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MESSAGE IN HONOR OF THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONCLUSION OF THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD, THE 73RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF MANILA AND THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF EX-US NAVY SEAL SNIPER CHRIS KYLE

Ladies and gentlemen, to all the people of the United States of America, to all our remaining living veterans of the Second World War of 1939-1945 and of all conflicts past and present and their families, to our veterans, active servicemen and women, reservists and families of the entire United States Armed Forces, and to all the uniformed military and civil security services of the Allied combatants of this conflict, to all the immediate families, relatives, children and grandchildren of the deceased veterans, fallen service personnel and wounded personnel of our military services and civil uniformed security and civil defense services, to all our workers, farmers and intellectuals, to our youth and personnel serving in youth uniformed and cadet organizations and all our athletes, coaches, judges, sports trainers and sports officials, and to all our sports fans, to all our workers of culture, music, traditional arts and the theatrical arts, radio, television, digital media and social media, cinema, heavy and light industry, agriculture, business, tourism and the press, and to all our people of the free world:

First, we honor with deep respect the 75th anniversary since the historic victory won by the Soviet Armed Forces in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, one of the biggest ever Allied victories in the Eastern Front which ended months of Axis advances towards the Eastern Front owing to strong resistance by Soviet forces and the people of Stalingrad (now Volgograd in Russia). Given the huge number of casualties, this victory was indeed won at a hard cost, and with that victory began the long road towards the final victory over Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers in Europe.

Today the world remembers the beginning of the 1945 Battle of Manila, one of the greatest and bloodiest battles ever to be fought in the Pacific Theater. With more than millions of civilian deaths and many more US and Filipino militay casualties, the capital city of the Philippines, at such a high cost of deaths and destruction, was liberated after more than a month of urban battles. In spite of huge Japanese violations of human rights amongst the civilian population, the liberation was a victory won by the Allies against the forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy.

And today, February 3, marks the 5th year anniversary of another tragic but important anniversary in the history of the United States Armed Forces and the entire United States of America, especially of its elite United States Navy SEALs. It was the shooting death of no less than former United States Navy SEAL CPO Christopher Scott “Chris” Kyle, and his friend Chad Littlefield, like him also a military veteran, in the hands of Iraq War veteran Eddie Ray Routh in a gun range located in Glen Rose, Texas, USA, on a sad day that that will forever go down in the annals of our history. The murders of Chris and Chad shocked the whole country and her people on the eve of the Superbowl and their home state of Texas plunged into deep mourning. Today, as we mark as one people the 5th anniversary of this tragedy that stunned the American people, we remember not just this very tragic moment, but also recall the lives of those two people, who were veterans of the armed forces of the United States of America, whose lives were ended at an instant on this very day, and of their years of service to this great nation as personnel of her armed forces.

Half a decade has indeed passed. But still the memory of this event cannot be forgotten nor removed from our memories. Chris was born on April 8, 1974 in Odessa, Texas, the oldest of two sons of a Protestant Christian family of patriots and ranch onwers. Having a brother who also served in Iraq, and also having been a veteran of the US Navy SEALs, serving with loyalty, dedication, courage, honor, commitment and for his country as part of this branch of the Navy from the 1999, the year he joined the service, up to 2008, was married to Taya Kyle for 9 years and several months, and of whom he had 2 kids, his tragic death, together with his veteran friend Chad Littlefield, who we also remember today, was for the republic and her people a day of sadness and anguish. He left behind not just a family but also many decorations of bravery and valor earned while in the service of the American people. But most of all, his enduring legacies to this great country was not just as a writer (having written two books, one for them being the hit nationally bestselling autobiography AMERICAN SNIPER, which was later adapted to film, became a blockbuster with Clint Eastwood at the directorial post and having an all star cast led by Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes, Kevin Lacz and Jake McDorman, which let to its eventual nomination and single Oscar award victory in 2015, among many other awards it garnered) but as a man who chose detiny of service as a United States Navy SEAL, having served in the Iraq War as part of Team 3, where even at the cost of losing his pals and fellow SEALs (Marc Lee and Ryan “Biggles” Job included) he gained a reputation of being the nation’s most deadly sniper in military history with a total of an estimated 260 kills credited to him, 150 being the official count, all done during his 4 deployments to Iraq was part of the War on Terror, beating all other military snipers before him, and making him a national legend and the most lethal sniper in the history of not just the United States Navy SEALs and the entire Navy, but of the entire United States Armed Forces, one of so few who served the nation during this great chapter of its military history, and served with many other special forces operators and soldiers from across the globe. His sudden death shocked his fellow US Navy SEALs, active and retired, including fellow Navy SEAL veteran, Marcus Lutrell, who became buddies thanks to his SEAL training and again during his Iraqi deployment in 2006, a year after the events of Operation Red Wings, having been born in the same state as his long time buddy, their families and relatives and most of all the entire state and people of Texas and the entire country.

As per a 2015 declaration of the Texas state Governor Greg Abbott of the Republican Party, today is marked for the fourth consecutive year as Chris Kyle Day in memory of the man whose legacy to the nation of his birth will never be forgotten by every generation on the very day of his sudden demise. As we mark this day together and in solidarity with the people of the great state of Texas, in these changing times in our world of today we, the people of the free world, together with the people of the United States of America, stand as one in remembering the legacy of this man who faithfully served his country and helped fellow veterans and their families in their time of need. To the people of this great country, he will always be regarded as a hero and a sailor first and foremost, a model soldier to all our people and to our youth, and a great example of service for the country and people in the armed forces. And to the people of the free world and of allied countries of the United States, his story is an inspiration to our youth especially those preparing to serve in the armed services and a model of positive emulation to all of us to serve our people and countries no matter what our differences.

