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- My website or blog:
- http://www.dropshots.com/crazy4ranier
- Proud pet parent of:
- Razz and Biscuit (english mastiffs)
Boomer and Asia (pit bulls)
Calvin and MindyLou (smooth fox terriers)
Joey (terrier mix)
Ariel (toy fox terrier)
Pixie Dust (chihuahua)
Prince Ranier & Trevor (Friesian/Percheron and Percheron/Morgan horses)
Mishka and Pischer and Murphy (3 cats - 2 male and 1 female)
Diz E. Peckerhead (27-yo cockatiel - my pet since I was 12 yo!)
Button (9 yo California rabbit)
- How we met:
- I would say 80% of my ten dogs are rescues - well, they probably rescued me.....
Razz - english mastiff - my husband's "other wife." We purchased her from a breeder at 10 weeks old in 2001. It was my husband's first real dog of all his own. He wanted a rottie and I talked him into a mastiff - LOL. She was the key that opened up his heart to all the rest of them because, through her, he realized how cool dogs really are. Thanks Razz!
Biscuit - english mastiff - we purchased her and flew her up to New York in 2001 at the age of 5 months from an overwhelmed mom in Florida with three kids, one on the way and a mastiff at her feet already. She was bought to be Razz's "sister," best thing we ever did....
Joey - terrier mix - adopted September 2002 at the age of 2 to 3 from a lady about to have him euthanized at the Brookhaven Animal shelter (she adopted him from there three weeks earlier) for biting her kids....we exchanged in the parking lot...he is my forever "boyfriend"..together till the end....
MindyLou - fox terrier - adopted from Save-A-Pet in July 2002 at the age of 1 1/2...Save-A-Pet saved her from the shelter and we were her fourth and final home...
Ariel - toy fox terrier - purchased at the age of 8 months in July 2005 for 240 bucks from a family leaving the state due to some pretty tragic circumstances and they couldnt take her with them...
Calvin - adopted from Save-A-Pet at the age of 7 in October 2006. He was a test feeder dog his whole life living in a little cage at the IAMS food company in Ohio. See more about Calvin in the "sweetest moments" below...
Asia - pit bull - adopted from Sean Casey Animal Rescue in March 2007 at age 10 weeks. Her and her brother were left tied to the Brooklyn ACC malnourished, wormy and with colds. She is now our precious baby girl....
Boomer - pit bull - purchased from breeder July 2007 in Pennsylvania at 4 mths old to be a big brother for Asia...most sweetest and handsomest dog I've ever known....thanks Gram :)
Pixie Dust - chihuahua - purchased Dec 2007 from an overwhelmed friend who had to take on a third job.....the chihuahua who thinks she's a pit bull...my little peanut....I just adore this precious little dog....
Rest in Peace Harley, 03/12/2008 - golden/chow - adopted from Huntington Animal Shelter in 1999 at age 3...came from abusive home...carried her 75 lb body everywhere for a week till she stopped being so scared......
- Pet likes:
- me and my dogs have a 500 foot walking trail we have walked 1000+ times now. we love it - even if it takes only a minute to walk it - we walk it every time as if it were the first time......
I like to stand in the kitchen with all my dogs and popping Cheese balls into their mouths one by one by one by one.....so fun
i love to lay in bed with all my dogs in a big pile....
- Pet dislikes:
- rainy days, when boomer lets himself in and doesnt shut the door and its winter time, my puppies jumping up on guests (good for the abs)
they dont like when I leave... i work from home and they are used to mommy always being around....
- Pet’s favorite spot:
- our bed, couches, my office in beds, on their comforters, their dog beds, the wooden toddler's bed in my office just for them....
taking rides in the suburban to the park or to Wendy's
- Pet’s favorite toy:
- knuckle bones, leg bones, hooves, anything with a squeaker, stretchy toys, empty poland spring water bottles, shredding cereal boxes and paper towel rolls that mommy give us.....
