The pilots- a bit of history Too bad the youth of today is totally oblivious to the sacrifices that have been made on their behalf!

  

 

THE FINAL TOAST!

When they bombed Tokyo 74 years ago.
 

They once were among the most universally admired and revered men in the United States .. There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942, when they carried out one of the most courageous and heart-stirring military operations in this nation's history. The mere mention of their unit's name, in those years, would bring tears to the eyes of grateful Americans. Now only four survive.

 

 

 

After Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, with the Unted States reeling and wounded, something dramatic was needed to turn the war effort around.

 

 

Even though there were no friendly airfields close enough to Japan for the United States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was devised. Sixteen B-25s

were modified so that they could take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been tried -- sending such big, heavy bombers from a carrier.

 

 

 

 

The 16 five-man crews, under the command of Lt. Col. James Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane off the USS Hornet, knew that they would not be able to return to the carrier.

They would have to hit Japan and then hope to make it to China for a safe landing.

 

 

But on the day of the raid, the Japanese military caught wind of the plan. The Raiders were told that they would have to take off from much farther out in the Pacific Ocean than they had counted on. They were told that because of this they would not have enough fuel to make it to safety.

And those men went anyway.

 

 

They bombed Tokyo and then flew as far as they could. Four planes crash-landed; 11 more crews bailed out, and three of the Raiders died. Eight more were captured; three were executed.

 

 

Another died of starvation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew made it to Russia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Doolittle Raiders sent a message from the United States to its enemies, and to the rest of the world: We will fight. And, no matter what it takes, we will win.

 

 

Of the 80 Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as national heroes, models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a motion picture based on the raid; "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, was a patriotic and emotional box-office hit, and the phrase became part of the national lexicon. In the movie-theater previews for the film, MGM proclaimed that it was presenting

the story "with supreme pride."

 

 

 

 

Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson,

Arizona, as a gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set of 80 silver goblets. Each goblet was engraved with the name of a Raider.

 

 

 

 

Every year, a wooden display case bearing all 80 goblets is transported to the reunion city. Each time a Raider passes away, his goblet is turned upside down in the case at the

next reunion, as his old friends bear solemn witness.

 

 

Also, in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special cognac. The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy Doolittle was born.

 

 

There has always been a plan: When there are only two surviving Raiders, they would open the bottle at last, drink from it and toast their comrades who preceded them in death.

 

 

As 2013 began, there were five living Raiders; then, in February, Tom Griffin passed away at age 96.

 

 

What a man he was. After bailing out of his plane over a mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo raid, he became ill with malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, he was

sent to Europe to fly more combat missions. He was shot down, captured, and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of war camp.

 

 

The selflessness of these men, the sheer guts ... there was a passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer obituary for Mr. Griffin that, on the surface, had nothing to do with the war,

but that was emblematic of the depth of his sense of duty and devotion:

 

 

"When his wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home, he visited her every day. He walked from his house to the nursing home, fed his wife and at the end of the day brought home her clothes. At night, he washed and ironed her clothes. Then he walked them up to her room the next morning. He did that for three years until her death in 2005."

 

 

So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s.

They have decided that there are too few of them for the public reunions to continue.

 

 

The events in Fort Walton Beach marked the end. It has come full circle; Florida's nearby Eglin Field was where the Raiders trained in secrecy for the Tokyo mission. The town planned to do all it can to honor the men: a six-day celebration of their valor, including luncheons, a dinner and a parade.

 

 

Do the men ever wonder if those of us for whom they helped save the country have tended to it in a way that is worthy of their sacrifice? They don't talk about that, at least

not around other people. But if you find yourself near Fort Walton Beach this week, and if you should encounter any of the Raiders, you might want to offer them a word of thanks. I can tell you from first hand observation that they appreciate hearing that

they are remembered.

 

 

The men have decided that after this final public reunion they will wait until a later date -- sometime this year -- to get together once more, informally

and in absolute privacy. That is when they will open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing by too swiftly now; they are not going to wait until there are only two of them.

 

 

They will fill the four remaining upturned goblets. And raise them in a toast to those who are gone.  

 

 

Their 70th Anniversary Photo 

PLEASE SEND THIS ON TO EVERYONE

IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, ESPECIALLY

TO THOSE WHO WERE TOO YOUNG TO

KNOW ABOUT THESE BRAVE HEROES!.