On this day wherein we celebrate the 75th year since the victory in Stalingrad, the 73rd since the Battle of Manila and the 5th anniversary of the deaths of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield, together as one people, while recalling the heroic deeds of our men and women who served in wars past and present, we think of all our living veterans and all our active duty men and women of the armed forces of the United States of America, who we thank for their service to their country and people and have become witnesses of love of country and faithful service in our armed forces and all who have been supportive of them and their families and of all our disabled and wounded servicemen and women. As we honor their memory and always strive to rememb er them and make sure we’ll carry on their legacy of service to their country, people and homes, may we who forever cherish their legacy always hold on to them and move forwards a beetter tomorrow for all our generations!

And to the peoples of the United States and the Philippines, let us hold firm towards our military and economic alliance of these two countries and the friendship these two countries share. No matter what will happen in the future, the friendship of these two countries will remain strong and will stand towards a better and brighter tomorrow for the people of the world!

LONG LIVE THE 73RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF MANILA AND THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY IN THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD!

LONG LIVE THE HEROES AND MARTYRS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA AND THE PACIFIC!

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE FALLEN, HEROES AND VETERANS OF TWO OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC!

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT MILITARY HEROES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CHRIS KYLE AND CHAD LITTLEFIELD!

LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES NAVY SEALS, THE ARMED FIST OF THE PROTECTORS OF OUR MARITIME TERRITORY, THE ELITE BRANCH OF OUR NAVY, AND DEFENDERS OF OUR FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE IN LAND, AIR AND SEA!

LONG LIVE THE VALIANT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, THE DEFENDERS OF OUR SEAS AND OCEANS, AND PROTECTORS OF THE OPEN WATERS OF OUR WORLD!

LONG LIVE OUR BELOVED VETERANS, MILITARY FAMILIES AND THE FAMILIES OF ALL WHO HAVE DIED IN FAITHFUL SERVICE AS PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

LONG LIVE THE VICTORIOUS PEOPLES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPINES AND THEIR GLORIOUS ARMED FORCES, DEFENDERS OF OUR FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE AND THE GUARRANTEE OF A BRIGHTER AND MORE PROSPERIOUS TOMORROW TO OUR FREE WORLD!

MAY GOD BLESS BOTH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPPINES!

GO NAVY! HOOYAH!

1930h, February 2, 2017,the 242st year of the United States of America, the 243rd year of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the 1234th of the International Olympic Committee, the 122nd of the Olympic Games, the 77th since the beginning of the Second World War in the Eastern Front and in the Pacific Theater, the 73rd since the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the victories in Europe and the Pacific, the 6th since the attacks on Benghazi, the 13th of Operation Red Wings, and the 71st of the United States Armed Forces.

Semper Fortis

John Emmanuel Ramos

Makati City, Philippines

Grandson of Philippine Navy veteran PO2 Paterno Cueno, PN (Ret.)

(The Funeral) (Rendering Honors)

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That Was the Year That Was – 1948

Free healthcare, free schooling, free love – and now early retirement free from the financial woes that plague the rest of us. Could there be a luckier year to have been born than 1948?

As pensions fall off a cliff, the smug 61-year-old is planning the next safari or cruise. Nourished and nurtured by a "cradle-to-grave" welfare state and protected by final salary, the holy grail of pension schemes, the 1948ers would appear to have had it all.

Those of every generation are inclined to believe themselves more fortunate than the previous. But in Britain, 1948 keeps ticking the boxes. "We are, indeed, the blessed people," says the author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth, who attributes their timely conception to the "bitterly cold and austere" nights during the 1947 fuel crisis.

"We missed out on national service. We had the golden age of the Eagle and the Beano together. No other generation had them combined."

Sharing his birth year with Prince Charles, Lord Sacks, the chief rabbi, and the singer Lulu, he detects another trait. "Everyone born in 1948 was a great achiever. You either become chief rabbi or king. It’s almost automatic."

BRITAIN 1948

Britain has changed greatly since 1948. Today people are much richer. They live in far more comfortable homes and ordinary people can afford things that were luxuries in 1948 (like foreign holidays). People are also healthier and they live longer. They also have things like the internet that were not even dreamed of in 1948.

British society has changed a great deal since 1948. In the 1950s large numbers of West Indians arrived in Britain. Also from the 1950s many Asians came. In the late 20th century Britain became a multi-cultural society. There was another changed in British society. In the late 20th century divorce and single parent families became much more common.

For a long time after 1948 unemployment remained very low and the late 1940s and the 1950s and 1960s were a long period of prosperity. However this ended in the mid-1970s. In 1973 there was still full employment in Britain (it stood at 3%). However shortly afterwards a period of high inflation and high unemployment began. In the late 1970s unemployment stood at around 5.5%.

In 1948:

A quarter of British homes had no electricity.

People often lived in the same town all their lives, near their families.

There were often more than three children in every family.

One third of the British population went to the cinema at least once a week.

There were only 14,500 television sets in the whole country and there was only one channel (BBC). Hardly any homes had a television.

Most families listened to the wireless (radio) for their entertainment.

Many homes did not have a telephone or an indoor toilet.

Cooking was done from scratch using produce grown locally. You could only buy items that were in season and most of what you bought was made or grown in the UK.

There were only just over a million cars on Britain’s roads.

Petrol rationing remained until 1954. For most people, this made the car an unaffordable luxury. Most people used public transport to get around.

Air travel was mainly for the rich. To go abroad, most people travelled by ship.

The average weekly wage was £3 18s (£3.90). Now it is about £400.

In 1948, most people in Britain worked in manufacturing industries, where they made things (in factories for example). Heavy industries like coal mining, iron and steel making, ship building and engineering employed millions of workers. Most of these workers were men. The majority of women stayed at home to look after their families and their homes.

Today, most people work in service industries such as education, health, shops, banks and insurance, where they provide services for other people. There is very little heavy industries left. People can buy of make the same things cheaper elsewhere. New technology means that factories use more machines to do the work and fewer people.

