Approximate Area of distribution of Agent Orange and other poisons 1966 - 1968

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Comment by Sheridan Collins on October 21, 2010 at 9:49pm

I don't know if you remember in one of those stories I said one of my friends in about 1967 or 68 told me he was going to go to the mainland to join the Black Panthers and fight the haoles. Everything was getting messed up on Kauai. I don't know why his little Japanese self said that to me. He was always one of my favorite friends. Really smart and funny - and I guess he didn't think I was one of the bad haoles anyway. One of the UH workers who was injured had his same last name. I was doing OK until I saw that. It must have been happening at the same time we were at his house talking about the Black Panthers. I don't know what relative it was. He would drop over if he saw this.

Comment by Sheridan Collins on October 21, 2010 at 9:34pm

it's 1 AM and i'm doing dishes listening to peyote music. It's Navajos, but peyote is not Navajo so I don't get it. My computer started beeping and I could see you were typing in the chat place. I don't know how to do it. Don't know how to send it. I will try tomorrow when it's SNOWING. Can't learn one more thing now.

If the barfing doesn't clear up in a week, something is wrong. Dehydration can happen. Wonder what is happening. It could be a million things, or what i worry about.

Is Noelani the person on Kauai? If Avery Yuen is there he can help her figure out about how huge that project will become. I accidently found the development plan for Wailua when I was trying to figure out where we got our water in the River Lots. It said that there is "a lot of interest in developing Wailua because it is such a beautiful area." You bet it is. You know the ones who want to get in there are the ones that want a bizillion dollar house that messes up everything. They are all over Santa Fe. There used to be a law that they couldn't build all over the beautiful ridge so they sued the county and broke the bank, then won. No respect for everything and they think the local people are all there to wait on them. Anyway, Avery is an architect and spoke out about the Coco Palms property. You can find it on the internet. His mom (can't remember her name sorry) was Hawaiian and had a beautiful singing voice. She worked on the river forever. She was always really nice to me, and his dad hired me to work in the pineapple cannery. Avery was a person people trusted when he was in college. I notice people don't change much from when they are born, so I would believe his evaluation. I don't trust anybody so I mean that. He would know how a bike path will turn into a major mess with all the stabilization, drainage culverts, etc. What are they going to do? Move the whole road back or what. Maybe they already did that. They try to turn everything into California. Even Alaska looks all "lovely" like California now.

Kaipo Chandler lived in Hanalei with his wife Adeline. They had property, horses, hunting mules, pet pigs, hunting dogs. I went there to get baby sat in the beginning. Then they couldn't keep me off the horses. I had a photo of him in his cowboy hat on his black stallion until 1998, when a landlord stole a lot of my things. The only thing I cared about losing was that picture. They had cattle too, and I went with Kaipo to gather them and check on them in a swampy place somewhere. Always watching for the boars. I was wondering if you knew him. I might want to send him a note. Probably he doesn't know he was more important than the horses. He always gave me really good goat meat to eat. Then banana cream pie. We rode on the beach a lot. Not very many people there in those days.

Dont' forget the red line on the map is only approximate. Doesn't matter that much because of the drift. I can still get more information from old records, just takes time.

Probably it's snowing.

Comment by Kaohi on October 21, 2010 at 9:02pm

Sheridan Kaipo chandler sounds familiar don't know why.

Yes, barfing for days and hours. My son in law lives in the tube during these episodes. And now my grandson is becoming part of this situation too.

You are a big help knowing how to do research.

Thanks to Amelia, I get to listent to music. As I am typing I am listening to Hanaialii Gilliom "Have you ever seen the rain" So Kauai!

Comment by Sheridan Collins on October 21, 2010 at 7:49pm

I live alone with all the four leggeds. It is peaceful and without drama. My youngest daughter had terrible energy problems. She would power through the week, then barf all weekend when she was about 11. That happened for about a year. Gradually got better. I have been having weird health problems since about 1974. Almost never had any help. Now it seems easier because there are no kids around and no men either. I would like to see my granddaughter, Kolea, but nobody has money to fly around. She is crazy for horses, so I figure when she is about 15 she will be showing up. Imagine being a city girl with a grandma on a ranch with horses in New Mexico. I send her fluffy stuffed horses and she sleeps with them. Just wait until she finds out about no running water, and taking a bath in an irrigation ditch.

I can see everything on Kauai, but sometimes can't put it all together.

I think there must be a lot of people on Kauai that feel bad and don't really know why. I can't even think about it. Now I can relax - no amount of quake doctors or moving or anything is going to make a difference.

I am glad to have the computer now. Sometimes I still want to throw the whole thing out in the yard. But I love the music on Utube. That is like a real gift.

Rain today, winter tomorrow. The horses are frisky. They follow me around like big pups jumping and bucking. We all walk around the ranch. Sometimes people watch us from the road. They have never seen horses do anything but try to escape. I learned about that from Kaipo Chandler in Hanalei. I never saw another person like him around horses until I went to the Navajo Nation.

Comment by Kaohi on October 21, 2010 at 7:29pm

If one looks up mauka from the Wailua River that's Sleeping Giant with the eyelash.

Comment by Kaohi on October 21, 2010 at 7:29pm

Yes he did, but typical macho man won't admit to it. But, I think the bulk of his illness is from Vietnam. My daughter lives behind sleeping Giant which is the Wailua Estates. My son-in-law is very sick and I do believe what he has, my grandson has it now. Barfing all the time.

Do you live alone? Do you have help? Husband? Children, grand children? Need family in times of illness. My children, I raised them to surround their dad with love and that's how things are with the both of us. My children and grandchildren are always around him. I believe he is still alive because of that concious decision.

Comment by Sheridan Collins on October 21, 2010 at 7:11pm

Sleeping Giant is right there in Wailua. I hope he didn't get sick. No one knows why some people get sick, some people don't. I know I was in that water behind the house all the time. I used to paddle down to the river on a board. I was afraid to go by the shore - rats in the bushes. So I went out in the river. It was scary out there too. Ha. Barracudas. And sometimes the current was fast. My mother would have killed me.

Comment by Sheridan Collins on October 21, 2010 at 7:03pm

I was trying to plot coordinates today, but couldn't do it without buying a program. The one area that is mentioned in all the reports is Hanahanapuni. That means the were dumping the poison right into the Wailua River. Did your husband get sick? I'm trying to remember exactly where Sleeping Giant is.

Comment by Kaohi on October 21, 2010 at 6:58pm

This is so amazing my husband grew up in Kapaa Town and worked in the fields behind sleeping giant all his childhood life then went to Vietnam too. Ugh!