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Medal of Honor
Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Air Force, 4th Allied POW Wing, Pilot of an F-4C aircraft.
Place and date: North Vietnam, 9 November 1967.
Entered service at: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Born: 13 April 1942, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
While on a flight over North Vietnam, Capt. Sijan ejected from his disabled aircraft and successfully evaded capture for more than 6 weeks. During this time, he was seriously injured and suffered from shock and extreme weight loss due to lack of food. After being captured by North Vietnamese soldiers, Capt. Sijan was taken to a holding point for subsequent transfer to a prisoner of war camp. In his emaciated and crippled condition, he overpowered 1 of his guards and crawled into the jungle, only to be recaptured after several hours. He was then transferred to another prison camp where he was kept in solitary confinement and interrogated at length. During interrogation, he was severely tortured; however, he did not divulge any information to his captors. Capt. Sijan lapsed into delirium and was placed in the care of another prisoner. During his intermittent periods of consciousness until his death, he never complained of his physical condition and, on several occasions, spoke of future escape attempts. Capt. Sijan's extraordinary heroism and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty at the cost of his life are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Air Force and reflect great credit upon himself and the U.S. Armed Forces.
1963 U.S. Air Force Acadamy Junior Varsity Football Team. Cadet Lance Sijan is wearing number 82, front row, second from left.
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Last name: SIJAN
First name: LANCE PETER
Home of Record (official): MILWAUKEE
State (official): WI
Date of Birth: Monday, April 13, 1942
Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
Marital Status: Single
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Branch: Air Force
Rank: CPT
Serial Number: 394384276
Component: Regular
Pay grade: O3
MOS (Military Occupational Specialty code): 1115R
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Start of Tour: Saturday, July 1, 1967
Date of Casualty: Monday, January 22, 1968
Age at time of loss: 25
Casualty type: (A4) Hostile, died while captured
Reason: Air loss - Crashed on land (Crew member - Fixed wing aircraft)
Country: North VietNam
Province: Unknown/Not Reported
The Wall: Panel 29E - Row 062
Many thanks to CDR Paul Galanti, USN (ret), for providing the below poem written by Norman Turner. Paul Galanti is a former Vietnam Prisoner of War.
"This is a song concerning Lance Sijan and others. From my notes exactly as I wrote it 30 years ago. Apparently Sijan was in the 389th TFS because my classmates Morgan and Hunnycutt were. This is factually accurate as we believed it then including the call sign. We assumed all were dead on detonation. I never put music to it. Norm."
Two Phantom ships went thundering
Into the rain and wind
Their call sign Baffle Zero-One
Their crews were four young men
Armstrong and Sijan, Morgan, Hunnycutt
And none has ever seen them again
It happened on a stormy night
About two years ago
It was a strange occurrence
I'll tell you all I know
It happened like I tell it
If you'll fill my glass with rum
I'll tell you of the fate
Of Baffle Zero-One
They took their ships into the North
To strike the convoy force
And the bomb load that they carried
Was of a different source
New fuses had been loaded
Malfunctioned it was found
And the four of them were dead men
From the time they left the ground
They started on their bomb run
Above that barren road
Three minutes out, said Milky
You're clear to arm your load
Two sets of switches moved to Arm
Two sets of relays hot
Three minutes from eternity
But the young men knew it not
Ten seconds out said Milky
Prepare for my countdown
Their thumbs were tensed on buttons
Four miles above the ground
And the last thing they would ever hear
That night so cold and black
Was a voice that counted backward
And the final codeword, "Hack"
The bombs that were intended
To fall upon the ground
Had detonated at release
And filled the sky around
With torn and twisted pieces
Blasted from the pair
And caused by lack of interest
By the ones who sent them there
The ones who knew about such things
Said, no it could not be
The fuses were all good they said
Load more and you shall see
And three more ships were stricken
And more lives spent and gone
'till they finally admitted
Was the fuses all along
And all the men and aircraft
Were called a combat loss
And no one had better say it's not
The word was quietly passed
And if they knew who wrote this song
They'd nail him to the cross
But someone should have, long ago
Told those who bear the loss
Written in Osan, Korea in 1970 by Maj. Norman M. Turner, 80th Tactical Fighter Squadron
'Sijan! My Name is Lance Peter Sijan!'
by Lt. Col. Fred A. Meurer (USAF, Ret.)
This article is reprinted from the June 1977 issue of Airman. The articles of the Code of Conduct, which appear throughout the article, are those memorized by Capt. Lance P. Sijan as a cadet. They have since been modified to reflect the service of women in the armed forces.]
Capt. Lance P. Sijan was the first Air Force Academy graduate to receive the Medal of Honor.
I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.
The colonel, recalling the tragic events of almost nine years earlier, had been talking for more than an hour about the heroic ordeal of Capt. Lance P. Sijan, his cellmate in North Vietnam. Reaching the point in his chronology when Sijan, calling out helplessly for his father, was taken away by his captors to die, Col. Bob Craner's voice broke ever so slightly and tears glistened in his eyes. He agreed to a recess in the interview.
I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender my men while they still have the means to resist.
''Okay Mom, you can come back in now!"
The voice, coming from a tape recorder that day in early November 1967, gave immense pleasure to Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Sijan (pronounced sigh-john), just as it had so many times for more than 25 years. It was especially meaningful now, coming from Da Nang AB, Vietnam. Their son had done his Christmas shopping early and, separated by half a world, was having some mischievous fun with his family.
Sitting in the living room of the comfortable two-story house in Milwaukee, Mrs. Jane Sijan tenderly related the tale of her son's tape. Across the street, snow was crusted on the park that gently slopes into Lake Michigan. Flames danced in the fireplace as Sylvester Sijan busily prepared to show movies of Lance's graduation from the Air Force Academy in 1965.
Everywhere was memorabilia of Lance and his brother, Marc, younger by five years, and his sister, Janine, 13 years Lance's junior. An oil painting bathed in soft neon light on one wall showed Lance in his academy uniform, smiling out into the room.
Along the staircase hung dozens of photos of the Sijans--their children, relatives and friends. Football pictures of Lance and Marc abounded, for football is a tradition with the Sijans. Lance's Bay View High School team won the city championship in 1959, the first time Bay View had turned the trick since 1936, when Lance's father played on the team.
Family heirlooms, souvenirs from faraway places, and trophies dominated mantels and shelves. The most significant showpiece, however, was enshrined in a glass case. Resplendent with its accompanying baby-blue ribbon dotted with tiny white stars was Capt. Lance Sijan's Medal of Honor.
It had been awarded posthumously.
Jane Sijan--attractive and darkhaired, her Irish heritage smiling through--continued her story of the tape from Vietnam:
"Lance made us individually leave the room as he described the Christmas presents he had gotten for us. He'd say, 'Mom, leave the room,' and then he'd tell everybody what he had for me. Then he'd yell for me to come back in, and he'd send someone else out."
Those Christmas presents were not opened that year, nor for several years thereafter. On Nov. 9, 1967, Capt. Lance Sijan was shot down over North Vietnam. For years no one at home knew his fate. The box of Christmas presents was added to his personal effects, and not until his body was returned to Milwaukee some seven years later did his family sort through his belongings.
On March 4, 1976, President Gerald R. Ford awarded the Medal of Honor to Sijan for his "extraordinary heroism and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty at the cost of his life. . . ."
