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Don Thompson Jr., Director, Acquisition Excellence & Program Execution, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, hosted the 2024 AFLCMC Acquisition Management Awards Ceremony which was held on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Jan. 29, 2025.
The hybrid ceremony included organizations from several operating locations across the United States who gathered virtually to celebrate the teams and individuals who exemplified excellence throughout the year in leading, managing, and supporting the delivery of war fighting capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photos by Jim Varhegyi)
"I gave you the opportunity to help us," said Red Death. "If you had obeyed, this would not have ended up this way."
Don Thompson Jr., Director, Acquisition Excellence & Program Execution, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, hosted the 2024 AFLCMC Acquisition Management Awards Ceremony which was held on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Jan. 29, 2025.
The hybrid ceremony included organizations from several operating locations across the United States who gathered virtually to celebrate the teams and individuals who exemplified excellence throughout the year in leading, managing, and supporting the delivery of war fighting capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photos by Jim Varhegyi)
Dottie Poage holds up a photo of her son from when he graduated from High School during a press conference after the execution of Chester's convicted murderer, Elijah Page.
(Lara Neel/Argus Leader)
The Execution Rocks Lighthouse at the western end of Long Island Sound has a dark past. Legend states that American revolutionaries were allegedly shackled to the rocks and left to drown at high tide. Read more at www.us-lighthouses.com/displaypage.php?LightID=456.
"The Parish Church of Saint Peter ad Vincula, South Newington is the Church of England parish church of South Newington, a village about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The church is one of only 15 in England dedicated to St Peter ad Vincula ('St Peter in Chains'), after the basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.
"Around 1330–40 a set of wall paintings were painted in the north aisle. The medium is oil on plaster, which Sherwood and Pevsner state is unusual for mediaeval wall paintings. Prof. Ernest Tristram described the paintings as "of a nature seldom found in a parish church" and Sherwood and Pevsner considered them to be "the finest group of medieval wall paintings in [Oxfordshire].
"The paintings in the north aisle include a damaged but very fine depiction of the murder of St Thomas Becket. Next to it is a painting of a rare subject, the execution of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster. The east end of the north aisle forms a Lady Chapel whose wall paintings include an Annunciation and an exquisite Virgin and Child. Next to the Virgin and Child is a painting of St James receiving a gift, and beside the east window of the Lady Chapel is one of St Margaret the Virgin slaying a dragon. The inclusion of a Margaret and two Thomases in the paintings, and the Giffard coat of arms in the Annunciation and St James paintings suggests that they were commissioned by Thomas Giffard, lord of one of the manors of South Newington, and his wife Margaret Mortayne. Over the chancel arch there are fragments of a Doom painting from the same period, but very little of it has survived.
"Late in the 15th or early in the 16th century, after the clerestory was built, a Passion Cycle was painted in the nave above the arches to the north aisle. Its artistry is not of the same standard as the paintings in the north aisle, but it is of interest and some of its pictures show scenes not seen in passion cycles elsewhere. All the paintings in St Peter ad Vincula had been hidden under whitewash for several centuries. Those in the north aisle and over the chancel arch were uncovered in 1893, and the Passion cycle in the nave was uncovered in 1931."
Source: Wikipedia
Executions often took place against cement wall. This wall was originally hidden from prisoners so they could not see what was happening. In the open area, punishment took place.
Don Thompson Jr., Director, Acquisition Excellence & Program Execution, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, hosted the 2024 AFLCMC Acquisition Management Awards Ceremony which was held on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Jan. 29, 2025.
The hybrid ceremony included organizations from several operating locations across the United States who gathered virtually to celebrate the teams and individuals who exemplified excellence throughout the year in leading, managing, and supporting the delivery of war fighting capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photos by Jim Varhegyi)
Actually this wasn't an execution. The platform some what reminds me of an execution event. But it might be more of a play or what not. I like how everyone is facing opposite of it.
