Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
Great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago Works Progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. Block. They were. That meant there was a lot more out there. In addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. I did want to try to cover all areas of the state. I have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as id like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. There could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. The different additions used to be. I do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. I did the best i could. I found some wonderful letters. I tried to have men who served, i found a lot o
Rocky mountain news closed, that was a sad day for everybody. There went a number of jobs in journalism that were never to be recovered and as the denver post continue to shrink, thats when things began to get real tough specially for the press club and other competing places where they use today meet, the University Club or the pencil code club and others that have felt the effect but thats when things really changed here. We have a local come in that was going to take a look at some things, maybe offer some advise and he said in a way, made a very good point, because these days while i look at it much per positively than he did, this is a great museum and for people who arent typically going to experience the essence of prize and be able to come and be around that for an event, yeah, it makes it a good museum. Its as important as it can be at any point in time if you if you truly honor the past and you want the future to be as positive as it possibly could be. For the different press
disperse once they left? instead they attacked stan byers. laura laura: elisha, we wik for that on the youtube channel. thanks for being there and we are glad you are okay. it s been over two weeks now since the horrific mass shootings in el paso and dayton. one democrat didn t think twice about promoting anti-trump violence. illinois state senator marcos sandoval is apologizing for what his supporters were doing. they were staging a mock assassination of president trump during a fund-raiser over the weekend. now the democrat atoned once and was called out, calling local media. it was unacceptable and i didn t condone violence toward the president or anyone else. i apologize that this happened at my event. here to explain why it s no laughing matter, congressman steve scalise. you nearly lost her life to a would-be assassin. so what your response here, did the state senator acquitted