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AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 951) [Davis Death Watch - 39 Days to Go!]
Various News Sources and FReepers
| August 29, 2003
| All of Us
Posted on 08/29/2003 4:20:41 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good morning!!
Remember the Trade Center!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
North Korea, in the six-way talks to discuss the dismantling of its nuclear weapons program, announced it has a nuclear weapon and will test it. [Ed. Note: The United States should announce in return that it has a nuclear weapon and intends to "test" it.]
In the left's continuing attempt to disarm Israel, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced it will look into "Israeli Nuclear Capabilities and Threats".
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!
KEYWORDS: atrw; circlingthebowl; letsroll
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To: nicollo
Just read about a new history book, other than yours..:-)..
The title is Lincoln's Sanctuary, and it's about his attachment to the Old Soldier's Home in n.e. Washington, and his use of it during the war...
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posted on
08/29/2003 8:42:16 AM PDT
by
Molly Pitcher
(Is Reality Optional?)
To: Molly Pitcher
I've seen part of a documentary about the great flood of 1927, it was quite a thing.
If your dad is alive, ask him about going down to the French Market. One of the things I'll never forget was the place where you could buy turtle meat. They'd kill the turtle right then and there, and there was blood all over the windows. I never went in, just seeing the blood on the windows was enough to make me walk by very fast.
I'm not nearly as old as your dad but another thing that remains vivid in my mind is the longshoremen working on the docks, carrying long stalks of bananas and bags of coffee. The black men worked without their shirts when it was hot, and their muscles were incredible.
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posted on
08/29/2003 8:42:30 AM PDT
by
CobaltBlue
(Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
To: nicollo
My daughter wants me to sit down and write my experences while I was a police officer and Chief of Police. I keep telling her no one would believe me, it would sound like a made up story. I started my police career in 1960, a different time than now believe me and in Mississippi at that.
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posted on
08/29/2003 8:42:55 AM PDT
by
gulfcoast6
(SMILE! The elderly would love to see one thrown their way.)
To: CobaltBlue
Welcome! I am in Mississippi on the Gulf Coast. Came from the Mississippi Delta, Greenville and the flood of 27 started at 27 Break, 27 miles north of Greenville. Many a person died in that flood.
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posted on
08/29/2003 8:46:58 AM PDT
by
gulfcoast6
(SMILE! The elderly would love to see one thrown their way.)
To: CobaltBlue
Hi CB! My father - who taught me about politics and much else - was born in 1919...He died almost 3 years ago. He loved to remember the things you just wrote about, and the people coming down the street selling strawberries and other goodies...
His family house was on Jackson AVe., and they went over to Biloxi for the summers..
Saw where you mentioned that the other day....
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posted on
08/29/2003 8:52:39 AM PDT
by
Molly Pitcher
(Is Reality Optional?)
To: gulfcoast6
The only thing I enjoy more than your comments on the Civil War are your personal "war" stories. I think I can speak for everyone here at ATRW, we'd love it if you would put your stories to paper.
A great way to start is to take notes. Keep a piece of paper handy, and whenever something comes to mind, write it down in such a way as to re-build the thought when you look at it later. Note-taking is the key to any kind of writing, and especially to history/ biography. After you've collected enough, you can start putting them into useful chronologies or other categories. You will remember more things as you go.
If you are a good talker, just sit down now and then with a tape recorder and tell your stories.
Wow, you've lived through and have been part of amazing things -- times and events that defined America. What a great work it would be!
Hear! hear!
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posted on
08/29/2003 8:52:42 AM PDT
by
nicollo
To: Molly Pitcher
I am so lost not having been on here to read and catch up for a while.
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posted on
08/29/2003 8:57:39 AM PDT
by
Neets
("The only people who gain importance are those that crave it")
To: Molly Pitcher
Yes, the people used to come down the streets in mule driven wagons with all kinds of things for sale, like fruit.
I grew up not too far from where your father lived, on Religious Street, and Josephine Street, then later lived on Prytania Street, and had a job in the St. Joseph Orphans Asylum, and worked several places in the Central Business District.
My mom and dad were originally from Biloxi, and I spent a lot of time in Biloxi. One grandmother's family owned White's Hardware, and the other grandmother's family owned Perry's Cafe. Both gone now.
