"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Friday, April 21, 2006

Insight on change

Doing some light reading while recuperating (minor surgery)

One of my favorite writers (for Bike Stuff)
Leanings 2: Peter Egan

Story about riding in South Dakota
Coming upon a "retired" Minuteman Silo and it's proximity to Wounded Knee.
"Touring this place makes you realize what the Lakota were up against technologically speaking. Less than one human lifespan after Wounded Knee, the wasichus (whites) placed ICBMs in South Dakota...The age of the Winchester was over"

Wounded Knee : Dec 29, 1890
Deployment Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota : 1963

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