>Morning, frenz
>Mornin' Ralph… Please pass the Covfefe.
>My son gave me an Ember coffee mug that keeps the Covfefe at 135 degrees all day long. It never gets cold.
Excellent! Perfect for Monday Morning Special Edition Dark Roast Covfefe.
The Ember Mug has been of my best received gifts to covfefe and tea drinkers, After an initial WTF is wrong with you moment, they always look at me crosseyed and then weeks later say 'I love it' and 'can't imagine not having it now'.
Haven't told any of them they can thank Rush as that's how I learned of it.
<>‘As a rape victim, I
yeah, right
Congress man Nancy Mace grew up in the Lowcountry. She is the daughter of a retired Army General and retired school teacher.
Before being sworn into Congress, Nancy earned accolades as one of the most fiscally conservative members of the South Carolina General Assembly; she’s also one of the most pro-conservation lawmakers in the state of South Carolina.
Nancy grew up in Goose Creek, S.C. And when she dropped out of high school at the age of 17, her parents said, “If you’re going to stop going to school, you got to start going to work.”She immediately became a waitress at the Waffle House on College Park Road in Ladson (exit 203).
Nancy earned her high school diploma a few months later by taking college classes at Trident Technical College in North Charleston.
She graduated magna cum laude from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, where she was the school’s first female to graduate from its Corps of Cadets in 1999. In 2004 Nancy earned a masters degree from The University of Georgia. Go dogs!
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>chkt
>What military contractor doth thou retired General work(ed) for after thine retirement?
Interdasting question. Twas my next avenue of digs after the Citadel
> https://today.citadel.edu/statement-of-solidarity-from-the-citadels-truth-racial-healing-and-transformation-center/
Statement of Solidarity from The Citadel’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center
June 3, 2020 Faculty & Staff Featured News Releases
“It has long been a matter of serious moment that for decades we have studied the various peoples of the world and those who live as our neighbors as objects of missionary endeavor and enterprise without being at all willing to treat them either as brothers or as human beings.”
― Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
In 1949, Howard Thurman, a leading theologian, intellectual, and civil rights activist, penned these words. Seventy-one years later, these words are sadly just as applicable.
The Citadel’s Truth, Racial, Healing and Transformation Center team comprised of representatives from The Citadel faculty and staff, the YWCA Greater Charleston, the Charleston County School District, the Charleston Trident Urban League, Greater Christ Church Cathedral, and the Charleston Police Department,wishes to express its individual and collective anguish, distress, and anger at the recent, callous and inhumane murders of three of our brothers and sisters: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. They join an inconceivably long line of black and brown American victims who have lost their lives to racism, implicit bias, and hatred. In this decade alone, that line includes, but is not limited to, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and members of our own beloved Charleston community: Walter Scott and the nine beloved Charleston community members gunned down at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Rev. and South Carolina Senator Clementa C. Pinckney, Cynthia Marie Graham, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel L. Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, and Myra Thompson).
Brutality against people of African descent in America is not new. It is as old as the slave ships that brought African men, women, and children to these shores against their will: chained, unable to speak the language of their oppressors, with little recourse to their unwanted condition. Their oppressors subjected them to inhumane treatment aboard slave ships– often forcing them to lie in their own excrement for days on end, “exercising” them in chains which rubbed the skin off their ankles, and whipping or executing them if they raised their voices in dissent or attempted insurrection. If they managed to survive the Middle Passage and reach our shores, their oppressors continued to mistreat them by selling them, physically assaulting them, sexually assaulting them, abusing them psychologically, and torturing them. Although slavery ended in 1865, violence against Black bodies continued in 19th-century America with terrorist attacks by white supremacist groups, lynchings, and the beginning of mass incarceration via the convict lease system. In the 20th and 21st centuries, we have heard police officers and self-deputized citizens justify their use of lethal force against African Americans by saying they felt “threatened.” But, in reality, the threat they perceive is not real, but is the result of implicit biases and racist ideologies that fuel the misconception that brown skin is a threat in and of itself. This must stop.