If am I captured I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.
R&R in Bangkok, Thailand, had been nostalgic for Lance Sijan. He told his family in a tape from the country once known as Siam that his drama teacher at Bay View High School--where Sijan had been presi dent of the Student Government Association and received the Gold Medal Award for outstanding leadership, achievement, and service--would have been impressed.
As a sophomore, according to his mother, Lance had competed against seniors for the lead singing role in the school production of "The King and I," which was set in Siam. Competition raged for six weeks, con suming Lance's energy and concern.
"One day," said Jane, "he walked in and said, 'Well, I'd like to speak to the Queen Mother.' I knew he had the part."
There were 21 children in the cast, and Sijan needed one special little princess. He and Marc had always doted over their sister, Janine, even to the point of arguing who would feed her, as an infant, in the middle of the night. Lance asked Janine, then not quite 4 years old, to be his daughter in the play.
Occasionally, the family listens to a recording of the play, Lance's rich voice sing-talking the role of the Siamese king that Yul Brynner made famous.
Sijan flew his first post-R&R mission on Nov. 9, 1967, in the back seat of an F-4 piloted by Col. John W. Armstrong, commander of the 366th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On a bombing pass over North Vietnam near Laos, their aircraft was hit and exploded. Armstrong was never heard from again. Sijan, plummeting to the ground after a low-level bailout, suffered a skull fracture, a mangled right hand with three fingers bent backward to the wrist, and a compound fracture of his left leg, the bone protruding through the lacerated skin.
The ordeal of Lance Sijan--big, strong, tough, handsome, a football player at the Air Force Academy, remembered as a fierce competitor by those who knew him--had begun.
He would live in the North Vietnamese jungle with no food and little water for some 45 days. Virtually immobilized, he would propel himself backward on his elbows and buttocks toward what he hoped was freedom. He was alone. He would be joined later by two other Americans, and in short, fading, in-and-out periods of consciousness and lucidity, would tell them his story.
Now, however, there was hope for Lance Sijan. Aircraft circled and darted overhead, part of a gigantic search-and-rescue effort launched to recover him and Armstrong. Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service histories state that 108 aircraft participated the first two days, and 14 more on the third when no additional contact was made with Sijan, known to those above as "AWOL 1."
Contact had been made earlier, and the answer to the authenticating question, "Who is the greatest football team in the world?" came easily for the Wisconsin native. "The Green Bay Packers," Sijan replied. In continuing voice contacts, "the survivor was talking louder and faster," the history notes. "AWOL did not know what happened to the frontseater."
The rescue force, meanwhile, was taking "ground fire from all directions" and was "worried about all the [friendly] fire hitting the survivor." Finally, Jolly Green 15, an HH-3E helicopter, picked up a transmission from the ground: "I see you, I see you. Stay where you are. I'm coming to you!"
For 33 minutes, Jolly Green 15 hovered over the jungle, eyes aboard searching the dense foliage below for movement. Bullets began piercing the fuselage, a few at first and then more and more. Getting no more voice contact from the ground and under a withering hail of fire, Jolly Green 15 finally left the area.
Rescue efforts the next day and electronic surveillance in the days that followed turned up no more con tacts, and the search for "AWOL" was called off.
One A-1E aircraft was shot down in the effort--the pilot was rescued--and several helicopter crewmen were wounded.
"If AWOL," said the report, "only had some kind of signaling device-- mirror, flare, etc.--pick-up would have been successful. The rescue of this survivor was not in the hands of man."
Much later, a battered Lance Sijan was to ask his American cellmates, "What did I do wrong? Why didn't I get picked up?" He told them he had lost his survival kit.
On that November day, except for enemy forces all around, Sijan was alone again. Although desperately in need of food, water and medical attention, he somehow evaded the enemy and capture as he painfully, day by day, dragged himself along the ground--toward, he hoped, freedom.
But it was not to be.
Former Capt. Guy Gruters, who was to be one of Sijan's cellmates later, told Airman:
"He said he'd go for two or three days and nights--as long as he possibly could--and then he'd be exhausted and sleep. As soon as he'd wake up he'd start again, always traveling east. You're talking 45 days now without food, and it was a max effort!"
Col. Bob Craner, the older cellmate in Hanoi, picked up the story:
"When he couldn't drag himself anymore and said, 'This is the end,' he saw he was on a dirt road. He lay there for a day, maybe, until a truck came along and they picked him up."
Incredibly, after a month and a half of clawing, clutching, dragging and hurting, Sijan was found three miles from where he had initially parachuted into the jungle.
Horribly emaciated and with the flesh of his buttocks worn to his hipbones, Lance Sijan still had some fight left.
"He said they took him to a place where they laid him on a mat and gave him some food," Craner related. "He said he waited until he felt he was getting a little stronger. When there was just one guard there, Captain Sijan beckoned him over. When the guy bent over to see what was the matter, Captain Sijan told me, 'I just let him have it--wham!' "
With the guard unconscious from a well-placed karate chop from a weakened left arm and hand, Sijan pulled himself back into the jungle. "He thought he was making it," Craner said, "but they found him after a couple of hours."
Once again Sijan had been robbed of precious freedom. Once again he was down, but--as other North Vietnamese were to learn--by no means out.
If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give no information or take part in any action which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those appointed over me and will back them up in every way.
Sijan's obsession with freedom had manifested itself much earlier, and rather uniquely, at the Air Force Academy. His arts instructor, Col. Carlin J. Kielcheski, remembers him well.
"He had the crusty facade of a football player, yet he was very sensitive. I was particularly interested in those guys who broke the image of the typical artist."
Kielcheski still has the "Humanities 499" paper Sijan submitted with his two-foot wooden sculpture of a female dancer. Sijan wrote:
"I feel that the female figure is one of nature's purest forms. I want this statue to represent the quest for freedom by the lack of any restraining devices or objects. The theme of my sculpture is just that--a quest for freedom, an escape from the complexities of the world around us."
Kielcheski chuckled. "Here was this bruiser of a football player coming up with these delicate kinds of things. He was not content to do what the other cadets did. He was very persistent and not satisfied with doing just any kind of job. He wanted to do it right and showed real tenacity to stick to a problem."
Others remember different aspects of Sijan's character. His roommate for three years, Mike Smith of Denver, said he was "probably the toughest guy mentally I've ever met."
Sijan was a substitute end on the football team, Smith said. Football, he thought, hindered his academics, and his concern over grades conversely affected his performance and chances for stardom on the gridiron.
"He had a lot of things going and tried to keep them all going. He came in from football practice dead tired. He'd sleep for an hour or two after dinner and then study until 1 or 2 in the morning. He knew he had to give up a lot to play football, but he had the determination to do it."
Sijan did give up football his senior year. But one thing he did not sacrifice for studies was the company of young women.
"They found him very attractive, and he had no trouble getting dates," said Smith. "He was a big, hand some guy with a good sense of humor."
Maj. Joe Kolek, who roomed with Sijan one semester, agreed. In fact, he said, "It was pretty neat now and then to get Lance's cast-offs."
Smith recalls they talked sometimes about the Code of Conduct that was to test Sijan's character so severely fewer than three years later.
