Negro preacher talks baddd about Barak Obamas’ mama. I could not hardly believe what I was hearing when I clicked on this video. This man is suppose to be a Christian. Sad, sad, sad. I have heard a lot of jive time stuff in my time but this takes the butter from the duck. This guy must be Clarence Thomas’ preacher. The only thing I can say is watch the video yourself and let me know what you think.
How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the tomb of the Unknowns and why?
21 steps: It alludes to the twenty-one gun salute which is
the highest honor given any military or foreign dignitary.
How long does he hesitate after his about face to begin his return walk and why?
21 seconds for the same reason as answer number 1
Why are his gloves wet?
His gloves are moistened to prevent his losing his grip on the rifle.
Does he carry his rifle on the same shoulder all the time
and, if not, why not?
He carries the rifle on the shoulder away from the tomb. After his march across the path, he executes an about face and moves the rifle to the outside shoulder.
How often are the guards changed?
Guards are changed every thirty minutes,
twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
What are the physical traits of the guard limited to?
For a person to apply for guard duty at the tomb, he must be
between 5′ 10′ and 6′ 2′ tall and his waist size cannot exceed 30.
They must commit 2 years of life to guard the tomb, live in a barracks under the tomb, and cannot drink any alcohol on or off duty for the rest of their lives. They cannot swear in public for the
rest of their lives and cannot disgrace the uniform or the tomb in any way.
After two years, the guard is given a wreath pin that is worn on
their lapel signifying they served as guard of the tomb. There are only
400 presently worn. The guard must obey these rules for the rest of their lives or give up the wreath pin.
The shoes are specially made with very thick soles to keep the heat and cold from their feet. There are metal heel plates that extend to the top of the shoe in order to make the loud click as they come to a halt.
There are no wrinkles, folds or lint on the uniform. Guards dress for duty
in front of a full-length mirror.
The first six months of duty a guard cannot talk to anyone nor
watch TV. All off duty time is spent studying the 175 notable people laid
to rest in Arlington National Cemetery . A guard must memorize who they are
and where they are interred. Among the notables are:
President Taft,
Joe Lewis {the boxer}
Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy, the most
decorated soldier of WWII of Hollywood fame.
Every guard spends five hours a day getting his uniforms ready for
guard duty.
ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.
In 2003 as Hurricane Isabelle was approaching Washington, DC, our
US Senate/House took 2 days off with anticipation of the storm. On the ABC
evening news, it was reported that because of the dangers from the
hurricane, the military members assigned the duty of guarding the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier were given permission to suspend the assignment. They
respectfully declined the offer, ‘No way, Sir!’ Soaked to the skin,
marching in the pelting rain of a tropical storm, they said that guarding
the Tomb was not just an assignment, it was the highest honor that can be
afforded to a serviceperson. The tomb has been patrolled continuously,
24/7, since 1930.
God Bless and keep them.
SOUTH CENTRAL FARMERS
For Immediate Release Media Contacts
August 18, 2008 Leslie Radford (310) 869-6397
Alma Soto (bilingüe) (323) 333-5177
South Central Farmers Demand Ethics Investigation of Local Officials
Citing an apparent conflict of interest, the South Central Farmers are demanding that California’s State Attorney General investigate the sale of the site of the South Central Farm by Los Angeles city officials to local developer Ralph Horowitz for a trucking center for women’s clothing manufacturer and retailer Forever 21.
The Los Angeles Times (”Forever 21 development on South Central Farm site is protested,” August 18, 2008) reported that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa received $1.3M from Forever 21 in 2006-2007 for the Mayor’s pet projects. “The Mayor negotiated on behalf of the Farmers with the developer of a Forever 21 distribution center. And he took money from the company that stood to gain the most if he lost that negotiation to promote his pet projects. The bad faith Villaraigosa demonstrated is unconscionable and suggests to a ‘pay to play’ mentality in the City’s development racket,” declared Farm leader Tezozomoc. “We are requesting the State Attorney General investigate not only Villaraigosa, but all the key players in the sale: (City Attorney) Rocky Delgadillo, the Port Commissioners, and the members of the City Council, for entanglements with Forever 21 and collusion to throw the land transfer to Horowitz.”
Council members Nick Pacheco, José Huizar, and Jan Perry are on record as receiving contributions from Forever 21 and its founder Do Won (Don W.) Chang, who is a registered City Hall lobbyist.
