The Marines on Guadalcanal
TOM LYONS, 1st Parachute Battalion
Converted for the Web from "Into The Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat" by Patrick K. O'Donnell
Jump to: The Marines on Guadalcanal John Sweeney, 1st Raider BattalionRobert Youngdeer of E-Company John Sweeney commands B-CompanyDave Taber at Bloody Ridge Ira Gilliand throwing grenadesJohn Mielke defends Henderson Field Tom Lyons, 1st Parachute Battalion"Horse Collar" James Smith Frank Guidone and the mortar squadDean Winters, 2nd Raider Battalion Ray Bauml on the Long Patrol
Outnumbered and running out of ammunition, Edson's three hundred defenders faced their gravest threat when a large element of the Japanese III Battalion, 124th Infantry seemed poised to overrun the left side of the knoll. Edson ordered the Marine parachutists holding that side of the knoll to counterattack immediately. But the parachute battalion's commanding officer was nowhere to be found. He was relieved on the spot by Edson, and Captain Harry Torgerson was placed in command. Torgerson assembled two companies of parachutists and launched them in a desperate counterattack, saving the left flank of the line. After the Marines regained the line, the fighting became hand-to-hand, as parachutist Tom Lyons vividly remembers.
When they started raking us with a machine gun, that pissed me off, so I got up and crawled through the grass. The grass was about a foot and a half tall off the side of that hill, and I crawled up and around to the side of the machine gun. Bullets were flying everywhere, but the grass was high enough that it would partially hide you. I got almost to the machine gun before I was detected. They didn't see me until I stood up. There were so many people running around you couldn't shoot anybody. I stood up and threw a hand grenade, and just as I threw the grenade, they swung the gun around and ripped me up through the middle. I took several bullets; most of them went all the way through, and one missed my heart by about a half an inch. It knocked me ass over tin cup down the hill. The first one stung like hell. It really hurt. But the others after that didn't hurt at all. It seemed like I just left my body and was floating up in the air looking down at everything going on.
I saw a Jap come out, and he stepped on my stomach and he stabbed me in the throat with his bayonet. It went through the side of my neck and into the ground behind me but it didn't hurt. Jesse Youngdeer [Robert Youngdeer's brother] was coming up the trail with a box of hand grenades, and this Jap stepped off me and instead of finishing me off, he made a thrust at Youngdeer. [Youngdeer] stopped it with the box of hand grenades, and then he grabbed the Jap's rifle and was trying to wrestle it out of his hands. The Jap had stabbed him just above the knee. Another Marine ran up with his bayonet, and he tried to stab the Jap, and he got confused and stabbed Youngdeer right in the leg.
My eyes were wide open. I could see everything that was going on. I thought I was seeing it from fifty feet above. When they started firing the 105s [artillery] right in my area, I got some shrapnel in the right side of my chest. The bullets and shells were passing right over where I was floating around up there, and I was afraid they were going to hit me.
Morning came, and they came around, and all the Japs were gone. There were dead Japs all around me. They were picking out the Marines and throwing all the bodies on a truck, and they cut all our dog tags off. They hauled us down to the cemetery in the coconut grove, and they dumped our bodies out. I ended up at the top of the pile. The driver came around close to the tailgate and thought I was coming alive, so he started running into the jungle screaming, and he didn't come back. This is really disturbing. They thought the guy was dead, and then the driver ran away. -Carissa Parkins 3/26/09 11:52 AM
An hour or so later, two corpsmen came by in a jeep, and they put me on a stretcher and hauled me to the hospital. They put me under a palm tree. From the stretcher, doctors told them to take this one out and bring in someone they can save. So I was there under a palm tree, and fresh troops started coming up the road. A ship came in with reinforcements, and an officer came over and said, "Take all the people out of the field hospital and put them on my ship and I'll take them back to Buttons [Base Buttons in Esp�ritu Santo]." And he said, "And that one under the palm tree, put him in my cabin and call the ship surgeon." He said, "You're going to be on the bridge all the way back to Buttons." I was conscious but couldn't talk. My mouth was full of caked blood. I was wearing the same clothes for almost two months.
