TESTIMONIAL SITE

[Montana Bab]

Don't know if this site has been posted before, but for a "beginner" like me, it has proven to be a great source of witness testimonies. The pictures included are great, too. Found some mistakes, but for the most part worthwhile.

www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/index.html

Bab

[crzhrs]

Yep . . . I posted that a week or two ago. Very good site with just about all the people's testimony one needs to know regarding the LBH.

It's is now on my "favorite's" list.

[fred]

I agree. There is some good stuff there. Thank you, Montana Bab. I do, however, think some of the pictures are wrong. Herendeen's picture looks more like Burkman and the one they have for 1SG John Ryan (near the bottom) is actually LT McIntosh.

Best wishes,
Fred.

[crzhrs]

Fred:

You are correct about some of the photos. I did, however, go back and check statements on the web against statements in various books. They are OK.

Having that on the web makes it easy to check accounts if away from one's home library.

[Montana Bab]

Sorry, Crz Hrs. I didn't catch that you had posted the Crazy Horse site. There's a whole lot to cover on this website, and I am a novice !

Bab

[Diane Merkel]

You're doing fine, Bab. It's nice to see you here! Welcome!

[crzhrs]

No problem Montana Bab . . . there have been countless posts and threads here and it is easy to forget when or who put them up.

We usually go over the same things many times . . . searching for something that may be missed or overlooked.

[fred]

crzhrs said:

We usually go over the same things many times . . .

We do?

Oh, and Horse, I did check a couple of the text entries and they jive w/ some of the stuff I have.

Best wishes,
Fred.

[gary]

I have had a look at the site and it is certainly good. Some of the accounts look abridged though. I have not checked them against my books, but that was the impression that I got. I'm sure that Kate Bighead's account is much longer. Does anyone agree?

Even abridged, the accounts are worth while.

Gary

[crzhrs]

We do?

We do?

We do?

We do?

We do?

[fred]

Horse--

I'll PM you my mailing address. Do me a favor & send me a pound of whatever you're smoking.

Freddie the Rat.

[d o harris]

Fred, It isn't what horse is smoking. It's the New Hampshire air. There isn't a better place to be in Spring, Summer and Fall, but not having been there during Winter I cannot comment except by observation of the natives.

[fred]

D O--

5:51 a.m.? D O, what the hell do you do, run a bordello? C'mon man, you have been one of the sane voices on here, a person who gave me hope. Now this? 5:51 a.m.?

I have been to NH in the winter. In fact, we spent Christmas there (in Portsmouth) in 2004. I have to tell you, it is hard to beat the NE. Take it from me, SW Florida in the summer makes up for all the happiness you can stand in the NE.

Best wishes,
Fred.

[d o harris]

4:51 my time, and you're hardly the person to comment on wicked hours, Fred. But run a bordello? Only in my dreams. At my age (I hesitate to say our) dreams are nearly all that's left. Nearly.

There's a scene in Ride The High Country, which, more than a Western, is a movie about growing old and retaining or recapturing the virtues held when young, where Randolph Scott asks Joel McCrea to untie him because "I don't sleep so good anymore."

My wife, I and family used to vacation every other year on a NH lake. At first there were only locals there, and this was fine. Later, Bostonians arrived, and this was acceptable. We were there in 1969 when an incident occurred at Chappaquidic. Our neighbors left and right were a news reporter and an editor from Boston papers. They were called back to Boston on a Sunday morning, and when they returned to resume their vacations brought with them interesting supplements to the news being widely reported.

By the mid eighties New Yorkers began taking over the lake front and building three storey structures that cast shadows everywhere, and we quit vacationing in NH. Our NH is the NH of our memories. I think we need to redefine progress.

NE Florida is hardly recommended. I had to spend a few months in Jacksonville, and after a short time decided all week-end liberty would be spent in Savannah. A word of advice. If you happen to venture into a Georgia saloon don't stand on a table and sing "Marching Through Georgia." It's no wonder youth is often referred to as misspent.

[fred]

D O--

Boy, do we see eye-to-eye! And I certainly know what you mean about people-- somehow, especially New Yorkers-- moving in to some beautiful, unspoiled area, and then just ruining it. My wife's family owns a house on the Outer Banks and they have been vacationing there for 30 years or so. When they first began going there, they used to have to get out of the car, raise a road-gate to continue up the road to their house. Now the place is utterly over-run. Multi-million $ homes, rentals for $8,000-$9,000 a week, mobs, 2-hour car rides to go 20 miles, shopping centers, rip-off gag-and-heave restaurants, the whole thing. It used to be a wild horse sanctuary until people started complaining about horses on the beach. Mysteriously, the horses disappeared. No swimming pools were allowed until people started complaining that they didn't like the sand on the beaches getting into their shorts. Suddenly, swimming pools began appearing. You were prohibited from disturbing the dunes. All of a sudden, dunes started disappearing: "O-o-o-o-h, we can't see the beach!" No northern-style grass lawns were allowed; they would interfere w/ the natural environment. My, my! Now look at all the lawns.

It's a damn shame.

And the Cubs, D O?

I never cared much for Georgia anyway. Spent too much time at Benning.

Best wishes,
Fred.