Rufina Juarez, another leader of the Farm movement, said, “The Mayor’s betrayal of poor people supplementing their income by growing their own food is unfathomable. He used the Farm as a backdrop for his mayoral campaign, he promised $5M to help purchase the Farm, he took over negotiations between Horowitz and the Annenberg Foundation. And he used the Forever 21 money to advance his political agenda and his political future. It’s a betrayal of the people of Los Angeles, of the people from Meso-America, the people who carried him into office.”
The South Central Farm, the world’s largest urban farm, at 41st and Alameda, sparked a city-wide and international outcry when, in 2004, the City and the Port of Los Angeles sold the land out from under the 350 Farmers who had worked the land for two decades. For three years, the Farmers were routinely ignored and rebuffed by the City Council until an encampment on the land in 2006 was forcibly ended by county sheriffs in a SWAT-style invasion.
In a report earlier this year, City Controller Laura Chick chastised the Mayor, the City Attorney, and the City Council for not using of $129M in fees, (QUIMBY Fees), collected from developers for parks and recreation, monies that could have saved the South Central Farm if the Mayor and City Council had chosen to do so.
This year, the city’s Planning Department approved a mitigated negative declaration for the distribution center, claiming that the 635,000 square foot project, with 2500 trips from diesel-spewing big rigs, would have no environmental impact on local residents, schools, and a recreational area planned to abut the warehouse site. The South Central Farm Support Committee is leading a community challenge to that determination, with over 1700 complainants and reports objecting to the construction from the South Coast Air Management Quality Board, the Regional Comprehensive Planning Task Force, the National Resources Defense Council, Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, the Center for Biological Diversity, Communities for a Better Environment, and the Acequia Institute. A hundred area residents and Farmers attended a July 23 hearing and forced the Planning Department’s Deputy Advisory Board to reconsider its determination. The Advisory Board’s final decision has not yet been issued.
Forever 21 is a Los Angeles-based company that, in 2004, settled a notorious “sweatshop” lawsuit with the Garment Workers Center, promising to pay back wages and improve health and safety conditions for its manufacturing employees at six Los Angeles plants. In the same year, at the insistence of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the company finally stopped decorating its clothing line with animal fur. The company’s shopping bags carry an imprint referring its customers to the Biblical scripture John 3:16.
By David Zahniser
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 18, 2008
Two years after it was bulldozed, the 14-acre Los Angeles community garden known as the South Central Farm is being developed for a clothing chain with strong ties to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Forever 21, one of the city’s fastest-growing women’s apparel businesses, wants a warehouse and distribution center on the site owned by real estate developer Ralph Horowitz.
Supporters of the garden — still angry that Horowitz tore it up despite support from such Hollywood luminaries as Daryl Hannah and Danny Glover — have been trying for weeks to kill the proposed project by demanding more rigorous environmental review.
Villaraigosa, who championed the farm’s preservation two years ago, is staying out of the latest fight.
He has received nearly $1.3 million in contributions and commitments from Forever 21 and its executives over the past two years for initiatives ranging from tree plantings to his own reelection campaign.
That troubles the activist known as Tezozomoc, who has used noisy protests and persistent lobbying to try to prevent development on the land. He called Villaraigosa’s relationship with Forever 21 “distressing for the community” and voiced doubts about the sincerity of the mayor’s effort to save the farm two years ago.
Villaraigosa spokesman Matt Szabo said that the mayor did “absolutely everything he could” to save the farm in 2006, but that Horowitz wouldn’t make a deal. Szabo said the mayor has no opinion on the level of environmental review needed for the proposed Forever 21 project.
“It’s being treated like every other proposed project in the city,” he said.
The proposal for Forever 21 is the latest event in a 22-year political saga over a site once filled with cactus, fruit trees and vegetable gardens. The effort to preserve it drew worldwide attention two years ago, attracting celebrities such as folk singer Joan Baez and serving as the subject of a documentary film.
The development proposal for the farm site could force Villaraigosa to choose between activists willing to protest outside his home and office and a business that has a huge effect on the region’s economy.
Forever 21 Senior Vice President Christopher Lee has said the site at 41st and Alameda streets is critical to the expansion of his business, which has been doubling each year.
If Forever 21 doesn’t find a large expanse of land soon, it could leave Los Angeles — taking important manufacturing jobs with it.
“That’s going to be really detrimental to Los Angeles because we pump in hundreds of millions of dollars here,” said Lee, who was recently appointed by the mayor to the city’s Industrial Development Authority.
Lee and Forever 21 founder Don Chang were two of several business leaders who accompanied Villaraigosa on his trade mission to Asia in 2006.