This ship surgeon got my lung uncollapsed, and he pumped all the blood out of it and had me all cleaned up. After we made port, they put me on a plane to New Zealand. My mother got a check from my insurance saying I was dead the same day she got a letter from me written by a nurse at hospital in New Zealand.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
:)
The Marines on Guadalcanal
TOM LYONS, 1st Parachute Battalion
Converted for the Web from "Into The Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat" by Patrick K. O'Donnell
Jump to: The Marines on Guadalcanal John Sweeney, 1st Raider BattalionRobert Youngdeer of E-Company John Sweeney commands B-CompanyDave Taber at Bloody Ridge Ira Gilliand throwing grenadesJohn Mielke defends Henderson Field Tom Lyons, 1st Parachute Battalion"Horse Collar" James Smith Frank Guidone and the mortar squadDean Winters, 2nd Raider Battalion Ray Bauml on the Long Patrol
Outnumbered and running out of ammunition, Edson's three hundred defenders faced their gravest threat when a large element of the Japanese III Battalion, 124th Infantry seemed poised to overrun the left side of the knoll. Edson ordered the Marine parachutists holding that side of the knoll to counterattack immediately. But the parachute battalion's commanding officer was nowhere to be found. He was relieved on the spot by Edson, and Captain Harry Torgerson was placed in command. Torgerson assembled two companies of parachutists and launched them in a desperate counterattack, saving the left flank of the line. After the Marines regained the line, the fighting became hand-to-hand, as parachutist Tom Lyons vividly remembers.
When they started raking us with a machine gun, that pissed me off, so I got up and crawled through the grass. The grass was about a foot and a half tall off the side of that hill, and I crawled up and around to the side of the machine gun. Bullets were flying everywhere, but the grass was high enough that it would partially hide you. I got almost to the machine gun before I was detected. They didn't see me until I stood up. There were so many people running around you couldn't shoot anybody. I stood up and threw a hand grenade, and just as I threw the grenade, they swung the gun around and ripped me up through the middle. I took several bullets; most of them went all the way through, and one missed my heart by about a half an inch. It knocked me ass over tin cup down the hill. The first one stung like hell. It really hurt. But the others after that didn't hurt at all. It seemed like I just left my body and was floating up in the air looking down at everything going on.
I saw a Jap come out, and he stepped on my stomach and he stabbed me in the throat with his bayonet. It went through the side of my neck and into the ground behind me but it didn't hurt. Jesse Youngdeer [Robert Youngdeer's brother] was coming up the trail with a box of hand grenades, and this Jap stepped off me and instead of finishing me off, he made a thrust at Youngdeer. [Youngdeer] stopped it with the box of hand grenades, and then he grabbed the Jap's rifle and was trying to wrestle it out of his hands. The Jap had stabbed him just above the knee. Another Marine ran up with his bayonet, and he tried to stab the Jap, and he got confused and stabbed Youngdeer right in the leg.
My eyes were wide open. I could see everything that was going on. I thought I was seeing it from fifty feet above. When they started firing the 105s [artillery] right in my area, I got some shrapnel in the right side of my chest. The bullets and shells were passing right over where I was floating around up there, and I was afraid they were going to hit me.
Morning came, and they came around, and all the Japs were gone. There were dead Japs all around me. They were picking out the Marines and throwing all the bodies on a truck, and they cut all our dog tags off. They hauled us down to the cemetery in the coconut grove, and they dumped our bodies out. I ended up at the top of the pile. The driver came around close to the tailgate and thought I was coming alive, so he started running into the jungle screaming, and he didn't come back. This is really disturbing. They thought the guy was dead, and then the driver ran away. -Carissa Parkins 3/26/09 11:52 AM
An hour or so later, two corpsmen came by in a jeep, and they put me on a stretcher and hauled me to the hospital. They put me under a palm tree. From the stretcher, doctors told them to take this one out and bring in someone they can save. So I was there under a palm tree, and fresh troops started coming up the road. A ship came in with reinforcements, and an officer came over and said, "Take all the people out of the field hospital and put them on my ship and I'll take them back to Buttons [Base Buttons in Esp�ritu Santo]." And he said, "And that one under the palm tree, put him in my cabin and call the ship surgeon." He said, "You're going to be on the bridge all the way back to Buttons." I was conscious but couldn't talk. My mouth was full of caked blood. I was wearing the same clothes for almost two months.
