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              LANDESVERBAND            

  NEWSLETTER AND MAGAZINE 

HISTORY AND POLITICS

02/24/13

April May June   2010    Volume 5 Number 2

 

 

MAY 2010

 

 Preparation for Memorial Day

 

Forwarded by Magdalena Metzger

It is the VETERAN,
not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the VETERAN,
not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the VETERAN,
not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the VETERAN,
not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.


It is the VETERAN,
not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.


It is the VETERAN,
not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.

 

It is the VETERAN

Who salutes the Flag,

 

It is the VETERAN
who serves under the Flag,

 

ETERNAL REST, GRANT THEM, O LORD,
AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.

 

We can be very proud

of our young men and women

in the service

no matter where they serve.

Bless them all!!!

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR-ARTICLE

MAY 2010

 Lindsay Allen

Oswego's Newest Principal

 

Forwarded by Thomas C. Thornton, M.D.

 

     The Administration is pleased to present Mrs. Lindsay Allen (nee Thornton) for the Principal of Southbury Elementary School.

 

     Lindsay is no stranger to District #308.  For the past year she has done a tremendous job as Assistant Principal at Southbury.  Prior to that, she was Assistant Principal at both Old Post and Grande Park.  The four years prior to that she was an outstanding teacher and mentor leader at Lakewood Creek.  Lindsay, who was originally a French major, began her teaching career overseas in France.

 

     Lindsay is a highly motivated, team player whose efforts have helped establish and maintain a positive learning environment at Southbury.  Her passionate commitment to the growth of students and staff make her a great successor to Phil Chapman.

 

     Lindsay attended Eastern Michigan for her Bachelors Degree, North Central for her teaching certification and Aurora University for her Masters Degree.  She also obtained her Gifted Endorsement from Lindenwood University in Missouri.

 

     By unanimous approval, Lindsay will begin her duties on July 1, 2010.

 

Information provided by Associate Superintendent Todd Colvin

 

 

 

 

May 18 2010 Press Release

 

 

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

MAY 2010

Anmerkungen zur Prinz-Eugen-Ausstellung

im

Unteren Belvedere in Wien

By Hans Dama

Forwarded by Eduard Grünwald


          Dem legendären Staatsmann und Feldherrn in habsburgischen Diensten, der sich auch als Philosoph und Kunstfreund große Verdienste erworben hat, ist im Wiener Unteren Belvedere unter dem Titel „Prinz Eugen – Feldherr, Philosoph und Kunst-freund“ eine umfangreiche Ausstellung gewidmet.

 

Das Wiener Belvedere mit zwei Schlössern und einer prachtvollen barocken Gartenanlage wurde Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts von Johann Lucas von Hildebrand als Sommerresidenz für Prinz Eugen errichtet – das richtige Ambiente für die Präsentation des bewegten Lebens dieser bedeutenden Persönlichkeit, die sich auch als Mäzen der Kunst und Wissenschaft präsentiert.

 

Ein Rundgang durch das ehemalige Wohnschloss, die Orangerie, die Gärten zeigt den Mythos wie den Menschen Prinz Eugen gleichzeitig lässt die barocke Farben- und Formenlust seiner Zeit wieder aufleben. 

Die Facette seines Lebens und Wirkens lassen sich auch auf Schloss Hof im östlichen Niederösterreich während einer Tour durch den prachtvollen Barockgarten rund um das Schloss entdecken.

 

Prinz Eugen (1663-1736) – von Geburt ein Franzose – war italienischer Abstammung: eigentlich Prinz Eugen Franz von Savoyen-Carignan-Soissons.

 

Der französische Philosoph Voltaire über Prinz Eugen: „Er hat die Größe Ludwigs XIV. und die Macht der Osmanen erschüttert; er hat das Reich regiert, und im Verlauf seiner Siege wie seiner Staatsverwaltung achtete er Gepräge wie Reichtümer gleichermaßen gering“.*

 

Die kleine zierliche Gestalt des Prinzen schien in Frankreich ein Hindernis für eine Militärlaufbahn zu sein, und man dachte, dass er eher ein Abbé werden sollte. Der französische Hof hatte, nachdem der König dem „kleinen Abbé“ die Aufnahme in seine Armee verweigert hatte, dessen Tugenden wohl gewaltig unterschätzt, und selbst der Sonnenkönig Ludwig XIV. bedauerte später diesen Schritt. Er, der eine Karriere des Prinzen in Frankreich nicht ermöglicht hatte, fand später anerkennende Worte für den  Verschmähten: „Dieser Prinz ist ein unnachahmliches Muster für alle Regenten und Staatsmänner; ich kann seine eiserne Treue und Anhänglichkeit an seinen Souverän, sein reines Gefühl von Vaterlandsliebe und den hohen Begriff von strenger Erfüllung seiner verschiedenen Pflichten nicht genügend bewundern; aber ich kann auch den Verlust, den Frankreich selbst an ihm erlitten hat, nicht genug bedauern.“ (überliefert von Madame de Maintenon an den Herzog von Richelieu Sartori 1808).

