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This Section is a VERY rough Draft – just to note ideas till we have a chance to edit it.
Nothing is worth doing, unless it is worth doing to excess.) This Section is a VERY rough Draft – just to note ideas till we have a chance to edit and enlarge it.
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Valerie Bonzer 1917-2020 (VB) – Grew up in the time of the Great Depression, physical and mental abuse from a beautiful but violent mother who also was a great cook, and perhaps did a bit of side-business. VB ran away to Hollywood, failed at being a Starlet in the Night Clubs of the Sunset Strip, in her 2nd or 3rd or 4th marriage, bore Frederick Kohler to Fred Kohler, Jr, actor and son of Fred Kohler Sr., famous actor, annulled/divorced/rid of the husband and took up with playboy, Night Club owner, industrialist, War Assets Agent, and a list of other titles, Joseph Claus Collins, who showed her the magic of Aviation War Surplus, with which she, as the only woman in the world, built her own Aviation War surplus business.* - Well, it is a story I am writing and will publish on-line until, I have it advanced sufficiently to publish in book form. |
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry – Airmail pioneer, writer, best known as writer of Le Petit Prince (the Little Prince) Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. Saint-Exupéry trained as a commercial pilot in the early decades of 1920s, working airmail routes across Europe, Africa, and South America. Wikipedia He died fighting for the Free French in a P-38, over the Mediterranean, not far from his birth place. Ask LINK = Mark Lazarus, a320busdriver@gmail.com |
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This is an example of how I picture our Annotated TOC – The sequence is up in the air |
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But the idea is a brief summary (enticing??) in TOC and more detail if Reader clicks – But each Click should be a Pop-up so the underlying story is easy to find. |
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Steve Hinton, - Was a boy in Chino, enamored of aircraft and hanging out with his buddies at the airport till Ed Maloney took pity and said something on the order of: “Hey, com’on in, sweep the hangar and wash this plane, and I might give you a ride.” Hinton Sr, is now President of the Planes of Fame Air Museum that Mahoney founded. He and his son are Air Race pilots and Record holders.
Howard Huges – While he did not start from poverty, or even middle class, he advanced himself by his own efforts to a giant degree, designer of airplanes, raced them, set records, owned TWA, movie studios, richest man in world,,,
Paul H. Poberezny – creator and Founder of EAA. While not rich, this fellow probably has had a bigger influence on his world. From his idea and gathering of 30+ other enthusiasts who shared his passion for building their own aircraft and flying, he created a little club, the Experimental Aircraft Association which work was started and carried a great deal by he and his wife. But this is a good place to reinforce that no person of whom I am aware, entirely and with no help, crafted his/her own success. EAA is famous for its volunteers. Each person mentioned in these writings, has had at least some help. Never the less, it was that individual who was the responsible party for their progress.
E.D. Weiner – The Story of Race14, gives an overview of his history.
We will gladly add to this list, preferably with more complete stories. They all had problems to overcome and flaws within their own natures and lives.
You will note that much of this very incomplete list is made of Aviators. It is very important to realize that Dreamers exist in almost any class, even bad people. I just happen to think airmen are cool and I know more examples. Please feel free to send other examples. While I know of no “Hero” or successful “Dreamer” who does/did not have faults. It is the climb and the character that I wish to talk about.
OK, to leave Aviation for a bit:
George Washington -
Thomas Jefferson -
Benjamine Franklin (one of my favorites) –
In fact, most of all whom we call the Founding Fathers – and . . . many whom one may think the Founding Fathers opposed or wronged:
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Native Americans and Blacks/Negros or whatever the fashionable name of the day is. (But I don’t mean “Nigger”) Native Americans have a problem with their name also. 1. because they were native to this land, long before it was ever called America, and 2. Because, they were many tribes and groups, not just one. --- That brings up another fact: Most USA citizens consider themselves, Americans – and they are right – but so are Mexicans, Canadians, Salvadorians, Columbians, etc. America -- North, Central, South, is far bigger than the USA. Very possibly we may decide to put notes like this in WHY? – In my miond, WHY explains technical questions and the philosophy behind this.
John Herrington. Astronaut, engineer, and US Naval Aviator John Herrington made history in 2002 when he became the first Native American to fly into space. (OOOPs ! sort’a an Aviator.)
