World news "tidbits" you might not know about....

At least I thought they were worth noting in ways.....

(1) Pieces of an lost Civl War camp are uncovered...When word reached Camp Lawton that the enemy army of Gen. William Sherman was approaching , the Confederate officers routed up their thousands of army POW's  for an swift evacuation...leaving behind rings, coins, and other keepsakes that would remain undisturbed for nearly 150 years...an year later Achaeologists are still uncovering unusual and sometimes stunning personal artifacts in this southeast Georgia Cival War Camp....an few of them include an soldier's copper ring bearing the insigna of the Union Army's 3rd Corps..which fought bloody battles at Gettysburg and Manassas, an payment token with still legible name for an grocery store in Michigan, They hope to find names of those they they are unware of during this time as POW's. Kevin Chapman chose to find and unearth this for his master's thesis as an student of Archaeology in souther Georgia...never di dhe even epect to find the remenants so well preserved...the nieghboring land had belonged to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service which probably helped an great deal in it's anomity of never having been found..and the state offered to help him through thier Department of Natural Resources....he has dug up besides the prisoner's themselves, and corroded tourniquet buckle, a tobaaco pipe with teeth marks on  it, and folded frame that once held an daguerreotype, an diamond shaped 3rd Corps badge...and they conitinus with the data trying to understand whom these men were and where they once called home. They have also unearthed the stockades 15 foot pine posts.

(2)..14.6 million tons of sand have been imported to Singapore last year according to  U. N. statistics...to increase the city's land mass by 1/5 larger....BUT...much of it is beging taken round an bend in Cambodia near the Tatal River...causing enviormental destruction to the livehood of the area for it's people. Villagers say they have devasated the fish that they depend upon for livabilty.  As more countries ban its export to curb envioremental damage...entire Indonesian islands have been all but wiped off the map now. Apparently there's an Global Witness London enviromental group reporting on this effect also...they claim that these "sand" miners had penetrated mangrove, estruary and sea grass areas, breeding grounds for marine life along the coast line, often in wilderness area's. How much sand are they taking...one land reclaimation company said they were ready to add another 530,000 tons of sand to the cause...that belongs to Cambodia....and what is this for...it's for in part an 2, 560 room hotel and casino developed by the Las Vegas Sand's Corp, near the Singapore Airport in the future. ..Global Witness estimated that nearly 800,000 tons, worth of od sand... some $248 million  dollars worth were streaming into Singapore from Koh Kong alone. It's hard to know if this will cause any ocean stream damage or changes also...which so much affects our weather patterns also.

(3)...Prosecutors say an Florida family of gypsies amassed $40 Million in an fortune-telling scam, warning victims that if they didn't follow their advice, terrible things would happen to their loved ones. Details are issuing forth after their arrest last Friday. One victim, a best selling author, gave an estimated $20 million dollars. The clan chose counseling for mostly victims who had nowhere else turn to for advice.

(4)...Picture of the day...whose burial can be seen at Oregonlive.com/forrest-grove of soldier..Ryley Gallinger-Long. he was an local Navy hospital corpsman whom died trying to save another man's life (wounded marine) when their unit came under fire in Afghanistan"s Helmand Province. Teh 19 year old was less then an month into his first tour of duty..he was married in March.....this picture shows her at his grave site after they buried him .....sobbing umercessily into the ground of her husband's grave as his twin brother tries to console her and her older brother stands paying respect to her husband standing beside her. He was shot in the lower back on Aug. 11th and died there after. He was an 2010 High School graduate, was buried in the Willamette National Cemetary and  and Hope Gallinger-Long clasped the purple heart as the American and Oregon flags laped in the wind... and the 21 gun salute was given during the burial service...for an love one she'll never again see....and there future they might of had.  War takes another Toll...and isn't that ..and isn't that what "war" is all about...all I have to say...is been there...and understand. Not only for his wife, but his parents and family and loved ones also. It's is every miltiaryman's family worst nightmare....and  everyone's heart ache...esp the wife.   

 (5) Every Sunday we get an column of the Obituaries of the famous World-wide...these are people more noted in the world then the common folk so to say...but they are an interesting group them selves...and you wonder if the world ahead can be forged by such humanitatian and courageous and hard working people at the helm in the days ahead...here's an sampling of this week's obts.

Noah Flug 86, of Jerusalem..fought to get Governments to help the aging Holocasts survivors, he himself at one time an member of Auschwitz and two other concentration camps. He worked in Isreal as an diplomat and economist. He held several important seats in Jewish organizations also..

Albert Brown..105 of Nashville, Illinois..oldest survivor of the Batann Death march when Japanesse soliders forced 78,000 POw's to march through teh Pillippines in 1942...unable to persue his career choice due to disabilties from that he moved to California and rented properties to the era's biggest Hollywood Stars.

