This is The Army… This is The War!!

 Continuing on from my previous post and given the focus on April 14 th, I ventured to the days wikipedia page, and then applying the formula and taking into consideration the “Off by One” pattern cluster, we arrive at:  

1995 – Burl Ives, American actor, folk singer, and writer (born 1909)

• Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995)

President Donald Trump was born on Ives birthday!!  Not to mention that his name Burl is an addition to the recent “Bur Beginning Name/Word” pattern cluster.   Note the titles of my two recent posts : 

• The Bur…Buri… Burial (UPDATE Oct 18)
• Buridan’s Ass Paradox for the Powers That Bee

The name Burl is an addition to the “Word in Name”, the “Add a Letter to Name Makes a Word” and the “Exchange Letter in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster , and so providing us with “bur”, “burly”, “burn”, “burg”.

Note from Burl Ive’s wiki page: 

In 1942, he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army

Another addition to the “War Theme” pattern cluster… and so another lead: 

Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989)

His date of death stands out given the following recent additions to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site:  

• Tony Caunter (22 September 1937 – 13 October 2025) 88,  actor (EastEnders).

• William Twining (22  September 1934 – 9 October 2025) 91, legal scholar.
• Sandhya Shantaram (22  September 1931 – 4 October 2025) 93, Indian actress 
• Judith Dupont (22  September 1925 – 1 October 2025)100, translator

I had posted about the cluster in my recent October 16 post,  Twinning 22 and…. 

As for Irving Berlin’s film, This is the Army, note the following info on the Production Crew who stand out: 

• Hal B. Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) Producer
• Casey Robinson (October 17, 1903 – December 6, 1979) Screenplay
• Claude Binyon (October 17, 1905 – February 14, 1978 ) Screenplay
• George Amy (October 15, 1903 – December 18, 1986) Editor
• Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) Music (Score)
• Sol Polito (born Salvatore Polito, November 12, 1892 – May 23, 1960) 

Note the October birthdays!!  AND Hal Wallis’ birthday is TODAY!!   We have am October 15, __, 17(x2), __, 19/ Odd Days in October Date Sequence” pattern cluster.

As for the cast: 

• George Murphy  (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992)  as Jerry Jones
• Joan Leslie  (born Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel; January 26, 1925 – October 12, 2015)  as Eileen Dibble
• Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) as Corporal/ Lieutenant,Johnny Jones
• George Tobias (July 14, 1901 – February 27, 1980)  as Maxie Twardofsky
• Alan Hale Sr. (February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950)  as Sgt. McGee
• Charles Edward Butterworth (July 26, 1896 – June 14, 1946) as Eddie Dibble
• Dolores Costello  (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) as Mrs. Davidson
• Una Merkel  (December 10, 1903 – January 2, 1986) as Rose Dibble
• Stanley Ridges  (17 July 1890 – 22 April 1951)  as Maj., later Col., John B. Davidson
• Rosemary DeCamp  (November 14, 1910 – February 20, 2001) as Ethel Jones
• Ruth Donnelly  (May 17, 1896 – November 17, 1982)  as Mrs. O'Brien
• Dorothy Peterson  (December 25, 1897 – October 3, 1979) as Mrs. Nelson
• Gertrude Niesen  (July 8, 1911 – March 27, 1975) as World War I vocalist
• Jack Young (no info) as Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)
• As themselves:
• Irving Berlin
• Frances Langford  (née Julia Frances Langford; April 4, 1913 – July 11, 2005)
• Joe Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) 
• Kate Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) as The First Lady of Radio
• Ezra Stone (born Ezra Chaim Feinstone; December 2, 1917 – March 3, 1994) 

Some clusters: 

• “April 17, May 17, June 17, July 17, __, September 17, October 17(x2), November 17/17th Day, Month Sequence” pattern cluster
• An “April 14(x5), May 14, June 14(x2), July 14(x2), __, … November 14/ 14th Day, Month Sequence” pattern cluster. 

In the first one, I included my son in law’s April 17 birthday.  The second is an expansion to the cluster in my previous post.  

Some dates are stand alone’s—  the great relevance of Murphy’s July 4th birthday is explained in this blogs Header.  The relevance of May 1 is explained in my previous post.