Shuttle Endeavour’s final voyage

The space shuttle Endeavour, atop Nasa’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies over Houston, Texas on Wednesday SEP 19, 2012. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner is flying Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Centre. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era.

Edward Air Force Base, in California Mojave Desert

Passes over the California State Capitol in Sacramento

   Passes over Los Angeles City Hall

Passes over Santa Monica beach

       Flies over Angel Stadium of Anaheim

Flies over Los Angeles Coliseum

At LAX



-- Lê Quang Thọ

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U.S. vows second warship for Philippines

Chiến hạm BRP Gregorio del Pilar cuả HQ Philippines By Jim Gomez - The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines — The United States will provide a second warship to the ill-equipped Philippine military as it confronts China in increasingly tense territorial disputes in the South China Sea, a Philippine official said Thursday. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assured Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin during talks in Manila on Wednesday that Washington would give its longtime ally a second Coast Guard cutter virtually for free some time next year. The first second-hand cutter from the U.S. Coast Guard sailed into Manila in August and became the most modern vessel in the dilapidated Philippine fleet. Clinton assured the Philippine military of intensified U.S. assistance Wednesday when the allies marked the 60th anniversary of the signing of their Mutual Defense Treaty aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer in Manila.

Chinese Support for North Vietnam during the Vietnam War: The Decisive Edge

by Bob Seals “Best turn it into a bigger war…I’m afraid you really ought to send more troops to the South…Don’t be afraid of U.S. intervention, at most it’s no worse than having another Korean War. The Chinese army is prepared, and if America takes the risk of attacking North Vietnam, the Chinese army will march in at once. Our troops want a war now.” [1] -- Mao speaking to the North Vietnamese in 1964

Questions & Answers_Bill Laurie

Will be speaking to college VN class this week. They've already submitted 17 questions, answers to which I've since emailed back to their instructor, a USAF VN veteran with history Ph.D. The presentation will touch on some of these topics and issues but will include much more than contained in these answers. Here are the questions and answers..... 1. What do you feel the television media effects were on not only the soldiers, but the Vietnamese people as well? It's arguable that television/media coverage had little direct effect on troops, and less so on Viet Namese people, because they didn't see much of it. It had a huge cumulative indirect effect on both because "news"(?), shallow and biased as it was, did effect people in U.S., both amongst general public and elected officials and decision makers. The effect was detrimental.

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