Operation Just Cause... January 2000
Happy 21st Century!
Operation Just Cause is going strong and is ready to go to work in this brand new century to gain a full accounting of our missing and unaccounted for. As we look back on the events that took place in the last 100 years, we need to continue looking for those we left behind at the end of this country's wars. We have some unfinished business and that business is our POW/MIA's. Let us make working futilely to account for those precious lives one of our New Years' Resolutions.
I would like to wish all of our readers a Happy New Year. I hope all of you enjoyed the holidays. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people that helped to put together last years' issues of "The Moonduster Chronicles". All of you have made putting together the Operation Just Cause Newsletter a most rewarding experience for me. I look forward to working with all of you again this year, and in the years to come.
(Thanks For Another 100 Years of Freedom)
Moment of Silence
My Brother
Thanks, Brother
Times' 100-The American G.I.
Remembering-A Tribute To Veterans
Benjamin Franklin
Visit the following websites to find out more about this fascinating "Early American": Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
The World of Benjamin Franklin
Martin Luther King, Jr
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist Minister and a Civil Rights Leader. Please visit the following websites to find out more about the man who gave his life to the Civil Rights Movement.
Every once in a while an opportunity comes along to be involved in something very dear to your heart. I got to do that for a New Year's Eve Program on the Internet.
Almost a year ago I sent out an adoption to Lon and from that beginning we became friends. Lon put up an awesome POW/MIA page on his web site and then continued to add pages to his site, which became one of the biggest and best Christian Web sites on the Internet.
Lon came up with the inspired idea to have a Christian New Year's Eve Celebration on the Internet and asked me to become a part of it doing a segment on the POW/MIA and OJC. This opportunity combined being a Christian and being able to give that viewpoint on the POW/MIA issue and still get in a lot of facts about what is going on and what OJC is doing.
I willingly said yes, not realizing how much was involved. I soon discovered that the job was a big one and enlisted my son, Jeff, to help. We spent most of our free time in December getting the text recorded and then slides to show while the text was read. I have to admit when we started we were clueless as to what we were doing and have learn a whole lot through the process. Finally with one whole day to spare we got the POW/MIA presentation up and running on the Grace 2000 site.
The Amazing Grace 2000 site officially opened on New Years Eve as an expression of joy and celebration of Jesus Christ into the 21st Century. In the first week, Amazing Grace 2000 is averaging one guest per minute and nearly 100 of those visitors have signed the guest book to offer praise to Jesus and His 2000
year reign of Amazing Grace."
I want to thank Lon for including the POW/MIA and OJC in Grace 2000 and giving me the opportunity to do it. Thank you to Dennis Johnson for his help and Steve Golding for allowing me to use information from his web site because without your help I don't know how I would ever have gotten finished. And thank you to everyone who offered pictures from their web sites to be used in the slide show. Thank you Jeff and Caitlin for your help in recording and just about everything else.
I hope you will visit Grace 2000 and see and listen to the POW/MIA presentation and the rest of the programs. Lon has given his support to the POW/MIA issue and he has done an outstanding job with Grace 2000 and deserves our support.
Marilyn Grote
If you would like to participate in the creation of an Operation Just Cause Screen Saver by submitting graphics, please read the page Dennis has set up by clicking on the above link.
Karl Kristiansen
Veterans For A Change
Check for upcoming dates and scheduled guests. Not So Proud To Be a Canadian Actor Richard Crenna to Chair Salute to Hospitalized Veterans
Armed Services YMCA Announces Annual Art, Essay Contests
Bataan Memorial March Set For April 16th
Celebrities Honor Troops in Italy
Clothing Allowances Help Enlisted; Leave Officers Cold
Cohen Proposes Cutting Out-of-Pocket Housing Costs
Cohen Visits Troops in Balkans, Defers Reserve Component RIF
Commissaries Change Visitor Policy
Congress Guarantees Veterans' Funeral Honors
DoD Releases Final Reports on Two Gulf War Incidents
Defense Department Funds Historic Increase in Housing Allowance
Defense Leaders Champion Troop Needs
Depleted Uranium: The Rest of the Story
Housing Rates Set, Rate Protection in Place (Update)
In the Spirit of Bob Hope
New Military and Veterans Health Coordinating Board Executive Director Named
Quality of Life Technology Conference Set for February
Special Compensation for Severely Disabled Uniformed Services Retirees
Soldier, Set Your Weapon on Stun
VA Leads Nation In Patient Safety
What happens to all of the remembrances people leave at the
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are
going, and to whom you must account."
"We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we
shall all hang separately."
- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
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Trivia and Quotes Courtesy of Mailbits.com
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John W. Clark USAF 01/01/40 Columbia, MO
Glenn Matteson USAF 01/01/35 Dallas, TX
Herndon A. Bivens ARMY 01/01/51 Jamica, NY
Terry L. Reynolds CIV 01/01/42 Grainfield, KS
Donald E. Erwin USN 01/01/29 Hobart, IN
John M. Riordan USN 01/01/44 Seattle, WA
01/01/68 James R. Dennison USN Rochester, NY
01/01/68 Terence H. Hanley USN Gardiner, ME
01/01/68 Henry H. Herrin, JR. USN West Springfield, MA
01/01/66 Robert I. Kirksey ARMY Mobile, AL
Benjamin Franklin was a writer, printer, scientist, inventor,
statesman, philosopher, musician, and economist.
by Marilyn Grote
"The Moonduster Chronicles"
January 2000
from Dennis Johnson
from Chuck and Mary Schantag
In light of the news of the auctioning off of POW/MIA Bracelets on the Internet, Chuck and Mary Schantag of the P.O.W. Network came up with a way to turn this into something positive. Click on the link above to find out how you can help.
**Updated regularly**
Cmsgt. Thomas Moore
30 years ago
POW/MIA Related News
by Lon Prete
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.?
The National Park Service's Rangers collect these items, identify
them, catalog and store them as museum artifacts at the Park
Services' museum resource center in suburban Washington. Items
may be loaned to other museums for exhibition, but they otherwise
aren't available for public viewing. This resource center is not
open to the public
"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others...he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." ...Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968)
There are ways for us to work together to start tearing down those 'mighty walls of oppression and resistance' and gain a full accountability of our POW/MIA's.
Please feel free to browse through the following links to see what you can do to help.
1999
http://www.ojc.org/NL
"The Moonduster Chronicles"
NL@ojc.org
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