HAPPY BIRTHDAY Adrian!!!!!!

As you know, I am taking some time off this week from I’m just sayin… (a much needed break after the Month of Music). However, today is a special day and therefore I have come into the office in order to say:

Happy Birthday to my very dear friend Adrian!!!!!!!!! As I’m sure you will remember, Adrian is the sister of my good friend Ross and the lovely wife of my good friend and personal banker Michael. I’m not sure if I’ve talked about my bank on here before… maybe I will someday, but not today… today is all about wishing Adrian a happy birthday. So, in the spirit of the Month of Music (which ended just a few short days ago), we will now have the entire I’m just sayin… staff (including the I’m just sayin… Board of Directors) sing to Adrian:

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday Dear Adrian!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday to you!

And now, in Spanish:

¡Feliz cumpleaños a tí!
¡Feliz cumpleaños a tí!
¡Feliz cumpleaños a Adrian!!!!!!!!
¡Feliz cumpleaños a tí!

And French:

Joyeux Anniversaire!
Joyeux Anniversaire!
Joyeux Anniversaire Adrian!!!!!!!!
Joyeux Anniversaire!

And German:

Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
Zum Geburtstag liebe Adrian!!!!!!!!
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!

And, of course, Korean:

Seng il chook ha hamni da!
Seng il chook ha hamni da!
Sa rang ha nuen Adrian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seng il chook ha hamni da!!

***NOTE: I’m 99.9% sure we just sang Happy Birthday in all of these languages… If, in fact, we have ended up saying some very bad things to or about Adrian, please let me know and I will fire the person responsible for telling me that’s how to sing Happy Birthday.***


Anyway, from all of us at I’m just sayin..., to all of you who are (our friend, have a brother Ross who is also our friend and a husband Michael who is also our friend and, of course, have a birthday today) named Adrian: We hope you have a very, very, very, very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!


Know Your Medal of Honor Recipients:

Private Oscar Burkard (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on October 5, 1898 at Leech Lake, Minnesota. His citation reads:

For distinguished bravery in action against hostile Indians. [Note: This, the last Medal of Honor won in an Indian campaign, was awarded for an action during the uprising of Chippewa Indians, on Lake Leech, northern Minnesota, 5 October 1898.]

First Sergeant Daniel W. Burke (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on September 20, 1862 at Shepherdstown Ford, Virginia. His citation reads:

Voluntarily attempted to spike a gun in the face of the enemy.

First Lieutenant Frank Burke (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on April 17, 1945 at Nuremberg, Germany. His citation reads:

Also known as Francis X. Burke, he fought with extreme gallantry in the streets of war-torn Nuremberg, Germany, where the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry, was engaged in rooting out fanatical defenders of the citadel of Nazism. As battalion transportation officer he had gone forward to select a motor-pool site, when, in a desire to perform more than his assigned duties and participate in the fight, he advanced beyond the lines of the forward riflemen. Detecting a group of about 10 Germans making preparations for a local counterattack, he rushed back to a nearby American company, secured a light machinegun with ammunition, and daringly opened fire on this superior force, which deployed and returned his fire with machine pistols, rifles, and rocket launchers. From another angle a German machinegun tried to blast him from his emplacement, but 1st Lt. Burke killed this guncrew and drove off the survivors of the unit he had originally attacked. Giving his next attention to enemy infantrymen in ruined buildings, he picked up a rifle dashed more than 100 yards through intense fire and engaged the Germans from behind an abandoned tank. A sniper nearly hit him from a cellar only 20 yards away, but he dispatched this adversary by running directly to the basement window, firing a full clip into it and then plunging through the darkened aperture to complete the job. He withdrew from the fight only long enough to replace his jammed rifle and secure grenades, then re-engaged the Germans. Finding his shots ineffective, he pulled the pins from 2 grenades, and, holding 1 in each hand, rushed the enemy-held building, hurling his missiles just as the enemy threw a potato masher grenade at him. In the triple explosion the Germans were wiped out and 1st Lt. Burke was dazed; but he emerged from the shower of debris that engulfed him, recovered his rifle, and went on to kill 3 more Germans and meet the charge of a machine pistolman, whom he cut down with 3 calmly delivered shots. He then retired toward the American lines and there assisted a platoon in a raging, 30-minute fight against formidable armed hostile forces. This enemy group was repulsed, and the intrepid fighter moved to another friendly group which broke the power of a German unit armed with a 20-mm. gun in a fierce fire fight. In 4 hours of heroic action, 1st Lt. Burke single-handedly killed 11 and wounded 3 enemy soldiers and took a leading role in engagements in which an additional 29 enemy were killed or wounded. His extraordinary bravery and superb fighting skill were an inspiration to his comrades, and his entirely voluntary mission into extremely dangerous territory hastened the fall of Nuremberg, in his battalion's sector.