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Before we called them - "Buddy" or "Pal" ... They were our children.
In hard times or good times - they were at our side. We talked with them, listened to radio together, we read to them, laughed with them, played and worked with them.
Today, we teach our "Buddies" and "Pals" to work hard, to get a good job ... so you can buy good things on credit - I wonder what our father's father was taught by his parents????
Photos
Documenting America
The Library of Congress
Music
Leader of the Band
Dan Fogelberg
Winter
Tori Amos
The High Road
Mark Isham
Conceived and Produced by
Dale Caruso
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Families
Children
Fathers
Mothers
!930s
1940s
Depression
Rural
America
Americana
Added: 27th September 2008
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... this picture of you I carry in my hand
Lets me hear you say You're never far away
You'll see me in a dream across a mountain stream
And you will hear me say You're never far away"
-- Jack White (Never Far Away - Cold Mountain)
Video Clips
Miramax Films Academy Award Winning Film
Cold Mountain
Directed by:
Anthony Minghella
Photos
Library of Congress -
The Selected Civil War Collection
Robert J. Szabo
http://www.robertszabo.com/
Jeff Rinehart
http://www.flickr.com/people/jeffrine...
John L. Smith
http://www.smithphotopro.com
D. Langley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18367251...
Alan Diaz
http://flickr.com/people/sunsetsailor/
Cary Jones Crawford
http://flickr.com/people/geaux/
Family Old Photos
http://www.familyoldphotos.com/civil/
The Phillip Pitzer Collection
Lucy Collyar Gordon Collection
Bridgeville Veterans of Civil War
Music
the battle at devil's den
Randy Edelman
you will be my ain true love
Sting
performed by Alison Krause
without the words
Gabriel Yared
men of honor
Randy Edelman
conceived and produced by Dale Caruso
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Civil
War
Vintage
Photos
Wet
Plate
Photography
Added: 27th September 2008
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Photos
Alexander Gardner
James F. Gibson
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Library of Congress Archives
Gettysburg Horsemen
Alan Diaz
http://flickr.com/photos/sunsetsailor/
The Monuments of Gettysburg
Joe Ryan
http://www.gratefuljoe.com/
Video Footage
Gettysburg Reenactment
directed by
John Petty
http://www.youtube.com/user/scotlandt...
Gettysburg
Turner Pictures - distributed by New Line Cinema
directed by
Ronald Maxwell
http://www.ronmaxwell.com/
Music
Daylight Again
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash
http://www.crosbystillsnash.com/
Fife and Gun
March to Mortality
Men of Honor
Randy Edelman
http://www.randyedelman.com/
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Gettysburg
American
Civil
War
Vintage
Photos
Reenactors
Added: 27th September 2008
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The pledge of allegiance was originally written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a socialist magazine writer. When he wrote it for an children’s magazine, he also described a salute that he thought would be appropriate during its recital.
The pledge was aimed towards children, and the magazine also gave free flags away to schools, where the pledge was originally recited. The salute they were taught to give, with one stiff arm outstretched toward the flag, was deemed the “Bellamy salute” after its creator (who had gotten the idea from a salute that the Romans had done).
In the early 1940s, it was noticed that the salute bore a resemblance to a certain other salute being used in Germany at the time (which was based off of the same original Roman salute). As a result, it was formally replaced by Congress with the now-customary hand-on-heart during the pledge.
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The
Official
Pledge
of
Allegiance
Salute
Hitler
Roman
soilder
salute
Added: 12th February 2009
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Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative," died Saturday. He was 73.
Kemp died after a lengthy illness, according to spokeswoman Bona Park and Edwin J. Feulner, a longtime friend and former campaign adviser. Park said Kemp died at his home in Bethesda, Md., in the Washington suburbs.