Six months later, Forever 21 gave $100,000 to Villaraigosa’s successful campaign to elect three school board members. In recent months, the company agreed to give $1 million to Villaraigosa’s Million Trees L.A. initiative, which encourages residents to plant more trees.
The company also gave $150,000 to Villaraigosa’s staging of the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Century City last year, a donation so significant that Lee was given a speaking role at the event’s closing reception at the Griffith Park Observatory.
Tezozomoc said such contributions make it difficult for Villaraigosa to deal fairly with the former farm site.
Szabo, on the other hand, said the mayor has “an absolute obligation” to ask businesses such as Forever 21 to contribute to such causes as a recent community cleanup on the Westside.
“I mean, we’re talking about planting trees and donating T-shirts for kids,” Szabo said.
Supporters of the proposed development say a distribution center would create much-needed jobs in South Los Angeles. Foes say the neighborhood, which sits near the freight route known as the Alameda Corridor, does not need more warehouses.
A city zoning officer is expected to decide this month whether to require an environmental impact report on the proposed distribution center, which probably would add a year to the approval process.
Opponents have forwarded hundreds of e-mails to the city’s planning department, saying the 2,400 daily truck trips expected to be generated by the project merit a lengthier review.
“At this point, there is no way any diesel-truck, industrial warehouse is going to do any good in that community,” said Leslie Radford, spokeswoman for the South Central Farm support committee.
Radford contends the project would add to the neighborhood’s air pollution and create “dead-end jobs.”
But Faye Washington, executive director of the YWCA of Greater Los Angeles, said she was impressed with the wages the company would pay. Her YWCA’s Job Corps program is negotiating with Forever 21 to try to make sure it would hire local residents.
And City Councilwoman Jan Perry, a longtime supporter of the project, said Villaraigosa’s clean truck program would significantly limit the emissions created by the distribution center. She said most of the trucks driving to the Forever 21 facility would come from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where trucks will be required to have cleaner burning engines over the next 3 1/2 years.
The fight over the 14-acre site dates back to 1986, when city officials used the power of eminent domain to force Horowitz to sell his land so a city incinerator could be built there. That plan was abandoned amid community protests, and in the wake of the 1992 riots, the land was converted into a community garden overseen by the Los Angeles Food Bank.
Nearby low-income residents carved the site into tiny plots filled with vegetables, herbs and flowers. But with the incinerator plan scrapped, Horowitz sued the city, buying back the land in a settlement.
By then, the farm had become one of the largest community gardens in the region.
Despite last-minute efforts by Villaraigosa to have a nonprofit group acquire the land, Horowitz had the garden demolished and its gardeners removed in 2006. It was a media spectacle: Protesters and police squared off as helicopters hovered overhead.
After two years of relative calm, Horowitz and the farmers are battling again. Horowitz took his development plan to a public hearing last month. Activists, some with baskets of fresh fruit, testified against it.
This Memorial piece is located here http://www.uspeacememorial.org/poem
Please take a look at their site and consider participating in this worthy and long overdue project.
Abe
Let’s Build The US Peace Memorial
We have memorials for heroes
Who have fought in wars and died
For great generals and others
To express our nations pride.
>From the American Revolution
Until the wars we fight today
Where we honor those people
For, the ultimate price, they pay.
We have statues of politicians
And the leaders of our land
Monuments for almost everything
Some small, some huge and grand.
They are made of stone - cast in bronze
Carved in mountainsides and wood
Some are fanciful, some somber
As we celebrate all those, we should.
But, if you just think about it
And if you search, everywhere
You will see that one is missing
And sadly, so many don’t seem to care.
Where do we credit all those folks
Who stand for peace and good will
Who speak out against those wars
That maim, destroy and kill?
Some will say, “It’s unpatriotic!”
To try to find a different course
To resolve the worlds conflict
With sane and rational discourse.
“They don’t support the troops!”
“They want to give up and surrender!”
“They don’t want to fight for freedom!”
“It’s just passive words, they tender!?
That could not be further from the truth
It’s because, they, honestly do care
What’s wrong with peaceful resolution
Especially, when it is just and fair?
Let us all honor those peacekeepers
Who would strive to find a better way
To resolve the worlds differences
And end, the terrible price we all pay.
They deserve their own monument
For their valiant fight against all war
Striving for world peace and freedom
Isn’t that, what America stands for?
So, let’s build the US Peace Memorial
For people of the world to come and see
The people of our nation, long for peace
Across every land, where all live free.
