Re: Thought for the Day

Posted by Sarah M. on September 13, 2001 at 12:35:16:

In Reply to: Re: Thought for the Day posted by Seamus on September 12, 2001 at 20:07:28:

Dear Seamus,

Call me naive but I have a hard time believing even the Indians went after their fellows or the whites with the sole purpose of dying while killing their enemy!! Fighting yes, dying no. Call me uneducated but I would have thought they expected to return to the campfires and be the center of the celebrations in person. Were they really kamikazees???

Sarah M.

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: : Could this have happened 250 years ago in the time period we all study so much or is this a new phenomenon??

: : LHK,
: : Sarah M.

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: Sarah, my friend,

: You bet it could ...and did happen then....they were called Indians...One only need read of the raids that were made into the settled areas, and against the lonely cabins out in the wilderness to understand that that was terrorism, pure and simple. The faces were different, the cause was different, but the result was the same...they struck terror into the hearts of those who were not their targets and the result here in the Susquehanna Valley was that every settler in the Valley for 60 miles north and west of Fort Augusta fled their homes and farms and came to Augusta and on south to Harris Ferry and Fort Hunter until it was safe several years later to return. Some would never return...they were that terrified. I point you to the Mohawk River Valley, places like Cherry Valley, Canajoharie, Fort Klock and others in that corridor, in addition to my Susquehanna Valley.

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: Pax aye!
: Seamus

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: Dear Seamus,

: Call me naive but I have a hard time believing even the Indians went after their fellows or the whites with the sole purpose of dying while killing their enemy!!  Fighting yes, dying no.  Call me uneducated but I would have thought they expected to return to the campfires and be the center of the celebrations in person.  Were they really kamikazees???

: Sarah M.

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: : :  Could this have happened 250 years ago in the time period we all study so much or is this a new phenomenon??

: : : LHK,
: : : Sarah M.

: : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

: : Sarah, my friend,

: : You bet it could ...and did happen then....they were called Indians...One only need read of the raids that were made into the settled areas, and against the lonely cabins out in the wilderness to understand that that was terrorism, pure and simple. The faces were different, the cause was different, but the result was the same...they struck terror into the hearts of those who were not their targets and the result here in the Susquehanna Valley was that every settler in the Valley for 60 miles north and west of Fort Augusta fled their homes and farms and came to Augusta and on south to Harris Ferry and Fort Hunter until it was safe several years later to return. Some would never return...they were that terrified. I point you to the Mohawk River Valley, places like  Cherry Valley, Canajoharie, Fort Klock and others in that corridor, in addition to my Susquehanna Valley. 

: : 
: : Pax aye!
: : Seamus



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