God love him. He was a great man. That he was Gran .. The Best of The Best
We're having a really lazy day here. Carly slept till 11:30 and would have slept more if I hadn't woke her up .. she has a cold and is coughing a lot, seems she still not over being sick, but at least she doesn't have a fever any more.
It was a long day yesterday at the party ... but I was a really good girl and stayed as far away as possible from my one brother
My sister brought up all my dad's letters from the war for me to scan onto a CD. I've been reading them all last night and this morning and I still have a bunch more to read
But I'm still a bit confused .. My mom always said dad had enlisted .. but then my one sister said mom was wrong and said he was drafted. But reading these letters, it sounds like he did indeed enlist.
Oh well .. not sure what my sister was talking about.
I also found out something else .. My dad wanted to be a lawyer when the war ended and had taken some correspondence courses during the war
It's a long story, but from what I was told us, dad's mother didn't want him to go to college because he was needed at home to work and bring money home. His father died shorterly after being gassed while is was in the army in WWI
Here is one of his letters
Mo, you might be able to tell if your dad was drafted or enlisted by his serial number if you have it.. If it is something like 3XXXXXXX he was drafted. If it is like 1XXXXXXX he enlisted. Hope this helps....
.....Westy.....
In the early 90's I read a novel by Larry collins "Maze"
it was about "Psychotronic Weapons" which can caused changes in one health like heart attact or long term disease etc.
I always beeb hauted by the idea that we it was reported that Reagan had Alzheimers and we as a people were deprived of his comforting words made me think this could have happen.
He was always healthy and took care of him self in most cases the on set of Alzheimers in many is becaused one was inactive and the old saying is, "if you don't use it you loose it", be it our musles or our mind
Brain Manipulation From a Distance
http://www.subversiveelement.com/MK_Psychotronic_weapons.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~alanyu76/introduction.htm
In the book the Maze it tells how a brain scan is taken at Bethesda Hopitals on leaders and given a case # and if the number is known this knowledge can be used to alter a person.
The contempt some have had for Reagan over the years always made me wonder for if he was able to speak once in a while or write upliting books it would make the agenda of evil very difficult!
Glad to hear Carly is better.. I hate fevers in kids. It's a little lazy here too, although I don't know why I say that. Al's been cementing the cobble-stone wall he built around the big garden, and I've been cooking a pot roast dinner, and making a Washington Cream Pie. I guess I think it's lazy because I'm watching movies while I work and it's cold and cloudy. Makes it feel like there's nothing else to do.
I think it's really special to have those letters and being able to keep them on disk. I wish we had had the opportunity to do that with the letters Al's mother had from her great grandfather, I believe, during the Civil War. Unfortunately his sister's daughter took them without our knowledge and put them into a Museum in VA. They helped her with her taxes or some such silly thing.. Unless we go there, we will never see them again or the old leather pouch they were in. Some things can make you so damned mad. They are preserved but untouchable now, and out of the family for good.
The letters told how much he loved his wife and the kids, and then he was put in prison for quite awhile. The day they let him out and he could go home, he died on the streets of Richmond I think from starvation. Every time I read them it made me cry. He lived thru the war but never got home to his (precious) wife and children.
Don't let anything happen to yours.. You are so lucky to have the chance to record them.