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| joseph wiggs |
Posted - October 07 2006 : 9:46:44 PM
Is it possible that the "Shades" of the Battle of the Little Big Horn still linger upon the battle field? |
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| joe wiggs |
Posted - July 31 2008 : 8:25:00 PM
Amen Brother. God Bless the U.S.A. and all the Top Sergeants who helped her steer the course to honor! |
| Sgtmajor109th |
Posted - July 30 2008 : 10:56:03 PM
Joe, Thank you very much, and I am not laughing. Like you I spent
10 years in the Air Force, there were many Sgt's I looked up to
and always hoped I could be like them. After 16 years in the Army
and serving under the best Top Sgt's this country could produce. I
had a goal and a dream, it was privilege and an honor to have served
this great country of ours. |
| joe wiggs |
Posted - July 30 2008 : 10:11:23 PM
SgtMajor,
When I was in the Air Force (don't laugh) I met a few Top Sergeants. Each and everyone of them were outstanding individuals who commanded respect and got it. Well deserved respect I might add. Going by your selected nomenclature and, what little I can discern from your posts and background, methinks you are one of those elite gentleman. Having said that, I would not be at all surprised if a few Gettysburg war hero's have already "joined you" in good fellowship at the Little Round Top and,(I think) will always be with you. I salute you Sir! |
| Sgtmajor109th |
Posted - July 30 2008 : 5:26:17 PM
Well Joe, maybe one of these days, when at Gettysburg, while sitting
on Little Round Top, maybe a few Ghost will join me. |
| joe wiggs |
Posted - July 30 2008 : 3:09:25 PM
You of so little faith. You have not seen because you do not believe!  |
| Sgtmajor109th |
Posted - July 29 2008 : 10:13:51 PM
I visit the Gettysburg Battlefield at least 3 or 4 times a year.
Each time I do I make it a point to go to the Cashtown Inn. It
is here that people have said they have seen a Confederate soldier
walking around inside the Inn. Well I have yet to have seen any
soldier Union or Confederate at the Inn, ghost that is. |
| joe wiggs |
Posted - July 26 2008 : 4:16:50 PM
"One evening in August 1976 a National Park Service law enforcement officer visited last Stand Hill. He was alone when a sudden drop in temperature went through his body. The cold was accompanied by the soft murmuring of voices. He did not stay long enough to discover whether they were talking to him"
Copyright 1991 by Bob Reese |
| joe wiggs |
Posted - June 23 2008 : 8:21:32 PM
Well, you've certainly burst my bubble! I've heard so many stories of Federal and Southern soldiers meeting on the fields, marching by flanks, and fighting the war all over again. Now you say it ain't so. Man oh man. |
| JasW |
Posted - April 18 2008 : 1:08:04 PM
Speaking of Gettysburg; 30 years ago I was a National Park Ranger there and we never heard anything at all about ghosts--that's all a new thing--except for Iverson's Pits. Even then, the patroling rangers would report strange things there. My area was the south end of the field and I would be there at all times...but I too never saw a thing (dammit!).
S~
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| Sgtmajor109th |
Posted - March 31 2008 : 8:13:56 PM
I find the topic very interesting. I spend a great deal of time on the
Gettysburg battlefield, which by some say it is overruned with ghost. I
must say I have visited some of the places that ghost are to be seen all
the time, such as the Cashtown Inn, and the Devils Den, and Little Round
Top. However to this day, night or day I have never seen a ghost or a shade.
Maybe it takes a certain kind of person to see these things. I can say this
I remember one time in late Sept sitting up on Little Round Top. I was all
by myself walking around and taking pictures, yet I felt like I was not
alone, I kept turning around because I felt something behind me, but did
not see anything.
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| Heavyrunner |
Posted - March 28 2008 : 5:42:46 PM
Casper |
| JasW |
Posted - March 24 2008 : 09:52:25 AM
In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field to ponder and dream; And lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.
(Joshua Chamberlain)
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| joseph wiggs |
Posted - August 11 2007 : 8:50:34 PM
At the moment I saw this picture and, the subsequent minutes before I was able to respond to it seemed to have lasted for an eternity. Brent is so right, this picture is "marvelous."
