Smile, well living in an area where agriculture is a big thing. I have Training Donkeys and Mules, smile. And if I could scan it The Draft Horse Primer. Smile.So if I have anything to do with it, I won't be letting them go by the way side, smile.
At least not for Bookshare. But definitely goes to show progress is not always best, smile.Now, wonder if they thought of llamas andalpacas, people in South America use them all the time as pack animals and here in the U.S. too.
And in Africa they are training dogs to guard sheep from lions, what a novel concept, (sarcasim here) as that way they don't have to shoot the lions and other predators.
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Shelley, the army is back to using mules, too, in Afghanistan - they've turned out to be the best way to transport equipment in the mountainous areas.I'm hoping someone will come out with a book about that.Hearing about it, and reading some of the stuff my military friends have sent me about it, makes me think that places like Bookshare where out-of-print books get scanned and hopefully kept "forever" in a library are so important. The U.S. Army is now using copies of the old manuals that were discarded, except for those kept in the Army historical archive, on how to train muleskinners and their mules. At the start of the war in Afghanistan, in all of the the U.S. military, we had something like two muleskinners and a handful of mules, and those positions had been kept just for ceremonial and historical purposes. No one thought we'd ever be using mules again!I wonder how many of those kinds of books and manuals full of "how to" information telling us how do do things that were taken for granted when the books were written are lost - and we no longer have any idea how to do those things!Back to proofreading! Judy s. Shelley L. Rhodes wrote:Wow Judy, that had to been a truly awesome photo.It just proves that technology is a great tool but old fashion man and horse power still is required!Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs for the Blind Alumni Association www.guidedogs.comThe people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence;rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness.The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:21 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Medals of Honor recipients (was Re: Re: Just Submitted: The War Against Miss Winter)Cindy, I'm looking forward to reading that Medals of Honor recipients book eventually, too. Thank you again for taking over proofreading it, when I couldn't. smile.Just saw a new book come into the collection on the Horse Soldiers (U.S. Unit that won over the war lords in Afghanistan). Can't wait to read that one either. One of my friends is a USMC Cobra pilot that was part of that action, and he sent me some amazing photographs at the time from Afghanistan. One is of a group of American soldiers and Afghan fighters, all on horseback and wearing Afghan robes. One of the soldiers is using a Toughbook laptop identical to the one I use and a laser sight to guide in a Naval fighter pilot's strike against a Taliban unit. It portrays an amazing contrast between the traditional horse mounted unit in desert garb coordinating with and using state-of-the-art airborne weapons systems for support.Judy s. Cindy wrote:That souonds lke fun reading, especially for some of use who lived through through those days. Too bad I already have 3 things to do, one of which is long but interesting--(Medals of Honor reipients--that's not the title but the content.--fascinating CindyTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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