[OffTheHook]

June 14th, 1993:

One of the most rememberable and proudest days of my life!

19 years ago today......My son was born !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday son.......I Love You !!!!

You have made me proud beyond belief !!!!!!



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[OffTheHook]

During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that "the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white" and that "the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." The national flag, which became known as the "Stars and Stripes," was based on the "Grand Union" flag, a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that also consisted of 13 red and white stripes. According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the Stars and Stripes, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars and a blue background, at the request of General George Washington. Historians have been unable to conclusively prove or disprove this legend.
With the entrance of new states into the United States after independence, new stripes and stars were added to represent new additions to the Union. In 1818, however, Congress enacted a law stipulating that the 13 original stripes be restored and that only stars be added to represent new states.
On June 14, 1877, the first Flag Day observance was held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes. As instructed by Congress, the U.S. flag was flown from all public buildings across the country. In the years after the first Flag Day, several states continued to observe the anniversary, and in 1949 Congress officially designated June 14 as Flag Day, a national day of observance.



http://www.history.com/this-day-in-histo...nd-stripes


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On June 14, 1998, Michael Jordan leads the Chicago Bulls to an 87-86 win over the Utah Jazz in Game Six of the NBA Finals to clinch their third consecutive NBA title. Jordan scored 45 points and hit the winning jump shot with 5.2 seconds left on the clock in what seemed a fitting end to a historic career.

The Chicago Bulls won the NBA title every year from 1991 to 1998, except a two-year gap in 1994 and 1995 when Jordan left the NBA to play baseball. In the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals, the Bulls faced the veteran Utah Jazz, led by point guard and all-time assists leader John Stockton and power forward Karl Malone, second on the career points list. The Bulls, led by Jordan, were a colorful group that included small forward Scottie Pippen, the controversial rebounding champ Dennis Rodman and Phil Jackson, their Zen master coach.

One year earlier, in Game Five of the 1997 NBA Finals, Michael Jordan had staged a performance for the ages. Though suffering from the flu, Jordan willed the Bulls to victory with 38 points, including the winning three-pointer with 25 seconds left. Afterward, the ailing Jordan was helped off the court by teammate Scottie Pippen. The Bulls went on to win the series in six games, with Jordan winning his fifth Finals MVP award.

In the 1998 finals, Utah won Game One 88-85 in overtime, but lost the next three games, including a 96-54 defensive clinic put on by Chicago in Game Three. The Jazz then won Game Five in Chicago 83-81 to send the series back to Utah.

Game Six in Utah was the final installment of the Michael Jordan show. Scottie Pippen, suffering from back spasms, was limited to just 26 minutes. The Jazz led by three in the last minute, but Jordan brought Chicago within one by driving to the basket and laying the ball in with 37.1 seconds left. Utah then brought the ball into their half-court setup, with the reliable veteran Karl Malone on the left post. With 18.9 seconds left, Jordan snuck along the baseline and punched the ball out of Malone’s possession. Jordan then brought the ball up the court, refusing to call a timeout. With 5.2 seconds left Jordan hit an 18-foot jumper from the top of the key after cagily nudging Utah’s Bryon Russell out of the way with his left arm. John Stockton missed a three-pointer near the buzzer to give Jordan and Chicago their third championship in a row and sixth NBA title. Jordan averaged 32.4 points per game in this series for a 33.4 points per game average in the playoffs for his career, an NBA record. He won his sixth Finals MVP after the game, also an NBA record. It was his last game with the Bulls.

In January 2000, Jordan became general manager of the Washington Wizards and returned to play two seasons with the mediocre Wizards in 2001-02 and 2002-03. The Wizards did not make the playoffs in either season.


http://www.history.com/this-day-in-histo...-nba-title


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On June 14, 1917, as the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) travel to join the Allies on the battlefields of World War I in France, United States President Woodrow Wilson addresses the nation's public on the annual celebration of Flag Day.
Just the year before, on May 30, 1916, Wilson had officially proclaimed June 14 "Flag Day" as a commemoration of the "Stars and Stripes," adopted as the national flag on June 14, 1777, when the design featured just 13 stars representing the original 13 states.
In his Flag Day address on June 14, 1917, barely two months after the American entry into World War I, Wilson spoke strongly of the need to confront an enemy–Germany–that had, as he had said in his April 2 war message to Congress, violated the principles of international democracy and led the world into "the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance." In the June 14 speech, after repeating the distinction he had made in earlier speeches between the German people and their leaders, Wilson absolved the former of guilt and listed the numerous transgressions of the latter–U-boat warfare, espionage, the attempt to build an alliance with Mexico against the U.S.–that had provoked the U.S. into declaring war.
The "military masters of Germany," Wilson declared, were a "sinister power that has at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us." He also asserted that Germany, at the head of the Central Powers, had started the war to create "a broad belt of?power across the very center of Europe and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia." Most disturbingly for pacifist listeners and critics of the speech, Wilson dismissed all previous peace proposals, given the fact that they had all been based on terms favorable to Germany. As journalist Philip Snowden wrote in the Labour Leader, "Six months ago President Wilson was the greatest hope for peace. Today he is probably the greatest obstacle to it."
On a less rhetorical and more practical note, Wilson also declared in his Flag Day speech that the initial transport of AEF troops would be followed, as quickly as possible, by the departure of more soldiers for Europe. In fact, the first U.S. troops arrived in France just 12 days later, on June 26. Though it would be more than a year before they could be trained and organized enough to play a significant role on the battlefields alongside the French and British soldiers, the eventual impact of the American entrance into World War I–both in terms of manpower, resources and economic assistance to the Allies–would be significant.