- Pet’s sweetest moments:
- I have a ton of sweetest moments, but I think my most memorable is of Calvin. Please let me tell you about Calvin.
Calvin lived as a test feeder dog at a major dog food company his whole life of seven years. When first brought home, he didnt do much more than very tight right hand circles from living in a little cage. He didnt know really anything about life or living other than the right hand circles. When you called him, he knew his name, but he didnt know why. He would look straight up in the air and turn in circles like he couldnt tell where it was coming from. I would wave like a lunatic in every motion I knew to get him to walk to me while calling his name. Maybe because of the cage, he never learned to actually walk to the person calling his name..we're not sure. So I would call the dog next to him and then he followed them to me.
In the early days here, he would get confused a lot. When he got confused or "lost", he would just turn in circles over and over like a skipping record. We have a large yard and I would have to go and find him wherever he was "stuck." Sometimes he was way far back in the yard or in another room and I would have to re-orient him. The first few weeks he was here, I must have said "Where's Calvin?" a hundred thousand times as I was always worried.
Calvin has been here over a year now and he is doing so much better. Although he still does circles when he gets confused, it is now just briefly. He is definitely a food meiser and will chatter his jaws if he knows food is coming. I guess that is from food being the only thing he had to look forward to for seven years. He doesnt really like heights i.e. being on the bed or the couch and he doesnt know how to play with toys at all, but he does like to chew knuckle bones. He follows me EVERYWHERE. Why? I am guessing because he can. He is so in tune to my every move that he snaps up ready to go as soon as I stand. I call him "my trusty dog Calvin" as he is ALWAYS right at my heel. He comes in our room at 7 AM every morning and whines in anticipation until I get up. He knows it is time to tend to the barn and the horses. I would have to say that his life of imprisonment must have been extremely boring for a fox terrier just staring at a metal grate all day and that he now embraces every day of his new life with enthusiasm.
My sweetest moment with Calvin was when he discovered what his legs were truly capable of. We had him a few days and we were out back playing in the big horse paddock. Little by little, I taught him to run (off leash) and to keep going at it. Although we made improvements, it was still only in big right hand circles. He started to like it so much though that he would bark in glee as he ran around in big right hand circles. It was the first time I heard him bark. On the third or fourth day of this, something in his little head just clicked. All of a sudden, he just got faster and faster with no encouragement from me. Then he went off the "circle" and just kept running. He got so fast that his ears were pinned flat back and he stretched his little body flat out like a greyhound racer and, best of all, he had this big grin on his face. No longer confined to the "circle" in his head, he just kept going and going straight along the perimeter trail, around past the horse trailer, around past the back door, up the side in front of the sheds, back on the trail, all the way around the back, up the other side...he was so exhilirated with his new found legs! I could tell he was the happiest dog ever. As for me? All I could do was cry and yell with all my might "Run Calvin, Run!!!" like in the movie Forest Gump.
That day was one of those that makes dedicating my life to the care and comfort of nine mostly rescued dogs all worth it. To watch a dog caged for seven years of his life run like there is no tomorrow makes you realize just how precious life really is. Although I may have "rescued" Calvin, he pays me back triplefold every day. How does Calvin do this? Calvin reminds me every single day to never ever take life for granted.
- I crack up when my pet:
- tries to suck on my ear lobes! whats up with that? LOL!
PLEASE CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO - THIS IS WHY I HAVE NINE DOGS. PLEASE SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR PETS AND BE KIND TO ANIMALS - THANKS! THIS IS A VIDEO I MADE OF MY HORSE TO A DIXIE CHICKS SONG . MY HORSE'S NAME IS FLYING W FARMS PRINCE RANIER AKA RANIER (RAIN YER). THEY SAY DONT TREAT HORSES LIKE DOGS, BUT RANIER ACTS JUST LIKE A BIG DOG - YA JUST CANT GET HIM OFF YA! HE LOVES TO BE LOVED WHICH IS JUST AWESOME: pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="never">
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The post about the flea stuff was from the girl that sits across from me at work, sorry if it was confusing. But, it wasnt me dogs, thank goodness!!!!!