The Citadel’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center is unequivocally committed to equipping“the next generation of strategic leaders and thinkers to break down racial hierarchies and dismantle the belief in the hierarchy of human value.” Specifically, we stand against racism and hatred based upon any form of identity group membership.
In 2017, theWK Kellogg and Newman’s Own Foundations, working through the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) awarded The Citadel and nine other campuses the first higher education grants to establish campus Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Centers. In 2019, the Papa Johns Foundation renewed that funding. Since then The Citadel’s TRHT Center has supported efforts to truthfully share and transcend The Citadel’s history, facilitated interracial and interfaith dialogue to help diverse individuals humanize each other through the sharing of stories, co-sponsored and sponsored impactful keynote speakers, exhibits, and panels that discussed the history and dynamics of race in the U.S., supported and partnered with local interfaith organizations, and helped strengthen mutually generative connections between The Citadel and the Charleston community.
>Statement of Solidarity from The Citadel’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center
>June 3, 2020 F
But we know we can do more.
We are redoubling our efforts– with a sense of urgency– to collaborate with our community partners to create sustainable environments of civility, inclusion, and value for the rich diversity of all humanity. Over the next 18 months, we will sponsor presentations to teach students the principles of nonviolent protest and social organizing, facilitate “CitListen” Circles between student groups with divergent views, support education on implicit bias and microaggressions for faculty and staff, and strengthen relationships with Citadel alumni. In sum, we will better equip our students and greater campus community to practice principled leadership in their organizations and communities by behaving honorably, fulfilling their civic duty, and respecting all of humanity–regardless of race, color, or creed.
As we move forward, we invite you to participate with us in these efforts to realize the articulated vision of Dr. Gail C. Christopher, thought leader behind the national Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation initiative:
“We cannot just acknowledge recent tragedies or merely use them to raise awareness of the problem; we must heal the root cause of the problem. Americans can come together and change our attitudes and beliefs. We can hold each other accountable and begin the hard work of racial healing in our homes, schools, media, neighborhoods, and places of worship. The healing process must include all races and all social and economic classes. There must be a solemn commitment to this work; to unifying our nation; to rejecting racism; to finding strength, not resentment, in our differences. Our children and our collective future are at stake.”
Sincerely,
J. Goosby Smith, Director, The Citadel’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center and Assistant Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
LaVanda Brown, Executive Director, YWCA Greater Charleston
Julio F. Caceres, Office of Multicultural and International Student Services, The Citadel
Shawn Spann Edwards, Chief Diversity Officer, The Citadel
Felice F. Knight, Assistant Professor of African American History, Director of The Citadel’s Universities Studying Slavery Project
Winfred B. Moore, Jr., Professor of History and Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences, The Citadel
Terri H. Nichols, Associate Superintendent, Charleston County School District
Robert P. Pickering Jr., Director, Office of Multicultural and International Student Services, The Citadel
Rev. John Ray Roberts, Coordinator of Leadership Assessment, The Citadel’s Krause Center for Leadership and Ethics
Rev. Orin Sharper, Pastor, Greater Christ Church Cathedral
Tessa Updike, Assistant Professor, Archives & Digital Scholarship, Librarian, The Daniel Library, Archives & Museum, The Citadel
Kalila N Wilson, Assistant Principal West Ashley High School
It would seen Mancy hasalways been an infiltrator.First 'Female' Cadet to graduate from the Citadel, thanks to Daddy. Now the Citadel is a Woke institution facilitating "citlisten circles".
> https://issuu.com/samsamuels77/docs/women_s_history_jeopardy
> https://archive.ph/V6ksQ
2 Soldiers' Daughters to Enter Citadel
In a week or so, Kim Messer and Nancy Mace will meet for the first time. Daughters of soldiers, described by their respective friends and family members as determined, hard-working and athletic, they will soon be thrown together as college roommates under conditions described as grueling, at best.
They will enter The Citadel on Aug. 24, becoming the first women to do so since the state-supported military college dropped its ban on female cadets this summer.
