#belleau wood

[sher-ee]

This right here 👆🏻

He said it.

Republicans can continue to reject the truth and deem everything they don’t want to hear “fake news”, but Trump said it.

#donald trump #traitor trump #military #veterans #bad person #department of defense #marine corps #belleau wood #suckers #losers #snopes #vote joe biden #save america #america #president biden

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

On June 1, 1918, the battle of Belleau Wood began.

The Marines who fought there, cemented a legacy for generations to come. This was the first large-scale battle for the Marines and one that would be seared into the collective memory of the United States Marine Corps. The battle was fierce and raged for more than three weeks, finally coming to an end on June 26, 1918.

A captured German officer said the Marines fought like devils, calling them "teufel hunden." From that day on, Marines would be forever known as Devil Dogs.

This painting, by artist Franc-Earle Schoonover, shows the Marines’ savage fight for infamous, French woods.

#usmc #us marines #infantry #belleau wood #france #world war 1 #wwi #germans #devil dogs #teufel hunden #military #history #painting #artwork

[thesensethatyouchoose]

Remember to thank a Veteran today. 🇺🇸

#veteran #veteran’s day #USA #United state #washington dc #dc #lincoln memorial #abraham lincoln #arlington #cemetary #belleau wood #France #military #military cemetery #Korean war #memorial #memorial day weekend

[mentalgrenade]

"Real" Perceptions

“Real” Perceptions

Don’t worry and focus on the right things. Easy to say but hard to do. Being a victim of your own thoughts only helps that downward spiral- like we trained our bodies and minds for war we must now reprogram. I know that a majority of people in the world do not have hostile intent. That being said, as I walk out my door they all look like they do. How do we bridge the gap between what we know and…

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#Belleau Wood #Dan Daily #Jesus #Mental Grenade #Warrior #WWI

[suburbanlegnd]

the great war by taylor swift x battle of belleau wood by frank schoonover

#battle of belleau wood #frank schoonover #tsedit #the great war #the great war taylor swift #midnights #tscreatorsnet #tswiftedit #taylor swift edit #tswiftgraphic #tswiftlyrics #ts art #tsuserjen #tswiftcreatorsnet #tswiftdaily #tseditors #tscreators #userafterweglow #userleah #tsuserbella #hauntedbythelook #tuserhaz #usermanon #tsusermeggie #userelyn #my edits #tsuserlizzie

[vox-anglosphere]

A US Marine quietly tends a WWI American War Cemetery in France

#Memorial Day #American War Cemetery #Ainse-Marne #WWI #Battle of Belleau Wood #June 1918 #France #army #uniform #sacrifice #US Marine #US Army #2000 fallen #honour & glory

[lonestarbattleship]

USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24), center, and USS Franklin (CV-13), right, on fire after they were hit by Kamikaze attacks, off the Philippines on October 30, 1944.

Photographed from USS Mugford (DD-389).

NHHC: 80-G-273074

#USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) #USS Belleau Wood #Independence Class #Light Carrier #Aircraft Carrier #warship #USS Franklin (CV-13) #USS Franklin #Essex Class #USS Mugford (DD-389) #USS Mugford #Bagley Class #Destroyer #October #1944 #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #world war ii #world war 2 #WWII #WW2 #history #my post

[playitagin]

1918-Battle of Belleau Wood

The Battle of Belleau Wood (1–26 June 1918) occurred during the German spring offensive in World War I, near the Marne River in France. The battle was fought between the U.S.

 2nd (under the command of Major General Omar Bundy) and 3rd Divisions along with French and British forces against an assortment of German units including elements from the 237th, 10th, 197th, 87th, and 28th Divisions. The battle has become a key component in the lore of the United States Marine Corps.

#Jun.1.1918 #Battle of Belleau Wood #US Marine Corps #World War I #history today

[historia-vitae-magistras]

i’d never even considered how the civil war would affect alfred during ww1, that’s a really interesting idea. would you mind expanding a bit more if you haven’t already?

fuck yes I can expand on that. TW for historic nastiness.

Okay to prelude— I don't typically do 1:1 state/gov to character but considering the cession of the south into a separate state and the US itself is the Union, my boy is in blue. In this blog's universe there is no schizophrenia or split personality or Doppelgänger or any other representation of the south. It gutted him and he lost feeling in a lot of his usual area and it severely weakened him but he represented the United States and that means union blue. And considering the north really doesn't have all that much moral leverage on the south especially in matters of racism, it's not much of a jump. If you aren't crazy about that, look away now.

