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"If we who served and those who were otherwise involved do not, through our words and deeds, challenge the revisionist history, a generation of young American fighting men will be forever denigrated and a vital chapter in our national history will be remembered erroneously." 

J. Eldon(Jer) Yates

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Johnny Cash ]
Posted: jeyates @ February/27/2012 11:35
40 years ago today I was invited back Stage to see his show (I was young Solider who had just returned to the "States" and back to College). Afterward I was introduced and we had a long talk about social issues of the time. He was very gracious, respectful and humble.
Other Celebrities should take a lesson in manners of Johnny Cash. But all to often they are spoiled, disrespectful jerks. They are court jesters of our times that mindlessly feel a level of importance far beyond the scope of  talent as entertainers.
Johnny understood that he was privileged to make a living doing what he loved. And that he was successful because of the "folks" that purchased the Records and tickets to his concerts. He also understood that those same folks made a far more important contribution to society by going to work every day, treating their neighbors with respect and raising their Children with values.
While we separate Church and State in America, Christianity and Johnny Cash cannot be separated.
Weather one is a believer or not, the teachings of Jesus and the Manners of Johnny Cash are a good blue print for personal behavior.
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New Book by Combat Pilot and Humanitarian ]
Posted: jeyates @ February/16/2012 23:52

 

Ron Miller, a Vietnam Combat Pilot, was awarded 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 2 Bronze Stars and 21 Air medals in service to his Country and fellow Soldiers.  When he returned he could have easily attained a six-figure income as a Civilian Helicopter Pilot.  Instead he choose to serve his fellow Vietnam Veterans. He developed and managed a national model Employment and Small Business non-profit in Georgia to assist them with jobs and Small Business opportunities.

Further, exhibiting the best American qualities of empathy and citizenship while epitomizing the true character of Americas’ Vietnam Vets, he personally leased a L-1011 Airplane from Delta Airlines and took 300 Vietnam Vets to the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC.

This story is told in his new book VIETNAM SPECIAL FLIGHT, INC.  It is Available at Google. There you can get a brief explanation of the book and order one if you wish.

Mr. Miller also serves on the National Advisory Committee, Veterans Business Affairs, U.S. SBA and the National Veterans Adviser for the National League of POW-MIA Families. 

And I encourage anyone who has family that served in Vietnam and Historians and Professors add this book your personal Library.

J. Eldon (Jer) Yates

Chair and Founder VVI

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Not grieving Enough for Kim Jung Il ]
Posted: jeyates @ January/17/2012 03:37

North Korean citizens are being arrested and will be imprisoned, for not grieving enough at Kim Jung Ils' Memorial.  Communism is nefarious!

But North Korea has given an example so outrageous that on the surface it appears hilarious (plus Kim Jung Ils Coffin lashed to the top of the Limo during his funeral procession is fodder for a Jeff Foxworthy punch line). These Airplainesque scenarios should serve to remind us that there is evil in the world even when it appears as Theatre of the Absurd.   But as our giggles subside North Korean citizens will be, at the very least, imprisoned and enslaved. 

Most Occidentals think Kim Jung Il and His Father Kim Il Sung were Crazy. But they were simply evil sociopath's in an Oriental culture in witch many politico and social mores are sociopathic, by Occidental standards. And give thought; the peoples of North Korea have the "Kim edicts" as deeply ingrained in their value system as Jihad to the followers of radical Islam. Expect more of the same from both.

I have great respect for the citizens of the World that wish and pray for Peace. But beware, tyrants will stab you in the back while you are giving them a hug!

On lighter closing note; if any American President past away think of how many Americans would be jailed, if we had such a law.

*Currently the North Korea gulags (political prisons) imprison over a hundred thousand of their citizens.


J. Eldon Yates



Edited by sstark on January/17/2012 at 17:57
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