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Roger J. Wendell
Defending 3.8 Billion Years of Organic Evolution^SM

My History Channel!   Okay, I'll admit I've never been a real history buff. Nevertheless, the past (in almost all its forms!) has always been of interest to me. I'm especially interested when I can see and experience, firsthand, a place that is of historical significance. Obviously that pretty much includes almost the entire planet but you know what I mean - a summer trip with my parents through the Petrified Forest, touring a Civil War site with a friend, or visiting the Taj Mahal with my wife are a samples of events that have help shape and enliven my interest in history! Anyway, I think this page will be mostly bits and pieces of history that I've experienced firsthand on a personal basis or that really blew me away on the web or in some book or publication. So, the cautionary note for you, gentle reader, is to pick your sources well - a site like this, although fun to browse through, can not be relied upon for accuracy. Nevertheless I hope you find this page enjoyable and that it adds to your own interest in history as well!

In August '12 I had the pleasure of visiting Medicine Wheel Wyoming. While there I was able to visit with a Crow Indian guide who worked for the Park
Service. We were all along and had a long, wonderful and interesting talk about his people's history and that of the Europeans who swarmed in from the
east. He recommended a book I was able to pick up from my local library:

Esak Ebandia
Plays With His Face

About the time the colonists won their independence and became a new nation, tribes of the Western Plains lived by the hunt for the hunt for their
subsistence and conducted intertribal warfare for their avocation. Their life was a continuous drama, a drama that only Mother Earth can produce. Each
day was a new episode offering new lands, new challenges, and new experiences. One day they picked berries, the next day they hunted the buffalo, on
another day they met the enemy tribe on the battlefield - and that night they enjoyed the victory dance, where recognition and honor were given to the
young warriors who had fought courageously.

From the Heart of the Crow Country
(The Crow Indians' Own Stories
by Joseph Medicine Crow, p. 25

A Small Slice of Dental History:

"Chapin Harris rode through the night. Behind him lay generations of honest tooth pullers and wandering quacks. Before him lay the new profession he was inventing. In America, in the days before the Civil War, most dentists were itinerants, like Harris, riding from town to town. Their work took them to worlds unseen by other travelers. They set up their temporary offices in homes, factories, inns, and taverns. They brought out their dreaded instruments. They scraped, they drilled, they extracted. They plugged with gold, amalgams of tin and mercury, molten lead. For pain they proffer3ed leeches and arsenic, nutgalls and mustard seed, laudanum and vinegar. They were feared and often disparaged. There was no formal training. Anyone who called himself a dentist was one. Chapin Harris called himself a dentist." - Mary Otto in her book, "Teeth" (The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America) p. 93

The Redding House Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail Sarah Chapel Road, Dade County, Georgia

The Redding House is a large double-pen log structure with an open breezeway between the pens. There are stone chimneys on either end of the house. The
structure is in excellent condition and has been fully restored by the owner. This was a working farm operated by the Redding family during the [Civil]
war. In addition to the house, there would have been stables, cribs, and other outbuildings. While there is no record of camps, there could have been
short-term Confederate camps in the area.

This site provides an example of what the women of the Confederacy did during the war. With most of the men away in the army, the females of the County
were responsible for holding things together. They managed the farms, and with the assistance of their children and enslaved Africans (if they owned
any),they not only produced food for themselves, but also grew a surplus for sale to the army. Some women worked under government contract during the
war making uniforms. The state quartermaster office employed male tailors to cut uniforms from patterns. The cut uniforms, thread, buttons, and other
accessories were then sent to women for sewing. The women also supported the Confederate cause in numerous other ways.

Each community had a Soldiers Relief Society that was made up of local women and girls. They met to make quilts and knit socks and mittens for the
soldiers; they also made uniforms and rolled bandages. These patriotic women welcomed the opportunity to thank men for their military service through
gifts and goods provided by local Soldiers Relief Societies. Some groups sent goods to local military units, while others forwarded packages to the front
with instructions to distribute them as needed. In addition, they frequently sent packages of food for the military camps. Relief societies also sent
reading material, Bibles, and religious pamphlets to the men in the field.

Overcrowded camps and unsanitary conditions killed thousands of Georgia Confederate soldiers. In addition, surgeons treated soldiers under conditions
that commonly led to deadly infections. More Civil War soldiers died from illness than from battle wounds. The Confederacy established a hospital complex
at Ringgold, Georgia. Because of a shortage of male nurses, women stepped in to care for the sick and wounded. Some of the young women of DadeCounty
volunteered for this duty.

At first, the women mainly brought food to patients and wrote and read their letters. Gradually, however, women began to take a more active role by
assisting surgeons and changing dressings. After the battle of Chickamauga, some of the less seriously wounded were brought to private homes in Dade
County for nursing and convalescence.

In this part of Dade County, the Soldiers Relief Society activities were directed by a young woman named Manerva Redding and her mother. The other
women brought the articles they had made to the Redding house and Manerva and her mother delivered them to the Confederate camps.

This sign sponsored by: State of Dade, Camp 707, Sons of Confederate Veterans

President Donald J. Trump

History will not be kind to President Donald J. Trump. Not because he was a bad leader but, rather, because the media is dominated by leftists who are intolerant of any opinions or ideas that they’re not in agreement with. And, it’s no secret that it’s leftists who not only control our education system but write the history books as well. As such, I hope this page of mine, on a very small corner of the internet, will provide future readers with a small glimpse of what really happened throughout the Trump years - his accomplishments and the constant attacks he had to endure from a leftist culture unable to accept new ideas or better ways of doing things:

• Operation Warp Speed, creation of a safe COVID vaccine in record time.
• Almost 4 million jobs created since he was elected.
• The most employed Americans in history.
• Creation of more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs and manufacturing jobs growing at the faster rate in more than three decades.
• Economic growth hit 4.2% one quarter.
• Prior to COVID, new unemployment claims hit a 49-year low.
• Median household income the highest ever recorded.
• African-American unemployment recorded at the lowest rate ever.
• Asian-American unemployment recorded at the lowest rate ever.
• Hispanic-American unemployment at the lowest rate ever.
• Women’s unemployment reaching the lowest rate in 65 years.
• Youth unemployment the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
• Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
• Veterans unemployment reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
• Almost 3.9 million Americans left food stamps since he was elected in 2016.
• The Pledge to America’s Workers had employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans and promoting vocational education.
• Retail sales surged towards the end of his presidency, up another 6% over the previous year.
• Signed the biggest tax cuts and reforms in history. Over $300 billion poured back into the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
• Trump tax bill produced lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years for small businesses.

The Bad:

• President Trump and his supporters were constantly harrased by the press and the far left. In one example, Congresswoman Maxine Waters - in June, 2018, encouraged her supporters to harass President Trump's staff in public saying, "They're not going to be able to go to a restaurant, they're not going to be able to stop at a gas station, they're not going to be able to shop at a department store," Waters said. "The people are going to turn on them, they're going to protest, they're going to absolutely harass them."
• Much of the media refused to post anything positive about the President and his accomplishments - often overstaing problems and displaying complete disrespect for the man and the office he held.
• Two fake impeachments by a Congress that wasn't able to accomplish anything else during its sessions.

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