 

 

 

BLUE LIVES MATTER: BLACK MAN GUNS DOWN WHITE POLICE OFFICER AND THERE IS NO PROTEST, NO LOOTING, NO ARSON, AND NO IN-DEPTH 24/7 MEDIA COVERAGE

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BLUE LIVES MATTER: BLACK MAN GUNS DOWN WHITE POLICE OFFICER AND THERE IS NO PROTEST, NO LOOTING, NO ARSON, AND NO IN-DEPTH 24/7 MEDIA COVERAGE Posted: 06 Oct 2016 07:56 PM PDT It appears that the story has changed ...  … and the sheriff’s office originally withheld not only the race and identity of the suspect, only identifying him as an “active parolee,” but also withheld the extent of the officer’s  wounds, only citing that the officer was shot in the face and succumbed to his wounds in the hospital. Missing was the race: black; the suspect’s identification: Trenton Trevon Lovell; the violent history of the suspect – but most of all, that the deputy was wounded and deliberately shot multiple times. L.A. County sergeant was 'executed' by gunman after being wounded, sheriff says  A gunman who killed a Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant in Lancaster on Wednesday first wounded him, then stood over him and fired four additional rounds into the lawman’s body, Sheriff Jim McDonnell said Thursday. “This was a calculated execution,” the sheriff said. The gunman was carrying a stolen weapon and after the shooting unsuccessfully searched Sgt. Steve Owen’s body for his handgun “with the intent to use it to murder” another deputy who was arriving to the scene, McDonnell said. McDonnell, who refused to speak the suspect’s name, said the department first came into contact with him when he was selling marijuana as a juvenile. He was arrested 11 times, including two occasions that resulted in state prison time, the sheriff said. <Source> The progressive socialist democrat parole system and plea bargains that allow felonies to become misdemeanors and gun charges to disappear in favor of a guaranteed conviction on lesser charges.   Suspect in killing of L.A. County sheriff's sergeant was known for hot temper and violent history The man suspected of gunning down a Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant during a burglary Wednesday has a history of violent criminal offenses and was said to have a hot temper, according to court records and acquaintances. Trenton Trevon Lovell, 27, was identified Thursday as the suspect in the slaying of Sgt. Steve Owen in a Lancaster neighborhood. Lovell was living in an apartment in the same complex where the sergeant was shot, neighbors say. He was arrested Wednesday after he tried to flee in the sergeant’s cruiser, rammed another cruiser and then ran into a home with two teenagers inside, authorities said. According to court documents, Lovell was convicted in 2009 of robbing a USC community safety officer at gunpoint. He was sentenced to six years in prison and was on parole when he was arrested on suspicion of shooting Owen, a 29-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department. Months before the robbery conviction, Lovell pleaded no contest in July 2008 to resisting arrest and was given a 90-day jail sentence, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court records. In September 2015, Lovell pleaded no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol and causing injury to another person. Lovell also was ordered to complete a nine-month first-offender program and enroll in a drug and alcohol counseling program. He was scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 24 for a progress report. <Source> From the mainstream media involving a teenager who chose “suicide by cop” and left a note … Teen killed by police in South LA wanted to ‘end his own life,’ LAPD chief says The teenager fatally shot by police in South L.A. over the weekend left a farewell note to his family before the encounter and appears to have wanted to end his life, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday. Daniel Perez, 16, died Sunday afternoon after a confrontation with officers in the 4500 block of Ascot Avenue. Police said he was holding an item disguised to look like a gun. The orange tip of the item had been painted black to resemble an actual handgun. Shortly before Perez’s encounter with officers, a 911 caller told operators that a man with a gun was in the area, which prompted the police response. Perez is believed to have made that 911 call based on his cell phone use, Beck said. One of Perez’s parents also listened to the call and confirmed the teen’s voice, according to Beck. Perez’s death came one day after police shot and killed Carnell Snell, Jr., in South L.A. Snell, 18, was holding a gun and was shot after a foot pursuit by officers, police said. Snell’s death prompted protests over the weekend and calls for the LAPD to use restraint when confronting suspects, particularly African-American men. Also on Thursday, a group of social, community and labor groups declared “a state of emergency” in light of the recent shootings and demanded Los Angeles City Hall leaders investigate the incidents. The Community Coalition, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Los Angeles Community Action Network, the Brotherhood Crusade and SEIU 721 sent an open letter urging City Hall to “act with urgency to address the disproportionate use of lethal force against black and Latino residents.”  <Source> If you examine the records, most of those encounters with law enforcement involved armed felons or thugs that were attempting to evade law enforcement officials and represented a major threat to the surrounding community. Yes, there have been instances of poor training and outright accidental shootings – but nobody has ever proven that any law enforcement officer got up that day and decided to kill someone. I cannot understand why the progressive socialist democrats continue to fete the socialists, communists, anarchists, thugs, and criminals – and then claim that they are attempting to make the community safer. A big lie that can be amply demonstrated by the thousands of deaths in the inner cities governed by these very same progressive socialist democrats and their union cronies.  Governor Jerry Brown and his cadre of socialists and communists are at it again for the November 2016 election … [X] NO ON PROPOSITION 57  Once again, we find that the definition of “non-violent” felons can be applied to murderers, rapists, and other violent felons whose last few crimes appear to be non-violent. How one can consider a drug-dealer non-violent when he destroys the lives of children and families is beyond me. Juveniles today are knowingly capable of murder and other heinous acts, giving additional discretion to judges means that rich parents with expensive lawyers can “work the system” to get violent children released into the community. I am voting NO on California Proposition 57. CRIMINAL SENTENCES. PAROLE. JUVENILE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AND SENTENCING. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE.  Allows parole consideration for nonviolent felons. Authorizes sentence credits for rehabilitation, good behavior, and education. Provides juvenile court judge decides whether juvenile will be prosecuted as adult. Fiscal Impact: Net state savings likely in the tens of millions of dollars annually, depending on implementation. Net county costs of likely a few million dollars annually. Bottom line … Perhaps it is time to have a separate fast-track for the death penalty where the circumstances are clear and a law enforcement officer was killed. Additionally, we know that the progressive socialist democrats on the national stage are incapable or unwilling to protect and defend America and ALL Americans, perhaps we should recognize that the progressive socialist democrats in the states, especially the State of California, are incapable or unwilling to protect ALL of their constituents. One need only look at the inner cities to know that this is a self-evident truth. We are so screwed. -- steve

