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GP44

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Have you noticed that things are disappearing from the internet. Old news stories that were big news at one time can no longer be found even if you know what the source used to be.
A lot of information is fleeting if it isn’t something that is popular.
Once again we never realized that when it’s gone it is gone forever unless someone saves it.
My wife had an uncle who was 93 years old in the 70s and we used to visit him and he told all kinds of interesting stories about how things were back in the olden days.
We loved listening to him but realized too late that when he was gone so were all of those interesting things he used to tell us.
How I wished since then that I had recorded those things he said.
Some day a lot of people will search for things on the internet and they will no longer be there and they will wish that they had saved some of the information about things that are happening in our day and age.
 

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I kept track of a news story about a police chief who was shot in a gun battle in a small town about 40 miles from here.
It happened in 1974 and at one time I was able to find several accounts of what happened but then I noticed that there was only one newspaper article about it.
It was a very interesting story about his and his wife’s courage and at one time people were able to find accounts of it easily on the internet.
If I ever see it again I will print it out!
 

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Getting to where it is hard to be able to read any news articles here in the states without all of the news sources wanting you to subscribe to their media.
I looked and there is still some information about how Chief Rudolf Dandurand’s wife shot his killers that terrible night.
I will try to save that story somehow so that it will be available to future generations.
Not sure how to do that yet.
 
GP44 said:
Getting to where it is hard to be able to read any news articles here in the states without all of the news sources wanting you to subscribe to their media.
I looked and there is still some information about how Chief Rudolf Dandurand’s wife shot his killers that terrible night.
I will try to save that story somehow so that it will be available to future generations.
Not sure how to do that yet.
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just copy & paste the info you've found into any of your apps ..even your Notes on your computer... if you have nowhere else to keep it for now.... in fact even copying it and sending it to you own email will save it until you find somewhere online to store it
 
hollydolly said:
just copy & paste the info you've found into any of your apps ..even your Notes on your computer... if you have nowhere else to keep it for now.... in fact even copying it and sending it to you own email will save it until you find somewhere online to store it
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Okay Thank You!
 
The story is starting to get messed up as time goes by.
The account by Lucille Cousin is the most accurate that you can find these days.
It included what I was told many years later about how Earl Stalnecker died in a fiery crash a few years after Rudy died.
I became friends, years later, after this happened with a guy who knew all who were involved in this shooting.
He was close friends with Stalneckers and said they were very good people.
He said that Carl Tiberia was known as the Indian.
My friend showed me a gun that was identical to the one that was used in the killing and said that he had to testify in court about how the three of them bought and owned those cheap .22 revolvers that they all bought at the same time from a truck stop.
My friend Lenny had been drinking with these guys at the bar a few hours before the shooting happened.
 
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There are actually more accounts of it now than there were a few years ago.
I was able to forward a very good account of it from a St. Anne web site.
Maybe I will print it out too.
I like to think that I had at least a small part in keeping this story alive.
 
When the internet first started you could jump right into to something interesting. Now you have scroll down through dozens of the same sponsored ads sketchy content. It's turned into one big commercial.

I actually have really really dig to find something informative, truthful and new. Plus the links that used to be at bottom are going away. There were days I would be online for hours finding cool stuff. Now I just jump on, get what I need and leave.
 
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There's quite a bit of old military information on line still. I had 2 uncles that both died in WW2, both in flight training accidents. They died before I was born and although I knew of their deaths I had never seen pictures of either. I was able to find them in different databases and I now have pictures of both of them.
 
To clarify something @hollydolly said:

She mentions copying and pasting to your notes app or somewhere else. The caveat is to copy the whole article, not just the link. Links can expire, be “no longer available” etc, but copying the story itself solves that.

I always copy and paste the link AND its contents if its important enough that I don’t want to lose it. That way, even if the link expires, I still have the content of the article.
 
Ronni said:
To clarify something @hollydolly said:

She mentions copying and pasting to your notes app or somewhere else. The caveat is to copy the whole article, not just the link. Links can expire, be “no longer available” etc, but copying the story itself solves that.

I always copy and paste the link AND its contents if its important enough that I don’t want to lose it. That way, even if the link expires, I still have the content of the article.
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that's exactly what I meant Ronni..thanks for clarifying... the WHOLE article....
 
GP44 said:
I will try to save that story somehow so that it will be available to future generations.
Not sure how to do that yet.
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1) Right click anywhere on the page you want to save
2) from the dropdown, choose "save as"
3) in block "save as type", choose "webpage single file"
4) it will ask where you want to save it - I always choose desktop, then move it later where I want it.
 
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There's quite a bit of old military information on line still. I had 2 uncles that both died in WW2, both in flight training accidents. They died before I was born and although I knew of their deaths I had never seen pictures of either. I was able to find them in different databases and I now have pictures of both of them.
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Please send me links if you can to sources. My father's ship was hit by a Kamikaze plane. He survived and the ship did not sink. It is not a big deal, but I requested his service record, and the government never provided it.
 
I haven't noticed anything disappearing from the internet. In fact, it's so clogged with out-of-date information that I often limit my search parameters from "any time" to the last day, week, month, or whatever is appropriate.
 

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