"We found nothing wrong with the Code. We accepted the responsibility of action honorable to our country. It was strictly an extension of Lance's personality. When he accepted something, he accepted it. He did nothing halfway.
"It seemed," Smith said, "that there was always a reservoir of strength he got from his family."
Sylvester Sijan, whose character and physique bear a striking resemblance to a middle-aged Jack Dempsey, owns the Barrel Head Grille in Milwaukee. Built into an inside wall is a mock 4-feet-around beer barrel top, a splendid woodwork fashioned by the elder Sijan from an oak table. A wooden shingle on the polished oak bears the engraved inscription, "Tradition."
Sylvester Sijan's forefathers immigrated from Serbia, a separate country prior to World War I that later be came part of Yugoslavia.
"Serbians have been noted for their heroic actions in circumstances where they were outnumbered," the elder Sijan said. "They were vicious fighters on a one-to-one or a one-to-fifty basis, so they have a history of instinct and drive."
He thinks a mixture of that tradition, his son's love for his home and his competitive spirit spurred him through the painful odyssey in Vietnam.
"What made Lance do what he did? One thing, for sure. He always wanted to come home, no matter where he was. He was going to come home whether it was in pieces or as a hero.
"Lance's competitive nature kind of grew with him," said Sylvester Sijan. "A person never knows how competitive he really is until he comes up against the ultimate situation. He could have been less courageous; he could have retreated into the ranks of the North Vietnamese and said, 'Here I am, take care of me.' But he chose to go the other way. He probably never doubted that somehow, somewhere he'd get out."
Lance Sijan had wondered about his ultimate fate even before leaving for Vietnam, according to Mike Smith. In the Air Force at the time and stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, Smith enjoyed a visit from Sijan, who was on leave prior to going overseas.
"I sensed a foreboding in him, and he and I dealt with the issue of not coming back," Smith said. "I remember it distinctly because I talked with my wife about our conversation. I felt he had a premonition that he might not return."
Jane Sijan, too, sensed something. In Milwaukee prior to leaving, Lance asked her to sew two extra pockets into his flight suit, and he took great pains coating matches with wax.
"One night he was sitting on his bed," she recalled. "He was sewing razor blades into his undershirts so he would have them if he was ever shot down."
When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank, service number, and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability. I will make no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and its allies or harmful to their cause.
Capt. Lance Sijan had been on the ground for 41 days when Col. Bob Craner and Capt. Guy Gruters took off from Phu Cat AB in their F-100 on Dec. 20, 1967.
Pinpointing targets in North Vietnam from the "Misty" forward air control jet fighter, they were hit by ground fire and ejected. Both were captured and brought to a holding point in Vinh, where they were thrust into bamboo cells and chained.
Reaching back into his memory, crowded with recollections of more than five years as a prisoner of war, Craner told the story:
"As best as I can recall, it was New Year's Day of 1968 when they brought this guy in at night. The Rodent [a prison guard] came into the guy's cell next to mine and began his interrogation. It was clearly audible.
"He was on this guy for military information, and the responses I heard indicated he was in very, very bad shape. His voice was very weak. It sounded to me as though he wasn't going to make it.
"The Rodent would say, 'Your arm, your arm, it is very bad. I am going to twist it unless you tell me.' The guy would say, 'I'm not going to tell you; it's against the Code.' Then he would start screaming. The Rodent was obviously twisting his mangled arm.
"The whole affair went on for an hour and a half, over and over again, and the guy just wouldn't give in. He'd say, 'Wait till I get better, you S.O.B., you're really going to get it.' He was giving the Rodent all kinds of lip, but no information.
"The Rodent kept laying into him. Finally I heard this guy rasp, 'Sijan! My name is Lance Peter Sijan!' That's all he told him."
Guy Gruters, also an Air Force Academy graduate, but a year senior to Sijan, was in a cell down the hall and did not know the identity of the third captive. He does recall that "the guy was apparently always trying to push his way out of the bamboo cell, and they'd beat him with a stick to get him back. We could hear the cracks."
After several days, when the North Vietnamese were ready to transport the Americans to Hanoi, Gruters and Craner were taken to Sijan's cell to help him to the truck.
"When I got a look at the poor devil, I retched," said Craner. "He was so thin and every bone in his body was visible. Maybe 20 percent of his body wasn't open sores or open flesh. Both hipbones were exposed where the flesh had been worn away."
Gruters recalled that he looked like a little guy. But then when we picked him up, I remember commenting to Bob, 'This is one big sonofagun."'
While they were moving him, Craner related, "Sijan looked up and said, 'You're Guy Gruters, aren't you?''
Gruters asked him how he knew, and Sijan replied, "We were at the academy together. Don't you know me? I'm Lance Sijan." Guy went into shock. He said, "My God, Lance, that's not you!"
"I have never had my heart broken like that," said Gruters, who remembered Sijan as a 220-pound football player at the academy. "He had no muscle left and looked so helpless."
Craner said Sijan never gave up on the idea of escape in all the days they were together. "In fact, that was one of the first things he mentioned when we first went into his cell at Vinh: 'How the hell are we going to get out of here? Have you guys figured out how we're going to take care of these people? Do you think we can steal one of their guns?'
"He had to struggle to get each word out," Craner said. "It was very, very intense on his part that the only direction he was planning was escape. That's all that was on his mind. Even later, he kept dwelling on the fact that he'd made it once and he was going to make it again."
Craner remembers the Rodent coming up to them and, in a mocking voice, he paraphrased the Rodent's message:
"Sijan a very difficult man. He struck a guard and injured him. He ran away from us. You must not let him do that anymore."
"I never questioned the fact that Lance would make it," said Gruters. "Now that he had help, I thought he'd come back. He had passed his low."
The grueling truck ride to Hanoi took several days. Sijan--"in and out of consciousness, lucid for 15 seconds sometimes and sometimes an hour, but garbled and incoherent a lot," according to Craner--told the story of his 45-day ordeal in the jungle while the trio were kept under a canvas cover during the day.
The truck ride over rough roads at night, with the Americans constantly bouncing 18 inches up and down in the back, was torture itself. Craner and Gruters took turns struggling to keep an unsecured 55-gallon drum of gasoline from smashing them while the other cradled Sijan between his legs and cushioned his head against the stomach.
"I thought he had died at one point in the trip," said Craner. "I looked at Guy and said, 'He's dead.' Guy started massaging his face and neck trying to bring him around. Nothing. I sat there holding him for about two hours, and suddenly he just came around. I said, 'OK, buddy, my hat's off to you."'
Finally reaching Hanoi, the three were put into a cell in "Little Vegas." Craner described the conditions: "It was dark, with open air, and there was a pool of water on the worn cement floor. It was the first time I suffered from the cold. I was chilled to the bone, always shivering and shaking. Guy and I started getting respiratory problems right away, and I couldn't imagine what it was doing to Lance. That, I think, accounts ultimately for the fact that he didn't make it."
"Lance was always as little of a hindrance to us as he could be," said Gruters. "He could have asked for help any one of a hundred thousand times, but he never asked for a damned thing! There was no way Bob and I could feel sorry for ourselves."
Craner said a Vietnamese medic gave Sijan shots of yellow fluid, which he thought were antibiotics. The medic did nothing for his open sores and wounds, and when he looked at Sijan's mangled hand, "he just shook his head."
