From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Apr 25 03:25:25 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3P9PPjb019193; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:25:25 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3P9PNM5015995 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:25:23 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3P6qNFI017139 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:52:23 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k3P6qN5P017138 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:52:23 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k3P1msFI016593 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:48:54 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k3P4LgpH016045 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:21:42 -0600 X-Envelope-From: SecurePJ@aol.com Mon Apr 24 22:21:42 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3P4Lgjb016034 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:21:42 -0600 Received: from imo-m21.mx.aol.com (imo-m21.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.2]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3P4Lete030919 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:21:40 -0600 Received: from SecurePJ@aol.com by imo-m21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.3d2.13854ff (48576) for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:21:32 -0400 (EDT) From: SecurePJ@aol.com Message-ID: <3d2.13854ff.317efdcb@aol.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:21:31 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5301 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #181//STORIES Perhaps this should not be told.....But statue of limitations are most likely expired as are most folks for the time.. OH WELL.......... In the center of the four way intersection stands this beautiful, fully adjustable cannon. ( up, down,left and right. I think it came from WW 1. It was a great toy for a youngster who could make believe he was the greatest shot in the world. Of course....that was me. Only one thing wrong with that scenerio was the darn thing did not shoot. Something was wrong and that NEEDED to be fixed. What to do???? With help from some friends we collected fire crackers, ammunition and anything that had powder. (We use to send tin cans into the air with this stuff ) We managed to get a pretty good pile and had now to make a wick. That took a lot of attempts as the breach would prevent the fuse from getting into the barrel. That being solved it was now time TO LOAD! Lower the barrel and dump the powder,(in a bag) then the ammo. A keg of small nails.. Elevate the barrel so the stuff got all the way inside. ( I guess) .The fuse that took so long to make was set into the powder and out the door that we closed with hay wire,( should work). Our target?? Hummmm. The corner building with the glass windows should be fine. The time was now before the darn cop chased us away again...We lit the fuse and ran like heck when it sizzled away. Hidden next to the shoe store we waited..and waited...and waited. Nothing. Better go see what happened. It worked O.K. in the barn and at the well and behind the movie house. We waited some more...(must have been at least two minites since we lit the darn thing but at the time...it was a loooooooong time. About the time we were going to check our handy work....BOOOOM. A huge cloud of black smoke, glass breaking and cars banging. Stuff all over the place and ..We ran like Hell. I never did get caught but I feared for many years that I would. This was about 1942/3 and it was reasoned the Germans had gotten to the town. OH Well that all past and things settled down. I have wondered often just how many investigations were made about this but ,,,Now you know. PJ Mathon