Posted on 01/19/2005 9:51:40 AM PST by Mo1
Good luck.
Unless the judge is a well studied and read student of the subject, they'll have to research it.
In my area, most of them won't even bother.
Fingers crossed and prayers up that the judge is worth his salt.
Oh well. Prevents boredom, I guess.
One would sometimes wish for boredom in such situations.
Indeed. These "Deliverance" meets "Jerry Springer" cases always have elements of surprise.
Yikes.
Waiting for the group brawl with some young thing dressed like a hooker screaming "Don't hate! Don't hate!" while some octegenarian slams a chair on someone's back with Booger and Cletus looking on while their buddy gets pummeled to snot.
just briefly saw comments/questions....wasn't online 'till now (sorry, sl, I see you're already out the door). Re service of process? Anybody can do that in NY (or Colorado), like darks said, as long as not a party to the case. I think also the age of the server must be 21 years or older (because they have to "swear" on a document). If the person served is a minor, than in NY both the parent/guardian AND the minor must be served....can't just serve one or the other. In Colorado, if memory serves correctly a minor cannot be served, just the parent/guardian of the minor child. I believe "minor" child is described in NY as someone less than 18 years old. I can't remember what it is in Colorado. If serving an adult, and that adult is not home, then you're allowed to serve the person who resides with that adult in their home. If no one is around, after good attempt to serve (I think is how it reads), then you can tape the summons/complaint on the door and so mark your document that that is how the person is served, as long as that address is the last known address of the person to be served.
This is all moot now, probably, because you're already out serving, lol.
Sorry I wasn't here earlier.
p.s. I'll be offline for a little while again...I've got to get a project finished (working on two baby quilts, and on the last leg of it....all done but the binding). I'll be back later to check to see if there's anything you need, sl. Hope you both are having a nice day!!!
Okers, thanks.
FReepmail coming.
just read your FReepmail. Don't know if you're still online or not...
I FReepmailed ya back. I'm still working on my project....two more seams for tonight, then I'm calling it quits for now. My back is hurting and I need to stop here pretty soon and relax my weary muscles! I'm here but I'm not here....be checking back 'till I'm done (and then it'll be bedtime soon). And I've got to call my daugthers before I do those seams.
Be back in a bit.
A Tale of Six Boys"
Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade
class from Clinton, WI. where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I
greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some
special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially
memorable.
On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial.
This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one
of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave
soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the
island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II.
Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed
towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the
statue, and as I got closer he asked, "Where are you guys from?"
I told him that we were from Wisconsin. "Hey, I'm a cheese head, too!
Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story."
(James Bradley just happened to be in Washington, DC, to speak at the
memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night
to his dad, who has since passed away. He was just about to leave when
he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and
received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is
one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in
Washington, D.C., but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we
received that night).
When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are
his words that night).
"My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin. My dad is on
that statue, and I just wrote a book called "Flags of Our Fathers" which
is #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list right now. It is the story
of the six boys you see behind me.
"Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground
is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted
in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team.
They were off to play another type of game. A game called "War." But
it didn't turn out to be a game.
Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I
don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are generals
who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You
guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19
years old.
(He pointed to the statue) "You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon
from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this
photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find
a photograph. ...a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in
there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. Boys
won the battle of Iwo Jima. Boys. Not old men.
"The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike
Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They
called him the "old man" because he was so old. He was already 24.
When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say,
'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country.' He knew
he was talking to little boys. Instead he would say, 'You do what I
say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'
"The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian
from Arizona. Ira Hayes walked off Iwo Jima. He went into the White
House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero.' He told
reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the
island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?' So you take your
class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing
everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of
your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of
horror in his mind. Ira Hayes died dead drunk, face down at the age of
32. ...ten years after this picture was taken.
"The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from
Hilltop, Kentucky. A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo
Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that
he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran
that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her
scream all night and into the morning. The neighbors lived a quarter of
a mile away.
"The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John
Bradley from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised. My dad lived until
1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's
producers, or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little
kids to say, 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada
fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he
is coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually,
he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell's soup. But
we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't want to
talk to the press.
"You see, my dad didn't see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these
guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad
knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a
caregiver. In Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died.
And when boys died in Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed in pain.
"When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was
a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and
said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the
guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.'
"So that's the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo Jima,
and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo
Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice
is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time."
Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag
sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the
heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero.
Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero
nonetheless.
We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us
to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice. Let us never forget
from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War and all the wars in-between
that sacrifice was made for our freedom. Remember to pray praises for
this great country of ours and also pray for those still in murderous
unrest around the world. STOP and THANK GOD for being alive and being
free at someone else's sacrifice.
REMINDER: Everyday you wake up free, IS a great day.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
I'm fixin' to head off to bed. It is going to be a long and, if this evening was any indication, an emotionally draining week.. and this is just one of 22 cases (or was that 23?).
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With that I'm out of here for the night.
Have good ones and Happy Birthday Nully..Hope it was a good one for you
.....Westy.....
I've had worse. No one died, and I didn't bury anyone.
....Westy.....
Okay, sl; you have a good night's sleep. Chat with ya, tomorrow.
Oh my; is it that time again ALREADY??? That means I have one coming soon. I was just recovering from the last one. *Sigh*
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