This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here …but you can see it from here

A woman in Toledo, OH confronted a man who was trying to force his way into her house, according to ABC13;

“I screamed as loud as I could, ‘get off my porch. I have a gun. I will shoot you.’ And he stayed at the door,” explained Collins. “I’m like, ‘Get off my porch. I have a gun. I will shoot you.’ He didn’t move, so I opened the door and there he was standing 5 inches from the barrel of a loaded .357.”

Toledo Police arrested Kyle Caldwell, who’s 31 and from Temperance, Michigan.

Collins says she didn’t shoot him after what happened not far away on Douglas last month.

A homeowner there shot and killed a 24-year-old who was also attempting to get inside.

Instead of spending the night in the hospital, or worse, Caldwell is spending the night in jail.

Betty Collins says that she has had things stolen out of her car in the past, and that she’d had enough. her boyfriend said that if he had been home, he’d have shot Caldwell, so everyone was lucky all around.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

Preston sends a link to the story of Henry Johnson who fought off a horde of Germans while he was at an outpost on May 15th, 1918 – I’m sorry we missed the anniversary two days ago, but late is better than never;

Johnson and 17-year-old Needham Roberts were on night watch duty while stationed in France. A German sniper fired off a round at Johnson’s post, and the soldier wisely prepared by grabbing a box of grenades. After the enemy cut wire surrounding his post, Johnson tossed grenades toward the Germans and surprised them. Numbering about 20 deep, the enemy troops returned fire and grenades. Roberts was injured by a German grenade, but he was able to toss Johnson weapons during his defense.

According to Johnson’s personal account, the Germans attempted to take Roberts prisoner, but he was able to fend them off. Surrounded and stuck with a jammed rifle, Johnson took a bolo knife and began slashing at the Germans. They stabbed and beat him, but he did enough damage to save him and his comrade’s life and was assisted by fellow soldiers who came to their aid an hour after the melee began.

Johnson and Roberts suffered several wounds; Johnson had 21 wounds and fainted from his injuries en route to a French hospital. Army officials inspected the site of the clash the next morning and found four German soldiers dead and a large cache of weapons. It was said that there may have been more dead soldiers there, and it appeared that many as 32 Germans stormed the post’s fences.

Johnson’s son was awarded his father’s Purple Heart in 1996 and his Distinguished Service Cross in 2003. The french nicknamed him “The Black Death” and his unit was henceforth known as “the Harlem Hell-Fighters”. He died in 1929 and currently resides at Section 25 Site 64
in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Navy Times is reporting that a Navy SEAL, Special Warfare Operator 3rd Class Jonathan Kaloust, was killed in training at Fort Knox Wednesday night when the vehicle in which he was riding overturned. Seven others were injured;

The exercise was part of tactical training and the vehicles were traveling in a convoy, but Lloyd declined to give any further details, saying the training is considered sensitive.

Kaloust was assigned to an East Coast-based SEAL team out of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Va., the release said. The 23-year-old from Massapequa, N.Y., joined the Navy in March 2011. He joined his unit in December.

Another stark reminder that training can be as deadly as war.

Thanks to Chip for the link.

We first wrote about James Ferris on March 1st when we discovered some medals he was wearing which weren’t in his reocrds. We teamed up with Mark Weiner of the Syracuse Post-Standard when Mark wrote an article about Ferris, from Liverpool, NY, when he went to a ceremony at the White House. Mark was able to send a reporter to ferris house and confront him with his records. Oddly enough, before the reporter went to Ferris’ house, I’d told Mark about how some phonies said they were wearing their fathers’ medals to honor his service. Ferris told the reporter that he was wearing his brother’s medals to honor his service. Funny how the fakers have a discernible pattern. Anyway, Ferris offered to resign as the President of the Korean War Veterans Association and the Board refused to accept his resignation.

Today Mark sends us a link to his latest article on the subject announcing that the membership of the KWVA has sounded off and forced the Board to accept Ferris’ resignation;

Aldridge said the board changed its position after hearing from members of chapters across the nation who said Ferris should no longer represent them.

“We had a lot of requests that Jim step aside,” Aldridge said. “And like the rest of us, he’s not in the best of health. That was one of the motivating reasons.”

Ferris, reached at his home in Clay today, confirmed his resignation and said, “I’m not well anymore. But it’s for personal reasons, mainly.”

When asked to elaborate, Ferris would say only, “The membership will find out when it goes through the proper channels.”

Aldridge said the KWVA’s membership of about 15,000 veterans has not been notified as a group about the change at the top. He said the change will be become official with the completion of a routine audit, done anytime the group has a change in command.

I heard the rumor yesterday and I was in the process of trying to verify it when someone announced it in the comments. Some of our friends in KWVA couldn’t even verify it through their connections – I guess the KWVA is keeping it’s membership in the dark. With what I’ve seen from the leadership at KWVA, I think it needs some serious housecleaning. My uncle, a former VFW post commander and Vietnam veteran had to let the local KWVA post commander about Ferris because the KWVA leadership wasn’t telling anyone. Since this is the 60th anniversary year of the end of outward hostilities in the Korean War, I’d think that KWVA would want someone without this baggage to represent them in public. But that’s just me.