 

Liselotte von der Pfalz schrieb 1705 an die Raugräfin Louise von Baden: „Prinz Eugen hat ziemlich Inclination vor den geistlichen Stand, hätte ihm unser König eine Abtei gegeben oder nur eine Pension von 2000 Taler, so wäre er geistlich geworden und hier geblieben“. Und weitere ihrer Aussagen prägten nachhaltig das Bild des Prinzen für seine Nachwelt: „Er incommodiert sich nicht mit Damen, ein paar schöne Pagen wären besser sein Sach […]“ In Frankreich darob verspottet, kehrte Prinz Eugen seinem Vaterland den Rücken und erlebte im damaligen Kontinentalrivalen Frankreichs – in Österreich – einen kometenhaften Aufstieg zum Feldherrn und zu einem der einflussreichsten Staatsmännern seiner Zeit, der das Geschick des Landes und auch dessen Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte nachhaltig geprägt hat.

 

Als Diplomat und Ratgeber dreier Kaiser: Leopold I., Josef I. und Karl VI. (dem Vater Maria Theresias) reiste er quer durch Europa von einem Kriegsschauplatz zum anderen und spielte eine maßgebliche Rolle für die Zukunft des Hauses Habsburg.

 

Der Prinz, der sein Leben lang ein schlechtes Deutsch sprach – was Wunder, wenn Französisch doch die Sprache bei Hof und in den Kreisen des Hohen Adels war – widmete sich mit Sorgfalt und Geschmack der Ausstattung seiner Wiener Residenzen – das Winterpalais in der Himmelpfortgasse beherbergt heute das Finanzministerium – und seines Jagdschlosses Schloss Hof sowie dem Aufbau einer umfangreichen Sammlung von Gemälden und Kupferstichen, Inkunabeln, illuminierten Handschriften und Büchern.

 

Von wechselnden Kriegsschauplätzen aus korrespondierte er mit Künstlern und Kunsthandwerkern, Gartenarchitekten, Baumeistern und den führenden Persönlichkeiten seiner Zeit. Seine Erwerbungen schrieben europäische Kunstgeschichte und förderten den Kunsttransfer vom Hof des französischen Königs Ludwig XIV. nach Wien. Das naturwissenschaftliche Interesse des Prinzen bezeugt seine große Sammlung exotischer Tiere und Pflanzen.

 

In der Ausstellung werden Exponate seiner Kunstsammlungen, vornehmlich Gemälde der Turiner Galeria Sabauda und Zimelien der Bibliotheca Eugeniana aus der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, in Anlehnung an die originalen Raumdekorationen präsentiert. Die Themenräume der Ausstellung sind chronologisch geordnet und präsentieren die kulturellen Erwerbungen des Prinzen im Zusammenhang mit seinen Kriegs- und Siegeslagern:

1.  Der „kleine Abbé“ (Herkunft und Familie) 

2.  Bauherr im Felde (Kriegs- und Siegeslager – Fürsorge für seine Soldaten; Pfälzischer Erbfolgekrieg 1688-1696; Spanischer Erbfolgekrieg 1701-1714; Ungarische Rebellion; Italienfeldzug; Prinz Eugen und der Herzog von Marlborough; Schlacht von Höchstädt 1704; Friede von Rastatt 1714; Schlacht von Peterwardein 1716; Prinz Eugen, der „edle Ritter“)

3.  Sammler und Mäzen (Gemäldesammlung; Schlachtenbilder; Stadtpalais; Gartenpalais Belvedere; der Belvederegarten)

4.  Bücherfreund (Freundeskreis; Bibliotheca Eugeniana)

5.  Naturfreund (Schloss Hof; Eugens letztes Kommando – der Polnische Erbfolgekrieg)

6.  Tod (Tod, Erbschaft und Verklärung; Erbschaft und Verkauf; Kunsttransport von Wien nach Turin 1741; Verklärung)

 

Von der Wiener Albertina sind zahlreiche Kupferstiche aus der Sammlung des Prinzen Eugen ausgestellt, die sowohl auf die österreichische wie auf die europäische Geschichte Bezug nehmen, wobei jedoch die Darstellungen aus dem Besitz des Prinzen – Schlösser, Gärten, Menagerie u. a. m. überwiegen, dem Betrachter ein eindrucksvolles Bild über die Lebens- und Wirkungsweise des Prinzen und der damaligen Welt des Hochadels vermitteln.

 

Aus der Bibliotheca Eugeniana stammend, sind Porträts bedeutender Persönlichkeiten seiner Zeit ausgestellt: Philosophen, wie z. B. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, Jean Jacques Rousseau; Eleonore Gräfin Stratmann, die Gemahlin des kaiserlichen Reichshofrats Heinrich Graf Stratmann (1662-1707), die zum engeren bzw. intimen Kreis des Prinzen gehörte sowie Eleonore Magdalena Ursula Gräfin von Batthyány (1672-1741), die „schöne Lori“ genannt, die die politischenen Entscheidungen des Prinzen während seiner letzten Lebensjahre wesentlich beeinflusst hatte. Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn hat beide Frauengestalten in die Nebenhandlung – um den Kreis von Prinz Eugen – seines Romans „Der große Schwabenzug“ eingebaut.