Take care and chat soon:)
Gina, Jake and Roxy
Take care.
peace,
dawn
"THE STEEPLE BUILT WITH LOVE" WAS THE PHRASE I HEARD AND WILL STAY WITH ME FOR A LONG TIME WHEN THE CEO OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS LEFT THE RED CROSS MILE HIGH CHAPTER.THE RED CROSS MILE CHAPTER IS THE STEEPLE BUILT WITH LOVE.WITHOUT THE RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS THERE IS NO RED CROSS.
NO RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS=NO RED CROSS
MILE HIGH CHAPTER THE RED
CROSS CANNOT FUNCTION WITH THE STAFF OF THE RED CROSS OR THE DEDICATED RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS WHO MAKE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE.SHOW THE RED CROSS AND THE RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS THAT YOU CARE AND WANT THEM TO CONTINUE THEIR VERY VALUABLE WORK IN SAVING LIVES FOR THOSE WHO IMPACTED BY THE WORST DISASTERS.THE GLOBE REPRESENTS THE MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD THE RED CROSS HELPS FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED THE WORLD IS A BIG PLACE BUT THE RED CROSS WILL BE THERE DAY AND NIGHT,WEEKS,DAYS,OR MONTHS THE RED CROSS NO MATTER WHAT WILL ALWAYS BE THERE.
!TOGETHER FOR HUMANITY TOGETHER WE CHANGE
THE WORLD ONE PERSON AT A TIME!
HERE IS SOME INFORMATIVE INFORMATION THAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THE AMERICAN RED CROSS AND WHAT THEY DO TO HELP THOSE IN NEED IMPACTED BY LOCAL OR INTERNATIONAL DISASTERS LARGE OR SMALL WORLDWIDE.THE RED CROSS AND IT'S DEDICATED RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS WILL ALWAYS BE THERE TO HELP THOSE IMPACTED BY DEVASTATING DISASTERS IN THEIR DARKEST HOURS OF THE AFTERMATH OF A DISASTER.WHAT ARE THE 7 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT(HUMANITY,IMPARTIALITY,NEUTRALITY,INDEPENDENCE, VOLUNTARY SERVICE,UNITY,AND UNIVERSALITY) AND HOW CAN WE APPLY THESE 7 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN OUR DAILY LIVES?http://www.redcross.org/
AMERICAN RED CROSS MISSION STATEMENT
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS, A HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION LED BY VOLUNTEERS AND GUIDED BY ITS CONGRESSIONAL CHARTER AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT, WILL PROVIDE RELIEF TO VICTIMS OF DISASTER AND HELP PEOPLE PREVENT,PREPARE FOR,AND RESPOND TO EMERGENCIES.
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT.
VOLUNTEERS ARE EXPECTED TO ADHERE TO THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS MOVEMENT:HUMANITY,IMPARTIALITY,NEUTRALITY,INDEPENDENCE,
VOLUNTARY SERVICE,UNITY,AND UNIVERSALITY.A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH ARE PROVIDED BELOW:
*HUMANITY: THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT('THE MOVEMENT"),BORN OF A DESIRE TO BRING ASSISTANCE WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION TO THE WOUNDED ON THE BATTLEFIELD,ENDEAVORS,IN ITS INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CAPACITY,TO PREVENT AND ALLVIATE HUMAN SUFFERING WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND.IT PROMOTES MUTAL UNDERSTANDING,FRIENDSHIP,
COOPERATION AND LASTING PEACE AMONGST ALL PEOPLE.
*IMPARTIALITY: THE MOVEMENT MAKES NO DISCRIMATION AS TO NATIONALITY,RACE,RELIGIOUS BELIEFS,CLASS OR POLITICAL OPINIONS.IT ENDEAVORS TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF INDIVIDUALS,BEING GUIDED SOLELY BY THEIR NEEDS,AND TO GIVE PRIORITY TO THE MOST URGENT CASES OF DISTRESS.
