(09-11-2025, 02:07 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Sept 10, 1813...


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Somebody assassinated Charlie Kirk and twitter goes down hard. A very dark day in America.
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“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that is when civil war happens.”
— Charlie Kirk
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I guess this is where we are...
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Are we there yet?

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His overall view is worth considering today, given what is happening in the United States. The telltale signs of entering a "time of troubles" are the attempts to escape it by returning to a perceived past time of "greatness" and a leap into the future (AI, technocracy, etc.)

Quote:Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky’s decades-long dream of building a helicopter finally paid off in 1938, when he convinced the United Aircraft executives to let him develop a machine that would revolutionize the aviation industry.

Then, as Sikorsky’s newest creation lifted off the ground vertically and with him inside it, the VS-300 became America's first practical and amphibious helicopter. The experimental machine was also the first helicopter to use a single vertical-plane tail rotor configuration for anti-torque successfully.

But it was when the helicopter broke a long-held record by the Germans that the world really paid attention, setting the stage for the development of larger and better helicopters born out of the passion and perseverance of one man…

Quote:“When I finished my combat tour, I had flown 101 combat missions, but there’s one I’ll never forget,” Hughes said. “We had a large communist convoy that was bottled up, and the first and last vehicles were burning so we worked on the middle.”

Hughes engaged the convoy multiple times to gain mission success.

“I picked a tank, went in and missed with the first rockets I fired,” Hughes recounted. “I went around and came back down the same flightpath after the same target.”

Hughes explained how his basic mistake as a young pilot caused him to take a hit from enemies on the ground.

“I was nailed by a 37-millimeter and the forward part; it shot out the windscreen and gave me a face full of glass,” Hughes said. “Noisy ride home – got the airplane back and flew the next day.”

Hughes was awarded the Purple Heart for the wounds he received in combat that day.

“Youthful exuberance and inexperience led me to qualify for the Medal,” Hughes said. “Wearing the medal was a constant reminder of how lucky I was.”

After retirement, with a deep understanding of the importance and meaning of the Purple Heart to veterans and their families, Hughes and three colleagues formed the Genesis Group to champion the cause for the recognition of Purple Heart recipients. In 2006, their efforts were realized when the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor was established in New Windsor, New York.

According to Hughes, one of the most meaningful military awards he received was the Order of the Sword, which is the highest award given by NCOs.

“Thirty-nine years of military service is a long time, but it went by awfully fast,” Hughes said. “Where else can anyone serve the country, in so honorable a profession, and in the company of some of the most able and dedicated men and women our country has to offer? So yes! I’d do it all again — in a minute!”

Korean War Veteran, former PACAF commander, shares his experiences to empower Airmen

Quote:We need to go back to work tomorrow and we will. But we need to be alert to the fact that these evil-doers still exist. We haven't seen this kind of barbarism in a long period of time. No one could have conceivably imagined suicide bombers burrowing into our society and then emerging all in the same day to fly their aircraft - fly U.S. aircraft into buildings full of innocent people - and show no remorse. This is a new kind of—a new kind of evil. And we understand. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.  And the American people must be patient. I'm going to be patient.
— President George W. Bush, September 16, 2001

The White House

Quote:James McHenry, a Maryland delegate, also kept brief notes of what happened on September 17, 1787.

“Dr. Franklin put a paper into Mr. Wilson’s hand to read containing his reasons for assenting to the constitution. It was plain, insinuating, persuasive-and in any event of the system guarded the Doctors fame,” he wrote.

After the meeting concluded, McHenry noted, “A lady asked Dr. Franklin, ‘Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?’ A republic, replied the Doctor, if you can keep it.”

Constitution Daily Blog

Quote:Ten days after the burial of the unknown dead, Reverend Richard Lea of the Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church, an eyewitness to the violence of September 17, delivered a moving sermon to his congregation. Just as many families in the local community had been left with empty chairs in the home, the church pews there were vacant of three parishioners. Reverend Lea recalled the horrors of that day as if he were still there, hearing the cries of anguished victims and “conversing with so many dying persons in so short a space of time,” which left “a deep impression” on the elderly Lea. Many of the sights Lea encountered, however, were human remains that were “a short time before… life and beauty.” He pondered, in a foreboding tone, about the late devastation and its place within the larger national tragedy, “Who could foretell what the firing of the first gun at Fort Sumter would bring about? It brought about remotely, the catastrophe of Wednesday. And who can tell what more it may bring?

Quote:The western half of the arsenal remained in use through World War I but eventually became obsolete. It was sold to the H. J. Heinz Company in 1926 and subsequently used for various industrial and commercial purposes. The arsenal's former main gate was demolished in 1947 to make more room for delivery trucks, though it remained as a pile of rubble until the site was cleared for a new supermarket in 1961. Most of the western half of the arsenal site is now occupied by the Arsenal 201 condominium complex. Construction crews working on the condominiums uncovered caches of Civil-War-era cannonballs in 2017 and again in 2020.
Allegheny Arsenal wiki