This ship surgeon got my lung uncollapsed, and he pumped all the blood out of it and had me all cleaned up. After we made port, they put me on a plane to New Zealand. My mother got a check from my insurance saying I was dead the same day she got a letter from me written by a nurse at hospital in New Zealand.
TOM LYONS, 1st Parachute Battalion
Converted for the Web from "Into The Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat" by Patrick K. O'Donnell
Jump to: The Marines on Guadalcanal John Sweeney, 1st Raider BattalionRobert Youngdeer of E-Company John Sweeney commands B-CompanyDave Taber at Bloody Ridge Ira Gilliand throwing grenadesJohn Mielke defends Henderson Field Tom Lyons, 1st Parachute Battalion"Horse Collar" James Smith Frank Guidone and the mortar squadDean Winters, 2nd Raider Battalion Ray Bauml on the Long Patrol
Outnumbered and running out of ammunition, Edson's three hundred defenders faced their gravest threat when a large element of the Japanese III Battalion, 124th Infantry seemed poised to overrun the left side of the knoll. Edson ordered the Marine parachutists holding that side of the knoll to counterattack immediately. But the parachute battalion's commanding officer was nowhere to be found. He was relieved on the spot by Edson, and Captain Harry Torgerson was placed in command. Torgerson assembled two companies of parachutists and launched them in a desperate counterattack, saving the left flank of the line. After the Marines regained the line, the fighting became hand-to-hand, as parachutist Tom Lyons vividly remembers.
When they started raking us with a machine gun, that pissed me off, so I got up and crawled through the grass. The grass was about a foot and a half tall off the side of that hill, and I crawled up and around to the side of the machine gun. Bullets were flying everywhere, but the grass was high enough that it would partially hide you. I got almost to the machine gun before I was detected. They didn't see me until I stood up. There were so many people running around you couldn't shoot anybody. I stood up and threw a hand grenade, and just as I threw the grenade, they swung the gun around and ripped me up through the middle. I took several bullets; most of them went all the way through, and one missed my heart by about a half an inch. It knocked me ass over tin cup down the hill. The first one stung like hell. It really hurt. But the others after that didn't hurt at all. It seemed like I just left my body and was floating up in the air looking down at everything going on.
I saw a Jap come out, and he stepped on my stomach and he stabbed me in the throat with his bayonet. It went through the side of my neck and into the ground behind me but it didn't hurt. Jesse Youngdeer [Robert Youngdeer's brother] was coming up the trail with a box of hand grenades, and this Jap stepped off me and instead of finishing me off, he made a thrust at Youngdeer. [Youngdeer] stopped it with the box of hand grenades, and then he grabbed the Jap's rifle and was trying to wrestle it out of his hands. The Jap had stabbed him just above the knee. Another Marine ran up with his bayonet, and he tried to stab the Jap, and he got confused and stabbed Youngdeer right in the leg.
My eyes were wide open. I could see everything that was going on. I thought I was seeing it from fifty feet above. When they started firing the 105s [artillery] right in my area, I got some shrapnel in the right side of my chest. The bullets and shells were passing right over where I was floating around up there, and I was afraid they were going to hit me.
Morning came, and they came around, and all the Japs were gone. There were dead Japs all around me. They were picking out the Marines and throwing all the bodies on a truck, and they cut all our dog tags off. They hauled us down to the cemetery in the coconut grove, and they dumped our bodies out. I ended up at the top of the pile. The driver came around close to the tailgate and thought I was coming alive, so he started running into the jungle screaming, and he didn't come back. This is really disturbing. They thought the guy was dead, and then the driver ran away. -Carissa Parkins 3/26/09 11:52 AM
An hour or so later, two corpsmen came by in a jeep, and they put me on a stretcher and hauled me to the hospital. They put me under a palm tree. From the stretcher, doctors told them to take this one out and bring in someone they can save. So I was there under a palm tree, and fresh troops started coming up the road. A ship came in with reinforcements, and an officer came over and said, "Take all the people out of the field hospital and put them on my ship and I'll take them back to Buttons [Base Buttons in Esp�ritu Santo]." And he said, "And that one under the palm tree, put him in my cabin and call the ship surgeon." He said, "You're going to be on the bridge all the way back to Buttons." I was conscious but couldn't talk. My mouth was full of caked blood. I was wearing the same clothes for almost two months.
