Posted on 12/07/2013 8:18:35 PM PST by Kartographer
As I heard Paul’s story, it became obvious to me that while we often have a laser focus on preparing to survive the impending collapse, his community had gone farther and made preparations for survival after the collapse. In other words: yes, he had to have practical necessities and skills to make it through whatever came his way – but what then? After the world as he knew it ended, was his community prepared to help create a new one?
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Their actions, skills knowlege, determination and faith allowed them to preserver as many of them saw what was coming and prepared accordingly. We owe all to these men the Frist American Preppers!
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While, I never thought about the Revolution in that light before, I have often thought of the pioneers, the great depression, the two world wars, the trail of tears in that regard. We have a rich heritage of people leaving their comfort zone for the new world, and TEOTWA they knew it.
Bad times come, and bad times go. Some survive, and some do not. That’s the way it is.
If you're going to mention the infamous "Trail of Tears," you might as well also add the "Bataan Death March" to your list.
Regards,
Time changes some things: Women these days are more likely to react when danger approaches than were women of those days. Even my mother's generation, in the late 1800s, would not have taken up a firearm even though she was raised on a farm in Arkansas. The men did that and the women did not. My mother would be shocked to see the weapons I OWN.
She and my dad would be shocked to see I an growing food plants as I stayed away from the garden when I was growing up.
Many women have firearms now and would use them if the family was physically threatened by Hussein's “civilian army” and the women “would know very well what they are about”.
Also, people in the 1770s normally had stored food at home since the women canned food and stored various root veggies in root cellars. People mostly stopped canning when transportation became easy and stores had canned food from food companies. If the country collapses now for whatever reason, not many people will have stored food and millions will die so we are worse off in that area than they were in the 1700s.
and I feel fine
“If you’re going to mention the infamous “Trail of Tears,””
Both greeneyes and I had ancestors in the Trail of Tears and we spoke of that very recently.
...and I feel fine.
(BTW, what’s the frequency, Kenneth?)
Duly noted, the list was not supposed to be all inclusive. One of my husband’s ancestors was a missionary to the Indians, and married a full blood Indian Squaw. They both made the trip on the tail of tears. Hence this is not just some infamous trip to me.
I have the utmost admiration for the men and women of this country and for those who have served in the military. My only point was that we are of strong stuff, and our ancestors have succesfully faced awesome changes and hardships.
The Trail of Tears consisted of atrocities committed under the aegis of the American government.
Don't want to start a firestorm, here. It's not like I'm saying Americans should be hanging their heads in shame forever because of what some Cavalry soldiers did 150 years ago.
Regards,
My mother in law lived in a pretty secluded area When my hubby was just a child, some teenage relatives thought it would be fun to go out there and bang around making noise to give her a little scare(his dad was away working).
The tables turned when they heard her throw the bolt on a shotgun. (Something about that sound I really like-it means business). They were the ones who wound up being scared, and hollering don’t shoot. LOL
But afterwards, when things settle down, and I'm a little less screwed, then what?
Look for my Thought Experiment: Liberty© series soon.
>>Bad times come, and bad times go. Some survive, and some do not. That’s the way it is.<<
The strong, the healthy and smart ones survive, the weak, the sick and slow, dull thinkers die because they are parasites on the community.
I wasn’t looking at the government actions in that, I was looking at the harships survived by the Indians. They were after all from the five civilized tribes, and survived hardships and certainly the end of the world as they knew it.
They are also Americans are they not? And part of the fabric of our country-I admire their tenacity, and respect their hardships just as well as anyother group in America.
I think the women of yesteryear were much stronger than you are giving them credit for. When the men of the family went out hunting the women were left alone to guard the children and livestock. They knew their man might not survive the hunting trip, they knew they would have to provide food and security for the children while their man was away. I am confident they knew how to use a rifle and a shotgun if happenstance should require them to.
bttt
You might be interested in “Ark of Empire” by Dale Van Every.
Thanks for the reference to a book I ought to read. When checking the Amazon reviews, I find this title was Volume 3 in a series on the subject across many years, from pre- to post-American Revolution.
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