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Skriven 2008-03-23 08:25:54 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: chowhall
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Hey Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  hn> depression, and he kept a lot of the local families supplied with
-> ->  hn> milk,butter, and eggs during those years. Some paid, most
-> ->  hn> couldn't but he gave it anyway.
-> 
-> -> Part of the time--it helped him a bit financially and others got the
-> -> dairy stuff they couldn't afford otherwise.
-> 
->  hn> It actually hurt him financially, but he did it just
-> 
-> Well, he didn't have to take a big loss by just dumping the milk or
-> geting rid of the herd.  May not have made him rich in dollars but...
-> 
->  hn> the same...When I was a kid I could just mention his
->  hn> name and that I was his grandson and it was like a free
->  hn> pass for lots of things...but mom wouldn't let me take
-> 
-> ........this shows that it's not always money.  Those that did pay felt
-> good that they could pay, if even a bit.  Others paid in other ways as
-> you found out years later.  It was sort of like that with my Mom's
-> family.  Her dad sent care packages over to relatives in Germany after
-> the war; when I visited them in 75 with my aunt, they did quite a bit
-> for us. I found out it was because of those packages; they helped the
-> family in Germany more than I'll ever know.
-> 
comes under the heading of doing 
good things just for the sake of 
doing good things...........which
isn't such a bad thing anyway!
World needs a bit more of that
if you know what I mean!

->  hn> full advantage of it.....(grin). My grandfather was a
->  hn> mason (bricklayer) and during WWII he was one of the
->  hn> foremen who were responsible for building the Hanford
->  hn> Nuclear plant here in Washington! He had an exciting life,
->  hn> when he was a young lad he ran away from home and
->  hn> worked on Buffalo Bill's show train. He died in 1958 or 9
->  hn> in his 90's .....from cancer I think. During WWII he ran
->  hn> most of the farm vehicles on moonshine! He was a
->  hn> character!
-> 
-> Do you have all of this written down somewhere?  It would make
-> interesting reading for generations to come--and back them up when they
-> run across sidebars of "is or isn't it true" research in geneology.
-> 
Nopey nope, not that I know of...I'm just now finding 
a lot of it out! On one trip back home from Minn when
Amanda was in College we came through Wyoming and 
stopped in Cody, where the Buffalo Bill museum is. We 
checked and discovered the museum has very little 
information about the train or it's operation. They 
had no record of the crew or such...so I put them
in touch with my aunt who is the family historian.
Don't know where it went from there.
-> 
-> ->  hn> I don't know about when he went to the fleet.
-> ->  hn> We never heard the term DFac....it was ChowHall when
-> ->  hn> you were ashore, and "The Mess Deck" when you were
-> ->  hn> at sea!
-> 
-> -> It used to be Mess Hall but the newer Army came up with Dining 
Facility,
-> -> which promptly got shortenend to DFac.
-> 
->  hn> I still like chowhall better (grin)
-> 
-> It describes the use much better. (G)
-> 
Yup!

-> ->  hn> Once you get into State's Rights issues you are messing in
-> ->  hn> Constitutional ground and LOTS of problems come up when
-> 
-> -> I know, but there needs to be better co-ordination between the states
-> -> for military kids. You probably saw that as you were growing up altho
-> -> your parents were probably much more aware of it than you.
-> 
->  hn> I went to more schools than I can count (grin) so yeah it was
->  hn> different when you went to a new school...but you adapt...
->  hn> or you didn't survive...I always adapted (grin). To a kid homework
->  hn> is homework no matter where you are...and spelling tests
->  hn> are still just another test.
-> 
-> I know but we had some issues with the schools when we moved to Texas
-> from California. The birth date cut off varies from state to state and
-> Rachel was affected.  We pleaded our case to the local board who took it
-> to Austin, short story is that we won. It changed a rule in TX education
-> policy too. (G)  Had semestering issues when we moved from MA to AZ 
with
-> both girls as well.
-> 
We just signed up and went. I was not the 
best student in those days. Didn't learn the
value of education till I was out of highschool
and in the navy...which makes it a good thing
that I went to college after the navy!

Chat with you soon
hap 
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