This page was designed to be a user friendly, graphical interface to selected Pacific Northwest seismographs. The actual real-time seismograph data, which the colored dots on the above map connect to, is acquired and made available to the internet by the U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program and the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network. PNSN is based in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, and is jointly operated by the PNSN Operational Partners.

For a more comprehensive, non-graphical listing of near real-time seismograph displays throughout the northwest, visit PNSN Regional Stations, PNSN Volcano Stations and PNSN Urban Strong Motion Stations.  For a near real-time listing of all earthquake activity around the world, go to Recent Worldwide Earthquake Activity courtesy of the U. S. Geological Survey, or the Seismic Monitor map courtesy of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology -- IRIS.

To all the young people in this country that share the sentiments of Jill Edwards and Ashley Miller,
this page is dedicated.

May the years grant you wisdom.

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the
CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR

to

MAJOR GREGORY BOYINGTON
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RESERVE

for service as set forth in the following

CITATION:

For extraordinary heroism above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer of Marine Fighting Squadron TWO FOURTEEN in action against enemy Japanese forces in Central Solomons Area from 12 September 1943 to 3 January 1944. Consistently outnumbered throughout successive hazardous flights over heavily defended hostile territory, Major Boyington struck at the enemy with daring and courageous persistence, leading his squadron into combat with devastating results to Japanese shipping, shore installations and aerial forces. Resolute in his efforts to inflict crippling damage on the enemy, Major Boyington led a formation of twenty-four fighters over Kahili on 17 October and, persistently circling the airdrome where sixty hostile aircraft were grounded, boldly challenged the Japanese to send up planes. Under his brilliant command, our fighters shot down twenty enemy craft in the ensuing action without the loss of a single ship. A superb airman and determined fighter against overwhelming odds, Major Boyington personally destroyed 26 of the many Japanese planes shot down by his squadron and by his forceful leadership developed the combat readiness in his command which was a distinctive factor in the Allied aerial achievements in this vitally strategic area.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

"We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
Who's gonna do it?
You?

We have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom.
You weep because of what we do in war, and you curse the military.
You have that luxury.
You have the luxury of not knowing what we know.

That what men like us do, while tragic, saves lives.
And that our existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
You don't want the truth because deep down ... you want us on that wall -- you need us on that wall.
We use words like honor, code, and loyalty.
We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending our country.
You use them as a punch line.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself further to those who rise and sleep under the blanket of the very freedom that we provide, then question the manner in which we have provided it.

I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way."

A Few Good Men
(paraphrased by an Air Force veteran
that had the privilege of serving with the Marines
during REFORGER 78 and REFORGER WINTER)

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling,
which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill

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