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Culiacán:Footage of Military Ambush and "El Kevin" being treated minutes after injury Bragged about being a drug lord on facebook and gets detained in Jalisco Sons of Caro Quintero accused of laundering 130 million of pesos Filemón is back home after kidnapping Acuña Coahuila: Huevo Treviño flees from Z-Renegados, leaves loot behind

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• Culiacán:Footage of Military Ambush and "El Kevin" being treated minutes after injury
• Bragged about being a drug lord on facebook and gets detained in Jalisco
• Sons of Caro Quintero accused of laundering 130 million of pesos
• Filemón is back home after kidnapping
• Acuña Coahuila: Huevo Treviño flees from Z-Renegados, leaves loot behind

Culiacán:Footage of Military Ambush and "El Kevin" being treated minutes after injury Posted: 08 Oct 2016 03:30 AM PDT Thank you for the heads up-and links  BB followers, including Julio C Lopez Video and still images of the September 30th military ambush                              contains graphic images El Kevin is being treated in this graphic video below.  He has sustained multiple wounds in a Badiraguato clash, his leg is torn apart.  There are two medics attending him, one is “Corporal Christian”, the medic who was killed in the military ambush occurring shortly after. In the video El Kevin is writhing in pain, he sobs at one point and calls out to God.   The medic tells El Kevin not to move because the leg wound will open, and encourages him to try and relax, that the pain will soon subside.  He was just given a pain injection. 5 soldiers were killed in the ambush, and 10 wounded, critically.

Bragged about being a drug lord on facebook and gets detained in Jalisco Posted: 07 Oct 2016 09:16 PM PDT Article available here dated 07/10/2015                                                       Translated by El Wachito Martin Juarez Campos pretended to be a CJNG commander under the name of "El M Juarez" A Mexican youngster was sent to the maximum security Puente Grande jail, after impersonating a member from a dangerous cartel through facebook, where he frequently published pictures and threatening messages. He called himself "El M Juarez", and pretended to be part of Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, a cartel that recently became dangerous and powerful. According to the Fiscalia Del Estado de Jalisco, his hobby was to entertain his 2000 followers with violent pictures. In one of his last publications before being detained on Saturday October 3, he presented a gift-box that had a handgun bathed in gold, with fake diamonds. In the message he claimed to thank his "boss", El Mencho, by making a reference to the leader of CJNG, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes. However, after being detained, authorities found out that he is actually a lift truck operator and a neighbor of Guadalajara, and that he didn't have any relation to a member of organized crime or drug traffickers. According to him, it was exciting to pretend to be a part of this groups because they provoke in him a sense of ecstasy, but his association was limited to an online world of fantasy. The pictures and the videos were taken from the internet and then he proceeded to add a watermark them in order to make them appear legit. Now he is currently being processed for "provocation of a crime and relation to a crime" and he is expected to be imprisoned  1 or 6 months. He has been assigned to a judge and he is currently in the maximum security jail of Puente Grande, Jalisco, where he might be able to fulfill his long life dream of being incarcerated with some of the most dangerous drug traffickers of the country.

