I just had a great idea: I should join the DAR so that I could use their resources for free. Am I wrong, here? Somebody let me know. Pat

Big time. I didn't like to fly before Sept 11th. Anytime I have flown I am worn out from helping the pilot keep that thing aloft. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-CHAT] FLYING > > In a message dated 2/16/02 8:39:54 PM, [email protected] writes: > > << Absolutely not, no, no way. Mary >> > > Mary: > > You are chicken little, also. Grin. > > Sandi > > > ==== MAUPIN-CHAT Mailing List ==== > TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the subject and the body of the message to > [name of list][email protected] (for mail mode) or to > [name of list][email protected] (for digest mode). > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

In a message dated 2/16/02 9:39:54 PM, [email protected] writes: << I assume this is a Maupin reunion. >> Max: It is a Fitzpatrick reunion that was started by the Fitzpatrick/Maupin branch. El Reno isn't that far away. This reunion will be in Chickasha, Grady CO on 1 and 2 June at the Days Inn Motel. Want my cousin to email you an invite? She is a Fitzpatrick/Maupin and would love to have other Maupins there. We had Maupins from our section of the family there two years ago and the rest of the family welcomed them and just figured they WERE FAMILY, ALSO! Chicken Little in California, Sandi ;)

In a message dated 2/16/02 8:39:54 PM, [email protected] writes: << Absolutely not, no, no way. Mary >> Mary: You are chicken little, also. Grin. Sandi

___________________________ When in June? We are going to be in Oklahoma over Memorial Day in the Geary and El Reno area. If it's the first part of June, we might be interested. Max Gail Maupin - Rolla MO. - I assume this is a Maupin reunion. ______________________ >Gang: > >A CA native cousin called me today. I asked if he was going to our OK >reunion this June in Chickasha and he said he didn't know. They flew out >there last June but won't fly now. My feeling, also. Len wants to drive out >there so Kitten will go. I don't know how that will work out. BUT, as my >cousin said, from now on out, flying won't be safe. We keep hearing it is >still safer than driving. They now fail to mention that it is if no >terrorists are on the plane! > >Would you fly now? > >Sandi > > >==== MAUPIN-CHAT Mailing List ==== >TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, >send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) >in the subject and the body of the message to >[name of list][email protected] (for mail mode) or to >[name of list][email protected] (for digest mode). > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Just as I was reading this note, the story came on the news. I can't believe it. Glad that my folks from Walker County, GA were there MANY years ago. Reminds me of something that happened here in San Antonio about 15 years ago. The African American crematorium was to cremate a man who was incredibly obese. The "operator" realized it would take a long time so he started the process and left to get something to eat. While he was gone, a grease fire started and it burned the crematorium to the ground. It was an awful thing to happen, but one of those things that gets repeated and sounds like a joke. Regards, Patricia In a message dated 02/16/2002 10:04:06 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > you hear about all the bodies in GA found because the crematorium wasn't > in working order? Gees, some of the bodies were left there as long as 3 > years ago.

In a message dated 2/16/02 8:11:51 PM, [email protected] writes: << Absolutely! Rudd and I both have flown since 9-11. >> Patricia: Good for you! This is your chicken little cousin in CA who doesn't like flying under the best of circumstances. Silly Sandi ;)

Absolutely! Rudd and I both have flown since 9-11. Since the first of the year Rudd has been to New York, Waskington D.C , Bermuda, London, Dallas, Houston, and is in Toronto this weekend. He goes back to Bermuda in February and to London, Paris, Zurich and Munich in March. Our daughter just got back from Las Vegas. We are going to Bermuda in March, Arizona in April, London, Scotland and Ireland in June/July, Quebec City in July, and Vancouver in August. I don't want to miss any of these trips! Regards, Patricia In a message dated 02/16/2002 10:01:25 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Would you fly now?

Gang: Did you hear about all the bodies in GA found because the crematorium wasn't in working order? Gees, some of the bodies were left there as long as 3 years ago. HELLO? The owners could have sent the bodies to another facility, doncha think? Sandi

Gang: A CA native cousin called me today. I asked if he was going to our OK reunion this June in Chickasha and he said he didn't know. They flew out there last June but won't fly now. My feeling, also. Len wants to drive out there so Kitten will go. I don't know how that will work out. BUT, as my cousin said, from now on out, flying won't be safe. We keep hearing it is still safer than driving. They now fail to mention that it is if no terrorists are on the plane! Would you fly now? Sandi

Absolutely not, no, no way. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: [MAUPIN-CHAT] FLYING > Gang: > > A CA native cousin called me today. I asked if he was going to our OK > reunion this June in Chickasha and he said he didn't know. They flew out > there last June but won't fly now. My feeling, also. Len wants to drive out > there so Kitten will go. I don't know how that will work out. BUT, as my > cousin said, from now on out, flying won't be safe. We keep hearing it is > still safer than driving. They now fail to mention that it is if no > terrorists are on the plane! > > Would you fly now? > > Sandi > > > ==== MAUPIN-CHAT Mailing List ==== > TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the subject and the body of the message to > [name of list][email protected] (for mail mode) or to > [name of list][email protected] (for digest mode). > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Gang: Have you heard that the IOC said they might not let America host another Olympics as they are embarrassed with all the security and military around the games in Utah? I say we dump the Olympics and those ignorant people who must not think that anything wrong can happen and must have forgotten that THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS AT WAR! Remember the Jewish atheletes who were all wiped out years ago? DUH!

IRS P O W E R Paid on wages earned or received.

In a message dated 2/16/02 4:03:22 PM, [email protected] writes: << I thought this very appropriate for this time of the year. >> Vickie: SO TRUE! Sandi

> Income Tax time approaches..... > > Did you ever > notice: When you put the 2 words > "The" and "IRS" together it spells > "THEIRS" I thought this very appropriate for this time of the year. Vicki

This is funny, but also very true! Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Waggoner <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:59 PM Subject: [TNSUMNER] Murphy' Laws of Genealogy > I know this outside the guidelines for this list, but, I could not pass it up. > Mike Waggoner > > Murphy's Laws of Genealogy > The public ceremony in which your distinguished ancestor participated, and at > which the platform collapsed under him, turned out to have been a hanging. > > When at last, after much hard work, you have solved the mystery that you have > been working on for two years, your aunt says, "I could have told you that." > > You search ten years for your great-grandmother's maiden name only to > eventually find it on a letter in a box in the attic - and it turns out to be > Jones. > > You never asked your father about his family when he was alive because you > weren't interested in genealogy then. > > The will you need is in the safe on board the Titanic. > > Copies of old newspapers have holes occurring only on the surnames. > > John, son of Thomas the immigrant whom your relatives claim as the family > progenitor, died on board ship at the age of 10. > > Your great grandfather's newspaper obituary states that he died leaving no > issue of record. > > Another genealogist has just insulted the keeper of the vital records you > need. > > The relative who had all the family photographs gave them all to her daughter > who has no interest in genealogy and no inclination to share. > > The only record you find for your great-great-great-grandfather is the names > of the men who sat on the inquest of his death (and the fact that they were > each paid one dollar for it.) > > The one document that would supply the missing link in your dead end line has > been lost due to fire, flood, or war. > > The town clerk to whom you wrote for the information sends you a long > handwritten letter which is totally illegible. > > The spelling of your European ancestor's name bears no relationship to its > current spelling or pronunciation. > > None of the pictures in your recently deceased grandmother's photo album have > names written on them. > > No one in your family tree ever did anything noteworthy, owned property, was > sued or was named in a will. > > You learn that your great aunt's executor just sold her life's collection of > family genealogical materials to a flea market dealer "Somewhere in New York > City." > > Ink fades and paper deteriorates at a rate inversely proportional to the value > of the data recorded. > > The 37 volume, 16,000 page history of your county of origin isn't indexed. > > You finally find your great grandparents' wedding record and discover that the > bride's father's name was John Smith. The bride's mother's name is listed as > "Jane". > > Source Unknown > > > > > >

> Can you believe, 30 years ago, my doctor gave me valium when I found out I > was pregnant with my last son. It was a surprise! I didn't take them because > they made me feel weird. But shortly after, I was going through a real bad > time, (lost my only full sister) and then they wouldn't fill the script too > old! So I winged it. Jackie > I can believe it. For too long, doctors simply doled out Valium to any woman with a health complaint. Pat