The medic later inserted an intravenous tube into Sijan's arm, but Sijan, fascinated with it in his subconscious haze, pulled it out several times. Thus, Craner and Gruters took turns staying awake with him at night.
"One night," the colonel said, "a guard opened the little plate on the door and looked in, and there was Lance beckoning to the guard. It was the same motion he told me he had made to the guy in the jungle, and I could just see what was going through the back reaches of his mind: 'If I can just get that guy close enough. . . ."'
He remembers that Sijan once asked them to help him exercise so he could build up his strength for another escape attempt. "We got him propped up on his cot and waved his arms around a few times, and that satisfied him. Then he was exhausted."
At another point, Sijan became lucid enough to ask Craner, "How about going out and getting me a burger and french fries?"
But Sijan's injuries and now the respiratory problem sapped his strength. "First he could only whisper a word, and then it got down to blinking out letters with his eyes," said Gruters. "Finally he couldn't do that anymore, even a yes or no."
With tears glistening, Bob Craner remembered when it all came to an end. They had been in Hanoi about eight days.
"One night Lance started making strangling sounds, and we got him to sit up. Then, for the first time since we'd been together, his voice came through loud and clear. He said, 'Oh my God, it's over,' and then he started yelling for his father. He'd shout, 'Dad, Dad, where are you? Come here, I need you!'
"I knew he was sinking fast. I started beating on the walls, trying to call the guards, hoping they'd take him to a hospital. They came in and took him out. As best as I could figure it was January 21."
"He had never asked for his dad before," said Gruters, "and that was the first time he'd talked in four or five days. It was the first time I saw him display any emotion. It was absolutely his last strength.
"It was the last time we saw him."
A few days later, Craner met the camp commander in the courtyard while returning from a bathhouse and asked him where Sijan was.
"Sijan spend too long in the jungle," came the reply. "Sijan die."
Guy Gruters talked some more about Sijan:
"He was a tremendously strong, tough, physical human being. I never heard Lance complain. If you had an army of Sijans, you'd have an incredible fighting force."
Said Craner:
"Lance never talked about pain. He'd yell out in pain sometimes, but he'd never dwell on it like, 'Damn, that hurts.'
"Lance was so full of drive whenever he was lucid. There was never any question of, 'I hurt so much that I'd rather be dead.' It was always positive for him, pointed mainly toward escape but always toward the future."
Craner recommended Sijan for the Medal of Honor. Why?
"He survived a terrible ordeal, and he survived with the intent, sometime in the future, of picking up the fight. Finally he just succumbed.
"There is no way you can instill that kind of performance in an individual. l don't know how many we're turning out like Lance Sijan, but I can't believe there are very many."
I will never forget that I am an American fighting man, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.
In Milwaukee, Sylvester Sijan started to bring up the point, and then he hesitated. He finally did, though, and then he talked about it unabashedly.
"I remember one day in January, about the same time that year, driving down the expressway; I was feeling despondent, and I began screaming as loud as I could, things like, 'Lance, where are you?' I may have murmured such things to myself before, but I never yelled as loud as I did that day."
He wonders if maybe--just maybe--it may have been at the same time Lance was calling for him in Hanoi.
"The realization that Lance's final thoughts were what they were makes me feel most humble, most penitent, and yet somehow profoundly honored," he said.
He still wears a POW bracelet with Lance's name on it. "I just can't take it off," he said, adding that "not too many people realize its significance anymore."
Though Lance was declared missing in action, and though one package they sent to him in Hanoi came back stamped "deceased"--"which jarred me terribly," Jane Sijan said--the family never gave up hope.
"I'm such an optimist," she said. "I even watched all the prisoners get off the planes on television [in 1973] hoping there had been some mistake."
Lance's body, along with the headstone used to mark his grave in North Vietnam, was returned to the United States in 1974 for interment in Milwaukee (23 other bodies were returned to the United States at the same time). At a memorial service in Bay View High School, the family announced the Captain Lance Peter Sijan Memorial Scholarship Fund.
"It is a $500 scholarship presented yearly to a graduate male student best exemplifying Lance's example of the American boy," said Jane. "It will be a lifetime effort on our behalf and will be carried on by our chil dren."
Lance Sijan, U.S. Air Force Academy Class of 1965, would be 54 years old now. He is the first academy graduate to be awarded the Medal of Honor. A dormitory at the academy was named Sijan Hall in his honor.
"The man represented something," Sylvester Sijan said of his son. "The old cliche that he was a hero and represented guts and determination is true. That's what he really represented. How much of that was really Lance? What he is, what he did, the facts are there.
"We'll never adjust to it," he said. "People say, 'It's been a long time ago and you should be OK now,' but it stays with you and well it should."
"Lance was always such a pleasure; he was an ideal son, but then all our children are a joy and blessing to us," said Jane Sijan. "It still hurts to talk about it, but I have certainly accepted it. I'm a very patient woman, and I wait for the day our family will all be together again, that's all."
On March 4, 1976, three other former prisoners of war, all living, also received Medals of Honor from President Ford. One of them was Air Force Col. George E. "Bud" Day ["All Day's Tomorrows,"Airman, November 1976]. Col. Day later wrote to Airman:
"Lance was the epitome of dedication, right to death! When people ask about what kind of kids we should start with, the answer is: straight, honest kids like him. They will not all stay that way--but by God, that's the minimum to start with."
Code of Conduct
as amended in 1988
Article I
I am an American fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.
Article II
I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist.
Article III
If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.
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We have a new T Shirt. The design is by Trena McNabb, NCNPS Board Member and Artist. Buy one here!
And one on our Education, Kids and Natives page, on the about children gardening.
Kids and Natives
Dr. Mellichamp's and Will Stuart's book "Native Plant of the Southeast" is a great reference for incorporating natives into your landscape.
Here is a new reference for Native Plants for Coastal North Carolina Landscapes - Download the PDF by right-clicking the link and selecting "Save link as" or similar.
See David McAdoo's wonderful photography as presented by the Smithsonian-sponsored North American Orchid Center here:
northamericanorchidcenter.org and a few also in this
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A wonderful article on Tom Harville's Natural Garden appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer!
"For great green results, go native"
A new page for searching the Plant Gallery using the drop-down menu driven system found at the top of each plant detail page has been added, to satisfy what gardener's/new people to the site want to see, "What natives can I put/are right in my garden?"
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Here's a great article on the Green Swamp by Mark Sullivan.
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New Trillium Paper by our Shinn Grant winner, now available in Trilliums plant gallery pages!
Coastwatch Autumn 2010 features a pertinent article by Pam Smith titled, NATIVE PLANT SPECIES: THE SOLUTION. A worthy read!
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We've been missing this style of action/RPG gameplay since the days of Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath, which is why we're awfully excited about the impending release of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. You've probably already seen some clips, but here's a particularly pretty one that shows you the developers haven't sacrificed anything in the way of visual quality. It looks sharp and it's loaded with all that good fantasy flash, so we're plenty satisfied with the result. Lastly, let's not forget that if you're into multiplayer fun, this could be the perfect RPG for you: up to four players can team up to kick some serious goblin butt.
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Transmission problem
2000 BMW 323 6 cyl Two Wheel Drive Automatic 109000 miles
On a cold morning at about 30 degrees, I start car, put in drive and sometimes reverse, the car does not want to go and will spit transmission fluid out. When you shut engine off and restart it then seems to be ok. This is a gm transmission built in late 1999.
