The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Geronimo - Goyathlay ("One Who Yawns") - April 26th, 2003

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[SAMWolf]

Dear Lord,

There's a young man far from home,
called to serve his nation in time of war;
sent to defend our freedom
on some distant foreign shore.

We pray You keep him safe,
we pray You keep him strong,
we pray You send him safely home ...
for he's been away so long.

There's a young woman far from home,
serving her nation with pride.
Her step is strong, her step is sure,
there is courage in every stride.
We pray You keep her safe,
we pray You keep her strong,
we pray You send her safely home ...
for she's been away too long.

Bless those who await their safe return.
Bless those who mourn the lost.
Bless those who serve this country well,
no matter what the cost.

Author Unknown

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Geronimo
Goyathlay ("One Who Yawns")
(1829-1909)

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Geronimo {jur-ahn'-i-moh}, or Goyathlay ("one who yawns"), was born in 1829 in what is today western New Mexico, but was then still Mexican territory. He was a Bedonkohe Apache (grandson of Mahko) by birth and a Net'na during his youth and early manhood. His wife, Juh, Geronimo's cousin Ishton, and Asa Daklugie were members of the Nednhi band of the Chiricahua Apache.

He was reportedly given the name Geronimo by Mexican soldiers, although few agree as to why. As leader of the Apaches at Arispe in Sonora, he performed such daring feats that the Mexicans singled him out with the sobriquet Geronimo (Spanish for "Jerome"). Some attributed his numerous raiding successes to powers conferred by supernatural beings, including a reputed invulnerability to bullets.

Geronimo's war career was linked with that of his brother-in-law, Juh, a Chiricahua chief. Although he was not a hereditary leader, Geronimo appeared so to outsiders because he often acted as spokesman for Juh, who had a speech impediment.

Geronimo was the leader of the last American Indian fighting force formally to capitulate to the United States. Because he fought against such daunting odds and held out the longest, he became the most famous Apache of all. To the pioneers and settlers of Arizona and New Mexico, he was a bloody-handed murderer and this image endured until the second half of this century.

To the Apaches, Geronimo embodied the very essence of the Apache values, agressiveness, courage in the face of difficulty. These qualities inspired fear in the settlers of Arizona and New Mexico. The Chiricahuas were mostly migratory following the seasons, hunting and farming. When food was scarce, it was the custom to raid neighboring tribes. Raids and vengeance were an honorable way of life among the tribes of this region.


Geronimo (in front of horse) with some of his warriors during negotiations with General George Crook in 1886. During this period, telegraph linemen and Apache warriors were antagonists in a 19th-century precursor to 21st-century cyberwar.

By the time American settlers began arriving in the area, the Spanish had become entrenched in the area. They were always looking for Indian slaves and Christian converts. One of the most pivotal moments in Geronimo's life was in 1858 when he returned home from a trading excursion into Mexico. He found his wife, his mother and his three young children murdered by Spanish troops from Mexico. This reportedly caused him to have such a hatred of the whites that he vowed to kill as many as he could. From that day on he took every opportunity he could to terrorize Mexican settlements and soon after this incident he received his power, which came to him in visions. Geronimo was never a chief, but a medicine man, a seer and a spiritual and intellectual leader both in and out of battle. The Apache chiefs depended on his wisdom.

When the Chiricahua were forcibly removed (1876) to arid land at San Carlos, in eastern Arizona, Geronimo fled with a band of followers into Mexico. He was soon arrested and returned to the new reservation. For the remainder of the 1870s, he and Juh led a quiet life on the reservation, but with the slaying of an Apache prophet in 1881, they returned to full-time activities from a secret camp in the Sierra Madre Mountains.



In 1875 all Apaches west of the Rio Grande were ordered to the San Carlos Reservation. Geronimo escaped from the reservation three times and although he surrendered, he always managed to avoid capture. In 1876, the U.S. Army tried to move the Chiricahuas onto a reservation, but Geronimo fled to Mexico eluding the troops for over a decade. Sensationalized press reports exaggerated Geronimo's activities, making him the most feared and infamous Apache. The last few months of the campaign required over 5,000 soldiers, one-quarter of the entire Army, and 500 scouts, and perhaps up to 3,000 Mexican soldiers to track down Geronimo and his band.

In May 1882, Apache scouts working for the U.S. army surprised Geronimo in his mountain sanctuary, and he agreed to return with his people to the reservation. After a year of farming, the sudden arrest and imprisonment of the Apache warrior Ka-ya-ten-nae, together with rumors of impending trials and hangings, prompted Geronimo to flee on May 17, 1885, with 35 warriors and 109 women, children and youths. In January 1886, Apache scouts penetrated Juh's seemingly impregnable hideout. This action induced Geronimo to surrender (Mar. 25, 1886) to Gen. George CROOK. Geronimo later fled but finally surrendered to Gen. Nelson MILES on Sept. 4, 1886. The government breached its agreement and transported Geronimo and nearly 450 Apache men, women, and children to Florida for confinement in Forts Marion and Pickens. In 1894 they were removed to Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Geronimo became a rancher, appeared (1904) at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, sold Geronimo souvenirs, and rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 inaugural parade.


