It pays to read the ‘fine print’…
Here’s the sector chart for that area… P-73 is in the red circle.
And the reason for the prohibited area? Well, much like the prohibited area around congress and the White House, this one is around the ROK equivalent, the Gyeongbokgung Palace. And they WILL shoot first and ask questions later, unlike the FAA.
Just sayin…
The Japanese surrender at the end of WWII was very much different than that of Germany four months earlier…
HERE is one article.
These are some ‘other’ details, that don’t often get discussed… Or, as some people say, the rest of the story… Remember, the Japanese are a seagoing culture…
Why did the US choose a US Navy Iowa-class battleship as the location for Japan’s surrender in World War 2 even though they were in Tokyo Bay and could have used a building on land?
Pure symbolism.
Nothing says “you’re utterly defeated” than having to board the enemy’s massive battleship in the waters of your own capital city. A naval vessel is considered sovereign territory for the purposes of accepting a surrender. You just don’t get that if you borrow a ceremonial space from the host country. In addition, the Navy originally wanted the USS South Dakota to be the surrender site, since it had been in battle the longest, but it was changed it to USS Missouri, Missouri being Truman’s home state, and his daughter had commissioned it.
The Japanese delegation had to travel across water to the Missouri, which sat at the center of a huge US fleet. It’s a bit like those movie scenes where someone enters a big-wig’s office, and the big-wig is sat silhouetted at the end of a long room, behind a massive desk. The appellant has to walk all the way to that desk along a featureless space, feeling small, exposed, vulnerable and comparatively worthless before the mogul enthroned in dramatic lighting before him. By the time he gets there the great speech he had prepared is reduced to a muttered sentence or two.
In addition, the USS Missouri flew the flag of Commodore Perry’s 19th century gun-boat diplomacy mission that opened the closeted Edo-era Japan to the world force upon them the Meiji restoration which ended the rule of the samurai class. The symbolism here is pretty clear –
This is how we want you to be, and remember what happens to countries that defy us.
It was particularly humiliating for a proud country like Japan, and that was entirely the point. The symbolism of the ceremony was even greater than that. The ship was anchored at the precise latitude/longitude recorded in Perry’s log during his 1845 visit, symbolizing the purpose of both visits to open Japan to the West. Perry’s original flag was also present, having been flown all the way from the Naval Academy for the ceremony. And the Japanese faced that flag when they came to sign the surrender.
When the Japanese delegation came aboard, they were forced to use an accommodation way (stairs) situated just forward of turret #1. The freeboard (distance between the ship’s deck and the water line) there makes the climb about twice as long as if it had been set up farther aft, where the freeboard of the ship is less.
NOTE: This was even more of an issue for the Japanese surrender party as the senior member, Foreign Affairs Minister Shigemitsu, was crippled by an assassination attempt in 1932, losing his right leg in the process (and they had sailors simulate the time it would take to climb the stairs then walk aft).
The #1 and #2 turrets had been traversed about 20 degrees to starboard. The ostensible reason for this was to get the turret overhangs out of the way to create more room for the ceremony on the starboard veranda deck, but in fact this would have only required traversing turret #2 had it been the real reason. However, the turret position also put gun tubes directly over the heads of the Japanese. They were literally boarding the ship “under the gun”. The honor guard of US sailors (side boys) were all hand-picked to be over six feet tall, a further intimidation of the short-statured Japanese.
The surrender documents themselves, one copy for the Allies and one for the Japanese contained identical English-language texts, but the Allied copy was bound in good quality leather, while the Japanese copy was bound with light canvas whose stitching looked like it had been done by a drunken tailor using kite string. After the signing ceremony, the Japanese delegation was not invited for tea and cookies; they were shuffled off the ship as an Allied air armada of over 800 aircraft flew overhead as a final reminder that American forces still had the ability to continue fighting should the Japanese have second thoughts on surrender.
Part of this was done at MacArthur’s request, and part by the Admiral’s staff to interject the Navy symbolism.
That whole picture is worth a thousand words…
By dribs and drabs, Judicial Watch is getting more Hillary emails about Benghazi…
Judicial Watch today released new Clinton emails on the Benghazi controversy that had been covered up for years and would have exposed Hillary Clinton’s email account if they had been released when the State Department first uncovered them in 2014.
Full articles, HERE from Judicial Watch. The full copy of the email is HERE.
I can’t help but wonder what is holding up the State Department IG’s investigation on this, as more and more emails are finally being produced in response to the FOIA requests that have been filed for now going on at least 5 years.