RIGHT ON! Jackie

Only in the USA! Only In America By Al Ruechel Gotta love this country. It's the only nation to ever exist that can get itself kicked right between the legs by terrorist then turn around criticize the military for not treating the suicidal assailants being held with more tender loving care. Are we that forgiving or do we have some screws loose? Maybe a little of both! Let's review. Suicidal terrorists trained under Osama Bin Ladin lived in the United States, some legally some illegally for at least two years or longer. Their entire purpose for living was to inflect deadly blow against America, taking out, KILLING, as many Americans as they could along the way, in the name of Allah! They succeeded in ending the lives of over 3-thousand innocent people in the most horrific and graphic fashion since Pearl Harbor. Thousands of people were crushed or burned to death or propelled into the soil at over 300 miles per hour. Their last few moments of life were filled with unimaginable pain both physically and emotionally. Some of the firefighters killed at the World Trade Center may have lived for as long as seven to eight hours buried beneath rubble, in small air pockets, waiting for their lungs to collapse or choking to death on their own vomit. Some were subjected to heat so intense it literally peeled their flesh from their bodies while they were still alive. Some choose to leap over one thousand feet to their deaths. No one was there looking after their civil rights. No one was asking them if they felt uncomfortable or if they minded being cremated alive. No one asked them if it was okay to fly their plane into the Pentagon. No one asked the flight attendants if they felt a little uncomfortable having their throats slit with box cutters. Remember these images and don't forget what happened on September 11th. I bring this up, because, like many Americans, I find myself greatly disturbed at all the fuss being raised over the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. And now, Ramsey Clark, a former attorney general and avowed civil rights activist is suing the military asking a Los Angeles judge to demand the detainees be treated in a more humane fashion. Since when does a LA judge have jurisdiction over the United States military? Yes, I saw the pictures of the men dressed in orange jump suits, some with masks over their heads, shackled at the ankles and the wrists. They are kept in tiny wire cells living on a cement slab covered from the elements with only a tiny roof. Some of the detainees had to be dragged out of the plane with soldiers under each arm, feet dragging on the ground in defiance. In one picture it appeared that some of the soldiers were screaming at the detainees trying to get them to obey their commands. But is that torture? The military says "no". The detainees are being fed, clothed, housed, given medical treatment, exercised, and questioned about their activities. That's the rub. Clark says the detainees shouldn't be required to say anything more than their name, rank and serial number and should be allowed to be represented by attorneys. The government says as detainees they are not entitled to those privileges and the information they obtain from these avowed suicidal nut cases could help prevent the loss of other innocent lives. These are not Japanese-Americans being illegally held during the Second World War. These are men captured in Afghanistan in the act of terrorizing their own people and fighting in the name of Western genocide. Then there are the British. The media claims in its headlines that the detainees are being abused and there's a huge rift developing between the US and Prime Minister Tony Blair. But on what facts do they make their claims? Of course this is the same media that runs stories on Elvis sights and Princess Diana conspiracy theories and the Pope fathering illegitimate children with several nuns as if they were absolute fact. The stories so angered Prime Minister Blair he sent a representative to talk directly with three of those detainees being held at a naval base in Cuba, who are also British citizens. None of those detainees complained about anything unusual, according to Blair. He says he stands by the US detainee policy 100 percent. Much ado about nothing! This is knee-jerk at it's worst. The International Red Cross is on the scene at the camps and will issue a full report. If some changes should be made they will be, says Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. But, if you think these Al-Quaeda members and Taliban leaders should be put in some county jail and treated like DUI defendants who check in on the weekends to walk the area's roadway picking up trash you've got a screw lose. These are men who have vowed to kill as many of their Marine captors as possible by sacrificing their own lives. These are men who believe in order to achieve immortality they must destroy the Great Satan by any means - period. For security reasons alone they must be treated differently and are. Come to think of it, here's a better solution. Let's take Ramsey Clark and all the other ACLU lawyers and civil rights activists and members of the British press who want these detainees treated with kid gloves and put them on their own little island with the detainees. We'll supply all the food, beds, water, cable TV and evening movies and set up a bunch of remote cameras so we can watch. It's not that I actually want to see what would happen, but it would be nice to have a record for other generations to watch and learn as these poor, ill-treated, misunderstood, Al-Quaeda members doing what they do best; murder innocent Americans and other westerners who are too soft for their own good and have too quickly forgotten the horrors of September 11th, 2001. God Bless America

Can you believe, 30 years ago, my doctor gave me valium when I found out I was pregnant with my last son. It was a surprise! I didn't take them because they made me feel weird. But shortly after, I was going through a real bad time, (lost my only full sister) and then they wouldn't fill the script too old! So I winged it. Jackie