 

Unter den Exponaten (Nr. 52) befindet sich nebst anderen wertvollen Ausstellungsstücken auch der 1696 in Augsburg gefertigte Silberschrein, in dem bis 2007 der Schädel des auf Geheiß des Sultans nach der verlorenen Schlacht um Wien (1683) am 25.12.1683 bei Belgrad mit der Seidenschnur gerichteten Großvesirs Kara Mustafa, aufbewahrt wurde. 1688 wurde der Schädel nach Wien gebracht und bis 1976 im Museum der Stadt Wien ausgestellt, anschließend im Depot aufbewahrt und schließlich 2007 im Wiener Zentralfriedhof anonym beigesetzt.

 

Desgleichen werden Schlachtpläne (Peterwardein, Zenta u. a.) sowie eine Darstellung der Friedensverhandlungen von Karlowitz samt Verhandlungszelt, Sitzordnung usw. gezeigt.

 

Prinz Eugen ist durch der Einnahme der Festung Temesvár 1716 als Befreier der Stadt und des Banats –1718 – Friedensvertrag von Passarowitz: 21. Juli 1718 (heute: Požarevac in Serbien) –, demgemäß das Temescher Banat und die Kleine Walachei (die Oltenia im heutigen Rumänien) sowie Nordserbien mit Belgrad unter dem Namen Temescher Banat österreichisch wurden, in die Geschichte eingegangen.

 

Die Ausstellung widmet sich neben der chronologischen Aufarbeitung der wichtigsten historischen Ereignisse – vor allem der Person des Prinzen –, seinen philosophischen Qualitäten und seiner Sammelleidenschaft, versucht Bezüge herzustellen, um auf diese Weise ein erweitertes Bild von einem der bedeutendsten Europäer zu vermitteln. Selbstbewusst unterstrich er mit seiner in drei Sprachen verfassten Signatur „Eugenio von Savoy“ seine Multikulturalität.

 

Ein weiterer Aspekt der Ausstellung ist sein Wirken als umtriebiger und genialer Bauherr, der es verstand, den Architekten seine bedingungslosen Anliegen und seine Entschlossenheit in kürzester Zeit so zu vermitteln, dass diese imstande waren, Großartiges zu leisten. So ließ der gerade zum Feldmarschall ernannte Eugen von Savoyen zwischen 1695 und 1697 sein Stadtpalais in der Himmelpfortgasse errichten. Das als gelungene Synthese von italienischen Hochbarock und französischer Klassik angesehene Umbauwerk entstammt im Wesentlichen der planenden Hand des Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.

 

Als Bauherr konnte Prinz Eugen wegen seiner Italienfeldzüge allerdings nur in wenigen Wintermonaten am Baugeschehen teilhaben und Einfluss darauf nehmen.

 

Als Prinz Eugen von Savoyen nach der Schlacht von Zenta, dem glänzendsten Sieg, den kaiserliche Heere jemals gegen die Osmanen errungen hatten, 1697 nach Wien zurückkehrte, befand sich die kaiserliche Hauptstadt Wien in einer Phase des großen Aufschwungs: Kaiserhof, Adel und Kirche wetteiferten in einer schier unbezwinglichen Baulust. Es entstanden Kirchen, Klöster, private Paläste und zahlreiche Gartenanlagen. Der Anteil des Prinzen am künstlerischen Gesamtbestand des österreichischen Barock, entsprossen aus der Sehnsucht nach fürstlicher Machtentfaltung und aus dem nach geziemenden Ausdruck ringenden Willen zur Repräsentation, ist aus der Kunst des mittleren Europa nicht wegzudenken.

 

Für die Vollendung der Innenausstattung seines Stadtpalais beauftragte Prinz Eugen 1699 den bereits seit 1695/96 für ihn auf dem Felde tätigen Zivil- und Militärarchitekten Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. In ihm fand er den Planer, der seine durch die zahlreichen Feldzüge geschärften räumlichen Vorstellungen am ehesten umzusetzen wusste. Die kultivierte Landschaft spielte dabei eine ganz besondere Rolle.

 

Noch während des Spanischen Erbfolgekrieges ließ Prinz Eugen analog zum Selbstverständnis der wichtigsten Adelsfamilien nach Stadtpalais, Vorstadtgarten und Landsitz ab 1712 auf einem bereits 1697 erworbenen Grundstück eine prächtige Sommerresidenz am Rennweg vor den Toren Wiens errichten. Mit seiner Fertigstellung 1717 wurde der Garten nach Plänen des französischen Gartenarchitekten und Brunneningenieurs Dominique Girard neu terrassiert, 1717 südlich davon mit der Errichtung eines weiteren Schlosses begonnen. Die Fertigstellung der heute als Oberes Belvedere bekannten, 124 m breiten und auf einer über Treppen und Kaskaden erschlossenen Landschaftsstufe über eine thronende Palastanlage erfolgte 1723. Die ohne jegliche Hoheitssymbole auskommende Fassade entspricht dem Grundsatz des Prinzen: Er war Staatsmann, jedoch bereit, auf die Macht zu verzichten!

