Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I have been grateful for your tutoring and help. It has been a great help to me and my family. My understanding of this group was one of help and not of any kind of sales. I recently purchased a book by Andrew F. Krepinevich, 7 Deadly Scenarios.

The introduction reads like this email you just sent to the group:
"PEARL HARBOR

Dawn was breaking on Sunday morning, the seventh day of the month, on the island of Oahu. Aside from its status as a tourist mecca, the island was home to several major American military facilities, including the huge naval base a Pearl Harbor and the Army's Hickam airfield. For the soldiers and sailors, the day began like any other Sunday, with a skeleton crew on duty while many others slept off their Saturday night's revelries.
But this was no ordinary Sunday.
For over a week, unknown to the island's commanders, a large fleet had been steaming toward the Hawaiian Islands, operating under strict radio silence and without running lights to avoid detection. The fleet sailed to the north of the islands, far beyond the normal shipping lanes, to reduce the chances of being detected by U.S. naval patrols or commercial ships. This time of year found the northern Pacific storm-tossed, and as the fleet pressed on toward its target, it adjusted its course to sail inside rain squalls.
Early that Sunday, following a high-speed run, the fleet's aircraft carriers came within one hundred miles of Pearl Harbor, their principal target. An hour before daybreak pilots scrambled into their planes. Shortly thereafter the carriers launched their strike aircraft, more than 150 in all, a mix of fighters, dive-bombers, and torpedo planes, which quickly moved into formation and headed through the night sky for Oahu. Their mission, execute Raid Plan No. 1. As the aircraft approached Pearl Harbor, the weather cleared, as if on cue. This enabled the strike formations to use the battery of searchlights at Kahuku Point as a navigation aid to guide them toward their targets.
Daw was now breaking. As sunlight streamed over the horizon, the airborne strike force pressed home its attack over Pearl Harbor, achieving complete surprise. Dive-bombers and torpedo planes went to work on the ships lying at anchor along Battleship Row, where the U.S. Navy's capital ships were berthed. Fighter aircraft peeled off and strafed the airfield, hitting parked planes, fuel storage tanks, and hangars. Army Air Corps pilots rushed to take off after the attacking force, but by the time they were aloft, the attackers had completed their strikes and vanished. Failing to locate the attackers, the Army aircraft returned to base, whereupon a second wave of carrier strike aircraft hit them. A New York Times reporter on the scene reported that the attacks were 'unopposed by the defense, which was caught virtually napping.'
Surveying the results, the American defenders were filled with anger--and relief. The attack, executed on the morning of Sunday, February 7, 1932, occurred at the outset of a U.S. Army-Navy war game called Grand Joint Exercise 4. Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell, commander of the newly commissioned American aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington, had launched the attacking planes. The 'bombs' dropped were flour bags, which could be found splattered on the Navy's ships still sitting at anchor. Red-faced, the Army Air Corps commanders sought to minimize the attacks results. They argued that the damage incurred to Hickam Field was minimal, and asserted that they had found and attacked Yarnell's carriers. Finally, the protested the attack on legal grounds--it was improper to begin a war on Sunday!
The war game's umpires sided with the Army. Their report made no mention of Yarnell's attack but concluded that 'it is doubtful if air attacks can be launched against Oahu in the face of strong defensive aviation without subjecting the attacking carriers to the danger of material damage and consequent great loss in the attack{ing} air force.'
Nearly ten years later carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, attacking Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941, proved that Admiral Yarnell, not the umpires or the Army, had gauged the future correctly. The admiral had been willing to confront uncomfortable possibilities, whereas many in the Navy were not. As Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the architect of the Navy's victorious campaign against Japan, ruefully admitted, 'Nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.'" (Pages 1-3;2010 Bantam Books)
For us, it is a blessing that you have been able to even find suppliers so that we have a way to help ourselves and those around us. Thank you for the work you do. What will we do when there are no stores? or suppliers? if we haven't paid attention to good counsel?


--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Kennard" <jbkennard@...> wrote:
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> Many of you have paid attention and armed yourselves with a small degree of preparation this weekend. A great many more have done nothing. Please help me understand why!
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> Perhaps it has something to do with our constantly being bombarded, and even inundated with sales messages, and we just become hardened to them.
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> I hope some background about the Foundation and about me, as well as more detail regarding the current world situation as I see it, will be helpful.
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> The Food For Everyone Foundation is not a for-profit entity, but rather is a Public Charitable Foundation, and I do NOT, nor does anyone else receive a salary or wages. We volunteer, and are happy to do so because of our strong belief in and commitment to family vegetable gardening and The Mittleider Method as being the best in the world.
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> The posts wherein I talk about the Foundation's products ARE NOT about making money, but about trying to help YOU get prepared to care for and feed yourself and those you love! However, there IS a price tag on most of these things for two reasons: 1. Getting the gardening message out requires substantial capital, and over the past 13+ years I have given about all of it that I can. 2. I've discovered that people value and USE that which they have paid for!
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> About the current situation: I mentioned that I paid about 250% more for the micro-nutrients this time than I did previously. What I didn't say was that my best supplier for several years now REFUSES to SELL to me, as they only have enough product for their shareholders (co-op). And furthermore, in my search, other suppliers, including the farmers' fertilizer and feed store in our local community, charge prices that are almost 10 times higher than I experienced before this year!
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> After many hours of searching by car, on the internet, and by telephone I felt BLESSED to get the materials as inexpensively as I DID!.
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> And lastly, my core beliefs are what motivate me, and so long as you're in this group you're stuck with that, so for any who are offended with what I have to say next I can only ask for your forgiveness and tolerance.
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> My Christian beliefs include numerous Biblical prophecies about great hardships and even destructions of many kinds that will be visited upon the earth in the days before the Lord Jesus Christ's return.
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> Precursors to the worst of those events – "signs of the times" – include great wickedness, such as was seen in ancient Babylon, and in Sodom and Gomorrah before their destruction. As I see it the difficulties that are coming upon us today are the result of our collective wickedness, and of our forgetting the Lord.
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> I am confident that the "wicked" label doesn't apply to most people in this Group, but even the "righteous" will not be spared if they have not taken the necessary steps to prepare and protect themselves. The Lord cites the story of the 10 virgins to make the point that general goodness and virtue are not going to be enough to save us. It takes having "oil in our lamps"! And some of that oil is the preparation to care for yourself and those you love by gardening, including knowledge, fertilizers, seeds, and an actual productive garden!
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> I believe that less than 5% of people - even among the members of this gardening group - are prepared with sufficient oil in their lamps. What about you?
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> Jim Kennard
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