tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post1682701526374515947..comments2023-10-30T06:31:05.501-07:00Comments on MilPub: Largest regiment in the ArmyFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-35379495420583293402016-06-01T15:20:06.032-07:002016-06-01T15:20:06.032-07:00Yeah, I heard the new Chinese millionaires bought ...Yeah, I heard the new Chinese millionaires bought like crazy in BC. The provincial authorities encouraged it. I believe they are starting to move into Seattle also buying up golf courses, waterside restaurants, and several mansions. <br /><br />My old High School algebra teacher, who was at the Chosen Reservoir with Chesty, is probably spinning in his grave. mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09123137206598163451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-3619290308189564082016-06-01T11:29:31.906-07:002016-06-01T11:29:31.906-07:00What's neat about Vancouver is that the trees ...What's neat about Vancouver is that the trees are everywhere: public places, and individual houses. Quite amazing since the majority of Vancouver's neighborhoods feature high rise buildings made up of apartments and condos, some of the friends living in them. All of this because of the bubble like pricing of individual homes, both new and old of a certain respectable size (one Mil- two Mil and higher, Can $).<br />only a matter of time before it bursts I will add Grandpa's adventures once I get pictures. Fasteddiezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10431990022248470187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-19153259270600059452016-06-01T11:00:28.524-07:002016-06-01T11:00:28.524-07:00Eddie:
No. Or if you did tell me, the wind blew ...Eddie:<br /><br />No. Or if you did tell me, the wind blew it right through my ears. Being a great Grandpop myself I frequently get the CRS symptoms. Would be great to hear it in any case. I see you are not one of the barkeeps here. I can put you on the list, or email it to me and I will post it. Or if its a shorty just comment it in here.<br /><br />Weird about the cherry blooms. I am almost three degrees of latitude south of Vancouver yet mine bloom about the same time as DCs.mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09123137206598163451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-31529297320522820522016-05-31T23:13:40.970-07:002016-05-31T23:13:40.970-07:00BC ...... Did you know that their Cherry Blossoms ...BC ...... Did you know that their Cherry Blossoms bloom before DCs', despite being further north? They had a hot spell up there (march 30). I did tell you about Grandpop's adventures in WWII, did I not?Fasteddiezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10431990022248470187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-84136308112989734472016-05-31T20:32:23.455-07:002016-05-31T20:32:23.455-07:00Eddie:
Vancouver WA, or BC? Too bad you missed t...Eddie:<br /><br />Vancouver WA, or BC? Too bad you missed those stories from your Uncle and Grandpa.mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09123137206598163451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-12275762305640689432016-05-31T20:25:26.023-07:002016-05-31T20:25:26.023-07:00Chief -
A few Wobblies volunteered for the Spru...Chief - <br /> <br />A few Wobblies volunteered for the Spruce Division and for duty in France with the 20th. But most went ahead and registered for the draft. Official IWW policy was to go ahead and register. They were not all hard-core like Frank Little. Most of the union busting of the IWW happened after the war when the Comintern was formed. Here in Washington after the war an Army veteran who was also a IWW member was lynched. Amazing to me that after the war IWW members were beaten, killed, and hounded everywhere, yet the American Socialist Party still thrived and had two members in Congress.<br /><br />One of my Grandma's brothers was in the IWW, another of her brothers and her husband served in France. Yet she never let the politics come between them.mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09123137206598163451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-19581646950390741682016-05-31T19:23:55.379-07:002016-05-31T19:23:55.379-07:00Mike, Alas he and my Grandpop were silent about th...Mike, Alas he and my Grandpop were silent about this, furthermore, I was real young at the time. I had to analyze my mom's debrief on that score; I was uncertain about ranking her as a source.<br /><br />My mom passed in Vancouver this March past, she made it to 90. I and the wife went up there to tie up loose ends and arrange for burial. A lot of friends from school moved there, so I'll be going up next year.Fasteddiezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10431990022248470187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-48906841059959836422016-05-31T19:04:35.406-07:002016-05-31T19:04:35.406-07:00Chief, was the FDR created CCC ever used in workin...Chief, was the FDR created CCC ever used in working with the Army Corps of Engineers or other Mil Lashups?Fasteddiezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10431990022248470187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-24169926927364262862016-05-31T12:34:29.299-07:002016-05-31T12:34:29.299-07:00To use conscripts for such by nature economic acti...To use conscripts for such by nature economic activities is a quite obvious and clear example of forced labour. That, of course, is part of the very nature of conscription.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-72242310795925282132016-05-31T07:07:07.163-07:002016-05-31T07:07:07.163-07:00The whole "Army-as-loggers" seems to hav...The whole "Army-as-loggers" seems to have been a huge feature of WW1. Here in the Pacific NW the Army set up something called the "Spruce Production Division" to cut and saw aircraft timber (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce_Production_Division ) along with other wood products. Apparently the opinion on the effect of the Army's outfit in the timberlands is controversial; supposedly the SPD did help improve working conditions for the guys in the private industry...but supposedly it also help suppress the IWW that was trying to organize the mills and lumber camps.<br /><br />We tend to forget that a hell of a lot of the "infrastructure" of the United States was designed and built by Army engineers, all the way back to the Earlies...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-39781154748365835702016-05-28T20:35:42.039-07:002016-05-28T20:35:42.039-07:00Good link Eddie. I've got to read more of Amb...Good link Eddie. I've got to read more of Ambrose Bierce, and perhaps rent a video of 'The Old Gringo'. <br /><br />There were no politicians and no cameras at our cemetery yesterday. But on Monday there probably will be a press photographer there, if so a small time local pol or a wannabee will come out of the woodwork. I'll stay home.<br /><br />You mentioned your Pionier uncle previously. I bet he had some hairy stories to tell. You should retell some of his history and post it here or elsewhere, for posterity. mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09123137206598163451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-48470597790036962252016-05-28T15:44:51.762-07:002016-05-28T15:44:51.762-07:00Hey Mike, Long time no hear from. Good on you for ...Hey Mike, Long time no hear from. Good on you for visiting cemeteries. There's a great article I linked here http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/28/donald-trump-endless-war-memorial-day<br />on the meaning of war vis-vis Memorial Day. I think it's Dyne-O-Mite. My Uncle was a Pionier (combat engineer) in Stalingrad. The gods of fate smiled upon he and other bachelors as they received leaves to Germany before the gates were shut.<br /> Fasteddiezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10431990022248470187noreply@blogger.com