Miep Gies (February 15, 1909 – January 11, 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II. She discovered and preserved Anne Frank's diary after the Franks were arrested. With her husband, and her colleagues, Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, and Bep Voskuijl, Miep Gies helped hide Edith and Otto Frank, their daughters Margot and Anne, Hermann and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer in a secret upstairs room that was not used in the spice company's office building on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht from July 1942 to August 4, 1944. Miep Gies lived in the Dutch province of Noord-Holland. According to Carol Ann Lee's biography of Otto Frank, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, Gies stopped granting interviews after enduring a bout of severe ill health. On February 15, 2009, she celebrated her 100th birthday (At that time, according to her son, Gies was in good health and followed the news on a daily basis). Gies died on January 11, 2010, following a short illness. It was reported that this was caused by a fall.

Awhile back, I posted some pictures of the murals in the officers club in Casper Air Base, which, thanks to Joye Kating, is now the Wyoming Veterans Museum. I also related the story oof how the 80 year old Mrs. Kating booted out a teenage boy for saying the holocaust was a bunch of lies.

In today's Casper Star Tribune is a profile of Mrs Kating, now 87 years old. I posted this in the Home Front for the great picture of her with what looks like a very big sixgun.

Here is the link to the Star Tribune article.

http://www.trib.com/special-section/news/h...58c98b58c6.html

http://www.ussindependenceship.org/

USS Independence. The next generation of Naval warships has arrived! It's fast. It's deadly. And it takes the fight right to the enemy's doorstep. Designed specifically for close-to-shore operations, these Littoral Combat Ships - or LCSs - feature a wide array of manned and unmanned 21st century weapons systems built to counter both surface and subsurface threats. When she joins the fleet in 2010, Independence will further broaden America's dominance of the world's oceans.

AEA is committed to helping the Engineer School build a Memorial Wall for Fallen Engineers that will pay by-name tribute to those members of our Regiment who paid the ultimate sacrifice during OIF/OEF. The Memorial Wall for Fallen Engineers will enshrine the names of those heroes on Missouri Red Granite and will adorn the entry to the Engineer Regimental Grove at Fort Leonard Wood.

Our goal is ambitious, maybe by this year’s ENFORCE, but we need voluntary monetary donations now. I encourage every AEA member and every unit leader to offer every soldier an opportunity to add his name to the list of donors for this project, and ultimately have the unit designation recognized for contributing to the memorial.

Please disseminate this to all your engineer networks – send to all components, all USACE districts, all DPWs, all unit alumni groups. AEA has already mailed requests to the Supporting Form Members and responses are coming in.

Units and organizations may consolidate their donations to a cumulative total that will be appropriately listed on a plaque donated to the Engineer School.

AEA has designed and posted the information flyer and donation forms on www.armyengineer.com, and will also accept donations online on the AEA website.

Download FLYER HERE: ../../temp/ClientImages/AEA/14f70307-31e7-4db7-9067-bc9ce11c1c73.pdf

Units may download and print the Fallen Engineers flyer that explains the project and the donation form. Unit leaders should provide all Engineers an opportunity to contribute, with no additional incentives. Consolidate forms and funds and provide that to AEA, PO Box 30260, Alexandria, VA 22310-8260.

FEDEX address: AEA, 7701 Telegraph Rd, Kingman 2A15, Alexandria, VA 22315

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Jack

Jack O'Neill

Executive Director

This is a nice collection. Take the time to view.

Superb photos from Iwo Jima