[LadyX]

To watch is this unfold this way is akin to a death watch for New York, seen through all you've had to relate, Rus.
Wish there were something we bystanders could do other than to pray for that entire area of the country.

Turning over every shred of it to God Almighty...

[LadyX]

Re Chief Geronimo, who I remembered had been incarcerated in the Fort as well as Chief Osceola and the Seminoles:

"Except for a short Confederate occupation the fort continued in use as a prison or arsenal. Here among his western Indian prisoners, Capt. R. H. Pratt conducted the experiments that led to his later founding of Carlisle Indian School. Geronimo's band of Apaches were prisoners during the 1880's. The Spanish-American War period (1898-1899) marked the lost active military use of the fort with the confinement in its musty rooms of about 150 court-martialed American soldiers."

[now if I could just remember where I left my glasses..:))