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Lovely strike of the Upper Red Hook postmark, Phul.
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"There are still a lot of Rifenburghs in I hope they do not mind me reading this letter. "
Funny story.. my aunt and uncle in their late 70s came to my house. I decided to show them the volume of my NJ postmark collection that had their town in it. I collect these on full cover, two covers to a page.
My aunt starts squawking “that’s people’s mail! You can’t have that! It’s illegal!”
And then f course my wife calls stamp collecting “collecting dead people’s mail”!
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It may be a bit of a stretch..but i like to think of it as preserving history..at least for a while. The writer in 1919 mentions that the soldiers got..shafted on compensation. It was some years later that laws were passed..giving something to the soldiers or their widows.
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Phil,
that's an interesting piece of American history.
Doughboys were promised bonuses; and in the tough times in post war US, those soldiers agitated for the promised bonuses. They marched on Washington; and the federal government, not inclined to follow through on its promises, sent troops against the demobilized vets. The soldier commanding those troops? Think corn cob pipe
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I have seen the old news films of the shantytowns by the Washington monument.MacArthur following orders.
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There are still a lot of Rifenburghs in the area,ancestors of the Palatine probably but could be Dutch original Europeans in the area. I hope they do not mind me reading this letter. Upper Redhook still exists running parallel with Route 9 but the post office is long gone. There were one room post offices every 3 or 4 miles serving perhaps 50 or 75 families...they could not have cost too much to operate or make much profit.
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Lovely strike of the Upper Red Hook postmark, Phul.
David G.
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re: Dear Sister Alice
"There are still a lot of Rifenburghs in I hope they do not mind me reading this letter. "
Funny story.. my aunt and uncle in their late 70s came to my house. I decided to show them the volume of my NJ postmark collection that had their town in it. I collect these on full cover, two covers to a page.
My aunt starts squawking “that’s people’s mail! You can’t have that! It’s illegal!”
And then f course my wife calls stamp collecting “collecting dead people’s mail”!
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re: Dear Sister Alice
It may be a bit of a stretch..but i like to think of it as preserving history..at least for a while. The writer in 1919 mentions that the soldiers got..shafted on compensation. It was some years later that laws were passed..giving something to the soldiers or their widows.
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Phil,
that's an interesting piece of American history.
Doughboys were promised bonuses; and in the tough times in post war US, those soldiers agitated for the promised bonuses. They marched on Washington; and the federal government, not inclined to follow through on its promises, sent troops against the demobilized vets. The soldier commanding those troops? Think corn cob pipe
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I have seen the old news films of the shantytowns by the Washington monument.MacArthur following orders.
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