More women work today. It is normal for women to have jobs, even if they have young children.

SS Empire Windrush

The arrival of the SS Empire Windrush in June 1948 at Tilbury Dock, Essex, in England, marked the beginning of post-war mass migration. The ship had made an 8,000 mile journey from the Caribbean to London with 492 passengers on board from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands.

Most of the passengers were ex-servicemen seeking work.

This marked the beginning of post-war mass migration.

When they walked down the gangplank onto British soil they could not have imagined that their journey would begin an important landmark in the history of London and the rest of country.

The passengers on board the Windrush were invited to come to Britain after World War Two, to assist with labour shortages.

Many of the passengers had fought for Britain during the war.

They later became known as the ‘Windrush Generation.’

Later, Enoch Powell, the Tory Health Minister from 1960-1963, was to invite women from the Caribbean to Britain to train as nurses.

It was he who several years caused an uproar with his anti-immigration ‘rivers of blood’ speech.

In reality the response to the call for labour was minimal and by 1958 only 125,000 workers had arrived in Britain from the Caribbean islands. However, there were also other factors at play.

National Health Service is established

The National Health Service, established by the post-war Labour government, represented a fundamental change in the provision of medical services. The General Practitioner (GP) service became organised on the basis of a ‘capitation fee’ paid by the government on every patient registered with a doctor. Voluntary and municipal hospitals were integrated under state control, exercised by the Ministry of Health.

Olympic Games open at Wembley Stadium in London

The so-called ‘Austerity Games’ were held in London while rationing was still in force in Britain. Fifty nine nations took part, but the defeated powers of Germany and Japan were excluded. London saw the first Olympic photo finish, in the 100 metres, and the introduction of starting blocks for sprinters. These were the first Games since Berlin in 1936. The 1940 Games went to Tokyo, then Stockholm, but were cancelled – as were the 1944 games – due to World War Two.

UK cost of living 1948

Price of an average house £1,651.

Average Salary £300 a year.

Average Family Car £590.

Litre of Fuel £0.02.

FLOUR 1.5KG £0.04.

BREAD 1 LOAF £0.02.

SUGAR 1KG £0.05.

MILK 1PT £0.08.

BUTTER 250G £0.04.

CHEESE 400G £0.04.

POTATOES 2.5KG £0.03.

BACON 400G £0.17.

1948 News & Events

1 January – British Railways created when the government nationalizes the railway industry.

4 January – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

5 January – the first episode of the radio serial drama Mrs Dale’s Diary is broadcast on the BBC Light Programme.

12 January – the London Co-operative Society opens Britain’s first supermarket, in Manor Park, London. In the same month, Marks & Spencer introduce self-service in the food department of their Wood Green store and also this year Portsea Island Mutual Co-operative Society opens a self-service supermarket in Portsmouth.

17 January – all-time highest attendance for an English Football League game as 83,260 people watch Manchester United draw with Arsenal in a match played at Maine Road.

30 January – 8 February: Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and win 2 bronze medals.

4 February – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. George VI becomes King of Ceylon.

March – Trades Union Congress and Government agree a formal policy of voluntary wage restraint.

The Administrative Staff College (established in 1945) runs its first courses at Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames, the UK’s first business school.

The "New Look" in women’s fashion becomes available in British stores.

17 March – Britain signs the Treaty of Brussels with Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

23 March – the radio comedy Take It From Here, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, is first broadcast by the BBC.

1 April – Nationalisation of the electricity supply industry under terms of the Electricity Act 1947 comes into effect.

Fire services in the United Kingdom return from the National Fire Service to control of local authorities (under terms of Fire Services Act 1947).

15 April – Rowntree’s introduce Polo mint sweets.

16 April – arrival of Australian cricket team in England for a tour in which it will not lose a match.

24 April – Manchester United F.C. defeat Blackpool 4–2 in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium to claim their first major trophy for 37 years.

30 April – the Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show.

4 May – release of Sir Laurence Olivier’s film of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which will be the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

13 May – National Assistance Act supersedes the old Poor Law system.

14 May – the murder of June Anne Devaney, a three-year-old girl in Blackburn leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.

14–15 May – at midnight, the British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated as the state of Israel comes into being.

June – Professor Lillian Penson becomes the first woman elected to serve as Vice-Chancellor of a British university (London).

5–13 June – first Aldeburgh Festival.

21 June – the Manchester Baby, the world’s first electronic stored-program computer, runs its first program.

22 June – The ship HMT Empire Windrush arrives in Britain with 492 Jamaican immigrants

An Order in Council removes the title of Emperor of India from the Royal Style and Titles, recognising the independence of India in 1947.

1 July – The Town and Country Planning Act 1947 and its equivalent in Scotland come into effect as the foundation of modern town and country planning in the United Kingdom, requiring planning permission for land development and establishing the system of Listed buildings.

The National Museum of Wales opens the Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans to the public, the first open-air museum in the UK (director: Iorwerth Peate).

4 July – 1948 Northwood mid-air collision: A Scandinavian Airlines Douglas DC-6 and an Avro York of No. 99 Squadron RAF collide over Northwood, London and crash killing all 39 people aboard both aircraft.

5 July – The National Health Service begins functioning, giving the right to universal healthcare, free at point of use.

Changes to the National Insurance social insurance scheme come into effect.

The Children Act 1948 comes into effect, transferring responsibility for child welfare from Poor Law Guardians, Approved schools and voluntary organisations to new local authority Children’s Departments with professional Children’s Officers.

15 July – first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous.

25 July – end of post-war bread rationing.

29 July – 14 August: Olympic Games held in London. Great Britain and Northern Ireland win 3 gold, 14 silver and 6 bronze medals at the event, which is televised by the BBC.

29 July – Stoke Mandeville Games are held for the first time, the predecessor of the Paralympic Games.

The highest ever daily Central England temperature value, 25.2 °C (77.4 °F) is reported for this day.

