Comments on: The great Wilma Rudolph https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:45:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116753 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:45:03 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116753 i forgot to point out the story is about more than just the original gi joe.

its about survivors of hardships common experience of the third man… so he mentions Shackleton, Reinhold Messner, Peter Hillary, and others who were in extreme conditions…

all tied together in the common experience of the third man…

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116750 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:37:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116750 http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/en_US/

if you liked joe as a child… then maybe dont follow the link and read… (i didnt have a joe).

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116748 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:32:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116748 there are so many who have incredible stories…

tonight i am reading (at belmont club) one about GI Joe, and not the pidgeon.

?One of the actual models for the Hasboro action figure GI Joe was Marine Medal of Honor winner Mitchell Paige. Paige who passed away in 2003, held a hilltop on Guadalcanal against more than a company of Imperial Japanese soldiers by manning each of the four machine gun positions in turn after everyone else had been killed.

pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/14/who-saved-gi-joe/#more-5039

]]> By: Lame-R https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116746 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:06:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116746 I grew up in a family of runners, and Rudolph was one of my earliest inspirations. This was in the 80’s on the west coast, and even then jogging around the neighborhood was something only weirdos did. Obscenities and loogies from passing cars happened on occasion. And jogging at the track was only for “real” runners, you know, the kind who wear the right clothes and do all the right things…

I can’t imagine the stigma Rudolph must’ve faced: being the wrong color in the wrong location in the wrong time period, doing something normal people didn’t do, and looking funny doing it until she got her legs…she must’ve had a lot of inner strength. My brother and I preferred to jog at night because we hated the embarassment of jogging in the daytime.

]]> By: Elise https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116692 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:39:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116692 When I was 10 or 11 I read the story of Rudolph’s life – probably in Reader’s Digest – and was amazed by what she overcame and by how determined her mother was that she would do so. I read and re-read that story for months. Then life intervened and I essentially forgot about her. Thanks for giving her back to me.

]]> By: David Madeira https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116662 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:25:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116662 glad her parents were pro-life

]]> By: Webutante https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116652 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:38:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116652 Wilma is an icon, where I come from….

]]> By: nyomythus https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116637 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:03:10 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116637 I used to live in the Fort Campbell area of north Tennessee where apparently she is from — I remember a street named for her. Extraordinary lady.

]]> By: dane https://thenewneo.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116626 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:08:04 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/07/15/wilma-rudolph-the-great/#comment-116626 Nothing more to be said other than she was “an amazing woman”.

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