This ship surgeon got my lung uncollapsed, and he pumped all the blood out of it and had me all cleaned up. After we made port, they put me on a plane to New Zealand. My mother got a check from my insurance saying I was dead the same day she got a letter from me written by a nurse at hospital in New Zealand.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Q's
1. How does a person make money on an investment?
-Buy low and sell high.
2. What makes 'cheap credit' mean?
-Cheap credit is mean because they are targeting people who have troble with their credit and they have very high interest rates.
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3. What is 'buying on margin' mean?
-The person does not have the money to pay back the loan, and the only reason they can pay it off is because they made money off of it.
- You figure that you can sell the product, and you are out the 30 dollars.
(refer to board)
-Stung the economy.
Betting the margin will keep going up4. How is 'speculation' different from 'investment'?
-People would buy and sell quick stocks quickly to make a quick buck.
Because of the buying and selling stock value increased.
5. How does 'panic selling' start?
-When everyone tried to sell everything at the same time.
-When everyone tried to sell, and no one wanted to buy, or could afford to buy.
6. How can high unemployment start a negative economic cycle?
-When people don't have jobs you have no money to buy stuff.
The more people that get fired, the more stuff that doesn't get sold.
Unemployment goes up^ and productivity goes down.
7. How did increases in technology contribute to overproduction in the 1920's?
-We came up with everything and all the ideas -----> Then they made it.
- Before we made it and they came up with it.
-It gives people jobs, and more people are working to produce stuff.
8. What is meant by 'uneven distribution of wealth? Is it a bad thing?
-That some people have more money than others.
- Yes, this is a bad thing because more money is going to some people, than others.
9. What is a tariff, and why don't they seem to work in the modern economy (post-WWI)?
-A tariff raises the price.
-It's an import tax.
10. What is 'rugged individualism? Is it real?
-Rugged individualism is an idea. In america we like to think that we are self made man and women.
-We make ourselves and our own destiny.
-It is true of all america and it mostly with republican.
-11. What is a Hooverville, and why is it called that?-10000 to 20000 have lost there homes and jobs.
-homeless people grouping together=hooverville
-Buy low and sell high.
2. What makes 'cheap credit' mean?
-Cheap credit is mean because they are targeting people who have troble with their credit and they have very high interest rates.
-
3. What is 'buying on margin' mean?
-The person does not have the money to pay back the loan, and the only reason they can pay it off is because they made money off of it.
- You figure that you can sell the product, and you are out the 30 dollars.
(refer to board)
-Stung the economy.
Betting the margin will keep going up4. How is 'speculation' different from 'investment'?
-People would buy and sell quick stocks quickly to make a quick buck.
Because of the buying and selling stock value increased.
5. How does 'panic selling' start?
-When everyone tried to sell everything at the same time.
-When everyone tried to sell, and no one wanted to buy, or could afford to buy.
6. How can high unemployment start a negative economic cycle?
-When people don't have jobs you have no money to buy stuff.
The more people that get fired, the more stuff that doesn't get sold.
Unemployment goes up^ and productivity goes down.
7. How did increases in technology contribute to overproduction in the 1920's?
-We came up with everything and all the ideas -----> Then they made it.
- Before we made it and they came up with it.
-It gives people jobs, and more people are working to produce stuff.
8. What is meant by 'uneven distribution of wealth? Is it a bad thing?
-That some people have more money than others.
- Yes, this is a bad thing because more money is going to some people, than others.
9. What is a tariff, and why don't they seem to work in the modern economy (post-WWI)?
-A tariff raises the price.
