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Jim Walker, his service to our country
and his families service to our country all the way back to the Civil War.
Jim Walker in
the United States Navy
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Photo of Jim Walker, United States Navy Veteran from WW2 who fought in both in Europe and the Pacific.Hi Jeff:
I joined the
US Navy right after I became 17years old. Signed up in Portland
Oregon. Did my boots at Farragut Idaho and was sent to the
University of Wisconsin for Radioman training. Was sent to
Littlecreek Va. for Amphibious training and was placed on the LST
1019. Went to the Med. Sea directly to Naples. Was in a landing near
Anzio and saw my first deaths on that beach. We were sent to
Southern France and was in the Invasion there. Should have been
killed there but by God's intervention (I believe) we got off the
beach and was replaced at the same spot by the LST 282 that was
completely destroyed by a flying rocket bomb. We went to Africa and
picked up some Senegalese troops and delivered them to France. They
were scary guys. Big knives and they loved to use them on the
Krauts. They took ears off the corpses for payment.
We also went
into Pisa Italy on a small landing. After some other stuff we would
up in Palermo Sicily. I still communicate with a Sicilian guy who
became a very good friend. His name is Umberto Aronica. Now is a
retired Restaurateur in Goteborg Sweden.
Went from
there to the USA. Got 30 days leave and was sent to the South
Pacific. Guam, Saipan, Eniwetok, Okinawa and then IeShima. Did some
time carrying Chinese up to Manchuria to fight the Communists. Was
sent home on an APA that had Smallpox on board so we were guaranteed
at Treasure Island for a while before we came ashore. Was mustered
out at the Naval Base near Seattle May 6, 1946. I was just 21 that
year. I've got a million sea stories and if you are interested,
I'll cover some of them later. I should have been killed that day
because I later learned there we 10,000 Japs loose out in those
boonies. I had a very busy Angel watching over me. Lots of close
calls but never got a scratch.
Been along
time since I thought about this stuff.
Good luck,
Jim Walker
Dear Jim,
Thank you very much for your
letter.
I have friends that I keep in
contact with all over the world, some of them were young men and
women who were in Japan during the war. They were both too young to
be in the war, but the war didn't care how young they were. The
lady told me that everyone in their town were talking and saying why
are they in a war. They didn't hate the Americans and they didn't
hate the Chinese, they just wanted to live in peace. It was the ego
maniacs and power hungry no goods that started the war, not the
people.
I keep hearing about how the
Japanese wanted us to apologize for dropping the bomb on them. By
dropping the bomb, we saved a million American lives and ten million
Japanese lives. I look at it like this, if you don't want to get
bombed, don't start a war. They started it and we finished it and
Japan is way ahead because of it.
I once read a political joke where
a foreign country was having terrible economic problems. Their
President said that they wanted to start a war with the U.S. so that
they can lose and the U.S. would completely rebuild their country.
When I lived in the Philippines my
girlfriends mother told me stories of the Japanese occupation. She
was about ten years old at the time. She said once the Japanese
took over, they were extremely cruel. They would rape the women,
they would use pinchers to cut off their nipples, if a little kid
cried, it was a game for the Japanese to throw the kid as high as
they could and then stab them through with their swords. My
girlfriends mom said that the only hope that the Philippine people
had was that General MacArthur said that we shall return.
My professor at the University
told me that this was all propaganda and none of it was true. He
was never in the military and wasn't in the Philippines during the war, so who
really knows the truth, someone that was there who saw these things
or someone that did a book study on the war.
I've been to the Philippines
myself and I listened to
what the people said. I had Philippine people walk up to me and say
"thank you for saving our country." This doesn't happen unless it was
true. And with that thought, Thank you too, Jim, for saving our country.
If it wasn't for you and people like you, where would we be now.
Thank you again.
It makes me shudder when I hear
about everything that went on during the wars and what is happening
even today. War brings out both the best and the worst in people,
but that's what happens when your life is hanging on a thread.
But, I always have to keep it in mind that there are good people and
bad people everywhere, and when we are all pushed into a war, even
the good people may turn out to look like the bad.