So. Trench warfare. It's as old as humans bashing each other's heads in. Defensive ditches are an archaeological feature across the applicable world. But it's the American Civil War that might hold the gold medal for largest gap between how technology designed to kill had advanced spectacularly over any innovation that might save lives. I won't say deadliest because you do have the Taiping Rebellion around the same time but a lot of that was sièges and counter sieges and river based naval engagements. But anyway— rifled artillery and direct fire techniques had changed the game and soldiers were driven underground behind parapets and sandbags. Around Petersburg especially. And it's towards the end of the war when the Confederacy is increasingly desperate and hand to hand fighting is getting more common and more brutal. Entire regiments were lost in hand to hand mêlée. And if a soldier didn't die instantly, it was off to a field hospital. Guts ripped open by iron shells, lungs hanging from the tips of bayonets, wounds so infected they glowed, limbs hacked off by a surgeon who hadn't washed his hands in six days and sepsis rot so foul someone can taste it on the air even with the mouth closed. Malaria and typhoid so fucking bad the army cots would literally shake apart from how bad men shivered when the chills aspect of the fever cycle hit. I know it's fashionable right now especially on vintage fashion YouTube to say people in history weren't disgusting but like, I've been in archives for years. Yeah it fucken was. Never was medicine so far behind the ability to kill.

So Alfred's probably died a solid dozen times half of which from shitting himself because he's probably riddled with parasites. He's been shot, stabbed, slashed. Shaken, rattled and absolutely steam rolled. And the final part of his almighty trauma is this is happening just up the river from where he was born in Jamestown. Alfred is on his belly in the earth beneath the feet of the people that bore him and then rejected him, begging his Protestant God and any of his own people listening and the very earth itself to protect him, to keep him alive as shell after shell lands around him.

When every battle is over, the dead rot in piles across the fields and trenches. The famous photos of the Antietam and Gettysburg dead are days old, you can see some of the bodies had been looted. There were so many dead and so many dying that upon its tardy entrance into world war one, the US had a more coherent body management and disposal program than any other of the entente powers. Who had already been at war for nearly four years.

So yeah, in my opinion he got ten steps into a front line trench where the British and especially the French were just causally walking on bodies, he vomited so hard New York felt California rattling around in there and said fuck it. My boy was either off to cleaner pastures like Belleau Wood or the air corps. It was too much too soon and he just couldn't keep it together in those conditions. They knew what bacteria were by WW1 and he was a burgeoning world power. So he probably only went full himbo with dysentery twice in France so it wasn't as bad as his civil war flop era but oof. That smell, the screams, pressing himself into soil that is not his own yet again is too recent and too vulnerable. He can't do it again so soon.

#the ask box || probis pateo #hws America #meatsack mechanics || the sociology and biology of nations #I'm back #broke my tablet lol

[usaac-official]

TBMs on the deck of USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) as the rear of the ship burns after a kamikaze strike, 30 October 1944

#us navy #usn #TBM #Avenger #warbirds #aviation history

[antidrumpfs]

How could there be a single veteran that supports a con artist like Donald Trump?

According to the Atlantic magazine, during a trip to France to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 U.S. Marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers.” Indicating that he didn’t understand why the United States had intervened at all in Europe in 1917, Trump also reportedly asked aides, “Who were the good guys in this war?” 

#cadet bone spurs #liarinchief #traitorinchief #traitortrump #cult45 #republicons

[aviationgeek71]

Grumman F6F-3 Hellcats on the USS Belleau Wood off Gilbert Islands.

#hellcat friday! 😎 #avgeek #aviation #aviation history #f6f hellcat #ww2 #wwii

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

This intense display of a U.S. Marine and German soldier engage in a deadly game of hand-to-hand combat, during the battle of Belleau Wood, is located in the World War I section of the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

June 1st marks the anniversary of the beginning of the battle of Belleau Wood.

#usmc #us marines #world war 1 #wwi #belleau wood #marine museum #military #history #my photography

[study-with-aura]

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

A fairly simple study day. There was a lot of reading and several lecture videos and a geometry review from the first quarter. I haven't looked, but I'm guessing tomorrow is probably a second quarter review.

Also, this may sound strange, but I have always known that I have grown up in a fairly wealthy family, but our home, which is worth more than I feel comfortable putting on an online blog, has always just been home to me. I never thought about it too much. Then I had to do this floor plan for Spanish to practice vocabulary words, and I realized that I didn't even know all the Spanish words to use for the different rooms of my home. I also realized that the assignment only asked to name six rooms, and we have more than that on the first floor, not to mention the ground floor and the upstairs. So I only drew the first floor, which is the floor people walk in on. The house was built on a hilltop, so the first floor is a ground floor AND a second level at the same time. Anyway, I felt bad how I had never really thought about my living situation before. Of course I have always been grateful to have a home and to live in the area of the city that we do, but thinking about all the extras my home has that generally most middle and working class homes don't, I felt a lot of shame in it.