 

Die durch Gärten verbundenen und gleichsam getrennten Schlösser verstehen sich als eine der gelungensten Symbiosen von Gartenlandschaft und Architektur und stellen ein herausragendes barockes Gesamtkunstwerk dar.

 

Um die beiden Schlösser bekannt zu machen, beauftragte Prinz Eugen den bedeutendsten Architekturzeichner und Kupferstecher jener Zeit, Salomon Kleiner, mit der vollständigen Dokumentation der äußeren und inneren Erscheinung der Schlösser sowie der Gartenanlage.

 

Die zwischen 1731 und 1740 veröffentlichten 114 Tafeln veranschaulichen das Leistungsspektrum von Architekt und Bauherr. Besonders aufschlussreich sind die Innenansichten der einzelnen Räume. Sie liefern wichtige Hinweise auf die ursprüngliche, für uns leider verlorene Ausstattung. Dabei bediente er sich, vollkommen konträr zu seinen Gepflogenheiten bei der Kriegsführung – des Rats der mit ihm befreundeten Diplomaten – und nutzte in Wien die Fähigkeiten des französischen Tapezierers Claude Le Fort du Plessy, der auch für das Kaiserhaus tätig war.

 

Für seine Paraderäume bestellte er zu unvorstellbaren Summen Tapisserien, Stoffe, Lüster, Spiegel, Supraporten und aufwendig bestickte, bemalte Seiden für Wände und Paradebetten und war ungehalten darauf zu erfahren, was die in Ostende eingelaufenen Schiffe aus aller Welt mit sich brachten. Seine äußerst wichtige Funktion als Generalgouverneur der Österreichischen Niederlande und Miteigentümer sowie Präsident der Ostender Ostindien-Kompanie kamen ihm dabei sehr entgegen.

 

Salomon Kleiners monochrome Kupferstiche lassen die Pracht der unterschiedlich ornamentierten Wandbespannungen erahnen. Von den durch Farben deutlich gegeneinander abgesetzten Räumen haben sich nur vage Überlieferungen erhalten. Die Möbel, Spiegel und kristallenen Lüster bestellte der Prinz bei Kunsthandwerkern in Brüssel, mit denen er auch vom Kriegsschauplatz aus korrespondierte, importierte aber natürlich auch Exotisches wie Seide und Porzellan aus Indien, China und Japan. „Es ist an diesen Pallast überhaupt weder Mühe noch Geld gespahret worden, um solchen zu einen der vollkommensten Häuser zu machen“ resümierte der Chronist. Überdies legte Prinz Eugen auch an seinen Kriegsschauplätzen besonderen Wert auf eine hohe und qualitätsvolle Ausstattung seiner Quartiere und ein kultiviertes Milieu. Graf Biron, ein Gefangener der Schlacht von Oudenaarde, beschrieb sein Lager geradezu als „von königlicher Pracht“.

 

Nach dem Tod Eugens veräußerte die Nichte und Alleinerbin des Prinzen, Anna Viktoria von Savoyen, die meisten Gemälde an ihren Onkel König Emanuel III. von Sardinien nach Turin.

 

Die Bibliotheca Eugeniana wurde 1737 durch den Ankauf von Kaiser Karl VI. von der eben errichteten Wiener Hofbibliothek übernommen.

 

1752 wurden das Stadtpalais und die beiden zwischen Rennweg und dem heutigen Gürtel gegenüber dem nunmehr abgetragenen Südbahnhof, der dem neuen Wiener Zentralbahnhof weichen musste, liegenden Schlösser von Maria Theresia erworben. So wurde das Belvedere zum kaiserlichen Lustschloss und diente unter anderem 1770 als Austragungsort für ein schillerndes Maskenfest anlässlich der Verlobung der Erzherzogin Marie Antoinette mit dem Dauphin Louis-Auguste. 1776 beschlossen Maria Theresia und ihr Sohn, Kaiser Joseph II., die Übersiedlung der kaiserlichen Gemäldegalerie von der Stallburg in die Räume des Oberen Schlosses Belvedere. 1891 erfolgte die Überführung der kaiserlichen Gemäldesammlung in das für diesen Zweck am Ring errichtete k. u. k. kunsthistorische Hofmuseum und ab 1896 wurde das Belvedere für den Thronfolger Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand d’Este als Residenz eingerichtet.

 

1903 war im Unteren Belvedere die Moderne Galerie eröffnet worden. Im Zuge der von Hans Tietze verfassten Museumsreform wurde das Obere Schloss 1920/21 zum Ausstellungsort der Sammlungen des 19. Jahrhunderts.

