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joseph wiggs
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 Posted - October 07 2006 : 9:46:44 PM
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Poll Question:
Is it possible that the "Shades" of the Battle of the Little Big Horn still linger upon the battle field?
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - October 07 2006 : 10:00:02 PM
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| I believe! Such a horrific clash of human beings who succumbed to such violent deaths must have resulted in forms of identifiable energy lingering upon the Battlefield, don't you think? |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - December 25 2006 : 3:38:08 PM
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http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/mt/house2.htm
"General Custer himself has been seen roaming around the center late at night, making one last inspection before going to wherever ghosts go to retire.?" |
Edited by - joseph wiggs on December 25 2006 3:42:07 PM |
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AZ Ranger
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Posted - December 30 2006 : 10:34:18 AM
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| It would be the duty officer's job to do the inspection not the General. |
“ An officer's first duty is to his horses.”
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - December 30 2006 : 8:10:12 PM
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This is very true, However, if the Duty Officers (in death)all received different assignments than the General, perhaps, he may have been the only Officer left (on this plane of existence)left to perform this lowly task.
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AZ Ranger
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Posted - December 31 2006 : 9:13:38 PM
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| How did they determine it was Custer rather than the duty officer? |
“ An officer's first duty is to his horses.”
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - December 31 2006 : 9:46:05 PM
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| Excellent question to which I have no answer other than to suggest that perhaps being approximately 5' 10" tall he would have stood out somewhat? |
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AZ Ranger
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Posted - January 01 2007 : 12:17:25 PM
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| Did anyone state what they saw enough form an opinion? |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - January 03 2007 : 6:37:50 PM
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| An excellent question AZ, let me do some research and get back with you. |
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AZ Ranger
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Posted - January 09 2007 : 09:07:54 AM
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| Any luck yet Joe? |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - January 09 2007 : 7:45:42 PM
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| 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? |
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AZ Ranger
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Posted - January 09 2007 : 9:12:43 PM
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| Was that they wanted it to be him? |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - January 20 2007 : 8:16:47 PM
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| 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. |
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frankboddn
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Posted - January 23 2007 : 01:47:32 AM
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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! |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - January 23 2007 : 7:13:02 PM
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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! |
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AZ Ranger
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Posted - January 28 2007 : 6:42:57 PM
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| Tower 9 5th COMM Viet Nam had a shade in 1969. |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - January 28 2007 : 7:28:17 PM
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| Az, tell us more. Where you in Vietnam, if so God bless you and your comrades who served and died there! |
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AZ Ranger
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Posted - February 08 2007 : 09:12:12 AM
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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. |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - February 09 2007 : 8:49:45 PM
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| 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. |
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joseph wiggs
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frankboddn
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Posted - August 11 2007 : 01:17:02 AM
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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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Brent
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Posted - August 11 2007 : 1:20:12 PM
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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!!! |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - August 11 2007 : 8:50:34 PM
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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. |
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JasW
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Posted - March 24 2008 : 09:52:25 AM
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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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I'd rather be historically accurate than politically correct. |
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Heavyrunner
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Posted - March 28 2008 : 5:42:46 PM
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Sgtmajor109th
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Posted - March 31 2008 : 8:13:56 PM
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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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