Geronimo's Grave

Geronimo's final surrender in 1886 was the last significant Indian guerrilla action in the United States. At the end, his group consisted of only 16 warriors, 12 women, and 6 children. Upon their surrender, Geronimo and over 300 of his fellow Chiricahuas were shipped to Fort Marion, Florida. One year later many of them were relocated to the Mt. Vernon barracks in Alabama, where about one quarter died from tuberculosis and other diseases. Geronimo died on Feb. 17, 1909, a prisoner of war, unable to return to his homeland. He was buried in the Apache cemetery at:

Fort Sill, Oklahoma
437 Quanah Road
Fort Sill, OK (73503-5000)

[ex-Texan]

Outstanding Post !!

Will come back later to study it.

[Soaring Feather]

Good afternoon SAM.

[SAMWolf]

Afternoon Feather

[rimmont]

"This argument sounds a bit overstretched. With this logic, can we say 'all countries with no SARS reported are lying'?"

Not at all, obviously it is relevant that South Korea and Japan are in the Asia-Pacific region that has been affected the most by sars. These are not "hermit kingdoms" any more, they have a great deal of contact with the rest of the region, more so than Canada, the United States and Europe. This coupled with the fact that both of these governments are known to be practiced at covering up the truth make the idea that they have no sars cases seem "overstretched".

[snippy_about_it]

Falling in and yes, I can dig it!

'I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.'- Geronimo

Worth repeating.

Good evening everyone.

[SAMWolf]

HI Snippy.

[SAMWolf]

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Despite having received humanitarian aid food from the United States Army that morning, an Iraqi boy continues eating his lunch of eggs and bread in the kitchen of his home Saturday, April 26, 2003 at a village near An Nasiriyah, Iraq. The Army distrubuted food and drinking water for the 606 residents of the village as part of a humanitarian aid effort being conducted throughout the country. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)


An Iraqi man who identified himself as Yussef, right, reads the text on a package of a humanitarian food ration after he collected some for family friends from the United States Army, Saturday, April 26, 2003 inside a village near An Nasariyah, Iraq


An Iraqi man carries away humanitarian aid food rations collected from the United States Army, Saturday, April 26, 2003 inside a village near An Nasiriyah, Iraq


Iraqi women carry humanitarian aid food and drinking water collected from the United States Army, Saturday, April 26, 2003 to their homes inside a village near An Nasiriyah, Iraq


An young Iraqi reads the text on a package of a humanitarian food ration collected for family and friends from the United States Army, Saturday, April 26, 2003 inside a village near An Nasiriyah, Iraq


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Zahra, 5-months-old, is dressed by a United States Army combat surgical hospital staff member Thursday, April 24, 2003 at an air base near Nasiriyah, Iraq


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[PhilDragoo]

Geronimo's Song
by Geronimo (Goyathlay)

"The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to me. This is a holy song (medicine-song), and great is its power. The song tells how, as I sing, I go through the air to a holy place where Yusun (The Supreme Being) will give me power to do wonderful things. I am surrounded by little clouds, and as I go through the air I change, becoming spirit only.

MEDICINE-SONG

Sung by Geronimo

O, ha le
O, ha le!
Awbizhaye
Shichl hadahiyago niniya
O, ha le
O, ha le
Tsago degi naleya
Ah--yu whi ye!
O, ha le
O, ha le!

O, ha le
O, ha le!
Through the air
I fly upon the air
Towards the sky, far, far, far,
O, ha le
O, ha le!
There to find the holy place,
Ah, now the change comes o're me!
O, ha le
O, ha le!

[SAMWolf]

Afternoon PhilDragoo.

Thanks for Geronimo's Songs and the additional pictures.

[amom]

Thanks. I like this thread a LOT.

[Dubya]

MARINES COMING HOME :^)

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the link Dubya

[Dubya]

Your welcome.
Thanks for your thread Sam.
Dub

[SAMWolf]

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Senior Master Sgt. Mike Cavallaro spots Senior Airman Dwight Moses as he bench presses homemade weights of concertina wire and poles while deployed to Bashur Airfield in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq. Moses is a firefighter and Cavallaro is the fire chief assigned to the 86th Contingency Response Group. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Stephen Faulisi





U.S. Army Spc. Lye Saecho, 130th Engineers Brigade, Hanau, Germany, draws a picture of his girlfriend, Julia Bykow, while he sits in a HMMVEE outside a power plant in Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Stephen Faulisi


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[Reaganwuzthebest]

Thanx for the ping... an excellent read.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for the pics Sam. Goodnight.

[SAMWolf]

Good Night Snippy

[fatima]

Hi everyone.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[SCDogPapa]

Thanks for the post and ping.