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Jerry McConnell

Gerald A. "Jerry" McConnell, 92, of Hampton, died Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill, Mass., surrounded by his loved ones. He was born May 27, 1924 in Altoona, Pa., the fifth son of the late John E. and Grace (Fletcher) McConnell.

Jerry served ten years with the US Marine Corps and participated in the landing against Japanese Army on Guadalcanal and another ten years with the US Air Force. After moving to Hampton in 1957 he started his community activities serving in many capacities.

He shared 72 years of marriage with his wife Betty P. (Hamilton) McConnell. In addition to his wife, family members include nieces and nephews.

McConnell's e-book about Guadalcanal, "Our Survival was Open to the Gravest Doubts"

Most Recent Articles by Jerry McConnell:


Primaries; Can't Live With Them; Can't Live Without Them

As a kid growing up, I got a political education from my father who was a small town newspaper editor in Pennsylvania. I thought I knew all about the processes, twists and turns of the political jungle. How wrong I was! The world's wars in the years from the early '40s up through '70s caused me to leave them, and when those and my military service were completed, I found myself in New England.
- Saturday, February 13, 2016

Revisiting TFP.org And Its Search for Culture Reflections On Women In Combat

Barack Obama, no Catholic lover; or even, Christian liker, bent on eliminating any form of Christianity from the almost 240-year-old established United States of America, positioned himself to effectively take a full quiver of arrows of divisiveness when just days before the highly sacred Christian day of celebration of the Birth of Jesus Christ, had his Secretary of Defense announce to the world and Christians everywhere the unfortunate decision that women in the military would henceforth be assigned to all combat jobs, with "no exceptions."
- Tuesday, February 9, 2016


Plans for Congress Term Limits Must Be Kept Short and Tight

How many times over the years have you seen one group or another with a proposal to get Term Limits for Congress enacted? I’d say there were more of those than suggestions for Obama’s Impeachment which should be a slam-dunk. Well, more or not, this one initiated by Americans for Constitutional Liberty is the latest one to cross my desk and while I would like to see a realistic one put out there for a change.
- Sunday, January 31, 2016

Corruption in government will not stop until it is publicly identified

Sorry to have been out-of-commission for so long, but as advanced years descend more rapidly than a conservative thought by a liberal, they take their toll, more on my home life than I'd care to speak about. But hopefully, they haven't broken the love-for-America spirit in my heart and soul where the patriotic conservative still lives on.
- Thursday, December 10, 2015

Obama Stopped Being a Christian American Upon Election to POTUS

January 20, 2009, was the date; the infamous date when the destroyer of the country called the United States of America began his crusade to kill off as many citizens as possible, and as many symbols and patriotic sayings as he possibly could annihilate. If some took actual lives with his deadly thrusts, the happier he was and the more he enjoyed being the "Messiah" of doom.
- Sunday, August 2, 2015

Obama Stopped Being a Christian American Upon Election to POTUS

January 20, 2009 was the date; the infamous date when the destroyer of the country called the United States of America began his crusade to kill off the hopes and dreams of as many citizens as possible, and as many symbols and patriotic sayings as he possibly could annihilate. If some took actual lives with his deadly thrusts, the happier he was and the more he enjoyed being the "Messiah" of doom.
- Saturday, July 25, 2015

Scott Walker Explains Our Laws on Immigration to An Illegal Alien

On Monday, July 20, 2015, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a 2016 GOP Presidential Candidate went online to talk with, or as he puts it, "goes 'MANO a MANO' with an illegal immigrant." His online article on that date is titled, "Scott Walker Goes "Mano a Mano" With Illegal Immigrant!"
- Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Five Grossly Un-American Supreme Court Justices Have Ruled Against Traditional Marriages

The word "family" as we and others around the world know it, will soon disappear from the daily lexicon of human beings. The family normally consists primarily of a female who, after giving birth, is entitled to be the 'mother' and a male, who after creating a birth with his female partner in the marriage, is given the title of 'father'. Just observing animals or insects, let alone humans, is enough education to understand why the word was conceived and the mating process, save for those convoluted participants, inevitably produced offspring enhancements of the couple's personal genes, thereby creating the 'family'.
- Sunday, July 12, 2015


