It’s Memorial Day here in the US, and once again we’re happy to post an excerpt from Chris Owen’s excellent book Ron the War Hero to commemorate L. Ron Hubbard’s war service. Make sure to pick up a copy of the book if you haven’t already. Eighty years ago this June, L. Ron Hubbard took charge of his first command – the USS YP-422, in Neponset, Massachusetts. Having returned from “hard action in the South Pacific,” according to the Scientology publication “Ron: Humanitarian – Restoring Honor and Self-Respect”, he took command of “a hastily fitted subchaser” aboard which he “distinguished himself as an officer who cared more for the safety of his ship and men than for gilded braid.” The truth, as ever with Hubbard, was much more prosaic and his time aboard the YP-422 ended in ignominy.
During WW2 4 of my uncles served in US armed forces. One was a medic in the famed 101st Airborne Division. He jumped for D day and Market Garden. . He ended the war with a 3 purple hearts and a Bronze and Silver Star.
His slightly younger brother served in an Armored unit that fought at Peleliu and the Philippines. He hated the Japanese until his dying day, but came through the war relatively unscathed.
Another Uncle was a Motor Man 2/c on the Plunkett. A US destroyer. While Lroon was pissing off everyone around him Uncle Larry and his ship were covering the landings in North Africa. They then covered the landings in Sicily and the Italian mainland. His ship caught a German bomb off Anizo and lost 55 sailors. After hasty repairs off Sicily they went back to England on one propeller. The other one had been blown off in the fight. After more fixes in England they went back to the US for more repairs. They were back in action in time to cover the landings in Normandy. After his ship was not needed in the ETO, the Plunkett went to San Diego and was 3 days out, heading for Japan when the Japanese surrendered. The ship was ordered to turn around and Uncle Larry and most of the crew were demobilized by the end of September. Larry was somewhat hard of hearing for the rest of his life. That German bomb blew Larry through an open hatchway and he was otherwise unharmed during the war. He is immortalized in a book called 'Unsinkable'. He was so drunk after a night out in Oran that he fell off the gangplank and went for an unscheduled swim in the harbor. He was not mentioned by name, but that swim was and is a part of family history.
For the CO$ and Lroon himself to claim all that 'stolen valor', well, that really pisses me off.
I DARE any current scienbollockist, especially one of you OSA wankers reading this blog, to call any of us here a "religious bigot" for merely stating the truth about his Supreme Rotten-Toothed Majesty, Flatulent Fabulist Flubbard.
In other news, today's entertainment at the FLAG Memorial Day barbeque is:
Little David and The Florida Fabian Fellatio Foundation
During WW2 4 of my uncles served in US armed forces. One was a medic in the famed 101st Airborne Division. He jumped for D day and Market Garden. . He ended the war with a 3 purple hearts and a Bronze and Silver Star.
His slightly younger brother served in an Armored unit that fought at Peleliu and the Philippines. He hated the Japanese until his dying day, but came through the war relatively unscathed.
Another Uncle was a Motor Man 2/c on the Plunkett. A US destroyer. While Lroon was pissing off everyone around him Uncle Larry and his ship were covering the landings in North Africa. They then covered the landings in Sicily and the Italian mainland. His ship caught a German bomb off Anizo and lost 55 sailors. After hasty repairs off Sicily they went back to England on one propeller. The other one had been blown off in the fight. After more fixes in England they went back to the US for more repairs. They were back in action in time to cover the landings in Normandy. After his ship was not needed in the ETO, the Plunkett went to San Diego and was 3 days out, heading for Japan when the Japanese surrendered. The ship was ordered to turn around and Uncle Larry and most of the crew were demobilized by the end of September. Larry was somewhat hard of hearing for the rest of his life. That German bomb blew Larry through an open hatchway and he was otherwise unharmed during the war. He is immortalized in a book called 'Unsinkable'. He was so drunk after a night out in Oran that he fell off the gangplank and went for an unscheduled swim in the harbor. He was not mentioned by name, but that swim was and is a part of family history.
For the CO$ and Lroon himself to claim all that 'stolen valor', well, that really pisses me off.
I DARE any current scienbollockist, especially one of you OSA wankers reading this blog, to call any of us here a "religious bigot" for merely stating the truth about his Supreme Rotten-Toothed Majesty, Flatulent Fabulist Flubbard.
In other news, today's entertainment at the FLAG Memorial Day barbeque is:
Little David and The Florida Fabian Fellatio Foundation
Joy Killa and The Skid Marks
Grunt Cardone's Remunerative Necromancy
Eric Berg and The Keto Kunt Koalition
Thank you Tony O & all on the Underground Bunker!
I Love you...,😘