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Julio Cesar Chacal GCB/SE: Amor no Lar IN MANY WAYS, it resembles an old fashioned cookie-cutting operation but the most prestigious of the "cookies" stamped out at a Manhattan metalworking plant are surely a batch apart.They are Medals of Honor the nation's highest award for valor destined one day to be hung about the necks of American military heroes from the various services, presented with a presidential handshake in the name of the Congress of the United States.Some, sadly, will be conferred posthumously. All, to be sure, will be cherished by recipients and survivors as the ultimate symbol of national gratitude.Fittingly, these medals, being stamped out almost cookie-like from sheets of base metal, will have little intrinsic value when their manufacture is complete. Such an honor, signifying gallantry beyond the call of duty and at the risk of life itself, could scarcely begin to carry a sufficient price tag. So the true worth of the Medal of Honor stems largely from the exceptional heroism of the relative few who are privileged to wear it."The Navy and' Marine Corps medal isn't even gold plated," said William McAllister, vice-president of His Lordship Products, Inc., a Seventh Avenue firm which has been making the star-shaped pendants since 1963. As lie spoke, a jeweler sat at a workbench polishing up stampings of the Army's medal. "It's just red brass," said McAllister.The medals, which by now had a high luster, would soon be gold plated and given a final satin finish.Then each would be attached to the familiar pale blue neck ribbon by means of a small, eagle-shaped suspense bar, and placed in an attractive dark green box along with a rosette and service ribbon for ultimate presentation by the president.In mid-manufacture, though, this batch of 90 Army medals being produced under a special government contract, looked like a big tray of star-shaped cookies popped from the oven a moment before they would begin to rise. The jeweler was polishing the edges on a spinning wire brush."THE ARMY and Air Force medals get a final gold plating, but even then the metal value is still probably only around a dollar or so," McAllister remarked as he led a visitor through one of the firm's three floors of workrooms."So far, we have produced about 350 Medals of Honor for the Army, 150 for the Air Force and 100 for the Navy and Marine Corps," said McAllister, who believes his firm is the only company currently producing them."We happen to have the right tools and we bid on every lot the government wants made," added the youthful-appearing veteran who spent four years in the Navy during the Korean Conflict."I'll tell you one thing, though. We make certain we never make a penny on them. The cost is figured as finely as we can get it, and that is the full amount of our bid."You just couldn't possibly want to make money on something like the Medal of Honor, and I'm sure that's the way most people would feel about it. We have had contracts for all kinds of military
decorations and have produced medals for the services numbering into the millions."We made the original Republic of Vietnam Service Medal; we made the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Commendation Medals; the Legion of Merit; the Distinguished Service Medal for each service; the Air Force Cross; the Purple Heart, and I could go on and on."Every contract, he said, was handled on a fair-profit level; but when it comes to the Medal of Honor, the emphasis is on making as perfect a product as possible, never money.The company produces the Medal of Honor; under a "100 per cent inspection, no defects" contract so that company inspectors sometimes reject as much as 25 per cent of every lot to assure that the finished product is totally free of flaws. By the time a shipment is ready to be turned over to the government, it has many times been examined with the kind of care usually associated with fine jewelry.For the manufacturing process, the government furnishes a contract winner with heavy cylindrical pieces of metal called "hubs," each with one of the various Medal of Honor designs embossed on its face. The Army and Air Force have their own designs, with the latter being the newest and the largest. The Navy and Marine Corps versions are identical.The contractor begins by sinking the hubs into steel blocks to extract his own working dies.BRASS SHAPES in the approximate form of the medal are then "blanked out" of metal strips the way a housewife would use her cookie cutter on a batch of dough.The