October 24, 2018

​Be kind. Be nice. Be sweet. Not that hard. Love y'all! Have a great day!

Yes he did.
Awww, what a treasure this is now.
Found it on an old phone.
From a granddaughter to her P-paw.

Now this one? Shocked me!
😇🤣
I cannot imagine why she wrote this! lol
​From my granddaughter - lol

​Truth. I'm just me ... it's all I can be.

​Guess that's just me
​{Blaine Price: Don't be ridiculous!}

​I am sooooo stinking sleepy right now.
I feel like I could lay down on this cold concrete floor and sleep like a baby.😴 LOL 
Wishing for hot chocolate from McD's. 🤔
I wonder if they deliver? Lol 🤔

​‎Eric Harvey‎ to The Yesteryears Revisited
Warrior – the real War horse.
Over the past few years War Horse has mesmerized and enthralled audiences both old and young on stage, in film directed by Spielberg and of course in a children’s book.
But - on the centenary of the start of World War One - a real war time heroic horse received the animals equivalent of the VC .
Warrior went through WW1 and survived, he was posthumously awarded the honorary PDSA’s Dicken medal in honour of the millions of animals killed during the conflict. Warrior, dubbed the ‘The horse the Germans could not kill’ is the only recipient of this honorary medal in the PDSA’s 97 year old history.
Brough Scott writer, broadcaster and grandson of the original owner General Jack Seely accepted the medal at a special ceremony in Imperial War Museum in London in 2014.
After arriving on the Western Front on August 11 1914 with Gen Seely, Warrior stayed there throughout the war, surviving machine gun attacks and falling shells at the Battle of the Somme. 
He was dug out of the mud of Passchendaele and twice trapped under the burning beams of his stables, surviving many charges at the enemy and proving an inspiration to the soldiers he was fighting alongside. General Seely once said that the horse was so brave that a shell exploded ten feet away from them at the battle of Mons and Warrior never flinched, he just looked to the side at the smoking crater then looked forward again.
Warrior managed to survive several near death experiences such as when a sniper missed him by inches and hit a horse he was touching noses with and when the cottage he was stabled in was bombed, he miraculously emerged from the rubble. 
Pre-war General Seely was an MP and sat in the Cabinet from 1911-1914, alongside his life-long friend Winston Churchill, who also had understanding of equine support. 
It was Churchill who intervened to secure the safe return of tens of thousands of war horses stranded in Europe after the First World War. War Office documents found in the National Archives at Kew show that tens of thousands of the animals were at risk of disease, hunger and even death at the hands of French and Belgian butchers because bungling officials couldn’t get them home when hostilities ceased.
Churchill, then aged 44 and Secretary of State for War, reacted with fury when he was informed of their treatment and took a personal interest in their plight after the 1914-1918 war.
He secured their speedy return after firing off angry memos to officials within his own department and at the Ministry of Shipping, who had promised to return 12,000 horses a week but were struggling to get a quarter of that number back. Churchill’s intervention led to extra vessels being used for repatriation, and the number of horses being returned rose to 9,000 a week. 
Despite suffering several injuries, Warrior survived and returned home to the Isle of Wight in 1918, where he lived with the Seely family until his death aged 33.
16 million horses went to war - 9 million didn't return......