What my grandfather and his family did in 1918 to escape the pandemic that was killing hundreds in Florence, Alabama.

The US is full of pussies!

Aspirin overdose was the major killer during the spanish flu epidemic.

My Welsh family sailed to Philadelphia as part of William Penn's English Royal land grant that later became known as Pennsylvania.

He came as an indentured farm worker.

After working off his indentured service(several years), he was given free land down in South Carolina if he agreed to harvest "Naval Stores" for the Penn Plantation Colony up north.

All wooden sailing ships used to need to be caulked with cotton and pine tar pitch to seal the ship hulls.

He and many others would harvest pine tar from Yellow Pines in SC by cutting deep channels in the pine trees to collect the pine sap.

That pine sap was then turned into pitch or pine tar and also distilled into turpentine.

It took him and his family several years to earn the title to the land in SC.

People think that they have things so rough today.

They have lost all knowledge of what real hardship used to be.

The US is full of pussies!

An ancestor of mine was also a Welsh Friend who settled in Pennsylvania in the Welsh Tract. Also supposedly the family had some land in the Carolinas.

The US is full of pussies!

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Asselin’s gaze shifts from Alabama to Vietnam where, during the long war against the Viet Cong, US troops sprayed 123m gallons of Agent Orange over huge swathes of the country between 1965 and 1971. Asselin cites evidence that about 10% of South Vietnam was contaminated and that between 2.1 and 4.8 million Vietnamese were directly exposed



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In 2002, the people of Anniston suddenly learned from a 60 Minutes investigation that theirs was one of the most toxic cities in the nation. PCBs are widely disseminated in industry products, so widely in fact, that the average American has PCB blood levels of 2 parts per billion (ppb). But the mostly black victims of Anniston suffered huge exposures. Howard Frumkin, M.D., told me, “Anniston has the highest levels of PCB exposure of any town in America, of any town that I’ve ever heard of.”

In 20 years when kids ask about the
2020 toilet paper shortage,

I'm telling them we had to drag our
butts across the lawn.

In the snow.

Uphill. Both ways.
Dodging murder hornets.

An ancestor of mine was also a Welsh Friend who settled in Pennsylvania in the Welsh Tract. Also supposedly the family had some land in the Carolinas.

My mother was a tough, loud, outspoken, proud, loving woman.

Her life was not easy raising 3 kids alone, but she was always too proud to give up or to take welfare.

Those people and the way that they lived is completely lost today.

We lose SO much when previous generations die out.

People think that they have things so rough today.

They have lost all knowledge of what real hardship used to be.

This is what they say. Aspirin was new and people took too much not realizing correct dosage.

In 1918 the "Spanish" Flu was ravaging Alabama very badly. They were worried about the children dying from the pandemic. So, he decided to take his whole family including his wife and four kids from Florence, Alabama to Wichita Falls, Texas in a covered wagon pulled by a pair mules.

My mother, before she died still remembered riding in the wagon, since she was the smallest child, while the older kids walked.

My grandfather was a machinist by trade and later moved on to Port Arthur, TX during the oil boom of the 1920s.

My mother was a tough, loud, outspoken, proud, loving woman.

Her life was not easy raising 3 kids alone, but she was always too proud to give up or to take welfare.

Those people and the way that they lived is completely lost today.

We lose SO much when previous generations die out.

In 1918 all my male relatives were in europe fighting a world war. Odd that yours weren't.

:war:

Alabama was hit very hard by the pandemic of 1917-1918.

In the old cemetery in downtown Birmingham, AL there is a large mass grave with a statue of those that died due to the "Spanish" Flu in 1918.

It is in a bad part of town now and very few even know that it exists today.

In 1918 all my male relatives were in europe fighting a world war. Odd that yours weren't.

:war:

Why is the murder rate so high in Birmingham now?

Never be too proud for welfare. Your kids will suffer nutritional deficits and hunger, while immigrants grift the taxes you paid.

In 20 years when kids ask about the
2020 toilet paper shortage,

I'm telling them we had to drag our
butts across the lawn.

In the snow.

Uphill. Both ways.
Dodging murder hornets.

Most people aren't aware that the famous black orator Frederick Douglas bought his freedom from slavery by being one of those trades that caulked sailing ships with cotton and pine tar to make the ship water tight.

Between the ship planks, they would pound in a cord of cotton soaked in pine tar and then cover it afterwards to seal the hull and then paint it.

Pine tar and turpentine were both critical to early life back then before oil replaced then.

In 1918 the "Spanish" Flu was ravaging Alabama very badly. They were worried about the children dying from the pandemic. So, he decided to take his whole family including his wife and four kids from Florence, Alabama to Wichita Falls, Texas in a covered wagon pulled by a pair mules.

My mother, before she died still remembered riding in the wagon, since she was the smallest child, while the older kids walked.

My grandfather was a machinist by trade and later moved on to Port Arthur, TX during the oil boom of the 1920s.

Many Irish and Welsh fought for the Union also.

But NEVER in my family! But still, Lord help them, those people do love to fight!

Again, they fought for many reasons, but mostly they were loyal to the country that took them in.

You really need to listen to this old song written during the Civil War.

not to shit on your parade but people in my family did the exact same thing but this is apples to oranges regardless


my generation has witnessed

the .com crash
the housing collapse (let's not forget about Enron and Madoff scandals)
several years of president who increased surveillance and wars
terrorism
covd19

and much more

so please, do tell us younger folks just how good we have it