Del “Abe” Jones
05.30.2008
“Mankind’s greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology it is the evolution of creativity ” copyright Del “Abe” Jones 1984
NEW POETRY TO 6/30/2008 http://mywebpage.netscape.com/delabejones/page4.html
I was very honored to receive an award from Tony Pahl, The Aussie Bard go to http://iwvpa.net/jonesd/index.php for some more of my work.
More poetry >
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/delabejones/page3.html
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/delabejones/page2.html
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/delabejones/page1.html (9/11 Memoriam) updated 5-18-04
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/delabejones/instant/memorial.html
“OF NATIVE AMERICAN”, and “MOONTIDES, AND OTHER CHANGES” as well as “THE WORLD, WAR, FREEDOM, AND MORE” are now available for free viewing or download in text format at http://home.att.net/~abeabe/index.html
To see pics of Ellis County Veterans Memorial in Waxahachie, Texas where two of my poems are inscribed go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~txellis/photos/veterans.htm
August 22, 2008
Hello everyone,
Sorry, for the delay with the last update of the outcome for the Bear Butte struggle and the Sturgis Rally. My computer crashed, unfortunately I lost all my email data and previous updates, so I apologize if some of this is repeated information.
According to SDDOT, the rally was down by 12% from 2007, the initial tally released so far is about 445,000.
Our organization sent out approximately 6000 emails for the Bikers for Bear Butte flier, for several months prior to the Rally, to various biker websites, groups, orgs and clubs. During the Rally, my dear friends Terri Flowerday and Michael Bucher came, and helped to distribute 1500 fliers to the bikers. We received a very positive response and alot of support for the cause, from the bikers. Many stated, they received the flier in their email prior to the rally and were now supporting our cause. One couple that I spoke with, stated they had heard about it from other bikers at a rest stop in Iowa on the way in, they all were supporting the cause. So, the bikers themselves are helping us spread the word about protecting Bear Butte. This was re-enforcement, what we are working on, was working with a positive step forward, with providing education. Again this year, many folks had no idea that Bear Butte was a sacred mountain. The state of SD, the tourism industry and Sturgis all promote traveling across the Black Hills, going to Bear Butte, Devils Tower but never include the fact that these areas are sacred sites. The bikers that had no idea, that we spoke with, stated that they would respect the cause. This is what we have found each year so far, if you create the awareness, it does make a difference.
A huge thank you to everyone that helped us get these fliers sent out via the email campaign, prior to the rally. My dear friend Michael Bucher came from Wisconsin, to help us distribute fliers. Michael has been very involved with helping with the Bear Butte struggle and helping create awareness for the sacred sites issue, thru his awesome music on his album “Seven”. He has a short video dedicated for Bear Butte up for nomination at the upcoming NAMMY awards in October.
Also, met Willie Nelson and his wife Kitty, during the rally, spent quite a bit of time visiting with Kitty about the Bear Butte issue. They are very supportive of the cause and again, had no idea what this happening.
There was a Hells Angel that was shot by a “off duty” police officer from Seattle, WA on August 9th at the Loud American bar on Main St. The officer claimed self defense, not sure at this point of the outcome of what was determined. The officer was vacationing in Sturgis, with four other off duty officers, they have a biker club called Iron Pigs.
On Sunday morning August 3rd at 1:00 am in the morning, a young woman was abducted from the Broken Spoke bar in Sturgis. She was there with her husband, then she suddenly disappeared. Her family was in town on Sunday passing out fliers about her disappearance. She was a family woman, has two kids, they stated this is not something she would do, just take off. On Monday, I spoke with them again and she had been found, but had no idea where she had been or how she got there, and was very disorientated. They were not sure what happened to her, probably will never know. Everything that was mentioned appears anyway to be a sign of someone spiking her drink with something, but probably will never know what happened, because she doesn’t remember.
The Buffalo Chip and Glencoe’s Rockin the Rally caused the most chaos for Bear Butte, this year. Monday, the 4th was a nightmare with hours of gridlocked traffic, between the KISS concert playing at Glencoe and McCain and Kid Rock playing at the Chip. It caused complete insanity all the way from I90 thru Sturgis, down to Hwy 79.
The next day on the 5th, there was a huge storm that came thru in the afternoon, we were actually on a Tornado Warning. Spearfish got 12 inches of hail and Sturgis got slammed with extremely heavy rain. At Glencoe’s Rockin the Rally, three people were injured by a lightning strike that hit nearby and one other person was injured by falling debris from the strike. They closed the concert venue down at that point. The Buffalo Chip still continued their concert even with this storm happening, which was insane.
