Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  How much of our history and the people that have contributed to it do you really know? It would seem that if some of that history is not of some people’s liking the chance to learn may disappear as the books will be burned and it will be gone forever. Whenever there is conflict and it is written about afterwards the victors are the ones that get to tell the tale and they tell it the way that makes them look the best.

  The public face that is shown of those that are most known to us is not always the true image of the person. The stars of Hollywood oftentimes changed their names for various reasons, not manly enough, or sexy enough or someone else has a very similar name. Fame allows for a single name that identifies without doubt who you are talking about. 

  Other notable figures had names with nicknames attached to tell you a bit about the person’s appearance or tool of choice and things like that. Some of the characters were real and some fictional but all help to blend the history of our country.  Will there be a quiz, only if you make one.

  So let us take a person from our not so distant past, General Douglas MacAuther. Many people do not know that he had served 30 years in the US Army and retired and was hired by the President of Philippines to command his army before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. When Roosevelt declared war on Japan he ordered MacAuther back to serve as the commander of the forces in the Pacific.

  When the General left the Philippines to return to the States that is where the famous comment “I Shall Return” came from. So now he is back and served the US until 1947 or 1948 and got Japan online as a Democratic nation before he and President Truman got into an argument about continuing the war and linking up with Patton in Europe via China and Russia.

  At this time in his life he was not a young man but he did return to the Philippines and he finally got married. He had not married before because no woman he had ever shown an interest in was good enough by his mothers standards so he had waited till she passed before he married. This man had seen war, been recalled after a full career, and then fired by another President and yet the one person that he would not go against was his mother.

  Many lives have twists and turns that are totally unexpected. Relationships occur where none would have been suspected. Watch a few episodes of Finding Your Roots, Who Do You Think You Are, just to name a couple. 

  We have no idea what our ancestors got up to or who they got up to it with. The puzzle of the missing from Roanoke may be found by DNA of some native people that just happened through there a long time ago. As has been said before it is amazing how those people over there, across the tracks, or wherever, are not the kind you would want to marry, but if you happen to get into a fight with them, kill the men and bring the women home to breed with. What the hell have you got now.? The Neandertal were supposed to be below HomoSapien and yet we still find the gene in the DNA . It proves that humans are if anything lustful and will breed with most anything under the right conditions. Hence the saying “They all look better at closing time”.