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Thursday, May 11, 2006
WILD HORSE alert
Dear Readers,
The wild ones need help again, especially if you're from
one of these 21 states--
Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado,
Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia or Washington. Why? Several Congressman from these states cosponsored HR 857 to prevent horse slaughter (remember: Department of Agriculture hired foreign horse meat inspectors to come into U.S. slaughter factories since it was illegal to use American inspectors), but have NOT cosponsored H.R. 503 which restates Americans' opposition to horse slaughter.
To find out how to contact the Congressmen above, go to aspca.org
the American Humane Society's website, and way over on the right, under the photo of the puppy, you'll see a link to Federal Horse Slaughter.
One of my readers suggested we remind Congressmen of wild horses' contribution to American by sending them this earlier blog entry about COMANCHE, the mustang survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn:
Two days later, General Terry's command arrived and saw the horror -- no survivors, to a man, and all except Custer himself horribly mutilated. Many horses lay dead or dying; some had been killed by their own men to serve as breastworks. But amid the carnage, there appeared a miracle: a badly wounded horse, bleeding from seven bullet holes, still standing with his head low, in the cottonwoods along the banks of the Little Big Horn River. Should he be shot? One man said no, perhaps longing for a survivor on this field of death, and sensing that the horse could endure.
The horse was Comanche, named, according to legend, for the courage he exhibited when a farrier removed an arrowhead from his flank after he was wounded by Indians during a previous battle. Comanche was taken by steamer to Fort Lincoln, nursed back to health, transferred to Fort Riley and retired with honors. ''. . . His kind treatment and comfort should be a matter of special pride," stated General Order No. 7. ''. . . Though wounded and scarred, his very silence speaks more eloquently than words of the desperate struggle in which all went down that day."
On July 4, 1876, as word of the Custer massacre reverberated across the land, our traditional birthday parties became assemblies of grief. But there was hope -- Comanche had lived, and through him so had the country's dream of the frontier.
The Wild Horses helped us fight wars and gain freedom. It's time we returned the favor.
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WILD HORSE alert
Dear Readers,
The wild ones need help again, especially if you're from
one of these 21 states--
Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado,
Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia or Washington. Why? Several Congressman from these states cosponsored HR 857 to prevent horse slaughter (remember: Department of Agriculture hired foreign horse meat inspectors to come into U.S. slaughter factories since it was illegal to use American inspectors), but have NOT cosponsored H.R. 503 which restates Americans' opposition to horse slaughter.
To find out how to contact the Congressmen above, go to aspca.org
the American Humane Society's website, and way over on the right, under the photo of the puppy, you'll see a link to Federal Horse Slaughter.
One of my readers suggested we remind Congressmen of wild horses' contribution to American by sending them this earlier blog entry about COMANCHE, the mustang survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn:
Two days later, General Terry's command arrived and saw the horror -- no survivors, to a man, and all except Custer himself horribly mutilated. Many horses lay dead or dying; some had been killed by their own men to serve as breastworks. But amid the carnage, there appeared a miracle: a badly wounded horse, bleeding from seven bullet holes, still standing with his head low, in the cottonwoods along the banks of the Little Big Horn River. Should he be shot? One man said no, perhaps longing for a survivor on this field of death, and sensing that the horse could endure.
The horse was Comanche, named, according to legend, for the courage he exhibited when a farrier removed an arrowhead from his flank after he was wounded by Indians during a previous battle. Comanche was taken by steamer to Fort Lincoln, nursed back to health, transferred to Fort Riley and retired with honors. ''. . . His kind treatment and comfort should be a matter of special pride," stated General Order No. 7. ''. . . Though wounded and scarred, his very silence speaks more eloquently than words of the desperate struggle in which all went down that day."
On July 4, 1876, as word of the Custer massacre reverberated across the land, our traditional birthday parties became assemblies of grief. But there was hope -- Comanche had lived, and through him so had the country's dream of the frontier.
The Wild Horses helped us fight wars and gain freedom. It's time we returned the favor.
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Posted by Terri Farley @ 4:11 PM
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