Don chandler, 76, kicker ane punter who was part of four championhsip games with the Green Bay and New York ...in 1968 he hit an super bowl record of four field goals in an victory against the Raiders.

Jesus del Poza, 65, of Madrid Spain...one of Spain's most influential designers and modernizers in the clothing  and fashion field...it says he continued until the end...but doesn't say what he died of, perhaps Cancer maybe. 

Ralph D. Albertazzle, 88, Falling Waters, West, Virginia....an retired Air Force Colonel who piloted Air Force One for President Ricahrd Nixon...others he flew was Henry Kissinger on an secret mission to begin historic talks with China, and former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, and Herbert Hoover during his Career. (I wonder if he was flying Air Force One when Johnson was given the Presidency after Kennedy';s death/skl) He was also in  World War II, Korea, and Vietnam and earned the Bronze Star.

Dunn Lampton, 60, Jackson, Miss. an former US attorney in Mississiippi who prosecuted cases including high profile Ky Klux Klansman James Ford Sale, whom was convicted in 2007 in the 1964 deaths, he's also dead now also...but this man was the one whom worked through the civil right's era in bring about  American justice during that era.

Vic Dunlop, 62, of Glendale, California...Comic and regular on richard Pryor's comdedy-variety show...his movies included "Teh Devil and Max Devlin..amoung others.

There are many more, horse raceway owners, sprots stars, an producer for theatrical shows in and off Broadway and London's West end....just an ssortment of people making and difference to many of our lives in their own little way.

I know..I took to long to post this thread Ron..it's Shirley...the infamous "takes to long to post her short novels...Hee hee...I just thought you needed something to read perhaps while your sorting through all the work of the day in POE...and hopefully getting better.

I wasn't expecting the spelling to be so bad as the writing went on though....OK, the Civil War story interested me also, because this camp was an result of closing down Andersonville Prison...and hubby's great- grandmother had her first husband die there apparently before she married into the Lawson family. With everyone over here constantly toting around geiger counters for finding lost "treasure" its hard to find something of this nature left presitine for them to unearth and catalouge things as they go. I know it was an old thing before banks came along... to bury anything you might think is of worth in the woods behind your house. When I went out the first time to where my ancestors supposedly lived in 1847...I "felt" the lay out of the land...and there was like an "invisible" prescence there to me..of where the house stood(cabin) and such...where the bigger house was built, etc.. Later on I was leaving and tripped over something...picked it up and it turned out to be an missing piece of one of the old tombstones there.  So I copied the information down, let it rest beside where it should of and sent it to our historian at the time, Arliene Adams. Beforehand I had sprinkled wild flowers over all the graves...it's an pretty ruined plot of ground...but we at one time tried to restore it an bit..an group of us. I took note of everything while there...knowing my Native American "traits" and what I'd read of the area...I could see why some things had been laid out as they were.  I think the most interesting tidbit I've ran into was with the National Geographic artcle on the village that was ranscacked just after James cittie was founded at the end of the Berkely estate. They traced those people back to Germany by the buttons they unearthed at the time. Several things came up later on, one was the sketches they made from the burials of the people killed, one lady was found with an stake up her vigina, into her belly. I know that sounds so gruesome, and it was. Up until then I had heard of them scalping, supposedly taught by the French for payment in miltary pursuits...but this was much earlier.I have never heard of any Native Americans claiming to have done this either. Decapitation was for the most part well known in Europe and the Middle east though..but they were ususally member parts also. Then I went to the Goodwill thrift store to rifle through old books naturally...and I ran across an Reader's Digest book on "Cowboys and Indians" and in one spot there was an early black and white photograph of  an Indian skirmish...and an real photgraph...and in it, the dead white guy had had his leg chopped into repeatedly with hatchets I'd say. There is only one reason why they would of done this...as they beleived in an after life...it was to disable his life in the next re-incarnation of his "spirit". It is to me that they sealed thier own fate with "God"...doing something of this nature. For as "God says...do unto others as you would do unto me"..soem people use the word "thee" also.. This also tells me an great deal about which Indians did which and where also...what tribe they belonged to.  But one of those ladies they dug up at James Cittie was Thomas Lawson's wife, fresh over from England. So good are the they these days, by using bone structures they can recreate an picture of what the people looked like then. I don't know if this particular skirmish in James Cittie was after or before Pochantas married John Rolfe and went to Gravesend, Kent County, England or not..Some of this stuff I look into  that I do as to if they were part of the "Lost Tribes" of Isreal. Do you all remember my last novelette about the Masonic Lodge, the swan, Stonehedge, and the blue dye found in the bible?...do you not wonder if the reason the Native Americans used "wampum" belts made out of purple colored sea shells in thier history.. maybe had been an carry over to one of the"Lost Tribes"?  It said in this area of the middle east, came Hercules, and the "giant" that biblical David slew using his sling shot...and in Massachuesetts...I have come across Indians that were" giants"and near the "Hopewell mounds" of Ohio...and what did they later find from the first inhabitants...not "bone" made buttons...they found some "metal" buttons there also...hundreds of years prior to James Cittie. See, you know the more you think you know already, something comes around to give you an possible different story also. I just finished off an paper on Native American thoughts on "Government" and how they influenced our nation for the many things our founding father's put into our Constitution. Many of our founding fathers had ties to the Masonic Lodge and with "tradesmen" as well in the crafts of the world. So do you think maybe someone from Germany had been here prior?...I had been looking up the helenistic people recently also...hence my little tale about  languages.....and trees came about also. Anyway, you can see why its interesting because it always leads to somethign else. .