*NEUTRALITY: IN ORDER TO CONTINUE TO ENJOY THE CONFIDENCE OF ALL,THE MOVEMENT MAY NOT TAKE SIDES IN HOSTILITIES OR ENGAGE AT ANY TIME IN CONTROVERSIES OF A POLITICAL,RACIAL,RELIGIOUS OR IDEOLOGICAL NATURE.
*INDEPENDENCE: THE MOVEMENT IS INDEPENDENT.THE NATIONAL SOCIETIES,WHILE AUXILARIES IN THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICES OF THEIR GOVERMENTS AND SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES,MUST ALWAYS MAINTAIN THEIR AUTONOMY SO THAT THEY MAY BE ABLE AT ALL TIMES TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE MOVEMENT.
*VOLUNTARY SERVICE: THE MOVEMENT IS A VOLUNTARY RELIEF MOVEMENT NOT PROMPTED IN ANY MANNER BY DESIRE OR GAIN.
*UNITY: THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE RED CROSS OR RED CRESCENT SOCIETY IN ANY ONE COUNTRY.IT MUST BE OPEN TO ALL.IT MUST CARRY ON ITS HUMANITARIAN WORK THROUGH ITS TERRITORY.
UNIVERSALITY: THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT,IN WHICH ALL SOCIETIES HAVE EQUAL STATUS
AND SHARE EQUAL RESPONSIBILITES AND DUTIES IN HELPING EACH OTHER,IS WORLDWIDE. PROTECTING HUMAN DIGNITY.
OUR COMMITMENT TO THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES BRINGS US TOGETHER WITH A COMMON PURPOSE AND INSPIRES US TO EXCEL AND TO BEHAVE IN WAYS THAT INSPIRE THE TRUST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.EACH OF US IS RESPONSIBLE FOR UPHOLDING AND LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THESE VAULES EVERY DAY.
VALUES OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
OUR AMERICAN RED CROSS VALUES PROVIDE THE FOUNDATION FOR THE WAY WE BEHAVE AND THE STANDARD TO WHICH WE HOLD OURSELVES.EACH OF US IS RESPONSIBLE FOR UPHOLDING THE VALUES AND LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEM EVERY DAY:
*ACCUNTABILITY
*COLLABORATION
*COMMITMENT
*RESULTS
*TRUSTWORTHINESS
*HUMANITARIANISM
ETHICS EVERY DAY THROUGH THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
AS VOLUNTEERS AT THE AMERICAN RED CROSS,EACH OF US IS RESPONSIBLE,EVERY DAY,FOR OUR OWN BEHAVIOUR AND DECISIONS WE MAKE.WE AFFECT THE COMMUNITY AROUND US.*WE MAKE A DIFFERNCE.*
WE ARE COMMITTED TO MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERNCE BY...
*IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF HUMAN LIFE.
*ENHANCING SELF-RELIANCE AND CONCERN FOR OTHERS.
*HELPING PEOPLE AVOID,PREPARE FOR AND COPE WITH EMERGENCIES.
IN LIVING OUT THIS MISSION,EACH OF US IS RESPONSIBLE FOR LIVING UP TO THE FUNDAMENTAL STANDARDS OF OUR CULTURE:
*TELLING THE TRUTH
*KEEPING PROMISES
*RESPECTING INDIVIDUALS
*BEING FAIR
TEN PRINCIPLES OF VOLUNTEERISM...
1.WE CAN BROADEN OUR NATION'S VOLUNTEER FORCE BY REMOVING BARRIERS TO VOLUNTEERING.
2.VOLUNTEERS ARE NOT "FREE."
3.VOLUNTEERS CONTRIBUTE MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE.
4."VOLUNTEER"DOES NOT MEAN "AMATEUR."
5.VOLUNTEERS AND THE ORGANIZATION THEY SERVE MUST MEET EACH OTHERS EXPECTATIONS.
