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Date Posted: 03/26/04 10:44:09am
Author: Doug Cooper
Subject: Re: Household names
In reply to: Stephen Mitchell 's message, "Household names" on 03/26/04 7:57:12am

Steve - precisely why Co B is having a mail call. We are going to read from the letters out loud and share what they say. As we are all from the same general area, this is way to pass around the news...and get us thinking as a unit. Have seen this work very well. Fun incidents mentioned also provide some rich material for follow-on conversation...like the one letter a comrade got from his wife mentioning the "new hired man" she had taken on to help run the farm, a "young man, very strong and well recommended" - we gave him grief for the rest of the weekend and he played it exactly right. Outrage at the thought that this man was not in the army and worry that perhaps his own presence was being replaced in other areas not related to agriculture.

thanks for names - will weave them in somehow.

Doug

>Comrades,
>I was just browsing through the census records trying
>to find myself (HA!) when I noticed a few men whose
>names we should all probably know and have an opinion
>about whatever that opinion may be.
>
>1)I.A. Echols - Dept. Sherrif McLennan County
>2) J. McLennan - High Sherrif McLennan County
>3) J.C. Billingsly - Dept. U.S. Marshall
>
>And another two guys it would probably behoove us to
>know whether we loved 'em or hated 'em.
>
>4) J.C. Newlon - Postmaster
>5) J.M. Smith - Tavern keeper ; )
>
>That's just a start, I imagine we would all have names
>that were common too us, and if we did speak much of
>home, it would probably be of expieriences that we all
>shared, funny stories or local scandals that were as
>familiar to these men as the latest 'reality
>television' show is to the unfortunate majority of our
>countrymen today.
>Rather than a group of 25 strangers, we are
>representing a literal community at war. Granted, we
>are a young community, but a community nonetheless. I
>believe this aspect of the war is one of the hardest
>to recapture, especially with these types of events
>where our comrades hail from as far away as the
>Pacific Northwest and the United Kingdom. Anybody
>else have any ideas on how to prepare for this? Any
>other names that should be fairly recognizeable to us
>all?
>Regards,
>Stephen Mitchell

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