30 July – gas boards created as the government nationalises the gas industry.

18 August – jockey Lester Piggott, aged 12, wins his first race, at Haydock Park Racecourse.

September – The first new comprehensive schools open in Potters Bar and Hillingdon.

Judicial corporal punishment (birching and flogging) is abolished in the UK.

6 September – flying the de Havilland DH 108, John Derry becomes the first British pilot to break the sound barrier.

8 September – Terence Rattigan’s play The Browning Version premieres in London.

October – the Hoover Company open a new factory for the mass production of washing machines at Merthyr Tydfil.

12 October – topical debate programme Any Questions? first broadcast on the BBC Home Service. It will still be on the radio more than sixty years later.

20 October – 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster: a KLM Lockheed Constellation airliner crashes into power cables on approach to Prestwick Airport in Scotland, killing all 40 people on board.

27 October – 6 November: first postwar Motor Show held at Earls Court, London. A record 562,954 visitors witness a wide range of new products from British manufacturers. Most successful will be the Morris Minor and Land Rover; but there are also the Morris Six, new Morris Oxford and Wolseley 4/50; Jaguar XK120, the world’s fastest production car at this time, and Mark V; Hillman Minx Mark III; Austin A70 and Atlantic; Vauxhall Velox and Wyvern; Singer SM1500; Sunbeam-Talbot 90; and Bristol 401.

8 November – the King issues Letters Patent granting the title of Prince or Princess of the United Kingdom, with the style Royal Highness, to the children of The Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh. Their first child is due later this month.

14 November – Princess Elizabeth gives birth to a son.

15 November – rising actor and comedian Ronnie Barker, aged 19 and from Bedford, makes his stage debut in the play Quality Street at the County Theatre in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

19 November – Peter Griffiths is hanged at Liverpool’s Walton Gaol for the murder of June Anne Devaney.

December – Patrick Blackett wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation".

10 December – T. S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".

15 December – the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh’s one-month-old son (later The Prince of Wales) is christened His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George of Edinburgh.

26 December – the first series of Reith Lectures, Bertrand Russell on Authority and the Individual, begins broadcasting on the BBC Home Service.

Undated

Scottish advocate Margaret Kidd becomes the first British woman King’s Counsel in Britain.

Snettisham Hoard discovered near King’s Lynn.

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain is founded.

From the end of the year, manufacturers are permitted to make Utility furniture to their own designs.

“Black widow” road safety poster (slogan: “Keep death off the road – Carelessness kills”) by William Little issued.

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"Tanner Starts I.L.P. Branch," Border Cities Star. April 19, 1934. Page 6. --- Former C.C.F. Organizer Says Four Charters Approved ---- Vancouver headquarters of the Independent Labor Party has approved of the issuance of four charters in the Border area, Charles Tanner, former Labor Party organizer, announced to-day.

Mr. Tanner, who announced last January when he left Windsor branch of the Labor Party he would organize the I.L.P. in this neighborhood, says he is now ready for business and will furnish information about the I.L.P. at his home, 1161 Marentette avenue.

Membership in the I.L.P., Mr. Tanner explains, is not to be dual. One will not be able to join the I.L.P., and still belong to the United Front, the Workers' Unity League, the Communist Party, the Canadian Labor Defense League, the Workers' Ex-Servicemen's League, the Workers' International Relief, the Labor Party or any other parties not included in this list. The I.L.P., Mr. Tanner says, has accepted the Regina manifesto of the C.C.F.

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“The [Ex-Serviceman’s] Billets [in Vancouver] also had a compulsory bathing policy that rankled many. In the Unemployed Worker, a writer who signed as “A Canadian” condemned the Billets for the poor quality of service, including bad food in small portions, often with only one slice of bread per sitting. This “Canadian” also criticized the policy regarding baths:

The bath is a little two by four place. Compelled to bath here, the men are herded in large numbers like cattle. If you do not go you are hauled up in front of the All-Highest for censure or probably expulsion. Class-conscious workers are almost afraid to express their opinions on account of the place being a regular nest of stool-pigeons who are always ready to run to the office with any information that they think will get them in good. . . . If that is a sample of the democracy we fought for, it is time, and past time, that we had a change.

“Of what value is the conscientious objectors law on our Statue Books?” asked Ada Muir, if the administrators of private charities could use government money to fund coercive programs that violated statutory law.

The reliance of the poor on charity entailed the removal of many of the basic rights and protections afforded citizens. Indeed, in some cases, private charities also served as substandard alternatives to municipal aid: many transients with military backgrounds were automatically denied bed and meal tickets and were detailed automatically to the Ex-Servicemen’s Billets. Less than a week before Remembrance Day, a writer calling himself “Veteran” wrote to the Vancouver Sun to speak out against the “public shame and injustice” embodied in the Billets. Many returned soldiers, he argued, already “suffer the effect of nervous exhaustion due in great measure to their war service, now aggravated by under nutrition. They are literally walking the streets of Vancouver starving.” That the Legion should feel it necessary to begin a soup kitchen, he argued, was “a public shame and injustice” because it meant that former soldiers were denied civic relief and treated as second-class citizens. “Apparently,” “Veteran” wrote, “Kipling’s words are still very true: ‘It’s Tommy this and Tommy that, and Tommy get behind; but ’tis Tommy to the front, Sir, when there’s trouble in the wind.’”

