U Obama gana por mucho, o McCain gana por poco
Esa es mi apuesta
En todo caso, agárrense que vienen curvas y dobladas
Esa es mi apuesta
En todo caso, agárrense que vienen curvas y dobladas
En EE.UU. no olvidan jamás a los suyos:
DoD: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:03:00 -0600
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
He is Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy, U.S. Army Air Forces, of Norwalk, Conn. He will be buried on Nov. 20 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.
Representatives from the Army’s Mortuary Office met with Troy’s next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army.
On June 30, 1944, Troy was on a B-24H Liberator participating in a mission to bomb an oil refinery in Blechammer, Germany. The plane was shot down by German aircraft and crashed into a swampy area near Nemesvita, Hungary beside Lake Balaton. Seven of the crewmembers parachuted to safety where they were captured by enemy forces and subsequently released. Three crewmen died in the crash and the remains for two of them were eventually recovered and identified. Troy’s remains were not recovered.
In 1999 and 2003, Hungarian citizens turned over to U.S. officials human remains supposedly recovered from Troy’s crash site. In 2003 and 2005, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) teams surveyed the site.
In 2007, another JPAC team excavated the site and recovered human remains and non-biological evidence.
Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of Troy’s remains.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
He is Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy, U.S. Army Air Forces, of Norwalk, Conn. He will be buried on Nov. 20 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.
Representatives from the Army’s Mortuary Office met with Troy’s next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army.
On June 30, 1944, Troy was on a B-24H Liberator participating in a mission to bomb an oil refinery in Blechammer, Germany. The plane was shot down by German aircraft and crashed into a swampy area near Nemesvita, Hungary beside Lake Balaton. Seven of the crewmembers parachuted to safety where they were captured by enemy forces and subsequently released. Three crewmen died in the crash and the remains for two of them were eventually recovered and identified. Troy’s remains were not recovered.
In 1999 and 2003, Hungarian citizens turned over to U.S. officials human remains supposedly recovered from Troy’s crash site. In 2003 and 2005, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) teams surveyed the site.
In 2007, another JPAC team excavated the site and recovered human remains and non-biological evidence.
Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of Troy’s remains.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.
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Mi diagnóstico es que Obama ganará por poco o por no mucho.
Tal vez se podria eliminar el jamás de su frase "En EE.UU. no olvidan jamás a los suyos". O, de ser cierto lo que cuenta el periodista Sydney H. Schanberg, sería correcto decir que a veces Estados Unidos se esfuerza en ignorar a algunos de sus caidos:
"John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.
[...]
The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington—and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that "men were left behind." This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number—the documents indicate probably hundreds—of the US prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain."
http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1
Un saludo y que Dios nos coja confesados (gane quien gane).
Mi pronóstico lo dejé en El Alijar, será una victoria con ventaja, no como la de Nixon en el 72, pero será amplia, y ya veremos como ganará en 2012, quizás iguale lo de Nixon. Lo que yo tengo claro es que McCain no gana ni de coña, aunque ya me gustaría que ganara, él es mi hombre.
Saludos cordiales.
Me consta que ni uno de los "missing"/POW registrados son olvidados en EE.UU.
Pero en todas partes siempre los ciudadanos tienen derecho a reclamar a los suyos. Como pasa especial en los EE.UU. desde que instauraron el habeas corpus hace más de 200 años.
Por lo demás encantado de conocer la web de referencia.
No me cabe ninguna duda de que el gobierno estadounidense no olvida a los prisioneros de guerra registrados, no puede ni debe ser de otra manera.
El problema aquí es otro, el problema aquí es que esos hombres que fueron abandonados en las prisiones vietnamitas no están "registrados" oficialmente a pesar de que una gran cantidad de pruebas demuestran su existencia. Pruebas que el gobierno y hombres enormemente poderosos (como el candidato republicano a la Casa Blanca) se niegan a aceptar.
De acuerdo, la ley ampara el derecho de los ciudadanos a reclamar a los suyos.
El problema viene, como cuenta Schanberg, cuando el estado se niega a que se sepa la verdad y hombres enormemente poderosos (como el candidato republicano a la Casa Blanca) ponen todo su empeño en ello. Contra ello, los ciudadanos tienen bastante poco que hacer, desgraciadamente.
Buenas noches y buena suerte.
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