Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 22, the 53rd day of 2014 and there are 312 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the pleasure of our service for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
Another prayer request for Pastor Dewey’s precious pups today! His Buffy underwent surgery yesterday and was able to return home later in the afternoon. She had surgery for cancer and his Reno also had surgery just recently for cancer also. Both appear to be recovering well but we continue to pray for their healing.
Blessed Savior, I thank you that this operation is safely past, and now we rest in your abiding presence, relaxing every tension, releasing every care and anxiety, receiving more and more of your healing life into every part of my being. In moments of pain I turn to you for strength, in times of loneliness I feel your loving nearness. Grant that your life and love and joy may flow through me for the healing of others in your name. Amen
So, What Happened Today In 1942 ?
President Roosevelt orders General MacArthur to get out of the Philippines
In World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines, as the American defense of the islands collapses.
The Philippines had been part of the American commonwealth since it was ceded by Spain at the close of the Spanish-American War. When the Japanese invaded China in 1937 and signed the Tripartite Pact with fascist nations Germany and Italy in 1940, the United States responded by, among other things, strengthening the defense of the Philippines. General MacArthur was called out of retirement to command 10,000 American Army troops, 12,000 Filipino enlisted men who fought as part of the U.S. Army, and 100,000 Filipino army soldiers, who were poorly trained and ill prepared. MacArthur radically overestimated his troops’ strength and underestimated Japan’s determination. The Rainbow War Plan, a defensive strategy for U.S. interests in the Pacific that was drawn up in the late 1930s and later refined by the War Department, required that MacArthur withdraw his troops into the mountains of the Bataan Peninsula and await better-trained and better-equipped American reinforcements. Instead, MacArthur decided to take the Japanese head on–and he never recovered.
On the day of the Pearl Harbor bombing, the Japanese destroyed almost half of the American aircraft based in the Philippines. Amphibious landings of Japanese troops along the Luzon coast followed. By late December, MacArthur had to pull his forces back defensively to the Bataan Peninsula–the original strategy belatedly pursued. By January 2, 1942, the Philippine capital of Manila fell to the Japanese. President Roosevelt had to admit to himself (if not to the American people, who believed the Americans were winning the battle with the Japanese in the Philippines), that the prospects for the American forces were not good–and that he could not afford to have General MacArthur fall captive to the Japanese. A message arrived at Corregidor on February 20, ordering MacArthur to leave immediately for Mindanao, then on to Melbourne, Australia, where “You will assume command of all United States troops.” MacArthur at first balked; he was fully prepared to fight alongside his men to the death if necessary. MacArthur finally obeyed the president’s order in March.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 22 in History:
1630 – Native American Indians introduce the Pilgrims to ‘PopCorn’;
1732 – George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the second son from the second marriage of a colonial plantation owner. An initially loyal British subject, Washington eventually led the Continental Army in the American Revolution and became known as the father of the United States. On December 14, 1799, Washington died of a severe respiratory ailment. He humbly identified himself in his will as George Washington, of Mount Vernon, a citizen of the United States;
1777 – Revolutionary War leader and Georgia’s first Provisional Governor Archibald Bulloch dies under mysterious circumstances just hours after Georgia’s Council of Safety grants him the powers of a dictator in expectation of a British invasion. Archibald Bulloch has gone down in history as one of the American Revolution’s great leaders; he is also known as the great-great-grandfather of America’s 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt;
1819 – Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida to the United States. Formal U.S. occupation began in 1821, and General Andrew Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812, was appointed military governor. Florida was organized as a U.S. territory in 1822 and was admitted into the Union as a slave state in 1845;
1847 – During the Mexican-American War, Mexican General Santa Anna surrounds the outnumbered forces of U.S. General Zachary Taylor at the Angostura Pass in Mexico and demands an immediate surrender. Taylor refused, allegedly replying, “Tell him to go to hell,” and early the next morning Santa Anna dispatched some 15,000 troops to move against the 5,000 Americans. The superior U.S. artillery was able to halt one of the two advancing Mexican divisions, while Jefferson Davis’ Mississippi riflemen led the defense of the extreme left flank against the other Mexican advance. By five o’clock in the afternoon, the Mexicans begin to withdraw;
1862 – In the American Civil War, Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, was inaugurated for a six-year term following his election in Nov. 1861;
1864 – Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest routs a Union force three times the size of his army at the Battle of West Point, Mississippi, helping to end Union General William T. Sherman’s expedition into Alabama;
1865 – Tennessee adopted a new constitution which included the abolition of slavery;
1879 – Frank Winfield Woolworth’s ‘nothing over five cents’ shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store;
1889 – Montana, Washington State, North & South Dakota are admitted to the Union;
1902 – A fist fight breaks out in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue;
1909 – The United States ‘Great White Fleet’, a naval task force sent on a round-the-world voyage by President Theodore Roosevelt, returned to Norfolk, Virginia after more than a year at sea;
1917 – In World War I, Sergeant Bernito Mussolini is wounded by the accidental explosion of a mortar bomb on the Isonzo section of the Italian Front in the war. By 1926, Mussolini, now known as Il Duce, had consolidated power for himself, transforming Italy into a single-party, totalitarian state that would later, alongside Japan and Adolf Hitler’s Germany, return to the battlefield against the Allies in the Second World War;
1918 – During World War I, swept along by hysterical fears of treacherous German spies and domestic labor violence, the Montana legislature passes a Sedition Law that severely restricts freedom of speech and assembly. Three months later, Congress adopted a federal Sedition Act modeled on the Montana law;
1924 – President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first radio broadcast from the White House as he addressed the country over 42 stations;