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Jack
Kemp
Passes
away
today
at
the
age
of
73
Added: 2nd May 2009
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Many people find it hard to believe, but after the deadly surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the vote by the U.S. Congress the next day to declare war on Japan was not unanimous. Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, cast the lone dissenting vote. Declaring the war to be unnecessary and adhering to her beliefs as a lifelong pacifist, Rankin cast the solitary negative vote. Rankin had been a congresswoman during the First World War and had voted against America's entry into that conflict--along with 49 others--in 1917. Returning to politics more than two decades later, Rankin had, in fact, campaigned in 1940 on an anti-war platform and had won. Not surprisingly, very few people in her home state supported her decision after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. So unpopular was her stance that Rankin decided not to run for re-election when her term expired in 1943. Interestingly, Rankin did not vote against declaring war on Germany and Italy following their declarations of war on the U.S. a few days later. Instead, she voted merely 'present.' During the remainder of her life, (Rankin lived to be nearly 93) she travelled to India seven times and was a devotee of Gandhian principles of non-violence.
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Jeannette
Rankin
pacifist
politician
antiwar
Pearl
Harbor
Added: 11th July 2010
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In 1873 American postmaster John Creswell introduced the first pre-stamped penny postcards. These first postcards depicted the Interstate Industrial Exposition that took place in Chicago that year. The postcards were made because people were looking for an easier way to send quick notes. They were an instant hit with the public. The first postcard to be printed as a souvenir in the United States was created in 1893 to advertise the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Post Office was the only establishment allowed to print postcards, and it held its monopoly until May 19, 1898, when Congress passed the Private Mailing Card Act which allowed private publishers and printers to produce postcards. Initially, the United States government prohibited private companies from calling their cards 'postcards,' so they were instead known as 'souvenir cards.' To adhere to the law, these cards had to be labeled 'Private Mailing Cards.' This prohibition was finally rescinded in December 24, 1901 when private companies could legally use the word 'postcard' as they pleased. The golden age of American postcards lasted until 1915. In 1908 alone, more than 677 million postcards were mailed in the United States. Below is a sample from 1905.
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penny
postcards
Added: 1st November 2010
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Groundhog Day IS about climate change, all throughout time. So was Indian Summer....errr Native American Summer. Here Congress was worried about too little snow is proof of climate change.
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Groundhog
Day
IS
About
Climate
Change
Al
Owl
Gore
Added: 2nd February 2011
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Fans of flea markets and garage sales were heartened by this improbable story from the spring of 1991: A collector who spent $4 at a Pennsylvania flea market two years ago for a dismal painting because he liked the frame is the possessor of a rare first printing of the Declaration of Independence. It is valued somewhere between $800,000 and $1 million.
David N. Redden, head of the book and manuscript department at Sotheby's in Manhattan, described the document, found behind the painting when the collector took the frame apart, as an 'unspeakably fresh copy' of the declaration. 'The fact that it has been in the backing of the frame preserved it,' he said. Of the 24 copies known to survive, only three are in private hands.
Mr. Redden said the unidentified owner bought the painting, 'a dismal dark country scene with a signature he could not make out,' only for its gilded and ornately carved frame. He told Mr. Redden that he discarded the painting, which he disliked. When he realized the frame was crudely made and unsalvageable he got rid of it too. 'But he kept the declaration, which he had found behind the painting,' Mr. Redden said. 'It was folded up, about the size of a business envelope. He thought it might be an early 19th-century printing and worth keeping as a curiosity.'
Recently the owner showed it to a friend 'who urged him to look into it further,' said Selby Kiffer, an Americana printing specialist at Sotheby's 'At that point he called us.'
Said Kiffer, 'The discovery of any first-printing copy of the declaration, even a fragmentary one or a poor copy, would be exciting, but on this one, the condition is beyond reproach. It was folded up when we first saw it--the way the owner said it was in the painting, less than one-tenth of an inch thick. I had to agree with him it was just as well that he kept it that way. There has been absolutely no restoration, no repair. It was unframed and unbacked.' Only seven of the 24 copies are unbacked, he said, which increases their value.
'The ink was still wet on this copy when it was folded,' Mr. Kiffer said. The very first line -- 'In Congress, July 4, 1776' -- shows up in the bottom margin in reverse, as a faint offsetting or shadow printing, one more proof of the urgency John Dunlap, the printer, and others felt in dispersing this document.
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Declaration
of
Independence
copy
found
Added: 10th February 2011
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