In these respects, to be detailed to the missions was to be separated from the rest of the transients on relief and subjected to a host of coercive forms of regulation. For this reason, a number of groups such as the New Era League and the Socialist Party of Canada opposed private charities because they were removed from any type of democratic control; these groups argued that governments should assume sole responsibility for the provision of relief. The Unemployed Worker published numerous complaints about the quality of food and shelter at private missions. One reporter recounted the rotten fish, stale bread, and lack of blankets on offer at the Ex-Servicemen’s Billets. Stuck with tickets for the Refuge, an unemployed man named “Red” complained that “Belly Robber Millar is serving rotten fish again.” One group of jobless men claimed that the Refuge “constitute[s] a menace to the health of the workers of the whole City. Over one hundred men are sleeping on the floor and benches at this joint.” They suggested that civic officials inspect the Refuge at midnight in order to see its real conditions. During one of Cooper’s visits to the Refuge, a handful of residents criticized the food and staged a walkout. One Communist claimed that “Holy Willy,” the “Jesus Jazzer” at the Refuge, forced some workers to sleep on the floor even though some of the beds remained empty. When R.J. Lecky, the official responsible for administration at the Refuge, asked for volunteers to decorate the place for Christmas, one worker retorted that “decorating the tables with something to eat would be more in order.”

Communists called for the Emergency Refuge to be abandoned altogether, but the request “caused some indignation among the Aldermen, most of whom agreed that such places shoul[d] be encouraged,” according to one radical. They also complained about the connections between private charities and the Relief Department, with the former helping the latter enforce policies regarding the relief camps. One veteran protested the decision to force dozens of Billets residents to choose between forced labour and starvation: “There was no alternative for them; they either went to the camps or were thrown out on the streets to go where they liked, so they nearly all chose the lesser evil by going out.” In April 1932, the Refuge had instituted a work test, requiring two days of work per week in return for “slopjoint meals and flop.” Shortly thereafter, about a hundred residents launched a strike against the work test. One week later, a worker who refused to clean up the garbage in the alley behind the Refuge discovered he was to be denied meals in the future. In January 1933, sixty workers living at the Emergency Refuge called for its abolition, and the right to eat and sleep where they chose. Perhaps the best indication of discontent came in a July 1932 letter to Mayor L.D. Taylor: despite having called Vancouver home for forty-one years, F. Good asked Taylor if he could arrange for him to be sent to a relief camp, which he imagined to be preferable to being “an inmate at the Refuge.””

- Todd McCallum, Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine: Rival images of a new world in 1930s Vancouver. Edmonton: Athabaska Univesity Press, 2014. pp. 183-184

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MESSAGE IN HONOR OF THE 76TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONCLUSION OF THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD, THE 74th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF MANILA AND THE 6TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF EX-US NAVY SEAL SNIPER CHRIS KYLE

Today, we remember the 76th year anniversary since the historic Allied victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, which ended on this day in 1943 when the Soviet Army forced the surrender of the remaining German soldiers who had been surrounded by determined Soviet soldiers for many months. The victory over the Axis powers in this part of the world ended the eastward thrust of the German armies and their allies on their road to the dominance of evil ideals over parts of what are now today Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasian republics, at a cost of millions of lives lost.

Today, we honor the memory of the beginning of the long Battle of Manila in 1945, the long battle that at a cost of millions of lives lost and a city hugely devastated, finally led to the liberation of the capital city of the Philippines and the entire metropolitan area from the military forces of the Empire of Japan.

And today, as one people and country, we honor the memory of a former military veteran of the United States Navy SEALs, who 6 years ago perished while helping a fellow veteran of the armed forces. Today we remember the sad death of the late Chief Petty Officer Chris Kyle, a retired serviceman of the Navy who was part of the victorious forces that liberated Iraq from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and brought freedom to this country. He, together with fellow veteran Chad Littefield, who were killed on this very day in a gun range located in Glen Rose, Texas, USA, just 6 years ago on this very day in a crime that shocked the whole country and her people on the eve of the Superbowl and their home state of Texas plunged into deep mourning is a sad and tragic event in the long history of this country. Their murders are just a few of the many crimes that have had been targeted towards veterans of the United States Armed Forces and their families. Today, as we mark as one people the 6th year anniversary of this tragedy that stunned the American people, we remember not just this very tragic moment, but also recall the lives of those two people, who were veterans of the armed forces of the United States of America, whose lives were ended at an instant on this very day, and of their years of service to this great nation as personnel of her armed forces.

Chris and Chad, whose deaths we remember today, were veterans of our Armed Forces who have been part of our military operations in Iraq in the mid-2000s and were rooted in the deepest traditions of our fighting men and women, having been born to patriotic families who raised them to live the values of patriotism and service to the country and people. These two were part of the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and coast guardsmen who were forward deployed to Iraq not just to overthrow a corrupt and cruel regime but also to prevent terrorism from spreading further into other parts of the Middle East. Even as this historic deployment has caused viable opposition from many sectors of society, the heroic actions made by these two and many others helped bring this country into the fold of the free and democratic world for the first time in many years. As the tides of change sweep once more into the world, as we recall the brave memory of these two American military heroes who served their country in times of war and peace we pause to honor their sacrifices not just for their country and for their families, but for the people they promised to serve with loyalty, obedience and discipline, and for being part of a generation of heroes in military service who are an inspiration to the millions of American youth as an example of true service to the country and her people. As America and her armed forces prepare to resound more to the louder calls of the people of Venezuela for the liberation of their country from the evil ideologies, as well as to the rising calls of oppression by millions in many other countries, the story of these two brave Americans and countless others serve as a reminder of the importance of service in the armed forces not just to assist in the defense of the homeland in war and in peace and in bringing relief to victims of natural and man-made calamities, but also as the vanguard of America’s thrust to defend international democracy and the social-capitalist way of life and business as lived by millions of Americans.

The people of our great nation today remember their tragic murders while having to help those who have been suffering in part by their service in the armed forces in fighting America’s international enemies in overseas deployments, especially in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, combatting terror and bringing the light of freedom to millions of people in these countries. These veterans too deserve all the help and assistance they need not just to overcome their trauma and depression, but also to make a successful transition to civilian life. They, who like Chris and Chad served their country at home and abroad and flew our glorious flag to glory in the battlefield, deserve all our love because of all they had risk just for the safety and security of their fellow Americans at home.