 

Das Obere Schloss Belvedere sollte am 15. Mai 1955 internationale politische Bedeutung erlangen: Hier wurde der Wiener Staatsvertrag, demgemäß nach 10-jähriger Besatzung der Abzug der amerikanischen, englischen, französischen und sowjetischen Besatzungstruppen erfolgte, von den Außenministern dieser Staaten unterzeichnet.

 

* Die Zitate sind dem Ausstellungskatalog entnommen.

 

 

UNTERES Belvedere und Orangerie

Rennweg 6,  A - 1030 Wien

Täglich 10-18 Uhr, Mittwoch 10-21 Uhr

Tel.: 0043-1-795 57-109

info@belvedere.at

www.belvedere.at

 

Möchlicherweise wird die Ausstellung verlängert;

Derzeit bis 6.Juni 2010

 By Hans Dama

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

MAY 2010

 

Arizona Senate Bill 1070

 

Forwarded By Sgt. James S. Thornton

 

 Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen 

Click on Image for PDF file Senate Bill 1070

 

 

          I'm Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB 1070 which I voted for and was just signed by Governor Jan Brewer.

          Rancher Rob Krantz was murdered by the drug cartel on his ranch a month ago. I participated in a senate hearing two weeks ago on the border violence, here is just some of the highlights from those who testified.

          The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the Arizona/Mexico Border have for years been terrorized and have pleaded for help to stop the daily invasion of humans who cross their property. One Rancher testified that 300 to 1200 people a DAY come across his ranch vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles and property, cutting down his fences, and leaving trash. In the last two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two Koran bibles.

          Another rancher testified that daily drugs are brought across his ranch in a military operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the drugs 1/2 mile are more guards. These people are violent and they will kill anyone who gets in the way. This was not the only rancher we heard that day that talked about the drug trains.

          One man told of two illegals who came upon his property one shot in the back and the other in the arm by the drug runners who had forced them to carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily they listen to gun fire during the night it is not safe to leave his family alone on the ranch and they can't leave the ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back.

          The border patrol is not on the border. They have set up 60 miles away with check points that do nothing to stop the invasion. They are not allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is entering. They run around chasing them, if they get their hands on them then they can take them back across the border.

          Federal prisons have over 35% illegals and 20% of Arizona prisons are filled with illegals. In the last few years 80% of our law enforcement that have been killed or wounded have been by an illegal.

          The majority of people coming now are people we need to be worried about. The ranchers told us that they have seen a change in the people coming they are not just those who are looking for work and a better life.

          The Federal Government has refused for years to do anything to help the border states . We have been over run and once they are here we have the burden of funding state services that they use. Education costs have been over a billion dollars. The healthcare cost billions of dollars. Our State is broke; $3.5 billion deficit and we have many serious decisions to make. One is that we do not have the money to care for any who are not here legally. It has to stop.

          The border can be secured. We have the technology we have the ability to stop this invasion. We must know who is coming and they must come in an organized manner legally so that we can assimilate them into our population and protect the sovereignty of our country. We are a nation of laws. We have a responsibility to protect our citizens and to protect the integrity of our country and the government which we live under.

          I would give amnesty today to many, but here is the problem, we dare not do this until the Border is secure. It will do no good to forgive them because thousands will come behind them and we will be over run to the point that there will no longer be the United States of America but a North American Union of open borders. I ask you under what form of government will we live?  How long will it be before we will be just like Mexico, Canada or any of the other Central American or South American countries? We have already lost our language, everything must be printed in Spanish also. We have already lost our history it is no longer taught in our schools. And we have lost our borders.

          The leftist media has distorted what SB 1070 will do. It is not going to set up a Nazi Germany. Are you kidding? The ACLU and the leftist courts will do everything to protect those who are here illegally, but it was an effort to try and stop illegals from setting up businesses, and employment, and receiving state services and give the ability to local law enforcement when there is probable cause like a traffic stop to determine if they are here legally. Federal law is very clear if you are here on a visa you must have your papers on you at all times. That is the law. In Arizona all you need to show you are a legal citizen is a driver license, MVD identification card, Native American Card, or a Military ID. This is what you need to vote, get a hunting license, etc.. So nothing new has been added to this law. No one is going to be stopped walking down the street etc... The Socialist who are in power in DC are angry because we dare try and do something and that something the Socialist wants us to do is just let them come. They want the "Transformation" to continue.

          Maybe it is too late to save America. Maybe we are not worthy of freedom anymore. But as an elected official I must try to do what I can to protect our Constitutional Republic. Living in America is not a right just because you can walk across the border. Being an American is a responsibility and it comes by respecting and upholding the Constitution the law of our land which says what you must do to be a citizen of this country. Freedom is not free.

 

State Senator Sylvia Allen responds to SB1070

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    The Forgotten Genocide Seminar  

February 2010

St. Louis Community College @ Meramec, St. Louis, MO

 

 

 

Take a Moment to Reflect

          Many people are unaware of the political situations surrounding the genocides of post WWII in Eastern Europe.  I'm not referring to the public as much as to the people within the ethnic organizations.  Many parties occur.  These parties are events where family and friends, with the same backgrounds, come together to enjoy the food, music and dance.  Such events are a very important part of the culture.  There is another part that should be taught and viewed as important as these parties. That is the reason for which all of these organizations were established.

          As I worked on “The Forgotten Genocide Project” I ran into road blocks, not because the stories weren't there, but because people didn't want to hear about that part of their family history.  This is a painful part of the history of these organizations.  It is the history that brought them together and knowing all aspects of the history is very important, especially if the controversy is still going on today.

          The time it took to put this project together was not always happy-time; in fact, there was probably one laugh to every ten cries.  I couldn't stop because it didn't make me happy. I couldn't stop because it wasn't fun.  It can't stop being told because it's not the good part of the history associated with the clubs and organizations that exist today.  For every person who doesn't want to know about it there is one, maybe even two who do.

          Please keep this part of the history of the ethnic German cleansing alive.  Become acquainted with all parts of the history.  Teach the dances, the songs and definitely how to cook the food; but don't forget the pain. The generations that follow must know that with all the joy there was pain.  The reason the festivals are put together is to teach the good; but there must be a time to teach about the hardships.  This is the history that belongs to you and yours.  This is the history that brought these organizations to where they are today.  Don't forget: always remember where you came from.  It is what made you who you are today.

 

Ann Morrison

 

 

Seminar Program 1 (click image for pdf)

Seminar Program 2 (click image for pdf)

Cultural Exhibit

Cultural Exhibit

 

 

St. Louis

Site of the Symposium

Joseph Apt

Vice President, Donauschwaben-USA

with wife Rose

Dr. Brian (Coach) Landry, Lt Colonel USAF, 

Ph.D. and assistant professor of Leadership 

and Ethics, Air Command and Staff College 

Department of Joint Warfighting 

with Hans Kopp  Dipl. Eng. Machine and 

Machine Tools, Donauschwaben author of 

”The last Generation Forgotten and left to Die”.

He is a Survivor of the genocide  

of the Germans in Communist Yugoslavia.

     Adam Martini, Speaker and Eva Martini 

both are survivors of the genocide 

of the Germans in Communist Yugoslavia

With Adam and Magdalene Metzger 

a survivor of the genocide of the Germans 

in Communist Yugoslavia .

Claudia Jean Potts, Manager, 

South County Education  and University Center

Community College, Meramec,

St. Louis with Ron Morrison.  

 

Elisabeth Walter, 

Dr. Brian Landry 

and Katharina Flotz

Hans Kopp and Wilhelmine Schnichels

Hans Weiss, Artist, 

Julius Loisch both from Zipser Land  

and Wolfgang Mueller, 

Radio host in Toronto , Canada .

Hans Kopp, Claudia Jean Potts, 

Wilhelmine Schnichels, Norm Greene, 

Mrs Mary Staub, 

survivor of the Molidorf camp 

during the genocide  of the Germans 

in Communist Yugoslavia, 

Christine Mogyorody, Elisabeth Walter 

and Anita Pare

Wolfgang Mueller and Hans Kopp

Claudia Jean Potts and Anita Pare

On tour at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery,

Karen Karbiener, 

Hans Kopp,

and Wilhelmine Schnichels

Mrs. Mary Staub, 

Hans Haas 

and Wilhelmine Schnichels

At the brewery’s beer tasting, 

Wilhelmine Schnichels, Hans Kopp,

Karen Karbiener and Julius Loisch

St. Louis

Gateway to the West

 

 

Anheuser-Busch Tour

Photos Courtesy Hans Kopp

 

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

MAY 2010

 

President Obama

at

University of Michigan Graduation

 

 

 

     ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- In a blunt caution to political friend and foe, President Barack Obama said Saturday that partisan rants and name-calling under the guise of legitimate discourse pose a serious danger to America's democracy, and may incite "extreme elements" to violence.

     The comments, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan's huge football stadium, were Obama's most direct take about the angry politics that have engulfed his young presidency after long clashes over health care, taxes and the role of government.

Not 50 miles from where Obama spoke, the GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, denounced his policies as "big government" strategies being imposed on average Americans. "The fundamental transformation of America is not what we all bargained for," she told 2,000 activists at a forum in Clarkston, sponsored by the anti-tax Americans for Prosperity Foundation.

 

     Obama drew repeated cheers in Michigan Stadium from a friendly crowd that aides called the biggest audience of his presidency since the inauguration. The venue has a capacity of 106,201, and university officials distributed 80,000 tickets – before they ran out.

In his 31-minute speech, Obama didn't mention either Palin or the tea party movement that's captured headlines with its fierce attacks on his policies. But he took direct aim at the anti-government language so prevalent today.

"What troubles me is when I hear people say that all of government is inherently bad," Obama said after receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. "When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us."

 

     Government, he said, is the roads we drive on and the speed limits that keep us safe. It's the men and women in the military, the inspectors in our mines, the pioneering researchers in public universities.