Interesting how the lightning struck, the very campground that caused all alot of chaos the day before…….a message from Creator, eh. Of course they will never get that! For those that may not be familiar with this particular location, it is about 3 miles from Bear Butte on Hwy 79.
Sturgis County Line’s, Broken Spoke Campground was fairly empty for most of the rally. Their helicopter didn’t show up.
Buffalo Chip, Lamphere Ranch and Ride n Rest all offered helicopter rides during the rally. I did speak directly with the pilots from Lamphere and Ride n Rest, was never able to speak with the pilot from Buffalo Chip. The other two pilots did agree to stay away from flying over BB. On Sunday the 3rd, the pilot from Buffalo Chip, flew over BB at 11:00 pm. A complaint was filed with FAA. The other three helicopters were flying over Sturgis and their own campgrounds.
Well, there will be alot to address at the next liquor license renewal hearing in December, at Meade County Commissioners.
Our organization has been working putting together a documentary for the protection of sacred sites, the film crew was here filming all the chaos and noise effects from the Rally. The upcoming feature documentary will be completed before the end of the year and will be submitted to the film festivals next year. The goal is to help create more awareness for the sacred sites issue, and on-going struggles such as Bear Butte, Devils Tower and the continual desecration of burial grounds across the country. Stay tuned for more details in the upcoming months………
Thank you all for your continued support for the on-going efforts to Protect Bear Butte!
For more info and further updates about Bear Butte, please visit our website at www.protectbearbutte.com
In peace & solidarity,
Tamra Brennan
Founder/Director
Protect Sacred Sites Indigenous People, One Nation
www.protectsacredsites.org
www.protectbearbutte.com
“Our sacred lands are all that remain keeping us connected to our place on Mother Earth, to our spirituality, our heritage and our lands; what’s left of them. If they take it all away, what will remain except a vague memory of a past so forgotten?”
ANOTHER MEMORIAL DAY
Taps play mournfully o’er the grave
Loved ones bow their heads and weep
The Flag folded, casket lowered down
And the Hero, laid to endless sleep.
This scene played out too many times
With all the sadness and the pain
As War torn hearts ache with the loss
It happens, time and time again.
All people should attend a Service
To see the Honor Guard in dress attire
To hear the bugler play that sad tune
And to be startled, when the rifles fire.
A small tribute to those who gave all
The true Patriots of our great Land
To face the horrors of the battlefield
Where sometimes, Freedom makes its stand.
War seems to be the only way, we humans
Know, to change what we don’t like
It seems; peaceful times are short lived
Before there’s another military strike.
The military/industrial complex wins
No matter, if war is won or lost
And the New World Order thirst for power
Uncaring, what their selfish goals may cost.
Maybe one day, we can live together
And learn to respect those different ways
Before we destroy ourselves and Earth
And end the terrible price the Soldier pays.
But until that day finally comes, if ever
And our Brave, no longer have to die
We must Honor their ultimate sacrifice
Even as we wait and ponder, “Why?”
And instead of just a day off work
To enjoy the pleasures of our Country
Just remember what this day is for
To Honor those who gave all, for you and me.
Del “Abe” Jones
5.20.2008
A National Moment of Remembrance
That poem about where “poppies blow”
And, “the crosses, row on row”
Still rings true, these ninety years
After written, still brings tears.
We still have Dead, “amid the guns”
And lose our young and our loved ones
Those who lived, “short days ago”
Who, “felt dawn, saw sunset glow”.
In Flanders Fields, “the poppy red”
Still grow where the blood was bled
They, “Take up our quarrel with the foe”
And still die for Freedoms that we know.
They pass, “The torch” to, “hold it high”
And not, “break the faith with us who die”
For they, “shall not sleep, though poppies grow”
Beneath all those, “crosses, row on row”
In Flanders Fields.
Del “Abe” Jones
4-25-2005
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Many places and people lay claim to our Memorial Day but it is a time for
all Americans to come together to Honor our War Heroes from all Wars. A
three day weekend when we should all pause a moment and remember them as
decreed by President Clinton in the year 2000.
http://www.usmemorialday.org/speeches/president/may0200.txt
Visit http://www.inflandersfields.be/default2.htm for Flanders Fields
Museum
The name of John McCrae (1872-1918) may seem out of place in the
distinguished company of World War I poets, but he is remembered for what is
probably the single best-known and popular poem from the war, “In Flanders
Fields”, 1915. He was a Canadian physician and fought on the Western Front
in 1914, but was then transferred to the medical corps and assigned to a
hospital in France. He died of pneumonia while on active duty in 1918. His
volume of poetry, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, was published in 1919.
http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/McCrae.html
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
In 1915, inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields,” Moina Michael replied
with her own poem:
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
This is a neat tribute to Vietnam Veterans.
http://www.operationmom.org/ToOurParents.html
Left With A Life Of Dying
I have a friend who has a Son
Who has fought in this war
A Marine who did his duty
That’s what Marines are for.
