It does sound as if they were downplaying what happened to the poor girl, doesn't it??? Unless the bullet just "grazed" everyone...and didn't really penetrate right THRU them???? -----Original Message----- From: vermont-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vermont-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Neysa Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 11:22 AM To: vermont@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VERMONT] Bellows Falls 7/12/1889 Could the "seriousness" of the damage be defined by who (the servant girl) got damaged, and who (the proprietor) did not? Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: Darrell A. Martin To: vermont@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 12:42 AM Subject: Re: [VERMONT] Bellows Falls 7/12/1889 On 2/3/2012 3:21 PM, Ruth Barton wrote: > The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 18, 1889 > > Bellows Falls 7/12/1889 ... > While C. H. MOORE, proprietor of the Fall Mountain House, was cleaning a > revolver, last Thursday night, the weapon was accidentally discharged. The > bullet passed through the palm of his left hand, thence through both legs > of a servant girl near by, and at length lodging in her wrist. No serious > damage was done to either party. ... Ruth: They certainly had a different definition of "serious damage" in those days. Darrell *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VERMONT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VERMONT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 2/10/2012 2:01 PM, Mary Anne Smith wrote: > It does sound as if they were downplaying what happened to the poor girl, > doesn't it??? Unless the bullet just "grazed" everyone...and didn't really > penetrate right THRU them???? I don't see how "through the palm" isn't serious, but as far as the servant girl goes, perhaps the bullet bounced *between* her legs and hit her wrist. I saw stranger things in Vietnam. This emphasizes a point important in genealogy; always be open to the idea that the writer of an old document did not use familiar words to mean quite the same thing as we mean today. Even such a familiar word as "through". Darrell

I bet you DID see some things in Vietnam. And I don't envy you at ALL. How hot and humid was it over there? I've always thot of it as a jungle... is it??? -----Original Message----- From: vermont-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vermont-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Darrell A. Martin Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 5:42 PM To: vermont@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VERMONT] Bellows Falls 7/12/1889 On 2/10/2012 2:01 PM, Mary Anne Smith wrote: > It does sound as if they were downplaying what happened to the poor girl, > doesn't it??? Unless the bullet just "grazed" everyone...and didn't really > penetrate right THRU them???? I don't see how "through the palm" isn't serious, but as far as the servant girl goes, perhaps the bullet bounced *between* her legs and hit her wrist. I saw stranger things in Vietnam. This emphasizes a point important in genealogy; always be open to the idea that the writer of an old document did not use familiar words to mean quite the same thing as we mean today. Even such a familiar word as "through". Darrell *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VERMONT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 2/10/2012 11:09 PM, Mary Anne Smith wrote: > I bet you DID see some things in Vietnam. And I don't envy you at ALL. > > How hot and humid was it over there? I've always thot of it as a jungle... > is it??? Mary Anne: There are 102 Green Mountain Boys on the Wall. There is an official state memorial at the Sharon Rest Area, on northbound I-89. <http://www.terrymartin.us/VTVets.htm> What I remember most about Vietnam is the people. Very hard working, alert, and literate, as a group. They have a very old culture, based fundamentally on the Chinese. But many Vietnamese in the 1970s, especially those who fled the North in the 1950s, were Christians. The people I got to know best lived in Ap Cao Xi, Tay Ninh Province. They were Catholics and staunch anti-Communists; they were among those who relocated from the North to escape the Viet Minh. (Officially, Catholics make up about 7% of the population today, with perhaps another 2% Protestants.) Our company secretary, Danh Thi Vinh, lived in Cao Xi. She spoke Vietnamese, Cantonese, Cambodian, French, German, and English. About the only similarities between Vietnam and Vermont is that their names start with the same letter, and they both have mountains. Most of Vietnam's mountains are jungle; most of the plains are settled. And yes, hot and humid, absolutely. At least hot all the time, where I spent most of my time in III Corps area (Tay Ninh Province, then Di An near Long Binh). In most of the country, the weather is dominated by the dry season from December to April, and the monsoons which last from May to November. When I arrived in country in January, 1970, I thought I would never stop sweating. By the time I left I was sleeping under a wool blanket even when the overnight low never got down to 80 degrees. The average annual temperature of Tay Ninh is 81 degrees Fahrenheit (Springfield, 45 degrees); the annual average rainfall is about 80 inches (Springfield, 34 inches). There is a country song from a couple decades back that sums things up well for me. "No amount of money could buy from me, the memories I have of then; no amount of money could pay me, to go back and do it again." Darrell Former Sergeant, US Army, Vietnam

Hi Darrell, This type of memory written on the genealogy web rootsweb is what I believe should be.  It fills out for future the  readers personalities as well as giving information about the person for a future genealogist of your family to put with his/her records. Thank you also because my brother served in Vietnam but as a naval security he was aboard ship most of the time decoding. messages. He died at 33 in a car accident in East Hardwick and I miss him so much. Thanks Harriet >________________________________ > From: Darrell A. Martin <darrellm@sprynet.com> >To: vermont@rootsweb.com >Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 3:05 AM >Subject: [VERMONT] Vietnam and Vermont (was: Re: Bellows Falls 7/12/1889) > >On 2/10/2012 11:09 PM, Mary Anne Smith wrote: >> I bet you DID see some things in Vietnam.  And I don't envy you at ALL. >> >> How hot and humid was it over there?  I've always thot of it as a jungle... >> is it??? > >Mary Anne: > >There are 102 Green Mountain Boys on the Wall. There is an official >state memorial at the Sharon Rest Area, on northbound I-89. ><http://www.terrymartin.us/VTVets.htm> > >What I remember most about Vietnam is the people. Very hard working, >alert, and literate, as a group. They have a very old culture, based >fundamentally on the Chinese. But many Vietnamese in the 1970s, >especially those who fled the North in the 1950s, were Christians. The >people I got to know best lived in Ap Cao Xi, Tay Ninh Province. They >were Catholics and staunch anti-Communists; they were among those who >relocated from the North to escape the Viet Minh. (Officially, Catholics >make up about 7% of the population today, with perhaps another 2% >Protestants.) Our company secretary, Danh Thi Vinh, lived in Cao Xi. She >spoke Vietnamese, Cantonese, Cambodian, French, German, and English. > >About the only similarities between Vietnam and Vermont is that their >names start with the same letter, and they both have mountains. Most of >Vietnam's mountains are jungle; most of the plains are settled. And yes, >hot and humid, absolutely. At least hot all the time, where I spent most >of my time in III Corps area (Tay Ninh Province, then Di An near Long >Binh). In most of the country, the weather is dominated by the dry >season from December to April, and the monsoons which last from May to >November. > >When I arrived in country in January, 1970, I thought I would never stop >sweating. By the time I left I was sleeping under a wool blanket even >when the overnight low never got down to 80 degrees. The average annual >temperature of Tay Ninh is 81 degrees Fahrenheit (Springfield, 45 >degrees); the annual average rainfall is about 80 inches (Springfield, >34 inches). > >There is a country song from a couple decades back that sums things up >well for me. "No amount of money could buy from me, the memories I have >of then; no amount of money could pay me, to go back and do it again." > >Darrell >Former Sergeant, US Army, Vietnam > > > >*************************************** >List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm >Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/  > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VERMONT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >