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TELEGRAPH SERVICE IN EARLY ALABAMA

(from History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2

By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen)

The telegraph service is a public utilities for the transmission of messages by means of the Morse, or other code, over electrically operated instruments and wires. The companies in 1919 engaged in commercial telegraphic service in Alabama were the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. and the Western Union Telegraph Co. Both were interstate companies, having extensive systems of wires and local offices, of which their Alabama properties form but a small part. Besides the facilities of the companies which perform a general commercial service for the public, telegraph lines are maintained by most of the railroad companies for the transmission of messages between their own officials and employees, and for use in dispatching their trains.

Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol. I

(A few weeks ago, I requested readers to email stories of the Viet Nam era to share. This is one of the stories emailed to me. I will be publishing several more in the month of January. Hopefully, we as a nation have learned and will not make the same mistakes in treatment of our soldiers again.)

MY FATHER'S VIET NAM EXPERIENCE

by

Candice Goodyear

My father James Paul Goodyear along with his four brothers Jerry, Fred, Bobby and Walter served in the Military during the Vietnam War. My father did not share a lot of what happened over there but he did share quite a bit of what happened when he returned.

Once I asked him about his experience over there in Vietnam and he said it was too gruesome to talk about because there was so much blood shed like watching your best friend being decapitated right next to you. He also said that he didn't talk about it because he didn't want to relive it. He said he still had nightmares every once in a while.

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WEST FLORIDA ANNEXATION COMMISSION

(transcribed from History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2

By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen)

A commission of three members, to be appointed by the governor, was authorized by the Alabama Legislature, March 4, 1901, to confer with a like commission on the part of Florida, to provide for the annexation to Alabama of that part of Florida known as "West Florida." The commission is empowered to do and perform all acts requisite and necessary to perfect and consummate an agreement of cession, but no such agreement is to be binding until ratified by the Legislature of Alabama and approved by the governor. The territory to be annexed is described as: "All the said territory and jurisdiction now held by the State of Florida in and to and over that portion of the territory of the State of Florida lying and being west of the thread of the Chattahoochee and Appalachlcola rivers and west of a line running due south from the thread of the mouth of the Appalachlcola river, bending west so as to pass between the islands of St. George and St. Vincent, known and called West Florida." In accordance with the authority thus conferred, Gov. Jelks appointed William L. Martin, Richard C. Jones and Samuel Blackwell as commissioners. So far as known, however, the commissioners never qualified nor organized, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Jones are now (1916) deceased.

The annexation of West Florida to Alabama

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(A few weeks ago, I requested readers to email stories of the Viet Nam era to share. This is one of the stories emailed to me. I will be publishing several more in the month of January. Hopefully, we as a nation have learned and will not make the same mistakes in treatment of our soldiers again.)

VIET NAM STORY

by

Elizabeth Anderson

During the Viet Nam war, the people of San Diego, CA where there is a Marine Base would put on their front lawns." Dogs and Marines Keep Off" My husband was in the Air Force and his duty was a Security Guard to the Air Force Academy. We went to eat at the Beef Eaters in Colorado Springs and were denied to eat there due to Mike being in his military uniform.

Mike was schedule to go to the are of Viet Nam, but I was 6 months along with Melody. He boarded the bus and they took him off. Instead we went from Fresno, CA to Colorado Springs where he did the above duty.

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Through the Valley: Vietnam, 1967-68 (Stackpole Military History Series)