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Christopher Raymond was born to me and my wife on September 10th! Weighing in at just 4 pounds and 17 inches long, but with a very healthy set of lungs and vocal chords! Wife is home from the hospital and feeling fine, but baby has not come home yet. I have yet to see him, they are in Rhode Island and I am still in Oklahoma, but all pictures indicate he is my spitting image!
__________________ "In mortal combat, a man may and will become so infuriated by the din and dangers of a bloody fight that his heart will turn to stone and his every de sire [be] for blood."
John Hadley, 7th Indiana after the battle at Port Republic
__________________ "Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor" -Józef Beck
but all pictures indicate he is my spitting image!
Congratulations!!!
Spitting image -- is that a good thing?
And don't say "spitting" to your wife for about two years.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
They said my son looked like me when he was born, but I think that's just because neither one of us had hair. His has come in but, alas, mine is gone for good.
Our best to you, wife and son.
__________________ "There must be more historians of the Civil War than there were generals figthing in it... Of the two groups, the historians are the more belligerent." David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered (1961)
Christopher Raymond was born to me and my wife on September 10th! Weighing in at just 4 pounds and 17 inches long, but with a very healthy set of lungs and vocal chords! Wife is home from the hospital and feeling fine, but baby has not come home yet. I have yet to see him, they are in Rhode Island and I am still in Oklahoma, but all pictures indicate he is my spitting image!
Don't worry about Christopher being small. My daughter weighed 4lb.11oz. Now she is 31 years and has two children, Lauren 4 yrs and Julia 7 month. and
full of *****!! All of um.
Don't worry about Christopher being small. My daughter weighed 4lb.11oz. Now she is 31 years and has two children, Lauren 4 yrs and Julia 7 month. and
full of *****!! All of um.
Congratulations to you and your wife, Dred. "Christopher Raymond" is a very cool name. But, what side do you s'pose he'll take in this Rebellion/Civil War matter? Is he a li'l reb?
Leland
__________________ "What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance."
Now, take care of the wife, tell her she was magnificent and that you love her more than anyone on earth, and get to spoiling that boy!
Really, I'm happy for you, your wife and your new son, Christopher, and glad that all are well.
Now, take care of yourself and get home safe.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Outstanding, a new addition to the community. I hope and pray everything goes well for you and yours.
__________________ Few take the trouble to understand or to view the American scene with perspective. And we Americans love to find ourselves guilty of something. However, it is never I who am guilty, but those other Americans, the past or present government or the other political party. Americans almost never find other countries guilty. It is always ourselves or our fancied influence in other countries. Louis L'amour
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