As a civilian, I needed a sponsor to get on the base. So, I felt blessed to have my two dear friends, a Retired Navy Commander and his lovely wife, take me as their guest. I hadn’t been on a military base since before 9/11 and was both naive and ill prepared for such tight security. There are no signs on the
Located 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, Hill Air Force Base is in northern Utah, just south of Ogden. The base was named in honor of Major Ployer Peter Hill of the U.S. Army Air Corps, who died test-flying a prototype of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. “Hill Air Force Base has enjoyed a long and colorful history. The base traces its origins back to the ill-fated Army Air Mail ‘experiment’ of 1934, during which time the idea originated for a permanent air depot in the Salt Lake City area. On September 26, 1947 the Army Air Corps became the United States Air Force, ending an association with the Army that had lasted 40 years. Following an Air Force-wide pattern of renaming ‘fields’ as ‘bases,’ Hill Field became Hill Air Force Base on February 5, 1948. Hill AFB now ranks as Utah's largest employer. The $960 million payroll and presence of the installation injects tremendous growth into the Utah economy. The current value of the base acreage, buildings, equipment, and inventories exceeds $4.5 billion.” - http://www.hill.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=5830
As a civilian, I needed a sponsor to get on the base. So, I felt blessed to have my two dear friends, a Retired Navy Commander and his lovely wife, take me as their guest. I hadn’t been on a military base since before 9/11 and was both naive and ill prepared for such tight security. There are no signs on the
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Located in Uintah County and encompassing of 7.7 square miles, Fort Duchesne was originally a fort, established by the United States Army in 1886 and closed in 1912. Nowadays, it is the homeland of the Northern Ute Tribe, and is the largest of three Indian reservations that are inhabited by members of the Ute Tribe of Native Americans. Today’s Pilgrim Train stopped at a mission that is named after the only Native American Saint. The “Lily of the Mohawks” was a virgin of the Mohawk tribe. Her parents and brother died of smallpox when she was only four years old, and so she was adopted by her aunt. Smallpox still dotted her face and impaired her eyesight. Despite these obstacles, Kateri Tekakwitha shunned all marriage proposals and lived a life of chastely. In 1667, Jesuit missionaries arrived at her tribe, and it was then that she converted to Christianity, baptized as Catherine. Shunned and abused by relatives for her faith, Tekakwitha escaped to a cabin where she practiced austere mortifications and is said to have experienced union with God in prayer. Upon her death, a devotion to her, started immediately among her people. "Today, there are a number of shrines and |
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