Yes, James...first of all they have an museum there these days and it has the lineage with the Lawson family on it and one of the ancestors plays Abe Lincoln in the theater there. Did you know the only "civilian" casualty in the war was an woman named Debra Ware? Did you know when they decided to bury some of the Confederate Solidiers in Arlington National Cemetary that they made thier stones with spikes on top..."So no dammed Yankee could ever sit on top of them". Gettysburg is also known to be haunted...all the time there are reports of people seeing the soliders there in the field. In my research work...I think the Vice President was behind Lincoln's death...because he wanted to use "slave" labor to build the railroads out west...and Lincoln stopped it...because of the cruealty it enshewed at the time. Some people claim that Lincoln was an earthly manifestation of the "spirit" of God. Now they say that he may of been menugelon (sp?) Native American, whose DNA is saying they came from Jewish roots...they are not really "Native American" Blood lines.They are people that look "dark" skinned though..as does Lincoln in some of this photographs.  I have an picture of Harper Ferry's "John Brown" at my mother's ancestor's 50th Wedding anniversay when they lived near the Kansas-Nebraska border. The old Homestead was bought and moved into town an renovated by an doctor whom has since passed on probably also. Abe Lincoln's mother family is the same as my Hubby's possibly...definately into the Davis line of my mother's by remarriage. Richard Berry an uncle of Nancy Hanks that married the Lincoln family and was Abe's mother's line is seen in Kentucly not living to far away from my Lawson's there, Richard Berry owned the cabin Abe grew up in.  James Lawson was an elder that represented the Cedar Creek Baptist Church....(hubby's grandfather).. he attended  the Bracken Baptist Church Assoication...it's last meeeting was just before the Civil War broke out ...in which the Association in much dispute over slavery left saying "let every man's consonsious be his guide". My Lawson family in Kentucky married into the Brown family also. I think for that reason they are saying that Polly Shirham m. Littleberry Lawson last name was really "Sherman". I feel more likely she was an "Sherill". Mostly because of years of traveling with the Lawson's every where they lived. I beleive the Berry family is also my mother's line also...Eliza Ann Keith (Rev. James Keith) married an Berry...and these kids were noted orphans later on...the Lawson joined the DAR..or one line of them...as they called this lineage the Bray family eventually but they also call them the Barry at times. The Bari..from England...were transplants that may also been "Jewish" and Templar Knight's.  Some of them are accused of having mulatto leanings, which is the reason for the DNA samples these days to clairify it all...and they are Jewish...which takes me back to the Templar Knights. Out of Philadelphia they got involved with the Baptist Church formation here also, just after the Rev. War...the Rogers family had much to do with this also...and they are both Larkins family kin and Lawson family kin. George Lawson had married an MIss Rogers in Northcumberland, England (Planegent family) and then an Moore.The James Moore episode/problem took this all the way back to England's courts..and they had an very unique solving of the problem...they said the courts refused to recongize his existence...so therefore anything he did...never existed. Otherwise the litigation would of went on forever. Can you see how maybe, if there's an invisble "God" out there how he could of manifested through Lincoln by now? God does not want his people to be slaves...without free will choices. He has proven that ever since he parted the Red Sea with the Egyptians. So what do we do...we make more rules and regulations every day for the most part. What he wants is freeedom with repsonsibly by the individual. One I can now prove did exist with the Native Americans in some tribes. One that inspired our Constitution also. One that is backed by the Masonic Lodge when adhered to correctly. They say that Lincon's career to the Presidency was one struggle after another in being an "loser" in ways...esp in politics, but he did survive...and lead us into an new era also. I have been in person to Gettysburg, as has my son many years ago.  Lincon at one time when he lived in Springfield, Illinois lived very close to my mother's ancestor's in Marshall County, Illinois..His secretary/political advisor lived in the same place as my anscestors in Illinois...and just north of them lived the Reagan's whom would move to California and become another President. In the meantime where my Lawson's lived  in Kentucky and later Missouri..they spurned Oregon's first Govenor...not to long after my ancestor's left Ilinois to come to Oregon in 1847. We have since between both families spurned more then one politican out here in Oregon...and probaly some in all the states around us also.