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JARHEAD JAVA uses only premium Colombian coffee beans specially selected and custom roasted to ensure a first class coffee drinking experience. The mission of JARHEAD JAVA is simple, provide an exceptional coffee product while providing: support and assistance to those who serve our great nation. The company founder and President -- who is a staunch supporter of our Military and son of a WWII Mari

ne -- is proud to donate 50% of all profits to the SEMPER FI FUND and its program, AMERICA'S FUND. No other coffee company matches this level of support for our military, making JARHEAD JAVA the, "TRUE BREW" supporter of those who defend the Red, White & Blue.

2 June 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities. The 1919 United States anarchist bo...
06/02/2026

2 June 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities. The 1919 United States anarchist bombings were a series of bombings and attempted bombings carried out by anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani from April through June 1919. These bombings led to the Red Scare of 1919–20. The Galleanists managed to detonate eight large bombs nearly simultaneously in eight different U.S. cities. These bombs were much larger than those sent in April, using up to 25 pounds of dynamite, and all were wrapped or packaged with heavy metal slugs designed to act as shrapnel.

Addressees included government officials who had endorsed anti-sedition laws and deportation of immigrants suspected of crimes or associated with illegal movements, as well as judges who had sentenced anarchists to prison. None of the targeted men were killed, but one bomb took the life of New York City night watchman William Boehner.

Two near-casualties of the same bomb were Asst. Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor who had walked past one of the targeted houses just minutes before the explosion, and their residence was close enough that one of the bomber’s body parts landed on their doorstep.

It seems that as much as things change...

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1 June 1918, a division of Marines was sent to support the French army at Belleau Wood. As the Marines arrived, they fou...
06/01/2026

1 June 1918, a division of Marines was sent to support the French army at Belleau Wood. As the Marines arrived, they found French troops retreating through their lines. A French colonel, attempting to acquaint the Americans with the realities of the situation (as he saw them) and not trusting his spoken English, scribbled a note to the officer in charge of the Americans ordering them to retreat. The Marine officer looked at the Frenchman coldly and said, “Retreat, Hell! We just got here!”

That officer was Capt. Lloyd W. Williams, commanding the 51st Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. Ten days later, on 11 June 1918, he led an assault that routed the German defenders at Belleau Wood. Of the 10 officers and 250 men who started the attack, only one officer and 16 enlisted men escaped death or injury.

As Williams lay wounded on the battlefield, blinded by gas and gutted by German shrapnel, he told the medics who approached him, “Don’t bother with me, take care of my good men.” He passed on the next day, 12 June 1918.

RIP Devil Dog - Fair winds and following seas...

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Today, we honor and remember MOH recipient Rodolfo Hernandez - Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, Company G, 18...
05/31/2026

Today, we honor and remember MOH recipient Rodolfo Hernandez - Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, Company G, 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team
Place and date: Near Wontong-ni, Korea, May 31, 1951
Entered service at: Fowler, California
Born: April 14, 1931, Colton, California
G.O. No.: 40, April 12, 1952
"Cpl. HERNANDEZ, a member of Company G, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy. His platoon, in defensive positions on Hill 420, came under ruthless attack by a numerically superior and fanatical hostile force, accompanied by heavy artillery, mortar, and machinegun fire which inflicted numerous casualties on the platoon. His comrades were forced to withdraw due to lack of ammunition but Cpl. HERNANDEZ, although wounded in an exchange of gr***des, continued to deliver deadly fire into the ranks of the onrushing assailants until a ruptured cartridge rendered his rifle inoperative. Immediately leaving his position, Cpl. HERNANDEZ rushed the enemy armed only with rifle and bayonet. Fearlessly engaging the foe, he killed 6 of the enemy before falling unconscious from gr***de, bayonet, and bullet wounds but his heroic action momentarily halted the enemy advance and enabled his unit to counterattack and retake the lost ground. The indomitable fighting spirit, outstanding courage, and tenacious devotion to duty clearly demonstrated by Cpl. HERNANDEZ reflect the highest credit upon himself, the infantry, and the U.S. Army"

Hernández, who had received gr***de, bayonet, and bullet wounds, appeared dead to the first medic who reached him, Keith Oates. Oates realized, however, that Hernandez was still alive when he saw him move his fingers. Hernandez woke up a month later in a military hospital, unable to move his arms or legs or to talk.

