[Mb-hair] "Tioga" means

[Michael Butler]

Joe,
Very interesting and nicely said.
Thanks Michael

> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:44:03 -0700
> From: "ace" <ace at aceross.com>
> 
> Sharmagne told me Tioga means running water........
> 
> Can't wait to meet you all........
> 
> Sherwin
> 
> ==================================
> 
> Close enough for government inspection.  But more precisely, in Algonquin, it
> means "land between two waters."  The town of Tioga, Louisiana is between the
> Red River and the Little River (land between two waters).  You'll find the
> name "Tioga" in Williamsburg, Virginian (home of Colonial Williamsburg).
> Williamsburg's Tioga is between the James River and the Chickahominy River.
> Joe also see's America as Tioga -- land between the two waters of the Atlantic
> and the Pacific.  Joe also likes to imagine that HE's a tioga -- bridging the
> gap between streams of understanding -- such as between the Hawks and Doves of
> the Vietnam Era (like when he reminds HAIR heads they would be doing a
> disservice to HAIR's Claude Hooper Bukowski, if they denigrated GI's and
> veterans for their military service.  If the HAIR story were non-fiction,
> Claude's name would appear among the more than 58,000 on the Vietnam Veterans
> Memorial in Washington, DC.  Joe says Claude would see those others so named
> as his brothers and sisters.  Joe thinks that's why Claude went to Vietnam.
> How else could he get his point across to his hippie brothers and sisters that
> the American GIs and veterans were not their enemy?  He became a GI himself, a
> veteran, a name on a wall, KIA in RVN, Killed In Action in the Republic of
> Vietnam).  But that's only Joe's two cents worth.  Who's he to say what's what
> (he always says to me)?  He's just a regular Joe.
> 
> peace,
> 
> Joseph L. Tioga
> 
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