Church Shooting Deaths Have Black Woman Calling for Race War as GOP Senators Ask Obama Administration Why Repeat Offenders Go Free

When will the citizens of the United States start demanding that Obama be impeached to end the absolute lawlessness of his Administration and curb the resulting deaths that have become so prevalent? His refusal to take any positive action when tragedies occur lead to more wrong moves when he allows his administrators to un-enforce our valid laws.
- Monday, June 22, 2015

Is this still America?

When three universities, a Christian Leader, Disney World, a former Democrat president and the current president and his administration all make negative headlines online in the same day issue, any true American patriot has got to feel betrayed by his fellow countrymen. It is common knowledge that the far left Socialist i.e. Communist mentality has overcome all common sense in our universities and most colleges. Their teachings lean from leftist-ism to outright treasonous betrayal of our sworn government and its laws.
- Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Guess Who Pays When Rioting Thugs Destroy Our Cities?

Possessing an incredible amount of perspicacity, Thomas Sowell is always a "Best Bet" to come up with logic by the tons when confronted with a sticky situation. Defining the effects of the recent marauding of American cities couldn't be analyzed and dissected by anyone any better than the good Doctor of Economics Thomas Sowell.
- Thursday, June 4, 2015

Global Warming is Real to Liberal Democrats

A very prominent conservative gentleman named Wayne Allyn Root authored an article for PersonalLiberty.com, stating, "Conservative admits 'global warming' is real" on May 28, 2015. What I discovered while reading his article was that his headline statement about 'global warming' being real was offered as a tongue-in-cheek half-truth as a sort of spoof about global warming beliefs of liberal Democrats.
- Sunday, May 31, 2015

Netanyahu's Incredibly Heart-Felt Plea: How Could Democrats Look in Their Mirrors the Next Morning?

In one of the most egregious examples of horrendously bad manners and lack of taste, 50 plus Democrat members of Congress, along with President Obama and Vice President Biden of the United States, ignorantly absented themselves from an enlightened and precise dissertation on the proposed nuclear deal between Iran and the United States that if consummated could spell the doom for the young state of Israel and perhaps all of its people in addition to wide spread multi millions more in retaliation.
- Thursday, March 5, 2015

Obama's Woes With VA Problems Expand to a Lying VA Secretary

Only mere weeks into the scandals of Veterans Administration's improper handlings and bingo; the story gets more odorous when Obama's hand-picked Secretary of that federal agency admits he lied about his own military service.
- Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Is Jeb Bush Proving to Be Tough or A Soft Act of Love on Immigration

An earlier Washington Examiner editorial positioned Republican presidential probable candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush as a not very conservative office seeker based on his talk about acts of love. This was based on a CNN interview with Dana Davidsen with Bush at College Station, Texas, on a Sunday Town Hall event to honor the elder GHW Bush's 25th presidential anniversary.
- Sunday, February 22, 2015

Obama's At It Again, Now He's Preaching Religious History

Our feeble-minded usurper POTUS just won't quit. Just last week, I pointed out his inability or just outright refusal to learn. Then to prove me right Obama attended the National Prayer Breakfast and his extreme reticence to give voice to coupling the words Islam and terrorism in spite of its overwhelmingly obvious correct pairing, he not only stayed his incorrect course, but he reached back into history over multiple centuries and brought this country's most populated religion, Christianity, into a comparative position.
- Monday, February 16, 2015

Obama Never Learns, Even After Six Years He Doesn't Know What to Do

The elections that took place in November 2014 must have told the Socialist Democrats in Congress and the anti-Christian, pro Islam Obama Administration that the great majority of the country's citizens are fed up with ever-increasing taxes, mindless and killing profligate spending and more growth in deficit creating, and Obama-welfare-type government.
- Sunday, February 8, 2015

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