On April 12, 1952, President Harry S. Truman bestowed upon Hernández the Medal of Honor in a ceremony held in the White House Rose Garden.

After many surgeries and physical therapy over a five-year period, Hernández regained limited use of his right arm and learned to write with his left hand. Hernández married and had three children. He retired from a job at the Veterans Administration and lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The Carteret County Veterans Council named Hernandez one of two grand marshals of its November 11, 2006, annual Veterans Day Parade held in downtown Morehead City. On November 10, 2007, he was again co-grand marshal of the Morehead City Veterans Day Parade. During the event, he was reunited with his rescuer "from a long and far away battlefield," the former Korean War Army medic and then current Morehead City resident, Keith Oates.
Hernandez passed away in December of 2013 at the age of 82

On 31 May National Smile Day encourages everyone - two and four legged - to wear their best smile! So bring your brighte...
05/31/2026

On 31 May National Smile Day encourages everyone - two and four legged - to wear their best smile! So bring your brightest smiles to this party as we celebrate National Smile Day! The day was founded by dentists, Dr. Tim Stirneman and Jim Wojdyla of Caring Compassion Dentistry in Lake in the Hills, Illinois (I'm sure there was no financial ulterior motives-LOL)

According to zoologist Signe Preuschoft, the history of smiles can be traced back to monkeys and apes. These animals bare their teeth in a replica of a smile to show dominance or warn off predators. The theory is that humans have copied this behavior and that over time smiles evolved to show interest and amusement. Research shows that on the road to portraying happiness, smiling is one of the first ways to attract a mate.

Some interesting truths about smiling:

Smiling is less taxing than frowning
More muscle to frown is more than to smile.
Newborns laugh better than you - Newborns laugh about 400 times a day, while the average adult only smiles about 20 times.

How to celebrate National Smile Day-of course, the best way to celebrate this day dedicated to smiles is to smile! Spread a little good cheer around and charm others with your smile. We often don't realize we're scowling most of the day. Share a smile with someone for just a moment and see the difference that smile makes in your everyday interactions.

So put on that Happy Sunday Smile and enjoy the day!

Want to put a big smile on your face, or the face of someone else? Give them some Military Java Group coffee. You'll all be smiling because you will be drinking great coffee, and supporting our wounded troops at the same time!

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30 May 1922 – The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. with an estimated crowd of 50,000 on what was Decor...
05/30/2026

30 May 1922 – The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. with an estimated crowd of 50,000 on what was Decoration Day that year (Memorial Day) with another 2 million across the country listening in on the new medium - radio.

The Memorial has 48 sculptured festoons above the columns representing the number of states at the time of dedication. The 36 Doric columns in the Lincoln Memorial represent the number of states in the Union at the time of Lincoln’s death in 1865. The limestone and marble edifice, which is situated at the western end of the Mall, was designed by Henry Bacon in the style of a Greek temple.

In 1913, with Congressional approval and a $300,000 allocation, the project got underway. On February 12, 1914, a dedication ceremony was conducted and the following month the actual construction began. Work progressed steadily according to schedule. Some changes were made to the plan. The statue of Lincoln, originally designed to be 10 feet tall, was enlarged to 19 feet to prevent it from being overwhelmed by the huge chamber. As late as 1920, the decision was made to substitute an open portal for the bronze and glass grille which was to have guarded the entrance. Despite these changes, the Memorial was finished on schedule.

Commission president William H. Taft – who was then Chief Justice of the United States – dedicated the Memorial on May 30, 1922 and presented it to President Warren G. Harding, who accepted it on behalf of the American people. Lincoln's only surviving son, 78-year-old Robert Todd Lincoln, was in attendance.

The Memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.

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30 May 1942-prelude to the battle of Midway. During the Battle of the Coral Sea 4-8 May 1942), a 551-pound armor-piercin...
05/30/2026

30 May 1942-prelude to the battle of Midway. During the Battle of the Coral Sea 4-8 May 1942), a 551-pound armor-piercing bomb had plunged through the flight deck of the USS Yorktown. It hit 15 feet inboard of her island and penetrated 50 feet into the ship before exploding above the forward engine room. Six compartments were destroyed, as were the lighting systems on 3 decks and across 24 frames. The gears controlling the No. 2 elevator were damaged. She had lost her radar and refrigeration system. Near misses by eight bombs had opened seams in her hull from frames 100 to 130 and ruptured the fuel-oil compartments. Rear Adm. Aubrey Fitch, aboard the damaged carrier, estimated that repairing the Yorktown would take ninety days.