star-shaped blanks are then placed individually into a drop hammer holding the working die, and a series of blows, struck at tremendous pressure, bring up the design as the brass is forced against the die.Then the stampings, now having both the shape and the embossed design of the finished medals, go into a trimming operation where the "flash" or excess metal which has been squeezed out by the force of the drop hammer is cut away prior to polishing.The Navy and Marine Corps medals are then given their oxidized, satin finish. The Army and Air Force versions take longer to produce because they go through a final gold lamination process and a hard-fired green enamel coat is applied to the laurel wreath around the medal and to the leaf at each point through a final gold lamination process of the star.Aside from a few embellishments, of course, it is basically the same metal working process from which hundreds of quite pedestrian, everyday items are mass-produced. The difference and it is certainly vast is largely in the mind of the onlooker.It takes a little getting used to, therefore, to watch a drop hammer operator stamping out the Medal of Honor working shoulder to shoulder with one banging out little sailboats for key chains.Yet, of course, this is the way such work is done, especially considering that most firms working on military decorations also produce civilian goods.In McAllister's case, the sailboats, and hundreds of other items of nautical jewelry, came first. His Lordship Products
was founded in 1948, and specialized in making gold and sterling charms, common to the yachting set.The firm later branched into the ad specialty business, producing metal replicas of the corporate symbols of hundreds of major business firms and fastening them to tie clasps, cufflinks, money clips, charms and similar items.McAllister's first military contract came in 1959 when the company manufactured an anchor superimposed on a three-bladed propeller for the caps of enlisted Waves.SINCE THEN the company has expanded, its 85 employees having handled as many as 10,000 different military and civilian contracts ranging from such diverse, objects as the famous PT109 tie clasps handed out as White House souvenirs by the late President John F. Kennedy to millions of "tiger in your tank" key chains for a major oil company promotion."We even make the keys for the City of New York," said McAllister, recalling a rush contract of several years ago when City Hall officialdom was shaken to discover that the honorary "keys to the city" all had the previous mayor's name stamped on them.The company also handles a large volume of military officer hardware such as gold and silver bars, oak leaves and stars worn by generals.McAllister and his colleagues, in fact, are still puzzling over a government order they filled in 1963 for 360 pairs of stars for five-star generals. "I suppose they just wanted to be ready in case," McAllister conjectured.And, of course, there have been the increasing contracts for the Medal of Honor, with increasing numbers of the decoration going to heroes of the fighting in Vietnam.Occasionally, McAllister will get letters from people claiming to be servicemen or former servicemen who have either lost or misplaced a Medal of Honor and wanting to know if they can buy a replacement.He writes back, telling them that they had best contact government authorities about it. The brass medal, worth only a few cents, isn't for sale at any price.By Walter Hennessey Stars and StripesPublished: January 19, 1969 http://www.stripes.com/news/creating-the-medal-of-honor-1.23875
conserva-lo a frente de sua obra, e nomeado Diretor da Escola de Veterinaria do Exercito.No ano de 1920, se dedicou a construcao da nova sede da Escola de Veterinaria do Exercito, na Avenida Bartolomeu Gusmao, em Sao Cristovao, Rio de Janeiro. No discurso de inauguracao, Muniz de Aragao, profundamente emocionado teve uma sincope cardiaca, mas foi socorrido a tempo e salvo. Apesar disso, fez questao que o discurso fosse lido por outrem, do qual transcrevemos um trecho, onde destacava o papel e a importancia do medico veterinario para o pais: "... em um pais como o nosso, novo, vivendo de esperancas, e que entre estas ve apontado, como elemento fundamental para a sua grandeza economica, para sua prosperidade, o vasto campo da criacao animal, nao se pode deixar de lado o estudo da Veterinaria.Tres sao os elementos principais para o seu desenvolvimento pratico: bons profissionais, boa politica sanitaria dos animais e bons campos de culturas forrageiras.O