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February 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 18/02/2010 9:04 AM Page 39 Dr. Doug Rokke on Depleted Uranium 39 Former Director of the Oversight Board; and local, state, and federal most on record.) law enforcement, fire, and medical agencies. He * Napoleon Bonaparte, Herbert Hoover, U.S. Army's Depleted has been an advisor and on-screen expert for and Franklin Delano Roosevelt all feared the Uranium Project reveals numerous television documentaries on effects number 13. * In 1959, Harvey Haddix became the of nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare and toxic effects of America's depleted uranium with CBS; ABC; NBC, CNN, first pitcher to throw 12 perfect innings - and History Channel; A & E; PBS; Discovery then he lost the game in the 13th. Military Operations channel, BBC; CBC; Gary Null & Associates; * Apollo 13 was launched at 13:13, the Power Hour; and German, French, Japanese, military time. The astronauts aborted the Continued from Page 38 Australian, Italian, Spanish, and Greek mission and turned back to Earth on Friday, television networks. April 13. Dr. Rokke has taught undergraduate and * Black Sabbath released its self-titled ABOUT DR. DOUG ROKKE graduate courses in environmental science, first album in February 1970...on Friday the environmental engineering, nuclear physics, 13th. and emergency management and was a staff * Cost to U.S. economy when physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana- superstitious people stay at home on Friday the Champaign for 19 years (retired from UIUC). 13th: $800 million. He has also taught elementary school, middle * Although DVDs are the same size as school, and high school. Doug is included in CDs, a DVD can store 13 times as much data. "Who's Who in America" and was recently nominated for "Who's Who in the World" and is WINTER FACT*oids included in "Who's Who in Science and Engineering" because his continued efforts and * In the United States, the first day of recognition as a national and international winter is on the 21st of 22nd of December. But Doug Rokke earned his B.S. in Physics expert and educator. Major Rokke has been in Australia, it's between June 20 and June 23. at Western Illinois University followed by his subjected to ongoing retaliation from * On average, winters in Europe were M.S. and Ph.D. in physics and technology Department of Defense officials who do not colder just a few hundred years ago. In fact, education at the University of Illinois. His want information regarding actual adverse London's river Thames sometimes froze military career has spanned 4 decades to include health and environmental effects of uranium completely during the winter, and between the combat duty during the Vietnam War and Gulf weapons and their mandatory but ignored 1400s and 1800s, Londoners held festivals War 1. requirements to provide medical care to all called "frost fairs" on the ice. Doug served as a member of the 3rd casualties and to clean up all environmental * So much snow falls in the Japanese U.S. Army Medical Command's Nuclear, contamination. Alps during the winter that most buildings have Biological, and Chemical (NBC) teaching, entrances on their second stories. medical response, and special operations team, To learn more abut Dr. Doug Rokke and * People have been building snowmen the 3rd U.S. Army captured equipment project Depleted Uranium, visit: since the Middle Ages. team, and with the 3rd U.S. Army Depleted * Largest ice-sculpting festival in the Uranium Assessment team during Gulf War FACT*oids world: the World Ice Championships, held 1(Operation Desert Storm). He was the U.S. every March in Fairbanks, Alaska. Army's Depleted Uranium Project director from DEATH FACT*toids * The legend of Jack Frost, probably 1994 - 1995. He developed the congressionally originated with the Vikings. mandated education and training materials and * Mark Twin was born in 1835, a year * Symptoms of SAD (seasonal affective wrote U.S. Army Regulation 700-48, the U.S. that Halley's Comet was visible from Earth. As disorder); excessive sleeping. tiredness, Army PAM 700-48, and the U.S. Army's an adult, he predicted he would also die in a depression, and physical aches. common task for DU incidents. year that the comet made an appearance, He did * Winter skating rinks in Moscow, Doug has taught nuclear, biological and in 1910. Russia, cover more than 26,000 square feet. chemical warfare, hazardous materials, and * Hair and fingernails do not grow after * MOTHER IN MOURNING: emergency medicine for over 20 years to both death. Skin recedes, making them appear According to ancient Greek mythology, winter civilian and military personnel. Dr. Rokke was longer. began because Hades, god of the underworld, one of the original authors of the 1982 EDRAT * In 1995, inmates on death row in kidnapped Persephone, the daughter of the earth (Emergency Disaster Response Assistance Texas protested because the state had banned goddess Demeter. Eventually, Hades and Team) proposal which formed the foundation smoking in prisons. Demeter worked out a deal where Persephone for today's National Guard CSD teams and the * "Old age" hasn't been allowed on spent six months aboveground with her mother Illinois CERT Teams. In preparation for the death certificates in the United States as the and six months below with Hades. But during 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he wrote and taught the official cause of death since 1951. the six months Persephone was away, Demeter original Chemical / Biological Counter- * Thornton's Mortuary in Atlanta, became so depressed that she prevented plants terrorism Course for civilian emergency Georgia, opened the first drive-through funeral and crops from growing, thus causing winter. responders that is now the federal 120 city and parlour in 1968. Mourners drove past a large Department of Justice course then served on the window, through which they could see the UNDER THE SEA FACT*oids emergency response team located at deceased. Bermingham, Alabama . * After her husband died in 1861, Queen Dr. Rokke serves or has served as an Victoria slept with a portrait of him on the * Bottlenose dolphins don't sleep at all advisor with the U.S. Centers of Disease pillow next to her. until they're one month old. And they do not Control; U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. nap, they always keep one eye open. National Academy of Sciences; U.S. Institute of RANDOM THIRTEENS * The blue whale's tongue weighs as Medicine; U.S Senate; U.S. House of much as an adult female brown bear. Representatives; U.S. Department of FACT*oids * Sea otters sometimes tie themselves Transportation; U.S. Federal Aviation together with kelp to avoid being separated Administration; U.S. Department of Defense; * The number 13 is considered to be while they sleep. U.S. General Accounting Office; U.S. lucky in China because its symbol resembles * Humans are responsible for the deaths Department of Veterans Affairs; British Royal one that means "must be alive." of as many as 73 million sharks every year. Society; British House of Lords and House of * In 1941, Joe DiMaggio struck out only * Sea Slugs can have as many as 25,000 Commons; United Nations; U.S. President 13 times. (In contrast, Phillies first baseman teeth.ir. William J. Clinton's Presidential Special Ryan Howard struck out 199 times in 2007, the * There are at least 34 shark species in the Gulf of Mexico.