Posted on 11/10/2012 5:12:57 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
Hope all of your family is doing well. ((HUGS))
Your charming and lovely granddaughter have any new “tricks”?
Is it time to crawl yet?
How’s Nate doing?
Are you back home now Ma? How are you feeling? Glad it’s over?
Been prayin’ for your recovery and comfort!
big hugs always,
Meeky
Two doctors, two separate procedures, and two x-rays say the issue is resolved.And I am SO glad to be feeling better.
Hope your doc can figure out your issue.
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...it is so good to be able to be back. It hasn’t been a fun week, but healing has begun.
A Blessed Lord’s Day and Shavua Tov to you and yours.
Hope you and Linda had a good week, and today was good lessons.
Sun? A ride?
Thank you....
Woohoo...a Nate happening!!!
Have a wonderful time.
I am so home......and thank you for the prayres.
Monday was one hospital and Wednesday was another hospital. Both were outpatient. I think I’ve turned the corner and healing has begun as of today.
I’m now out of steam and on my way back to bed, hoping to string a few hours of sleep together.
A Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours. ((HUGS))
And 24F at my house.
Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.
Thanks, unique, for the pastries.
Coffee is always on........
How about a donut?
Cookies?
Veggies?
Sandwich?
Good night.
((HUGS))Good morning, Kathy. How's it going?
BTTT
BTTT
"Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." -from THE BIBLE: I Peter 1:22-25
She’s trying to roll over but no sucess yet.
As to Nate, I get to see him today and find out what new things he’s up to.
Your Dad, if likes remembering the metal pedal cars for our youth, and if he can be on the computer, might enjoy http://www.bluediamondclassics.com
This is not to take away from any Native American Code talkers in WWI and WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker
Use of Cherokee
The first known use of Native Americans in the American military to transmit messages under fire was a group of Cherokee troops utilized by the American 30th Infantry Division serving alongside the British during the Second Battle of the Somme. According to the Division Signal Officer, this took place in September 1918. Their unit was under British command at the time.[2]
Use of Choctaw
In the days of World War I, company commander Captain Lawrence of the U.S. Army overheard Solomon Louis and Mitchell Bobb conversing in the Choctaw language. He found eight Choctaw men in the battalion.[3] Eventually, fourteen Choctaw men in the Army’s 36th Infantry Division trained to use their language in code. They helped the American Expeditionary Forces win several key battles in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, during the final big German push of the war. Within 24 hours after the Choctaw language was pressed into service, the tide of the battle had turned. In less than 72 hours the Germans were retreating and the Allies were in full attack.[3]
These soldiers are now known as the Choctaw code talkers.
My Dad was part Cherokee, and he never talked about what might have been his role in WWI if he hadn’t been seriouly injured in a truck accident at a military base in the states and got a medical discharge before being shipped overseas in WWI.
He would have been one of the messengers on motorcycles with a very short half life in combat.
He had a small group of Choctaws/Cherokee vets, he played dominoes and cards with for a long time after both wars.
My dad was a crack shot with pistols, rifles and shotguns.
I have since wondered if his role might have been as a “guard” for the code talkers.
As a tribal member, go talk to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council, they will be glad to fill in some blank spots of information.
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