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madamesilverspurs

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Sun Sep-06-09 02:28 PM
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Spoooooky!

Sat down a few minutes ago and flipped on the teevee. It was tuned to the History Channel, and I was fixing to switch channels as I normally don't watch "Haunted History". But then they started talking about one of my great+grandfathers, Commodore Thomas Truxtun of the USS Constellation. Seems the old boy dresses in full commodore rig and gives tours. I was thinking that if Dad were still alive he'd have really enjoyed seeing that. Then I just chuckled; given Dad's love of tall ships, he's probably giving the old guy a hand with his haunting ways . . .

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GreenPartyVoter

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Sun Sep-06-09 05:19 PM
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1. How cool! My g-g-g-g-g grandfather was the commander of Fort Knox here in Maine, but

Edited on Sun Sep-06-09 05:23 PM by GreenPartyVoter

I have never seen him there. He died of TB, but after he was stationed there. Perhaps he wasn't keen to return there.

His picture is here, under P: http://www.cwoodcock.com/firstmaine/First_Maine_Officers.pdf

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