AmenMoe Gibbs wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:02 pmPost of the day..!
The morally corrupt Libtards who are against a voting system that enforces and legitimizes voter eligibility can all go to HELL. These traitors are not legitimate citizens of ANY country that has had so many soldiers give their lives to prevent us from becoming a Single Party Banana Republic like Obama-Soros tried to do.
Millions of credit card transactions are handled flawlessly every day.Double Mocha Man wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:04 pmNice rant. How do you feel about voting by mail, for the entire country?
Celebrity
Truman became a minor celebrity during the two months of volcanic activity preceding the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, giving interviews to reporters and expressing his opinion that the danger was exaggerated. "I don't have any idea whether it will blow," he said, "but I don't believe it to the point that I'm going to pack up."[16] Truman displayed little concern about the volcano and his situation: "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it. This area is heavily timbered, Spirit Lake is in between me and the mountain, and the mountain is a mile away, the mountain ain't gonna hurt me."[17] Law enforcement officials were incensed by his refusal to evacuate because media representatives kept entering the restricted zone near the volcano to interview him, endangering themselves in the process. Still, Truman remained steadfast. "You couldn't pull me out with a mule team. That mountain's part of Truman and Truman's part of that mountain."[14]
Truman told reporters that he was knocked from his bed by precursor earthquakes, so he responded by moving his mattress to the basement.[10] He claimed to wear spurs to bed to cope with the earthquakes while he slept.[18] He scoffed at the public's concern for his safety,[10] responding to scientists' claims about the threat of the volcano that "the mountain has shot its wad and it hasn't hurt my place a bit, but those goddamn geologists with their hair down to their butts wouldn't pay no attention to ol' Truman."[14]
As a result of his defiant commentary, Truman became something of a folk hero[10] and was the subject of many songs and poems by children.[19] One group of children from Salem, Oregon, sent him banners inscribed "Harry – We Love You", which moved him so much that he took a helicopter trip (paid for by National Geographic)[20] to visit them on May 14.[18] He also received many fan letters,[21] including several marriage proposals.[22] A group of fifth graders from Grand Blanc, Michigan, wrote letters that brought him to tears. In return, he sent them a letter and volcanic ash, which the students later sold to buy flowers for his family after the eruption.[20]
He caused a media frenzy, appearing on the front page of The New York Times and The San Francisco Examiner and attracting the attention of National Geographic, United Press International, and The Today Show.[23] Many major magazines composed profiles, including Time, Life, Newsweek, Field & Stream, and Reader's Digest. A historian named Richard W. Slatta wrote that "his fiery attitude, brash speech, love of the outdoors, and fierce independence… made him a folk hero the media could adore."[20] Slatta pointed to Truman's "unbendable character and response to the forces of nature" as a source of his rise to fame, and the interviews with him added "color" to reports about the events at Mount St. Helens.[24] Truman was immortalized, according to Slatta, "with many of the embellished qualities of the western hero", and the media spotlight created a persona that was "in some ways quite different from his true character."[1]
Death
As the likelihood of eruption increased, state officials tried to evacuate the area with the exception of a few scientists and security officials. On May 17, they attempted one final time to persuade Truman to leave, to no avail. The volcano erupted the next morning, and its entire northern flank collapsed.[25] Truman was alone at his lodge with his 16 cats,[9] and is presumed to have died in the eruption on May 18.[21] It is likely that he died of heat shock in less than a second, too quickly to register pain, before his body was vaporized.[26] The largest landslide in recorded history and a pyroclastic flow traveling atop the landslide engulfed the Spirit Lake area almost simultaneously, destroying the lake and burying the site of his lodge under 150 feet (46 m) of volcanic landslide debris.[25] Authorities never found Truman's remains.[9] Truman's cats are presumed to have died with him; he considered them family and mentioned them in almost all public statements.[9][25]
Friends hoped that Truman might have survived, as he had claimed to have provisioned an abandoned mine shaft with food and liquor in case of an eruption, but the lack of immediate warning of the oncoming eruption may have prevented him from escaping to the shaft before the pyroclastic flow reached his lodge[12] (less than a minute after it began). His sister Geraldine said that she found it hard to accept the reality of his death. "I don't think he made it, but I thought if they would let me fly over and see for myself that Harry's lodge is gone, then maybe I'd believe it for sure."[10] Truman's niece Shirley Rosen added that her uncle thought he could escape the volcano but was not expecting the lateral eruption. She stated that her sister took him a bottle of Bourbon whiskey to persuade him to evacuate, but he was too afraid to drink alcohol at the time because he was unsure whether the shaking was coming from his body or the earthquakes.[6] His possessions were auctioned off as keepsakes to admirers in September 1980.[27]
Legacy
A plaque with the carved names of the eruption's victims appears, with a bouquet of flowers sitting on its center. In the background, Mount St. Helens can be seen.