ROS sends us a link to our favorite pro-gun journalist, Emily Miller, of the Washington Times who reports that the City Council is considering mandating liability insurance for legal gun owners in the District. In her series of articles, Ms. Miller illustrates the financial burden the District already places on legal owners just getting through the process to own a gun, now, Mary M. Cheh is planning on introducing the measure today.

The insurance has to “specifically cover any damages resulting from negligent acts, or willful acts that are not undertaken in self-defense, involving the use of the insured firearm while it is owned by the policyholder.”

“A lot of it really revolved around Howard Brooks, as far as I was concerned,” said D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh. “He’s like a mystery man.” She looked into allegations of wrongdoing in the Vincent C. Gray campaign as part of her oversight duties.

Mrs. Cheh does not seem to care that this kind of insurance doesn’t even exist.

Willem O. Rijksen, The vice president of public affairs for the American Insurance Association told me that, “We oppose proposals that would mandate gun liability insurance as property-casualty insurance does not and cannot cover intentional criminal behavior.”

Accidents are already covered under homeowners’ insurance policies.

Not only doesn’t the insurance exist, they can’t even make District residents buy car insurance for longer than it takes them to register their car. Yes, people who regularly obey the law, will buy the insurance, if such a thing exists, but the City Counsel is trying to make the residents safer, but all they’ll end up doing is making more criminals.

Cheh is just like the legacy governor of New York State in that she doesn’t even understand insurance, but she’s trying to invent something that doesn’t exist – like Cuomo tried to invent seven round magazines by simply arriving at a compromise. Insurance doesn’t prevent auto accidents and insurance won’t stop gun violence. Stupid hippies.

WV Senator Joe Manchin has been trying to breathe life back into his background checks bill which would make it mandatory for most private gun sales to go through the same background checks as gun stores sales and require that those records be maintained for government scrutiny by firearms dealers. But, I guess the fears that many of us expressed, that it wouldn’t stop there, have been illustrated quite well by the IRS scandal and concerns Manchin, according to the Washington Times;

“The difference is this,” Mr. Manchin continued. “Let’s say the EPA, which we’re fighting every minute of every day, because we believe that they’re overreaching, they’re creating rules and regulations. They’re interpreting and they’re doing things on their own because they are a federal agency. The Second Amendment is [in] the Constitution – it can only be changed by the legislative branch of government.”

Mr. Kercheval said Mr. Manchin’s legislation makes sense, but that the IRS situation doesn’t help the prospects of its reintroduction.

“Sure, it doesn’t help us – heck no,” Mr. Manchin replied. “But the bottom line is, [host Hoppy Kercheval], you cant stop government; you can’t stop this great country, you can’t stop the entrepreneurial spirit.”

Actually, you can stop government, Joe. That’s why there’s Constitution and a Bill of Rights. The Constitution was written to protect we, the people, from government. Like I’ve said, there are elements of the bill that I like – not needing a background check with a CCW license is an example, but I’ll give that up if it means less government intrusion into our legal purchases.

“NBC’s Lisa Myers reported this morning that the IRS  deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election:”

Video is available at the link.

You may have noticed that it’s a little crowded in here today. That’s because our own Poetrooper linked to our discussion yesterday of the Semper Parasol thing over at American Thinker. So I thought I’d spread the love and return the favor. So click over and read “They’re Marines, Mr. President, Not Butlers“.

Yeah, I know, Hondo wrote about it yesterday, but he didn’t use any good examples about the differences between strong conservatives and weak-ass hippies (yes, if you’re a liberal, you’re a stinkin’ hippie) like our buddy ROS did at Victory Girls;

Take my beloved Jonn over at thisainthell.us for example- HOT-ness…….and so very a conservative veteran. Or THE hottest man I know- also a veteran, an MBA, an addiction to knowledge, and an abundance of other attributes too numerous for me to list………and conservative. LTC Allen West, Todd Palin, Dr. Ben Carson, Paul Ryan, Kevin Jackson of The Black Sphere, and Neil Cavuto (don’t judge me) are all conservatives, and just gaze upon that pile of smoldering intellectual GQ material. And then there’s Dwayne – Johnson, that is. Yeah, don’t even try to argue that one.

Well, that’s only the important part (to me), so you should click over and read the rest. So I don’t get accused of Stolen Smarts, I don’t remember getting an MBA.

From Scotty, we get the records of Harold L. Routson. His obit tells of a Special Forces Vietnam veteran with more than 20 years of service, but his records tell a different story;

So he joined the Army in 1975 – after the last US military member left Vietnam. There weren’t any Special Forces at Fort Campbell in those days. And oh, yeah, 1975-1985 doesn’t add up to 20 years, no matter how hard I try to manipulate the math for him. His assignments;

So, why didn’t he finish 20 years, well, look at block 29 on the bottom part of his DD214;

Usually, at this point, we say “perfectly honorable service ruined by embellishment”, but this time we say “oh, well, no wonder he embellished”.