http://www.history.com/this-day-in-histo...ay-address


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In one of the most memorable scenes in the film "The Bourne Identity," released on this day in 2002, the amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) drives a vintage Austin Mini Cooper through the traffic-heavy streets of Paris to evade his police and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pursuers.
As the film begins, Bourne, an elite CIA-trained assassin, has gone AWOL following a failed operation. Suffering from amnesia, he struggles to find clues to his own identity, using his lethal skills along the way as his superiors and local law enforcement try to track him down. In Zurich, he meets Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente) and offers her $20,000 in cash to drive him from to Paris in her battered red Mini. Directed by Doug Liman and adapted from the bestselling 1980 novel by Robert Ludlum, "The Bourne Identity" takes place in diverse locations all over Europe, including Marseille, Zurich, the Alps, the French countryside, the Greek island of Santorini and of course Paris, scene of the famous car chase.
Beginning in front of the Gare du Nord train station, the scene was shot in a variety of locations around the city. "Buckle up," Bourne warns Kreutz, before maneuvering the tiny stick-shift Mini at high speeds through narrow alleyways, across sidewalks, down steps and up one-way streets the wrong way. The chase ends when one of the police officers pursuing the Mini crashes his motorcycle into a Peugeot 405, and Bourne drives the car into a parking garage. "Bourne Identity" producer Frank Marshall told USA Todaythat filmmakers used five different vintage Minis to make the film, and that only one of them was left when filming wrapped.
The diminutive Mini Cooper, a British-made sports car first produced in 1959, was a fixture in spy films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the classic 1969 film "The Italian Job," starring Michael Caine. In the 2002 comedy "Austin Powers in Goldmember," a character also played by Caine drives a modern version of the Mini, now manufactured by German automaker BMW; an updated version of "The Italian Job" in 2003 also featured the modern Mini.


http://www.history.com/this-day-in-histo...s-released


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TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome is hijacked by Shiite Hezbollah terrorists who immediately demand to know the identity of ''those with Jewish-sounding names." Two of the Lebanese terrorists, armed with grenades and a 9-mm. pistol, then forced the plane to land in Beirut, Lebanon.
Once on the ground, the hijackers called for passengers with Israeli passports, but there were none. Nor were there any diplomats on board. They then focused their attention on the several U.S. Navy construction divers aboard the plane. Soon after landing, the terrorists killed Navy diver Robert Stethem, and dumped his body on the runway.
TWA employee Uli Derickson was largely successful in protecting the few Jewish passengers aboard by refusing to identify them. Most of the passengers were released in the early hours of what turned out to be a 17-day ordeal, but five men were singled out and separated from the rest of the hostages. Of these five, only Richard Herzberg, an American, was Jewish.
During the next two weeks, Herzberg maintained to his attackers that he was a Lutheran of German and Greek ancestry. Along with the others, he was taken to a roach-infested holding cell somewhere in Beirut, where other Lebanese prisoners were being held. Fortunately, the TWA hostages were treated fairly well.
On June 30, after careful negotiations, the hostages were released unharmed. Since the terrorists were effectively outside the law's reach in Lebanon, it appeared as though the terrorists would go free from punishment. Yet, Mohammed Ali Hammadi, who was wanted for his role in TWA Flight 847 attack, was arrested nearly two years later at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, with explosives.
Within days of his arrest, two German citizens were kidnapped while in Lebanon in a successful attempt to discourage Germany from extraditing Hammadi to the United States for prosecution. Germany decided to try Hamadi instead, and he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the maximum penalty under German law. He was released on parole in 2005 after serving 19 years. Since then, the United States has unsuccessfully petitioned for his extradition from Lebanon. Despite unconfirmed reports that Hammadi was killed by a CIA drone in Pakistan in June 2010, he remains on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List along with his surviving accomplices.


http://www.history.com/this-day-in-histo...terrorists


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[Granny Bear]

Happy Birthday....OffTheLittleHook!!
I hope he has a great day!!

Ohh, to be 19 again.

[LWC]

Pretty cool idea.

Happy birthday to him!

[nky]

To all our Army friends .......... Happy 237th Birthday of the US Army

[nky]

it's also National Bourbon Day ................. Stay Thirsty my friends