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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:

Employee Free Choice Act rules out secret ballots

Only the deaf, blind and liberals have failed to see the greatest roadblock to a more favorable financial climate and economical status of our automotive producing industry. There can be no question that the obscenely high wages paid to the heavily unionized auto workers have been the downfall of all American automakers.
- Tuesday, March 3, 2009

An open letter to Brett Farley

Brett Farley Executive Director Minuteman PAC Dear Mr. Farley: I too am appalled at the audacity of the liberal Democrats at the apparent theft of our government, lock, stock and barrel in its totality. They have forged ahead with no one even seeming to oppose them. They have gained such enormous energy and power in such a short time that obviously even an entire half or more of the total population of this country has been lulled to sleep and can't even muster a simple slap back at their aggressiveness.
- Friday, February 27, 2009

How Obama will Destroy America

Newsmax.com published an online article composed by the National Republican Trust PAC on February 20, 2009 titled “Obama’s 3 Big Lies – His Plan to Destroy the GOP. The more I read from it, the more convinced I was that the title, though accurate, didn’t quite go far enough. I also decided that the information in the article needed to be spread to as many different destinations that I could possibly reach. I also reworded the NRT PAC article title as written above, because I felt that it was not just the GOP that would be destroyed, but all of America as we have known it.
- Monday, February 23, 2009

We need to “CHANGE” Obama before it’s too late

There is a letter authored by a military veteran making the rounds of the Internet that shouts loudly and clearly that all Americans MUST undergo an attitude change and get more involved in political affairs. That letter will do about as much good as giving a piss ant a bucket and telling him to drain Lake Superior, and I'll tell you why.
- Thursday, February 19, 2009

Is H. R. 1 really CRAP?

Did you ever in your life think that you would see our government give away so much money the digits won’t even fit in your calculator? I mean, how many household calculating machines can reach the trillions? For that matter, how about just billions? My desk calculator only goes up to 10 digits or 99 million, which a one heck of a lot of anything and even more if you’re thinking tax dollars; but billions and trillions? Forget it.
- Monday, February 16, 2009


Obama errors mirror inept leadership

With the veritable parade of Democrat tax-cheats and those with suspicions of illegal practices that have been selected for appointment to high government positions or have been candidates for election to high Congressional seats, one has to wonder how many more of them are already in high government positions besides the Secretary of the Treasury who got a ‘mulligan’ and sitting in elected offices of Congress blessed by not having been caught or discovered yet???
- Sunday, February 8, 2009

Troika of Discontent, Part Two

Following up on my column of February 05, 2009, “America’s Troika of Discontent” where I promised to list some of the things that have been considered by the new regime in Washington, DC; or should I say the new dictatorship, as a lot of what is being considered seems more like autocracy than democracy.
- Friday, February 6, 2009

Americas Troika of Discontent

In these days of mayhem over the Obama/Reid/Pelosi ‘stimulus,’ ‘anti-stimulus,’ ‘federal bankruptcy,’ ‘U.S. in the poor house’ (choose one carefully, it may be your last chance to survive), it has made me take notice that this new bunch that is running, or attempting to ruin, our wonderful country that once was, how many things that make me so very nervous that we will never again be the strong, commanding force that we so very much prided in our being.
- Thursday, February 5, 2009

Dems now say they need more money and power

Online headline: US seizing of Iranian ship 'a covert op'” by Yaakov Lappin © 2009 Jerusalem Post, January 25, 2009 "There's been no good news," said Vice President Joe Biden on CBS' "Face the Nation," "and there's no good news on the immediate horizon."
- Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Liberals make Sarah and Rush look good

A very good indicator of who America’s most prominent and well-intentioned people are can usually be determined by watching and listening to the other people such as our liberal Democratic leadership in Congress who are quick to denigrate and attack who and what are absolutely beneficial and good for our country.
- Sunday, January 25, 2009

What have we done to ourselves, - And why?

Many Americans have been convinced for some time that Obama is a closet Islamic. After reading the headlines in the January 22, 2009 Fox News First 100 days of the Presidency “Obama is expected to sign ‘several’ executive orders Thursday, directing the CIA to close secret foreign prisons and Guantanamo Bay, and limiting detention and interrogation methods” he has given more credence to these convictions. He is apparently making it softer and easier for Islamic/Muslims to damage the United States.
- Thursday, January 22, 2009

We must expose labor unions trickery

The wheels and gears of the great union labor machine are moving right now as you read this column; moving toward injustice in the work place. We, that means you and me and every one you know that values America’s freedoms, have got to contact your elected representative to Congress and tell them NOT to vote in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA as the unions call it.
- Sunday, January 18, 2009

Bush leaves 2 heroes to remain behind bars

Looks like our leader, President George W. Bush is going to go out of office without pardoning two of America’s brave warriors, who put their lives on the line for the men, women and particularly children of the United States as well as for President Bush, and got railroaded to jail as a result.
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Can we Save Our Secret Ballot from political and union stealth?

imageOne of the more odious efforts of American business affairs is about to take center stage in the very early days of our new Congress. And as when the word ‘odious’ is associated with business affairs, it can almost always signal that labor unions are involved. Be prepared America for one of the biggest farcical rip-offs ever attempted, even by shoddy union standards. In a brazen effort to flaunt how much corruption there is in today’s relationship between labor unions and politicians, the latter mainly of the party that pretends to be for the ‘working man and his family’ which of course we all know is far from being a truthful platitude; a piece of legislation will be introduced disingenuously titled, “Employee Free Choice Act.”
- Friday, January 9, 2009

Obama’s cabinet appointments are frightening to our security

In other columns, I have written that my thoughts on Obama are that he is dangerous and perhaps, fatally so for our country. No small amount of evidence of this predilection of our incoming President has been provided in a column by the canny Dick Morris and Eileen McGann titled “Gutting Security: O’s Dangerous Anti-Terror Picks” which appeared online and in the New York Post on January 08, 2009.
- Friday, January 9, 2009

Santa Claus is still treating Democrats

Hey Americans, we just witnessed the miracle of the decade: On Monday, Jan. 05, 2008, Senator Feinstein, Chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee said that Leon Panetta didn’t have the experience to the Director of the CIA where President-Elect Obama wants to place him. And she made it loudly and plainly public.
- Thursday, January 8, 2009

Videotape surfaces disproving Dem lies on Fannie & Freddie

Who among us has forgotten the sorry spectacle of liberal Democrats including Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, our holier-than-thou leaders of the Congressional House of Representatives and Senate respectively, trying to place the blame for the financial mess and collapse of the two very large Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, on the Bush Administration and Republicans in general.
- Monday, January 5, 2009

Some think this a good time to raise gas tax.

A very short time ago about when the conservatives were pushing the liberals to allow more domestic drilling for oil and the crashes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the price for a gallon of gas at the pumps started to fall. From record highs of $4.25 to current lows in the $1.50 range we watched with great delight as it fell.
- Saturday, January 3, 2009

Has our mightiest governing document been rendered worthless?

It looks like the mighty and powerful United States of America is going to be stymied by a slick-talking smoothie again. No, it’s not Jimmy Carter or Bubba Clinton but it is another one who can rattle off a cunning phrase about as well as anyone I’ve ever heard. And if Clinton was known as “Slick Willie” this new fellow will have to be known as “Brazen Barry”. The rest of his name is Hussein Obama.
- Sunday, December 28, 2008

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