May, 2020
Washington – A Memorial Day like no other is upon us.
Looking back, it's time to honor our family's Virginia ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War: Philip Wimer, Michael Hoover, Leonard Simmons, Peter Thomas Hull, Captain Peter Hull.
It's especially appropriate to remember two family members who died of the Spanish flu, infected in 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas: Charles and Fred Oberg. That WWI outpost was probably the source of the deadly pandemic.
As to remembering all the workers who are fighting our current coronavirus pandemic, I am with the nurse who started an organized applause movement but now wants to end it. The same with flyovers. It's more important to show support by taking measures to reduce the number of cases, and to pay people appropriately for working to save us.
That goes for all the workers at meatpacking plants, too. For my part, rather than the products of CAFOs, I'd be happy eating grass-fed, locally slaughtered beef as it was raised by Peter Hull in Bull Pasture, Virginia, in the 1700s.
