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Posted on 12/24/2005 9:08:05 PM PST by SAMWolf
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 are acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated.
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Holiday observances during the American Civil War  Click the flag  Lonely camp scene from an 1862 Harper's Weekly entitled "Christmas Eve". Even with all the sorrow that hangs, and will forever hang, over so many households; even while war still rages; even while there are serious questions yet to be settled - ought it not to be, and is it not, a merry Christmas?" Harper's Weekly, December 26, 1863  Harper's Weekly depicts a family separated by war in its January 3,1863 edition. For a nation torn by civil war, Christmas in the 1860s was observed with conflicting emotions. Nineteenth-century Americans embraced Christmas with all the Victorian trappings that had moved the holiday from the private and religious realm to a public celebration. Christmas cards were in vogue, carol singing was common in public venues, and greenery festooned communities north and south. Christmas trees stood in places of honor in many homes, and a mirthful poem about the jolly old elf who delivered toys to well-behaved children captivated Americans on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. But Christmas also made the heartache for lost loved ones more acute. As the Civil War dragged on, deprivation replaced bounteous repasts and familiar faces were missing from the family dinner table. Soldiers used to "bringing in the tree" and caroling in church were instead scavenging for firewood and singing drinking songs around the campfire. And so the holiday celebration most associated with family and home was a contradiction. It was a joyful, sad, religious, boisterous, and subdued event.  "The Christmas Tree" by F. A. Chapman. Many of the holiday customs we associate with Christmas today were familiar to 1840s celebrants. Christmas cards were popularized that decade and Christmas trees were a stylish addition to the parlor. By the 1850s, Americans were singing "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem," and "Away in a Manger" in public settings. In 1850 and 1860, Godey's Lady's Book featured Queen Victoria's tabletop Christmas tree, placed there by her German husband Prince Albert. Closer to home, in December, 1853, Robert E. Lee's daughter recorded in her diary that her father - then superintendent at West Point - possessed an evergreen tree decorated with dried and sugared fruit, popcorn, ribbon, spun glass ornaments, and silver foil. Clement Clarke Moore, a religious scholar who for decades was too embarrassed to claim authorship of the 1822 poem, "A Visit From St. Nicholas," was now well-known for his tribute to Santa Claus. "Santa Claus" made his first public appearance in a Philadelphia department store in 1849, marking the advent of holiday commercialism. For enslaved African Americans, the Christmas season often meant a mighty bustle of cooking, housekeeping, and other chores. "Reward" for these efforts was a suspension of duties for a day or two and the opportunity for singing, dancing, and possible brief reunions with separated family members. Further gestures of "goodwill" by masters who saw themselves as benevolent owners were small and the semi-annual clothing allotment. By 1860, many worried about civil unrest, fearful this Christmas would be the last before the outbreak of war. An Arkansas diarist writes: "Christmas has come around in the circle of time, but is not a day of rejoicing. Some of the usual ceremonies are going on, but there is gloom on the thoughts and countenances of all the better portion of our people."
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The USS Chung-Hoon DDG-93 %20060105-N-3019M-006.JPG)
Now I had to ask my self, what the Heck is a US Navy ship doing with a name like Chung-Hoon? Well here is the answer...
Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon was born on July 25, 1910, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The second youngest of five Chung-Hoon children, he attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in May 1934. While at the Naval Academy, he was a valued member of the Navy Football team.
Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon is a recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as commanding officer of USS Sigsbee (DD 502) from May 1944 to October 1945. In the spring of 1945, Sigsbee assisted in the destruction of 20 enemy planes while screening a carrier strike force off the Japanese island of Kyushu. On April 14, 1945, while on radar picket station off Okinawa, a kamikaze crashed into Sigsbee, reducing her starboard engine to five knots and knocking out the ship's port engine and steering control. Despite the damage, Admiral Chung-Hoon, then a Commander, valiantly kept his anti-aircraft batteries delivering "prolonged and effective fire" against the continuing enemy air attack while simultaneously directing the damage control efforts that allowed Sigsbee to make port under her own power.
After retiring from the Navy in 1959, Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon was appointed by William Quinn, Hawaii's first elected governor since statehood, to serve as director of the state Department of Agriculture. Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon died in July 1979.
BTW The P.E. will resume the regulary scheduled F-O-G tomorrow :-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
| January 9, 2006
Burying Our Heads
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Contrary to common belief, the ostrich does not bury its head in the sand to ignore danger. An ostrich can run at a speed of 45 miles per hour, kick powerfully, and peck aggressively with its beak. As the largest and fastest bird in the world, it doesn't need to bury its head.
"Burying your head in the sand" is a saying that describes someone who wants to ignore his shortcomings or those of others. The prophet Nathan did not allow King David to forget his sins of adultery and murder (2 Samuel 12:1-14). It took a brave man to confront a king about his errors. Yet Nathan was obedient to God and wise in his approach.
The apostle Paul urged the early church to confront sin. He said, "If a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted" (Galatians 6:1). We are to confront our brothers and sisters in Christ about their sin with the view of restoring them to fellowship with God. We must also recognize that we are not immune to the same temptations.
We shouldn't go looking for sin in the lives of other believers, of course. But neither should we bury our head in the sand when it needs to be confronted. —Albert Lee
Slander seeks to destroy; rebuke seeks to restore.
On this Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on January 09:
1554 Gregory XV [Alessandro Ludovisi], Roman Catholic pope (1621-23)
1728 Thomas Warton poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
1803 Christopher Gustavus Memminger Secretary Treasurer (Confederacy) died in 1888
1816 John Palmer Usher Secretary Interior (Union) died in 1889
1822 John Porter Hatch volunteers Brevet Major General (Union), died in 1901
1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt women's rights leader/founder (League of Women Voters)
1870 Joseph B Strauss civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1890 Karel Capek Czechoslovakia, writer (R U R ); coined the word "robot"
http://capek.misto.cz/english/
1898 Gracie Fields [Stansfield], England, music hall/vaudeville performer
1901 Chic Young cartoonist (Blondie)
1904 George Balanchine dancer/choreographer/ballet producer
1908 Simone de Beauvoir France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
1913 Richard Milhouse Nixon Yorba Linda CA, (R) 37th President (1969-74)
1914 Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
1915 Fernando Lamas Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous")
1917 Herbert Lom Czech, actor (Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dorian Gray)
1925 Lee Van Cleef New Jersey, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from New York)
1934 Bart Starr NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
1935 Bob Denver New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)
1941 Joan Baez Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1944 Jimmy Page London England, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1972 Kristie Hicks Bardstown KY, Miss Kentucky-America (1995)
lol. I'm teaching but he's not learning!
I'm looking at the USS Lexington right now!
I'm looking at the USS Lexington right now!
Nothing except "released a peacock" (quoted by you) comes to my mind.
Hi miss Feather.
I'm FReepin by Blackberry this AM. Some genius created this thing without the keys required to do html, so I can't do a FOG right now.
Rats!
LOL
Hi PE, are you on the East Coast?? How's the weather.
Warmer here today, gloomy though, very overcast.Of course, it's getting dark now.
Alfa6, covered you for the FOG.
Hic
I'm in Newark now. Getting on a big jet plane soon.
I'm in Newark now. Getting on a big jet plane soon.
I'm in Newark now. Getting on a big jet plane soon.
LOL still waiting I see. Going home??
Were stuck!
There's a broke plane in the gate, so we've gotta sit here spitting distance away.
This thing really likes to hiccup.
I'm at DFW airport now.
Have a safe trip! Tums are good for hiccups! ;)
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