To: panaxanax; aMorePerfectUnion; caww; SZonian; Godzilla; greyfoxx39; Tennessee Nana; Utah Binger; ...
My Gr. x3 grandfather left his family to fight for a country that had condoned killing Mormons. After they were burned out in Nauvoo, IL he joined, along with 500 other Mormon men to march with the Mormon Battalion. He actually walked 5000 miles to get back to them in winter quarters where he found them half-starved. They gathered what they could and then walked back to Utah. His story is well celebrated in Mormon history books. He was the Butcher that slit a wild bull's throat with a knife in the Battle of the Bulls.I 'prophecy' that Paul Harvey will be along soon...
126 posted on
09/30/2010 6:24:24 AM PDT by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie; colorcountry
And the rest of the story is that if you exaggerate your family history often enough, pretty soon it becomes factual. Of course when the Mountain Meadows history is told by a good member of Mormonism or their descendants it becomes a band of Paiutes that did the nasty killing and that the terrible Apostate John Lee was the only Mormon present.
Even the title of this thread is a humorous exaggeration. I guess the PR department is working overtime this week.
129 posted on
09/30/2010 7:00:38 AM PDT by
Utah Binger
(Mount Carmel Utah, where the world comes to see America)
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