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posted on
08/29/2003 9:00:20 AM PDT
by
CobaltBlue
(Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
To: Neets; lysie; CobaltBlue
You okay?!! CobaltBlue just joined us last night..
lysie, I'll have to ask my husband about that RR question...
CB, my father's family were about the only Republicans in Louisiana during those years! LOL!
Now I need to go and recharge my batteries....That's code for nap...;^)
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posted on
08/29/2003 9:01:36 AM PDT
by
Molly Pitcher
(Is Reality Optional?)
To: CobaltBlue
Oh I know those NO places...my husband went to Tulane, too for grad school. So we lived there in the mid -70s on Claiborne AVe. just north of the old Sugar Bowl stadium in married/grad apts...
90
posted on
08/29/2003 9:04:24 AM PDT
by
Molly Pitcher
(Is Reality Optional?)
To: Molly Pitcher
I am ok....have been busy at work and home computer has been temporarily red-lined....
So I have missed a lot.
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posted on
08/29/2003 9:06:21 AM PDT
by
Neets
("The only people who gain importance are those that crave it")
To: Molly Pitcher; lysie; kassie; Iowa Granny; gulfcoast6; LBKQ; Dog; Bitwhacker
Breakfast and link will be posted tomorrow morning after I get to PA...
...which should be pretty early as I plan on leaving home NLT 5 am.
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posted on
08/29/2003 9:07:23 AM PDT
by
Neets
("The only people who gain importance are those that crave it")
To: Molly Pitcher
I heard about that book, "Lincoln's Sanctuary" -- how's it look?
Every president needs a get-away, and in those days they took real vacations, often returning home for the summer. Lincoln, of course, never had a break. So he took to what is now the Old Soldiers' home, still in Washington, but a world away from the White House. The house is still there. The Home is straight up North Capitol St., about 3 miles (?) from the Capitol.
I'm fairly certain other presidents used the Home for vacations, too, even before (or after?) Lincoln. Perhaps you know, as I can't recall. I do know that Grover Cleveland liked to go to a house that was along the C&O canal, but only for day-trips. The mistress there was a great cook, something Cleveland much enjoyed.
Taft loved to motor around the Soldiers Home. Once a soldier left one of the gates locked and unguarded. Taft exhibited a bit of his mean streak (which he had in him) over it. All the gates were manned thereafter, just in case the President would want to come or go through it, something Taft did at all hours. To relax and forget, he'd motor about before bed time, which was usually well past midnight. He'd also motor up to the Home and walk back to the White House for exercise.
By Taft's time it was standard practice to shed DC after the close of Congress to a "Summer White House." Roosevelt held it at his home in Long Island. The Tafts, who summered at Murray Bay, Quebec, rented a house at Beverly, Mass for each of his four summers, as a president was not to travel abroad.
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posted on
08/29/2003 9:08:53 AM PDT
by
nicollo
To: Molly Pitcher
My husband and I both graduated from Tulane - he has BSChe and MS Public Health, I have BA, JD and LL.M. (Admiralty). I went to night school for my BA, so that's why it's Tulane instead of Newcomb. We met while working on the Hullaballoo.
94
posted on
08/29/2003 9:19:26 AM PDT
by
CobaltBlue
(Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
To: Neets; Molly Pitcher
Afternoon!
95
posted on
08/29/2003 9:22:56 AM PDT
by
Dog
(There's plenty of room for all of Gods creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes.")
To: Dog
Hey Jim. If you see Mozart Lover, ask her how the Packers fared last night.
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posted on
08/29/2003 9:39:57 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mulliner
("Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." - George Orwell)
To: Redleg Duke
"
better put MotzartLover and I on suicide watch after last night's Packer Game!"
That game was a disaster.....in more ways than one.
This has been the strangest pre-season in memory.............I'm glad it's over......and next week.........I'm going to the game!!!!!!!!!!
To: gulfcoast6
"
its his last year you know "
Stop saying that!!!!! :(
To: Neets
"
which should be pretty early as I plan on leaving home NLT 5 am."
Gee, can't you start the thread any earlier than that?? I was planning on getting an early start tomorrow.
;^)
To: gulfcoast6
There's another great quarterback from Mississippi that you didn't mention. Steve McNair is a Mississippi boy, right?
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posted on
08/29/2003 9:50:21 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mulliner
("Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." - George Orwell)
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