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Jack and his daughter Molly Memorial Day 1988
Veteran's Activist Dies at 53
(San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner, February 18, 1996)
By Larry D. Hatfield
Jack McCloskey, a wounded and much-decorated veteran of the Vietnam War who quietly spent the rest of his life trying to ease the pain from that war, has died. He was 53.
"Jack was one of the few people in the world that you run across that you know has made this world a better place," said Michael McCain, a former fellow activist in Vietnam Veterans Against the War and now a Chicago television producer. "His work saved thousands of lives here (in the United States) after the war ended."
"Jack was our beacon of what was needed to help disaffected and disadvantaged Vietnam veterans," said Ron Bitzer, a Southern California health care fund-raiser who helped McCloskey create Swords to Plowshares, one of the nation's premiere veterans' groups.
Mr. McCloskey died of heart failure at his San Francisco home Thursday night. He had been in poor health since the war, suffering from various side effects of two sets of wounds, Agent Orange exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The product of a Philadelphia orphanage, Mr. McCloskey served in the Navy from 1962 to 1966, then was recalled in 1967 and sent to Vietnam as a corpsman with the Marine division.
While there, he was wounded twice, once in the Tet offensive at Hue, and was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Silver Star.
When he returned to the United States, Mr. McCloskey found a nation tired of war and unwilling to accept its veterans back as it had those of previous wars. Like many of his colleagues, he had picked up a drug habit during the war and found little help for himself or other veterans coming home.
"We were invisible to most people," he told an Examiner reporter in 1973. "Those who did acknowledge us hated us because they knew the war was wrong and they had to blame somebody for it, so they blamed us."
He became an activist, both against the war he considered unjust and for the rights of veterans of the war. He also kicked a morphine habit, although neither his health nor habits ever fully recovered from his war experience.
Mr. McCloskey became active in the anti-war movement, particularly VVAW, but he also was a catalyst in the infant, 1970s movement that dealt with such issues as the then-unrecognized post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism, suicide, joblessness and other problems Vietnam veterans were facing.
He formed an organization called Twice Born Men, the forerunner of Swords, Flower of the Dragon.
Author Jerry Nicosia, who is writing a book on the Vietnam veterans' movement, said Mr. McCloskey and a few others were responsible for forcing the medical establishment and the Veterans Administration to recognize post-traumatic stress.
"Jack was highly respected for a lot of reasons, but most of all, people talked about his purity," Nicosia said. "The cause of veterans' rights was his purpose. He never gained fame or made money from it, as some did. He lived a totally poor, destitute life, essentially hand to mouth. His whole life was dedicated to correcting the wrongs against veterans.
"He was never famous in a national way, but he was famous among his friends. He was always there, always there for Vietnam vets."
Country Joe McDonald, an icon of the anti-war movement, said he became involved in veterans' rights issues because of Mr. McCloskey. "Jack was solely instrumental in making me realize I was personally a veteran," McDonald said. "It really blew my mind and destroyed my cover as a rock star. He was part of a small handful of Vietnam vets who were activists in treating the problems of veterans that had not been acknowledged. Jack shouldn't have died."
McDonald planned to dedicate his Saturday night concert to Mr. McCloskey. It was a dinner for homeless people at a veterans' center prepared by the chefs from USS Constellation.
Mr. McCloskey was a pioneer in the system of storefront veterans' counseling centers now operating throughout the nation, said Swords Executive Director Michael Blecker.
"He helped get the Veterans Administration out of its institutional walls and into the streets where the problems were," Blecker said, adding that Mr. McCloskey also pioneered self-help programs for minority and women veterans. "He was in the forefront of the whole idea of peer counseling, the idea of Vietnam veterans healing themselves."
Mr. McCloskey attended Antioch College and City College of San Francisco. He is survived by his former wife, Lydia, of Oakland, two daughters, Molly and Susan, and a brother, Vincent, of Philadelphia.
This plywood cut scale painting of Jack Register was installed outside Moxies Cafe window by Colin Hoare. This location was significant to the late Jack Register, as it was the window that Jack looked out of each day during his regular breakfast ritual.
From the Raconteurs performance at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC for NPR's All Songs Considered.
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Jack from the online casino game "Jack & the Beanstalk". Based on the concepts by Andrea Femerstrand.
