Berlin Brigade (dot) com August 10, 2007 Update

Attention All Personnel:

IAW BerlinBrigade.com policies and procedures, this serves as notice that Registry has been updated with latest additions and changes to individual entries.

Additionally, we continue with the recognition of the August 13, 1961 building of the Berlin Wall, by bringing down the prices on the Divided City merchandise. All the items at the Berlin: The Divided City CAFEPRESS.com page have been discounted for the next 30 days.

Remember, a portion of the sales continues goes to a Military based charitable organization.

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Berlin Brigade (dot) com July 29, 2007 Site Update

Here we are again. This week we have more adds and changes to the registry database. There were two links removed from the LINKS page. As always, if you have a link that you would like posted on the LINKS page of BerlinBrigade.com then send us an email telling us about the link and the web address at info@berlinbrigade.com.

In recognition of the August 13, 1961 building of the Berlin Wall, we are bringing down the proces on the Divided City merchandise. All the items at the Berlin: The Divided City CAFEPRESS.com page have been discounted for the next 30 days. You can click here to access the Berlin: The Divided City CafePress page at http://www.cafepress.com/berlindivided

So until next time: Stand At, Ease!
Dave

CFL (Call For Links)

Attention All Personnel

This weekend BerlinBrigade.com will be updating its LINKS section. ALL outdated links will be removed. Additionally, if you have a link that you would like added please send an email with that link to info@berlinbrigade.com

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July 22 Update

Greetings all,
Here we are again for another site update. This week there were 14 additions or changes to the registry.

As you may have noticed on the front page of the website there is a new logo image and link. It is to Hire-A-Hero (dot) org.

Hire A Hero is a non-profit program that helps the military community network before, during and after their transition back into civilian life. Volunteers help to power this online community. They dedicate their time and energy at hometowns across America to help these men and women network into good jobs. If you too would like to help in this cause or if you are in need of assistance back into your civilian life, visit www.hireahero.org Everyone has a role.

So, as you have a moment or two head on over to their website and check out what they have to offer. There is something there for everyone.

So until next time have a great week.
Dave

Registry Update / July 13, 2007

That's right we're back with another update.

I hope everyone made it back, safe, and sound to last Monday Morning's First Formation of the day especially after the 4th of July and the weekend immediately thereafter.

Here at the Brigade, not much has been going on other than the registry database interface was successful and we are going on two weeks. There have been a few minor issues, but all are background and you still see all the info without reservation.

There are still a few days left to get your BerlinBrigade.com Gear at a reduced rate. Remember as of today there are ONLY 165 days till Christmas, so its not too late to start shopping. If you don't get your gear now, there will be a special access page for those readers of this blog. So keep checking back for more information.

Before I forget, be sure to check out the registry, the latest additions and changes have been uploaded. Folks, I do ask one thing of everyone; if you are wanting to change your email address in the registry then please use the online Registry form and in the comments section write "CHANGE OF EMAIL ADDRESS". Thank you.

So until next time, DISMISSED!

07-07-07 Update

Greetings Fellow Berliners!!!
I hope everyone had a safe and Happy Independence Day! It is 07/07/07 and it's definitely a Lucky day. It seems that the database interface for the website started working, thus the new look on the registry pages. The updates are loaded and ready for your viewing pleasure.

Until Next Time, Enjoy
Dave

NEWSFLASH: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNED

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton

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courtesy: http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration_transcript.html

June 23 Registry Update

Greetings All,
Well, I just completed another update to the Registry this morning and got to thinking. This will probably be the last Registry update until after the 4th of July. As everyone remembers the 4th of July typically signified the end of Parade Season. Then focus would started up on Spandau Guard (when it was still occupied), BB Guard, ARTEPS, and of course VOLKSFEST.

This year the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Volksfest will run from July 27 to August 19 and its spotlight city is Los Angeles. So if you get a chance head on down to the corner of Clayallee and Argentinische Allee. Remember, its just across the street from Oskar-Helene Heim U-Bahnhof. Who knows who you might just see?

