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This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in various provisions of law to effectuate the recommendations made by the Legislative Counsel to the Legislature. Own your ow legal marijuana business: Your guide to making money in the multi-billion dollar marijuana industry. Bill Anders: A Love of Afterburners. Original Art Portrait of Maj. Bill Anders by Andrea Parks. Since the dawn of photography there have been those who alter its images. The Soviets used altered images to erase history they didn’t like, now almost every. Astrology: Warren Beatty, born March 30, 1937 in Richmond (VA), Horoscope, astrological portrait, dominant planets, birth data, heights, and interactive chart. By Di Freeze. While Lt. Arthur “Tex” Anders was in China, assigned to Yangtze River patrol, his wife Muriel gave birth to William Alison Anders, on Oct. Hong Kong. The family later spent time in Annapolis, Md., where Lt. Anders instructed math at the Naval Postgraduate School, before returning to China. In 1. 93. 7, when the Japanese attacked Nanking, Muriel and Bill Anders fled.“We escaped first by a troop train,” recalled Maj. Bill Anders (USAF Reserve, ret.). My mother and I and another woman found an empty car in a train heading the other way. Nobody wanted to eat the Chinese food, so we ate Campbell’s noodle soup, boiled in a bucket.”They eventually arrived at Canton (now Guangzhou).“While we were in the hotel that night, the lights went out,” he said. The hotel served bullion tea on the porch to my mother while the Japanese came right overhead and dropped their bombs on the ships in the Pearl River, about 2. Look at that.'”Anders returned to that very building decades later.“My son and I visited that hotel and found the same stairwell,” he recalled. His love for planes would come much later. That love would result in awards and decorations including Distinguished Service Medals from the Air Force, NASA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; the Air Force Commendation Medal; National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal for Exploration; Collier, Harmon, Goddard and White trophies; and the American Astronautical Society’s Flight Achievement Award. At that time, though, he had much more to think about. The day after the bombing raid, he and his mother were loaded onto a ship.“We were the first to go down the Pearl River, after the Chinese had mined it,” he said. It was sort of like Russian roulette.”Anders caused extra excitement when he pulled a “bandit alarm” on the ship, meant to warn against river bandits. Maj. Bill Anders bases his P- 5. D Mustang, Val- Halla, and other Heritage Flight Museum aircraft, at Bellingham International Airport.“On the ship, the Europeans were fenced off from the Chinese with barbed wire, because you never knew who was going to turn on you,” he said. I climbed a fence and pulled one of them, which didn’t help the captain’s disposition.”Anders and his mother would eventually make their way to the Philippines, where they would wait for word regarding his father. Reunited. Bill Anders said that his father, assigned to the USS Panay, an American gunboat, never did like the movie that told the story about the men who patrolled the Yangtze River. In “The Sand Pebbles,” engineer Jake Holman (Steve Mc. Queen) arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution- torn 1. China. His iconoclastic and cynical nature soon clashed with the “rice- bowl” system that ran the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigners on the river.“The movie showed the Chinese running those patrol boats,” he said. Yangtze River.“The Japanese army had gone nuts, raping Nanking and shooting at random,” Anders said. Anders in charge of the ship.“He was the gunnery officer, so he wasn’t on the bridge at the time, although subsequent bombs wounded him badly,” Anders said. I am.’ We think he was the first American naval officer to order open fire on the Japanese.”Eventually, the Panay sank. Bill Anders received the good news on his 3. NASA had selected him as part of the third group of astronauts.“They stayed until the water got up to their knees,” Anders said. Japanese fighters machine gunned them as they were going ashore. They hid in the reeds and later were helped by sympathetic Chinese villagers, for two weeks, before the British finally rescued them.”Lt. Anders received the Navy Cross for his actions, but also had to be retired medically.“He developed a staph infection,” Anders said. They didn’t have penicillin or even sulfur, and they couldn’t stop the infection.”The wounded officer was sent to the San Diego Naval Hospital.“He was called back to the military, even though somewhat impaired, during the Second World War,” Anders said. During that period, Lt. Anders was a personnel officer of the Naval Training Center. Bill Anders enters the Naval Academy. For a time, Lt. Anders was stationed in Vallejo, Calif. Once again, his son took notice of aircraft flying overhead.“I’d see the P- 3. Hamilton flying around,” Anders recalled. There, he developed several friendships, in particular with fellow members of the tennis team. But his grades weren’t good enough, so he was sent to Boyden’s School, a military academy prep school near Balboa Park.“It was basically a school where you spent all day taking Naval Academy tests,” he said. Anders commuted to Boyden’s from La Mesa, Calif.