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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Damery Easter Skype

Image representing Skype as depicted in CrunchBaseImage via CrunchBase
I love that technology allows us to keep in touch and see and hear family even though they are far away and circumstances keep you apart. Skype is a very underused tool for reaching out to other family members. A phone call is quick and always good too but to hear and see the other persons face or what is going on in their world can speak volumes without words.
I love that I can just make a funny face (which comes way too easy for me) and make someone else laugh. I really appreciate those I have had the pleasure of skype-ing and look forward to hear and seeing you in the future.

God Bless, he is alive and back from the dead. Happy Easter indeed.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Damery Civil war findings

The 22nd Infantry Regiment coat of arms.Image via Wikipedia
Well after watching the Ancestry show last week and hearing about the Judd's civil war connections. I decided to look into the Damery Civil war connections and I knew about John Damery who was born in Ireland and came to America with his parents and initially settled in Connecticut some time after the potato famine in Ireland and then joined the Civil war and after having 6 children was captured during the war and died in Andersonville prison. His brother Richard Damery had moved to the state of Illinois in the 1850's and finally in 1857 to Macon County Illinois when he went back to join the Civil war fight with Company B, Massachusetts 22nd Infantry Regiment in 1864.
Always proud of those who fight for the Freedoms of the land they believe in whether they are born here or not. I am proud of the Damery heritage in the civil war and the thought that they arrived in a new land of opportunity and was able to create for them selves lives with the freedom that the United States gave them.
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