Posted on 01/23/2013 6:58:36 AM PST by GailA
http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-kehoe-235986
Andrew Kehoe was a farmer living in Bath, Michigan. A member of the school board and the town clerk, on May 18, 1927 he orchestrated a plot to dynamite the Bath Consolidated School, killing thirty-seven children. He killed himself in a second explosion aimed at the school’s superintendent. Kehoe's act was one of the largest school-related mass murders in US history.
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Poland is one of my Favorite European Countries.
A Long LONG ago I my Jewish ancestors immigrated from Germany to Poland and back again.
During that time 100 years ago Austria-Hungary owned a portion of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which hosted the majority of the worlds Jewish population for centuries, your Grandfather being a Polish Jew is a possibly.
Armed guards and locked steel doors will certainly work. They may kill the guard first but that is an occupational hazard.
In fact, in 1927, one could buy fully-automatic weapons over the counter at a hardware store. And we were a much safer country then....
No but it’s a reality. remember the days when you could walk right up to the gate when you picked up or dropped of passengers?
hose days are altso gone.
Compare this to the biggest mass murder the .gov pulled off:
Seventy-six men, women and children,[8][9] including the sect leader, David Koresh, died in the fire. The Waco siege also has been described as the “Waco massacre.”[10]
We could bring those days back tomorrow were it not for the gormless millions who allow themselves to be terrorized. I choose not to be.
It could even go back as far as second or more cousins, people forget the Celtic people married within their own clans a lot. Didn’t matter if they where Irish or Scot Celt they have the same patterns where marriage was concerned for multiple generations, until the English got involved with the border disputes. Then the Bonnet Laird’s started marrying off their kin into the English side and vice versa for the sake of peace.
They both have much in common with a few variations here and there.
I’m of Celt heritage so the subject has always been of interest, still haven’t figured out if it is Irish or Scottish though. From my own nature I’d say Scots.
You are right Belle, look as far back as Roman times to the Caesars and even beyond that whole towns were destroyed down to the last child in the Bible. Even the Caesar chosen ‘ king’ of Jerusalem had all boy baby’s 2 and under murdered to prevent the Christ from living. Nero fiddled as he ordered Rome burned in order to blame the Christians and get what he wanted done with that run down area.
Crazy people have always been with us and always will be, what we do with them is the problem, conservatives lock them up or eliminate them, progressive libtards coddle them and hope they take their schizo meds. Can’t force them to, but they can force me to give up my gun which I use for protection against the crazies.
not much of this info showed up on the news that I pulled up, so you add much to the intell of the story, thanks. crazies have always been around since the beginning of time.
NO, and your grand dad’s were just probably smaller in size to fit the rock he was blasting.
probably not back then, as many farmers used it to blast rocks and tree stumps from fields they were clearing. And you still had tunnels and mines using them, and still do. It is just more regulated now.
When my Italian grand parents came to this country, the first rule was ONLY ENGLISH was spoken, grand dad said you are AMERICANS NOW, learn to speak it and be AMERICANS. My dad was a 1st generation American, fought in WW2, put the flag back up on Corregidor when old Mac retook the “Rock” with another man volunteered under sniper fire, won a Bronze Star for it.
I do recall he had different length sticks ... they were pretty stout though, one blew a fourteen ffot railroad tie used to ‘contain a blast’ clear over the house and into the front yard. There is still red clay embedded in the logs on the back of the house ... my mother took down and rebuilt an old loghouse on/at a new location, which was where I grew up in Boones Creek.
My parents came to this country before I was born. My Father made a strict rule, GERMAN and Home and English everywhere else.
And think for a second about my Mother as she is FROM England, but Fathers edict stood.
Now this did not mean he didn't think of himself as an American, Hell the first thing he did once he got his citizenship in 1972 was enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
But my Mother embraced it whole heartily, They live in Hafia, Israel now and I don't think I have spoken to her in English in at least 2 years. Its always German or now Hebrew, I am convinced that it won't be long before she forgets English entirely.
You have to keep in practice or you forget, my dad only spoke a very few words of Italian which is why he probably went to the Pacific instead of Germany during WW2.
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