I think that everyone who was alive then and over the age of reason remembers where he or she was at that time
I was sitting in my 4th grade classroom when they announced that the President had been shot. A classmate who was from an ardently Republican family made an unfortunate comment. (Now why do I remember that?) We didn't have a television at the time and I remember that we went to a neighbor's house to watch the funeral.
I remember how disconcerting it was when, years later, I realized how close I was to that "age of reason" band, and how many of the people I knew had been born since it happened.
I don't think Rove should be "spending more time with his family," I think he should be in the federal pen, and his buddies George, Dick, Scooter, etc., also resident at Ft Leavenworth, is it?
Just a small point. The Federal Penetentiary is in Leavenworth. The US Military Disciplinary Barracks is at Ft. Leavenworth. Just two of the four prison complexes located in the Greater Leavenworth Area
Then why are our officers acting like mindless brutes?
So far, the only officer involved that we know attended the Military Academy was the one who reported the problem.
So one of these days we should figure out a way to scan the book without damaging it, and make the entire thing available online
Stephen Abram at Stephens Lighthouse talks about a New Scientist Article Camera phones will be high-precision scanners
Minolta also has a very expensive scanner that allows you to put the book in a cradle and scan from above - and there is a mirror that helps adjust for scanning into the valley between the pages. We had one in our archives section in the library at Ft. Leavenworth. My recollection was that it was in the $30,000 - $40,000 range.
You might ask your state historical society if they had access to one, or knew who had one. They "might" be willing to scan it in return for a digital copy. Couldn't hurt to ask.
Luthe, another problem with Fred's idea is that the USO isn't part of the US Govt and would have no obligation to use the money to support the war.
And I thought the WWII Liberty Bonds were IOUs. The difference is that the govt. borrowed the money from countless patriotic citizens instead of whoever it's being borrowed from today.
I stopped at one name. I'm Captain Mary Cash. Arr!
Did anyone else read far enough into the article to see this?
Gretna is not the only community that views New Orleans with distrust. Authorities in St. Bernard Parish, to the east, stacked cars to seal roads from the Crescent City
It's easy for me to say what I would have done, but I wasn't there, trying to protect a town that had no power, water or food - according to the article, and presumably suffering from pretty limited communications. You have to get to the 2nd screen of the article to read...
Not sure how to feed even their own residents, Gretna officials were overwhelmed by New Orleans' evacuees. They organized bus caravans Aug. 31 to take the arrivals to Metairie, 16 miles away, where a food and water distribution center had been set up.
The evacuees waited for rides out of Gretna at the foot of the bridge, across the street from Oakwood Mall. As the hours ticked by and the crowd swelled, trouble began, Gretna authorities said.
Sometime on Wednesday, Aug. 31, a fire broke out in the mall, next to the local branch of the sheriff's office, and police chased suspected looters out of the building.
Mayor Harris had had enough. He called the state police.
"I said: 'There will be bloodshed on the west bank if this continues,' " Harris recalled. " 'This is not Gretna. I am not going to give up our community!' "
The following morning, Gretna's police chief made his decision: Seal the bridge.
So instead of walking through Gretna, it sounds like everyone was stopping there waiting for buses to evacuate further. I'm beginning to think that none of this is as simple as it seemed at first.
Paula Helm Murray
I'll take where I live. thank you.
I'll agree with Paula. No surprise, since my house is about 50 miles from hers. (OK, I'm living in Germany right now, but my house is in Leavenworth, KS)
I have this vague, unformed theory that the natural disaster you grew up with is less terrifying in the abstract than the ones you see in other parts of the country. Tornados are devastating. But they're here and then they're gone. And even if they go across three states, the path of destruction is usually no more than a mile wide. And if you are in a basement, you have a very good chance of surviving. And afterwards, you can walk out of the disaster area without too much of a problem.
fidelio - My great-grandfather moved from Hannover to the Haw Creek township area of central Missouri (somewhere between Stover and Cole Camp, for anyone with a very detailed Missouri map) shortly before the Civil War. That makes them almost neighbors, doesn't it?
Almost all of my great grandparents moved from northern parts of what is now Germany to the US between 1850 and 1880.
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