
When I was little,
It looked like fun.
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I'll die when I'm done.

Maybe I'm crazy.
Maybe you're crazy.
Maybe we're crazy.
Probably.

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GNARLS BARKLEY
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Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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Monday, November 25, 2013

1895 EIGHTH GRADE EXAMINATION

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

This is the final examination required to complete the Eighth Grade in Salina, Kansas in 1895.

It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society in Salina, Kansas and reprinted in the "SALINA JOURNAL" newspaper.
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EIGHTH GRADE FINAL EXAMINATION
Salina, Kansas, 1895

GRAMMAR (Time, one hour)

01. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
02. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
03. Define verse, stanza and paragraph.
04. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of do, lie, lay and run.
05. Define case, illustrate each case.
06. What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
07 - 10. Write a composition of about one hundred and fifty words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

ARITHMETIC (Time, one and one quarter hours)

01. Name and define the fundamental rules of arithmetic.
02. A wagon box is two feet deep, ten feet long, and three feet wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
03. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 pounds, what is it worth at fifty cents a bushel, deducting 1050 pounds for tare?
04. District Number Thirty-Three has a valuation of thirty-five thousand dollars. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at fifty dollars per month, and have one hundred and four dollars for incidentals?
05. Find cost of 6720 pounds coal at six dollars per ton.
06. Find the interest of $512.60 for eight months and eighteen days at seven percent.
07. What is the cost of forty boards, twelve inches wide and sixteen feet long, at twenty dollars per meter?
08. Find bank discount on three hundred dollars for ninety days (no grace) at ten percent.
09. What is the cost of a square farm at fifteen dollars per acre, the distance around which is six hundred and forty rods?
10. Write a bank check, a promissary note, and a receipt.

UNITED STATES HISTORY (Time, forty-five minutes)

01. Give the epochs into which United States history is divided.
02. Give an account of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
03. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
04. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
05. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
06. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
07. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
08. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865. 

ORTHOGRAPHY (Time, one hour)

01. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
02. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
03. What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph,subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
04. Give four substitutes for caret "u".
05. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e. Name two exceptions under each rule.
06. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
07. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
08. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following and name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
09. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write ten words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. 

GEOGRAPHY (Time, one hour)

01. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
02. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
03. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
04. Describe the mountains of North America.
05. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall, and Orinoco.
06. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the United States.
07. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
08. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
09. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
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WOW ! ! !

Sooooo - - - ,

How well do you think you might have done on this test?

Ooooh, how FAR we have fallen, ever since the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in the 1954 case of "BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION"!

Can you see why kids who are taught at home receive a MUCH better education than those poor, mistreated kids who are continually victimized by compulsory attendance in the racially integrated public school system, where they are forced to accept "politically correct" indoctrination by goverment propaganda? 

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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Friday, November 22, 2013

FIFTY YEARS AGO

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

As I type this message, it is the wee small hours of Friday 22 November 2013.

Where were you at, and what were you doing fifty (50) years ago on Friday 22 November 1963 when JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, the thirty-fifth (35) President of the United States of America, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas?

JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY 
Thirty-Fifth President of the United States of America
For the best effect, please watch, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, these two (02) video recordings of a television broadcast by the HISTORY CHANNEL that were posted at the YOU TUBE web site on Saturday 26 January 2013 by the TRUNKS XV channel.


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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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Now, I'll tell you my own PERSONAL story.

Although I had been adopted and raised by a normal, good Christian family, as I grew into my teens, I became ever increasingly wild and ungovernable, repeatedly running away from home, getting into fist fights at school, insulting my teachers, shoplifting, and finally, being kicked out of school.

Daddy was a master sergeant in the United States Army, and when our family was living in military housing at William Beaumont General Hospital in El Paso, Texas, where I was a student at Bassett Junior High School and Stephen F. Austin High School, I remember being in constant fear of being attacked at school, or burglars breaking into our home, or the dreaded Russians attacking us with nuclear weapons.

As a result, the local juvenile court had me committed to the state mental hospital, first at Big Spring, Texas, and later at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Being a teenage boy, the folks at the hospital (?) didn't know how to control me, so they ultimately confined me in the Lineberger Building, which was for patients deemed incurable, who would never be released, and then in the Spruill Building, which was the maximum security unit for the criminally insane.

If you've seen the Hollywood motion picture productions of "CHATTAHOOCHEE", "SLING BLADE", "ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST", and/or "SHUTTER ISLAND" - - - ,

Well, my own nightmarish ordeal was, by far, MUCH worse!

So, on that historic moment of Friday 22 November 1963, at the age of seventeen (17), I was locked inside the crowded, smoke filled dayroom on the second floor of the Spruill Building at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, watching the breaking news reports on the black and white television set.

Until I just now typed this message, I had never revealed this secret to anyone, being too embarrassed and ashamed.

Also, I remember how terrified I was, and what a hopeless feeling I had, in October of 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, for I was locked up in the Lineberger Building at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, knowing that if the United States of America were attacked with nuclear weapons, it would be impossible for me to escape from my confinement and seek any sort of shelter.

But, the years have passed, and believe it or not, I eventually was freed and, miraculously, have been able to suppress all of those horrible memories, as I struggled to grow, adapt, learn, and experience a somewhat normal life among normal people in a normal world.

The greatest positive influences in accomplishing this were my conversion to The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints (i.e., the "Mormon" church) and my honorable service in the United States Army.

For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this automated series of my homemade amateur video recordings of ME (!) performing original songs and poetry that I have composed, as I accompany myself by strumming simple chords on my Yamaha G-130A classical guitar. 



I don't remember which year it was, but when I was a soldier in the United States Army stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, my wife and I toured the historic exhibits at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

About the only thing I remember of that visit was hearing the music of, "MICHAEL (ROW THE BOAT ASHORE)", being played over the intercom.

I've also visited the Kennedy's graves in Arlington National Cemetery

Thank you.

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


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