People here in Goose Creek, where Ms. Mace lives, and in Clover, S.C., home to Ms. Messer, say these women unlike Shannon Faulkner, who was admitted under a Federal District Court order but who quickly dropped out have what it takes to stick with the physically and emotionally confrontational program.
Nancy is smart, physically fit, goal-focused and has a desire to excel, said her father, J. Emory Mace. She wants to make the military her career.
Ms. Messer's father, Harvey, a 20-year Army veteran who is now a machinist, said: She's a very determined young lady, and she has her mind set on being a good cadet. When she gets her mind on doing something, she does it.
More important, perhaps,the two women are Citadel insiders. Ms. Mace's father, a retired brigadier general in the Army, is a 1963 Citadel graduate.Ms. Messer's brother, Gary, attended The Citadel two years ago but left on a medical discharge. Those ties may ease the women's difficult journey as part of the 1,800-member Corps of Cadets, the same body that cheered wildly when Ms. Faulkner withdrew from the school last August.
I think they should get more respect, said Denise Pendley, who owns the Goose Creek home-building company where Ms. Mace does clerical work. Ms. Mace also baby-sits for Mrs. Pendley's children.
The United States Supreme Court ruled in June that the all-male admissions policy at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute was unconstitutional. The Citadel, in Charleston, S.C., the only other state-financed all-male college in the nation, changed its policy within days; V.M.I. has yet to decide whether to go private or admit women.
The Citadel has accepted three other women, including Nancy Mellette of Irmo, S.C., whose father and brother are Citadel graduates. Ms. Mellette became the plaintiff in the lawsuit against the institution when Ms. Faulkner dropped out. But when the Citadel changed its policy, Ms. Mellette had already committed to attending the United States Military Academy's Preparatory School in New Jersey this fall. She will enter the Citadel in 1997, her lawyers say.
The names of the two other women admitted to the college have not been released. Ms. Messer and Ms. Mace are the only ones who have paid The Citadel's $150 room deposits. Officials at the institution have said the women will be roommates, which many believe will help them survive the crucial first year.
Ms. Faulkner, of Powdersville, S.C., was 18 when she applied in 1993. She deleted all references to her sex from the application and was accepted. When admissions officials learned that she is a woman, the acceptance was withdrawn. She sued in Federal District Court, charging that her civil rights had been violated. She was admitted under an order by Judge C. Weston Houck, who later put her lawsuit on hold, pending a Supreme Court ruling on the V.M.I. case, which was brought by the Justice Department.
At a hearing on Aug. 12, Judge Houck will hear The Citadel outline its plans for admitting women.
>It would seen Mancy hasalways been an infiltrator.
Brigadier General J Emory Mace "accomplished what he came here to do".
Infiltrate the Citadel.
Ms. Mace, 17, spent her childhood moving from one Army base to another. Her father, known as Bulldog while he was a cadet, was a highly decorated officer in Vietnam. He spent 28 years in the service, retiring several years ago. He is now a real estate agent.
A good student, Ms. Mace graduated a year early from Stratford High in Goose Creek, a town of 18,000 some 15 miles west of Charleston. She spent the last year attending Trident Technical College, taking general freshman courses. She has steadfastly refused to talk to reporters. Her father said she would break her silence after she graduates.
General Mace said his daughter would never have been the one to break down the barriers to women at The Citadel; she respects the tradition too much. But now that it's a new day, she wants to take advantage of the change.
Ms. Mace, a clarinetist, has been accepted into the band and is working out every day to get ready for the intense physical regimen, her father said. She has been on a local swim team, rising early each morning to get to a 5 A.M. practice before going to work. In high school, she was a member of the art and Spanish clubs. She plans to study business at The Citadel, General Mace said.
Ms. Messer, 18, has known for some time that she wanted to be a career Army officer, then go into politics, her father said. She was the group commander of her high school R.O.T.C. program. And she spent six weeks this summer at Fort Knox in an intensive training session for students bound for one of the nation's six military junior colleges. Ms. Messer had planned to attend one of them, New Mexico Military Institute, her father said, but The Citadel, where she will study political science, was her first choice.