I do a lot of work with people who
are on Meth and are trying to get their lives straight. The meth
dealers should all be shot on conviction. They are more of a
terrorist than Osama or anyone else.
I also work with the
families in Public Housing, look at this link,
../Y-I-Bet/A1-YIBET_Youth_Program_index.html
One day I was looking at the kids watching TV. They had a bigger
interest in the TV than they ever had listening to any teacher. I
was wondering what they were watching so I walked into the room and
looked at the TV. It was Saturday morning and they were watching
FOX Kids. When I looked at the TV the program was just heading into
a commercial and the screen went blank. A voice came on and said,
"We need a massive, all girl, sex orgy, we're all turning gay," then
the commercial came on. The program that they were watching was
Family Guy on Fox Kids TV. You would think that a program with a
name like this would be family friendly and that you could trust FOX
Kids TV to show your kids good, moral, educational things. But you
can't.
When I spoke to the Sheriff about
this, recently, and asked him if I would get into trouble for making
this statement, he said that I would indeed get into trouble and I
could be put into prison for making this statement. The truth is
that you and me both can be put into prison for quoting a kids
cartoon. What about the Viagra ads, if I talked about my erection
in front of your little girl, would you be mad and would I get in
trouble. You bet. But they cant' get into trouble because they and
making money and have lots of lawyers who twist the law so that they
can confuse our kids and destroy our country. This is what's
happening.
I recently read the lyrics of some
of the Rapp songs. They are filthy, perverted and violent. Yet our
kids are allowed to buy this trash music and listen to it 24/7.
What is going into their heads.
Read this article.
../It_means_war/BoysArrestedDrawings.html
These kids are being suspended for drawing a picture of a gun in
school. They call it Zero Tolerance. A kindergarten kid does not
know the difference between right or wrong, yet he is punished for
drawing a picture of what he sees on TV on almost every station at
any time of the day. Where is the source of the problem. Why is it
that our politicians never even mention this problem. It's because they
get campaign funding from the same sources that are destroying our
country. The problem is that campaign funding, the way we have it
set up, enables the bad guys to determine who is running our
country.
Click Here's an article about Roy
Carlson from WW2 talking about how our country is being infiltrated
from within.
../413th/413th_PR_PG11-3.html
How about Dangerous Cartoons, read
this.
../It_means_war/Dangerous_Cartoons.html
Just two days ago the TV was
talking about the little girls dressing up like sex stars for
Halloween, where do they get these ideas.
../It_means_war/Top100CelebritiesExposed.html
As Veterans we have all taken the
oath to fight all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Who is a
domestic enemy. Just read the article links that I have listed
above and you will see the truth.
On one of my expeditions to the
North Pole through Russia I talked to a man who was former KGB.
When I mentioned about the programs on our TV's, he said that the
Soviets invested a lot of money into soap operas and divorce court
as psychological warfare against the United States. We call it Freedom of
Speech. But don't mention those Angels that were watching over you
in the war, oh no. Don't put a cross above the Korean War Vets
Memorial. Oh No. Even an Army Chaplain cannot pray in the name of
Jesus or he will be thrown out of the army, this did recently
happen. What happened to freedom of speech? It's only
freedom of speech if someone is making money or trying to inject
foul ideas into our country and kids. This is true.
Think about it and watch TV then think about it again. It's
true.
Please excuse me for such a long letter, but I don't see our veterans standing up for our country today, instead the TV honors kids that were burned in a fire or people who were killed in a bridge collapse like they were heroes, but the TV only puts on the ticker that ten soldiers were killed today. I am sorry about those people who were killed in these terrible accidents, but they were not heroes. Yet our soldiers are treated like dirt and are just listed as a number at the bottom of the screen. These men and women are the real heroes and should be recognized for their efforts before anyone else, period. Instead, Columbia University protest against the ROTC and the military, the very people who gave them the liberty to go to school and gave them the freedom to own their fancy cars and houses and their freedom to criticize our government. On the other hand, I never see them protest about the filth and violence that is being pushed onto our kids. Why not?
All I can say is, keep writing
your sea stories and if you have some pictures of yourself or your
adventures I will make a whole section on just that alone.
Thank you very much Jim.
Your friend,
Jeff Dyrek, Webmaster.
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