-It's an import tax.
10. What is 'rugged individualism? Is it real?
-Rugged individualism is an idea. In america we like to think that we are self made man and women.
-We make ourselves and our own destiny.
-It is true of all america and it mostly with republican.
-11. What is a Hooverville, and why is it called that?-10000 to 20000 have lost there homes and jobs.
-homeless people grouping together=hooverville
Monday, February 9, 2009
DRUGGG WARRR STUFFFFFF
In 1971 President Nixon declared the War on Drugs.
"When Reagan assumes office and prioritizes the war on drugs, extradition becomes the greatest fear of the Colombian traffickers."
"Reagan responds by creating a cabinet-level task force, the Vice President's Task Force on South Florida. Headed by George Bush, it combines agents from the DEA, Customs, FBI, ATF, IRS, Army and Navy to mobilize against drug traffickers. Reagan later create s several other regional task forces throughout the U.S."
"Reagan responds by creating a cabinet-level task force, the Vice President's Task Force on South Florida. Headed by George Bush, it combines agents from the DEA, Customs, FBI, ATF, IRS, Army and Navy to mobilize against drug traffickers. Reagan later create s several other regional task forces throughout the U.S."
"Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign becomes a centerpiece of the Reagan administration's anti-drug campaign. The movement focuses on white, middle class children and is funded by corporate and private donations."
"1986
Anti-Drug Abuse Act - Mandatory Sentences
President Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, instituting mandatory sentences for drug-related crimes.
In conjunction with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, the new law raised federal penalties for marijuana possession and dealing, basing the penalties on the amount of the drug involved. Possession of 100 marijuana plants received the same penalty as possession of 100 grams of heroin.
A later amendment to the Anti-Drug Abuse Act established a three strikes and you're out policy, requiring life sentences for repeat drug offenders, and providing for the death penalty for drug kingpins. "
Anti-Drug Abuse Act - Mandatory Sentences
President Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, instituting mandatory sentences for drug-related crimes.
In conjunction with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, the new law raised federal penalties for marijuana possession and dealing, basing the penalties on the amount of the drug involved. Possession of 100 marijuana plants received the same penalty as possession of 100 grams of heroin.
A later amendment to the Anti-Drug Abuse Act established a three strikes and you're out policy, requiring life sentences for repeat drug offenders, and providing for the death penalty for drug kingpins. "
The drug war of nowwww:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/16/eveningnews/main4672172.shtml?source=search_story
Thursday, February 5, 2009
- What are the problems America Faces?
- We are facing sustained inflation
- Fixed income
- Unemployment
- tax system tax
- public spending
- deficits
- economic upheavals
- economy.
- Government
- What are Reagan's solutions?
No groups singled out
Interest group-
Healthy vigorous growing economy.
Revived economy
What policy decisions might Reagan make according to this-
MILITARY!!!!
Using strength.
:D
What does this event reveal about Reagan's Relationship to the country as a leader?
How did this event effect Reagan's roll with the Am. public?
Who is the audience for this speech?
The audience for the speech is a group of christians.
;)
What is the argument Reagan makes here?
He is talking a lot about god and communism and he was using god to argue. I think he does this so he can make his speech seem more important, and to make the religious groups pay more attention to what he was saying and his argumentt.
What do you think Reagan's agenda is in this speech?
I think Reagans agenda was to get the attention of everyone watching, and to make a huge point.
10. What is the message here?
11. How does the ad use Carter?
12. What does the ad suggest about the character/morals of the country?
Friday, January 30, 2009
70's Post
70’s
Episode Watched: Brady Bunch
Focusing on: Family Life
Before the 70’s: Life was very simple. Families ate together, there were not nearly as many divorces. The mothers were very young. The mothers stayed home and cooked and cleaned, while the man was out working. Children could play outdoors without adult supervison. They only had one tv in the whole house, as well as one phone. It was a very simple life before the 70's. There were only 385,000 divorces before the 70's, which is across the ENTIRE United States.