 

     The financial meltdown dramatically showed the dangers of too little government, he said, "when a lack of accountability on Wall Street nearly led to the collapse of our entire economy."

 

     But Obama was direct in urging both sides in the political debate to tone it down. "Throwing around phrases like 'socialists' and 'Soviet-style takeover,' 'fascists' and 'right-wing nut' – that may grab headlines," he said. But it also "closes the door to the possibility of compromise. It undermines democratic deliberation," he said.

 

     "At its worst, it can send signals to the most extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is a justifiable response."

 

     Passionate rhetoric isn't new, he acknowledged. Politics in America, he said, "has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart. ... If you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up."

 

     Obama hoped the graduates hearing his words can avoid cynicism and brush off the overheated noise of politics. In fact, he said, they should seek out opposing views.

 

     His advice: If you're a regular Glenn Beck listener, then check out the Huffington Post sometimes. If you read The New York Times editorial page the morning, then glance every now and then at The Wall Street Journal.

"It may make your blood boil. Your mind may not be changed. But the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship," he said.

 

     The speech was part of a busy weekend for the president: the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday evening near the White House and visit the Gulf Coast on Sunday morning for a firsthand update on the massive oil spill.

 

     Obama's helicopter landed on a grass practice football field next to the stadium on a damp, overcast day. Students and their families had been streaming in since early morning, many toting rain gear.

 

     The president's appearance in Michigan -- a battleground in the 2008 White House race that's likely to play a big role in the fall congressional campaign -- comes as the state struggles with the nation's highest unemployment rate, 14.1 percent. It also has an unhappy electorate to match.

 

     In the Republican's weekly radio and Internet address, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich, said Obama's visit was a chance "to show the president, firsthand, the painful plight of the people of Michigan."

 

     Many of the graduates Obama addresses will soon learn how tough it is to find a job in this economy, Hoekstra said, adding that the share of young Americans out of work is the highest it's been in more than 50 years.

 

     Speaking before Obama was Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who's known to be on his short list of possible Supreme Court nominees. She said Michigan residents owe him thanks for "delivering on health care reform" and "for supporting our auto industry. General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, they all have bright futures now, where a year ago, much darker clouds than these loomed overhead."

 

     Obama's speech was the first of four he is giving this commencement season.

 

     On May 9, he'll speak at Hampton University, a historically black college in Hampton, Va., founded in 1868 on the grounds of a former plantation.

 

     He's also addressing Army cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., on May 22, continuing a tradition of presidents addressing graduates at the service academies. He announced his Afghanistan troop surge at West Point last December.

 

     Also this year, for the first time, Obama plans a high school commencement. It's part of his "Race to the Top" education initiative, with its goal of boosting the United States' lagging graduation rate to the world's best by 2020.

 

     High schools across the country have competed for the honor, submitting essays and videos. A vote on the White House website yielded three finalists, and Obama will choose among them next week.

___

     Smith reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Kathy Barks Hoffman in Ann Arbor and Corey Williams in Clarkston contributed to this report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

MAY 2010

 

How All Phones Should Be Answered !

 

Forwarded By Sgt. James S. Thornton

 

 

 

GOOD  MORNING!

 

WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES  OF AMERICA

 

 

 

Please  Press '1' for English.

Press '2'  to disconnect

 

until you learn to speak English

 

 

And Remember!

 

Only Two Defining Forces Have Ever Offered To Die

 

For You,

 

Jesus  Christ

 

 

And The American Soldier

 

 

One Died For Your Soul,

 

 

The Other For Your Freedom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR-ARTICLE

APRIL 2010

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

Forwarded by Rosina T. Schmidt

 

Lecture 18. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

(Guest Lecture by Jay Winters) MP3

 

          European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202) As a result of World War I, Europe had a different understanding of war in the twentieth century than the United States. One of the most important ways in which the First World War was experienced on the continent and in Britain was through commemoration. By means of both mass-media technologies and older memorial forms, sites of memory offered opportunities for personal as well as political reconciliation with the unprecedented consequences of the war. The influence of these sites is still felt today, in a united Europe, as the importance of armies has diminished in favor of social welfare programs. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses  This course was recorded in Fall 2008.

 

 

 

Professor John Merriman

 

          John Merriman is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. Specializing in French and modern European history, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His publications include The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851, A History of Modern Europe Since the Renaissance, and Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851. He is currently at work on Dynamite: Emile Henry, the Café Terminus, and the Origins of Modern Terrorism in Fin-de-Siecle Paris. In 2000, Professor Merriman was the recipient of the Yale University Byrnes-Sewall Teaching Prize.

 

 

 

 

 

German Genealogy Group Newsletter- April 2010

http://www.germangenealogygroup.com/ 

 

 

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

APRIL 2010

 

Survey Probes 1911 Law

Pennsylvania German Program

Decline of Pennsylvania German

 

Forwarded by Eduard Grünwald

          LEBANON - When William Unger of Annville was a youngster in the late 1940s, he recalls getting slapped and having his knuckles rapped with a ruler by a fifth-grade teacher for speaking Pennsylvania German. In first grade in 1943, he got beat up by a fellow classmate because he spoke Pennsylvania German, which was the only language spoken in his home. "When someone got me angry, I didn't know how to chew them out in English," he said.