1946 – George Kennan, the American charge d’affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. Kennan’s analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America’s Cold War policy of containment;
1949 – Lee Petty defeats Johnny Beauchamp in a photo finish at the just-opened Daytona International Speedway in Florida to win the first-ever Daytona 500. The race was so close that Beauchamp was initially named the winner by William France, the owner of the track and head of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). However, Petty, who was driving a hardtop Oldsmobile 88, challenged the results and three days later, with the assistance of news photographs, he was officially named the champ. There was speculation that France declared Beauchamp the winner in order to intentionally stir up controversy and generate publicity for his new race track;
1965 – During the Vietnam War, General William Westmoreland cables Washington, D.C. to request that two battalions of U.S. Marines be sent to protect the U.S. airbase at Da Nang. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, aware of Westmoreland’s plan, disagreed and cabled President Lyndon B. Johnson from Saigon to warn that such a step would encourage South Vietnam to “shuck off greater responsibilities.” The Joint Chiefs of Staff supported Westmoreland’s request and on February 26, White House officials cabled Taylor and Westmoreland that the troops would be sent, and that Taylor should secure South Vietnam’s governmental approval. General Westmoreland later insisted that he did not regard his request as “the first step in a growing American commitment,” but by 1969 there were over 540,000 American troops in South Vietnam;
1967 – In the Vietnam War, Operation Junction City is launched to ease pressure on Saigon. The purpose of the operation was to drive the Viet Cong away from populated areas and into the open, where superior American firepower could be more effectively used. In the largest operation of the war to date, four South Vietnamese and 22 U.S. battalions, more than 25,000 troops, were involved. The first day’s operation was supported by 575 aircraft sorties, a record number for a single day in South Vietnam. The operation was marked by one of the largest airmobile assaults in history when 240 troop-carrying helicopters descended on the battlefield;
1968 – During the Vietnam War, the American war effort was hit hard by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive, which ended on this day in 1968. Claims by President Lyndon Johnson that the offensive was a complete failure were misleading. Though the North Vietnamese death toll was 20 times that of its enemies, strongholds previously thought impenetrable had been shaken. The prospect of increasing American forces added substantial strength to the anti-war movement and led to Johnson’s announcement that he would not seek re-election;
1973 – U.S. and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington D.C.;
1980 – In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. The Soviet squad, previously regarded as the finest in the world, fell to the youthful American team 4-3 before a frenzied crowd of 10,000 spectators. Two days later, the Americans defeated Finland 4-2 to clinch the hockey gold;
1984 – Tragically, David Vetter, a 12-year-old Texas boy who’d spent most of his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, died 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant;
2006 – In the early morning hours a gang of at least six men, some of them armed, steal £53 million from the Securitas bank depot in Kent, Great Britain. It was the largest such theft in British history;
2013 – The Justice Department joined a lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong alleging the former seven-time Tour de France champion had concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his longtime sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service;
2013 – It was one year ago Today !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff !!!
Today’s ‘It’s Just An Observation’:
Our extremely progressive tax system, where nearly half the country pays no income tax at all, and the other half pays about 40 percent of their income, may not be fair. But most people also don’t think it’s fair to tax a guy making $80,000 a year the identical amount as one making $80 million a year. That’s exactly what Obamacare does. With Obamacare, the Democratic Party has foisted the most regressive tax possible on America. This ruthless assault on the middle class is all so we can have a health care system more like every other country has. Until now, the United States has had the highest survival rates in the world for heart disease, cancer and diabetes. So across the world, we’ll all be equal, dying of cancer, heart disease and diabetes as often as everyone else. It’s not that Obama doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism; it’s that he wants to end it.
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”
– Thomas Paine
Today’s ‘We Must Never Forget’:
Watch as you can experience and live through the most fierce kamikaze attack in World War II onboard the ‘ship that wouldn’t sink’, the USS Laffey, in 1945 – https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4zkp7hvrgbcd7gd/D-qPNsG9ym#lh:null-Laffey%20Enhanced%20vo%203.wmv
Today’s ‘Parent & Child Lookalikes’:
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
Today’s Quote For The Day:
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Today’s Fact Of The Day:
DNA, the basic building block of life, is a long molecule containing four chemical bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C).
Today’s Picture Taken With Impeccable Timing:
Today’s Trivia:
If all of the oceans in the world evaporated, Hawaii would be the tallest mountain in the world.
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Luddite n. A person opposed to increased industrialization or new technology, and is often someone who is incompetent when using new technology. “He was a luddite that preferred his typewriter over a computer.”
Today’s Adorable Baby Picture:
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=W5gMp3ZjYg4
Today’s ‘A Word From Phyllis’:
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
– Phyllis Diller
Today’s ‘Will You Be My Pillow’ Picture:
Today’s Clever Words For Clever People:
PARADOX: Two physicians.
Today’s Lexophile Word Play:
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine is now fully recovered!
Today’s AWE of GOD Picture:
Today’s Inspirational Thought For The Day:
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
All I’ve Ever Needed – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bVWtWFHZF4g
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
– 1 John 4:18
Loving Father, thank you that I can reverence you without fearing your wrath. Thank you that I can revere your word and yet not be terrified with my inadequacies. May your love in me produce a closer likeness to your holiness, righteousness, justice and mercy than all the laws, threats, and judges combined. I pray in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – America, Bless God !!!
