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My dad was a former tanker in the 3rd Armored Division and a lover of the West and Westerns, that was passed onto me with Eastwood, Wayne, and more. He sadly passed suddenly this day two years ago, I have no doubt he'd have enjoyed you and the teams work keeping the spirit of the Old/Wild West alive.
Much appreciated. Glad he instilled in you the importance of western cinema!
Was 3rd armored too
Happy Veterans Day To All My Fellow Brothers and Sisters Veterans, U.S.Army Vet.
Thank You!
Thank you Santee! It was my pleasure to serve. Celebrating by firing a cannon at Blakeley State Park. Last battle of the Civil War. Of course we are wearing gray. Have a great weekend! Cheers!
Yeehaw!
Happy veterans day to everyone at Arizona Ghostriders and God bless our veterans as well as the Men and women currently in the service.
Nicely said!
My favorite day of the week, Saturday. GHOSTRIDERS and coffee ☕
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Thank you, Santee. Thank you to all of our veterans including my dad. 30 years retired CMSgt Air Force
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***Correction: I meant "descendents", not "ancestors"***
Hi Santee
As a retired Infantryman, thanks for the video! As for the depiction of Vets wearing parts of their uniforms, it may not be entirely inaccurate, but given the period it is probably implausible. The Old West was a bit different from modern times, and as stated in the video, Vets who'd seen extensive combat would probably have little more than threadbare remnants or tatters of uniforms left. The woolen uniforms of the era did not hold up like the sturdy dungarees, buckskin, canvas, and other stereotypical garments. Even modern uniforms and boots have a six-month service life expectancy. Granted, the niceties we have now, combined with a more comfortable "Army Day" for most Soldiers, means that uniforms can last years, but I can attest that they are virtually destroyed after two weeks in the field, and my DCUs were completely unserviceable within a few days of combat in Baghdad. Again, times have changed, and while a Civil War Vet might have seen one or two uniform issues, I still have brand new ACU, DCU, and OCP uniform components, along with field gear. If I pick up hunting, hiking, or even bird watching, you can bet this vet will be seen wearing some Army-issued pants and boots, along with the medium ruck or assault pack and maybe some load-bearing equipment. Then again, that doesn't exactly risk the ire of another American the way a Confederate or Union blouse might have in their fellow Americans' (and former enemies') mind.
My first reply to this comment was meant for another. Sorry. I should probably stop drinking bourbon when answering these. LOL!! Thanks for your comment and great points.
Happy Veterans Day to my fellow vets, and thank you, Santee.
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My dad is a veteran from Desert Storm, did peacekeeping in the Balkans, and a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan in the early days. He is the biggest western fan I know, second to me. He loves horses since he grew up with them, and they are therapeutic.
Thanks to your dad for his service to this country.
Once again, another interesting, and informative video... Yes, we should thank our veterans, if possible, for ALL of their sacrifices. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, in the entertaining way you do, Santee. 🇺🇸 👏🏻🙏🏻 🇺🇸
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Thank you to all who served our country. Don't forget freedom isn't free.🇺🇲🤠
Absolutely!
Right!
That had to be tough for Civil War vets from either side to get along while moving out west. They all deserve respect for what they believed in and fought for.
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Another excellent academic sound research made entertaining. Left me wanting more of this critical topic even though I accept that these videos need to be short and sweet. If others are also veteran minded, there is an ongoing traditional ritual that a veteran's ritual dance in regalia and drum group occurs before any pow-wow before the grand entrance. The dancers are often members of a Gourd Society which exists to purify the dance arena before the Grand Entrance parade of performers. The natives have a proud history of supporting US military. I was granted the rare privilege of joining one of these societies and danced for five heartfelt years. White society should honor the sacrifices freely accepted by all veterans. Many thanks for Santee to present the obscure origin of this important topic.
