BeagleWrightBros - The Monday Morning Memo

Orville and Wilbur and me
at Kitty Hawk watching our glider in 1911.

You may have noticed the wizard did not include “Am I Happy?”
as one of his suggested measurements of success.
This is because happiness is not connected to a circumstance.
Happiness is a choice. One chooses to be happy
or one chooses to be discontent.

I choose to be happy.

“The 1st Kansas regiment, of which I have spoken before, is encamped near us. One of the members of that regiment, a sergeant, died in the hospital two weeks ago. After death his comrades discovered that their companion, by the side of whom they had marched and fought for almost two years, was a woman. You may imagine their surprise at the discovery. I went to the hospital and saw the body after it was prepared for burial, and made some inquiries about her. She was of rather more than average size for a woman, with rather strongly marked features, so that with the aid of a man’s attire she had quite a masculine look. She enlisted in the regiment after they went to Missouri and consequently they knew nothing of her early history. She probably served under an assumed name. She was in the battle of Springfield, where Gen. Lyon was killed, and has fought in a dozen battles and skirmishes. She always sustained an excellent reputation, both as a man and a soldier, and the men all speak of her in terms of respect and admiration. She was as brave as a lion in battle and never flinched from any duty or hardships that fell to her lot…Poor girl! She was worthy of a better fate.”

- Lt Frederick Haywood, correspondent for the Poughkeepsie Telegraph (1863)

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