Ms. Messer, a member of her high school chorus and Student Council, is also refusing interviews, citing an agreement with the ABC News program Turning Point.
Mr. Messer said, She doesn't do anything on a whim.
Aug. 5, 1996
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Change of the guard at Commandant's Office
James E. Mace
Brigadier General, USA (Ret.)
Commandant of Cadets,
The Citadel
Eight years after he returned to his alma mater to lead The Citadel's military program,Brig. Gen. Emory Mace has announced that he will retire as commandant.Saying he has accomplished what he came here to do, Mace told The Citadel Board of Visitors on Saturday that he will step down from his post this summer.
The Citadel's president, Maj. Gen. John Grinalds, will appoint a search committee to select a new commandant next week.
"The military program at The Citadel is highly professional and rigorous thanks to the strong leadership of Gen. Mace," Grinalds said. "The changes that he has implemented in military training and leadership development have made The Citadel the best military college in the country."
Mace was appointed commandant in 1997, several months after The Citadel admitted its first class of women. As third in command at the college, Mace oversaw military training during a dramatic period of transition from an all-male to a coeducational Corps of Cadets.
In 1999, his daughter Nancy Mace became The Citadel's first female graduate from the Corps. Since that time 67 women have graduated from the cadet program and the current 2000-member Corps includes about 130 women.
When he arrived as commandant, Mace announced plans to strengthen and improve military training that led to a number of changes including:
improved security and discipline in the barracks,
a decrease in freshmen withdrawals,
enhanced leadership and human affairs training,
stronger physical fitness requirements,
an expansion of the community service program,
and added requirements to the daily schedule including mandatory breakfast.
A member of the Class of 1963, Mace is one of The Citadel's most highly decorated veterans.
> http://www3.citadel.edu/pao/e_let/sy04-05/200501/a_mace.shtml
>Brigadier General J Emory Mace "accomplished what he came here to do".
>Infiltrate the Citadel.
BG James Emory Mace, USA, 1963 Hampton, SC
One of The Citadel's most decorated combat veterans, Mace received the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism 2-4 Dec 1968 while commanding his company on a search and clear mission near Dong Xoai,RVN. During intense enemy fire, he organized a rescue party, led it from its night defensive position, and rescued the crew of a downed helicopter. Next day,he led his company against the bunker complex he was drawing fire from the night before. Exposing himself to intense enemy fire and saving a wounded comrade's life by carrying him to safety, Mace stood up to spot enemy gunners, personally killing two, wounding three. Finding the enemy force trying to encircle his unit, he ordered a withdrawal but he stayed in position directing artillery upon his own position. Next day, CPT Mace again led his men into the enemy position killing one enemy soldier and rescuing two wounded comrades. Author of the first-ever Ranger Field Manual, he was inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame.
https://secure.citadelalumni.org/dcal/detail.php?id=95
>Author of the first-ever Ranger Field Manual, he was inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame.
James E. Mace
Distinguished Service Cross
AWARDED FOR ACTIONS
DURING Vietnam War
Service: Army
Rank: Captain
Battalion: 2d Battalion (Airmobile)
Division: 1st Cavalry Division
GENERAL ORDERS:
Headquarters, U.S. Army, Vietnam, General Orders No. 838 (March 9, 1969)
CITATION:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918 (amended by act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain (Infantry) James E. Mace (ASN: 0-98342), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Company A, 2d Battalion (Airmobile), 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. Captain Mace distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions from 2 to 4 December 1968 while commanding his company on a search and clear mission near Dong Xoai. When his point element came under heavy fire, Captain Mace moved forward and directed his men in a flanking movement which forced the enemy to retreat from their bunkers. He then led his unit through the hostile emplacements to link with a sister company in a night defensive position. Braving intense enemy fire, he organized a rescue party and led it from the night location to rescue the crew of an ammunition resupply helicopter shot down by the communists. On the next day, he led his unit in an attack against another bunker complex. After exposing himself to the vicious enemy fire to carry a wounded man to safety, Captain Mace stood up to spot the enemy gunners, personally killing two and wounding three of them. Finding that the foe was attempting to encircle his company, he ordered a withdrawal and remained behind to direct rocket artillery to within one hundred meters of his position. While returning to the same site from another direction the following day, the unit was hit by command detonated mines and heavy machine gun fire which caused several casualties. Captain Mace led his men on an assault of the enemy fortifications, killing one communist and rescuing two wounded comrades from under the hostile fusillade. As a result of this action, a major enemy supply complex was destroyed. Captain Mace's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/5281
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/11/gender.uk1
Gender
In the company of men
Nancy Mace survived three years of vicious verbal abuseand gruelling physical training to become the first woman to graduate from America's toughest - and most sexist - military academy. Sharon Krum meets her
Mon 11 Feb 2002 02.39 GMT
You just know that Sigmund Freud would have loved to analyse Nancy Mace. For him, it would have been the psychological equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. A file with no grey areas, just a clear diagnosis of Electra complex.