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@@ritashuff7136 It's an honor to get r response from the oft mentioned Mrs. Santee. I know well the busy schedules of movie/TV folk, I grew up playing around the old set. I remembered some audience drawing activities which used to occur at the set during non-shooting film days. The UA Aggie students would have a Saturday mini rodeo with strong metal fencing and places for families to spread a blanket and picnic while watching. Other venues feature weekend of ranch life skills - leather rope making, harness repair, horse shoeing, always popular open spit barbecuing. There are also Buffalo Soldier re-enactors, fast draw contests, Native drum groups with dancers in regalia (costume), fiddle string band square dancing, cowboy ballad singing, cowboy poetry performances . . .the list is endless. Saturday used to be family Event days. Also, an interesting possibility is to feature a scheduled pow-wow with native vendors, drum groups, competitive dancing with a native emcee - they do love to talk. An inside joke is never give an Indian a microphone! Lots of possibilities. These all would apply to the vast effort to restore Mescal movie set. One caution - The Buffalo Soldier re-enactors wanted to stage events with native groups, but the natives refused due to the Buffalo Soldiers gaining fame by slaughtering women and children. History just isn't forgotten. Native tribes still have raw memories of bitter conflicts with other tribes. History is interesting but often still raw.
Another very cool episode Santee. Thanks to all those that served.
Yes!
Thank you for covering Veterans Day. As a child it meant a big parade in town. Later during the Vietnam era I fully came to understand the horror and sacrifice that soldiers see and die for. It is a very important day especially since we are loosing all our WWII Vets. Soon they will be like the Civil War Vets: all gone. We are also loosing our Vietnam War Vets. Remember we loose aprox 16 to 22 Vets a day due to PTSD. This cost is too high. Thank you all for your service then and now.
Well written and felt.
As a former active duty Marine '75 -'77 thanks for the tribute. I've read somewhere one of the reasons the wild West may have been so wild in certain locations at certain times may have had to do with Civil War combat veterans with PTSD. I have yet to see a scholarly research paper on this. One of the problems I have had with Hollywood depictions of a town being terrorized by an individual or small gang. Having known Combat Veterans such as my two Grandfathers from WW 1, I can see a group of combat veterans taking the law into their own hands or ropes as sometimes happened. Thanks for the tribute and Semper Fi.
Semper Fidelis. Thanks for it all.
Another Saturday of a cool history lesson of the old. West… thanks Santee for the lessons you bring from the past…. Definitely better than some of the history lessons from school!
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I see people honoring vets every day in public. buy them coffee and thank them. they all have so much courage👏👏👏
They do! Yeah, I see it all the time. Veterans tell me they are thankful that people recognize and appreciate them.
Thanks Santee for an excellent Veterans Day Tribute.
You're welcome
Serving in a cavalry unit is what first got me into old west history
Awesome. I bet you loved it.
Thank you for the Veterans Day wishes. Loved the clips from ride with the Devil. The cabin shootout is one of the best gun fights on film.
Cool!
Thanks again Santee & Co. I imagine there were a few old veterans of the War of 1812 still kicking around in the Old West . Have a happy Veterans Day to everyone here .
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That whole part about Alfred Packer was interesting. The whole video was great, Santee, and I can’t believe we had a Civil War vet until 1956! Amazing!
He was like 106! Drummer boy.
My father was a Korean War veteran and a fan of Old West! RIP dad 🥲🇺🇸 God bless our veterans! We thank them! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Loved those clips from Ride with the Devil, one of my favorite Civil War Movies.
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Thank you to all our Veterans!
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Thanks again Santee for doing another video especially on this special day commemorating Civil War men to todays service men & women. I hope today at your event in town or city is having, please thank them for military service for protecting our great country.-Kid Yuma
I did yesterday, because I thought that was Veterans Day! Whoops. I'll do it again today.
@@ArizonaGhostriders rough getting old, been there done that. I have been off days several times-Kid Yuma
Absolutely Awesome Content. Thank you very much Veterans. You and your family have a beautiful and blessed weekend..
