Joshua:

I need to check this posting more often, and apologize for the
delay. Email me at a.hopewell@charter.net and/ or give me your email so that I may reply. I have a substantial review I can
send to you. I anticipate being assigned to the 4th ID at Ft.
Hoos when they return to Iraq this summer, and continuing this
research, so perhaps we can collaborate. Hope your uncle is OK,
and best of luck.

Let me know if you get this.
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In remembrance of D - Day:

The most difficult assignment of the entire Normandy invasion was given to LTC (later MG) James Earl Rudder: to assault and to destroy (in a pre-emptive strike) the massive guns overlooking the invasion fleet high atop Pointe du Hoc which could have mangled much of the fleet at Omaha Beach. After dodging bullets and grenades to climb the massive cliff and after three days of bitter fighting, only 90 of the 225 men of Rudder's 2nd Ranger Battalion were still standing, with Rudder himself wounded several times. Upon taking the cliff, the Rangers found that the actual guns had been disassembled and moved some distance away due to the impending assault. Thanks to Providence, no imbedded reporters from the New York Times were present, which likely would have provoked months of repetitive columns about "we had faulty intelligence, so we should not have attacked; Eisenhower lied, so men died," etc. Rangers soon located the guns, which could have fired from the new positions, and disabled them with thermite grenades. For three years I had the privilege of living literally across the street from MG Rudder's residence as my President at Texas A&M, and his Distinguished Service Cross and 21 other medals still gleam on the wall dedicated to him in the Rudder Tower.


C. Alan Hopewell, Ph.D., M.S. Psypharm, ABPP
Diplomate, American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology
Master's Degree in Clinical Psychopharmacology
Major, MSC, USAR, 1971 - 1990