Veterinario e hoje um colaborador inteligente do desenvolvimento economico de um pais, e ao mesmo tempo, da sua organizacao militar.E o guarda dos nossos rebanhos, e o conselheiro, o guia na aplicacao dos metodos modernos da criacao animal, fazendo adaptarem os cientificos que ensinam, e retirar, em menor lapso de tempo, todo o proveito que essa industria deve e pode prodigalizar.... o veterinario de hoje nao e mais o ferrador, "le marechal ferranto albeytars", embora com as honras e privilegios nobiliarquicos; a Veterinaria moderna, que teve como precursor Claude Bourgelat e como estimuladores, entre outros, os espiritos investigadores de Pasteur, Chauveu, Nocard, Kock, etc. E uma ciencia definida, dificil, e que caminha em rapido progresso, desvendando segredos mais transcendentais ..."Em setembro de 1920 foi nomeado como primeiro Inspetor do Servico Veterinario do Exercito, deixando a direcao da Escola. Ainda nesse ano, chegou ao Brasil a terceira missao francesa que consolidou a obra de Muniz de Aragao.Foi nomeado para a comissao encarregada de fixar a composicao das racoes das tropas em tempo de paz, mas em janeiro de 1922 foi acometido por uma sincope cardiaca, desta feita fatal, aos 48 anos de idade.O Presidente Getulio Vargas, em dezembro de 1940, baixou Decreto-Lei de no 2.893, determinando o Coronel Medico Dr. Joao Muniz Barreto de Aragao, Patrono do Servico de Veterinaria do Exercito, como reconhecimento aos seus esforcos para a fundacao e desenvolvimento daquele Servico. Fonte: http://www.vetcardio.50webs.com
From washing their clothes in village fountains to eating lunches next to bombed-out buildings, these rare colour photographs capture what daily life was like for soldiers away from the battlefield on the Western Front.The images, captured using the Lumiere brothers Autochrome colour process, were all taken in 1917, the fourth year of the First World War. They document how members of the Allied Forces spent quieter moments away from the fighting.In one picture, a group of around half a dozen French soldiers is seen waiting outside a grocery store in Reims, a city in north-eastern France. Another shows four uniformed troops relaxing as they read the newspaper outside a kiosk in Rexpoede, less than 10 miles south of Dunkirk.The remarkable set also shed light on the important role Senegalese servicemen played in the force. They are seen relaxing in a room lined with weapon, standing watch in a town and preparing to fight on the frontline alongside their French counterparts. And while there are no photos of the gunfight or life in the trenches, the images do hint at the warfare going on beyond these seemingly peaceful snapshots of daily life. Charred shells of buildings in Dunkirk were photographed in the wake of one German air raid, while other images show French soldiers camouflaging railway guns ahead of an offensive on German forces.+39 Senegalese soldiers serving in the French Army as infantrymen rest in a room surrounded by weapons in Saint-Ulrich, France on 16 June+39+39A French soldier at a lookout in Eglingen, France on 26 June 1917. Right, French soldiers buy newspapers in Rexpoede on 6 September+39A little girl is seen holding her doll as she sits next to two guns and a military knapsack on a street in Reims, northern France, in 1917+39This dramatic photograph shows soldiers standing on a ridge above a crater 45m deep created by mines placed by British forces underneath German positions near Messines in West Flanders on 7 June 1917. Some 10,000 soldiers died in the blast+39A French soldier has lunch in front of a damaged library in a square in Reims, in north-eastern France on 1 April 1917+39French soldiers in front of a grocery store, with signs advertising liquor and wine in the windows, in the market square in Reims in 1917+39A French officer inspects the barbed wire around French positions in Soissons, which was heavily damaged by artillery fire during the war+39A French observation post with three soldiers in a trench reinforced with wooden beams and sand bags close to the German lines, taken at Hirtzbach, Department Haut-Rhin, Region Alsace, on 16 June 1917+39A camp of workers from the British Chinese Labour Corps recruited to participate in the Middle East campaign photographed in 1917+39+39+39An Algerian guard, left, an Algerian worker, centre, and a worker from Indochina in Soissons, Aisne, France, all in 1917+39Two French soldiers assigned to a telephone station wash their laundry in a trough of a fountain, in Largitzen, France on 18 June 1917+39Five French soldiers are clearing the rubble in the ruins of Reims, which was almost 60 per cent destroyed
