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[GoodDaughter]

So, how 'bout that George Washington, and all those rowdy guys back then?

[Quietgentleman]

Here you go this is an interesting article writen by John Silvaira and is a good read.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/silveira60a.html


QGM

[CarolAnn]

My favorite history book is actually a novel by Jimmy Carter named "The Hornet's Nest."

He didn't pretty it up - and although it's a novel, it was based on historical fact.

They never taught us in school that while the men were off fighting at Falley Forge with their feet in bloody rags - back home, land grabbers were destroying homesteading records at the county seat (or equivalent) and taking their farms! But I believe it happened. Sounds about like now.

[alma]

I found a great book on the bay of pigs.

As i recall from the past, cuba was a great place for people to go on vacation for fun and games in the old days when batista was in power, but all that changed when castro took over and ousted those who were making a lot of money in wine women and song.

A lot of cubans were exciled and came to u.s., and C.I.A. decided to use them for an invasion type exercise, hoping to get the former moneymakers in power again.

They trained them, gave them supplies, etc. to go back to cuba a take over at the bay of pigs.

It was supposed to be a good place to land, but was filled with coral rock instead and punctured the rubber boats they were using, some men drowned, or were wounded on the coral rock.

There was not supposed to be a radio system anywhere there, but it had one and could report the invasion.

There was supposed to be air cover which never came, etc.

The book i am r eading was written by many men from both sides years later, so you knew what one side was doing while another was attempting to invade, and included what was going on in washingtone in relation to it all. What a fiasco!

JFK took the blame for this cia venture, but he fired the leaders, Gen. Cabell, Richard Bissel, and CIA head,Allen Dulles. Nine months later, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The mayor of Dallas at that time was brother to gen. cabell.

I had a neighbor once who worked for some aspect of the government involved, and she said that the key word for the air cover was, "Dont make a move without calling smith, and I'M smith." --and the air cover never came.

I only have bits and pieces of things i heard when i was living in d.c., but figure that, if i give as many names as i can, that somehow it will spark someone's interest in the subject, and maybe they can take off on it. alma

[alma]

Incidently, administration, thanks for the new history section.

I figure that we all live through a lot of history, personally, and sure hope we will share what we know, or think we know, with one another.

I'd sure like to hear what some of you are going through during these ice storms, how you cope, how you are making it through. alma

[alma]

I put this post in wrong place. will get back to it later when i get to use the internet longer. love, alma
There is so much that i want to share when possible.