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Posted on 07/16/2003 12:00:52 AM PDT by SAMWolf
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Vermont's Heroine of Independence Ann Story was born in Preston, Connecticut in 1741. Since she had five brothers and one sister in a hard working poor family, based in a tight-knit community, Ann became a tomboy. She loved to play with her brothers and go on boyish pursuits.  In 1774 Amos and their 13-year-old son Solomon left Connecticut to go north and build a home for the family. They decided upon a clearing in the small town of Salisbury. Together they built a cabin large enough for the whole family. They were finished with the cabin by the spring of 1775, but they still needed to clear land to plant wheat so the family would have bread the next winter. While they were doing this, a large maple twisted and pinned Amos to the ground, killing him instantly. Frantically, Solomon chopped the tree away and freed his father's body. Then he ran all the way to Middlebury and the home of Benjamin Smalley. Smalley and his two sons, Imri and Alfred, went with Solomon to the Salisbury clearing and they brought Amos's body back to the Middlebury burial plot where Smalley's two daughters were buried. There Amos Story was laid to rest. When her son returned with the sad news of her husband's death, Ann decided she had to bring her children to the home their father built for them. One spring day in 1776, one of Ann's young sons saw Indians burn their neighbors deserted cabin. When he told his mother, she had the children grab all of their belongings they could carry, and they hid in the family's canoe among dense trees. The Indians set fire to the Story's cabin as the family watched from their hiding place. Once the Indians had left, Ann and her children returned to the place their cabin had been. Without hesitation, they rebuilt the cabin with logs small enough that she and the children could lift them. Finally they had an adequate cabin, with an escape route through the floor to a crevice in a granite ledge and then a thicket of prickly ash. Ann knew she had to hide her children in case of another surprise Indian attack. Then she got an idea.  They dug a tunnel into the high banks over the Otter Creek. The canoe could pass into the opening, if all the passengers laid flat. A place to sleep was dug at one side, well above the water level. Tree roots formed an arch to hold up dirt over the underground room. This is where Ann and her children spent their nights. One day one of the Story boys was returning from an expedition into the woods when he heard someone crying. Curiously he peeked through the leaves and saw a white girl sitting on the ground sobbing. He went back to tell his mother, who thought it might be an Indian trick. With her musket on her shoulder Ann followed the little-boy back to the spot he had seen the girl. Seeing it was no trick, Ann stepped forward. The girl was from a settlement that had been raided by an Indian war-party, servicing the British. The prisoners were forced to walk a trail to Canada, but this girl was far along in a pregnancy and could not keep up. Finally she fell so far behind she was out of their sight, so they left her to starve. Ann had five children and she knew this girl was close to delivering, so she took her in. She had her baby with Ann acting as midwife. Royalists and Anti-Americans were leaving Vermont to go to Canada and join the British Army. They were to bring information to the British and their Indian allies about the location and defenses of Vermont settlements, and movements, resources, and organization of Vermont guerrilla fighters, like the Green Mountain Boys. They went at night, while the Story family was sleeping in their underground cave.  Early one morning a royalist named Ezekiel Jenny was walking past the cave when the baby began to cry. Jenny stopped in his tracks. Now he knew the secret about the Story's vanishing at nightfall. He hid in the bushes and before long the canoe emerged from the opening of the cave. Jenny waited until Ann was out of the canoe, then he emerged from his hiding place. He pointed his musket at her in an attempt to make her talk and betray her allies, but Ann would not. She glared at Jenny and told him she had no fears of being shot by a coward like him. Jenny threatened and yelled at her, but Ann was firm and finally he passed along down the creek. After this Ann sent one of her sons to the Green Mountain Boys with the news of Jenny and where she thought he was going next. The Green Mountain Boys attacked the Anti-American camp, killing no one, but taking prisoners. They marched their prisoners over to Fort Ticonderoga, which was in then in American hands, and gave their prisoners up to the proper authorities. Ann Story was a valued aid and advisor to the Green Mountain Boys. She said to them: " I cannot live to see my children murdered before my eyes - give me a place among you and see if I am the first to desert my post." The patriots used her cabin for rest and shelter, and as a message drop where information could be passed along. Years later, at the age of 51, Ann married the widower Benjamin Smalley and moved to Middlebury. Thirteen years later, when Benjamin was 67, his health took a turn for the worst and they moved back to his original homestead where Benjamin's son Imri still lived. Benjamin died in 1807, at the age of 82.  Green Mountain Boys Memorial - RUTLAND, VT. Erected by the Ann Storey Chapter, Daughers of the American Revolution. 1915 Five years later Ann married Captain Stephen Goodrich. She moved to his two-hundred acre farm east of Middlebury, where she died on April 5, 1817. She was 75 years old. A monument to Ann Story stands in Salisbury at the site of the cabin her first husband built. Engraved into the marble are these words: IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF HER SERVICE IN THE STRUGGLE OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF VERMONT, ERECTED BY THE VERMONT SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES MAY 30, 1905 DEDICATED JULY 27, 1905
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The Ethan Allen homestead is a historic house museum located in a 284-acre public park. It was part of a 1,000-acre farm where Vermont’s Revolutionary War hero settled with his family.
USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608)
Yo, Friedrich Baum, can your baum do this?
Frigate Bird was the only US test of an operational ballistic missile with a live warhead. This test involved firing a Polaris A2 missile from a ballistic missile submarine. The missile was launched by the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) at 13:18 (local) [6 May 1962 ]from a position 1500 nm east-northeast of Christmas Island. The re-entry vehicle (RV) and warhead flew 1020 nm downrange toward Christmas Island before re-entering the atmosphere 12.5 minutes later, and detonating in an airburst at 11,000 feet. The system tested was a combination of a Polaris A2 SLBM, and a W-47Y1 warhead in a Mk-1 RV. The Mk-1 RV had a beryllium heat-sink heat shield, and with the 717 lb warhead had a gross weight of 900 lb. The missile/RV demonstrated an accuracy on the order of 2200 yards. This warhead had a yield-to-weight ratio of 1.84 kt/kg, but the higher yield Y2 variant tested in Dominic Harlem doubled the yield and nearly doubled tht YTW ratio to 3.61 kt/kg.
This flag was believed to have been carried by Ethan Allens' men during the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, NY in 1775.
Pvt.Abel Pratt
NH, Cont'l Green Mountain Boys at Ticonderoga. In the Quebec, Canada Expedition. Service to 1780. Born 1757. Died 1840 in Edwards. Buried Payne Cemetery.
While being towed to England by a single tugboat through the Bermuda Triangle, she broke tow and disappeared the night of November 6, 1951. No trace of her or the 8 men onboard was ever found.
From another list:
Sold for scrapping 1951, broke tow in storm off Azores 4 Nov 1951, lost without trace.
[There's a two-day worm hole.]
Commemorative Medal of the Royal Visit to Brazil
As a result of an invitation by the Brazilian President, King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth boarded the Brazilian dreadnought "Sao Paulo", the first large vessel to put into a Belgian port after the First World War, on 1 September 1920. After his return to Belgium, King Albert I instituted a bronze commemorative medal on 25 November 1920. Recipients were officers and crew of the "Sao Paulo" as well as Belgian and Brazilian civilians on board the battleship during the voyage.
It should be noted that the crown suspension on this medal is solid and that restrikes are known to exist with an open crown as in the picture below.
Minas Gerais [class sister to Sao Paulo]
Built by Armstrong, Elswick. Laid down 17 April 1907, launched 10 Sept 1908, completed 6 Jan 1910. Overhauled post WWI. Reconstructed 1935-1937, converted to oil fuel, 2 4.7 inch AA added. Sold 1953, scrapped 1954.
Minas Gerais passing under Stevenson's bridge at Newcastle, UK, for final fitting-out at Armstrong's Walker yard. Her tripod mast has been folded down to permit passage under the bridge.
Minas Gerais in 1942.
Note the clock-like dial of the Minas Gerais' Way-Back Machine [at top of tripod mast].
This enabled the Minas Gerais to go forward and backward in time [the like device on Sao Paulo was frozen in the forward position, hence that vessel will reappear in 2051].
Sao Paulo in early 1927 in appearance after overhaul in USA of 1918-1920. Note a range clock picked out below the foretop and rotating rangefinders of American manufacture fitted on the two superimposed turrets.
[For security purposes the Way-Back Machine was disguised as a "range clock". An early black program.]
SAMs stopped this project.
Per Amy Waters Yarsinske, No One Left Behind: The Commander Michael Scott Speicher Story, a SAM did not stop Speicher.
The most likely source of the air to air missile was an F-15 shooting [a new and still classified AMRAM] at a Mig-25.
The coverups and CYAs and stonewalling would gag a maggot.
Apparently the Mig-25 was developed to get the B-70. Mig Pilot is John Baron's story of Lt. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko defecting to Japan with a Mig-25 September 6, 1976.
The limited damage and lack of SAM sightings indicates air to air--and the only bandit was the Mig-25 that blew through the squadron of HARM-hauling Hornets.
The Hornets were forbidden to shoot at the Mig--the AWACS said it was bogey not bandit, unidentified not enemy.
Somebody shot--and the rush to classify Speicher as KIA was not based on any evidence.
The book is like running in water in a dream--every ruling is Kafkaesque. Hence, it ain't no quick read--more like eating ground glass.
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