“It was kind of a tough commute,” he said. Again, aircraft interrupted his concentration.“Consolidated Vultee was building the huge B- 3. We were right under the flight path. All the pencils would jump up and down on the desks, and that’s all you could hear.”L to R, seated: Buzz Aldrin, Bill Anders, Charles Bassett, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan, Roger Chaffee. Standing: Michael Collins, Walt Cunningham, Donn Eisele, Theodore Freeman, Dick Gordon, Rusty Schweickart, David Scott, Clifton Williams. When it came time for Anders to go into the service, it wasn’t a tough decision.“It was sort of decided,” he said. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1. He came home for summer vacation after the first year. It could have been a disappointing summer. He’d had his eye on a friend’s sister for years, but it was looking like she’d never return his affections. However, she did end up introducing him to his future wife, Valerie Hoard.“She lined us up on a blind date,” he said. Anders and Hoard were still dating when he took a Navy indoctrination cruise after his second year at the Naval Academy. That cruise caused Anders to give more thought to aviation.“The . But after I flew a couple of times in a Navy airplane, I liked it. The Air Force didn’t have an Air Force Academy at the time. The Navy was allowing 2. Naval Academy and West Point, to be commissioned in the Air Force. Ten thousand feet of Air Force concrete runway seemed to be a lot better than a short carrier deck.”He was further encouraged to look at the Air Force when a young general visited Annapolis and spoke of better advancement opportunities in that area.“I went Air Force, and have been happy ever since,” he said. The Air Force and marriage. Anders graduated from the academy in 1. Shortly after that, Anders and Hoard were married. After being commissioned in the Air Force, Anders began flying the T- 3. Mentor, which had a tricycle landing gear.“I graduated to the Air Force T- 2. A,” he said. Stationed out of Hamilton Air Force Base near San Francisco, he flew F- 8. Scorpions with the 8. Fighter Interceptor Squadron. The Apollo 8 crew poses on a Kennedy Space Center simulator in their spacesuits. L to R: Jim Lovell, Bill Anders and Frank Borman.“We were flying F- 8. Ds and F- 8. 9Js,” he said. They were heavy, sluggish fighters, with high tails, resembling Scorpions. They carried two nuclear- tipped, air- to- air missiles.”The missiles could be very easily deployed.“You had this first lieutenant and captain flying around over Santa Rosa with two nukes under the wing,” he said. It would have blinded everybody north of Ft. Bragg.”While stationed at Hamilton, Anders became a father. Valerie Anders gave birth to the couple’s first child, Alan, in 1. In those days, we had none of this Lamaze stuff,” Anders said. I was doing practice intercepts when I got a call from ground radar, saying, . There, with the 5. Fighter Interceptor Squadron (“The Black Knights”), he took part in early intercepts of the Soviet bombers that were testing America’s air defense capabilities.“We were chasing Russian bombers,” he said. We came up alongside, and they were waving, so I flipped them the bird. They waved and smiled.”Russian intelligence later figured out what that gesture meant.“About six weeks later, one of my colleagues came up alongside the Russians,” he said. He made a trip to the base to talk to Chuck Yeager, who ran the school.“He looked at my record and said, . Instead, because of his excellent math grades at the Naval Academy, the Air Force was interested in him for the Airborne Nuclear Propulsion program and shuffled him into nuclear engineering. Bill Anders participates in a training exercise in the Apollo mission simulator in building 5, in the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.“They had this wild idea of putting reactors in P- 3. North Pole,” he said. But when I graduated, they had already cancelled the program. He took over technical management of nuclear power reactor shielding and radiation effects programs at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory. That same year, he returned to Edwards to talk to Yeager.“I said, . The United States was in a race with Russia to put the first man in space. The Soviets had already launched the first satellite and orbited the first human. In 1. 95. 9, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a civilian agency, had selected seven veteran test pilots as Mercury astronauts. In May 1. 96. 1, Alan Shepard had become the first American in space. Shortly after that, President John F. Kennedy had challenged the U. S. NASA began recruiting from the school’s graduates for its corps of astronauts. Anders continued to wait for his chances at the school. One day in 1. 96. Volkswagen bus home from work, he heard on the radio that NASA was looking for a third group of astronauts.“I didn’t pay much attention, because up until then, you had to be a test pilot,” he said. I immediately pulled over to the side of the road. It was one of these 1. I sat there and listened to 1. When Anders got home that Friday evening, he told his wife what he’d heard.“Valerie has always been a real trouper and supporter,” he said. She was still nursing Gregory.
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