6.VOLUNTEERS MUST NEVER BE EXPLOITED.
7.VOLUNTEERS MAKE EXCELLENT MIDDLE AND SENIOR MANGERS.
8.WHEN RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS,IT IS IMPORTANT TO PLACE THE RIGHT PERSON IN THE RIGHT JOB THAN TO ATTRACT VOLUNTEERS AT RANDOM.
9.WE HELP SHAPE THE GOVERMENT POLICIES ON VOLUNTEERISM.
10.EVERYONE BENEFITS WHEN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS COLLABORATE.
DEFINITION OF AN AMERICAN RED CROSS VOLUNTEER
A RED CROSS VOLUNTEER IS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO,BEYOND THE RESPONSIBLITES OF PAID EMPLOYMENT,FREELY ASSISTS THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IN THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ITS MISSION WITHOUT EXPECTATION OR RECEIPT OF COMPENSATION.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AMERICAN RED CROSS PLEASE LET ME KNOW I AM HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS.I AM A RED CROSS VOLUNTEER I LIVE TO SERVE MY COMMUNITY AND CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER.I HOPE THIS INFORMATION FOR THE RED CROSS CHANGES THE VIEWS AND THE OPINIONS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE I AM SO PROUD TO SERVE.MAKING A LIFE SAVING DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS EVERY DAY WHO ARE IMPACTED BY THE WORST DISASTERS.MAKING THAT WORLD CHANGING DIFFERNCE.THIS WORLD IS SAFER AND BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF ME AND MANY OTHER DEDICATED AND CARING RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS.THANK YOU FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THE AMERICAN RED CROSS MILE HIGH CHAPTER AND YET TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE RED CROSS.YOUR SUPPORT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERNCE.
TRUST IN THE LORD OUR HOLY SAVOR BELIEVE IN GOD HE WILL ALWAYS THERE TO PROTECT YOU AND WATCH OVER YOU.GOD LOVES EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US EQUALLY WE ARE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN.!BELIEVE!"PUT GOD IN THE CENTER AND EVERYTHING WILL COME TOGETHER"
*ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF DON'T GIVE UP EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US ARE ALL GOOD PEOPLE INSIDE AND OUT*WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD*
*LIVE*LAUGH*LOVE SMILE TO THOSE YOU DON'T YOUR SMILE COULD CHANGE THEIR DAY AND YOUR DAY*SMILING IS LIKE A DISEASE ONE PERSON HAS THE DISEASE YOU PASS IT AROUND AND SOON THE WHOLE WORLD IS SMILING* ALL DREAMS COME TRUE*CHANGE THE WORLD ONE PERSON AT A TIME*BELIEVE IN YOURSELF*NEVER EVER GIVE UP ON LIFE*BE TRUE TO YOURSELF AND DON'T GIVE UP WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH*
A BRIEF HISTORY OF FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSSCLARA BARTON 1881
RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT THE RED CROSS WAS ESTABLISHED BY CLARA BARTON A CIVIL WAR NURSE IN 1881.Clara Barton, 1821-1912
Civil War Nurse
Founder American Red Cross
Clara Barton's civil war work began in April 1861. After the Battle of Bull Run, she established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies.Clara Barton Founder of the American Red Cross to wounded soldiers. In July 1862, she obtained permission to travel behind the lines, eventually reaching some of the grimmest battlefields of the war and serving during the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond. Barton delivered aid to soldiers of both the North and South.
After the war, she became a popular and widely respected lecturer. In 1881 she established the American Red Cross, and served as its director until her death.
When Clara Barton was sixteen, phrenologist Lorenzo Fowler advised her to become a teacher to cure her shyness. For ten years, Barton taught in a small Massachusetts town, where her brother owned a factory. After she was invited to teach in a private school in Borden town, New Jersey, Barton recognized the community's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
When officials appointed a male principal in her place, Barton resigned. In 1854, she moved to Washington, where she became the first woman to work at the Patent Office. After the war, she became a popular and widely respected lecturer.