 

          Unger only began learning English the summer before he started school from an older sister who had flunked first grade because of speaking Pennsylvania German, which is commonly called Pennsylvania Dutch. Those are the kind of stories that James Dibert, Alice Spayd and others in the Pennsylvania German Studies Program at the Lebanon campus of Harrisburg Area Community College have been hearing for years. They want to try to document those, and try to find what effect they had on the decline of the number of people speaking Pennsylvania German. Dibert said one of the major factors in the language's decline is believed to have been a 1911 state law that required only English to be used in the public school.

 

          "We know some superintendents pressured or encouraged the teachers to basically, if anyone comes in speaking Pennsylvania German, to use whatever means necessary to get them to speak English," Dibert said. "We don't know how widespread that was. That's one of the things we're trying to figure out," he said, adding that some schools may have been more lenient.

 

          Pennsylvania German was brought here by people from the Palatinate area of Germany from 1683-1776. An estimated 5 million people in the U.S. still speak it, Dibert said, including the Amish and descendants of these early settlers living in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and other states, and Canada. It is still spoken in the Palatinate area of Germany.

 

          The decline of Pennsylvania German in America began in the mid-1800s with the industrial revolution, Dibert said. Workers had to learn English to communicate. But even in the colonial period there was an attempt by English speakers in Philadelphia to try to get Germans to speak English, he said. Dibert said he's not sure why the law was passed in 1911. There was a large amount of anti-German sentiment in World War I, which aided in the language's decline.

Unger said he believes anti-German sentiment during and after World War II also played a factor in the attitude in schools regarding Pennsylvania German. Dibert said they are spreading the word about the survey through Pennsylvania German language study groups, groundhog lodges and Pennsylvania German newsletters, and will collect them for at least a year.  The results will be summarized in an article for the journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, "Der Reggeboge," for possible publication.

 

          Their goal is not to cast blame on those who may have discouraged the language, Dibert said. "Our intent is two-fold: To what degree did this influence the decline of the speaking of Pennsylvania German, and how did it affect the people who went through it," he said. "We're not trying to point fingers at anybody. We're trying to understand what happened here and what was the impact of it," Dibert said.

 

          "We do know, for at least a generation, often parents who spoke stopped speaking it to their children. Whether there is a connection between that and what was going on in the schools, we haven't connected those dots yet,"
Dibert said.

 

          Unger said he holds no ill will toward his teacher for the punishment meted out, saying it was a different era.


          The committee is also hoping to receive input from teachers who dealt with Pennsylvania German speakers in their schools.

 

Date of Original Article:     December 28, 2006

BY BARBARA MILLER       barbmiller@patriot-news.com

 

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

APRIL 2010

 

The Truth Comes Out

 

Forwarded By Sgt. James S. Thornton

 

These videos were taken during the arrest of the suspects without their knowledge.

They are not the usual ones you see of a guy getting Tasered.   The video is part 

of the Taser itself and it records what happens leading up to zapping the suspect.

Hard to dispute video evidence.  Shave, haircut, shower, and new suit is what the

Public sees, the media reports, and the lawyers thrive on.....

......sometimes it does not work.

Especially when caught on the Taser Cam.......

 

 

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR-ARTICLE

APRIL 2010

 Things Sure Have Changed

Public Schools 1957 to 2010

 

By Joseph Stein

President, American Aid Society, Chicago 

Forwarded by American Aid Society, Chicago

 

This is truly a sad group of scenarios.

 

I'd like to think it will get better, but...

 

 

Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.

1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.

2010 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario 2: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.

2010 - Police called and SWAT team arrives - they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario 3: Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.

1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

2010 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario 4:  Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.

2010 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused her­self and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.

Scenario 5:  Mark gets a  headache and takes some aspirin to school.

1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking deck.

2010 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario 6: Pedro fails high school English.

1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.

2010 - Pedro's cause is taken up by the ACLU. Newspapers articles appear nationally contending that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario 7: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant hill.

1957 - Ants die.

2010 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents, all siblings are removed from their home, and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario 8: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.

1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2010 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

 

 

 

 

 

VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

APRIL 2010

GARFIELD ON THE OIL CRISIS

 

Forwarded by Jon C. Zimmerman

This is a Good One -

- a True One!!!

A lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.
~~~
Well, there's a very simple answer.
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Nobody bothered to check the oil.
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We  just didn't know we were getting low.
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The reason for that is purely geographical.
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Our OIL is located in:
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ALASKA
~~~
California
~~~
Coastal  Florida
~~~
Coastal Louisiana
~~~
North  Dakota
~~~
Wyoming
~~~
Colorado
~~~
Kansas
~~~
Oklahoma
~~~
Pennsylvania
And
Texas
~~~

 

Our dipsticks are located in DC 

 

 

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