I also wonder what Barr’s appointees are finding as they look into this. I can only hope THIS is the first step… Brennan and Clapper were also around for Benghazi…
The secrecy around the whole mess has been…eye opening to put it mildly, going back to day one. If any of ‘us’ peons had shared ONE classified email on an unclass system, much less a TS/SCI one, we’d be in Leavenworth, do not pass go, do not collect $200…
I can only wonder if this ties into the ‘rush’ to impeach Trump on anything they can ‘trump’ up, to be able to kill these other investigations, especially since it does appear to actually go all the way to Obama’s White House, especially on Benghazi.
Our folks that were left out in the cold and died deserve an answer, as do the American public. Just sayin…
Kicking the soapbox back in the corner.
Seems like a bunch of folks are enamoured by the latest and greatest plastic fantastics…
So it response, since I’m an old fart that likes blued, wood, and leather, I dug this one out of the safe.
S&W 29-3 1984 series, with an original Hunter holster for it. For those not familiar, it’s the Dirty Harry gun, .44 magnum.
Holster still holds the gun nice and tight. And yes, it’s a shoulder holster…
And it’s worn as a ‘deep’ conceal holster, so it sits well back under the arm.
In other news, a rather interesting read from American Thinker, HERE, by William Gensert.
I did note with a smile that he referenced the fact that pantyfa hasn’t shown up in Texas since they got spanked by DPS down in Austin two years ago, HERE.
I don’t think the left/pantyfa/et al realize that John and Jane Q. Public do not agree with either their agenda nor their actions, and if push comes to shove, those old folks WILL react accordingly if pushed.
Aynax Anni Cyrus lays out the regression of pre 1979 Iran into today’s Iran after Ayatollah Khomeini hijacked the country.
FYI, Iran was the ONLY mid-East country allied to both the US and Israel until 1979.
Her father sold her at 14 as child bride for $50 and a years supply of opium for personal use.
Note: If she was below the age of a woman in Iran, 9 years old, her guardian (father) couldn’t sell her, had to give her to a husband. After 9 years old he could sell her as a wife. But in the meantime, after age 9 to to whatever age when he sells her, he was allowed by law to used her for himself…and he did until grandma got her smuggled out after her second husband used her for a punching bag and judge said she should listen to her husband and he wouldn’t have to beat her.
Aynax Anni Cyrus in her own words… It’s a little long at almost 40 minutes, but worth hearing the truth directly from someone to experienced it.
Is this really what you want your wife, daughter, sister, etc. subjected to?
50th HS reunion is done. It was ‘interesting’ to put it mildly. Some folks were recognizable right off, others not so much. And at least one couple must have pictures of Dorian Gray in their closet somewhere… Sigh…
We had over 100 show up, so about 1/3 of the class, literally some that I have not seen in 50 years! Even more special was our coach from Jr HS, now in his late 90s that made it. He’s dropped over 100 lbs from what he weighed back in the day, and the full head of black hair is long gone, but he remembered us!!!
We’ve lost way to many, but by the same token have quite a few cancer survivors, including some that have survived it twice. Doctors, lawyers, dentists, accountants, surveyors, nurses, teachers, many of the guys served, and a few of us made it a career. Politicians, musicians, real estate, ranchers, law enforcement, railroaders, builders, just about anything you can think of, somebody did that for a living.
As usual, it was herding cats to get people to stand still/line up for the class picture… LOL Some things never change!
It was funny to find out I was remembered for three things… My curly blond hair, my hot rod cars, and my ability to run the 880 and the mile in track, including the state meets (sadly, I never won, the best I did was third in both at state. That one sumbitch from Little Rock Central beat me in both every year).
This was one of the seating areas, with folks wandering around, talking to classmates, and catching up. It was bittersweet, as there were many that didn’t come for any number of reasons, but some of the folks have never expressed any interest in seeing any of their classmates again, for whatever reason.
Back at the hotel, I found these in the entry… Two pairs of Honda Gold Wings, apparently the wives ride the trikes, and the hubby’s ride the two wheelers.
And sitting off by its lonesome, one Harley with a monochrome paint scheme…
This morning, a few of us will get together for breakfast, then it’s back to our regular lives wherever folks now live. It was fun, and I’m glad I made it.
50 years ago I graduated from here…
The sign wasn’t electronic, and where the flags are was the parking lot… And the arch led to the football field… Now that’s the ‘practice/PE’ field and there is a new 10,000 seat stadium a block away.
But some things haven’t change… The odor of despair and sweat in the gym… LOL Even the scoreboards are the same ones we had!!!
