This is an ode to those who trod the Lying Lakes....hauling iron ore to the mills of Cleveland and such places to be converted to steel, while then taking the grains of the verdant fields of Illinois and Indiana to the mills of Minneapolis to be converted to flour.
Without them and their ships....America would not have prospered as it did. So, as a Confederate, I allow that these are the people who made America what it became. The sinking of the good ship Edmund Fitzgerald was caused by an error of the crew, for having not sealed the upper closures of the ship. It simply took on too much water....along with 26,000 tonnes of iron ore.
We request of the Lord G0d Almighty to remember these souls. My great-grandfather was one of those, who during an earlier period might have been awaiting the return voyage, laden with grains to mash into liquor, beer, and other seeds to be sold for seed that would then be turned into flour for bread.
This, had he lived, would have been his 167th year on this planet. En Requiem - Peter Bonesteel Christian.........associate of the Washburn - Christian Mills, to-day known as GENERAL MILLS.
This, had he lived, would have been his 167th year on this planet. En Requiem - Peter Bonesteel Christian.........associate of the Washburn - Christian Mills, to-day known as GENERAL MILLS.
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EL GRINGO VIEJO
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