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The ballad of Ira Hayes
Delicia - The world's acutest kitten Started conversation Jul 15, 2003
That instantly makes me think of the Johnny Cash song. Here is a page with the lyrics, remembering the Pima who served as a marine in WW II, and connecting his fate up with the water question.
http://www.toptown.com/hp/66/irahayes.htm
The ballad of Ira Hayes
Azara Posted Jul 15, 2003
If you go to F48874?thread=295366 , Delicia, you will find a whole entry about Ira Hayes (by the same author, 0) which is under discussion at the moment.
Comments in Peer REview are always welcome!
Azara 
The ballad of Ira Hayes
Delicia - The world's acutest kitten Posted Jul 16, 2003
Found it, it's great, thank you. I saw you also did an entry about Iwo Yima. Thorough kinda chap, ain'tcha? 
The ballad of Ira Hayes
David Conway Posted Jul 16, 2003
"Thorough kinda chap, ain'tcha?"
You might say that. For me, history is a *lot* more interesting when events are placed within their context. I don't get a thing out of "On date X person Y did thing Z."
I need to know what was going on up until date X, and why person Y, not person W did thing Z. Did the context of the times make thing Z inevitable, or did person Y shape events over an extended period with thing Z in mind?
People and dates bore me. It's the context and the personalities involved that bring history to life, as far as I'm concerned.
I literally *could not* write the Ira Hayes entry until there were Pima and Iwo Jima entries available for it to link to. My only other option would have been to include the information in those two entries in the Ira Hayes entry, which would have damaged that one.
This thoroughness is what turned my (intended to be) averaged sized entry on Operation Dewey Canyon III into the six part War and Protest series of entries - which went through Peer Review as a single, massive entry!
All right. I've babbled enough.
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The ballad of Ira Hayes
Delicia - The world's acutest kitten Posted Jul 17, 2003
You are of course right, and i think it's the only way to deal with any matter, to consider the peripherals and ramifications as well. Might actually lead one to reconsider the matter in hand, it's happened to me.
The ballad of Ira Hayes
abbi normal "Putting on the Ritz" with Dr Frankenstein Posted Jul 27, 2003
I enjoyed this entry. I will have to read more of them. 
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