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  London mosque surrounded by armed police

  by Ellie in

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  according to the news a london mosque has been surrounded by armed police and a man has been shot dead on a london train

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  JWD Awards??

  by RichieRich in

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  so, i was thinkin, and got hit with a good idea.

  everyone whos been here for more than a week has posters that they love, and posters that they loathe.

  some make laugh, some make us cry, and some drive us right up the wall.... so to honor that, i think we should have some sort of jwd award session... (should simon approve).

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  I would probably get 'inconsistent'.
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  James Doohan - Star Trek's "Scotty" Dies

  by El Kabong in

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  just saw this on cnn .

  http://www.cnn.com/2005/showbiz/tv/07/20/obit.doohan.ap/index.html .

  he's beamed aboard that great starship in the sky....

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  "He's dead, Jim.
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  Are JWs really persecuted?

  by gringojj in

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  i find it interesting that the wts has this persecution complex.

  apostates all out to get them and stuff.

  i must say that although a search on the web will bring you lots of great anti-jw stuff(thier own fault because they only have 1 official website) the number of people actually trash talking is quite small and its mostly ex-jws and some still in the org.

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  I remember reading stories from the early days of people being tarred and feathered and run out of town (I think Mormons received similar treatment). So there was some real persecution in North America at one time, but it wasn't government sponsored...

  Especially during WW2. The problem is that they made a spectacle of sitting the war out, then loudly and publicly ridiculed non JW's for patriotism and belonging to other religions usually via a car with a loudspeaker on top.
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  President Kennedy's assassination: big conspiracy or lone gunman?

  by greendawn in

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  2. scandals

  do you think that john f kennedy was killed in dallas in 1963 by a lone psychopathic gunman -lee oswald- or by a large conpiracy that included the cia, the mafia, the military and many others.

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  hundreds of books were written on the subject and 85% of americans believe that it was a conspiracy though the mass media world always believes that a lone gun man did it.

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  Bob Woodward shot JFK.
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  Last Surviving US Civil War Veterans--interesting

  by IronGland in

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  1. albert woolson of minnesota was the last authenticated survivor of.

  the civil war.

  woolson served as a union drummer boy and died in 1956. .

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  run dont walk,

  here's someintersting info from the VA. It shows info from every american war including when the last vet died and forcasts for how long WW1 and 2 vets will be around.

  American Revolution (1775-1783)
  Total Servicemembers	217,000
  Battle Deaths	4,435
  Non-mortal Woundings	6,188
  Last Veteran, Daniel F. Bakeman, died 4/5/1869, age 109
  Last Widow, Catherine S. Damon, died 11/11/06, age 92
  Last Dependent, Phoebe M. Palmeter, died 4/25/11, age 90

  
  

  War of 1812 (1812-1815)
  Total Servicemembers	286,730
  Battle Deaths	2,260
  Non-mortal Woundings	4,505
  Last Veteran, Hiram Cronk, died 5/13/05, age 105
  Last Widow, Carolina King, died 6/28/36, age unknown
  Last Dependent, Esther A.H. Morgan, died 3/12/46, age 89

  
  

  Indian Wars (approx. 1817-1898)
  Total Servicemembers	106,000*
  Battle Deaths	1,000*
  Last Veteran, Fredrak Fraske, died 6/18/73, age 101

  
  

  Mexican War (1846-1848)
  Total Servicemembers	78,718
  Battle Deaths	1,733
  Other Deaths in Service	11,550
  Non-mortal Woundings	4,152
  Last Veteran, Owen Thomas Edgar, died 9/3/29, age 98
  Last Widow, Lena James Theobald, died 6/20/63, age 89
  Last Dependent, Jesse G. Bivens, died 11/1/62, age 94

  
  

  Civil War (1861-1865)
  Total Servicemembers (Union)	2,213,363
  Battle Deaths (Union)	140,414
  Other Deaths in Service (Union)	224,097
  Non-mortal Woundings (Union)	281,881
  Total S ervicemembers (Conf.)	1,050,000
  Battle Deaths (Confederate)	74,524
  Other Deaths in Service (Confederate)	59,297**
  Non-mortal Woundings (Confederate)	Unknown
  Last Union Veteran, Albert Woolson died 8/2/56, age 109
  Last Confederate Veteran, John Salling died 3/16/58, age 112

  Spanish-American War (1898-1902)
  Total Servicemembers (Worldwide)	306,760
  Battle Deaths	385
  Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater)	2,061
  Non-mortal Woundings	1,662
  Last veteran, Nathan E. Cook, died 9/10/92, age 106

  
  

  World War I (1917-1918)
  Total Servicemembers (Worldwide)	4,734,991
  Battle Deaths	53,402
  Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater)	63,114
  Non-mortal Woundings	204,002
  Living Veterans	2,503*

  
  

  World War II (1940 –1945)
  Total Servicemembers (Worldwide)	16,112,566
  Battle Deaths	291,557
  Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater)	113,842
  Non-mortal Woundings	671,846
  Living Veterans	5,451,378*

  
  

  Korean War (1950-1953)
  Total Servicemenbers (Worldwide)	5,720,000
  Battle Deaths	33,686
  Other Deaths (In Theater)	2,830
  Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater)	17,730
  Non-mortal Woundings	103,284
  Living Veterans	3,913,749*

  
  

  Vietnam War (1964-1975)
  Total Servicemembers (Worldwide)	9,200,000
  Deployed to Southeast Asia	3,100,000
  Battle Deaths	47,410
  Other Deaths (In Theater)	10,788
  Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater) est.	32,000
  Non-mortal Woundings	153,303
  Living Veterans	8,300,106*

  
  

  Gulf War (1990-1991 )
  Total Servicemembers (Worldwide)	2,322,332
  Deployed to Gulf	1,136,658
  Battle Deaths	148
  Other Deaths (In Theater)	235
  Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater)	914
  Non-mortal Woundings	467
  Living Veteran	1,753,530

  
  

  America's Wars Total
  Military Service During War	42,348,460
  Battle Deaths	650,954
  Other Deaths in Service (In Theater)	13,853
  Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater)	229,661
  Non-mortal Woundings	1,431,290
  Living War Veterans	19,421,266*
  Living Veterans	25,497,691*

  Veterans and Dependents on the Compensation and Pension Rolls as of

  May, 2001

  	VETERANS	CHILDREN		PARENTS	SURVIVING SPOUSES
  Civil War	-	12		-	1
  Indian Wars	-	1		-	-
  Spanish-American War	-	245		-	386
  Mexican Border	9	25		-	181
  World War I	144	5,810		1	25,573
  World War II	647,205	18,707		1,388	272,793
  Korean Conflict	249,515	4,110		1,496	63,579
  Vietnam Era	851,143	13,465		6,118	114,514
  Gulf War***	344,174	8,508		338	6,261
  TOTAL WARTIME	2,092,190	50,883		9,341	483,288
  Nonservice-connected	352,761	27,221		-	230,194
  Service-connected	2,306,731	30,757		11,650	288,661
  TOTAL	2,659,492	57,978		11,650	518,855
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  Does the bible say there is only life on earth?

  by ButtLight in

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  or just that god created life on earth?

  i like to watch shows about ufo"s and aliens.

  i personally think they exist simply cause so many people have seen then all over the world and i know people who have seen them.

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  than there must have been a point in time when God was loveless.

  ..sitting in a saloon crying in his beer. Then he decided to create our Universe. Unfortunately he couldn't hold his beer and that explains the result.
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  Last Surviving US Civil War Veterans--interesting

  by IronGland in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1. albert woolson of minnesota was the last authenticated survivor of.

  the civil war.

  woolson served as a union drummer boy and died in 1956. .

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  Interesting stuff. But I wasn't around then....

  No but a person who was a child in the 40's could have possibly met an veteran at a GAR parade or veterans parade back then.
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  Last Surviving US Civil War Veterans--interesting

  by IronGland in

  1. jw
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  1. albert woolson of minnesota was the last authenticated survivor of.

  the civil war.

  woolson served as a union drummer boy and died in 1956. .

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  Yes, she did get a civil war pension all these years! If I remember correctly, she was 18 or 19 and married a veteran in his late 80's. This was not uncommon esp. in the South in the early 1900's as veterans got a nice pension that could be passed on to a spouse
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  Last Surviving US Civil War Veterans--interesting

  by IronGland in

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  2. friends

  1. albert woolson of minnesota was the last authenticated survivor of.

  the civil war.

  woolson served as a union drummer boy and died in 1956. .

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  1. Albert Woolson of Minnesota was the last authenticated survivor of
  
  the Civil War. Woolson served as a Union drummer boy and died in 1956.
  
  2. Determining the last Confederate veteran is more difficult. The
  
  most recent and thorough study by William Marvel, published in "Blue and
  
  Gray" magazine in Feb. 1991, finds that the last authenicated veteran of
  
  the Confederate army was Pleasant Crump of the 10th Alabama, who died on
  
  31 Dec 1951. Previous claims to be the last veteran of the Confederate
  
  army (and of the whole War) were made for Walter Washington Williams (died
  
  19 Dec 1959) of Texas and for John Salling (died 19 Mar 1959) of Virginia.
  
  However, Marvel concluded that their claims must be rejected, since (among
  
  other reasons) census records indicated that, in 1860, Williams was only 5
  
  years old and Salling was just 2 years old.
  
  3. The last surviving Civil War general was Union Brig.Gen. Adelbert
  
  Ames, who died in 1933 at age 97.
  
  4. The last surviving Confederate general was Brig.Gen. John
  
  McCausland, who died on 22 Jan 1927 at age 91. Felix H. Robertson, who
  
  was appointed B.G. in 1864, who served at such, but whose nomination was
  
  rejected by the CSA Senate in 1865, died on 20 Apr 1928 at age 89. Does anyone have any personal memories of meeting any Civil War veterans? There were still a few around in the 40's and early 50's.?