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rabid1st"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say."--Goyathlay (aka Geronimo).
There's a really big pic under here. So, Geronimo-ooooooo!
I think it is a little fitting that I write about this great man, given that The Doctor now uses "Geronimo" as a call to adventure.
He was born in 1829 and died in 1909, after a fall from a horse. During his life, his entire world changed. His true name means "One Who Yawns," but he is better known by the name given to him by his enemies. He fought heroically against the invading American and Mexican soldiers who moved into his homeland and slaughtered his loved ones. When his mother, wife and three young children were killed by Spanish soldiers, Goyathlay took a vow to kill as many of the invaders as he could. He was only 22 years old at that time and he later wrote that he went to the river and stood there for a time, before taking his place among the warriors. He was the last leader of Native American people to capitulate to the white man and surrender his right to this land. Because he held out for so long against such great odds, he is considered the most famous Apache of them all.
The reason we shout Geronimo when jumping out of a plane, remains a mystery, but it is attributed to Aubrey Eberhardt, a member of the U.S. Army's parachute "test platoon" that demonstrated the feasibility of parachute troop drops at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1940. The Army decided to speed up the testing with mass deployments. And the test jumpers were all very nervous. Private Eberhardt, inspired by a bio-pic about Geronimo, decided to shout the name with a war whoop as he jumped.
There is little information about what bio-pic these soldiers saw that night, but this rush into a death-defying activity with Geronimo on your lips is quite fitting. Goyathlay was noted for his death-defying spirit. He would attack against great odds, swiftly and brutally sweeping down on his enemies to demoralize them. Armed only with his knife, he would rush a group of soldiers or settlers with a mad cry and stab several people to death, escaping again with apparent immunity to the bullets fired at him. In contrast to this warrior image, he was, also, a deeply spiritual man, converting to Christianity at the end of his life, and taking comfort in the teachings of all men as brothers. But he still kept strong ties to his Apache religion which he learned at the feet of his mother. He recalls praying with her as a child and having Elders pray for him. Among the Apache (probably their PR people) it was said that he could walk through stone walls, travel without leaving tracks, read minds and move objects with his thoughts. It is indisputable that he was quite elusive. He surrendered, but was never captured. He escaped the reservation three times and once was chased by the cavalry into a cave which, upon the dawn, was searched and found to be empty. To this day no other exit has been found to the cave.
You can learn more about Geronimo at Wikipedia...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
To Learn More About the 100 Things Challenge...go here...http://jdbracknell.livejournal.com/165714.html
There's a really big pic under here. So, Geronimo-ooooooo!
I think it is a little fitting that I write about this great man, given that The Doctor now uses "Geronimo" as a call to adventure.
He was born in 1829 and died in 1909, after a fall from a horse. During his life, his entire world changed. His true name means "One Who Yawns," but he is better known by the name given to him by his enemies. He fought heroically against the invading American and Mexican soldiers who moved into his homeland and slaughtered his loved ones. When his mother, wife and three young children were killed by Spanish soldiers, Goyathlay took a vow to kill as many of the invaders as he could. He was only 22 years old at that time and he later wrote that he went to the river and stood there for a time, before taking his place among the warriors. He was the last leader of Native American people to capitulate to the white man and surrender his right to this land. Because he held out for so long against such great odds, he is considered the most famous Apache of them all.
The reason we shout Geronimo when jumping out of a plane, remains a mystery, but it is attributed to Aubrey Eberhardt, a member of the U.S. Army's parachute "test platoon" that demonstrated the feasibility of parachute troop drops at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1940. The Army decided to speed up the testing with mass deployments. And the test jumpers were all very nervous. Private Eberhardt, inspired by a bio-pic about Geronimo, decided to shout the name with a war whoop as he jumped.
There is little information about what bio-pic these soldiers saw that night, but this rush into a death-defying activity with Geronimo on your lips is quite fitting. Goyathlay was noted for his death-defying spirit. He would attack against great odds, swiftly and brutally sweeping down on his enemies to demoralize them. Armed only with his knife, he would rush a group of soldiers or settlers with a mad cry and stab several people to death, escaping again with apparent immunity to the bullets fired at him. In contrast to this warrior image, he was, also, a deeply spiritual man, converting to Christianity at the end of his life, and taking comfort in the teachings of all men as brothers. But he still kept strong ties to his Apache religion which he learned at the feet of his mother. He recalls praying with her as a child and having Elders pray for him. Among the Apache (probably their PR people) it was said that he could walk through stone walls, travel without leaving tracks, read minds and move objects with his thoughts. It is indisputable that he was quite elusive. He surrendered, but was never captured. He escaped the reservation three times and once was chased by the cavalry into a cave which, upon the dawn, was searched and found to be empty. To this day no other exit has been found to the cave.
You can learn more about Geronimo at Wikipedia...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
To Learn More About the 100 Things Challenge...go here...http://jdbracknell.livejournal.com/165714.html