[Granville-Hough] 14 Apr 2009 - Daylight Savings Time...per Geronimo
Trustees for Granville W. Hough
gwhough-trust at oakapple.net
Sat Apr 15 05:23:49 PDT 2017
The following was in response to an email referring to a web site that
doesn't seem to have a reference to Geronimo and Daylight Savings Time
any more.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:52:02 -0700
From: Granville W Hough <gwhough at oakapple.net>
Subject: Fw: Daylight Savings Time...per Geronimo - 14 April 2009
Geronimo - the Apache Hero. It's a great attribution, but I believe
daylight saving time did not arrive until decades after Geronimo
departed. Also I wonder if Geronimo ever learned measurement in feet,
yards, or inches. Perhaps he did. According to the recollections of
people at Fort Sill, he did know the difference between good whiskey and
bad, but turned down none. When he got too drunk to navigate, it is
recalled he checked himself into the Fort Sill prison for a free and
warm night's sleep. He may indeed have learned something about Army
blankets there. In the 1950s, one point of interest at Fort Sill was
Geronimo's cell, where he actually slept. He was born in 1829 and died
at Fort Sill 17 Feb 1909, where he was buried in the Fort Sill Cemetery.
He had been a prisoner of war in Florida, Alabama, and Fort Sill since
1886. It is said white grave robbers desecrated his grave and took his
skull. Some of his descendants lived not far from Fort Sill, where they
were considered industrious and innovative cattle ranchers. Others went
back to Arizona when their clan was allowed to do so after a generation
of exile..
There are indeed quotes credited to Geronimo. ""I cannot think that we
are useless, or God would not have created us. There is one God looking
down on us all. We are all children of one God. The sun, the darkness,
the winds are all listening to what we have to say."
"When a child, my mother taught me to kneel and pray to Usen (the one
God) for strength, health, wisdom, and protection. Sometimes we prayed
in silence, sometimes each one prayed aloud, sometimes one person prayed
for us all." No pope required.
It is probable that the legend of Geronimo will long outlive the record
of any soldier or Army Commander who fought him or had control of him
during his 23 years as a prisoner of war.
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