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Dear Caminoheads,
Don’t you feel in another reality when you read Ryck’s posts (our Bureau Chief from the Puget Sound, now moved to Washington DC)? I do. And I love the title of the post from yesterday… it is all about perspective, binoculars as The Boss once said, cosmic-rightsizing as I often use too… (If you haven’t read it, please go). And also, please appreciate the picture… and how this picture got to him… definitely, the world and humans are amazing…
Also, please get ready for a series of CORN BLOGPOSTS… I have been getting some messages from my messenger-swallows that there is a competition at the moment for “THE BEST CORN” with Mr. Pilgrim Farmer John in the midlands of Iowa, and Mr. Gral. Phil Volker in the West of the Pacific Coast. The swallows have eaten both, and they are still to decide… it seems there will be white smoke signals broadcasting worldwide if a decision is made, otherwise, both will be declared Gold Medals, as the Jumpers from Italy and Qatar in the Olympics.
But today, before I ramble too much, the post is about Ancestry. We have a collaborator who did research and provided some unthought, unexpected, unknown, undisclosed, not divulged, secret ingredient, as yet undiscovered, unattributed, ancestry from General Phil Volker. We know about some legacy he got, we know that his mother was from Poland, and his father a medic in the army, so I believe, having been so opened about all of this we either have to think that Phil himself didn’t know about this, or he decided to keep it secret for us all not to feel under the pressure of the British Tabloids… he is like our Prince Harry!!!!!!!!
Check yourself… and share your astonishment with the rest of us… the resemblance is just uncanny… and the background as well… (Research and pictures provided by Richard Rogers)
With the idea of a Civil War General Volker swirling about the CaminoHeads blog, I did a bit of ancestry research and discovered there were Civil War Generals leading both North and South armies with the last name of Volker.
Family lore says they were twin brothers living just yards across the Mason Dixon Line from each other, Ulysses in SouthWestern Pennsylvania and Stonewall in Northern West Virginia, and their loyalties forced them apart.
Here for your consideration and/or amusement are historic paintings of General Stonewall Volker, CSA and General Ulysses Volker, USA.
Remarkable to see from their uniforms that they were both awarded the prestigious Spanish Camino Pilgrim Medal of Freedom.
And it was astounding for myself and others to see how these distant Volker relatives resemble our present day Phil.
Uncanny loves,
Cris
Wow, you got the backstory for us, Cris. It is wonderful to have documented ancestral feet on both sides of the line.
Oh my gosh!!! That was just too much! Still laughing, Camino honors and all!!! How ironic, but then we always knew our Felipe was extraordinary!
Somehow I missed this the first go-around!
Hilarious!