The Postcard
A postcard that was posted in Yongsan, Korea on Saturday the 24th. February 1979. It was sent to a recipient who lived at:
Latimer House,
Blackfriars Ope,
The Barbican,
Plymouth,
England,
UK.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"22nd. Feb.
Fascinating trip today to
Demilitarised Zone at
Panmunjom.
The Koreans are certainly
prepared!
Marvellous frontier here
for anyone connected
with the military.
Our car has large Union
Jack - no numberplates!
We don't pay any road
fees, and get saluted
everywhere!!
Hope all well,
Yours ever,
Tim."
Panmunjom
Panmunjom was a village just north of the de facto border between North Korea and South Korea, where the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War was signed.
It was located in what is now Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea and Panmun-guyok, Kaesong, North Korea. The building where the armistice was signed still stands.
Its name is often used as a metonym for the nearby Joint Security Area (JSA), where discussions between North Korea and South Korea still take place in blue buildings that straddle the Military Demarcation Line. As such, it is considered one of the last vestiges of the Cold War.
The site of the former village is 53 kilometers north-northwest of the capital of South Korea, Seoul, and 10 kilometers east of Kaesong. The village, a small cluster of fewer than ten huts, is on the south side of the Kaesong-Seoul road on the west bank of the Sa'cheon stream.
Meetings of the Military Armistice Commission took place in several tents set up on the north side.
The eighteen copies of Volume I and II of the armistice were signed by the senior delegates of each side in a building constructed by both sides over a 48-hour period. North Korea provided labour and some supplies, while the United Nations Command provided some supplies, generators and lighting to allow the work to continue at night.
After the Armistice Agreement was signed, construction began in September 1953 on a new site, the JSA, located approximately one kilometer east of the village.
All meetings between North Korea and the United Nations Command or South Korea have taken place here since its completion. The JSA is often referred to as Panmunjom.
After the war, all civilians were removed from the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), except for two villages near the JSA on opposite sides of the Military Demarcation Line.
After that, the empty village of Panmunjom fell into disrepair, and eventually disappeared from the landscape. There is no evidence of it today. However, the building constructed for the signing of the armistice has since been renamed by North Korea as the Peace Museum.
United Nations forces met with North Korean and Chinese officials at Panmunjom from 1951 to 1953 for truce talks which dragged on for many months.
The main point of contention during the talks was the question surrounding prisoners of war. Moreover, South Korea was uncompromising in its demand for a unified state. On the 8th. June 1953, an agreement to the POW problem was reached.
Those prisoners who refused to return to their countries were allowed to live under a neutral supervising commission for three months. At the end of this period, those who still refused repatriation would be released.
Among those who refused repatriation were 21 American and one British POWs, all but two of whom chose to defect to the People's Republic of China.
A final armistice agreement was reached on the 27th. July 1953. The United Nations Command, Chinese People's Liberation Army, and North Korea People's Army agreed to an armistice ending the fighting.
The agreement established a 4-kilometer-wide demilitarized zone along the armistice line, effectively dividing Korea into two separate countries.
Although most troops and all heavy weapons were to be removed from the area, it has been heavily armed by both sides since the end of the fighting.
Multiple Executions in Iran
So what else happened on the day that Tim posted the card?
Well, on the 24th. February 1979, with the advent of the Islamic Revolutionary Court system in Iran, Sadegh Khalkhali was appointed as the chief Sharia law judge to interpret Islamic law concerning crime and punishment.
In the first weeks of the Iranian revolution, Khalkhali meted out the death sentence to hundreds of former government officials for violations of Sharia law.
The Solwind Satellite
Also on that day, the Solwind satellite, part of the Orbiting Solar Observatory series of the U.S., was launched into orbit.
It became the first satellite to discover a comet.
On the 13th. September 1985, after the Solwind battery deteriorated, the orbiter was the first satellite to be destroyed by a U.S. anti-satellite missile, the ASM-135 ASAT.