Much appreciated
Thank you so much Santee for the Veterans Day Video. Happy Veterans Day to you and have a super weekend. :)
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Gul dang nabbit Santee.... Now i got that song stuck in my head! Lol Happy Veterans Day... Don't forget them still on Patrol.
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Great Veterans Day tribute and I especially liked the inclusions of a few clips from Ride With the Devil...my favorite western!
Glad you enjoyed it!
yes its rememberance weekend here in England too, something our two nations share together. Nice one Santee.
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Went to a funeral for a Vietnam Veteran on Friday! He was a true hero, and I'm going to miss him.
Awww, darnit. Sorry.
@@ArizonaGhostridersthank you.
We found my wife's gggrandfather's discharge papers from the 5th Cavalry. He had two enlistments with two companies. He was with the 5th when Sheridan toured the Yellowstone.
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Great episode on Veterans in the Old West. Salute!
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Good morning Santine. Ted from Texas saying hey . I enjoy seeing your show first thing Saturday morning. Thank you for doing one for the veterans . Stay safe
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Great video Santee. When I used to live in Bozeman MT, I would give history tours through the town cemetery and always highlighted the graves with GAR written on them. For a time the Grand Army of the Republic sponsored veterans to settle and establish communities on the frontier, resulting in towns being named after generals and battles (like Gettysburg SD). I now do presentations for schools on the Grand Army of the Republic and always love finding photos of the group from towns on the frontier and showing just how important groups like the GAR were in the old West. Even here in San Antonio there was a branch of the GAR.
Thank You! Obviously, you enjoyed that job!
My GreatGrandFather was a member of the GAR. He crossed over from Canada to join the Union Cause.
Thanks for doing this video. Salute to all our veterans
You're welcome!
Thanks, enjoy your day
Thanks, you too!
Great video, Santee! I just missed the Vietnam War. They stopped drafting shortly before I turned 18, but I grew up in the shadow of the war, and never had any desire to serve in the military. However, I have tremendous respect for those who do. It is through the hard work of those who serve, that we Americans are able to enjoy our wonderful lives. Thanks to all American military, past and present, and may God bless you all.
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My dad was a WWII vet (Normandy, the Bulge and finally, VE day. Guess that’s why I made the Navy a career…
Thanks for doing that. My Dad was also WWII (South Pacific).
Fine video Santee and you squeezed in a cameo with "Big John and Mono" I always enjoy the Saturday coffee visits!
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic video, Santee. Much respect to everyone who served.
Thank You!
I was in the Navy so long ago it seems like the old west. Thanks for the video, if nothing else, I learned the term "Owl Hoot Trail," which had not be familiar to me.
Learnin' is good.
Thank you Santee. Paul R USMC Sgt
Appreciate you, Sarge. Semper Fidelis.
My Dad's a Marine, and my grandfather served in WWII in the ARMY.
That's terrific service, right there.
I have read about the GAR national encampments on different occasions as I had some ancestors that went. I would hear about Al Packer once in a while but the old CW McCall song coming back for more is how I remember it most. Of course there are rumors about old Bill Williams.
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Thank you for this tribute to our veterans. Phone my father to my son-in-law my brother and stepson who serves in the military thank you 4 year service!
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Thank you, veterans , for your service! Truly grateful!
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"Or what"? Hahahaha. Happy Veterans Day to all.
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Thank You so much for bringing my all time favorite 'laughing grandpa'. I just love him. There is a music video You could like (thinking about Your humor) Kontrust 'Lederhosn Overkill' thats an austrian band doing a super wild mix of music styles.
I'll look into it, thanks.
Thanks again, hope all is going well for you and your team.
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There is another war whose veterans are tied to the West.The Spanish American War was fought in 1898. Many westerners served in the war, particularly with Teddy Roosesevelt's Rough Riders (1st US Volunteer Cavalry). After the war, many returned home. Their annual convention was held in Las Vegas for many years, starting in 1899.The last Rough Rider to die was Ralph Waldo Taylor, who died May 15, 1987 at 105 years old.
Yes, and some of them became Arizona Rangers (which I mentioned in the Arizona Rangers video).
