90 YEARS AGO ALREADY
Dec 6, 2007 0:26:56 GMT -5
Post by sasquatch on Dec 6, 2007 0:26:56 GMT -5
At 0906, Halifax time Dec 6, 1917 Halifax nearly got wiped off the map in an explosion of man-made fury unrivalled until the incineration of Hiroshima.
The more things change the more they remain the same. An NGO chartered ship, loaded with Belgian Relief, speeding recklessly in the narrows collided with a French ammunition ship.
As has occurred so many times, the first relief was from the USA.
How quickly and easilly forgotten by the Caroline Parrish-types, attempting to surf perceived anti-americanism for petty political gain.
News of the explosion reached Massachusetts the same morning and, without waiting for an official request for assistance from halifax, Governor Sanuel W. McCall commissioned a special train. Packed full of medical supplies and hospital cots, it left at 2217 the same day, with thirteen doctors, ten nurses, and other members of the Massachusetts State Guard. No doctor or nurse had more than an hour and a half notice that they were needed in Halifax.
The train went straight through as an express, all others held aside. Upon arrival, A.C. Ratshevsky, head of the Boston relief party, delivered the following message:
"anything you want for your people which we have or can get, you can have.....You have but to tell us."
Of importance almost equal to medical supplies was Halifax's urgent need for glass, putty and other materials to replace the thousands of windows shattered in the blast, the impact of which was magnified by the winter storm that ensued.
A week after the explosion, the ships Calvin Austen and Northland arrived from Boston carrying over $300,000 (dollars were a foot square then) worth of supplies, including construction materials, and glaziers, engineers and communications experts to help re-establish the city's infrastructure.
Swiftly this resulted in the construction of temporary homes---40 2-story buildings containing 320 tenement-style apartments complete with furniture.
The swift dispatch of everything from line-crews, fire fighters and volunteers to each others wars----both ways-----reflects this close relationship which so disturbs the leftist anti-american types amongst us.......
This is one of the many reasons I take such great exception to the claim by fools that 911 was not an attack on Canada, hence not our problem.
The more things change the more they remain the same. An NGO chartered ship, loaded with Belgian Relief, speeding recklessly in the narrows collided with a French ammunition ship.
As has occurred so many times, the first relief was from the USA.
How quickly and easilly forgotten by the Caroline Parrish-types, attempting to surf perceived anti-americanism for petty political gain.
News of the explosion reached Massachusetts the same morning and, without waiting for an official request for assistance from halifax, Governor Sanuel W. McCall commissioned a special train. Packed full of medical supplies and hospital cots, it left at 2217 the same day, with thirteen doctors, ten nurses, and other members of the Massachusetts State Guard. No doctor or nurse had more than an hour and a half notice that they were needed in Halifax.
The train went straight through as an express, all others held aside. Upon arrival, A.C. Ratshevsky, head of the Boston relief party, delivered the following message:
"anything you want for your people which we have or can get, you can have.....You have but to tell us."
Of importance almost equal to medical supplies was Halifax's urgent need for glass, putty and other materials to replace the thousands of windows shattered in the blast, the impact of which was magnified by the winter storm that ensued.
A week after the explosion, the ships Calvin Austen and Northland arrived from Boston carrying over $300,000 (dollars were a foot square then) worth of supplies, including construction materials, and glaziers, engineers and communications experts to help re-establish the city's infrastructure.
Swiftly this resulted in the construction of temporary homes---40 2-story buildings containing 320 tenement-style apartments complete with furniture.
The swift dispatch of everything from line-crews, fire fighters and volunteers to each others wars----both ways-----reflects this close relationship which so disturbs the leftist anti-american types amongst us.......
This is one of the many reasons I take such great exception to the claim by fools that 911 was not an attack on Canada, hence not our problem.