This week there are changes and additions to the following Unit Pages.
592nd Signal • 4/502nd Infantry • 40th Armor • 3/6th Infantry • 279 Station Hospital • 287 MP Co • Detachment A • MEDDAC • Field Station Berlin • 5/502nd Infantry • 6/502nd Infantry • 42 Engineer • HHC Berlin Brigade

A new Link was added to the LINKS page: The Cold War Museum's Berlin Chapter

As your special gift for making it down this far in the blog I have something for you. All the items at the original BerlinBrigade CAFEPRESS.com page have been discounted for the next 30 days. You can click here to access the BerlinBrigade CafePress page at http://www.cafepress.com/berlinbrigade

So until next time, Have a Safe and Wonderful Independence Day.
Dave

Oh and before I forget "PASS IN REVIEW!!!!"

June 10th Registry Update

That's right, another update so soon. What's going on, you ask? Well I have found myself with a little bit of free time. So I make the updates and we all win.

So here are this week's Registry updates

• 42nd Engineer
• 592 Signal
• Service Co.
• 4/18 Infantry
• 287 MP Co.
• 6/502 Infantry
• 4/6 Infantry
• 3/6 Infantry
• 4/502 Infantry
• USCOB

Registry Update (05/26/2007)

Another Registry Update has been made. This week there are 11 names added and some changes.

Units affected to this week's change:

1. 3rd Battalion 6th Infantry Regiment
2. Field Station Berlin
3. MEDDAC
4. 6th Battalion 502nd Infantry Regiment
5. 4th Battalion 18th Infantry Regiment
6. 5th Battalion 502nd Infantry Regiment
7. USASAFS
8. 32oth Field Artillery
9. Combat Support Battalion
10. Helmstedt Support Detachment
11. 592nd Signal Support

New Images added to the gallery this weekend.

Registry Updated (5/19/07)

There BerlinBrigade.com Registry has been updated (and there was much rejoicing). The following units were updated:

• 298th Band (1 entry)
• 5/502nd (1 entry)
• 6941st Guards (1 entry)
• Allied Staff (1 entry)
• Misc Unit (1 entry)
• USCOB (1 entry)
• 4/18 (2 entries)
• 42 Eng (2 entries)
• 592 Signal (2 entries)
• 94 FA (2 entries)
• HHC BBDE (2 entries)
• FSB (2 entries)
• MEDDAC (2 entries)
• Signal Support (2 entries)
• 4/502 (3 entries)
• 40 Armor (3 entries)
• Helmstedt (3 entries)
• 4/6 (4 entries)
• 287 MPs (6 entries)
• 2/6 (7 entries)
• 3/6 (9 entries)
• 6/502 (9 entries)

Test Message

Tonight, I am testing a new submission platform. It should help make posting to the blog a little easier. Hopefully, that ease means more posts.

BerlinBrigade.com update for the week starting 04/08/07

For the week starting April 08, 2007 here is the plan:

1. Update registry (there are over 35 entries to be added)
2. Launch new promotional campaign with History Channel to promote their new show Sherman's March premiering on April 22, 2007 at 9pm/8c.
3. Update: Server move has been postponed to the next 3-day weekend (Memorial Day weekend). More information coming on that situation.
   
4. Thank you to all.
   

March 2007 Update

Registry update was made for units: 2/6 INF, 3/6INF, 4/6INF, HHC BBDE, 298 Band, 2nd Battle Group/6th INF, 3rd Battle Group/6th INF, 4/502INF, 5/502INF, 6/502INF, 42Eng, FSB, USASAFS, 592nd SSC, 6947 Gd Bn, BBDE Drill Team, and MEDDAC

Winner of BerlinBrigade.com Swag Pack for March 2006 is a member of 287MP Co.

Past Winners:
Feb. 2007 member of 6th Battalion 502nd Infantry Regiment.
January 2007 member of 4th Battalion 6th Infantry Regiment.

The Swag Packs are on the way. Slight Production error caused the delay.

Remember everyone that requests to receive BerlinBrigade.com electronic newsletters is eligible. Previous winners are not eligible to win again as part of the 10th Anniversary Giveaway.

BerlinBrigade.com Swag Pack Winner for January 2007

In keeping with the email that was sent out on 12/24/06, to those that have opted to received emails as part of submitting their registry, the first of 12 winners in 2007 of the BerlinBrigade.com Swag Pack has been selected.

The January 2007 BerlinBrigade.com Swag Pack Winner is from 4th Battalion 6th Infantry Regiment. Congratulations!

Next Random selection will be done in February 2007.