Veterans in the Old West is definitely a great idea! My dad was a veteran, and so was my ex. Happy Veterans Day!
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Here's a fun old west veteran fact from my area. The oldest active Duty Soldier in the Civil War, a man named Curtis King grew up in my neck of the woods in southeast iowa. I actually drive right by his grave site which is a historical marker everyday I go to work.
That is really cool!!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Yeah, history is all around us and most folks never notice.
Thanks to all you veterans out there on the trail. Just spent the week here in Gettysburg. Pretty awesome.
Right on
While it’s true that the holiday we call “Veterans Day” is real actively recent (it began after WW1 as “Armistice Day” to honor the end of “the war to end all wars”) there actually was an earlier Holiday to honor Civil War vets. It’s the Holiday we call “Memorial Day” now. It had different dates and differing legends about where and when it began but one of the early stories is that the Confederate widows and survivors all came out to put flowers on their loved ones graves at Arlington but the Union soldiers moved them onto Union soldiers graves Then that night a strong wind blew all the flowers back onto the Confederate graves.
Like the CW info!
Hey Santee, I served in Vietnam with the 16th infantry division . Imagine my surprise when you mentioned it in this video. Thank you. C/2/16.
Very cool! Thanks for your service.
My late grandfather and older brother fought in World war one, my uncles fought in World war II and Korea, I was a medic during the Vietnam war.
Thank all of you for your service. Amazing.
after my dad's funeral the family got together and chatted I found one person had an ancestor's GAR medal ( which I ID) that blew my mind
So neat you had that.
It's kinda remarkable that Mr. Cannon lived to be almost 100 years old. That's a very respectable age, not only now, but especially back then. Also considering the guy was a soldier and explorer/pioneer
Considering the life expectancy was about 55 back then, I'd say he did well.
Always Nice to se your program!!!! 👍🇸🇪
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All my ancestors served in Confederate Units, after the war a few drifted West and settled in a few different territories and other just went home. A few didn't survive the War.
Ugh!
Another educational video. Thanks for sharing it with us. I also hope Dirty Dan is doing well these days. Be safe out there and take it easy man,
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Thank you, Santee, for another great episode.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for sharing 😊
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Thanks Santee.
Any time
Another group of Civil War veterans were the likes of William J. Brady, Emil Fritz, Lawrence G. Murphy, and James J. Dolan. These first three had been successive commander's of Fort Stanton, near Lincoln, New Mexico. Murphy, Fritz and Dolan were all partners in the infamous Santa Fe Ring funded business monopoly in Lincoln, known as the House. But Fritz and Murphy already had a history of pilfering supplies at Fort Stanton and making a side business out of that before being booted and setting up again in Lincoln. Brady, as Lincoln County Sheriff, became little more than a lackey who acted as Enforcer for the House. He bought his ranch with a House loan, and willingly acted outside of the law, hiring known murderers as deputies and was even called out for obvious perjury in a federal investigation. None of these men lived to see age 50, interestingly.
That is interesting info. Thanks.
All these veteran of the civil war moving west reminded me that one of the things often missed about war is the changes of circumstances it can bring for those who took part in it. People who may have spent their whole lives living in the same location and doing the same job see things differently after the war and will make changes. In Britain before WW1 many people upon leaving school would get a job and work for the same company all their adult lives. After the war many would go back to their old line of work but for others decided on a fresh start. Many would start their own businesses and by the 1920s there were one million corner shops, shops found on street corners, in England. Many of which were owned by people who had served in the war and wanted to change their lives. I was just looking up a word which I hope you will find interesting. The word was coined by a fellow American of yours, Franklin P. Adams, is "aptronym" and means a name that fits. So William Cannon being an artilleryman is an aptronym. The word is sometimes spelled "aptonym",
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Those who werent westerners went west. After the last two years if the war i think many weren't ready to go back to Danbury and make hats!!!!!!!! Ptsd had bren around a long long time and I think the West was almost a safety valve. God.love wll vets. Every generation is the greatest.😅😅😅😅
Thank You! Glad you learned something
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Awesome video!! Many many thanks to vets out there for your service.