Truman's name on a plaque (bottom right) with names of the victims of the May 18 eruption, with Mount St. Helens in the background.
Truman emerged as a folk hero for his resistance to the evacuation efforts.[10] The Columbian wrote: "With his 10-dollar name and hell-no-I-won’t-go attitude, Truman was a made-for-prime-time folk hero."[15] His friends and family commented: "He was a very opinionated person."[19] Truman's friend John Garrity added, "The mountain and the lake were his life. If he'd left and then saw what the mountain did to his lake, it would have killed him anyway. He always said he wanted to die at Spirit Lake. He went the way he wanted to go."[19] Truman's niece Shirley stated, "He used to say that's my mountain and my lake and he would say those are my arms and my legs. If he would have seen it the way it is now, I don't think he would have survived."[6] Truman's cousin Richard Ice commented that Truman's short period as a celebrity was "the peak of his life."[19]
Truman was the subject of the books Truman of St. Helens: The Man and His Mountain by his niece Shirley Rosen,[28] and The Legend of Harry Truman by his sister Geri Whiting.[29] He was portrayed by Art Carney, his favorite actor,[30] in the 1981 docudrama St. Helens.[31] Memorabilia were sold in the area surrounding Mount St. Helens, including Harry Truman hats, pictures, posters, and postcards. A restaurant opened in Anchorage, Alaska, named after him, serving dishes such as Harry's Hot Molten Chili.[29] According to The Washington Star, more than 100 songs had been composed in Truman's honor by 1981, in addition to a commemorative album titled The Musical Legend Of Harry Truman — A Very Special Collection Of Mount St. Helens’ Volcano Songs.[29] He is the subject of the 2007 song "Harry Truman"[32] written and recorded by Irish band Headgear.[33] Lula Belle Garland wrote "The Legend of Harry And The Mountain," which was recorded in 1980 by Ron Shaw & The Desert Wind Band.[34] Musicians Ron Allen and Steve Asplund wrote a country rock song in 1980 called "Harry Truman, Your Spirit Still Lives On".[32] Billy Jonas included Truman's narrative in his song "Old St. Helen" in 1993.[35] It is likely that Truman's life and attitude were the inspiration for "Grandma" in the movie Dante's Peak.
Truman Trail and Harry's Ridge in the Mount St. Helens region are named after him.[36][37] The Harry R. Truman Memorial Park was named in his honor in Castle Rock, Washington,[38] though it later was renamed Castle Rock Lions Club Volunteer Park.[39]
A colorful guy, made himself a legend by not cow-towing to no goddamn geologists with their hair down to their butts. I know people like that... still living.D-train wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 5:36 pmDoes this remind anyone of modern day events:
Celebrity
Truman became a minor celebrity during the two months of volcanic activity preceding the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, giving interviews to reporters and expressing his opinion that the danger was exaggerated. "I don't have any idea whether it will blow," he said, "but I don't believe it to the point that I'm going to pack up."[16] Truman displayed little concern about the volcano and his situation: "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it. This area is heavily timbered, Spirit Lake is in between me and the mountain, and the mountain is a mile away, the mountain ain't gonna hurt me."[17] Law enforcement officials were incensed by his refusal to evacuate because media representatives kept entering the restricted zone near the volcano to interview him, endangering themselves in the process. Still, Truman remained steadfast. "You couldn't pull me out with a mule team. That mountain's part of Truman and Truman's part of that mountain."[14]
Truman told reporters that he was knocked from his bed by precursor earthquakes, so he responded by moving his mattress to the basement.[10] He claimed to wear spurs to bed to cope with the earthquakes while he slept.[18] He scoffed at the public's concern for his safety,[10] responding to scientists' claims about the threat of the volcano that "the mountain has shot its wad and it hasn't hurt my place a bit, but those goddamn geologists with their hair down to their butts wouldn't pay no attention to ol' Truman."[14]
As a result of his defiant commentary, Truman became something of a folk hero[10] and was the subject of many songs and poems by children.[19] One group of children from Salem, Oregon, sent him banners inscribed "Harry – We Love You", which moved him so much that he took a helicopter trip (paid for by National Geographic)[20] to visit them on May 14.[18] He also received many fan letters,[21] including several marriage proposals.[22] A group of fifth graders from Grand Blanc, Michigan, wrote letters that brought him to tears. In return, he sent them a letter and volcanic ash, which the students later sold to buy flowers for his family after the eruption.[20]
