Yes and importantly Golden Spike Historical Park stands today as a permanent reminder to remember the thousands of workers who built the railroads and built early America.
Just went out there yesterday. Very interesting place! Spent a few hours just walking around and exploring, trying to figure out what was what. Like one area had a lot of broken plates/cups, canned items, and bottles. I was thinking a general store until I saw a plate shard that had "hotel" stamped on it. So I'm assuming a hotel stood there! Maybe!
Thank you for pointing out the problem of decendants of enslavers making excuses or white washing what thier ancestors did. I'm a direct decendant of James Flake, the man who enslaved Green Flake. The family lore that my father told me as a child is that James didn't buy Green but that Green was a wedding gift from his parents. I was also told that he treated his slaves very well and that when he joined the church he freed all his slaves but his slaves decided to stay and continue working for him. Now that I'm grown I've done some research on the matter. While it IS true that Green was a wedding gift, I've found no evidence of James being a benevolent enslaver. I've also found evidence that the Flakes gave, or attempted to give (this point is a bit fuzzy) Green as tithing back pay to Brigham Young.
The dim-witted aristotle pulled other imbecilic ideas out of his *ss, including: the oceans are higher than the land, a heavy objects fall faster than lighter objects. The last one could have been easily disproven by anybody with half a brain, but for 1500 years, nobody did. This helps explain why people can be so gullible. Ms. Leavitts' probing intellect was far superior to aristotle's, whose manner of "thinking" was to not really think at all. he was a blowhard.
My son just headed here to work in the tourism industry at a resort. We reside in Mississippi one of the most racist places in the world, and as "Black American" my husband and I have actually been able to give our children a good life here. Are there issues absolutely, but we have been so blessed with diversity in our lives. My kids have friends from many different cultures, and why this is great for them to be well cultured , they still understand and know whom they are by being black in America as well. We know that racism is alive and well, and we can choose to make a prison for ourselves with racism or move forward and make the best out of lives that we possibly can.
You are a scammer, Cox! You pretend to be a Republican yet you are 100% a woke, liberal, democrat. You're a fraud. You're not MY governor. You want the US to be a communist country! Go crawl away.
A few other things, Jack was assigned to the 381st Bomb Group as a navigator in the John Houston crew in early May 1944. Jack and the Houston crew flew on D-Day. However, they were in the second round of planes that went out. They were supposed to bomb Caen but it was too cloudy, so they turned around and went back to the base. By mid-June, Jack was taken off the crew and began training as a lead navigator. Jack's first mission as lead navigator was on 22 June 1944. He flew with the Sam Peak crew on the B-17 "Spare Charlie". The plane was hit by 88 mm flak over Abbeville and the two parts of the plane crashed in the Marsh of Epagne-Epagnette. Six of the crew members were buried in Mareuil-Caubert a few days later. The ball turret gunner wasn't found until January 1947. He was discovered in the ball turret. Jack was found on 15 February 1945 near the Somme river within 100 yards of the wreckage. He was buried in Abbeville later that day. I have been working with a French local and we are currently in the process of having a memorial put up for the Spare Charlie crew in Epagne-Epagnette next year on the 79th anniversary of the crash.
Jack wrote two letters home. One to his family and one to his wife. The letter to his wife was discovered in the 381st Bomb Group's chaplain's book. 19 May 1944 Dear Mom, Pop and family, Now that I am actually here I see that the chances of my returning to all of you are quite slim, therefore I want to write this letter now while I am yet able. I want you to know how much I love each of you. You mean everything to me and it is the realization of your love that gives me the courage to continue. Mom and Pop - we have caused you innumerable hardships and sacrifices - sacrifices which you both made readily and gladly that we might get more from life. I have always determined to show my appreciation to you by enabling you both to have more of the pleasures of life - but this war has prevented my doing so for the past three years. If you receive this letter I shall be unable to fulfill my desires, for I have requested that this letter be forwarded only in the event I do not return. You have had many times more your share of illness and deaths in the family - still you have continued to exemplify what true parents should. I am sorry to add to your grief - but at all times realize that my thoughts are of you constantly and that I feel that in some small way I am helping to bring this wasteful war to a conclusion. We of the United States have something to fight for - never more fully have I realized that. There just is no other country with comparable wealth, advancement or standard of living. The USA is worth a sacrifice! Remember always that I love you each most fervently and I am proud of you. Consider, Mary, my wife, as having taken my place in the family circle and watch over each other. Love to my family Jack The following is the letter Jack wrote to his wife Mary: 19 May 1944 My Dear Wife, I have asked that this letter be delivered to you in the event that I am unable to return. Only one occurrence can prevent our reunion: if mishap does befall me I want you to know that I love you to the utmost human capacity to love. Since you entered my life everything in life has taken on a new and dearer meaning. The most commonplace activity, if shared with you, has been a joyful adventure. I am not a complete personality when we are separated. I have thanked God many times for permitting me the privilege of being your husband. Due to the war we were never able to lead the normal, happy, eventful life that our marriage promised us. But even the few short months that we were together foretold a completely successful marriage and made me realize even more fully what a truly wonderful and beautiful wife I had. Together, in days of peace, we would have undoubtedly led an exemplary married life and I am positive that with your inspiration I would have realized my most cherished ambitions. It is difficult to write a letter such as this-for I am now very much alive and very much in love with you. But nevertheless one must face the contingency of death under these circumstances and I do so want you to know now and forever of my devoted love for you. Mary, if I do not come back do not grieve unduly for me. You are still young, still beautiful, still desirable, still wonderful and much too great a woman to let such an event affect your complete life. Remember me always-yes: but do not lose sight of that which life has to offer you. You are one of the finest girls on the face of this earth in all respects and you deserve and undoubtedly will receive the best of everything that life has to offer. My most fervent wish is that this letter is never delivered! Love to my wife
Spencer Cox's LARGEST donor is STERLING a LGBTQ corp. They pay Cox MILLIONS of dollars to legislate on their behalf & against the people of Utah who he was elected to govern. Throw the BUM out! ❤️🙏
His wife made him larger then life. William B. Ide is the hero of The Bear Flag Republic, California. John C. Fremont was full of himself. L.D.S. is still quit powerful in water rights.
William Dame of Mountain Meadows Massacre infamy had slaves. Photos show them. One shows three wives and two slaves....sort of redundant but there is a small difference
While this has really valuable information, I find it problematic because there are no Black voices here. For example, why wasn't Dr. Ronald Coleman, U of U history professor, interviewed for this?
Wow way to downplay LDS racism... "some members owned slaves." The LDS Church owned black and Native slaves illegally in Mexico and Brigham Young said that black people needed to be enslaved. I can see we're trying not to offend any Mormons with the truth?