CIC Pacific Fleet ADM Nimitz didn’t have the luxury of waiting ninety days. Thanks to excellent codebreaking work by Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort and his intelligence team, Nimitz knew that the Imperial Japanese Navy planned an amphibious assault on the strategic island of Midway on 4 June and he needed every carrier he could get in the fight.

On 27 May, the Yorktown limped into Pearl Harbor. The next morning, after Nimitz had cut orders voiding the safety rule of spending a day purging her tanks of stored aviation fuel, the Yorktown eased into Drydock Number One. The caissons closed behind her, and pumps began draining out the water. With at least a foot of water still remaining in the drydock, men in waders gathered to inspect the hull. One of them was Nimitz. After staring at the burst seams and other damage on the hull, Nimitz turned to the technicians and said, “We must have this ship back in three days.” After a long silence, hull repair expert Lt. Cmdr. H. J. Pfingstag gulped and said, “Yes, sir.”

Within minutes the first of 1,400 repairmen, who would work around the clock, swarmed into the drydock to begin repairing the Yorktown. To satisfy the enormous power needs of the repair crews the Navy contacted Leslie Hicks, president of the Hawaiian Electric Company, who arranged a series of rolling blackouts in Honolulu. Only the most urgent repairs were made. Instead of individually fixing the hull’s ruptured seams, an enormous steel plate was welded over the damaged section.

At 1100 on 28 May, Drydock Number One was flooded and the Yorktown was towed into the harbor with workmen still busy aboard. On the morning of 30 May, more patched than repaired but fit enough to fight, Yorktown steamed out of Pearl Harbor. With an air group composed of aircraft from three carriers and with work crews from the repair ship USS Vestal still aboard, Yorktown sped to participate in one of the (if not the most) crucial battle of WWII in the Pacific - and her destiny...

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29 May 1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair. The Chance Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter aircraft...
05/29/2026

29 May 1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair. The Chance Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought’s manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear and Brewster: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG and Brewster-built aircraft F3A. From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1940, to final delivery in 1953 to the French, 12,571 F4U Corsairs were manufactured by Vought, in 16 separate models, in the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U.S. history (1942–53).

The Corsair was designed as a carrier-based aircraft. However its difficult carrier landing performance rendered the Corsair unsuitable for Navy use until the carrier landing issues were overcome when used by the British Fleet Air Arm. The Corsair thus came to and retained prominence in its area of greatest deployment: land based use by the U.S. Marines. The role of the dominant U.S. carrier based fighter in the second part of the war was thus filled by the Grumman F6F Hellcat, powered by the same Double Wasp engine first flown on the Corsair’s first prototype in 1940. The Corsair served to a lesser degree in the U.S. Navy. As well as the U.S. and British use the Corsair was also used by the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the French Navy Aéronavale and other, smaller, air forces until the 1960s.
Some Japanese pilots regarded it as the most formidable American fighter of World War II, and the U.S. Navy counted an 11:1 kill ratio with the F4U Corsair. After the carrier landing issues had been tackled it quickly became the most capable carrier-based fighter-bomber of World War II. The Corsair served almost exclusively as a fighter-bomber throughout the Korean War and during the French colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria.

Photo - The most famous Corsair pilot was MOH recipient, Greg (Pappy) Boyington, USMC, CO of VMF 214. Rude and feisty, he recruited his team following his convictions. Initially called the, “Swashbucklers”, his squadron was renamed “The Black Sheep”, precisely because of the recruitment of its members. Boyington wanted them to be called, “Boyingtons Bastards”, but the Marine PIO rejected it. The "Black Sheep", went on to produce 9 aces, and those aces had a combined total of 97 kills - Boyington (bottom 3rd from right with his squadron in front of his, "Bent Wing Bird") with 28.