As per a 2015 declaration of the Texas state Governor Greg Abbott of the Republican Party, today is marked for the fifth consecutive year as Chris Kyle Day in memory of the man whose legacy to the nation of his birth will never be forgotten by every generation on the very day of his sudden demise. As we mark this day together and in solidarity with the people of the great state of Texas, in these changing times in our world of today we, the people of the free world, together with the people of the United States of America, in recalling the lives of these two great veterans of our armed forces who were part one of the biggest military deployments in the long history of this great country, bear in mind their determination, courage, patriotism, bravery, audacity and comradeship in the battlefield and at home, and the risks they took to fulfill the fundamental mission of the United States Armed Forces – the defense of the sovereignty, independence and the territorial integrity of the Union, the protection of overseas interests of the republic and American expats in danger and the defense of international democracy with our NATO allies around the world.

The valor and bravery shown by our great armed forces over the years since our armed forces were founded in 1775 during the early months of the Revolutionary War have served to help America prosper from its beginnings up to the superpower status it today enjoys, not just in its armed forces by in the economy, culture and the arts, and in sports. The valiant sacrifices of the millions of our fallen servicemen and women at home and abroad in patriotic and internationalist duties in the name of our country cannot be forgotten, for they gave to the homeland the ultimate sacrifice of their lives in the defense of their country, her people and her values. Nor will the contributions made by those who after their military service helped contribute to the growth and progress of our nation and our society in many ways cannot be counted out as well, for the values they learned during their service in our armed forces helped them make their mark in the making of prosperous and strong republic through the years and helped bring her culture and traditions as well as our strong sporting legacy to millions everywhere around the world.

Today, as we celebrate the 74th year anniversary since the beginning of the Battle of Manila and the 6th anniversary of the deaths of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield, in our remembrance of all that our men and women have done in the defense of our liberties all over the world we will forever uphold the sacred memory of the millions of Americans who fell in battles in war and in peace for the sake of our beloved nation of billions of people, united under one flag, and together as one as we travel the road towards the 250th year of our independence, onwards the path to sustain our republic’s role in the changing world as the defender and protector of our liberties and freedoms and as the vanguard of a better tomorrow for our world for generations to come – a role played by the men and women who have served and are now serving in the ranks of our glorious Armed Forces over the past 244 years!

LONG LIVE THE 74TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF MANILA AND THE 76TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY IN THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD!

LONG LIVE THE HEROES AND MARTYRS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC!

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE FALLEN, HEROES AND VETERANS OF TWO OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC!

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT MILITARY HEROES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CHRIS KYLE AND CHAD LITTLEFIELD!

LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES NAVY SEALS, THE ARMED FIST OF THE PROTECTORS OF OUR MARITIME TERRITORY, THE ELITE BRANCH OF OUR NAVY, AND DEFENDERS OF OUR FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE IN LAND, AIR AND SEA!

LONG LIVE THE VALIANT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, THE DEFENDERS OF OUR SEAS AND OCEANS, AND PROTECTORS OF THE OPEN WATERS OF OUR WORLD!

LONG LIVE OUR BELOVED VETERANS, MILITARY FAMILIES AND THE FAMILIES OF ALL WHO HAVE DIED IN FAITHFUL SERVICE AS PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

MAY GOD BLESS BOTH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPPINES!

GO NAVY! HOOYAH!

2300h, February 2, 2019,the 243st year of the United States of America, the 244rd year of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the 125th of the International Olympic Committee, the 123rd of the Olympic Games, the 78th since the beginning of the Second World War in the Eastern Front and in the Pacific Theater, the 74rd since the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the victories in Europe and the Pacific, the 7th since the attacks on Benghazi, the 14th of Operation Red Wings, and the 72nd of the United States Armed Forces.

Semper Fortis

John Emmanuel Ramos

Makati City, Philippines

Grandson of Philippine Navy veteran PO2 Paterno Cueno, PN (Ret.)

(The Funeral) (Rendering Honors)

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MESSAGE IN HONOR OF THE 74TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONCLUSION OF THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD, THE 72ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF MANILA AND THE 4TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF EX-US NAVY SEAL SNIPER CHRIS KYLE

Ladies and gentlemen, to all the people of the United States of America, to all our living veterans of the Second World War of 1939-1945 and of all conflicts past and present and their families, to our veterans, active servicemen and women and reservists of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, most especially our veterans and service personnel of the Navy SEALs, Marine Force Reconnaissance and the Marine Special Operations Regiment, to all the immediate families, relatives, children and grandchildren of the deceased veterans and fallen of our military services and civil uniformed security and civil defense services, to all our workers, farmers and intellectuals, to our youth and personnel serving in youth uniformed and cadet organizations and all our athletes, coaches, judges, sports trainers and sports officials, to all our workers of culture, music, traditional arts and the theatrical arts, radio, television, digital media and social media, cinema, industry, business and the press, and to all our people of the free world:

On this very day as we remember the Catholic, Protestant Christian and Orthodox Solemnity of the Presentation of the Child Jesus to the Temple and join in celebrating Groundhog Day with great honor we celebrate the anniversary of the founding of New York City in 1653, the 1848 signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the end of the Mexican War, and the 1876 foundation of the National League of Major League Baseball, as well as the anniversary of the 1987 Philippine Constitution. And so today, most of all, as we prepare for the official conclusion of the professional football season in the United States of America, we today mark 3 very important national and international events of even greater importance, especially in the military history of the world. First, we join the people of Russia and the former Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in marking today the 73rd year anniversary since the historic Allied victory in the long Battle of Stalingrad on this day in 1943 – one of the biggest and greatest victories won by the Soviet Armed Forces and one of many that turned the tide of the war in Eastern Europe. At the cost of more than a million Soviet civilian deaths and military fatalities, the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, the Soviet Air Defense Forces and the Soviet Air Forces stopped the German advance towards the Ural mountains while helping to strengthen Allied resistance to the German advance towards the Caucasus and the southern Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Led by their heroic commanders, the Russian effort led to the historic victory achieved today against a multinational Axis force of Germans, Italians and Romanians (alongside the Spanish Blue Division, which fought on behalf of neutral Spain for the Axis cause) and saved the city from German occupation, for which and for its heroic defense during the early stages of the battle it would be rewarded many years later with the title of Hero City and the Order of Lenin. Today, with great respect, deepest honor and outstanding gratitude, we remember the heroes of that historic battle and the victory that changed the tide of the war in favor of the Allies.