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Love this!
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Brothers in Arms.
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YUP ANOTHER GOOD ONE SENOR SANTEE MAY YOU BE SAFE ADIOS
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Happy veterans day amigos
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Very educational
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I asked my veteran friend what the first ranking is in the military, but I couldn't get a straight answer. He just kept telling me it's private.
You need to stop acting general questions.
Great video Santee.
Thank you
There was a Union Captain from New York, I'm drawing a blank on his name, was captured and taken to the Andersonville Prison Camp in Georgia. Survived the gulling time there and after the war would be the Commandant of the camp no housing Confederate Troops awaiting trials. After that he returned home to New York and was hit by a yellow cab in the 1920s while crossing the street.
Great info on a rough adult life!
Great video Santee
Thanks!
Cool, another awesome job. Yes, thank you veterans and thank you for another awesome video
Appreciate you!
informative video
Glad you think so!
Alfred Packer: He served his fellow man. It never made a lot of sense to me that a bunch of cowboys could "hooraw" a town like they do in so many Westerns. Those settlers fought the elements, they fought in the War between the States or even foreign wars...not to mention the Natives...I doubt a bunch of cowboys were going to scare them.
Graet points!
Great video santee! and can you do a video of frank hamer that Texas ranger and lawman 🙏🏽
For sure
Happy veterans day ❤
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Your welcome Desert storm vet
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I wonder what wine Alfred paired with his meal.
What? Wait a minute... [1:47] *''Owl Hoot Trail''* ? Sir, I resemble that remark.
LOL!! You have a trail!
Manolito Montoya, my favorite caballero.
Yo tambien.
So very very awesome and interestingly informative video, I really liked and enjoyed it and got a lot of inspiration for my old West inspired dark sci-fi horror, paranormal and retrofuturism short story and series I’m writing. In my story and world, going to both lawmen and veterans. During the events in my story, there’s going to be a battle between the humans and the hostile alien civilization known as the Dracovans as well as the cult tribe known as the Yunta tribe/BloodMoon Colossus Cult. One of the veterans in my story is a man named Lioah Westlan, who goes by the name Lua Wes/Louna Wes. His son is Luriilin Moon (Loa Moon) and his daughter is Zillow Moon (Zeldie Moon). Also in my story and world the firearms are going to be video games inspired such as video game Light guns/Zapper guns, HookShot ArrowGuns and Hydro Cannon guns as well as others. The hostile alien civilizations will be the outlaws in my story, space outlaws and the lawmen will be space lawmen and paranormal investigators.
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As a Marine Corps veteran, I've got to say that this was a great episode.
Thank You! Appreciate your service!
another good video
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1:25 Not sure what show/film this if from but nice attention to detail that he has the pistols tucked into a sash rather than in holsters.
Wild Bill with Jeff Bridges.
Hey Santee, I was wondering if you could do a video on lanterns and lamps in the old west, thanks for making great content
Thank you and I did one on Frontier Lighting.
Both sides of the Civil War conscripted huge chunks of the male population. Not only that, European wars from the 1848 Revolutions to the 1870 Franco-Prussian War fed a steady stream of immigrant veterans. It was probably harder to find a guy in the Old West who wasn't a veteran than one who was.
Good point!
Would love to see a video on the Gypsies of the old west???
OK
Hey Santee!
Hey hey!
Here we are coming into winter again, almost, and I never did get a video on snow removal in the old west. How about it Santee?
Maybe this year.
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It feels so weird to see people wishing each other a 'happy' Veterans' Day. In Australia, it's called Remembrance Day and it is a quiet, solemn day of reflection and introspection. Just like our ANZAC Day. We don't celebrate the horrors of war and the sacrifices of our defence members.
We aren't celebrating the horrors of war either. We are celebrating the fact that veterans served their country bravely and couragously. Their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to scarifice for that country.
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