Bulldog Mechanical LLC

08/10/2022

Alice Cooper, from the top rope!

08/04/2022

The following poem was written in a Bible owned by Alpha Cook - 21st North Carolina. Cook was killed in the battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. His Bible was taken from his co**se by a Federal soldier on the battlefield, 15 years later that Federal soldier would return that Bible to Cook's mother. This is the poem that Cook had written:

"I want to see my mother nigh, Oh can you call her name?
It wouldn't seem hard to die to have my mother near.
My home is in the mountains, up where the pine trees wave;
Was there I heard the bugle calling for the brave.

But, I want to see my mother, her tender, Loving eye -
and hear her footstep, to hear her call my name.
To have her pray beside me - No other prays the same.
I want to clasp her dear hand, and hold her to my heart,
And say, God bless you Mother, once more before we part.

Mother, Mother, come to me! I cannot die alone.
Come quick my Angel Mother, Oh, Don't hear me groan.
Oh No, she does not hear me, she doesn't know my pain
and She'll never, ever, see my old seat again

She's tending darling sister - I've dreamed of her all day.
And I hear my little prattler lisping, Brudder far away.
Oh God! O Chaplain, Hear me! Pray Heaven will give me grace;
to still this Dying longing To see my Mother's face.

There. Peace! I'll turn to Jesus, He never would complain -
He came to save his country, Yet Jesus too was slain.
Yes, Brother, God has heard you, He's calmed my agony.

My sins are all forgiven now: and he is all to me.
Then tell my blessed Mother, I'm dying peacefully -
Christ Jesus now is Mother! and he will take care of me."

Photo: Unidentified Confederate soldier with Bible.

North Carolina Confederates

07/14/2022

Say it loud for the people in the back, Mike Rowe.

07/07/2022

A M E N

07/04/2022

This Independence Day, let’s stop and thank God for His hand of blessing on this nation—and we need to pray that He will not remove it. We need His guidance, protection, and help. Rather than turning our backs on Him in this country, we need to seek Him, stand firmly on His Word, and faithfully point others to His truth.

The Word of God says: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

06/22/2022

Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons

05/30/2022

Judy, a pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific & was captured by the Japanese in 1942 & taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who shared his small portion of rice with her.
Judy raised morale in the POW camp, and barked when poisonous snakes, crocodiles or tigers approached the prisoners. When the prisoners were shipped back to Singapore, she was smuggled out in a rice sack, never whimpering or betraying her presence to the guards.
The next day, that ship was torpedoed. Williams pushed Judy out of a porthole in an attempt to save her life, even though there was a 15-foot drop to the sea. He made his own escape from the ship, but was then recaptured and sent to a new POW camp.
He didn't know if Judy had survived, but soon he began hearing stories about a dog helping drowning men reach pieces of debris after the shipwreck. When Williams reached the new camp, he said: "I couldn’t believe my eyes! As I walked through the gate, a scraggly dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I’d never been so glad to see the old girl!"
They spent a year together at that camp in Sumatra. "Judy saved my life in so many ways," said Williams. "But the greatest of all was giving me a reason to live. All I had to do was look into those weary, bloodshot eyes and ask myself: 'What would happen to her if I died?' I had to keep going."
Once hostilities ceased, Judy was then smuggled aboard a troopship heading back to Liverpool. In England, she was awarded the Dickin Medal (the "Victoria Cross" for animals) in May 1946. Her citation reads: "For magnificent courage and endurance in Japanese prison camps, which helped to maintain morale among her fellow prisoners, and also for saving many lives through her intelligence and watchfulness".
At the same time, Frank Williams was awarded the PDSA's White Cross of St. Giles for his devotion to Judy. Frank and Judy spent a year after the war visiting the relatives of English POWs who had not survived, & Frank said that Judy "always provided a comforting presence to the families."
When Judy died at the age of 13, Frank spent two months building a granite and marble memorial in her memory, which included a plaque describing her life story.

05/23/2022

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