A Life's Work of Clara Barton
Founder of the American Red Cross
Year 1881
Miss Barton returned to the United States and began her most enduring work--the establishment of the American Red Cross. A reluctant U.S. government could not imagine the country ever again being involved in armed conflict after the Civil War. Finally, by 1881 at age 60, she persuaded the government to recognize the Red Cross to provide aid for natural disasters.
Miss Barton continued to do relief work in the field until she was well into her 70s. But she was not a strong administrator, and political feuding at the American Red Cross forced her to resign as president in 1904.
Never married, Miss Barton was wedded to her convictions. She died in 1912 at age 90 in her Glen Echo home. She is buried less than a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Mass.
An Idea Is Born
By 1863, the Army Medical Department was geared up for a major war, overwhelming any efforts made by a single individual such as Miss Barton. But she continued working at battlefields as the war dragged on. Miss Barton threw herself into her next project as the war ended in 1865.
She helped with the effort to identify 13,000 unknown Union dead at the horrific prisoner-of-war camp at Anderson ville, Ga. This experience launched her on a nationwide campaign to identify soldiers missing during the Civil War. She published lists of names in newspapers and exchanged letters with veterans and soldiers' families. The search for missing soldiers and years of toil during the Civil War physically debilitated Miss Barton. Her doctors recommended a restful trip to Europe.
Although still ailing, another crisis jolted Miss Barton into action. The outbreak of war in 1870 between France and Prussia (part of modern-day Germany) brought hardship to many French civilians. Miss Barton joined the relief effort, and in the process, was impressed with a new organization--the Red Cross. Created in 1864, the Red Cross was chartered to provide humane services to all victims during wartime under a flag of neutrality.
"Upon the porch stood four tables, with an etherized patient upon each, a surgeon standing over him with his box of instruments and a bunch of green corn leaves beside him."
"A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?"
Clara Barton Letter dated December 1862
Head Quarters 2nd Div.
9th Army Corps-Army of the Potomac
Camp near Falmouth, Va.
December 12th, 1862 - 2 o'clock A.M.
My dear Cousin Vira:
Five minutes time with you; and God only knows what those five minutes might be worth to the many-doomed thousands sleeping around me.
It is the night before a battle. The enemy, Fredericks burg, and its mighty entrenchments lie before us, the river between - at tomorrow's dawn our troops will assay to cross, and the guns of the enemy will sweep those frail bridges at every breath.
The moon is shining through the soft haze with a brightness almost prophetic. For the last half hour I have stood alone in the awful stillness of its glimmering light gazing upon the strange sad scene around me striving to say, "Thy will Oh God be done."
The camp fires blaze with unwanted brightness, the sentry's tread is still but quick - the acres of little shelter tents are dark and still as death, no wonder for us as I gazed sorrowfully upon them. I thought I could almost hear the slow flap of the grim messenger's wings, as one by one he sought and selected his victims for the morning. Sleep weary one, sleep and rest for tomorrow toil. Oh! Sleep and visit in dreams once more the loved ones nestling at home. They may yet live to dream of you, cold lifeless and bloody, but this dream soldier is thy last, paint it brightly, dream it well. Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.
Mine are not the only waking hours, the light yet burns brightly in our kind hearted General's tent where he pens what may be a last farewell to his wife and children and thinks sadly of his fated men.
Already the roll of the moving artillery is sounded in my ears. The battle draws near and I must catch one hour's sleep for tomorrow's labor.
Good night near cousin and Heaven grant you strength for your more peaceful and less terrible, but not less weary days than mine.
Yours in love,
Clara
*THE STEEPLE BUILT WITH LOVE*AMERICAN RED CROSS MILE HIGH CHAPTER
Nice story about calvin it was very touching:) have a good summer
hi from brooklyn, laura & tucker:) :)
Make sure you take some time this weekend to stop and smell the flowers!
Peace & Mastiff Kisses to you and all your babies
dawn
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