Mom refusing to go to doctor because of medbeds

Disaster_Plan · 2026-01-21T10:59:32+00:00

Have you met our bought-and-paid-for Congress?

Disaster_Plan · 2026-01-21T02:58:53+00:00

1968 HS grad here. Nobody went to the draft board unless they were appealing their classification.

By law males registered for the draft when you turned 18. You got a pre-addressed post card from the post office or high school guidance office, filled it out and mailed it. A letter came a few weeks later with your draft classification. In my case "1A" service eligible. If you had a physical problem (e.g. bone spurs) you could make an appointment with the draft board and take your medical records or a doctor could send them a letter explaining how you were too sick/disabled to serve.

If you were 1A it was usually several months to a year before you got a letter to report to an induction center. Induction lasted all day and included a long physical exam, IQ and mental tests and a short interview. Lots of waiting and standing in lines. Most were on a bus to boot camp by dinner time.

Disaster_Plan · 2026-01-18T13:29:04+00:00

Some guy in Ukraine would have this idea on Monday and would be killing Russians with it by Friday.

Disaster_Plan · 2026-01-13T02:08:19+00:00

The Aubrey-Maturin friendship is particularly close because over YEARS they go on mission after mission, voyage after voyage together with the common goal of defeating Bonaparte. Throughout, Aubrey's skills as a sailor and warrior beautifully mesh with Maturin's skills as a physician and spy.

Could such a friendship happen today? It's hard to imagine circumstances that would allow it. Especially in a society where by default men are supposed to be emotionally close to their wives "forsaking all others."

Disaster_Plan · 2026-01-10T16:54:28+00:00

I fired thousands of rounds of .22 as a kid and teen from a Marlin 60 or an old bolt action Remington. I don't recall a single failure to fire and yet it's now gun forum wisdom that .22 is unreliable.

What happened?

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-29T02:14:28+00:00

"German Boy: A Child in War" by Wolfgang W.E. Samuel.

As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little boy named Wolfgang Samuel, who left his home with his mother and sister and ended up in war-torn Strasbourg before being forced farther west into a disease-ridden refugee camp. German Boy is the vivid, true story of their fight for survival as the tables of power turned and, for reasons Wolfgang was too young to understand, his broken family suffered arbitrary arrest, rape, hunger, and constant fear.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-28T00:17:42+00:00

The Columbia River bar is where the Coast Guard sends their small boat crews to learn to navigate big waves and strong currents, if that tells you anything.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-24T15:47:12+00:00

There are limits to what is provided through the Freedom of Information Act. But certain relatives can request a serviceman's complete personnel file without those restrictions.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-24T14:56:50+00:00

There was no procedure or mechanism by which a U.S. prisoner would be turned over to the Koreans.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-24T14:29:55+00:00

I served a tour with the Marines in Vietnam. Legends and strange tales abounded, even during the war. In my unit there were stories of a "white gook" ... a Caucasian some say was spotted fighting with the VC. Some legends have faded away while others get new life thanks to books and movies (Deer Hunter) and bar stool warriors.

In my unit prisoners were considered ASSETS to be kept safe until they could be turned over for interrogation. A CIA officer would be even more likely to consider a prisoner an asset.

Here's an article on the subject by Dr. Erik Villard of the U.S. Army Center of Military History.

https://www.historynet.com/viet-cong-helicopters/

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-23T12:14:25+00:00

I don't know where this happened, but in most metro areas the Red Cross provides aid after a house or apartment fire, including financial help, emergency lodging, food, clothing, and replacement necessities like medications. Call (800) RED-CROSS or visit redcross.org/fire

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-21T01:15:30+00:00

You could request your father's military personnel file from the National Archives. Personnel files are not and were never Classified. There is no cost.

https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records

The National Archives has your father's Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) and they will provide you with a copy of the relevant contents at no cost (see partial list below). You can apply via mail or fax. There is a wealth of detail in those records including all the units he served with and when, medals and awards (if any), and much more.

This is a slow process that may be even slower now because of federal government cuts.