Today, we also join the people of the Philippines in remembering the beginning of the historic Battle of Manila, one of the biggest and bloodiest battles ever in the Pacific Theater of Operations of the Second World War. This battle, which was the cause of the Philippine capital being the most devastated city in the Asia-Pacific region, including its historic districts, and witnessed the deaths of so many people – partly due to both Allied gunfire and shelling and the attacks made on the people by seamen and officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy garrisoned in the capital city and nearby areas. At a cost of hundreds of thousands of lives lost in the month-long battle, the combined military forces of the United States and the Philippines, including personnel of the Commonwealth Army and guerillas from resistance organizations, together with the armed forces of Australia and New Zealand, ended 4 years of Japanese oppression in the Philippine capital and helped bring about the liberation not just of this city but also of the entire country after years of the Japanese rule that brought suffering, misery and sadness to the Filipino people, in fighting that raged in houses, buildings, churches, universities. factories and even in parks and bridges, leading towards the final defeat of the Japanese forces in the capital. Thus, the great Allied victory in the Battle of Manila, no matter what cost it brought, was for the people of this great country the beginning of the end of the road of a war that forever changed this part of the world for generations to come.

And today, most of all, marks yet another tragic but important anniversary in the history of the United States Armed Forces and the entire United States of America, especially of its elite United States Navy SEALs whose 55th anniversary is marked this very year. It had been months since the historic September 2012 attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, which killed a US Ambassador and 3 members of a security detail – this tragic event is now remembered the form of the movie “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” and will be remembered yet again this coming September 11, the 5th year since this incident – and just on the eve of the Superbowl, 4 years ago, on this very sad day in our military history, the tragic news of the sudden death on that very afternoon of that very day of the nation’s most lethal military sniper in its 241 years of military history – no less than former United States Navy SEAL CPO Christopher Scott “Chris” Kyle, and his friend Chad Littlefield, like him also a military veteran, in the hands of Iraq War veteran Eddie Ray Routh in a gun range located in Glen Rose, Texas, USA, spread rapidly like wildfire on radio and television, the Internet and social media outlets not just in the United States of America but all over the world. (For it was on that day when Eddie, a veteran with PTSD, was on that gun range with Chad and Chris, the latter trying all he could do to help this veteran as part of his tenure as the then founding president of his firm Craft International, which was founded to assist all veterans with PTSD.) Today, as we mark as one people the 4th anniversary of this tragedy, we remember not just this very tragic moment, but also recall the lives of those two people, who were veterans of the armed forces of the United States of America, whose lives were ended at an instant on this very day.

No one expected such a national tragedy to happen on the eve of the Superbowl, especially in the state of Texas, where Chris is from. He was born on April 8, 1974 in Odessa, Texas, the oldest of two sons of a Protestant Christian family of patriots and ranch hands. Having a brother who also served in Iraq, and also having been a veteran of the US Navy SEALs, serving with loyalty, dedication, courage, honor, commitment and for his country as part of this branch of the Navy from the 1999, the year he joined the service, up to 2008, was married to Taya Kyle for 9 years and several months, and of whom he had 2 kids, his tragic death, together with his veteran friend Chad Littlefield, who we also remember today, shocked the whole nation, the armed forces, our military families, and our military veterans. His service produced a number of medals from the Navy for service rendered during US military operations in Iraq together with his fellow Navy SEALs and fellow special forces soldiers and operations from many countries all over the world.

As the hours came and went and the days came and went, the loss of this man was felt by every American all over the country, and from people all over the world, especially those connected to militar service, but all the more seen in his home state of Texas where almost the whole state came as one to remember one of their own who served American with distinction. He will surely be remembered not just for being a writer (having written two books, one for them being the hit nationally bestselling autobiography AMERICAN SNIPER, which was later adapted to film, became a blockbuster with Clint Eastwood at the directorial post and having an all star cast led by Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes, Kevin Lacz and Jake McDorman, which let to its eventual nomination and single Oscar award victory in 2015, among many other awards it garnered) but also due to his long years of service as a United States Navy SEAL in the Iraq War as part of Team 3, where even at the cost of losing his pals and fellow SEALs (Marc Lee and Ryan “Biggles” Job included) he gained a reputation of being the nation’s most deadly sniper in military history with a total of an estimated 260 kills credited to him, 150 being the official count, all done during his 4 deployments to Iraq was part of the War on Terror, beating all other military snipers before him, and making him a national legend and the most lethal sniper in the history of not just the United States Navy SEALs and the entire Navy, but of the entire United States Armed Forces, one of so few who served the nation during this great chapter of its military history.

Even his fellow Navy SEAL veteran, Marcus Lutrell, who became buddies thanks to his SEAL training and again during his Iraqi deployment in 2006, a year after the events of Operation Red Wings, having been born in the same state as his long time buddy, could not hide the sadness felt by the whole American nation and people on the death of this great man, alongside other Navy SEAL veterans, their families, and the families of fallen members and deceased veterans of this great branch of the United States Navy which this year marks 55 years of glorious and faithful service to this country.