During the 70's: In the 70's everthing changed, well, to an extent. There were still the happy little homes, like the Brady's and even though they weren't perfect, because they too came from split families, but got along all too well, with one another. They made life look perfect. They could solve an issue in 30 minutes flat. The mothers in the households started to work more than they did in the 50's or say the 60's. Then you watch a show like That 70's Show that is trying to depict the 70's, and they look like the most dysfunctional family. But back then, the parents actually disciplined their child for doing wrong, and not just let them off the hook. Divorce's in the 70's also increased to about around 800,000 or 900,000 which is triple the amount before the 70's. The 70's changed alot for the people also. They had Nixon for a president, and that led to the Watergate scandal. Nixon also promised to end the Vietnam war, which tore through families across the nation. The seventies were a critical time for families. They didn't really frown upon divorce, and there were tons of split up families.
After the 70's- The changes since the 70's are phenomenal. Divorce is a consistant thing, it seems more are divorced than together. There are more split families than ever before. No one even bats an eyelash to a divorce, yet, are surprised if parents are still together. Now, almost every child across the nation has a cell phone, computer, and a myspace or facebook, when before these never even existed. The music has changed too, before the music was happyish, and upbeat, now most music is down. We have had a war raging on for 7 years, and really have no solution on how to end it. Some things have also gotten better, we now have our first African American president, and we are more technology sophisticated, so we can make computers and such, to help us. Everything is a lot different.
Episode Watched: Brady Bunch
Focusing on: Family Life
Before the 70’s: Life was very simple. Families ate together, there were not nearly as many divorces. The mothers were very young. The mothers stayed home and cooked and cleaned, while the man was out working. Children could play outdoors without adult supervison. They only had one tv in the whole house, as well as one phone. It was a very simple life before the 70's. There were only 385,000 divorces before the 70's, which is across the ENTIRE United States.
During the 70's: In the 70's everthing changed, well, to an extent. There were still the happy little homes, like the Brady's and even though they weren't perfect, because they too came from split families, but got along all too well, with one another. They made life look perfect. They could solve an issue in 30 minutes flat. The mothers in the households started to work more than they did in the 50's or say the 60's. Then you watch a show like That 70's Show that is trying to depict the 70's, and they look like the most dysfunctional family. But back then, the parents actually disciplined their child for doing wrong, and not just let them off the hook. Divorce's in the 70's also increased to about around 800,000 or 900,000 which is triple the amount before the 70's. The 70's changed alot for the people also. They had Nixon for a president, and that led to the Watergate scandal. Nixon also promised to end the Vietnam war, which tore through families across the nation. The seventies were a critical time for families. They didn't really frown upon divorce, and there were tons of split up families.
After the 70's- The changes since the 70's are phenomenal. Divorce is a consistant thing, it seems more are divorced than together. There are more split families than ever before. No one even bats an eyelash to a divorce, yet, are surprised if parents are still together. Now, almost every child across the nation has a cell phone, computer, and a myspace or facebook, when before these never even existed. The music has changed too, before the music was happyish, and upbeat, now most music is down. We have had a war raging on for 7 years, and really have no solution on how to end it. Some things have also gotten better, we now have our first African American president, and we are more technology sophisticated, so we can make computers and such, to help us. Everything is a lot different.
CHAT WITH KRISTEN
friesiangrl14: hey
me: Hi.
khamilton403: hi
me: Hi Kiana.
friesiangrl14: ok so i think that he was right and the real threat of america is faith in our country and that we are all loosing that faith.
me: The yellow means then, that the country as one is losing faith, and it's not gas, oil, or anything like that. He also states that the economy will get better, but we need to have faith that it will get better. He also says that the government can't do it all alone.
khamilton403: he mentions how this didnt happen over night, and that its goin to take more then just a copple of weeks to get out of it. carissa you were right we all needed to come together as a nation not just the goverment.
friesiangrl14: To answer back to the second part of this question in the yellow i would say that this would never leave this country though maybe not noticed it will always be here.
what do you think carissa
??
me: In my opinion, I don't think that specific threat is with us today. I think that we have more of a threat of economy today. The economy is really bad, now it's not as much as us having a problem of faith, it's the economy bringing us down now.
