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This page is dedicated to our family members and all who have served in the military or are currently serving in the military. Thank you!
I do not, however, believe that our military should be used as a tool to wage wars that can never be won and/or for murdering people!
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." Albert Einstein
Also, the United States Constitution clearly states that our military is supposed to be used for the purposes of defense and makes clear that funding for a war is to be limited, "Article. I. section. 8. The Congress shall have the Power...To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two years."
 FAMILY MILITARY HISTORY
 Ransom G. Cook: Great-great-great uncle (February, 1848--November, 1926)~Enlisted with the Thirty-eigth Wisconsin Volunteers during the last year of the Civil War. He always recalled with great pleasure that during his service he once shook hands with the great Abraham Lincoln, and was also allowed to cast his first vote for him in the presidential election. (This information was copied from a newspaper clipping.)
 Charles H. Cook: Great-great grandfather (April, 1844--March, 1930)~At 18 years of age he enlisted in Private Company G. 10th Regiment New York, serving his country during the Civil War. At one time, he was an orderly in General Grant's Division. He received his honorable discharge at the end of the war being priviledged to shake hands with President Lincoln who remarked, "This is one of my boys." (This information was copied from a newspaper clipping.)
William Ward Cook: Great grandfather--U.S. Army (deceased).
 Martin Mangalin (U.S. Name): Great grandfather--Merchant Marines (deceased).
Arthur M. Mangalin: Grandfather--U.S. Navy & U.S. Air Force.
 Charles Cook: Great uncle--U.S. Air Force--conscientious objector (deceased).
Elisha Beamon: Grandfather--U.S. Navy (deceased).
Joseph Logan Duke Jr.: Great uncle--U.S. Navy.
Esther Mote (married name): Great aunt--U.S. Air Force (deceased).
Evan Harter: Great uncle--U.S. Army Air Corp (deceased).
Richard Dickinson: Great uncle--U.S. Marine Corp (deceased).
Richard F Rauscher Jr.: Great uncle--U.S. Navy.
P J Beamon: Father--U.S. Navy.
Travis Jerome Barnes: Father-in-law--U.S. Army/California National Guard/Air Force Reserve.
Gary Harter: Cousin--U.S. Army--Helicopter pilot/multiple duties--Vietnam--Purple Heart Recipient.
Monte DePolo: Cousin--U.S. Marine Corp.
Sammuel Mangalin: Uncle--U.S. Navy.
 Jeffrey M Mangalin: Uncle--U.S. Air Force (deceased).
Woodrow "Woody" Dickinson: Cousin--U.S. Marine Corp--Vietnam (deceased).
Pat Dickinson: Cousin--U.S. Marine Corp--Vietnam.
Russ Dickinson: Cousin--U.S. Marine Corp--currently serving.
Richard Bobby Rauscher: Cousin--U.S. Army--currently serving.
Lucas R Wills: Cousin--U.S. Navy--currently serving.
Jeffrey M Mangalin: Cousin--U.S. Air Force--currently serving.
Matthew Mangalin: Cousin--U.S. Army--currently serving.
My grandfather, grandmother, mother, and two oldest uncles lived on Kwajalein Atoll from 1953 to 1955 and were exposed to nuclear radioactive fallout (The US Navy stationed my grandfather there)! There are many unexplainable medical conditions within the family that I, and many other military families, feel are attributable to our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents being exposed to the nuclear fallout!
My mother and my grandmother describe the sound of the blast, the shaking, the 'rain or snow' that started to pour down on them and how everyone went running for cover. Recently, my grandmother told me how the swimming pool would be closed for days and/or weeks due to it being too contaminated from radiation!
Timeline Marshall Islands...
1954 Mar 1, The Bravo hydrogen bomb test exploded across Bikini atoll (Marshall Islands) with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs. A Nuclear Claims Tribunal, established in 1986, later awarded Bikini and Enewetak 500 million dollars but only a fraction of the amount was received. A Nov 30, 2004, deadline limited further suits.
