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<div>An update on the story in the lyrics: in 1988 the Pima's settled
their water rights claim and are now receiving their share of water
via the Salt River and Central Arizona Projects.</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
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<div>At 11:26 AM -0700 5/27/07, Tom Hansen wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Thanks, TL.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Although Ira Hayes was not afforded the same
recognition as Audie Murphy, he is no less a hero.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">"Ballad of Ira Hayes" By Johnny
Cash</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Ballad_of_Ira_Hayes.mp3"><font
face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"
>http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Ballad_of_Ira_Hayes.mp3</font></a
></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">"Ballad of Ira Hayes"</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">written by Peter LaFarge</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Ira Hayes, Ira Hayes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">CHORUS:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">"Call him drunken Ira Hayes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">He won't answer anymore</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Nor the Marine that went to war</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Gather round me people there's a story I would
tell</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">About a brave young Indian you should remember
well</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">From the land of the Pima Indian</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">A proud and noble band</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona
land</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Down the ditches for a thousand
years</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">The water grew Ira's peoples'
crops</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">'Till the white man stole the water
rights</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">And the sparklin' water stopped</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Now Ira's folks were hungry</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">And their land grew crops of weeds</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">When war came, Ira volunteered</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">And forgot the white man's greed</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">CHORUS:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Call him drunken Ira Hayes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">He won't answer anymore</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Nor the Marine that went to war</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">There they battled up Iwo Jima's
hill,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Two hundred and fifty men</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">But only twenty-seven lived</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">To walk back down again</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">And when the fight was over</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">And when Old Glory raised</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Among the men who held it high</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Was the Indian, Ira Hayes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">CHORUS:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Call him drunken Ira Hayes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">He won't answer anymore</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Nor the Marine that went to war</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Ira returned a hero</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Celebrated through the land</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">He was wined and speeched and
honored;</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Everybody shook his hand</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">But he was just a Pima Indian</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">No water, no crops, no chance</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">At home nobody cared what Ira'd
done</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">And when did the Indians dance</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">CHORUS:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Call him drunken Ira Hayes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">He won't answer anymore</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Nor the Marine that went to war</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Then Ira started drinkin' hard;</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Jail was often his home</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">They'd let him raise the flag and lower
it</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">like you'd throw a dog a bone!</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">He died drunk one mornin'</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Alone in the land he fought to
save</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Two inches of water in a lonely
ditch</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Was a grave for Ira Hayes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">CHORUS:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Call him drunken Ira Hayes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">He won't answer anymore</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Nor the Marine that went to war</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">But his land is just as dry</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">And his ghost is lyin' thirsty</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">In the ditch where Ira died."</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">------------</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Seeya round town, Moscow.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Tom Hansen</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Moscow, Idaho</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Tahoma"
size="-1"><b>From:</b> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<b> On Behalf Of</b> Tim
Lohrmann<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Ira Hayes' Story: remember all who
fought</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://thegoldweb.com/voices/irahayes.htm"><font
face="Times New Roman">http://thegoldweb.com/voices/irahayes.htm</font
></a></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">The link
above does a pretty good job of telling the story of Ira Hayes, one of
the marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima in one of the
most memorable photographs of WWII.</font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">Although
Hayes wasn't actually killed in action, his story seems well worth
remembering on Memorial Day.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">His story is
just one of thousands of stories of veterans who were praised as
heroes, but then forgotten and ignored---with tragic
consequences---when the fighting was over.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">We should
never forget those who died in combat.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">Neither
should we forget those who come home with the scars of
war.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">They deserve
much better than the neglect Hayes, and millions of others, have
received when they returned.</font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman">TL</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">"Those
'technicalities' have a name, Bobby. They're called the Bill of
Rights.</font></blockquote>
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