This was scanned from an old snapshot taken in the mid 40s. This is Jack the Beagle. Dad had a brace of beagles, Jack and Pete, that he used for hunting. Jack could jump on top of his doghouse and from there reach the fork of the dead tree.
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow
Noel Cruz is one of the most versatile & distinguished repaint artists in the doll community. He is most recognized for his character & celebrity based dolls due to their uncanny resemblance to the people they portray. His dolls are derived from several models like Gene, Tyler, Sydney, etc, by various doll-makers such as Robert Tonner & Franklin Mint. His repaints as well as his portraits are done with intricate detail to the point of being naturally lifelike in essence. Highly regarded among collectors and artists alike, Noel attempts to raise the bar and bring a fresh take to the common mass produced doll with every face he paints. Noel's specialty is with one of a kind repaints. The beauty of repaints is that almost no two are exactly alike just as no two artists are alike.
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Richard King High School’s Paul Castorena, coach, Hunter Adams, Chris Fan, Darren Rodrigues, John Wang and Sam Brehm of Corpus Christi, TX, pose for a team photo during the 2016 National Science Bowl competition, Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jack Dempsey, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science)
At today’s contributors publication party (at last). Jack’s daughter Francesca brought the flower in tribute to her dad’s signature lapel decor.
American postcard by Flying A, no. 13. Photo: Flying A.
American actor Jack Richardson (1870-1960) was a star of early silent cinema. From 1911, he worked for the American Film Manufacturing Company a.k.a. Flying A.
Jack Howard Richardson was born in New York, New York, in 1870. In 1911, he was signed to a contract in silent films by the American Film Manufacturing Company (Flying A) and appeared in dozens of short (10 minutes) Westerns such as The Boss of Lucky Ranch (Allan Dwan, 1911), A Cowboy's Sacrifice (Allan Dwan, 1911) and The Sheriff's Captive (Allan Dwan, 1911), all with J. Warren Kerrigan and Pauline Bush. Richardson worked at Flying A for several years. His short films there include the Western Geronimo's Last Raid (John Emerson, 1912), the historical drama In the Days of Trajan (Lorimer Johnston, 1913), A Story of Little Italy (Lorimer Johnston, 1914) with Sydney Ayres, The Black Ghost Bandit (Tom Ricketts, 1915) in which he starred, and The Awakening (William Bertram, 1916) with Art Acord. From 1917, he worked for other film companies including Triangle for You Can't Believe Everything (Jack Conway, 1918) with Gloria Swanson, and Diando Film for The Old Maid's Baby (William Bertram, 1919) with Baby Marie Osborne.
Jack Richardson continued to appear in films until 1954. In total, Richardson appeared in more than 560 films. His silent films of the 1920s include The Midnight Express (1924). In the following decade, he appeared in such minor Westerns as Without Honor (William Nigh, 1932) starring Harry Carey, and The Man from New Mexico (J.P. McGowan, 1932) with Tom Tyler. Later he mostly bit parts and could be glimpsed in such classics as The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933), Crime and Punishment (Josef von Sternberg, 1935) with Peter Lorre, and The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1938) featuring Errol Flynn. In the following decades, he continued to play supporting parts in B-Westerns like Gun Code (Sam Newfield, 1940) starring Tim McCoy and uncredited bit parts in A films such as Day and Night (Michael Curtiz, 1946) the fictionalised biopic of composer Cole Porter, played by Cary Grant. His final film was the biblical epic The Egyptian (Michael Curtiz, 1954) with Jean Simmons and Victor Mature, in which he played a minor role. Jack Richardson passed away in 1960 in Santa Barbara, California. He was married to Louise Lester and Florence Stone.
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Title: The Pan Jack London Vol II.
Author: Arthur Calder-Marshall (Editor).
Publisher: Pan Books.
Date: 1968.
Artist:
A miniland scale version of Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Torchwood.
This is my first miniland figure that I've made. He is carrying the Doctor's severed hand and has a vortex manipulator (made out of the loincloth from a lego troll) on his wrist.
Mes amis, l'amour est cent fois meilleur que la haine. L'espoir est meilleur que la peur. L'optimisme est meilleur que le désespoir. Alors aimons, gardons espoir et restons optimistes. Et nous changerons le monde.
Chaleureusement,
Jack Layton 1950-2011
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
All my very best,
Jack Layton 1950-2011
Dec. 17, 2022: This Jack Antenna ball was used as image #4 for my 365 monochrome photo project in January. It was time to use it again for image number 360. 360/365