Now onto the red.
friesiangrl14: ok
:)
me: I read the first red paragraph and what Jimmy Carter is saying is that we used to be a strong country that is run on our faith in god. Now we are selfish and we basically pay alot of attention to what we have, and what can be bought for us. But even that can't help fill the void we have. :D
friesiangrl14: This paragraph that i had just read talks about how america needs to look up and that
if we dont then nothing will happen and what you are letting yourself beliving it will come true.
What about the third?
me: Yeahhh. On too green. :D
Third paragraph you mean I get it!!!!
friesiangrl14: no carissa we still have another paragraph lol
hehe someones a loser
;p
me: We are supposed to be doing are work. Not making smiley faces.
friesiangrl14: ok i def. think that this paragraph is not completely true because the reason we treat some of these facilitys like we do is because of the reaction that we get back from these places. For example our schools, well of course we are going to have disrespect for this if they raise our taxes to keep paying for things not needed.
NOW on to the next question....
me: YEAHHHHHH.
friesiangrl14: ok
me: green.
friesiangrl14: lol
I do think that this relates to america today what about you?
me: Yeah, how do you expect us to respect them when we buy things for schools, and stuff we don't. Okay now onto green.
Wow, I just repeated youuu. Hahaha. But I agree comp-letely with you. :D
friesiangrl14: okay.. someones lossin there mind
:0
me: Are we on green nowwww?
friesiangrl14: yessss
me: So in green we talk about how he is makiing a bunch of points starting with how we need to not use a lot of foreign oil. The second point is how he will use his presidential authority to make sure we have a quota. The third is to conserve energy in a way.
me: Hi.
khamilton403: hi
me: Hi Kiana.
friesiangrl14: ok so i think that he was right and the real threat of america is faith in our country and that we are all loosing that faith.
me: The yellow means then, that the country as one is losing faith, and it's not gas, oil, or anything like that. He also states that the economy will get better, but we need to have faith that it will get better. He also says that the government can't do it all alone.
khamilton403: he mentions how this didnt happen over night, and that its goin to take more then just a copple of weeks to get out of it. carissa you were right we all needed to come together as a nation not just the goverment.
friesiangrl14: To answer back to the second part of this question in the yellow i would say that this would never leave this country though maybe not noticed it will always be here.
what do you think carissa
??
me: In my opinion, I don't think that specific threat is with us today. I think that we have more of a threat of economy today. The economy is really bad, now it's not as much as us having a problem of faith, it's the economy bringing us down now.
Now onto the red.
friesiangrl14: ok
:)
me: I read the first red paragraph and what Jimmy Carter is saying is that we used to be a strong country that is run on our faith in god. Now we are selfish and we basically pay alot of attention to what we have, and what can be bought for us. But even that can't help fill the void we have. :D
friesiangrl14: This paragraph that i had just read talks about how america needs to look up and that
if we dont then nothing will happen and what you are letting yourself beliving it will come true.
What about the third?
me: Yeahhh. On too green. :D
Third paragraph you mean I get it!!!!
friesiangrl14: no carissa we still have another paragraph lol
hehe someones a loser
;p
me: We are supposed to be doing are work. Not making smiley faces.
friesiangrl14: ok i def. think that this paragraph is not completely true because the reason we treat some of these facilitys like we do is because of the reaction that we get back from these places. For example our schools, well of course we are going to have disrespect for this if they raise our taxes to keep paying for things not needed.
NOW on to the next question....
me: YEAHHHHHH.
friesiangrl14: ok
me: green.
friesiangrl14: lol
I do think that this relates to america today what about you?
me: Yeah, how do you expect us to respect them when we buy things for schools, and stuff we don't. Okay now onto green.
Wow, I just repeated youuu. Hahaha. But I agree comp-letely with you. :D
friesiangrl14: okay.. someones lossin there mind
:0
me: Are we on green nowwww?
friesiangrl14: yessss
me: So in green we talk about how he is makiing a bunch of points starting with how we need to not use a lot of foreign oil. The second point is how he will use his presidential authority to make sure we have a quota. The third is to conserve energy in a way.
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