Powhatan (c. 1547 - c.1618) – Powhatan Confederacy
First Leader in Contact With the Jamestown Settlers
Best known as Pocahontas’ father, Chief Powhatan (a.k.a. Wahunsenacawh) was the supreme Indigenous leader in the Chesapeake Bay region of Virginia, who built a confederacy of dozens of tribes—through force, marriage and by "adoption." In the early 1600s, Chief Powhatan adopted Englishman John Smith as a wereowance, or leader, of what would eventually become Jamestown Colony. But when relations with the English settlers soured, he ordered his warriors to attack James Fort in 1609, initiating the first Anglo-Powhatan war. That lasted until the marriage of his daughter Pocahontas to English colonist John Rolfe. After she died in 1617, Powhatan ceded his rule to his brothers, Opechancanough and Itoyatan. - https://www.history.com/news/native-american-leaders-timeline
Col. Louis Cook, a.k.a. Atiatoharongwen (c. 1740-1814) - Mohawk, Abenaki
Highest Ranking Native American Officer in the Revolution
Fluent in French, English and Mohawk—and talented as an opera singer—Cook became renowned as a warrior. As various European colonial forces battled for North American territory, he fought first for the French and then offered his services to General George Washington in 1775, going on to command the Indian Rangers and help defeat the British near Saratoga. His 1779 commission as a lieutenant colonel made him not only the highest-ranking Indigenous officer in the Continental Army, but—because his father was of African descent—the only known Black officer as well.
https://www.history.com/news/native-american-leaders-timeline
Sitting Bull (c.1831-1890) - Teton Dakota
Defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
One of the most famous Native Americans of the 19th century, Sitting Bull united the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains against white settlers encroaching on their territory. A great warrior chief who joined his first war party at age 14, Sitting Bull fought many battles against the U.S. military in the Great Sioux Wars, culminating with the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer at the infamous Battle of the Little Bighorn. In 1885, Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, gaining national renown. But U.S. officials, fearing he might be leading an uprising, sent Indian police to arrest him. He died while resisting.
https://www.history.com/news/native-american-leaders-timeline
Queen Lili'uokalani (1838-1917) - Native Hawaiian - First Woman to Rule Hawaii
Lili'uokalani, the first woman to rule Hawaii—and the archipelago’s last monarch—was a gifted musical composer who authored “Aloha Oe,” a national anthem for Hawaii. After succeeding her brother on the throne in 1891, she fought to restore Native Hawaiian sovereignty after white landowners had forced him at gunpoint to cede political power in what came to be known as the Bayonet Constitution. When Lili'uokalani pushed to restore the original Hawaiian constitution, those sugar and pineapple barons, with the help of a U.S. minister and a contingent of Marines, staged a coup, deposing her. For five years, she petitioned President Grover Cleveland and Congress for reinstatement. After a failed rebellion aimed at restoring the monarchy, Lili'uokalani was arrested, and sentenced to five years of hard prison labor. She was pardoned in 1896; the U.S. officially annexed Hawaii as a territory two years later. https://www.history.com/news/native-american-leaders-timeline
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, GA on January 15th, 1929. He was one of the most important and influential Civil Rights leaders in the 1950s and 1960s. The cornerstones of his activism were based on non-violence and civil disobedience, both of which were inspired by his Christian faith and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
He rose to prominence as a leader in 1955 during the Montgomery bus boycott when he was selected to take charge to desegregate the bus services. Afterwards he was elected the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). From this position, he helped organize many Civil Rights movement actions. The most famous being the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was then, on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, that Dr. King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, and in 1965 helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches to advocate for Black voting rights. --- https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/individuals/martin-luther-king
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993)
was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for civil rights, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Marshall was a prominent figure in the movement to end racial segregation in American public schools. He won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court, culminating in the Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which rejected the separate but equal doctrine and held segregation in public education to be unconstitutional. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court in 1967. A staunch liberal, he frequently dissented as the Court became increasingly conservative.
Harriet Tubman (c. March 1822 - March 10, 1913)
Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland, was one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad, an abolitionist, suffragist, activist, and served in the Civil War as leader, nurse, cook, scout, and spy. Tubman was arguably the most successful individual who personally led enslaved people to freedom through her service on the Underground Railroad, and during the Civil War, she was given the moniker "Moses."
Tubman's early life was spent enslaved in the Eastern Shore region of Maryland, where she was made to do various tasks including childcare, plowing, and working on the wharf. Three of her sisters were sold and separated from the family during her childhood, but her parents, Rit and Ben Ross, continued to resist and keep the remaining family together. In 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, but would return to Maryland many times to recover her family and reunite them in freedom.
During the Civil War, Tubman served in South Carolina as a nurse, cook, and spy. She also became the only woman to lead a military action during the War when she led Black troops in the Combahee River Raid on June 2, 1863. The raid involved small ships and troops who destroyed roadways, and burned plantations, and collected supplies of livestock and crops. As a result of the raid, 750 enslaved people were liberated. --https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/individuals/harriet-tubman
I’d guess that most Black success stories are Dreamer stories.So help build this list and these stories – any color, creed. Etc. Our point is individual success. Everybody has some hardships and weaknesses, we want to see and promote, not the flaws, but the virtues. They are real and can help us all.
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