The rest of the school, not so much… Modernized isn’t the half of it!!! The school was originally built in 53, two wings, plus the gym. The main entry is now a ‘collaborative‘ space, the trophy case is gone, and that entire wing of the building is GONE! The office is now in the old library, and there are new ‘facilities’ all over the place. And to top it off, there are apparently THREE food lines, pizza, burgers & made to order sandwiches, and the ‘regular’ food line. And lunch is free!
The truly sad part is that this mosaic, which used to be just inside the main entry, is now outside and has, to put it politely, gone to s**t… Sigh…
We’re talking about getting a fund together to save it, clean it up, and have it properly sealed. Kids today have NO sense of history… Dammit…
Looks like the average Londoner doesn’t put up with protesters well…
Full article and videos, HERE.
Now this one just sets my teeth on edge…
Over the last two weeks in the ongoing federal civil jury trial of Planned Parenthood against David Daleiden, Judge William Orrick has repeatedly cut off defense questioning that he considers straying too close to eliciting information related to Planned Parenthood’s history of selling tissue from aborted fetuses.
Full article, HERE.
How can the judge suppress the basis, IMHO, for the reason that they did the undercover recordings? I know I’m not a lawyer, but damn…
And an interesting take on the ‘gaslighting’ currently going on in DC, HERE. That’s actually a pretty good report, and brings up some good points. Re Pelosi, Chuckie, and whoever the other Dem talking head was yesterday, they come off looking stupid again, more like three year olds that didn’t get their way, especially when the REST of the Dems stayed in the meeting.
And speaking of talking heads, the Dems are truly melting down, I watched a couple of different shows and they absolutely REFUSE to answer a direct question, instead resorting to Orange Man Bad taking points (that are ALL identical across all the talking heads), and/or talking over the questioner or other talking heads in shriller and louder voices every day. It’s getting to the point that it is becoming humorous, and oh so predictable… LOL
And I heard an interesting take on Beto and his gun confiscation yesterday- The commentator raised an interesting point in that Beto himself would never have to DO anything other than order it, he wouldn’t actually put himself in harm’s way to take the guns. Much like the others beating the drums about protecting the Kurds (who are not monolithic by any means), knowing they won’t actually have to DO anything. They can get on the MSM and spout their words, then slink back to congress and rely on the rest of the congresscritters to not pass any real legislation (and the large majority of them have no children in harm’s way, or any possibility of them having to go (wo)man the front lines. And apparently they are also decrying the ceasefire that VP Pence and Sec State Pompeo forged with Turkey, saying the US gave in to Turkey. Wow… just… Wow…
Lastly, it looks like South Park took a shot at Mao Lebron in their episode this week!
“South Park” took a not-so-subtle dig at NBA superstar LeBron James over his response to the league’s controversy with China in Wednesday night’s episode of the long-running animated series.
South Park has skewered the Chinese influence more than once, and it doesn’t seem to bother them that they are now banned in China. Full article, HERE.
I didn’t watch the Dems clusterf... debate last night, but apparently it was ‘entertaining’ for some folks. Apparently CNN came out for Warren as their choice based on various reports today, and Gabbard got basically kicked to the curb after she called out both CNN and the NYT in her opening statement. The millionaire, the one that bought his lectern apparently misspoke about how long it’s been since folks have had a raise, saying it’d been 40 years. Warren ONLY came under fire from the other candidates, apparently over how to pay for all the crap she wants.
In other news, who cares what LeBron James thinks about the whole China situation? Article, HERE. The NBA had a chance to stand up to China and caved like a cheap suit, because they value MONEY more than actual honesty about the treatment of people in China… Sad, sad, sad.
And Project Veritas is lighting up CNN from the inside. Apparently an individual wore a wire and got a number of ‘interesting’ video/audio recordings of the inside goings on.
In the second Project Veritas insider video segment covering racial bias and it’s effect on coverage at CNN, Media Coordinator Christian Sierra, states, “I think that shootings in poorer areas or, um, minority communities don’t get as much coverage as if they were to happen in a white area.”
Full article, HERE, from Townhall.com
Lastly, I think it IS a good idea to get out of Syria, and Afghanistan, and Iraq… I’ve seen the results of the injuries to our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines at Walter Reed and Bethesda. It’s not pretty, and we have been there way too long. Previous administrations have tied the military’s hands with extremely restrictive ROEs, rather than letting them do their jobs (break things and kill people until the other side gives up). Our military isn’t trained as a ‘police force’, and shouldn’t be used as such. And the ‘allies’ haven’t stepped up, forcing the USA to do ALL the dirty work, in a myriad of situations where we shouldn’t even be there.
This coming weekend is my 50th high school reunion, and I’m not sure what I think about that… 50 years??? No way! It can’t possibly be that long, can it? But it is… Sigh…