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Days of Hope, Miles of Misery
DAYS OF HOPE, Fred Dickey
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Yes! We have SO much to be thankful for. Enjoy your holiday!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope your day is filled with love and happiness.
Thanks to ALL! Enjoy..
Happy Thanksgiving!
No interview today, but here's a BONUS EXCERPT:
(The pioneers are caught in a brutal blizzard, high in the Sierra Nevada mountains.)
“…The pioneers hugged each other for warmth. They shivered in ragged, smelly clothes, and endured the wind as it moaned through fir branches and gave teeth to the cold. Hannah hoped that when dawn came, and it was time to rise, every one of them would.
For those companions, it was a night of misery of a terrible kind. There was no defense and no escape. Stupor was their refuge. The mountains’ intent was to break their spirits so they would quit the survival struggle and slide into death. Faint above the wind, sobs, moans, and prayers pleaded for deliverance. But nothing profane. Even the irreverent wouldn’t chance that. Eternity was too close.
They blamed themselves for joining a caravan that brought them to this place where death awaited. All the people back home who had urged them on did not realize what they were urging. The pioneers had learned an adventurer’s grim truth: It is better to die back home in one’s own bed, and among one’s own people, than to die where only crows and coyotes are interested."
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Happy Thanksgiving to All!
Don’t we have SO MUCH to be thankful for?
See you back here Friday.
Enjoy and stay SAFE!
Fred
www.freddickey.net