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TIDBITS® TAKES TIME TO SALUTE THE ARMY

by Rick Dandes

Two hundred and two years ago, the United States’ third president, Thomas Jefferson, in a message to Congress said, “For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.” That Colonial militia was a forefather of today’s armed forces, which keep us free and safe. Tidbits salutes the U.S. Army on its 235th birthday on June 14. This week we also salute the Canadian Forces. • Known as “His Majesty’s first Independent Com-pany of American Rangers,” the first Colonial American fighting unit was formed in 1747. Though it served England, the Rangers were American soldiers.• The earliest reference to a Canadian military unit organized in a school dates from 1861; six years before Confederation. The Militia General Orders of June 3, 1861 authorized a Volunteer Militia Rifle Company, Class B to be called “Trinity College Vol-unteer Rifle Company.” Although this rifle company was more of an Officer Training Corps than a cadet corps, the beginnings of the Royal Cana-dian Army Cadets had been formed.

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• The Canadian Forces, formed officially on Feb. 1, 1968, was the result of the unification and merging of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and Royal Canadian AirForce. • An unordered “shot heard around the world” that occurred on April 19, 1775, at Lexington Green near Boston quickly started the War for Independence. At this battle, the first in the Revolutionary War, eight Americans were killed and 10 wounded.• On June 14, 1775, Congress approved the raising of 10 companies of riflemen to enlist in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia until the end of the Revolutionary War. These troops were known as the Continental Army.• Even before an open treaty was signed be-tween Colonial Americans fighting for indepen-dence and France, the French had secretly helped the cause of the Americans. France sent America money and army supplies and, in addi-tion, able Frenchmen had come across the At-lantic to join the American army. The most noted of these was the Marquis de Lafayette.• By the end of the French and Indian War, a new weapon had appeared on the frontier in Pennsylvania and to the south, one far better suited to guerrilla warfare than the musket. This weapon was later to become known as the Ken-tucky rifle. • Congress established the U.S. Military Acad-emy along the Hudson River, at West Point, New York, in 1802.• In the early 1900s, General Samuel Young be-came the army’s first Chief of Staff and the first aeronautical division was set up within its signal corps.• The “Star Spangled Banner” officially became the National Anthem in 1931.• It’s about time: Private First Class Clarence Wallaert was shot in the hip by a German sniper while fighting against the German Winter Line in Italy on Dec. 30, 1943. Wallaert bandaged his own wound and provided 12 hours of rifle support for his Army comrades advancing into the Liri Valley--the “gateway to Rome.” Nearly 66 years later, Wallaert, 86, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., for his meritorious actions during World War II.• June 6, 1944: D-Day. In the largest, exclu-sively American field command, 1.3 million men stormed the beaches at Normandy in the great-est amphibious attack in history.

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Thought for the Day: “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” -- Albert Einstein

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Willie Nelson began performing music as a child growing up in Abbott, Texas. After his father died and his mother ran away, Nel-son and his sister Bobbie were raised by their grandparents, who encouraged both children to play instruments. It sure paid off in the long run, didn’t it?• In Willie’s younger days he was a door-to-door salesman. He eventually got a job at a radio station. By the time Willie graduated from school, he had his own radio show.• Nelson began playing professionally at age 10 and joined a Western swing band as a teenager. In the 1960s he moved to Nashville, where he became a successful songwriter.• Although he didn’t become a major star until the mid-1970s, Willie Nelson spent much of his early years in the 1960s pen-ning songs that became hits for estab-lished performers like Patsy Cine (“Crazy”) and Faron Young (“Hello Walls”). He also released a series of records on Liberty and RCA that earned him a small, but devoted, cult following.• Willie’s first album for Columbia Records, “The Red Headed Stranger,” was a con-cept album about a preacher, featuring only his guitar and his sister’s piano. The label was reluctant to release it, but they relented, and it became a huge hit, thanks to Nelson’s cover of Roy Acuff’s Classic tune, “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.”• Willie Nelson has been a successful actor, with memorable performances in “Honeysuckle Rose,” co-starring Amy Irving, and “The Electric Horseman,” star-ring Robert Redford. He was also featured in a 1986 country-Western remake of the classic Western, “Stagecoach.”• Willie enjoyed his most successful year in 1978, when he had two hit records. The first was “Waylon and Willie,” his initial duet album with Waylon Jennings. This was a major success early in the year, spawn-ing the classic “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.” Later in the year, he released “Stardust,” an instant classic record that was a collection of pop standards.• Willie had hits throughout the early 1980s, when he had a major crossover success in 1982 with a cover of Elvis Presley’s hit “Always on My Mind.” The single spent two weeks at number one and crossed over to number five on the pop charts.• Willie has had well-known tax problems. When the IRS seized his possessions to sell at auction to collect money to pay his tax debt, many of Nelson’s fans bought his stuff and then gave it back to him. The only major possessions not seized were his guitar and his tour bus so he could earn a living.• Nelson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993.• It is believed that Willie Nelson has re-corded about 250 records and written more than 2,500 songs.

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1. LANGUAGE: What kind of activity likely would take place in a natatorium?2. GEOGRAPHY: What is the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River?3. TIME: When will the next leap year occur?4. SCIENCE: What is the symbol for the ele-ment copper?5. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of bacteria called?6. MUSIC: What pop artist had a No. 1 hit with “Escape (The Pi–a Colada Song)”?7. TELEVISION: What was the name of Jack’s restaurant in “Three’s Company”?8. AD SLOGAN: What company’s product was featured in ads with the slogan “the ultimate driving machine”?9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was the old-time occupation of a wainwright?10. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: Who once said, “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed”?

1. Who holds the major-league record for most stolen bases in a season without being caught once?2. In 2009, Mark Buehrle became the second White Sox pitcher to have two no-hitters in his career. Who was the first?3. True or false: Vince Lombardi never had a losing season in 10 years as an NFL head coach.4. Name the last Pac-10 team to win the men’s college basketball national champion-ship.5. How many years after Terry Sawchuk set the NHL goaltender record for career shut-outs (103) was it that Martin Brodeur broke it? 6. Name the last driver (not counting cur-rent driver Brad Keselowski in 2009) to get his only career Cup win at Talladega Super-speedway.

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