by German artillery and air raids+39Wounded soldiers from the battlefield recover at Saint-Paul Hospital in Soissons, which was twice captured by the Germans during the war+39Four French guards and Swiss guards at the border between Switzerland and France in Pfetterhouse, Region Alsace on 19 June 1917+39A horse cart is loaded with furniture and personal belongings in front of a leather goods shop on 4 May 1917 as residents prepared to to leave Reims during the Second Battle of the Aisne which ended in defeat for the French forces+39A group of Senegalese soldiers serving in the French Army as infantryman have lunch in Saint-Ulrich, Region Alsace on 16 June 1917+39A French section of machine gunners takes position in the ruins during the battle of the Aisne, on the Western Front in 1917+39French fire fighters, military and civilians try to prevent fires from spreading after the bombings of September 2 and 3 in Dunkirk+39+39Two French soldiers are taking care of their laundry using boards set up on the trough of a fountain near a farm house in the town of Gildwiller, Department Haut-Rhin, Region Alsace on 21 June 1917, left. Right, in a trench on the frontline in Hirtzbach on 16 June 1917+39A woman with a cart filled with milk cans and a man with another cart in Rue de Talleyrand, Reims, France on 3 March 1917+39The towers of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Reims can be seen through the damaged windows of a building in the city in 3 April 1917+39Uniformed doctors and nurses stand in front of field hospital 55 in Bourbourg, northern France on 1 September 1917+39Two French soldiers from Africa heat up a meal on an outdoor fireplace made from bricks in Soissons, Aisne, France, in 1917+39Two French soldiers at a narrow railroad track near the French near the village of Boezinge, north of the city of Ypres on 10 September 1917+39Two Senegalese soldiers, both of the Bambara people, serving in the French Army pictured in Balschwiller, France on 22 June 1917+39French soldiers dressed in their blue military uniforms camouflage a 370 mm railway gun in Noyon, Region Oise, on 5 September 1917+39Two French soldiers and horses in the cloister of the abbey de Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, which was heavily damaged by artillery fire+39French soldiers of the 370th Infantry Regiment are eating soup during the battle of the Aisne, on the Western Front in 1917+39Three Swiss border guards, left, stand opposite a French guard at the border between the two countries in Beurnevesin on 19 June 1917+39A group of Swiss border guards behind a fence between Switzerland and France, in the Department Haut-Rhin, on 19 June 1917+39Damaged buildings after the bombings of September 10 and 11 in the town of RosendaIl, near Dunkirk, on 11 September 1917+39Eight French soldiers stand on top of a 370mm railway gun which they are camouflaging on 5 September 1917+39A military cemetery on a hillside in the town of Moosch in Alsace containing graves of the Chasseurs Alpins, the elite mountain infantry of the French Army+39Two ambulance vehicles in front of a building near the village of Boezinge,
ser liquidado, se desse o menor sinal aos bandidos, Joaquim Pedro vai mostrar o esconderijo deles. Com todas as precaucoes imaginaveis, a tropa se aproxima da malta criminosa.Antonio Silvino estava deitado numa pedra, sobre a qual se debrucava copada oiticica. Perto, divertiam-se alguns de seus cabras, a jogar um sete-e-meio. Ao ouvir a primeira descarga, Silvino gritou, motejante:Ferimentos de Antonio Silvino apos a sua captura. Espera ai, rapaziada! Deixem, ao menos, os menino acabar esta mao!Mas o fogo irrompeu violento e sem intermitencias, dos dois lados.Com o cair da noite, o tiroteio deixou de ser correspondido. O Alferes Teofanes e o Sargento Alvino acreditaram que Silvino tivesse fugido. Suspeitando, todavia, que ele se quisesse vingar de Joaquim Pedro, foram entrincheirar-se na casa deste.Antonio Silvino ja com o uniforme da prisao.Coisa bem diversa se passava. Silvino fora atingido por uma bala nas espaduas e o seu companheiro Joaquim Moura tivera quebrada uma perna. Os demais cangaceiros se embrenharam, desorientados, na caatinga, favorecidos pelo negrume da noite.Estando a perder muito sangue, Silvino convidou Joaquim Moura a se entregarem, mas este repelira o convite e, depois de dizer que macaco do Governo nao tinha o gosto de botar-lhe as maos em riba, ele vivo, suicidou-se com um tiro na cabeca.Outra foto do oficial