Brent, I am so on key with you and your stance regarding energy (life force) and, I swear with the deepest truth I am able to muster; I experience an "energy" every time I visited the battlefield. It is an overwhelming sense of sadness that I Have not be able to explain in terms of credibility that would satisfy a barrister. All I know is that within my heart and soul, an overwhelming sense of gloom permeates the battlefield.
Thank you so much for this wonderful photo. |
| Brent |
Posted - August 11 2007 : 1:20:12 PM
I must say that I don't really believe in ghosts or such--at least none that can make sounds, apperances, etc.
But there is (I think) a certain energy (or, life force)that might remain "behind" when someone dies, and I haven't a clue what happens to it. Or even what it is...
And that is a marvelous picture!!! |
| frankboddn |
Posted - August 11 2007 : 01:17:02 AM
Ghosts or spirits at the Little Big Horn? I don't know, but I took this picture at about 8:55 PM in 1999. I was the last person to leave the battlefield. The rangers practically had to chase me off. It's mesmerizing to be there all alone at sunset. What do you think:
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| joseph wiggs |
Posted - August 05 2007 : 7:41:40 PM
For those who are interested in reading more about the "Hauntings" at the LBH please see below: http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/mt/house2.htm |
| joseph wiggs |
Posted - February 09 2007 : 8:49:45 PM
I salute thee and, your comrades for having the courage to do what I could not. I joined the U.S. Air Force in 1966 for the expressed purpose of avoiding Viet-Nam. I've always wondered, since then, how I would have handled it. I don't know. |
| AZ Ranger |
Posted - February 08 2007 : 09:12:12 AM
1969-70
You could hear someone walking in the tower. Supposedly a marine tried to deploy a illumination grenade and it turned out be a frag which he dropped.
I don't know what made the sound but that was the story I heard and I certainly heard the footsteps sound. After that I always checked the grenades in the box in the tower. |
| joseph wiggs |
Posted - January 28 2007 : 7:28:17 PM
Az, tell us more. Where you in Vietnam, if so God bless you and your comrades who served and died there! |
| AZ Ranger |
Posted - January 28 2007 : 6:42:57 PM
Tower 9 5th COMM Viet Nam had a shade in 1969. |
| joseph wiggs |
Posted - January 23 2007 : 7:13:02 PM
I take it you've been there and sat on that wall. Your last sentence may have been one of the most humorous ones I have read in a long time. You put the "W" in witty! |
| frankboddn |
Posted - January 23 2007 : 01:47:32 AM
quote:
Originally posted by joseph wiggs
I imagine that if a "shade" was observed on the grounds, a substantial portion of Custer aficionados would have believed it to be him. Those who are partial to Benteen would have seen Benteen, and so on and so on. I think I would have seen little Benny Hodgeson. His demise was especially painful to me because he almost got away.
Gentlemen, this kind of reminds me of Gettysburg. Some say the "shades" exist there. Iv'e heard of strange stories--maybe on the History Channel--that when Ted Turner was filming his movie there that some reenactors there saw or felt the presence of the dead soldiers. I can tell you one thing: if you can sit on that rock wall at the angle near the copse of trees where Pickett's charge ended and not be moved, you ain't alive! |
| joseph wiggs |
Posted - January 20 2007 : 8:16:47 PM
I imagine that if a "shade" was observed on the grounds, a substantial portion of Custer aficionados would have believed it to be him. Those who are partial to Benteen would have seen Benteen, and so on and so on. I think I would have seen little Benny Hodgeson. His demise was especially painful to me because he almost got away. |
| AZ Ranger |
Posted - January 09 2007 : 9:12:43 PM
Was that they wanted it to be him? |
| joseph wiggs |
Posted - January 09 2007 : 7:45:42 PM
Az, Guess what? I came up as flat as a dime. I could not find one iota of data that would substantiate that it was Custer's shade rather than anyone else. Does anyone else have any information that may help? |
