Second part of two part series. Original materials for this project are at the Veterans Oral History Project in the Library of Congress.

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OBITUARY. John McCrea McCreary, Lt. Col., RA, Rtd., died in his home in Rectortown, Va. ___June 3, 2009; three days before the anniversary of D-Day.

John landed in Normandy as part of General Pattons never publicized secret weapon, his 3rd Cavalry and other reconnaissance units. Ranging the countryside in scattered, constantly in-touch-with-the-enemy small groups, these rovers and probers were the first sure proof in village after village that the Liberation was happening and was real.

Lightly armored and highly mobile, these armored car groups deliberately and continuously harassed the German lines. Patton always knew where the Germans were because reconnaissance units like John's were never out of contact with the enemy.

Bypassing the struggles and dramas in Paris itself, these were the units that linked up with the guerilla Maqui to the south and east of the capital to keep the war of movement in motion. En passant John acquired the Legion of Merit plus three purple hearts.

Having made it through France John was captured in Germany on the wrong side of the Saar River during a two day, on foot recon behind enemy lines. He wound up as Kommandant of his own prison camp. As the German war machine imploded in rear guard chaos, his prison guards had quietly surrendered to their Allied prisoners.*

Later in Korea. Arriving early with the independent 6th Tank Battalion, he survived the bitter retreat to, and defense of the Pusan perimeter, and the triumphant, advance back up the peninsula to capture Pyongang in North Korea. After the Chinese invasions, of course, came the re run of these actions; the long, fighting retreats under Chinese assault then, once again, now under General Ridgeway, the crunching advances to recapture Seoul and move on to the 38th Parallel. During this second advance McCreary twice in the line of duty encountered his brother Edward, now a combat engineer officer with the 3rd Division. It was, after all, a small war.

Born in New York, he was raised in pre WW II Spain and the Philippines where his father ran the Phil. Railroad Co. of Panay. In college in the U.S. when the war started, he joined the army. Simultaneously, his family was interned in Japanese prison camps. It is a laughing irony that three weeks after his family were safely liberated in Manila, John was interned in Germany.

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This video documents the breeding, training and hunting of the beagle, the world's most popular hound, by three passionate beaglers: Clayton Bright, a sculptor of sporting art from the wealthy Brandywine district of Pennsylvania; Roland Baltimore, an African American contractor from Middleburg, Virginia; and Claude Honeycutt, a devoutly religious gun dog man from the mountains of western North Carolina near Asheville.
This video is available on DVD from www.davenportfilms.com.

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Kings Pottery in Seagrove, North Carolina
Website
http://www.kingspottery.com/in dex.html

Hand Made South is Part Travel, Part Craft and all Southern Culture.

This episode takes us to see a famous potter who shows us how he and his wife make traditional facejugs.

Dedicated to my Great Uncle
Hooper McCoig

www.dantraveling.com

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Contra Dancing to Tensta's My Cool... some are confused, the music in the video is what we are dancing to.

Song: Adam Tensta - My Cool
Director: Forrest O.
Caller: Charlotte Crittenden
Dancers: YDW 2008 http://youthdanceweekend.org/
Choreography: neighbor balance and swing, chain, half hey, partner balance and swing, chain, half hey, start over with a new neighbor...

While the progression is based on contra, a kind of folk dancing, the music is Swedish hiphop and the dancers pull from swing, hiphop, sexy, tango, dirty... anything goes really, as long as it is on the rhythm. Mixmashing cultures and styles to our whim is what we are all about. The basic progression is agreed upon, and every thing else is improv around it.

I think that there should be more social dance frameworks for techno/hiphop/club dancing. You almost never see men and women dancing together in music/dance videos; it is usually taking turns to strut your stuff, then maybe grinding a little bit.

This kind of choreography is simple enough that calling could be integrated into the lyrics of a song. Somewhere between Crank Dat and singing squares I think that there is a niche like this waiting to be filled. If I were a dance music producer, I'd consult with me on making an album of this. Or at least a music video.

PS: after the cameras went off Girl Talk came on and we danced another for 40 minutes straight, thanks to the endless mix.

Higher Quality: http://vimeo.com/1786406

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Argentine tango waltz improvisation by Murat Erdemsel and Sharna Fabiano in the Children Hospital Washington DC, June 1. 2003.

Music: "Amor Y Celos" by Juan D'Arienzo.

Murat: http://muraterdemsel.com/tango /Flash/perform.htm
Sharna: http://www.neotango.com/sf/vid eo.html

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