As per a 2015 declaration of the Texas state Governor Greg Abbott of the Republican Party, today is marked for the third consecutive year as Chris Kyle Day in memory of the man whose legacy to the nation of his birth will never be forgotten by every generation on the very day of his sudden demise. As we mark this day together and in solidarity with the people of the great state of Texas, in these changing times in our world of today we, the people of the free world, together with the people of the United States of America, stand as one in remembering the legacy of this man who faithfully served his country and helped fellow veterans and their families in their time of need. To the people of this great country, he will always be regarded as a hero and a sailor first and foremost, a model soldier to all our people and to our youth, and a great example of service for the country and people in the armed forces.

It is all thanks to the sudden rising hit status of the movie adaptation of Chris Kyle’s biography that has caused divisions among the American people and among the people of the free world, plus the rising tide of gratitude among Americans towards him together with other peoples of the free world, plus the continuing work of the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation that Taya, with now a new bestselling book in her name, herself founded to carry on the legacy her husband had left behind to the country he served, alongside his brother Jeff’s Beast Mode for the Brave program, that has time and again proven that his name deserves to be honored as a hero soldier and a model of our future generations. Today, we reaffirm Chris’ heroic service to the his country of birth the United States of America and her people as part of its glorious Navy, most especially its Navy SEALs, as this year marks 55 years since the formation of its elite branch of the Navy and the protectors of the men and women who serve in the seas of the world, and also recall his efforts in the defense of the freedoms and liberties of the people of the free world he helped defend as part of one of the world’s most feared special forces units, leaving to his country and people and to all our military veterans and military families a legacy of faithful and dedicated service.

Today, I once again join so many Americans and the servicemen and women of the United States Armed Forces and the people of the free world in honoring the lives of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield on this very day, the very 4th year anniversary of their sudden demise in that gun range in Texas that will forever be a part of American history, in gratitude and full of thanksgiving for the service they rendered with honor to the United States of America as part of the United States Navy, especially of its Navy SEALs, and as military veterans of the nation they served with honor and dignity. Today, I also join the peoples of Russia to honor the many fallen soldiers, injured soldiers, heroes and veterans who helped win the victory in Stalingrad against the fascist aggressor 74 years past, when news of the victory won in this city was proclaimed. And today, 72 years since the beginning of one of the greatest ground battles of the Pacific Theater of Operations of the Second World War, while recalling the hundreds of thousands who died in the historic Battle of Manila, I once more join all Filipinos, especially the remaining living veterans of the war and those who still remain from the generation who lived through these years of terror and darkness, in remembering the heroic deeds done in the liberation of Manila from the Japanese invader and of the people who risked even their lives to save so many from death and starvation. In marking this great day, I once again recall the sacrifices made by so many in our armed services who fought with bravery, determination, initiative and full of courage in our battles for the freedom and independence of our world and for the sake of our future generations, as well as by our people in taking care of our veterans and the families and relatives of our fallen servicemen and women and our wounded service personnel.

With great respect and honor and with our greatest and eternal gratitude, as we commemorate and recall today the lives that Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield lived for the defense of the American nation and of the people of the free world, and together with the people of the Philippines commemorate the 72nd year anniversary of one of the biggest battles of the Pacific Theater of Operations, and alongside the people of Russia the celebrate today yet another anniversary of the victory in Stalingrad that changed the pace of the war in the Eastern Front and into the Allied offensive towards the heart of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and the final victory in May of 1945, let us on this very day and everyday remember the legacy that these brave men and women showed in these times of our history – both our millions who were a part of our Greatest Generation of Allied heroes of the Second World War and all our military veterans, wounded servicemen and women and fallen service personnel in current wars fought all over the world by the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. In these changing times, let us never ever forget their memory and to educate our youth about their sacrifices so that we can always live in freedom and liberty. Let us always cherish their service for the country in the armed forces and their shining example of honesty, integrity, honor, and loyalty to the nation to which they serve. Let us today commemorate and always treasure the values they fought for in their very own times, for indeed freedom is not free and is truly worth defending and fighting for. And as we honor their lives today and for always, we know all too well that their sacrifice has become the reason why we hope for a more stronger and better tomorrow for the generations to come and for the world we live in, the very future all those in the military, together with our men and women of the civil security services and of all our athletes are determined to defend at the cost of their lives is indeed this very world that is worth fighting for!

LONG LIVE THE 72ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF MANILA AND THE 74TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY IN THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD!

LONG LIVE THE HEROES AND MARTYRS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA AND THE PACIFIC!

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE FALLEN, HEROES AND VETERANS OF TWO OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC!

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT MILITARY HEROES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CHRIS KYLE AND CHAD LITTLEFIELD!

LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES NAVY SEALS, THE ARMED FIST OF THE PROTECTORS OF OUR MARITIME TERRITORY, THE ELITE BRANCH OF OUR NAVY, AND DEFENDERS OF OUR FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE IN LAND, AIR AND SEA!

LONG LIVE THE VALIANT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, THE DEFENDERS OF OUR SEAS AND OCEANS, AND PROTECTORS OF THE OPEN WATERS OF OUR WORLD!

LONG LIVE OUR BELOVED VETERANS, MILITARY FAMILIES AND THE FAMILIES OF ALL WHO HAVE DIED IN FAITHFUL SERVICE AS PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

MAY GOD BLESS BOTH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPPINES!

GO NAVY! HOOYAH!

1715h, February 2, 2017,the 241st year of the United States of America, the 242nd year of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the 123rd of the International Olympic Committee, the 121st of the Olympic Games, the 76th since the beginning of the Second World War in the Eastern Front and in the Pacific Theater, the 72nd since the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the victories in Europe and the Pacific, the 5th since the attacks on Benghazi, the 12th of Operation Red Wings, and the 70th of the United States Armed Forces.

Semper Fortis

John Emmanuel Ramos

Makati City, Philippines

Grandson of Philippine Navy veteran PO2 Paterno Cueno, PN (Ret.)

(The Funeral) (Rendering Honors)

#american sniper #chris kyle day #chris kyle #battle of stalingrad #Navy SEALs #battle of manila

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