Ferraz.Impressionado ainda mais com o tragico fim do ultimo assecla que lhe restava, Silvino despojou-se das armas e arrastou-se para a casa da mulher que ele ignorava tivesse sido quem o denunciara. O marido dela, Joao Vicente, a estava censurando por sua leviandade, persuadido de que Silvino, sabedor da denuncia, lhes nao perdoaria.De repente, batem a porta. Quando, de fora, uma voz anuncia que quem bate e Antonio Silvino, Joao Vicente encomenda a alma a Deus, convicto de que vai morrer. E sua mulher quem se afoita a atender ao chamamento.Aqui outra imagem do sargento Alvino.Ao se abrir a porta, aparece, a luz da lamparina, o vulto do grande salteador. Quase desfalecido e com as vestes rubras de sangue, Silvino esta escorado no portal. Capitao, que horror e este? Mataram-me... arqueja aquele que, acovardado, comecava a expiar crimes sem conta.Conduzido a uma rede, ele pede que chamem a policia. Vai alguem a Taquaritinga, mas nao encontra la os soldados. Na confusao em que todos se viam, ninguem a principio se apercebeu de que os policiais poderiam estar pernoitando na fazenda de Joaquim Pedro. A mulher de Joao Vicente ocorre agora essa possibilidade. Despacham para ali o portador. Quando este bate a porta de Joaquim Pedro, os soldados aperram as armas, crentes de que e Silvino quem chega. Aberta a muito custo uma janela, o mensageiro da contas de sua incumbencia: vem avisar que Antonio Silvino, sozinho, desarmado e gravemente ferido, esta em casa de Joao Vicente e quer entregar-se a prisao.Expectativa para a chegada do famoso bandoleiro nordestino na Casa de Detencao de Recife.O Alferes Teofanes suspeita que se trate duma cilada e opina que se aguarde o raiar do dia. Tanto insiste, porem, o Sargento Alvino que, afinal, o seu comandante se dispoe a ir ver Silvino. Ainda assim, o recadista
vai seguro pelos cos e advertido de que recebera uma punhalada, ao primeiro tiro com que a tropa seja surpreendida.Cercada com cautelas a morada de Joao Vicente, houve grande alegria, quando se patenteou aos olhos de seus perseguidores a misera situacao daquele que se gabava de que, embora sem saber ler, governava todo o sertao! O Sargento Alvino parecia o mais contente. Exigiu que se nao fizesse o menor mal a Antonio Silvino e saiu, pelos matos, a cortar umas folhas de quixabeira para lhe lavar as feridas.Fora destronado o Atila bronco que, durante dois decenios, apavorara a gente matuta do meio-norte e assoalhava nao ser passarinho que morasse entre grades... Por trinta anos ia se fechar atras dele o portao da Penitenciaria de Recife!Multidao a frente da Estacao Central do Recife na chegada do famoso cangaceiro.Foi a tenacidade do Sargento Alvino, a sua argucia e vontade firme de vinganca que se deveu a prisao de Antonio Silvino. Forcoso e, porem, reconhecer que colaborou inestimavelmente nisso a indiscricao duma mulher.Acontecera o mesmo, algum dia, a Lampiao? Ate na ruina dos cangaceiros tera aplicabilidade o cherchez la femme.Texto acima e do Cearense Leonardo Mota, inserido no seu livro No tempo de Lampiao e publicado pela Of. Industrial Grafica, do Rio de Janeiro, em 1931. Esta reproducao e da segunda edicao, de 1967. Leonado Mota era cearense da cidade de Pedra Branca, nasceu em 1891 e faleceu em 1948. Estudou a fundo o sertao nordestino, onde descreveu varios aspectos da regiao em obras memoraveis. Antes de Lampiao, Antonio Silvino era o cangaceiro mais famoso e seu apelido mais conhecido foi Rifle de Ouro. Nascido no dia 2 de dezembro de 1875, em Afogados da Ingazeira, Manoel Batista de Morais entrou para a historia como Antonio Silvino. Durante 16 anos, driblou a policia, praticou saques e assassinou inimigos, mas era tratado pelos poetas populares como um heroi por respeitar as familias. A invencibilidade de Silvino terminou no dia 27 de novembro de 1914, quando ocorreu o seu ultimo tiroteio com a policia. Atingido no pulmao direito, conseguiu se refugiar na casa de um amigo e disse que ia se entregar. Da cadeia de Taquaritinga seguiu, dentro de uma rede, ate a estacao ferroviaria de Caruaru, onde um trem especial da Great Western o levou para o Recife. Uma multidao o aguardava na Casa de Detencao, atual Casa da Cultura. Antonio Silvino tornou-se o detento numero 1.122, condenado a 239 anos e oito meses de prisao. Em 4 de fevereiro de 1937, depois de vinte e tres anos, dois meses e 18 dias de reclusao, foi indultado pelo presidente Getulio Vargas. O ex-rei do cangaco morreu em 30 de julho de 1944, em Campina Grande, na casa de uma prima.https://tokdehistoria.com.br/2013/11/13/fotos-da-prisao-de-antonio-silvino/