Sons of Caro Quintero accused of laundering 130 million of pesos Posted: 07 Oct 2016 09:13 PM PDT Original article available at ZETA Translated by El Wachito Since 2014 the PGR has been investigating companions and friends of the sons of Rafael Caro Quintero. The investigations have led to the discovery of more businesses involved in money laundering than those discovered by US authorities. According to a bank official from Guadalajara, the last time the US department of treasury investigated was between 2012-2013. Hector Rafael Caro Elenes son of Caro Quintero participated in the Pekin Olympics in 2008 It's been three years and three months since the US Department of Treasury added to the list of leaders and money laundering business, the names of friends and partners of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, and the Mexican government has already secured 19 bank accounts of 16 businesses and physical persons, who between the years of 2012 and 2013 performed bank transactions of 130 millions of pesos. This are the results of the investigation PGR/SIEDO/UEIORPIFAM/AP/049/2014  and how the legal immunity promoted by the legal representatives of the businesses that have connections to the family members of the Cartel of Guadalajara was managed. To this day, some of the businesses who were being investigated and got their assets frozen or confiscated bank accounts, the majority located in the Metropolitan area of Guadalajara, have obtained favorable legal immunity, however they are still being investigated. The accusations In June of 2013, the office of Treasury of the United States, through the Office of Foreign Asset Control(OFAC), sanctioned 18 persons and 15 businesses accused of being part of the criminal net of Caro Quintero, who American authorities have not forgive for the murder of DEA agent, Enrique Camarena Salazar in 1985; during that time, Caro was not detained in Puente Grande. During the accusations made by the American government it was added to the list, a kind of species which make a resemblance to "Boss of American enemies", to the sons, ex-wife and close friends of the Sinaloan drug trafficker. They are accused of being part of a team of individuals who are involved in investing Caro's fortune in legitimate businesses and in the real estate of the city of Guadalajara. Adan Szubin, director of the OFAC, claimed that with the help of Mexican authorities "we will keep pointing out the drug traffickers, their money laundering activities, and those who help them in their illicit activities". The people accused are Hector Rafael (Olympic athlete), Roxana Elizabeth, Henoch Emilio and Mario Yibram, all of them with the last name Caro Elenes(sons of Caro); also their mother Maria Elizabeth Elenes Lerma was added to the list.  Also mention by the authorities were Denisse Buenrostro Villa, Humberto Vargas Correa and the brothers with the last name Sanchez Garza, sanchez barba and Sanchez Gonzalez, involved with Caro Quintero and Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno "El Azul". The accused business are; ECA Energéticos, S.A. de C.V.; El Baño de María, S. de R. L. de C.V.; Zapatos de Pronto, SAB de C.V.; Hacienda Las Limas, S.A.; Grupo Fracsa, SAB de C.V.; Dbardi, S.A.; Grupo Constructor Segundo Milenio, S.A. de C.V.; Restaurante Bar Los Andariegos; and  Piscilanea, S.A., along others. In October 31 of 2013, the OFAC added to their listing another group of businesses involved with Caro Elenes in Jalisco and Sinaloa: Arrendadora Turín, S.A.; Barsat, S.A. de C.V.; Desarrolladora San Francisco del Rincón, S.A. de C.V.; Dinermas, S. de R.L. de C.V.; Energéticos Vago, S.A. de C.V.; Estación de Servicio Atemajac, S.A. de C.V.; Fortanas, S. de R.L. de C.V.; and Grupo Barsterra, S.A. de C.V.  Other accused entities are Grupo Espanol Elcar, S.A. de C.V.; Inmobiliaria Prominente, S.A. de C.V.; Minerales Nueva Era, S.A. de C.V.; Minerales Nueva Generación, S.A. de C.V.; Nueva Terra, S. de R.L. de C.V.; Operadora Engo, S.C.; Petro London, S. de R.L. de C.V.; Petro Mas, S. de R.L. de C.V.; Promi Fel, S. de R.L. de C.V.; Servicio y Operadora Santa Ana, S.A. de C.V.; Taxi Aéreo Nacional de Culiacán, S.A.; y Villas del Colli, S.A. de C.V. The investigation The actions of the Americans created an eco that the Mexican authorities could not ignore, and the Head "B" of the Direcion General de Procesos Legales, of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), part of the Secretaria de Hacienda Y Credito Publico (SDCP), submitted a demand on 7 February of 2014 through the Procudaruria General de la Republica (PGR). In a ministerial agency by the Unidad Especializada en Investigacion de Operaciones de Procedencia Ilicita, Falsification y Alteracion de Moneda (UEIORPIFAM), of the Subprocuraduria Especializada en Investigacion de Delincuencia Organizada (SEIDO), the investigation PGR/SEIDO/UEIORPIFAM/AP/049/2014 was developed.  The first action conducted by the agent responsible for the seizure was to submit an order to the bank institutions to secure the accounts, checks and inversions under the name of the persons pointed out by government entities. To the surprise of the UIF, they found the names of other businesses who were not under investigation but appeared under the same bank accounts as other businesses who were previously pointed out by American and Mexican authorities.  In that manner, in February 2014, the agent representing the Ministerio Publico de la Federacion was able to order financial institutions, through the Comision Nacional Bancaria i de Valores (CNBV), to proceed to secure 19 bank accounts and the money deposited in them through 16 businesses.  The accusation was based on the fact that the identified  individuals involved, and those who were not fully identified, "was highly possible that the introduction of illicit money in the financial system was made through personal bank accounts of persons who had a relationship with the cartel" According to the operations conducted by the UIF, "it was observed the the investment was made at a really short term, with the intent to hide the origin and the final destination of the money". Rafael Caro Quintero

