[Spam] Re: [Vision2020] Thank You

[lfalen]

Since we ar telling childhood school stories here is mine. I went to a one room country schooll in the remote area of Owhyee County. There were outhouses and a well of sorts. It was mainly a sping that water was dipped out of.  My two brothers and I were half the school. all of the kids rode horseback to school. One rode about 8 miles. We were only about 2 miles. School started in the spring whenever the road opened up enough to get a teacher in there. We were snowed in for about 4 months. There was a teacherage where the teacher stayed. Due to the time element we went to school for only 8 months.
We said the pledge by placing our hand over the heart. I have never heard of it being done otherwise. I started to school in the spring of 1944.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Richard Schmidt" 44schmidt at earthlink.net
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:50:46 -0800
To: "Brent Bradberry" bbradber at moscow.com
Subject: [Spam] Re: [Vision2020] Thank You

> We went to a "modern" 3 room school (K-7) in the little town of Snover, MI. 
> We had indoor plumbing which was quite rare for small schools in those days. 
> Most other country schools were of the one room variety with 2 outhouses out 
> back. Most had a well with a hand pump. We lived on a farm 3/4 mile south 
> and walked to school. Dad & Mom didn't drive us because it was a short walk 
> and gas was rationed at that time. Some kids walked up to 1-3/4 miles to 
> school uphill both ways through 6' snow drifts (the uphill both ways and 
> through 6' snow drifts is a little deep)!! Country schools were located 
> fairly close together so kids could walk. In Michigan, counties are broken 
> up into townships and our township was 6 miles by 6 miles. We had 4 one room 
> country schools and our 3 room school in the township.
> 
> I lived in Tennessee a few years ago and remember an old timer talking about 
> walking to school 4-5 miles barefoot as they couldn't afford shoes. They did 
> have shoes to wear in winter though. You knew it was the truth because very 
> often you would see pictures of the whole school of kids taken in front of 
> the school and many did not have on shoes.
> 
> Dick
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brent Bradberry" <bbradber at moscow.com>
> To: "Richard Schmidt" <44schmidt at earthlink.net>
> Cc: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020" 
> <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Thank You
> 
> 
> > Richard - We are nearly contemporaries. I started school in Sept 1944 and 
> > remember the daily  pledge of allegiance (and stumbling over the words). 
> > I don't remember any  hand  gestures other than  the "hand over heart", 
> > but I do remember some classmates who were Jehovah's Witnesses. I think 
> > that neither I nor they knew why some of us said the pledge and others 
> > didn't. For us little kids it was just one of the mysteries of life.
> >    I also remember clearly, several years later, when the words "under 
> > God" were added. I don't recall any great hoohah about the addition, but 
> > it took a long time to relearn the pledge.
> >
> > Richard Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >> Tom,
> >>  Thanks for passing this on to everyone. I'm an old guy and when I 
> >> started school in September 1943 we sang "God Bless America" and then 
> >> said the Pledge of Allegiance first thing every morning. Our teacher 
> >> played the piano and also had a son fighting in Germany. At that time 
> >> when the pledge was said we started with our hands at our sides and then 
> >> when "to the flag" was said we extended our right arm with palm up on 
> >> about a 60 degree angle towards the flag. Our politicians who were just 
> >> about as stupid then as they are now decided we shouldn't do that any 
> >> more as they didn't want it to be confused with the way Hitler and the 
> >> Germans saluted with their right arms extended up on about a 45 degree 
> >> angle with the "palm down". We then started covering our heart with our 
> >> hand when the pledge was said. This is the first instance of "political 
> >> correctness" I can remember. I don't know if there are any other old 
> >> timers out there who did it that way or not.
> >>  Dick Schmidt
> >
> >
> > -- 
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> > Professor of Mathematics, emeritus
> > Lewis-Clark State College
> > Commander, U. S. Navy (retired)
> >
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