My parents always taught me humility and to give back to the world, but it seems terribly extortionate to live by the means I have available to me. Please tell me I am not having some sort of existential crisis triggered by a Spanish assignment. I think I will talk to my parents about this. I need to finish eating so I can be ready for ballet.

Tasks Completed:

Geometry - Review of first quarter topics

Lit and Comp II - Reviewed Unit 20 vocabulary + read chapter 34 of Emma by Jane Austen + submitted poetry notebook project to Mom for grading (100/105 because I could have been more clear on poem interpretations)

Spanish 2 - Drew the first floor floorplan of my house + labeled the rooms in Spanish + wrote sentences about my house in Spanish

Bible I - Read Judges 5

World History - Watched a video on US Marines at Belleau Wood + watched a video about US Army battles in France + read several different WWI topics and documents

Biology with Lab - Read an article about evolution creating a new species in the Galapagos Islands + read more on natural selection + read about genetics and evolution

Foundations - Read the definition of reverence + completed next quiz on Read Theory + read about if propaganda is always negative

Piano - 60-minute piano lesson + practiced for one hour

Khan Academy - Completed World History Unit 6: Lesson 2

CLEP - Completed Module 10.2 lecture video

Duolingo - Studied for 15 minutes (Spanish, French, Chinese) + completed daily quests

Reading - Read pages 185-208 of Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi

Chores - Laundry

Activities of the Day:

Personal Bible Study (2 Samuel 22)

Ballet

Pointe

Journal/Mindfulness

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What I’m Grateful for Today:

I am grateful (and blessed) to live in a beautiful home in a gated community where I feel extremely safe.

Quote of the Day:

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

-Rebecca McKinsey

🎧Waltz in B minor, Op. 18, No. 6, D145 - Franz Schubert

#study community #study blog #study inspiration #study motivation #studyblr #studyblr community #study-with-aura

[montyjeffrey]

Allen R. Schindler Jr. was a 22-year-old American Radioman Petty Officer Third Class in the United States Navy who was murdered 30 years ago today on Navy Day while on shore leave in Sasebo, Japan, by his fellow shipmates, who were provoked only by the knowledge of his homosexuality.

Allen R. Schindler Jr. was born on December 13, 1969, in Chicago Heights, Cook County, Illinois, to Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen and Allen Schindler Sr. Allen was the third of four children, and his family was three generations Navy. His grandfather served in WWII and his stepfather in Vietnam; following in their footsteps, Allen enlisted while still in junior high at Bloom High School. After graduation, he shipped out and left Chicago Heights for the first time to serve his country.

Allen was in the Navy for four years. He served on the USS San Jose, the USS Midway, and was serving on the USS Belleau Wood at the time of his death. The USS Midway was Allen’s dream assignment. He described the 11 months he spent on the aircraft carrier as his happiest days in the Navy. The Midway was a relatively tolerant ship where Allen didn’t feel the need to hide being gay.

On the Midway, he saw action in Operation Desert Storm and received a patch for his involvement in the campaign. Allen even extended his four-year tour so he could ride the last voyage of Midway before its decommission and got his own memento — a tattoo of Midway on his arm.

In December 1991, Allen was transferred to the USS Belleau Wood, and the harassment began almost immediately. According to reports, the Belleau Wood gained a reputation for being "the worst ship of all" when it came to homophobia and violence, where there was open hostility towards gay shipmates amongst the 950-plus crew. Newcomers Terry M. Helvey and Charles E. Vins were part of a group on board the ship that routinely harassed shipmates suspected of being gay. Helvey threatened gay shipmates that if they didn’t get out of the military soon, he and his gang were going to personally do something about it, and he continued to harass Allen whenever he could. Allen’s shipmate and friend, Keith Sims, reported Helvey and Vins to the ship’s legal officer, Captain Bernard Meyer, but nothing was done. Instead, Meyer probed into Sims’ sex life. When shipmate Richard Eastman reported being attacked the night before Allen was killed, Meyer took no action to stop the harassment and also probed into his sex life.

Allen was punched, pushed against walls, and repeatedly called homophobic slurs. He told his uncle that sailors had attacked him. Homophobic notes and graffiti were left on his bunk. Sims said they would deliberately spill hot soup on him. When Allen complained to his superiors in March and April of 1992 that his locker was vandalized and he had received multiple death threats, little was done in response. Instead, Douglas J. Bradt, the Belleau Wood Captain, ordered him to attend Alcoholics Anonymous, despite Allen not being an alcoholic.

