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[Glen Zook]

There is a cemetery in Denison, Texas (bout 70 miles north of Dallas), that has a several hundred Union veterans buried in it.  Basically, they came to the Denison / Sherman areas to work for the railroad.  In that cemetery is a dedicated G.A.R. plot with veterans from Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, and several other states.  The Department of the Southwest, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War rededicated this cemetery in 1996.  In the center of the G.A.R. plot is a large monument with the statue of a Civil War soldier on it and the letters G.A.R. displayed on the base.

Most of the residents of Denison thought that the G.A.R. stood for "Grand Army of the Rebellion" instead of "Grand Army of the Republic" and thus was a Confederate monument.  They never looked at the tombstones around the monument that have Union Army regiments engraved!

When my eldest daughter was in high school (she was born in Dallas, Texas) there were so few students in the Plano Independent School District that had been born in Texas (most had been born in the Midwest) that those who were "native Texans" decided to form a club restricted to those who had been born in Texas.

Now when I was a freshman at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, I was told that I was a DAMN Yankee and that it was two words.  As for me, I am a Midwesterner and not a Yankee.  Yankees are from Connecticut north!

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Tue, 12/23/08, Mike Everette <radiocompass at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mike Everette <radiocompass at yahoo.com>

The term "damnyankee" is all one word.
 
There are 2 other kinds:
 
Dumbyankee = one who comes south, stays a while, then goes back north
 
Goodyankee = one who comes south, stays a while, then goes back AND TAKES ANOTHER ONE WITH HIM.
 
Near where I live there are 2 suburbs full... 
 
Cary = Concentrated Area of Relocated Yankees
 
It was discovered recently that we have a yankee soldier buried in our Confederate cenetary.  What to do?  Send him to Cary.
 
Clayton = Cary-Like Area Yankees Try Out Next
 
We got so many of 'em down here.... well, leastways some of 'em try t'git galvanized.  It c'n be funny t'watch.