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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:

Cashiered McCain Adviser Says Conservatives Headed for a Blowout

In what should be great news for conservatives, John Weaver, former John McCain campaign manager and strategist and current adviser to Utah Governor, Jon Huntsman, a potential GOP candidate for president, recently made the announcement that if in the 2012 campaign the GOP is “defined by Palin, Limbaugh and Cheney then we’re headed for a blowout.”
- Monday, May 25, 2009

Congress and Obama Want to Foist Another Wasted Chance Law on Us

As is typical of Senator Chris Dodd, D-CT, with much flair and ballyhoo, introduced legislation to our Congress, aimed at stopping credit card practices that drag consumers into staggering amounts of debt. He must have felt some shame or remorse after having been so up to his eyeballs in hot water for his questionable ethics in the handling of the bailouts for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and his financial benefits from those two troubled agencies. But undaunted and un-fearing he bravely put forth his efforts to keep credit card companies from helping to drive borrowers into the murky depths of credit card debt.
- Saturday, May 23, 2009

Labor Unions Don’t Serve the Workers, They Help Themselves

The Center For Individual Freedom (CFIF.org) on May 15, 2009 produced what they call their “Lunchtime Liberty Update” where they asked this question: “Shouldn't hardworking and dedicated unionized employees be allowed to earn bonuses, raises or other merit-based rewards from thankful employers? Especially during these tight economic times, when productivity and efficiency are at an even higher premium?”
- Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Wanted: A Candidate for REAL Change

Our national elective offices are becoming fiefdoms for the greedy, money-hungry, ultra elite of our ruling class, not to mention, lazy and non-working.
- Saturday, May 16, 2009

Obama: Super Intellect or Colossal Arrogance?

There are times when I wonder if we have been misinformed about Mr. Obama’s so-called ‘super’ intelligence. Never in all my years have I seen someone so mistake prone showing me a lack of any solid cerebral substance.
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Obama June Speech to Muslims: “How to Behead America”?

imageWow! Is the end getting closer and closer? It would be eminently prudent for all of us to pay close attention on June 4th to a “major speech (by Obama) seeking to strengthen U.S. relations with the Islamic world and fight extremism” according to a White House announcement made on Friday, May 8, 2009.
- Sunday, May 10, 2009

69 Million Americans Elected this Man as President?

Barack Obama: ScofflawThe United States of America has been the greatest, strongest and most compassionate country in the world for many years now. Much of that favorable notoriety is the result of the often brilliant, but then sometimes, just barely adequate leadership of our ship of state.
- Friday, May 8, 2009

Standards of decency lacking in Obama administration

Marine Lt. Colonel Jeffery ChessaniIt becomes more evident with each passing day that the leftist movement to socialistic communism in the United States will stop at nothing to gain total control of our lives. This movement, fathered by billionaire George Soros, the anti-American, Christian-hating, United Nations loving bankroller for Obama, will not stop until ALL American citizens are firmly under his thumb.
- Saturday, May 2, 2009

Obama Doesn’t Act Like a Christian

I can remember clearly a time when Obama made the statement during his campaign for the presidency that he had converted to Christianity “about 20 years ago.”
- Friday, April 24, 2009

Democrats Plan to Resurrect Renamed (un)Fairness Doctrine

Anybody who says that liberal Democrats aren’t sneakily dishonest just aren’t paying attention. And right now, that should cover a little bit more than half of our country’s voting population. These cheats just refuse to stop their madness over gaining absolute and total control of anything and everything that governs our fast-fading Republic.
- Sunday, April 19, 2009

Who Is Responsible for Our Current Mess?

This year I find it a bit ironic that the “tea parties” being held around the country on April 15, 2009 are to send a message that we already pay too much of our earned incomes on taxes, when the onslaught of government spending by the Obama Administration and its liberal Democrat Congress will ignite the biggest tax burdens on the people ever in the history of our nation.
- Thursday, April 16, 2009

Is Our Pseudo President Joining the Flakes of the World?

Once when I was a young boy I saw a movie about this crazy professor who wanted to create a robot that would be almost a clone of a human. When it was completed, it looked like, talked like and acted like a real live person sometimes in superhuman and ultra-intelligent ways. But at times, it acted strangely and did weird things or said things out of character.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2009

It’s True, Every Cloud Does Have a Silver Lining

The past couple of months have seen a lot of bad news for America. The “change” promised so loudly and triumphantly by Barack Obama while trying to capture the presidency has landed with a resounding “whomp” creating discomfiture all over the horizon. The economic news is more than disappointing, it is catastrophic not only at first glance but even after an in-depth examination.
- Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Muslims Begin White House Occupation

Sooner or later, it had to come. A very short time after the elections I was convinced that our mystical, slickster-nonpareil, deceitful, smile-while-plunging-the-knife, phony pretend President was an inbred Muslim, who for political expediency “adopted” Christianity as his pretend religion, and would surround himself with adherents of the “kill non-believers at any cost” Islamo-terrorists.
- Monday, March 30, 2009

Why Should ANY School Be Named After Obama?

Are these signs of the times or advance notices of adulation gone amok? At least two schools in these United States have, or are seriously considering, changing their names from the already established to one consisting of the name of Barack Obama. There are other schools around the country where the proposition have broached without any action to date, but two schools, one located in Portland, Oregon as reported online by KGW.com and one in Hempstead, NY reported by education-world.com are a reality.
- Sunday, March 29, 2009

A New Conservative American Party is Needed

Richard Viguerie’s Conservative HQ online website on March 20, 2009 sprouted out appropriately on the first day of Spring in his blog saying, “It’s obvious that conservatives have a GOP problem” and he suggested that “the conservative movement… must begin to think of itself as a Third Force in American politics rather than as an appendage to the Republican Party.”
- Saturday, March 21, 2009


Christian bashing has to stop in America

The following news clip was spotted on March 07, 2009 in a Rapture Ready.com posting on the Internet:
State bans prayer at Christian institutions The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) is being challenged on a policy that bans Christian schools from offering a prayer or any religious message over their public address systems when they host association events on their own property.
- Sunday, March 8, 2009

We need to send a message to Obama: “Cease”

What is the next level up in the monetary monopoly game after trillion? Is it jillion or zillion? Somebody had better find out soon as our new spendthrift president is going through your taxes faster than the dictionaries can keep up with words of identification.
- Saturday, March 7, 2009

Conservatives Must Step Up to the Plate

I just read a blog, written by Eric Florack of PajamasMedia.com, in which he details a lot of the mixed feelings on the Republican Party that surfaced at the CPAC conference held last weekend. I hear you, Eric and agree totally. And I also think the Republican Party officials are closet liberal Dems. Someone said recently that their stupid actions are almost certain to signal the end of the Republican Party in this country.
- Thursday, March 5, 2009

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