The hydrolic pressure is lost after it spouts off fluid. When you shut it off and restart the car will go with no problem. Any ideas or suggestions?
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Is it HOT where you are? Cause it's HOT where I am and just HOT is it where you are it's 95 + here..Freaking HOT....
Hot HotHotHot Hot HotHot HotHotHot.
Did you forget your shoes? ;)
I have air conditioning
Yeah. We set a record today here in Baltimore, MD. 101 with a heat index of 111. Hot and humid. More of the same for the rest of the weekend and into early next week.
It's almost 108 degrees today - a record breaker
Been getting triple digits here.
Nah...it's 57..was 46 last night
100 degrees even
Freaking humidity is doing me in
It be hot her too....I just got from a couple of hours of work and I think my underwear has fused to my butt.
I have my heaters on,under a blanket with jumper & ugboots! I WISH it was hot!!!
warm here, about 80 degrees (Fahrenheit). Tomorrow is the return of the heat wave that broiled us last week.

That's okay though...I don't have to shovel heat. I don't have to bundle up against the heat. My tires have no problem with finding grip. And, I don't have to worry about some jackass of a plow driver cutting me off or forcing me into a ditch.
In which unit are you all talking ?
nope..81 here
I'm not sure how hot it is. Let me just kick off my shoes and walk around the parking lot.
Yeeeooowww! Yeeowza! Ow! Oo oo! Ow! oo oo oo oO OO! Owowowowowow! Aieeeee! Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! Ahhhhh....
Yup, it's pretty hot.
Oops! I didn't see that this was a few years ago, lol! I feel like a dork!
Oh, well in that case....
Ow! Ow! Woowoowoo-hot! Whoo whoo! Very hot! HOTHOTHOT!
Id love to try it! Cept i have no one to try it with.
yes. here is 132ºF
I think they are saying the inner heat
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Writing the first draft of a story or novel is the time when the subconscious mind seems most active. Though I write a loose outline, just a little treasure map to see where I'm going, it is when I am deep in the story that surprises erupt and I find threads coming together in a way could not have consciously planned. If you love to explore the deep mind, perhaps tapping into ancestral memories, past lives, or spiritual dimensions, family secrets, and occult mysteries, the Gothic tale provides the keys to many doors. Gothic tales have always been melodramatic, emotionally fraught dramatizations of haunted and suppressed psychological states. What cannot be spoken of plainly, in the light of day, may be expressed through a language of symbols.
The Gothic genre benefited greatly from the Freudian analysis that brought us the works of Angela Carter and Tanith Lee, my tow mentors, whose use of language is dark, poetic yet uncannily real. Freud gave life to the symbols that surround us, suggesting they are signs from the deep self, showing us what we fear to speak.
The novel I am wrestling with now is one I have been wrestling with for 10 years. The working title, as some of you may know, is The Demon Lover. Its an overused title, but that's what it's about. Its based on real supernatural experiences that I have had, and I've had many, couched in the plot of a classic Gothic Romance. Not a modern Formula Romance, but the style developed by the Brontes and Daphne DuMaurier, in the age before we were addicted to the screen, when we were in love with words and images that opened up our own imaginations.
In The Demon Lover, There are two female characters, one, Madeleine Dashwood, 27, the other Eavan Bertrand, 13, both mysterious ladies whose lives have been shaped by their psychic abilities. This is a story where water plays a powerful role as pool, as rain, a river, then finally the ocean, as bringer of transformation and death. The water imagery invoked the enigmatic figure of Ophelia who then attached herself to both of these characters. I didn't plan this—-I'd originally though of Eavan as the Ophelia figure—- but it fits so well as a link between the two, sending a resonance throughout the story that I could not have contrived.
Her clothes spread wide and Mermaid-like a while they bore her up….
As you can see, the character of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet, continues to inspire artists. She was indeed a creature native and indued Unto that element….
Water symbolizes the subconscious, for what we see on the reflective surface of a lake, or in the waves of the sea, is less than a fraction of what lives below. Entire worlds exist in darkness, completely invisible to us unless we submerge ourselves into their depths. For characters like Ophelia and in my novel, Eavan, who are not of this world, it is natural to associate their leaving of it with water.
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The idea of feminine passivity, the dream state, and even madness are evoked on the character of Ophelia. These states are also traditionally symbolized by water. Ophelia embodies the mermaid, the morgan and the water spirits that drag men down under the waves. All of these beings drawn on the power of emotion to throw over the human will, or swamp the conscious mind with illusions, delusions, and desires.
But are they illusions? Or are they the forces of nature, full of life and death energies and endless creation?


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Bananas, rice, applesauce and toast.. I would see the doctor if this has been going on a while. Remember lots of fluids.
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Now Even One Of The Most Democratic States Is Turning On Obama
Published 8:26 am, Tuesday, September 2, 2014
A Field Poll released on Tuesday showed President Barack Obama's approval rating had dropped to a record low in the staunchly blue state of California. This decline includes the state's most left-leaning cities, which Field's director described as a particularly bad sign for Obama.
"These are constituencies that have been strong followers," Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo said, according to the Sacramento Bee.
The poll showed Obama's approval rating in California at 45%, down from a second-term high of 62% following his 2013 inauguration. It was also down 5% from the previous Field Poll, which was released in June, making it the first time the president's California approval was under 50% since 2011. Obama's approval dropped 11 points in Los Angeles County and 7 points in the San Francisco Bay area.
DiCamillo suggested the president's apparent issues with his base could spell trouble for California Democrats in the coming midterm elections.
"The opinions of likely voters in November are even more negative," he said.
While presidential approval ratings typically decline over time, DiCamillo attributed Democratic dissatisfaction with Obama to his inability to score wins on issues important to liberals.
"There's very little, besides the health reform law, that he can actually hang his hat on," DiCamillo said of the president.
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Who's threatening us now? "Coffee experts"!!
In a profile of Aida Batlle, a coffee grower in El Salvador, The New Yorker blows the lid on coffee's imitation of wine. Check out all the ways how these above-average Joes are threatening us now:
* using word "terroir"
* rise of estate labeling
* a focus on harvesting good fruit
* existence of a barista guild certification
* frequent use of blind tastings, known as "cuppings"
* stating that coffee pros like their coffee served slightly cooler because it releases more aromatics at a lower temperature
* obsessing over gadgets, such as a $100 burr grinder
Hey, "coffee experts," back off! We wine geeks already have all these areas covered. And on the iPad version of the story, they even have the gall to offer an instructional video of how to brew coffee. Come on, we know that wine has a monopoly on "how to serve" videos on the web! Next thing you know, "coffee experts" will be spitting their java into a Jets bucket!
One thing they dare bring to blind tasting is rigor. Get this: in the Cup of Excellence program, "judges must be able to describe samples the same way when they are presented at different tables, in different orders." And the story's protagonist nails her own coffee when a cheeky barista in Red Hook tried to trick her in a cupping!
But don't worry, wine geeks, we still have one thing they don't: point scores! Yes, I pity the "coffee experts," since they are not able to substitute a subjective experience with the false pretense of objectivity–we still have that one covered!


