MY PEEPS!: THE BEAST!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

THE BEAST!

...SHE WAS AT HER PEAK WHEN THIS WAS SHOT !

THE DEMONSEED !

...AROUND 1971-72...WE WERE LIVING WITH HONEY GRANDMA AND GRANDPA ERNIE IN MAYWOOD-BELL AREA-L TO R-MOBELLY-OHILDA CORDERO-CHICKENHAWK-SYLVIA MARTINEZ-THE LATE GREAT DAVID YOUNG AND ODALYS CORDERO-CON SAFOS!

BAD BOYS-BAD BOYS....WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU?

L TO R-MOBELLY-GIL KIM AKA PETER-GILBERT ANTHONY CHAVEZ AKA GIL!

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LOVE IS THE ANSWER!

Name your price
A ticket to paradise
I can't stay here any more
And I've looked high and low
I've been from shore to shore to shore
If there's a short cut I'd have found it
But there's no easy way around it

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer

Who knows why
Someday we all must die
We're all homeless boys and girls
And we are never heard
It's such a lonely world
People turn their heads and walk on by
Tell me, is it worth just another try?

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer

Tell me, are we alive, or just a dying planet?
What are the chances?
Ask the man in your heart for the answers

And when you feel afraid, love one another
When you've lost your way, love one another
When you're all alone, love one another
When you're far from home, love one another
When you're down and out, love one another
All your hope's run out, love one another
When you need a friend, love one another
When you're near the end, love one another
We got to love one another

Light of the world, you got to shine
Love will be a means, yeah, yeah
Shine on us all
Know that love can save the day
Just give it one more chance
Lord you just can't let it stop lord
Love is the answer
Got to be free to let love into your life
Let it shine

TODD RUNDGREN

THE BATTLE FOR ATTU!

Kiska and Attu, two of the United States’ most westerly islands in the Aleutian chain, were occupied by Japanese forces in June, 1942. The battle to take Attu back from the Japanese would prove to be a valuable learning experience for the United States Army. The landings on Attu were among the first large-scale amphibious landings of World War II.

The Americans’ lack of experience was obvious in the many mistakes that were made during the planning phase of the assault on Attu. These mistakes included choosing an uncharted bay for the landing site, forgoing a preliminary bombardment, and not giving sufficient time to acclimate the assault division to the harsh weather conditions encountered in Alaska.

The Seventh Infantry Division was chosen to spearhead the assault of Attu; however, it had been training in Monterey, California, and lacked appropriate cold weather gear. To make matters worse, large ships were unable to operate in the bay chosen for the landing site, leaving the troops in the cold and wet for a longer period of time than was necessary and adding to the number of cold weather casualties suffered by American troops.

The landing was scheduled for May 7, 1943; however, bad weather held the landings up for four days. This actually proved fortuitous, as the Japanese were expecting an assault on May 7. Thinking the threat had passed, the Japanese troops were not as alert on May 11, when the landing began.

From May 11 through May 28, the Americans fought the Japanese, as well as the weather, to take back the island. After seventeen days of hard fighting Colonel Yasuyo Yamasaki, the Japanese commander, desperate to drive the Americans from the island, ordered a Banzai charge. In preparation for the charge he burnt all his papers and ordered that all wounded Japanese soldiers unable to take part in the assault be killed. The Banzai charge caught the American Soldiers by surprise and almost succeeded. A mixed group of U.S. Army engineers, medical personnel, and headquarters troops turned the tide against the Japanese when this determined group of Soldiers made a stand on the crest of a hill. This was the first time American Soldiers had encountered the fanatically reckless fighting spirit of the Japanese. This attack was the last organized resistance met on Attu.

The battle for Attu proved to be a learning experience. Intelligence was garnered from letters and diaries of Japanese soldiers, and American ground commanders detailed what tactics the Japanese used and how they could be countered. These lessons learned were applied to the later island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific theaters. The medical corps, moreover, learned a great deal by studying the cases of exposure and trench foot occurred during the battle. These studies led to improvements in the personal equipment that was issued to soldiers. Thus this little battle on a small island in a remote corner of the world provided enduring lessons that helped contribute to American victory in the Second World War.

As Reported By LIFE Magazine

Maybe it’s because the casualties, in relative terms, were light compared to those suffered in other theaters of conflict during World War II. Or perhaps the isolated front was destined to a gradual, ever-deepening obscurity because no storied battles with stirring names (Iwo Jima, Bastogne, Normandy, Saipan) were fought there. Or maybe it’s simply that, like countless other narratives in countless other wars, the story of the Aleutian Islands Campaign was gradually forgotten by those who did not fight or serve there, or by those families that did not lose a loved one there.

But in the early 1940s the Aleutian Campaign was news throughout the U.S. , as some of the islands in the North Pacific, in what was then the American territory of Alaska, had been invaded and occupied by Japanese troops. Was it a diversion ahead of another, critical attack elsewhere? Was it the vanguard of a far larger assault on America’s enormous, and perhaps fatally vulnerable, west coast?

Here, 70 years after Japanese forces seized control of Attu and Kiska islands early in the war, LIFE.com presents rare photos — most of which never ran in LIFE magazine — by Dmitri Kessel chronicling the day-to-day existence of Allied troops serving in the dramatic and forbidding landscape of the Aleutians.

Ultimately, long before the war was over, the Japanese were routed from the islands they did occupy. But Allied casualties (U.S. and Canadian) during the year-long campaign to push them off of American territory were in the thousands, with a grim percentage killed or severely wounded by the same hazards that troops have always faced when fighting in a wilderness thousands of miles from home: friendly fire; exposure; minor wounds that turn mortal when transportation proves impossible.

And then there was the fatigue; the sheer lethargy-inducing sameness of the place. The old characterization of warfare as long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of terror might have been coined especially for the Aleutian campaign. Even the most adamant and dedicated nature lover could hardly remain enthralled, month after month after month, by the surroundings — endless snow-capped mountains, mud-filled tundra and water, water everywhere. As LIFE pointed out to its readers in the midst of the war, the weather and the landscape were relentless, monotonous enemies all their own: