Here are the many conflicts we fought in:
King Philips War; 4 July 1675 to 12 Aug 1676
King Williams War; 1689 - 1697
Queen Anne's War; 1702 - 1713
King George War; 1744 - 1748
French Indian War; 1756 - 1763
Cherokee War; 1759 - 1761
(actually it was our terrorism to the Indians, the trail of tears)
American Revolution; 1775 - 1783
Franco American Naval War; 1798 - 1800
Barbary Wars; 1801 - 1805
War of 1812; 1812 - 1815
Creek War; 1813 - 1814
War of Texas Independence; 1836
Mexican American War;1846 - 1848
The Civil War; 1861 - 1865
Spanish War; 1898
WW1; 1914 - 1918
WW2; 1939 - 1945
Korea; 1950 - 1953
Vietnam; 1960 - 1975
Bay of Pigs; 1961
Grenada; 1983
Lebanon; 1983 - 1987
Panama; 1989
Philippine Coup Attempt; 1989
Persian Gulf; 1990 - 1991
Bosnia; 1993 - 1996
Afghanistan; 2001 to ?
Iraq; 2003 - 2014
This is a lot.
How many more do we need to get involved in?
What is next?
North Korea?
Ukraine?
Syria?
Sudan?
Burma?
Why can't we just have peace, instead of conflict?
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Memorial Day 2014
On
this Friday night I reflect of my Naval career,
what I seen,
the combat I went through in; Lebanon, Philippines, Bosnia, Iraq, and Kuwait,
the shipmates I never lost touch with; B, Kira, Old Dan Tucker, Squiggy, to name a few,
the great camaraderie I had,
the west pacs, Caribbean, and Mediterranean deployments,
the humanitarian ops I went on to Africa,
the expeditions to Iceland, the arctic, and the antarctic,
and my favorite ship; the Battleship New Jersey BB-62.
I want to give a memorial day weekend shout out to all the shipmates I served with on;
the Battleship New Jersey,
security duty in the Philippines and Japan,
at CHB5 Sand Point Washington,
on the USS Underwood FFG-36,
on the USS Richmond K. Turner CG-20,
on the USS John C. Stennis CVN-74,
at Newport Rhode Island,
on the USS Belleauwood LHA-3,
and at NAVSTA Great Lakes.
Thank you for your service;
and all the other shipmates; sailors, marines, and soldiers and airman I served with.
Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!
And do not forget those who served and gave that ultimate sacrifice.
Bless you my brothers and sisters in arms.
From LT Kerofsky USNSCC Retired
what I seen,
the combat I went through in; Lebanon, Philippines, Bosnia, Iraq, and Kuwait,
the shipmates I never lost touch with; B, Kira, Old Dan Tucker, Squiggy, to name a few,
the great camaraderie I had,
the west pacs, Caribbean, and Mediterranean deployments,
the humanitarian ops I went on to Africa,
the expeditions to Iceland, the arctic, and the antarctic,
and my favorite ship; the Battleship New Jersey BB-62.
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| The Battleship Aft; Turret 3 |
I want to give a memorial day weekend shout out to all the shipmates I served with on;
the Battleship New Jersey,
security duty in the Philippines and Japan,
at CHB5 Sand Point Washington,
on the USS Underwood FFG-36,
on the USS Richmond K. Turner CG-20,
on the USS John C. Stennis CVN-74,
at Newport Rhode Island,
on the USS Belleauwood LHA-3,
and at NAVSTA Great Lakes.
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| Me right after Boot Camp |
Thank you for your service;
and all the other shipmates; sailors, marines, and soldiers and airman I served with.
Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!
And do not forget those who served and gave that ultimate sacrifice.
Bless you my brothers and sisters in arms.
From LT Kerofsky USNSCC Retired
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| Me after retiring and serving one year in the Sea Cadet Core. |
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Are we in dangerous times?
Check this link out my fellow bloggers:
http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/
It might open someones eyes to what is really going on with the environment.
Like John Kerry said, "We have to get more grass roots groups involved
and hold the oil companies responsible for polluting the environment."
He was one of the original people who started Earth Day back in 1970,
this led to the EPA and other environmental organizations.
The Obama administration has set higher EPA standards,
reduced our oil import by 10 percent, and has stopped the pipeline so far.
Unfortunately lobbyist and the big oil companies with all their money have the power.
All the search for off shore oil and the drilling that is going off Greenland
as all the Ice Caps are melting is not logical.
I don't understand why people can not open their eyes.
Look at what the Gulf spell did back in 2010,
we are still feeling the economic effects.
The internal combustion engine we use in our automobiles is obsolete,
I like the fact of hybrid cars. But is it too little too late?
We can do more, we need a shift in the other direction.
I am writing another letter to congress, it is our right to do.
I don't know if they listen, but we have the right of our voice.
What I saw so far in this show is intriguing.
I am active in environmental groups trying to get the
government and these big corrupt oil companies to listen.
I am am member of 350org and we have been an
influence in stopping the XL pipeline.
When I was in the arctic back in 1994 on an expedition
there was ice shifts then.
It is much worse now, the ice is melting more rapid.
Though we had a cold long winter,
many of you will think that disproves climate change.
But in fact it proves that we are warming,
the ice caps melting causes rapid changes in the weather.
This year we had a polar vortex that caused a long winter.
But look at the rise in the earths temperature in general,
since the Industrial Revolution.
This is when man started to pollute the environment.
The temperature drops are when there was volcanic eruptions.
The ash cools the atmosphere.
This year it was cooled by the Polar Vortex.
But we had early summers in 2011, 12, and 13.
They were long and hot. See the point.
The earth is warming.
The president said on energy, climate, and change:
“We can’t have an energy strategy for the last century that traps us in the past. We need an energy strategy for the future – an all-of-the-above strategy for the 21st century that develops every source of American-made energy.” - President Barack Obama,
March 15, 2012
http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/
It might open someones eyes to what is really going on with the environment.
Like John Kerry said, "We have to get more grass roots groups involved
and hold the oil companies responsible for polluting the environment."
He was one of the original people who started Earth Day back in 1970,
this led to the EPA and other environmental organizations.
The Obama administration has set higher EPA standards,
reduced our oil import by 10 percent, and has stopped the pipeline so far.
Unfortunately lobbyist and the big oil companies with all their money have the power.
All the search for off shore oil and the drilling that is going off Greenland
as all the Ice Caps are melting is not logical.
I don't understand why people can not open their eyes.
Look at what the Gulf spell did back in 2010,
we are still feeling the economic effects.
The internal combustion engine we use in our automobiles is obsolete,
I like the fact of hybrid cars. But is it too little too late?
We can do more, we need a shift in the other direction.
I am writing another letter to congress, it is our right to do.
I don't know if they listen, but we have the right of our voice.
What I saw so far in this show is intriguing.
I am active in environmental groups trying to get the
government and these big corrupt oil companies to listen.
I am am member of 350org and we have been an
influence in stopping the XL pipeline.
When I was in the arctic back in 1994 on an expedition
there was ice shifts then.
It is much worse now, the ice is melting more rapid.
Though we had a cold long winter,
many of you will think that disproves climate change.
But in fact it proves that we are warming,
the ice caps melting causes rapid changes in the weather.
This year we had a polar vortex that caused a long winter.
But look at the rise in the earths temperature in general,
since the Industrial Revolution.
This is when man started to pollute the environment.
The temperature drops are when there was volcanic eruptions.
The ash cools the atmosphere.
This year it was cooled by the Polar Vortex.
But we had early summers in 2011, 12, and 13.
They were long and hot. See the point.
The earth is warming.
The president said on energy, climate, and change:
“We can’t have an energy strategy for the last century that traps us in the past. We need an energy strategy for the future – an all-of-the-above strategy for the 21st century that develops every source of American-made energy.” - President Barack Obama,
March 15, 2012
Friday, May 9, 2014
Let Art be Art
Let art be art:
An independent study
Mr. Timothy L. Kerofsky, MA
Through my research on the arts;
study of the classics to the modern arts, I have found that we are becoming too
uptight in America.
In the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries; the
arts of Europe blossomed. The arts of classism,
neo-classism, sculpture, nudes including nudes of children, and portrait
painting were popular in that era.
The creative mind of Leonardo Di Vinci in which he used science and art to create inventions long before his time is intriguing.
The works of Michelangelo most notably the statue of David and the
paintings of cherubs in the Sistine Chapel and the works of Raphael; his
neo-classism biblical paintings were created within this era.
In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries; the morbid arts of Goya, the expressionist arts, the Bouguereau arts of pubescent girls, architectural art, and the birth of photography; in which Julia Margret Cameron took nudes of children portraying them as cherubs.
The arts of Manet, Renoir, Monet, Degas and Pissarro created
the impressionist period in the late 19th century. Not to mention
the works of Vincent Van Gogh; most notably
Starry Night, Irises, and Sunflowers.
These are great works, but I have to mention one of my favorite art
pieces painted by
Pierre Auguste Renoir entitled the “Girl in White”.
Renoir was born on February 25th, 1841 and died on December 3rd, 1919.
He was noted for his great portrait works of children.
The 20th
century brought the great work of Norman Rockwell who had a way of portraying
people. He was known for his great works for the Saturday Evening Post.
The 20th century, of course, was the time of Picasso.
The five main periods of Picasso:
Blue Period (1901-1904), Rose Period (1904-1906),
African-Influenced Period (1907-1909), Cubism (1909-1912),
and Surrealism (1912-1930′s).
My favorite artists were born during this time, notably Jock Sturgis who was born in 1947 in New York City; He attended school at Marlboro College earning a BS in Psychology and then attended art school at the San Francisco Art Institute which he earned his MFA. He is one of the controversial artist who photographs nudes of pubescent, preteen, and teen girls. Though I do not totally agree with his subject matter, I respect him as an artist. The fact that he uses an old box camera, natural lighting, and does not use a photo editing program and gets un-blurred beautiful photos is amazing.
He still takes these photos today on the beaches of France.
Another favorite artist is
a Polish artist name Jaroslaw Kukowski. He is a surreal painter and painter of
mermaids. He was born on April 11th, 1972 in Tczew, Poland.
In the decade of the 20th century the controversial arts and films emerged. In 1978 a controversial film was released called, “Pretty Baby”. It displayed 12 year old Brooke Shields as a young prostitute in a French Quarter Louisiana brothel. There was nothing edited in this film; showing complete nudity of a minor child.
Films like it was the 1976 film “Taxi Driver” starring Robert De
Niro as the taxi driver and Jody Foster who played a child prostitute; the film
entitled, “Lolita” based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel was
released in 1997 – starring Dominique Swain portraying young Lolita, a preteen
who has an attraction to an adult male. These two films, however, only had
brief nudity of the backs of the children, and not the full nudity displayed in
“Pretty Baby.” The final film I will mention is the extremely controversial
Sundance film, “Hounddog”. What made this film so controversial was the rape
scene of a child. This film was released in 2007 and starred 12 year old Dakota
Fanning in the role of Lewellen, who was going through struggles as a young
country daughter of a drunken and sick father in the early 1950’s. She loves to
sing the song, Hound Dog by Elvis Presley. She desired to see Elvis in person
and was taken advantage of by an older boy who said he had a ticket for her.
Her friend, who was a younger boy, lured her to the barn on a rainy night and
tricked her in to taking off her clothes in which she was raped by the older
boy. She never did get the ticket for the Elvis concert. After the rape she met
this black man whom was a snake charmer and he helped her find herself,
overcome what was done to her and grow.
I watched this film for one of my woman’s studies classes at Western Illinois University. I learned a lot about overcoming turmoil and adversity in this film.
Now we are in the 21st century where art has become a controversy; and congress is trying to pass laws to ban and control arts. The government in 2003 tried to pass a law banning the so-called art of anime lolicon. I do not agree with what lolicon actually is; it is drawn child like images, in the tradition of the Japanese. They mostly have big eyes, some have tails, and some have animal ears. The women that pose for these images are over the age of 18. The pure innocent lolicon drawings (like the one below) I feel are OK, but the hentai type lolicon is too morbid and perverse.
The creative mind of Leonardo Di Vinci in which he used science and art to create inventions long before his time is intriguing.
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| Leonardo Divinchi self portrait sketch |
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| Close up of the Mona Lisa |
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| The Precambrian Man |
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| Statue of David |
In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries; the morbid arts of Goya, the expressionist arts, the Bouguereau arts of pubescent girls, architectural art, and the birth of photography; in which Julia Margret Cameron took nudes of children portraying them as cherubs.
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| A morbid art by Francesco Goya |
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| Saturno devorando a su hijo by Goya |
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| The Cherub by Julia Margret Cameron |
Starry Night, Irises, and Sunflowers.
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| Starry Starry Night |
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| Irises |
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| Sunflowers |
Pierre Auguste Renoir entitled the “Girl in White”.
Renoir was born on February 25th, 1841 and died on December 3rd, 1919.
He was noted for his great portrait works of children.
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| Girl in White |
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| Fair Catch Norman Rockwell |
The 20th century, of course, was the time of Picasso.
The five main periods of Picasso:
Blue Period (1901-1904), Rose Period (1904-1906),
African-Influenced Period (1907-1909), Cubism (1909-1912),
and Surrealism (1912-1930′s).
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| Bottle, Guitar, Glass, and Pipe (Cubism period) |
My favorite artists were born during this time, notably Jock Sturgis who was born in 1947 in New York City; He attended school at Marlboro College earning a BS in Psychology and then attended art school at the San Francisco Art Institute which he earned his MFA. He is one of the controversial artist who photographs nudes of pubescent, preteen, and teen girls. Though I do not totally agree with his subject matter, I respect him as an artist. The fact that he uses an old box camera, natural lighting, and does not use a photo editing program and gets un-blurred beautiful photos is amazing.
He still takes these photos today on the beaches of France.
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| Girl with crossed arms Jock Sturgis |
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| Mermaid and Gull Jaroslaw Kukowski |
In the decade of the 20th century the controversial arts and films emerged. In 1978 a controversial film was released called, “Pretty Baby”. It displayed 12 year old Brooke Shields as a young prostitute in a French Quarter Louisiana brothel. There was nothing edited in this film; showing complete nudity of a minor child.
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| Scene from Pretty Baby, I took the photo from my TV, and edited out her private parts. |
I watched this film for one of my woman’s studies classes at Western Illinois University. I learned a lot about overcoming turmoil and adversity in this film.
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| Dakota Fanning in her most controversial role |
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| The rape scene of Hounddog |
Now we are in the 21st century where art has become a controversy; and congress is trying to pass laws to ban and control arts. The government in 2003 tried to pass a law banning the so-called art of anime lolicon. I do not agree with what lolicon actually is; it is drawn child like images, in the tradition of the Japanese. They mostly have big eyes, some have tails, and some have animal ears. The women that pose for these images are over the age of 18. The pure innocent lolicon drawings (like the one below) I feel are OK, but the hentai type lolicon is too morbid and perverse.
But, if one
bans this one has to ban the modern arts; the "photo-nudes" by Jock Sturgis,
Bill Henson,
David Hamilton, and Sally Mann. This law does not make it clear what classifies
art and what does not. There is a fine line between the modern art of today and
porn. It is a judgment call, an objective view which is different for each
person. Art today is scrutinized; one could not do a nude painting today
without another saying that it is porn. Unlike it was in the arts of old. No
the government cannot ban one type of art and not the other, no matter how
morbid nor the subject matter. If they do they would have to ban all arts;
paintings, drawings, music, dance. This is not logical. I agree on the controls
of child modeling, the long hours they have to work and such; but banning art,
no!
Just let art
be art and let people express themselves. Is not this what art really is?
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