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SALT LAKE CITY, UT (March 3, 2013) — The fifth annual ThirtyTwo Day event on 3/2/13 at Brighton Resort was the biggest one yet, with the resort selling thousands of lift tickets, and two hundred snowboarders coming out to compete in the Hell Track Banked Slalom and Rail Jam contests. DJ Jonny 5 (Jon Castro) laid down the sound track for the event at the base of Milly that quickly turned this contest into an all day party. Thousands of people were at Brighton for the event yesterday including local shredders, media and quite a few pro and am snowboarders.
The Hell Track course was fast and the tight turns took quite a few riders out! Photo credit: Natalie Wall
ThirtyTwo Day combines the rider's time on the Hell Track with their score in the Rail Jam; so winning on the Hell Track only puts a rider half way to the overall win. Time doesn't lie, and riders' times on the Hell Track separated the winners from the losers. ThirtyTwo Team Riders Scott Stevens, Chris Beresford, Brandon Hobush, Chris Brewster and Spencer Schubert judged the Rail Jam that kicked off at 3 p.m.
Photo Credit for all photos below: Jesse Anderson
This Halfcab Tailpress was one of many hammers Chris Frost dropped to land on the podium.
There were $3,200 dollars in cash and prizes given away on ThirtyTwo Day. The overall men's and women's winners walked away with $500 cash, a new ThirtyTwo x Crab Grab board and new ThirtyTwo boots, second place got $200 and new ThirtyTwo boots, third place won $100 and a new pair of ThirtyTwo boots. Cash and prizes were given to the winners of the Hell Track and Rail Jam contests too.
Overall ThirtyTwo Day Results:
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2. Sam Bluzejewski
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Thanks Tab, I think I understand the issue better. So, the main issue is the selector/layout relationship. I agree with you, you can't escape this at some point as soon as you want @media/min-width. I think the WG objective is to minimize the impact as much as possible while maintaining much of the benefits. > Yes, layout of a child depending on layout of a parent is fine, and > extremely common. > > The problems here are (1) selectors depending on layout, so that both > selector resolution and layout have to be multipass, It's either the case for <iframe>s already or the tricks used for <iframe>s should be replicated to avoid this. > Limiting the selector to only depending on ancestors helps (2), but > Boris points out that this may not be enough - we may need to limit it > to only the nearest viewport. I think this is likely to be a > perfectly acceptable limitation, as the whole point of having a > viewport is that the children don't need to worry about the outside > world. This would be perfectly acceptable, I think. The only thing is that we should review the use cases carefully because if ':min-width' only applies to the nearest viewport, people are going to write selectors like ':min-width(480px) nav' because they know ':min-width' can't apply to a parent viewport of the nearest local viewport. That's elegant if you want my point of view but it prevents extending ':min-width' to more elements thereafter (this is probably a good idea anyway but we have to think about it). The other option would be to use an at-rule but it prevents use-cases like ".toolbar:min-width(500px) { background: url('toolbar.png'); }" (ie: setting layout-unrelated properties, similarly to what you can do for ':visited' for links) and this is a bit more ugly in my opinion. > min-content doesn't require a real layout - you do need to query the > children for their min-content sizes, but that's determined without > any "real" layout going on. You can also cache the sizing > information. Still, it requires to compute the length of the longest word, something which requires getting the font right, and probably taking things like ::first-letter and ::first-line in account, plus margin & paddings. But yeah, I can see how it doesn't require a full layout (but it can be pretty heavy in some cases). FrançoisReceived on Saturday, 30 March 2013 21:19:51 UTC
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Quarterback Controversy In Chicago? – Week 17
A week 17 quarterback controversy in Chicago is NOT what you want to have just one week before the playoffs begin, not if you are hoping to be playing in the tournament!
I thought that the Chicago Bears looked like the team to beat in the NFC North this year, but I didn't expect them to be hanging on by a game at this point. I'm wondering how many strikes Jay Cutler will get before he is OUT!
STRIKE ONE – (CHI first 3 & out) On 3rd and 3 at CHI 26, Cutler gets sacked at CHI 18 for -8 yards by OLB Trent Cole. Trent has 8 sacks & 3 FF this year. Put someone on that guy! Then Podlesh shanks a punt 25 yards (out of bounds) to CHI 43.
Seven plays later, with a 3rd and 5 at CHI 5, Nick Foles hits Riley Cooper for a 5 yard TD & it's 7 – 0.
Now it's time for the Chicago's Special Teams unit to screw up! Hester recieves the kick a yard in the in-zone & gets a good return out to the Chicago 35 for 36 yards, BUT FUMBLES. Bradley Fletcher forced it, & Cary Williams recovered at the Chicago 39. Fumble GIF
For a guy that has just 15 starts in his first two years in the league, QB Nick Foles was allowed to look like a seasoned veteran against the Chicago defense.
On the very first post-fumble play, 1st and 10 at CHI 39, he hit rookie (2 starts) TE Zach Ertz with a 27 yard pass to the Chicago 12. Four plays later, RB LeSean McCoy got an easy 1 yard TD & the Bears are down by two scores! Plenty of game clock left, so no worries!
Time for Jay Cutler & the Chicago offense to get rolling and stop all that QB controversy talk, RIGHT?
STRIKE TWO – Wrong! It was time for Chicago's second 3 & out, and after the first 9 minutes of play, the Eagles are up by two TDs, with possession of the ball, and take just a minute and 27 seconds to make it 21 – 0.
STRIKE THREE – Finally, Jay Cutler gets the ball back, and this time he improves his play. He goes FOUR & OUT, but at least that's better than three & out, right? I can hear the whispers amoungst the players about "That Other QB" already.
Finally, the Chicago defense showed up and forced a punt, but not until the Eagles wasted 4:18 min. of the clock. Now Jay gets another shot to redeam himself, but after 9 plays, while in the Eagles red zone, Jay got sacked twice on back to back plays for minus 19 yards. (That's 3 sacks so far!)
After failing to complete his next pass to B. Marshall, Chicago had to punt. The Eagles then burned another 4 minutes before settling for a Field Goal, making the score 24 – ZIP with a minute seven seconds left in the half!
Back against the wall? Now Jay throws two completions to Alshon Jeffery, 21 yards & 17 yards, scrambles for 11 yards and sets Robbie Gould up for a 50 yard field goal as time expires.
The second half has to be better than this right?
Philadelphia had first possession in the third quarter, but the Chicago defense managed to force a punt. If the punt hadn't been downed at the Chicago 2 yard line, then the next play would never have happened.
Matt Forte tackled in End Zone for -2 yards, SAFETY! Just adding insult to injury right there. Now, after the punt, the Eagles need just 6 plays to make it 33 – 3. I'm a little disgusted at this point in the game!
During Chicago's next 13 play scoring drive, Jay Cutler sustains his 4th sack of the game, but manages to get the TD along with the 2 point conversion attempt to end the 3rd quarter.
The Chicago D needs a stop badly right here, but the Eagles spend 3:41 of clock time to add another TD to make matters worse. NOW, Jay! Now it's time! Your back is against the wall. You need 29 points in the next 11:19 minutes!
Instead, seven plays later, Jay throws a pick six and gets benched. Josh McCown comes in and does his best Jay Cutler impression with a THREE & OUT!