Here is how his notes might have read. Young American girl grows up in a military household where her adored, albeit highly reserved father, Brigadier-General James E Mace, of the US army, is never around. When he is, he pays her scant attention. As the girl grows up, she becomes determined to make daddy notice her, and in a brilliant display of tactical thinking, she does.
She enrols at the Citadel, the toughest military school in the US, the one that for 154 years refused to admit women. Better yet, it's his old school. Oh yes, now she has daddy's attention. Fast forward three years to graduation, where Mace's father, whose parting words to her were, "If you decide to quit, don't call me to come get you. Just put on your jogging shoes and start walking home," is in tears as he watches his daughter make history as the first woman to graduate from the Citadel.
Perhaps even Freud could not have resisted the happy ending. But the made-for-the-movies finale, (as told in her new book, In the Company of Men, which is, in fact, being made into a movie) is not what Mace, now 23, wants to talk about, or what people want to hear.
They want to know about the three years of hell that preceded the graduation ceremony, and how and what she endured to make history as the first woman to break the all-male stranglehold on the school.
Highly articulate and wise beyond her years, she speaks openly, without fishing for sympathy, about the gruelling physical and mental challenge of being the first of four women admitted to the Citadel in 1996. Of the taunts of "dyke", "bitch", and "slut" shouted out by classmates, instructors, and even their southern- belle wives. Of life inside an 1,800-man military school where you could smell the testosterone at five paces and the misogyny at 10.
"People think I came to tear down tradition but I didn't. I went there to become part of it," she says softly, in an accent that is a road map to all the places she lived growing up as an army brat: South Carolina, Alaska, Panama, Chicago. "In the beginning I think I went for my father, but soon it became much more about proving something to myself."
Like its name implies, the Citadel, located in South Carolina, is a fortress as a building and in the mind. Cadets are put through a punishing four-year academic and military syllabus that would be too much for most Olympic athletes.
If getting in is hard, staying in is hell. Which is why being a Citadel graduate carries a cachet in the US that opens doors all the way to the Pentagon. But until 1995, the Citadel was all male, despite being funded by the taxpayer and therefore legally bound to admit women. In what is now commonly referred to as the "Shannon Faulkner debacle", when the Citadel admitted women under court order, Faulkner enrolled only to pack it in after just one week.
But Mace, who arrived next, was determined not to cry, (or let them see her cry), drop out, or complain about the constant harassment. She would, in other words, take it like a man. "I decided I wouldn't show any emotion. If you do, it's a sign of weakness, and I knew they were watching me to see if a girl could make it."
So she kept her chin up, cried behind closed doors and responded to every question or insult from a superior with the required "Sir, yes, sir!", or "Sir, no, sir!". She was determined, she says, to win the respect of those same peers who left messages in shaving cream on her door, such as "Go Home Bitch", and crept up behind her to whisper "You've ruined our school."
>A marker 2 graphic that was posted. Related to the Nordstrom leak. Not my work, just saved for future reference. May be related, maybe not.
Man, September was pretty wild.
The rest of that graphic.
so many habbenings
down she goes