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Letter: Clearly your editorial page suffers from terminal TDR
To the editor — My wife brought home a copy of the YH-R today. I hadn’t seen a copy of it for more than a year, so I thought I’d take a look. The article on boat racing was fun, but then I turned to the editorial page. Your cartoon of Putin hanging the Nobel Peace Prize on Trump reminded me of why I canceled my subscription so long ago. I spooled through appropriate adjectives for my response but words like disgusting and egregious just didn’t have the right panache.
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Letter: You got what you wanted, Biden voters - deal with it
To the editor — Last night on the TV news, I learned that the United Auto Workers members were very unhappy with the inflation that continues to plague us, as well as the likelihood of losing over 120,000 jobs in the auto industry This loss is happening as President Biden pushes the auto industry to make EVs that many people don’t want or can’t afford. The number of job losses will go up significantly if they give the millions of folks who entered the country illegally work permits.
Letter: Will Democrats respond the way the GOP did with Nixon?
To the editor — Well, last week’s biggest news story was Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, testifying under oath that President Biden participated in more than 20 phone calls with Hunter’s and his business clients while he was vice president. This is confirmed by letters and emails from other sources. While these actions clearly are newsworthy and deserve investigation, the left press basically ignores it. But instead of discussing that, let’s take a trip down memory lane.
Letter: Immigration story was, shall we say, disingenuous
To the editor — I picked up a copy of the YH-R for my wife as it was Mother’s Day. I read the lead paragraph of your article proclaiming that all immigrants just want safety. While that may well be true, for every one of those safety seekers, there are 10-20 people being trafficked into the sex trade, indentured servitude and who knows how many are just looking for fee stuff and carrying fentanyl across the border that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
"I Could Feel Doom": U.S. Marines and Australians Fought For Survival At Ngok Tavak in Vietnam
Just after 3:15 a.m. on May 10, 1968, soldiers in a South Vietnamese militia organization known as a Civilian Irregular Defense Group approached the main gate of the U.S. Special Forces compound at Ngok Tavak. They yelled: “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot! Friendly, friendly.” Gate guards held their fire—a tragic mistake. It was a trap. These CIDG men weren’t friends. They were the enemy.
Letter: Looks like we picked a winner, all right
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U.S. Marines and Australians Fought For Survival At Ngok Tavak in Vietnam
The small base at Ngok Tavak, attacked by the North Vietnamese Army in the pre-dawn hours of May 10, 1968, was defended by a mix of forces, including an Australian training team, U.S. Army Special Forces, South Vietnamese special forces, militiamen from the Nung ethnic group and Marine artillerymen. Australian Capt. John White, second from left, was the base commander. This photo of Australian and U.S. Special Forces soldiers was taken in April 1968.
Warring Commanders: The Army and Marines Battled Over War Plans in Vietnam
A radio operator and his commander in the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) watch arriving helicopters during an operation in 1967 in central South Vietnam. Getty Images Dick Camp August 2021 Relations between top Army and Marine commanders became testy in early 1968 as generals with clashing views on battle tactics attacked not only the enemy but also each other.
The Commandos: Set Europe Ablaze by Dick Camp
LoveReading Expert Review of The Commandos: Set Europe Ablaze Summer 1942. In Europe, defeatism hangs in the air. Nazi Germany occupies an ever-expanding number of countries. Britain stands alone. Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, is determined to strike back using elite commando forces. Two US Marines, receive order to join them. Richard Camp served as a US Marine officer for 26 years before retiring in 1988.
I Survived Palawan Massacre
Dick Camp Warfare History Network May 25, 2021 Superior Private Tomisaburo Sawa of the Imperial Japanese Army fixed the bayonet on his Type 99 Arisaka rifle and carefully checked to make sure the weapon was loaded. From his position on the veranda of the prison guard barracks, he watched as members of his platoon advanced across the courtyard. The POWs that Sawa were in charge of didn’t know it, but many would soon become victims of the now-infamous Palawan massacre. U.S. Marine Corps Pfc.
Khe Sanh Under Siege: A view from the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines
Marines at Khe Sanh duck for cover as North Vietnamese shells fly into the base. Getty Images Dick Camp February 2021 A Marine present at the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment’s combat operations center at the Khe Sanh Combat Base recalls the siege in harrowing detail At approximately 4 a.m. on Jan. 21, 1968, I stood watch as assistant operations officer in the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment’s combat operations center at the Khe Sanh Combat Base shooting the breeze with Maj.
Letter: Newhouse's vote ignored due process
To the editor — I’m not sure if you’re finished making Dan Newhouse a saint for being one of 10 Republicans who voted for impeachment, but I’ll take a chance that you are. I’d like to offer one reason he should not have voted for impeachment: It violated the rule of law in the United States of America. Non-Democrat citizens hold the rule of law sacrosanct; everyone is allowed due process, even folks who are here illegally or commit mass murder. Donald Trump was not.
Letter: Election needs thorough investigation
To the editor — In YHR's Nov. 11 edition, the News in Brief column says that “the election unfolded smoothly” and that the election “stands in stark contrast to the unsubstantiated claims of fraud” by Donald Trump. Are you not paying attention? Of course you’re not. There are 234 signed, notarized affidavits of election irregularities (translated into non-political jargon: cheating) in Michigan alone. Over 70% of Republicans think they got cheated and you ignore all of it.
The “Khe Sanh Two-Step”: Pay Call Under Fire
A military payment certificate. Marines Rush for cover at Khe Sanh, 1968. Getty Images / HistoryNet photo montage. Dick Camp October 2020 The 1935 Marine Corps Manual for Field Musics noted: “A march played to signal that the troops will be paid,” known simply as “Pay Call,” would be sounded to announce payday. In the days before check-to-bank, an officer at the company, squadron, battery level paid his enlisted men in cash. This created a direct link from the unit to the men for services rendered.
Forget the 300 Spartans: Marine Corps Aviators Faced Off Incredible Odds At Midway
Prologue: At the start of World War II, Midway Atoll was a key U.S. base in the central Pacific. Only 1,200 miles from the Hawaiian Islands, it was the outer shield for the strategically important naval base at Pearl Harbor. In early May 1942, U.S. Navy codebreakers learned that the Japanese intended to invade Midway with a powerful armada under the command of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Boxed in by the Enemy
Marine reconnaissance team Box Score’s fight for survival. Seven North Vietnamese Army soldiers, carrying packs and rifles, strode nonchalantly down the trail toward a small stream that slowly meandered through an overgrown rice paddy at the base of the hill. As the NVA column approached one of the numerous bomb craters dotting the surrounding landscape, something caught one soldier’s attention. He glanced in that direction—an instinctive act that signed his death warrant.
Marines Were on the Front Lines the Night Lincoln Was Shot
!865 engraving depicts the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. In the presidential box at Ford's Theatre, from left, are Major Henry Rathbone, his fiancee Clara Harris, and Mary Todd Lincoln. (Library of Congress) By Dick Camp and Suzanne Pool-Camp Leathernecks witnessed the assassination and played a role in the roundup of the conspirators MARINE FIRST LIEUTENANT Richard S.
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