While at Regensburg hospital with his mom […] right after she arrived here, I told her about some of this. She broke down and couldn't believe "all of those people would do all that for my son."Mom.
Tuesday 8Huh? Looks a little strange?
Left Laguire Venezuela at about four o'clock and made six knots all night. Had to stand two sea watches, 8 -12, 4 - 8.
Wednesday 9
Had the four to 8 watch this morning and we were all sent to the doctor and examined this afternoon.
Thursday 10
Worked tonight about two hours from ten to twelve trying to anchor. Arrived at Port of Spain, Trinidad about 9.30 p.m. Was half tired to death.
Friday 11
Got up at 7.00, was detailed as side cleaner and worked all the fore noon and most of the after noon. Got woman tatooed on my right arm.
Saturday 12
Got up 5.00 and scrubbed sides. Had some tatooing done on my right arm a bird, and a heart and dagger.
Sunday 13
Got up and got inspected & went to church. Had liberty today and went all over port of Spain Trinidad and got back at five o'clock. Had inspection today.
Monday 14
Got up at five and did my work. Sat around with Davis (?) In the head almost all the afternoon.
Tuesday 15
Got up and did my work then Arthur and I went up in the head and I shook dice for a cent a shake and then he and I and two others played poker
Wednesday 16
Got up at 6.00 and did my work, worked almost all the forenoon. And shook dice all the afternoon.
Thursday 17
Left Trinidad today at one o'clock for three day sail drill then Ho for Barbadoes and liberty.
The page I found it at is here, but you can read almost an entire transcription on the Ebay page here. There is some funny stuff there, well worth the read.The journal begins in the first week of January, 1901, aboard the Buffalo. They are transferred to the Hartford and we start sensing what is coming. On January 20 Evans sells his sea boots and other gear he won't be needing. Comes landfall in Barbadoes, Evans and Connelly are paid off and they go on liberty. They buy civilian clothes and sleep on the beach. Their only further contact with the ship was when they were nearly scooped up by four policemen and a party of officers from the Hartford. They are hidden by blacks who have taken them in, but they start starving because their new friends are too poor to sustain them. We start off with Connelly and Evans, than more men are dropped into the narrative with no indication of how they arrived. We have slightly edited a few salty phrases, not so much for the reader, but to pass eBay's decency muster. There is much, much more to the journal than we present here.
Right after the Korean war ... F9F's making the turn at the break to land at Radford Field as NAS Cubi Point, The ship in the background is the USS Boxer, CV-21, tied up at NS Subic Bay.
Gates and Mullen had been having doubts about McKiernan since the beginning of the year. They regarded him as too languid, too old-school and too removed from Washington. He lacked the charisma and political savvy that Gen. David H. Petraeus brought to the Iraq war.McKiernan was the architect of the operations that are going on right now in Afghanistan. There was nothing old-school he was trying to do after taking over from Gen. McNeill.
McKiernan's answers that day were the tipping point for Mullen. Soon after, he discussed the matter with Gates, who had come to the same conclusion.
Mullen traveled to Kabul in April to confront McKiernan. The chairman hoped the commander would opt to save face and retire, but he refused. Not only had he not disobeyed orders, he believed he was doing what Gates and Mullen wanted.
You're going to have to fire me, he told Mullen.
In February, with a new administration in power, Obama ordered 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, giving McKiernan much -- but not all -- of what he wanted. He planned to send most of the new forces to the south, where Taliban attacks were becoming increasingly frequent and potent.President Obama did nothing but give the final approval to the plan that was in development for the better part of a year under President Bush. The fact that RC and others continue to mis-report this is starting to give me the impression that it is intentional. This is a fact.
In Washington, doubts about McKiernan were growing among Gates and Mullen and their staffs. McKiernan's plan to integrate civilian and military resources, which Gates had asked him to draw up, did not impress many who read it in the Pentagon. Once again, they faulted McKiernan's perceived deference to NATO. What the document needed, they thought, was sharp thinking from the U.S. military, not a casserole of inputs from a dozen allies.That plan was mostly written by the US military and is the plan being executed now. At this moment there are changes being made, as it should be, by the new commander in Kabul. These things take 6-mo to a year to effect on the ground. Another fact. In 6 months you will see the operational and strategic change from Gen. McChrystal. Everything you see right now is McKiernan.
The day before he left Kabul, McKiernan spoke to several hundred U.S. and NATO troops assembled in the courtyard in front of his office. "I don't want to leave," he told them. "There's work still to be done here. . . . But I'm a soldier and I live in a democracy and I work for political leaders, and when my political leaders tell me it's time to go, I must go."...and it would go on longer if it could because those who served for/with him know that the public reasons for his firing being said in open source were not reflected on the ground. Also, I know of no person who has worked for/with him that has anything bad to say about his performance professionally or personally.
The line of soldiers waiting to shake his hand continued for 90 minutes.
McChrystal's relationship with Mullen has resulted in a flow of personnel that eluded McKiernan. The chairman told McChrystal he could poach whomever he needed from the Joint Staff -- a list that now extends to about two dozen senior officers, including some of the military's best-regarded colonels.My question to the Chairman - why didn't you give that service to McKiernan? As CJCS, isn't that your job ... through the COCOM (GEN Petraeus)? What stopped you from doing the same for McKiernan that you now offer to McChrystal? That quote above is d@mning to Mullen and the entire Joint Staff if it is even 51% accurate.
The war in Afghanistan, he (McKiernan) said, "will not be decided by any one leader -- military or civilian -- from any one nation."Yes, Uncle Sam is taking back the keys - but to turn the key we need the help of the international community.
I’d committed to “The End of Suffering.” I’d finally managed to exile the voices in my head that told me my personal happiness was only as good as my outward success, rooted in things that were often outside my control. I’d seen the insanity of that equation and decided to take responsibility for my own happiness. And I mean all of it.What in your life is making you suffer? Is your suffering really externally forced on you - or internally determined?
When life’s knocked us around. And our childhood myths reveal themselves to be just that. The truth feels like the biggest sucker-punch of them all: it’s not a spouse or land or a job or money that brings us happiness. Those achievements, those relationships, can enhance our happiness, yes, but happiness has to start from within. Relying on any other equation can be lethal.To get the full picture though, you need to read it all.
Toby Sunderland declared Thursday "Zac Day" in honor of his older brother -- and that it was.And yes Anne, he is home schooled.
Hundreds of admirers could not wait for Zac Sunderland, 17, to guide his 36-foot vessel into Marina del Rey on Thursday morning, completing a 13-month quest to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.
So they formed a conspicuous armada that included skiffs, sailboats and yachts, and greeted the mariner offshore. There were lifeguard boats, police boats and news helicopters, which buzzed in a light fog that gave way to sunshine as the shaggy-haired adventurer rounded the breakwater.
Once ashore -- Sunderland's first steps as a figure of sailing lore -- he looked the way he generally has when reaching port: casual, as though he'd just returned from a Sunday cruise.
This despite the magnitude of what he'd accomplished: Fewer than 250 people have sailed solo around the world, according to the American Sailing Assn., whereas more than 300 people climbed Mt. Everest just this year.
Hundreds of people had lined the waterfront at Fisherman's Village. They clapped their hands and shouted, "You did it!" and at one point broke into a chorus of "God Bless America."To be sure, if sailing is a pastime purely for the wealthy, that was not evident on this historic morning.
Sunderland, who departed Marina del Rey when he was 16 on June 14, 2008, not only broke a record held by Australia's Jesse Martin, who was 18 when he finished in 1999. He became the first person to solo-circumnavigate the planet before turning 18 -- a mark he'll never relinquish.