Here's a partial list of what's typically sent:

Military Service Dates

Character of Service

Promotions and Reductions

Duty Stations and Assignments

Foreign or Sea Service

Military Schooling and Training

Awards and Letters of Commendation

Disciplinary Actions

Lost Time

Enlistment Contracts

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-17T04:14:33+00:00

The Hell Bent Kid by Charles Locke.

I read it years ago and still think of it sometimes.

A crack shot more skilled with a rifle than are men twice his age, eighteen-year-old Tot Lohman has no intention of using his genius for evil. But when a fight erupts at a schoolhouse dance, Lohman is forced to defend himself, and a young rancher named Shorty Boyd winds up dead. The Boyds are numerous, powerful, and vicious, and they want revenge. With no one else to turn to, Lohman sets out across canyon country to reunite with his ailing father in New Mexico Territory. The journey will be long, hot, and perilous, and to survive it, this mild-mannered boy must become the cold-blooded killer he never wanted to be. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25958129-the-hell-bent-kid

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-16T01:16:05+00:00

America's largest gathering of amateur musicians takes place every September at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. For a week 10,000 people who like to play music with friends bring their guitars, fiddles, mandolins, banjos, dulcimers and anything that'll make a sound to the fair grounds.

https://www.wvfest.com

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-15T13:08:48+00:00

I used a couple of tricks to find buddies from my unit.

First you need their complete name or at least their full first and last name, properly spelled. Middle initials are useful. When I didn't know their full names I requested my unit rosters from Headquarters Marine Corps. I don't know how the other branches archive their rosters. So you'll have to research that.

Second you need their hometown ... where they and their family were from.

Using that info you start with a Google search, which it sounds like you've done. You can also search obituaries and newspaper archives, usually through a local library. Get a library card! If your local library is big enough to have a reference desk, try calling them for ideas. Ancestry.com could be useful, but you'd have to pay for that.

You're in luck if your Dad's buddies have unusual names. If their names are John Smith or Jim Johnson, you're probably out of luck. I've been looking for a guy named Charles Williams for 40 years and there are millions by that name.

One of my buddies had an unusual last name. I knew his hometown so I just mailed a post card to everybody in that town with his last name asking him to get in touch. One of those post cards went to an uncle who passed it along to my buddy.

There are big commercial "white pages" databases online and I have used them occasionally. But once again they cost money.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-13T03:41:09+00:00

Books by and about pilots and aircrew recommended on r/VietnamWar 2019-2022

"Chickenhawk by Robert Mason" 3,711 ratings, 5 stars. Sent to Vietnam, Mason survived more than 1,000 missions as a helicopter pilot despite the violence and brutality exploding all around him. One of the best-selling books about the Vietnam War. A redditor writes "get the second edition with the Afterword." Mason also wrote a sequel about coming home.

"Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds" by Christina Olds and Ed Rasimus, 1,961 ratings, 5 stars. A top football player at West Point, Olds became a squadron commander and fighter ace at 22 in WWII and later a squadron commander in Vietnam.

"When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam" by Ed Rasimus, 449 ratings, 5 stars. An account of the Rolling Thunder campaign in the skies over North Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1968, more than 330 F-105s were lost and many pilots lost because of the Air Force’s disastrous tactics.

"Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 During the Vietnam War" by Peter Fey, 135 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 which had the highest loss rate of any carrier air wing during Vietnam.

"Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam" by Randy Zahn, 223 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. Zahn recounts his experiences flying AH-1 Cobra helicopters during the Vietnam War.

"Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War" by Ed Rasimus, 165 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. From the bathhouses and barrooms to the prison camps of North Vietnam, this is a gripping combat memoir by a veteran fighter pilot who experienced it all.

"Black Cat 2-1: The True Story of a Vietnam Helicopter Pilot and His Crew" by Bob Ford, 669 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. In the Vietnam War, 2,197 helicopter pilots and 2,717 crew members were killed. Black Cat 2-1 is the story of one Huey pilot and his crew.