Now, a pissed off Chicago Defense allows rookie RB Bryce Brown of the Eagles to score their shortest 1 play (10 seconds) TD drive of the year, with a 65 yard TD run out of the shotgun! You couldn't blame the D-line if they took a play off right there, as the O-line seemed like they took the entire game off!
The last two series of the game were uneventful, but I'm guessing that the Draft Talk this year will include some help for the Bears O-line! Folks, this was the forgettable Bears game of the ages, where absolutely nothing went right.
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The next chapter of our ongoing web series, Li Li's Travel Journal, is now available in the Destination: Pandaria section of the World of Warcraft website.
Leaving the Jade Forest behind, Li Li and her uncle Chen venture deeper into Pandaria. Their journey takes them to the Valley of the Four Winds, where Li Li and Chen make an astounding discovery about their family history; a long-forgotten legacy they never knew awaited them in the lands of their ancestors.
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Kit Tao Tong Ball Lights
Lighting is a great place to add whimsy to a child's space. There are so many fun options out there! Kit Tao Tong Ball Lights are just waiting to cheer up any room in the house. Each ball is made from brightly tinted polyester with a small bulb tucked inside. String them over a doorway, around a vase, or alongside a banister.


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Maruti Suzuki shares pared gains after rising over 2 per cent in a lacklustre market on Monday. The stock was the top gainer on the 50-share Nifty in early trade.
Major brokerages have upgraded Maruti after India's biggest car manufacturer said quarterly profit rose for the first time in 18 months on Friday. Some like CLSA and UBS believe that Maruti shares could hit Rs 2,000 mark this year.
Maruti's profit for the October-December quarter was Rs 501 crore, up from Rs 205 crore in the same quarter of 2011. Sales rose 46 percent to Rs 10,957 crore. The growth in profit was primarily due to higher sales of new car models like utility vehicle Ertiga and Swift DZire low-cost sedan.
Bullish commentary from the management is likely to support the stock in the short term. Maruti Suzuki is targeting double digit margins for fiscal year 2013-14 even though volume growth is likely to be between 6-7 per cent, the management said.
Maruti shares closed 0.54 per cent higher at Rs 1,608.15 on the NSE.
Near term positives:
Maruti had announced a 1.5 per cent price hike across its models earlier this month. Raw material costs have been flat or declining in the three months to March. Average discounts have come down from Rs14,750 to Rs12,100 (quarter-on-quarter). Direct imports and royalty have been fully hedged at yen-dollar 83 levels for the fiscal fourth quarter ending March.
Brokerage upgrades:
CLSA maintains "buy" on Maruti while increasing its target price on the stock from Rs 1,915 to Rs 2,020 per share. Margins will climb further over fourth quarter and fiscal 2013-14, CLSA said. It expects Maruti's earnings per share to grow at a strong 44 per cent compound annual growth rate over FY13-15.
UBS upgraded its ratings on Maruti to "buy" from "neutral," and raised its price target to Rs 2,000 from Rs 1,500, noting the weakening Japanese yen over the past three months would boost earnings. Maruti Suzuki is also well positioned to benefit from improvements in petrol car sales, UBS added.
JP Morgan has raised its target price to Rs 1,650 from Rs 1,450.
Nomura has raised its target price to Rs 1,937 from Rs 1,617.
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- 1 medium onion, diced
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Our reread of The Phantom Tollbooth stalled around Chapter 17, because of the presence of Demons -- ever since about when Milo was in the Forest of Sight, Sylvia has been asking with trepidation, "Are there Demons in this chapter?" most every night, and I would reassure her that there were not any yet. But once we got to Chapter 17, where there are Demons, Sylvia did not want any more. I tried encouraging her a bit to stick it out through the scary part in expectation of a happy ending -- one indeed which she is already acquainted with and had talked about in earlier parts of the book -- but I did not want to lean on her about it.
So, we have moved on to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Yes, we are reading this partially in expectation of the new movie that's coming out -- we watched and enjoyed the Gene Wilder film and are looking forward to the new one.) I'm a little surprised because Sylvia didn't think too much of James and the Giant Peach, which I always thought was pretty similar; I guess the addition of Chocolate makes all the difference. She is crazy about this book.
We have decided to try making chocolate candies as a cooking project while we read this book. I have not made candy for several years, but last time I did they came out pretty well. I think the addition of Sylvia's enthusiasm will be helpful. Also tonight she said she wants to bake Challah bread with me, another thing I have not done for a long time. (Maybe ever? I've made egg breads but I don't know if any of them were specifically challah.) So -- looking forward to the kitchen stuff, I'll let you know how it goes.
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The candy-making date is to be this Saturday afternoon. We will make chocolate fudge and marshmallows, and dip them in chocolate; also brazil nuts and peanut clusters, and a couple of molded chocolate shapes.
Meanwhile in the read, last night we had Chapter 13, "The Big Day Arrives". Sylvia was participating in the book as much as I have seen her do, pointing out the different characters in the picture, describing who they were and what their roles in the story were.
Update: Also Connie and Julia are going to come over and help, and bring strawberries for dipping.
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Tonight was phase 1 of our candy-making weekend; we made chocolate fudge. Here is a recipe, from Woodstock Candy, a fine place to get fudge if you're in Ulster County:
Ingredients: 2 cups granulated white sugar 1 cup cream 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate, chopped 1 tablespoon butter Combine sugar and cream and cook over moderate heat. When this becomes very hot, add the chocolate. Stir constantly. Cook until mixture reaches soft-ball stage (238 degrees). Remove from heat and add butter. Cool slightly, then mix until fudge starts to thicken. Transfer to a buttered tin. Cut into diamond-shaped pieces before fudge hardens completely.
Combine sugar and cream and cook over moderate heat. When this becomes very hot, add the chocolate. Stir constantly. Cook until mixture reaches soft-ball stage (238 degrees). Remove from heat and add butter. Cool slightly, then mix until fudge starts to thicken. Transfer to a buttered tin. Cut into diamond-shaped pieces before fudge hardens completely.
Right now it is in its buttered tin hardening; soon I will go down and cut it into small diamond pieces. (And some larger diamond pieces also, which will not get dipped in chocolate but might get sprinkled with confectioner's suger instead.)
Sylvia helped with the measuring and mixing but got bored and wandered off during the boiling which I did not want to let her help with because of the high temperatures involved. (Boiling fudge is a grueling procedure in the hot weather.) I am perennially too shy about boiling candy though, in that I shut off the heat the moment my candy thermometer touched the 238-degree "soft ball" line, indeed it may still have been a degree shy of the line, when I think it would actually have been better to err on the high side of the line. I have done the same thing with caramel and had it not harden as fully as I wanted. But we'll see.
After we made the fudge (and Sylvia's interest in the process returned, when there was suddenly the prospect of fudgey spatulas to lick), it was time to get ready for bed, so we came upstairs. Tonight's section of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (chapters 16 and 17) coincidentally included some talk about fudge-making, which was exciting.
Update: Well the tentatitive upshot is, I probably did not heat it up enough (as reckoned above), and I definitely poured it into too large a pan. The pan I used is 6" square, and the fudge is not tall enough in it. I should probably have used a loaf pan. As far as not having heated it up enough, at this point after 3 hours sitting on the counter, it is...soft. No way around it, it's soft. And I sampled a bit of it, it was quite grainy. Which I think if the sugar had gotten hot enough, it would not be. So I am putting it in the fridge now, maybe it will get hard enough in there; but I think it will be grainy regardless. And too short.
