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Carol Troestler Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3827 Registration date : 2008-06-07 Age : 86 Location : Wisconsin
| Subject: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:09 am | |
| This morning I read a letter Abigail Adams sent to her husband shortly after the Battle of Bunker Hill, which really took place on Breed's Hill. She was near the battle and her husband was at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Dearest Friend,
The Day, perhaps the decisive Day is come on which the fate of America depends. My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
How many times have your "bursting hearts found vent at your pen" or keyboard?
Carol |
| | | alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:40 am | |
| Carol.
My bursting heart vented by my pen for 7 long months--during the Viet Nam War. Thank you if I had it to do again, I 'd have written a letter to my protesting Mother which said.
Dearest Mother.
Thank you for your unkind letter. I inform you I am not pregnant. and do not care what your friends think.
I will marry when I feel like it and not a day later. My weddng will be Sunday, December ??, 1966.
If you and your friends can remove your minds from your evil surmisings ,long enough to attend, fine.
I will have Christmas trees for decorations and my attendants will wear red velvet dresses. |
| | | zadaconnaway Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4017 Registration date : 2008-01-16 Age : 76 Location : Washington, USA
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:15 am | |
| Carol, I often offer courteous letters to my elected officials. I know not that it does any good in the grand theme of things, but it does my heart good. |
| | | alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:33 am | |
| Carol,
The best letter I ever wrote was to my daughter's future mother-in-law.
We returned from an idyllic trip to Tahiti. I received a letter I didn't fancy from her and my reply was masterful.
Dave was unimpressed, so I ran it by a friend. She laughed and said , What are you going to do with that letter?"
"I am going to mail it."
You will tear it in very tiny pieces and throw it in the garbage can ." she ordered.
One year later I sat eating beside the mother and very glad I had not mailed her the letter. |
| | | Dick Stodghill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3795 Registration date : 2008-05-04 Age : 98 Location : Akron, Ohio
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:01 am | |
| I thought this was about Abigail Browning, the rights and permissions manager at Dell. Darn it!
My uncle Joe Lynch married a divorced woman. His father, a devout Catholic, was outraged. He wrote a long nasty letter to Joe centering on his betrayal of his upbringing. Here is an excerpt of Joe's reply: “Religious liberty is the birthright of every American, whether it be your son or a native born Chinaman. That was the credo of the founders of America – Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Washington and all the rest of that immortal array. You are free to be an intolerant bigot if you like it that way and I am free to have no religion at all. Along with our right to religious freedom goes the obligation not to try to impose our religious notion on someone else. Then we are conforming to the true Americanism, which is the only Faith I care to know. It was good enough for the great men who are the fathers of our country and it is good enough for me whether your dead and long forgotten ancestors liked it or not.”
Like Alice, Joe didn't send the letter. It wouldn't have done any good. His father, J.T. Lynch, had five children that lived beyond infancy. Four either were divorced or married a divorced person. None followed the religion of their father or any other religion. Neither did any of his five grandchilden, but two were divorced. Poor J.T., a true martinet whose words went unheeded. |
| | | alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:09 pm | |
| Alice, Bill and I married in Dec. 63. My mother (far right) was freaking out and she and Bill's mother (3rd from right) were not speaking. The war had not started, nobody in the US had heard of The Beatles, but JFK was assassinated during my bridesmaids luncheon. Note color and fabric of their dresses. Ann |
| | | alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:27 pm | |
| Ann,
You got what I wanted. Beautiful-thanks for sharing. I knew it was a great idea. |
| | | Carol Troestler Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3827 Registration date : 2008-06-07 Age : 86 Location : Wisconsin
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:39 pm | |
| I got married Dec. 26,1959. You can see my wedding picture in the wedding picture gallery, but it is in black and white. I had thought of red velvet, but we decided that was what people would expect so my mother and I decided on electric blue with muffs and little hats. We had Christmas trees decorated in blue ornaments, a few of which I decorate my tree with each year. A few years ago my daughter made a quilt for our cabin and unknowingly included some scraps from the bridesmaid dresses that my mother had made.
No one was going to come to my wedding because I was marrying a Catholic in a Catholic Church, not the Episcopal Church where I was supposed to get married according to all relatives. Since no one was going to come we originally planned a wedding in our college town before everyone left for Christmas vacation, and when we scheduled that people finally realized we were serious. My best friend did not come. Many relatives did not come. But over the years they have told me I really did know what I was doing and my husband took very good care of his mother-in-law since his mother had died when he was 18.
I have written many unsent letters. I destroyed most of them a couple of years ago. I have often put my bursting heart on paper.
I have some treasured letters sent by my sixth grade teacher, my father and my great-grandmothers.
Carol |
| | | alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:55 pm | |
| Once when my mom was staying at my house, she went into my room, searched through my drawers and files, and read several of my journals. She was in some of them. They were never meant to be made public. They were exercises in venting anger onto the paper so that I would not have to carry it around. She showed them to my dad and brother, sobbing to them that I had ruined her life. After that, I always tossed the negative entries shortly after writing them. Even so, I have never been able to write with complete freedom. I always have the sense that the entries might be exposed.
Ann |
| | | Carol Troestler Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3827 Registration date : 2008-06-07 Age : 86 Location : Wisconsin
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:24 pm | |
| The letters I worry about my kids finding are the love letters between my husband and me. Some would be embarrassing and some I have thrown away. I have a 22 page letter he wrote me from Officer's Candidate School just before we got married, and used part of it in my Cuba book.
Carol |
| | | Carol Troestler Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3827 Registration date : 2008-06-07 Age : 86 Location : Wisconsin
| Subject: Re: A Quote from Abigail Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:32 pm | |
| Here's the part of the letter I put in the book.
“I don’t think that the next four and a half years that we spend in the service will be wasted. It’ll be a chance for us to see a lot of places and to really get set financially for a good start at some job in civilian life. We’ll have a lot of fine memories and it’ll give me a chance to get set in my ideas of what I want to do with my life.”
Carol |
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