He caused a media frenzy, appearing on the front page of The New York Times and The San Francisco Examiner and attracting the attention of National Geographic, United Press International, and The Today Show.[23] Many major magazines composed profiles, including Time, Life, Newsweek, Field & Stream, and Reader's Digest. A historian named Richard W. Slatta wrote that "his fiery attitude, brash speech, love of the outdoors, and fierce independence… made him a folk hero the media could adore."[20] Slatta pointed to Truman's "unbendable character and response to the forces of nature" as a source of his rise to fame, and the interviews with him added "color" to reports about the events at Mount St. Helens.[24] Truman was immortalized, according to Slatta, "with many of the embellished qualities of the western hero", and the media spotlight created a persona that was "in some ways quite different from his true character."[1]
Death
As the likelihood of eruption increased, state officials tried to evacuate the area with the exception of a few scientists and security officials. On May 17, they attempted one final time to persuade Truman to leave, to no avail. The volcano erupted the next morning, and its entire northern flank collapsed.[25] Truman was alone at his lodge with his 16 cats,[9] and is presumed to have died in the eruption on May 18.[21] It is likely that he died of heat shock in less than a second, too quickly to register pain, before his body was vaporized.[26] The largest landslide in recorded history and a pyroclastic flow traveling atop the landslide engulfed the Spirit Lake area almost simultaneously, destroying the lake and burying the site of his lodge under 150 feet (46 m) of volcanic landslide debris.[25] Authorities never found Truman's remains.[9] Truman's cats are presumed to have died with him; he considered them family and mentioned them in almost all public statements.[9][25]
Friends hoped that Truman might have survived, as he had claimed to have provisioned an abandoned mine shaft with food and liquor in case of an eruption, but the lack of immediate warning of the oncoming eruption may have prevented him from escaping to the shaft before the pyroclastic flow reached his lodge[12] (less than a minute after it began). His sister Geraldine said that she found it hard to accept the reality of his death. "I don't think he made it, but I thought if they would let me fly over and see for myself that Harry's lodge is gone, then maybe I'd believe it for sure."[10] Truman's niece Shirley Rosen added that her uncle thought he could escape the volcano but was not expecting the lateral eruption. She stated that her sister took him a bottle of Bourbon whiskey to persuade him to evacuate, but he was too afraid to drink alcohol at the time because he was unsure whether the shaking was coming from his body or the earthquakes.[6] His possessions were auctioned off as keepsakes to admirers in September 1980.[27]
Legacy
A plaque with the carved names of the eruption's victims appears, with a bouquet of flowers sitting on its center. In the background, Mount St. Helens can be seen.
Truman's name on a plaque (bottom right) with names of the victims of the May 18 eruption, with Mount St. Helens in the background.
Truman emerged as a folk hero for his resistance to the evacuation efforts.[10] The Columbian wrote: "With his 10-dollar name and hell-no-I-won’t-go attitude, Truman was a made-for-prime-time folk hero."[15] His friends and family commented: "He was a very opinionated person."[19] Truman's friend John Garrity added, "The mountain and the lake were his life. If he'd left and then saw what the mountain did to his lake, it would have killed him anyway. He always said he wanted to die at Spirit Lake. He went the way he wanted to go."[19] Truman's niece Shirley stated, "He used to say that's my mountain and my lake and he would say those are my arms and my legs. If he would have seen it the way it is now, I don't think he would have survived."[6] Truman's cousin Richard Ice commented that Truman's short period as a celebrity was "the peak of his life."[19]
Truman was the subject of the books Truman of St. Helens: The Man and His Mountain by his niece Shirley Rosen,[28] and The Legend of Harry Truman by his sister Geri Whiting.[29] He was portrayed by Art Carney, his favorite actor,[30] in the 1981 docudrama St. Helens.[31] Memorabilia were sold in the area surrounding Mount St. Helens, including Harry Truman hats, pictures, posters, and postcards. A restaurant opened in Anchorage, Alaska, named after him, serving dishes such as Harry's Hot Molten Chili.[29] According to The Washington Star, more than 100 songs had been composed in Truman's honor by 1981, in addition to a commemorative album titled The Musical Legend Of Harry Truman — A Very Special Collection Of Mount St. Helens’ Volcano Songs.[29] He is the subject of the 2007 song "Harry Truman"[32] written and recorded by Irish band Headgear.[33] Lula Belle Garland wrote "The Legend of Harry And The Mountain," which was recorded in 1980 by Ron Shaw & The Desert Wind Band.[34] Musicians Ron Allen and Steve Asplund wrote a country rock song in 1980 called "Harry Truman, Your Spirit Still Lives On".[32] Billy Jonas included Truman's narrative in his song "Old St. Helen" in 1993.[35] It is likely that Truman's life and attitude were the inspiration for "Grandma" in the movie Dante's Peak.
Truman Trail and Harry's Ridge in the Mount St. Helens region are named after him.[36][37] The Harry R. Truman Memorial Park was named in his honor in Castle Rock, Washington,[38] though it later was renamed Castle Rock Lions Club Volunteer Park.[39]
If he was a virgin when he went into the Volcano he might have survived. Imagine throwing a virgin into a volcano. What a waste.