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This morning we cut up (and sampled) the fudge, and cooked the marshmallows. Verdict on the fudge is, I should definitely have cooked it hotter than I did. It gets pretty hard in the fridge but softens right up at room temp. (Which is fairly high right now.) So the plan is, to keep it in the fridge until we're ready to dip them, and figure once the chocolate sets around them, they can soften without many bad consequences. And yes, the texture is definitely too grainy. But this is not a make-or-break thing; Sylvia is still quite enthusiastic about the results.
Marshmallows are fun to make! I think they are going to come out a fair bit drier than commercial marshmallows but this is not (in my view) a negative. Here is the recipe (taken from Food Reference):
2 tablespoons of gelatin1/4 cup of water2 cups of white sugar1 cup of water1 teaspoon of vanilla3/4 cup of mixed cornstarch and powdered sugar (1/4 cup of cornstarch, 1/2 cup of powdered sugar)Soak the gelatin in 1/4 of a cup of cold water in a small bowl and set aside to swell for 10 minutes.In a large saucepan pour the sugar and second measure of water. Gently dissolve the sugar over a low heat stirring constantly.Add the swollen gelatin and dissolve.Raise the temperature and bring to the boil. Boil steadily but not vigorously for 15 minutes without stirring. (Final temperature should be soft-ball.)Remove from the heat and allow to cool until luke warm.Add the vanilla extract and whisk the mixture with an electric mixer or beater until very thick and white.Rinse an 8 inch sponge roll tin or fudge dish under water and pour the marshmallow mixture into the wet tin.Refrigerate until set.Cut into squares and roll in mixed cornstarch and icing sugar. (We will not be doing this since we are dipping them in chocolate instead.)
Soak the gelatin in 1/4 of a cup of cold water in a small bowl and set aside to swell for 10 minutes.
In a large saucepan pour the sugar and second measure of water. Gently dissolve the sugar over a low heat stirring constantly.
Add the swollen gelatin and dissolve.
Raise the temperature and bring to the boil. Boil steadily but not vigorously for 15 minutes without stirring. (Final temperature should be soft-ball.)
Remove from the heat and allow to cool until luke warm.
Add the vanilla extract and whisk the mixture with an electric mixer or beater until very thick and white.
Rinse an 8 inch sponge roll tin or fudge dish under water and pour the marshmallow mixture into the wet tin.
Refrigerate until set.
Cut into squares and roll in mixed cornstarch and icing sugar. (We will not be doing this since we are dipping them in chocolate instead.)
The Joy of Cooking has a slightly more complicated recipe. When you whip the syrup up into marshmallow it is a lot of fun watching it get foamy and stiff, like whipping cream but moreso.
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This afternoon we put it all together, the candies are covered with chocolate and sitting in the refrigerator waiting for Sylvia's play group to come over tomorrow and eat them. Verdict? -- I need practice but I think I could get pretty good at this confectionary stuff.
Then this evening, we read Chapters 18 and 19 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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We watched Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Friday night and it left me flat. Now "it left me flat" is certainly not a recommendation; but it took until last night, when I was talking about the movie with Mark, for me to realize how much I actively disliked the movie. I had been too distracted by the pretty colors and animation, and the fabulous acting of two of the leads, to really get how lame it was.
Let's think about three things: the book; the old Wilder movie; and the new movie. These are three quite distinct things with not all that much really in common, besides the skeleton of the plot and some similarities in characterization. The book is masterful. The Wilder movie is fun and superficial. The Burton movie stinks.
Both the Wilder movie and the Burton movie have one major deviation from the book's plot plus many little ones. The Wilder movie has the part with Charlie and his Grandpa drinking the soda that makes you float, and Mr. Wonka getting mad at them for it; made up from whole cloth, nothing like it in the book; and whatever -- it's kind of funny though it does not really add much to the story. (Well actually I really like Grandpa Joe's speech after Wonka gets mad. But as I said whatever.) You can fit it in reasonably with the characters as they're presented.
The Burton movie deviates hugely from the plot of the book at the end of the movie; I am not going to go into detail about how because that would be a spoiler, but it's about the lamest ending I can imagine. Seriously -- I was relating it to Mark last night (who is not planning to see the movie) -- and with each clause of my summary he was gasping with incredulity at the total cheesiness/kitschiness of it. And also, there is the little matter of Johnny Depp's performance -- it seemed to me like he was in a totally separate movie from the rest of the actors. And this is not at all true to the book -- Wonka is eccentric, but he is extremely connected to what is going on around him.
So there you have it -- a pan from Jeremy, who is usually quite easy to please when it comes to movies.
Update: A similar reaction to the new movie from Timothy Burke, who expresses himself better than I.
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Something interesting about seeing the bad movie of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was seeing how closely Sylvia has been paying attention to the plot of the book. We were 3 chapters away from the end, when we saw the movie; and all through the movie Sylvia was pointing out details that were different from the book. (Fortunately the matinee was sparsely attended and she could talk without annoying anybody.) And then when we went back to the book, she spent the last three chapters pointing out things that were different from the movie -- especially the last chapter, where the movie diverges widely -- she got really excited at the notion that it was essentially a different story.
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What fun,- I seriously do remember zip lines and tree vines and back water ponds that filled my childhood. Lovely to see the children having fun in the company of people who genuinely care for them; Life is richer for these simple gifts. Thank you Wayne, for reminding me that life should be simple. And thrills don't need to be complex. Nice music, and great pictures. I miss you guys.
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Melinda has been on it but I have two things holding me back… one, would it support my weight and two, if it did and I made it into the water, who would save me… I don't swim.
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BBTradesales to distribute Zeon lines
Zeon and BBTradesales now have a joint standing in the market for new lines for May 2012, bringing smartphone technology to the toy and gift markets with Bigtrak XTR, iAppCade, SmartSafe, Dr Who SmartSafe and the Tardis SmartSafe (pictured), winner of a Best Product Award at January's Toy Fair.
Zeon and BBTradesales have enjoyed a strong working relationship for over five years, with their first major partnership venture taking place in 2009 with the re-launch of the hit 1980's six-wheeled rover – Bigtrak.
This year, the partnership has expanded with an exclusive distribution agreement signed for five key lines for spring/summer 2012. The products BBTradesales will be distributing include the Bigtrak XTR; the iAppcade - a desktop arcade unit designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch; the SmartSafe is a desktop safe that can be unlocked using a smartphone. Once unlocked fully licensed Star Wars sound and light effects begin.
The Tardis SmartSafe uses the same smartphone technology to unlock the safe door and also includes fully licensed Dr Who sound and light effects. This product was awarded the Best Product Award at January's Toy Fair.
Sales director, Simon Gilham, of Zeon, said: "Zeon are very much looking forward to furthering our strong working partnership with BBTradesales. We believe the company is a great fit for us at Zeon with innovation, fun and market knowledge at its core."
Product lines will be available for retail order at BBTradesales from this month.
Managing director, Ian Williams, of Bunkerbound commented: "We are delighted to have concluded this distribution deal with Zeon, and look forward to bringing product to market for our key customer accounts."
BBTradesales is now taking pre-orders for the range.