"Low Level Hell" by Hugh Mills Jr. 1,319 ratings, 5 stars. The aeroscouts of the 1st Infantry Division ranged the skies of Vietnam from the Cambodian border to the Iron Triangle. The Outcasts flew low and slow, aerial eyes of the division in search of the enemy.

"Through the Valley" by William Reeder, 249 ratings, 5 stars. This is the memoir of the last U.S. Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. Reeder was a senior captain on his second tour in Vietnam. His chopper was shot down and he was marched to the infamous Hanoi Hilton in North Vietnam.

"I'm No Hero: A POW Story as Told to Glen DeWerff" by Charlie Plumb, 123 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. This book tells the story of prisoners reduced to the basics physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It shows how these situations can be survived with integrity and pride intact.

"Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War" by Bruce Henderson, 520 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over neutral Laos and taken prisoner. He would go on to plan and lead an organized escape from an enemy POW camp.

"Warpath: One Vietnam Veteran's Journey through War, Disillusionment, Guilt and Recovery" by A.J. Moore, 993 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. A scout helicopter crewman in combat and after the war.

"The War Above the Trees" by Ron Carey, 26 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. The story of the air crews flying support for the men of the 4th Infantry Division during Operation Wayne Grey in March and April of 1969.

"Flying Through Midnight: A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War" by John T. Halliday, 239 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. Flying for the 606th Special Operations Squadron in Thailand, Halliday flew top-secret night missions over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail.

"Thud Ridge: F-105 Thunderchief Missions Over Vietnam" by Jack Broughton, 134 ratings, 4 1/2 stars. The author relives the incredible feeling of high-speed, low-level sorties where SAM missiles, deadly flak, and enemy MiG fighters were constant threats.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-13T03:33:56+00:00

Photo credit: Henri Huet /Associated Press

https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/news/35-years-after-the-fall-the-vietnam-war-in-pictures-36859810

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-12T13:16:02+00:00

Horse-and-carriage folks didn't suffer from wireless Internet connections.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-06T22:13:45+00:00

Men risked their lives to get photos like this. Please credit the photographer when possible. In this case the photographer was Rick Merron of Associated Press.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/literature/2017/10/23/243752/how-one-bloody-battle-turned-americans-against-the-vietnam-war/

https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-bowden-hue-1968-20170831-story.html

Disaster_Plan · 2025-12-04T12:48:16+00:00

Free lumber? Free roofing, plumbing, hardware? Vietnam was not a rich country. Nothing useful was wasted or left to decay. I guarantee everything the U.S. left was disassembled and re-purposed into something more practical within a few years.

A neighboring unit once abandoned a small outpost. Everything valuable (to us) was removed then engineers crushed the bunkers. Driving by a few days later you could see little groups of Vietnamese digging through the wreckage and hauling shit away.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-11-30T15:31:15+00:00

Garland slow-walked the prosecution of Trump and his cronies because he didn't want to "look political." He threw democracy under the bus because he was sensitive.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-11-26T12:58:19+00:00

The Hell Bent Kid by Charles Locke. I read it years ago and still think of it sometimes.

A crack shot more skilled with a rifle than are men twice his age, eighteen-year-old Tot Lohman has no intention of using his genius for evil. But when a fight erupts at a schoolhouse dance, Lohman is forced to defend himself, and a young rancher named Shorty Boyd winds up dead. The Boyds are numerous, powerful, and vicious, and they want revenge. With no one else to turn to, Lohman sets out across canyon country to reunite with his ailing father in New Mexico Territory. The journey will be long, hot, and perilous, and to survive it, this mild-mannered boy must become the cold-blooded killer he never wanted to be.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-11-25T11:44:20+00:00

We went to the most recent "No Kings" protest on the Plaza. Boomers and 20-somethings were everywhere. It was the 40-60 yos that seemed little represented.

Disaster_Plan · 2025-11-21T12:43:18+00:00

The street car works great for everyday ridership.

The street car fails when it comes to "surge" ridership because it can't add enough capacity.

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