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September 29, 2007
Many Pennsylvanians celebrated this wonderful Saturday in Derry Pennsylvania during the town’s annual “Railroad Days.” This small town fifty miles east of Pittsburgh is a quiet community where the silence roars, and is now without all of the loud sounds, sights, and the activity that once was part of this former railroad hub. This small-town USA is filled with strong support for your efforts over there. I saw a large “Support Our Troops” banner hanging with the personal signatures of citizens surrounding this proclamation of their love and support for all of you!
The iron rails that run through town still carry the mighty Iron Horse, as many passed by on this day. Unlike before the trains do not stop, but pass by like a modern airliner six miles up over flyover-country. The personal human connection of a coworker's handshake, or the look into another’s eyes is not a part of today’s reality in the railway industry here anymore, much like the steel industry just fifty miles away in Pittsburgh. Derry has had to adapt to the new realities of the information age, but this area still has some hands on production at a local company that manufactures parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles.
Smells of food that is only found in southwest Pennsylvania permeated the morning winds. Smiling kids with painted faces emptied the freshly hand-squeezed lemonade inventories before midday, and the curly fries with ketchup as an accessory, assaulted the freshly prepped clothing of the first timers at this annual bash. As the children played the old ones looked on in good cheer; remembrance is an earned right. If a smile were the sun, it was a very bright day in Derry today; as the temperature differential between day and night forewarn of the coming winter.
This new generation of Americans in small-town USA is growing up in the threatening shadows of the war. Although they may not know it yet, their freedom, their way of life is not a surety. The hard work and the risks that you undertake every single day that your boots are on the ground there, is the barometer of their future.
What you do in the present will determine what they can do in the future.
Keep your head down,
Henry Hill, Plum Pennsylvania
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1 comment:
Really super. But, i did not see derry pennsylvania.
The Village of Peanut:The town of Peanut is composed of three parallel rows of approximately twenty-five miners' houses, a boss's row, and the company store. The streets in Peanut include Pine, Oak, and PA Route 982. The former coal company store is located on PA Route 982. It is a one-story wood-frame building with a gable roof; every variety of siding know to be available has been applied to this structure, with each section of the building sided in a different type of siding; the building has been extensively remodeled and now contains several apartments.
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