Two tours in the battle zones
Just part of his history
He was discharged, came home
And like many, with, PTSD.
He tried to get some help
But, he was turned away
Sad, that happens many times
When they go to the VA.
He worked, for a little while
On his own, he tried to cope
His problems began to grow
And he started to lose hope.
He tried drugs, to ease the pain
That, tormented his sick mind
But he found they didn’t help
Just sickness, of a different kind.
He spent his time in a daze
And as drugs usually do
Only took him deeper into hell
‘Til he wished his life was through.
He couldn’t function, lost his job
He lost his house and car
His Wife and Children left him
When he pushed them, too far.
He spent some time on the street
Where so many Veterans go
He had finally hit the bottom
Which, for some, is the deathblow.
Mom saved him, took him in
Cause Mom’s love has no bounds
Your Mom is always Mom
With a strength that astounds.
Finally getting off the drugs
But, just a shell of the Man
Who fought for his Country
In some, far off, foreign land.
The illness there in his mind
Still ate away, untreated
And as each day passed by
The more this Man retreated.
He didn’t know what to do
To right the wrongs, he’d done
But as the old saying goes
Once a Marine, always one.
So, one day he re-enlisted
And now, waiting to ship out
Thinks, fighting and killing
Is what his life is all about.
He told his Mom he hoped
That this, might make things right
Because he’d lost the Battle
His Country, left him alone, to fight.
The moral of this story?
(I guess, moral’s the wrong word)
There are so many stories like this
Sadly, that will never be heard.
We can’t see the deepest wounds
When, they’re hidden there, inside
While some can overcome them
Too many, have nowhere to hide.
We should be ashamed and outraged
We let so many Heroes die
After they come home and try to live
But then, can’t find a reason, “Why?”
I hope this one story has an ending
Where his demons are chased away
But, I fear that will not happen
For only fairytales, end that way.
Del “Abe” Jones
06.17.2008
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http://mywebpage.netscape.com/delabejones/page3.html
Hello everyone,
We are at 600 signatures on our petition opposing the Broken Spoke Campground Liquor license(s) thank you to everyone that took a moment to sign supporting the Protect Bear Butte issue. If you haven’t had a chance to sign, please read the petition below and click to sign petition. Please only sign the petition once.
The deadline is 6/30/08. The hearing is on July 1st at 3:30.
Thank you for your continued support to Protect Bear Butte!
If you did not receive my previous email a couple days ago, about the latest developments at Broken Spoke Campground (formally known as Sturgis County Line), we have been putting a STOP to their recent addition of offering Helicopter rides over Bear Butte during the Sturgis Rally. I am fairly confident at this point, that our efforts will be successful. We have been communicating and working directly with a many different agencies and organizations on this issue, we also have alerted the Tribes involved. We also requested legal help from NARF and NCAI, I expect to hear back within a couple days. This violates many policies since Bear Butte is a State Park and also has a wildlife easement habitat within the park boundaries. Flying over the top of people praying and in ceremony, is a blatant form of harassment, in regards to the Native American Freedom of Religion Act. The investigation is in process and hopefully we will have a resolution shortly. I will keep you posted on further updates.
Obviously this issue will be added to our opposition during the hearing as to not suitable character, in addition to not suitable location.
Our organization has been actively involved in the protection of Bear Butte for several years. Currently our organization is continuing the campaign to Protect Bear Butte and we are hoping you will join us! We have a dedicated website specifically for ongoing struggle for Bear Butte at www.protectbearbutte.com .
If you have any questions, please let me know. You can email me directly at tamra@protectsacredsites.org .
In peace & solidarity,
Tamra Brennan
Founder/Director
Protect Sacred Sites Indigenous People, One Nation
www.protectsacredsites.org
www.protectbearbutte.com
“Our sacred lands are all that remain keeping us connected to our place on Mother Earth, to our spirituality, our heritage and our lands; what’s left of them. If they take it all away, what will remain except a vague memory of a past so forgotten?”