Allen’s complaints continued to go unanswered. By September, he had reached his breaking point and requested to see the captain, but his request was denied. While operating the radio, Allen transmitted an unauthorized statement, "2-Q-T-2-B-S-T-R-8," which read: "Too Cute To Be Straight." The message was heard by much of the Pacific Fleet. Allen described the defiant message in his journal as his way of letting out his "true colors."

On September 24, Allen went to see the Belleau Wood Executive Officer, where he formally declared he was gay and requested an administrative discharge and transfer. Allen told the XO, "If you can’t be yourself, then who are you?" The XO agreed but told Allen he still had to take what was coming to him. Allen also informed Captain Bradt and Captain Meyer. He was told the processing of his discharge would take two weeks, but his superiors insisted he remain on the ship until then. Although Allen knew his safety was at risk, he obeyed orders.

On September 25, Allen was called to appear at a captain’s mast to deal with his unauthorized radio message. He had requested that the hearing be closed for confidentiality, but Captain Bradt disregarded his request and opened the mast to 200–300 crewmen in attendance. Allen made no admission of his homosexuality at the mast. Some shipmates took it as an invitation to harass him with impunity. Allen’s rank was reduced from RM1 to RM3, and he was punished with a 30 day restriction to the ship.

As word of his sexual orientation spread quickly throughout the Belleau Wood, Allen’s friends began to avoid him. Allen confided in his ex-boyfriend, Navy veteran Jim Jennings, how increasingly difficult it was becoming for him to avoid confrontation. On October 2, he wrote in his journal: "More people are finding out about me. lt scares me a little. You never know who would want to injure or cease my existence."

Straight sailors who knew Allen and were concerned for his welfare introduced him to a trio of gay entertainers working near Sasebo; one of the entertainers, Eric Underwood, said Allen told him "people harassed him 24 hours a day" and that he had such a hard time going back to that environment that he had to coax him to the door. When the Belleau Wood was getting ready to leave Sasebo, Allen was reluctant to leave Eric’s room and was trying to stretch out the goodbyes. The next night, he was dead. Entertainer Valan Cain had gone to the public restroom where Allen was slain and found blood all over the walls and inside the urinals. By the next day, someone had left a bouquet of flowers on the floor. "You could see blood streaks almost to the top of the roof," Cain said. Many servicemen interviewed afterward expressed revulsion at the attack. One serviceman remarked, "Whoever did that should hang."

On the morning of October 27, 1992, Allen called his mother and told her he was coming home for Christmas. It would be the last time he would ever speak to her again. Just before midnight, Allen’s mutilated, disfigured body was found sprawled out on a public restroom floor.

Terry M. Helvey and Charles E. Vins stalked and followed Allen into the public restroom, where they ambushed him, then savagely, sadistically, and brutally beat and stomped him to death until he was unrecognizable. His mother could only identify him by the tattoo of Midway on his arm. Every organ in Allen’s body was destroyed. His face and head were caved in, and he had shoe prints imbedded into his face and chest. The pathologist who performed the autopsy on Allen said it was the worst case he’d ever seen in his whole career, even worse than a case of a man trampled to death by a horse, and compared the damage done to Allen’s body to that of a high-speed car crash or a low-speed airplane accident.

Captain Bradt, who tried to keep the murder quiet and had threatened Allen’s shipmates, was sent to shore leave in Florida. For testifying against Helvey, Vins was given a four-month sentence, of which he only served 78 days. Helvey was given a life sentence, but since 2002, he has been eligible for parole. He was denied parole on March 7, 2022.

Allen Schindler’s case became synonymous with the debate concerning LGB members of the military that had been brewing in the United States, culminating in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Allen’s mother, Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen, after learning the truth about her son’s death and the Navy’s subsequent coverup, became one of the most outspoken and sought-after advocates for gay rights to serve openly in the military. In 2011, the DADT policy was repealed, allowing LGB servicemen and women to serve openly in the military for the first time.

Allen Schindler loved the Navy and was a proud sailor who volunteered to fight for his country — to lay down his life if he had to. He didn’t sign up to die to advance gay rights, but that is ultimately what happened. It was brave of him to come out when he did in the environment that he did, and he died because of it. He was a hero.

#allen schindler #us navy #veteran #proud #sailor #gay man #gay sailor #gay veteran #gay history #lgbt history #2QT2BSTR8 #allen r schindler jr #icon #hero #never forget #gay military #dont ask dont tell #gay male #homosexual #gay pride #gaycommunity #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #lgbtqia

[playitagin]

1918-Battle of Belleau Wood

Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.

#Jun.26.1918 #Battle of Belleau Wood #John J. Pershing #James Harbord #World War I #history today