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29 May 1943–Norman Rockwell’s portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appeared on the cover of “The Saturday Evening Post.” Rock...
05/29/2026

29 May 1943–Norman Rockwell’s portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appeared on the cover of “The Saturday Evening Post.” Rockwell’s model was Mary Keefe (19) of Arlington, Vermont. In 2002 the painting sold at auction for $4,959,500.
Keefe grew up in Arlington, Vermont, where she met Rockwell — who lived in West Arlington — and posed for his painting when she was a 19-year-old telephone operator and was paid $5.00 for the two sessions.

Although Keefe was petite, Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter had large arms, hands and shoulders. The painting shows the red-haired Rosie in blue-jean work overalls sitting down, with a sandwich in her left hand, her right arm atop a lunchbox with the name Rosie on it, a rivet gun on her lap and her feet resting on a copy of Adolf Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf. The entire background is a waving American flag.

Mary Keefe Doyle passed away on 21 April 2015 at the age of 91.
The Greatest Generation - men and women!

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Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) was the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II. He receiv...
05/28/2026

Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) was the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II. He received every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valor that he earned at the age of 19 for single-handedly holding off an entire company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.

Murphy was born into a large family of sharecroppers in Hunt County, Texas. His father abandoned them, and his mother died when he was a teenager. He left school in the 5th grade to pick cotton to assist the family, and it was his skill with a rifle that kept food on the family table. After Pearl Harbor, his sister falsified documents so as to meet the age requirement for service, but was at first turned down by by the Army, Navy and Marine Corps as being underweight. Eventually, he was accepted by the Army and first saw action in the invasion of Sicily in 1943, and was awarded a battlefield commission to second lieutenant in October of 1944 for action in the L'Omet quarry in the Cleurie valley, France.

After the war, Murphy embarked on a 21-year acting career. He played himself in the 1955 autobiographical film To Hell and Back, based on his 1949 memoirs of the same name. Suffering from what would today be described as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Murphy slept with a loaded handgun under his pillow.

On this day fifty-five years ago, Murphy was killed when the private plane in which he was a passenger crashed into Brush Mountain, near Catawba, Virginia, 20 miles west of Roanoke in conditions of rain, clouds, fog and zero visibility. The pilot and four other passengers were also killed.

On 7 June 1971, Murphy was buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. In attendance were Ambassador to the U.N. George H. W. Bush, Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland, and many of his comrades from the 3rd Infantry Division. Murphy's gravesite is in Section 46, headstone number 46-366-11, located across Memorial Drive from the Amphitheater. A special flagstone walkway was later constructed to accommodate the large number of people who visit to pay their respects. It is the cemetery's second most-visited gravesite, after that of President John F. Kennedy.

The headstones of Medal of Honor recipients buried at Arlington National Cemetery are normally decorated in gold leaf. Murphy previously requested that his stone remain plain and inconspicuous, like that of an ordinary soldier.

RIP, Hero...

27 May 1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a tandem two-seat, twin...
05/27/2026

27 May 1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor aircraft/fighter-bomber and first entered service in 1960 with the U.S. Navy. Proving highly adaptable, it was also adopted by the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force, and by the mid-1960s had become a major part of their respective air wings.

The Phantom is a large fighter with a top speed of over Mach 2.2. It can carry more than 18,000 pounds (8,400 kg) of weapons on nine external hardpoints, including air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, and various bombs. The F-4, like other interceptors of its time, was designed without an internal cannon. Later models incorporated a M61 Vulcan rotary cannon. Beginning in 1959, it set 15 world records for in-flight performance, including an absolute speed record, and an absolute altitude record.

During the Vietnam War, the F-4 was used extensively; it served as the principal air superiority fighter for both the Navy and Air Force, and became important in the ground-attack and aerial reconnaissance roles late in the war. The Phantom has the distinction of being the last U.S. fighter flown to attain ace status in the 20th century.

The F-4 continued to form a major part of U.S. military air power throughout the 1970s and 1980s, being gradually replaced by more modern aircraft. The F-4 Phantom II remained in use by the U.S. in the reconnaissance and Wild Weasel (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) roles in the 1991 Gulf War, finally leaving service in 1996. It was also the only aircraft used by both U.S. flight demonstration teams: the USAF Thunderbirds (F-4E) and the US Navy Blue Angels (F-4J). The F-4 was also operated by the armed forces of 11 other nations. Phantom production ran from 1958 to 1981, with a total of 5,195 built, making it the most numerous American supersonic military aircraft.

It's also proof that if you can stick wings on it and engines powerful enough, even a concrete slab can fly!

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