Filemón is back home after kidnapping Posted: 07 Oct 2016 08:48 AM PDT Posted by DD for Borderland Beat from Milenio and Mexico News Daily  Statistics indicate that kidnapping in Mexico is on the rise.  Most of those do not have a happy ending.   Filemón is an exception that.  He was the victim of a kidnapping in Motul, Yucatán.  After his disappearance his companion and friend, Gilberth Canul Cupul,  received a demand via the mobile phone application WhatsApp for a ransom of 1,000 pesos for his return. The kidnapper began at 1,000 pesos and then reduced his demand to 500. “I offered him 300, then 400, but he didn’t want it,” said Canul.  So he reported the crime to local authorities and began searching for the missing donkey. It was found in the possession of Luis Rodrigo Tec Chalé, who claimed the animal had entered his property. Canul now has Filemón back and has withdrawn his charge of theft. He said he didn’t wish to make an ocean out of a glass of water.

Acuña Coahuila: Huevo Treviño flees from Z-Renegados, leaves loot behind Posted: 07 Oct 2016 01:28 PM PDT 10.6.16 click on any image to enlarge  As BB reported in the post regarding the arrest of Kiko Treviño, Coahuila remains the home base state for the Treviño led faction of the Zetas, calling themselves “Cartel del Noreste”.(CDN). While Nuevo Laredo is the most important plaza for CDN, it is Coahuila where they have generally found protection and security.   BB wrote last month, that people on the ground in Coahuila reported key figures taking refuge in Acuña, and CDN re-establishing training camps in the hills adjacent to the municipality.  Kiko Treviño was said to spend time in Acuna as well as leader Huevo Trevino.    Comments sent in by BB followers today as well as a report posted by Frontera al Rojo Vivo speaks of an event that occurred in Acuña, including photo evidence.   Here is what is said to have gone down: In this message left behind talks of the grndmother and how they did not kill her Huevo Treviño was staying at his grandmother’s home in Acuña.  Other family members were in the home, when a group of former CDN members, known as Comandantes Renegados Zetas (Zeta renegades) came to the home intending to capture Treviño. Treviño somehow gets away before the door is broken through, leaving his family and grandmother to fend for themselves against the killers. He also left behind an ample amount of money. Treviño’s grandmother must have been scared out of her mind, but “The Zeta Renegados” left Treviño “abuelita” without harm.  But of course they absconded with the loot. Acuna’s presidente (Mayor) Lenin “Lenny” Perez is a second term Mayor, who was not in office for a term in-between.   The word is he is a Zeta-Mayor, for allegedly assisting the cartel, being in collusion in his first term, and staying loyal to the Treviño’s in his second and current term.  Acuña is a border city on the Bravo side of the Rio Grande, with Del Rio Texas on the opposite side. In other Trevino news, there were rumors of a possible escape attempt of Omar and Miguel Trevino, (Z40 and Z42) from Altiplano Prison.  It was clarified later by prison officials that there was no attempt, but the brothers are being relocated due to information of  escape plans.