Thanks,
David

Einen Guten Rutsch Ins Neue Jahr! / Happy New Year

I want to wish everyone a very Happy and Prosperous 2007. We have come a long way from those days of our youth in a city that we would eventually grow to love and miss so much. Now we are in a world that is moving faster and faster everyday, yet we continue to be bound by what our time in Berlin taught us.

Each one of us are bound to each other by that honor and privilege to have served in the most unique city this small planet of ours has ever known. Our common history unites us, though we might have been in Berlin at different times, yet we all shared the same experiences.

To citizens of Berlin, we wish you a Wonderful and Prosperous 2007. Through your continued support of our time in Berlin, we were able to cut through the language and cultural barriers and in the process we found ourselves citizens of Berlin, as well.

Thank you,
David
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Entschuldigen Sie mein Deutsches, bitte.

Ich möchte jeder ein sehr glückliches und erfolgreiches 2007 wünschen. Wir sind weit von jenen Tagen unserer Jugend in einer Stadt gekommen, daß wir würden schließlich uns zu Liebe entwickeln und vermissen soviel. Jetzt sind wir in einer Welt, die schnelleres und schnelleres tägliches verschiebt, dennoch fahren wir fort, gesprungen zu werden durch, was unsere Zeit in Berlin uns beibrachte.

Jedes von uns werden miteinander durch diese Ehre gesprungen und Privileg in der einzigartigsten Stadt gedient haben, die dieser kleine Planet von unseren überhaupt gekannt hat. Unsere allgemeine Geschichte vereinigt uns, obwohl wir in Berlin zu den unterschiedlichen Zeiten gewesen sein konnten, dennoch wir ganz die gleichen Erfahrungen teilten.

Zu den Bürgern von Berlin, wünschen wir Ihnen wundervolles und erfolgreiches 2007. Durch Ihre anhaltende Unterstützung unserer Zeit in Berlin, waren wir in der Lage, die Sprache und die kulturellen Sperren durchzuschneiden und im Prozeß fanden uns wir Bürger von Berlin, außerdem.

Danke,
David

Merry Christmas Website Update

Just wanted to let everyone know that the website has had the registry updated with all site submissions. Over the weekend, the email changes that were submitted via other methods than the online registry form will be added.

Thanks and Merry Christmas
Dave

P.S. The following unit pages were updated: 2/6 Inf, 279 Hosp, 287 MP, 298 Band, 3/6, 320 FA, 4/18, 4/502, 4/6, 40 Arm, 42 Eng, 5/502, 592 Signal, 6/502, 6941st Gd Bn, 94 FA, AFN-Berlin, Aviation Detachment ,HHC BBDE, CSB, Det A, Drill Team, FSB, HSD, Misc, Signal Support, Svc Co, and USMLM

Website Update

The Commerce Page has been updated with some new designs that you can get over at CafePress.com

There are a few more designs coming online just in time before the Holiday Season kicks off.

The October Registry update will be in before the end of the month.

As always we thank you for your continued support.

09262006 Registry Update Complete

The following unit registry pages have been updated:

2/6 - 287 MP - 298 Army Band - 2BTG/6 - 3/6 - 4/18 - 4/502 - 4/6 - 40 Armor - 42 Engineer
5/502 - 592 SSC - 6/502 - 7350 Support - 94 FA - AFN Berlin - Aviation Detachment - Drill Team - FSB - HSD - Svc Co - Unk - USCOB

Thank you for your patience,
David

July 29 Website Updated

All the inbound Registry additions and email change requests for the last month have been added to the REGISTRY database.

COMMERCE page has been update with UNIT GUIDON FLAGS for all 4th Battalion, 502nd Infantry Companies A, B, C, CSC, and HHC. UNIT GUIDON FLAGS for all 5th Battalion, 502nd Infantry Companies A, B, C, CSC, and HHC added as well.

More stuff coming soon.

Additionally, a NEW SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION page will be coming online in the coming weeks. The purpose of this section will be for those former members of the Brigade to promote their goods or services to other former members of the Berlin Brigade. So if you have a business, service, or goods that you want to promote, start getting your information together.

DO NOT SEND anything in until, we ask for it as the section is undergoing testing right now and NOT ready to accept live data.

The live audio history program is still in development and should be coming online sometime in the fall.

That's all the news that's fit. Thanks
David