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milspeak memo V2.04-05-09 palm sunday baruk haba’ b’shem Yehwah THE MOVEABLE FEAST Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion!
Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you,
righteous and having salvation,
gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
I will take away the chariots from Ephraim
and the war-horses from Jerusalem,
and the battle bow will be broken.
He will proclaim peace to the nations.
His rule will extend from sea to sea
and from the River to the ends of the earth. —Zechariah 9:9-10 THE LISTENING TREES AN EPIC POEM BY HENRY AVIGNON It should come as no surprise to learn that today’s corporate publishing world would overlook a poet like Henry Avignon. The Listening Trees is an epic poetry cycle that reflects the cycle of man through a mirror created by the secret listening life of trees, majestic witnesses to the passage of humanity. The Listening Trees recalls the many gods of humanity. That such a poet as Henry would arise in our age is no fluke of nature. Henry’s work carries forward that of the great poets of antiquity and the near past: Homer, Dante, Coleridge, Rilke, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud, among others. In The Listening Trees, the warrior’s heart beats an old drum, distractions are cast to the wind, the milk of paradise refills an empty glass, fragrant spice makes heady senses swim, little things seem sweet again, and “a strange pattern of bridges - these straight, those arched, others descending obliquely at angels to the first” - emerge to span the rift between humanity and nature. TAPS GHOSTS - THEY EXIST MEMOIR BY HARRY P. PARMER JUST MEMORIES The Trau River Incident BY HARRY P. PARMER A BUCKET OF SHRIMP Memories of a WWI Flying Ace and Medal of Honor Recipient IN MEMORY OF TOM ASHE: A MACCS HISTORY BY TOM ASHE This remarkable work contains the history of the evolution of the Tactical Air Operations Center (TAOC), an integral component of the Marine Air Control and Command System. Tom tracks the evolution of the system from CAOC to TAOC to ITAOC to TAOM - the system still in use, although modified today. I personally learned the gear on the Vietnam War Era system, and used the TAOC and ITAOC systems as a controller. Five years before I retired, the TAOM system was introduced and deployed for use during Desert Storm. Today, the TAOM is in use by the MACS Pack in Afghanistan. TATTOOS CHANTS & RAPS MISCELLANY THE DIRTY DOZEN of MONKEY MOUNTAIN A BRIEF HISTORY FROM WILLIAM BROWN THREE POEMS FROM MOE TAMPONS COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE A PRAYER REQUEST FROM A SOLDIER’S MOTHER I FEEL A BREEZE.... An F-15 Surprises its Pilot Marine General Walked Long Road to Equality AN INFANTRYMAN JOINS THE MACCS BY EDWIN J. BROWN AN EXCERPT FROM LAND, SEA, AND FOREIGN SHORE BY CLAIR WILLIAM CLARK II  LAND, SEA, AND FOREIGN SHORE AVAILABLE AT BARNES & NOBLE READJUSTING TO POSTWAR SOCIETY: Troubled Homecoming IN THE APRIL 09 ISSUE OF VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS (VFW) MAGAZINE LEARN ABOUT VETERANS-FOR-CHANGE! AND READ ABOUT THE VFC MISSION IN THE SALEM NEWS MARINE CORPS LEAGUE INFORMATION PLUS “ELKE”  Elke is a Francois Leaf Monkey, born March 2009 in a zoo. Leaf Monkeys are native to Northeastern Vietnam & Southeast China. Let’s hope she has a chance to have a little fun before Triple M finds her. END OF POSThttp://bibref.hebtools.com/?book=%20Zechariah&verse=9:9-10&src=!trees4-5-09.htmlghosts4-5-09.htmltrau4-5-09.htmlshrimp4-5-09.htmlashe4-5-09.htmltatsV2-4-5-09.htmlchantsV2-4-5-09.htmldirtydoz4-5-09.htmlmoe4-5-09.htmltampons4-5-09.htmlbreeze4-5-09.htmlhttp://www.military.com/news/article/March-2009/marine-general-walked-long-road-to-equality.html?ESRC=marine-a.nlbrown4-5-09.htmlclark4-5-09.htmlhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/Land-Sea-and-Foreign-Shore/Clair-William-Clark-II/e/9781401063801http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.magDtl&dtl=1&mid=4976http://www.vfw.org/index.cfmvfc4-5-09.htmlhttp://www.salem-news.com/articles/april042009/vets_change_4-4-09.php?message=1#commentshttp://www.mcleague.com/mdp/index.phphttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/Land-Sea-and-Foreign-Shore/Clair-William-Clark-II/e/9781401063801http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgxVZ4uxk8sMemo_V2_Home.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14shapeimage_2_link_15shapeimage_2_link_16shapeimage_2_link_17shapeimage_2_link_18shapeimage_2_link_19shapeimage_2_link_20
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