Reply to Allen Richard from Kay Hosmer (‘77): Crown Point, Ind.

 

Mr. Richard, I will give my mother the compliment about her teaching abilities (since she doesn’t have a computer, so won’t read your kind words). Thank you!!

 

 

 

 

Minot Flooding

Posting from Wally Garbe: Minot, ND

 

Those of you who do not live in our area and out of state, may not understand the very serious problem Minot is in. The rain that we received in the Mouse river basin amounted to up to 4 to 5 inches in some areas. Mandatory evacuations are in process and they have only 24 hours to get out. This additional moisture has raised the river crest above the dikes that were in place and raised in the last several days. It is felt that the dikes will be topped and water will spread thru out the valley. How many people will be affected is any ones guess. One estimate I heard was 10,000 and my estimate is closer to 15,000. Where do you put that many people in 24 hours.

At this point, man has done everything he can and the rest is up to God’s plan.

 

 

Minot Flooding – Evacuations

Posting Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND

 

Hi Everyone,

 

I was composing an email about Minot’s flooding when I received this email from Sheila Grosgebauer. I decided to add info to this email and send it.

 

People living in “the valley” in Minot are to evacuate by tomorrow night. This includes a huge part of Minot. I’m very grateful Wally/I live on “South Hill”. This flood situation is going to get REALLY bad, not only in Minot, but all along the Mouse/Souris River.

 

Newburg has volunteered the use of their gym for people who need to evacuate. Bless them! When you get the order to evacuate, but have no place to go, what do you do???? That’s the dilemma MANY people who must evacuate, face. The situation is almost mind-boggling. I remember the flood of 1969, which was BAD. This year’s flood could be worse than the flood of 1969, as, at that time, the entire valley wasn’t required to evacuate. It’s possible people living along the river between Minot/Burlington might need to evacuate. Burlington is also being flooded. The river was full a couple of night ago, water lapping against dikes, etc., and the area received 5 more inches of rain that night. There was just a notice on TV that areas north of us received up to 2 inches today. More rain showers are predicted.

 

I’m not very good at navigating Facebook, but there are good videos of the flood in Minot/area on it. I don’t know if you type “Mouse River in Minot”, the videos will come up. Ruth, perhaps you can tell me how to do this/how this works.

 

I’m feeling much better (For those of you who might not have heard, I spent Monday to Friday last week in Trinity Hospital. I was loading my van to head to Bottineau when I got what I thought was a muscle spasm in my stomach. I thought it would go away, but it didn’t. That evening, Wally took me to the emergency room at Trinity. After lab work/a CAT scan, I was admitted to the hospital. It seems I had small intestine blockage.). If my doctor gives me the OK tomorrow, I plan to go to Bottineau either tomorrow/Thursday.

 

Neola

 

Mrs. Renick’s Bottineau High School class of 1964 in Grade 7

Subject:VN stats

There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010. The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.
Beginning at the apex on panel 1E and going out to the end of the East wall, appearing to recede into the earth (numbered 70E – May 25, 1968), then resuming at the end of the West wall, as the wall emerges from the earth (numbered 70W – continuing May 25, 1968) and ending with a date in 1975. Thus the war’s beginning and end meet. The war is complete, coming full circle, yet broken by the earth that bounds the angle’s open side and contained within the earth itself.
The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth, Mass. listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956.
His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.
There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
39,996on the Wall were just22or younger.

The largest age group, 8,283 were just 19 years old

3,103 were 18 years old.

12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.
5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.
One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.
997 soldiers were killed on theirfirst dayin Vietnam.
1,448 soldiers were killed on theirlast dayin Vietnan.
31 sets ofbrothersare on the Wall.
Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.
54 soldiers on the Wall attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia. I wonder why so many from one school.
8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.
244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.
Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.
West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.
The Marines of Morenci –They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci’s mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.
The Buddies of Midvale –LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam..
In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
The most casualty deaths for asingle daywas on January 31, 1968 ~245 deaths.
The most casualty deaths for asingle monthwas May 1968 – 2,415 casualties were incurred.
That’s 2,415 dead in a single month.

 

 

 

Pritchard/Miller Wedding

Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND

 

Johna is the daughter of Keith/Janet Pritchard of Bottineau, granddaughter of Corbin/Doris Smith Corbin (p. 605). Corbin/Doris owned the “shoe store” in Bottineau for many years, purchasing it from Mr. Charnholm. Doris’ sister, Beverly, was a member of the Class of 1957; another sister, Lois, 1958.

 

Keith is a physical therapist/head of the department at St. Andrews in Bottineau.

 

Neola