(AP, 10/17/04)(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX51.html)
1954 Mar 1, The No. 5 Fukuryu-maru was trolling for tuna off the Bikini atoll in the Pacific during the Bravo hydrogen bomb test. 11 crew members died in the half-century since the exposure, at least six of them from liver cancer. Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 66 nuclear tests at Bikini as part of "Operation Crossroads."
(AP, 2/28/04)
1954 Mar 26, The U.S. set off the second H-bomb blast in four weeks in the Marshall Islands at Bikini Island. The 15-megaton device was 750 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The blast contaminated the neighboring island of Rongelap and nearly 100 people on the island and other downwind atolls.
(HN, 3/25/98)(SFC, 12/7/99, p.A10)(SS, 3/26/02)
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"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred right--a right we hope and believe is to liberate the world."
Abraham Lincoln
Below are more of my favorite quotes...what are yours?
"The most heroic word in all languages is--REVOLUTION!"
Eugene Debs
"It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquiries into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people, of their virtue and good sense."
John Adams
"In the abstract theory of our government the obedience of the citizen is not due to an unconstitutional law: he may lawfully resist its execution."
John Quincy Adams
"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters."
Henry Clay, politician
"If the State cannot survive the...agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the sturgglings of Humanity to be free, then let the American Union be consumed by a living thungerbolt, and no tear shed over its ashes. If the Republic must be blotted out from the roll of nations, by proclaiming liberty to the captives, then let the Republic sink beneath the waves of oblivion, and a shout of joy, louder than the voice of many waters, fill the universe at its extinction."
William Lloyd Garrison
"Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any poeple. The powers that have ruled long, and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative till they find they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not! ... To plant--to revolutionize--those are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution--we, the children of rebels! We were born to be rebles--it runs in our blood."
Wendell Phillips
"Full opportunity for full development is the unalienable right of all. He who denies it is a tyrant, he who does not demand it is a coward; he who is indifferent to it is a slave; he who does not desire it is dead. The earth for all the people! That is the demand."
Eugene Debs
"If we do not soon bestir ourselves for a bloody revolution, we cannot leave anything to our children but poverty and slavery."
Die Arbeiter Zeitung, Chicago labor paper
"We can't have education without revolution. We have tried peace education for 1,900 years and it has failed. Let us try revolution and see what it will do now."
Hellen Keller
"Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty."
Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
"That circumstances sometimes justify it...(revolution) is not Communist doctrine but an old American belief." Justice Jackson
"Wherever one goes in this civilized world, one always finds the same set-up. The little man, the man who does the dirty work, the producer is of no importance, recieves no consideration and is always being asked to make the greatest sacrifice. Yet everything depends on this forgotten man. Not a wheel could turn without his support and co-operation. It is this man, whose number is legion, who has no voice in world affairs...he knows that he has been robbed and cheated from time immemorial. He is suffocated with all this bitter knowledge. He waits and waits hoping that time will alter things. And slowly he realizes that time alters nothing, that with time things only grow worse. One day, he will decide to act. "Wait!" he will be told. "Wait just a little longer" But he will refuse to wait another second."
Henry Miller
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"There is a political feudalism where a dynasty has the trappings of a parliamentary system but manipulates it for the benefit of the ruling class...Revolution in theTwentieth Century means rebellion against another kind of feudalism...economic feudalism...and the United States should promote democratic revolution against these conditions of economic feudalism."
William Douglas, Supreme Court Jusitice
"They set up the courts; they set up the police; they set up the army; they set up an educational system; they set up the newspaper; they set up all the apparatus to brainwash and to keep in subjugation. If we're going to be free, and we will not be fully free until we smash this state completely and totally...no people in this world have ever achieved independence and freedom through the ballot or having it legislated to them. (They) got their freedom through struggle and through revolution."
William Epton
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without...a rebellion."
Thomas Jefferson
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I took the Myers-Briggs Personality Test and the result is listed below:
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