CAJUN STORY and then some...
by Alice Chauvin Bradshaw
ENJOY!!!!
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CONFEDERATE CAJUN SOLDIER
Back during the War for Southern Independence,
a Cajun, who had fought for the Confederate States of America in the
South's greatest western victory at Chickamauga, Georgia, had been
captured in a battle subsequent to that battle.
He was imprisoned in Illinois and forced on work detail. All day long,
at the top of his lungs, he keep repeating:
"Man, I'm gonna told you yankees, we really kicked ya'll's butts down in
Chickamauga! If we had more supplies, we'd run ya'll all the way back
where ya'll came from."
The Camp Commander told his Sergeant to pass a message to this CAJUN to
shut his mouth. The next day, there was the Cajun on work detail again:
"Man, I'm gonna told you yankee boys, we really tore ya'll up down there
in Chickamauga!
If we had a few more men, we'd-a run ya'll all the way up to Acadie!"
The Camp Commander ordered his men to bring the Cajun to his
headquarters. They did so.
The yankee Commander asked the Cajun, "don't you realize you're losing
the war?"
The Cajun replied, "I don't know 'bout dat, but I know dis, down there
in Chickamauga, we kicked ya'll's butts."
The yankee Commander offered the Cajun, "If you just keep your mouth
shut, we'll make you a sergeant in the union army, and give you a
pretty, new uniform, and you won't have to be on work detail anymore. In
fact, we'll make you the sergeant of the guard, and you'll run the work
detail."
The Cajun replied, I'd sooner quit eatin' crawfish den be a traitor. He
returned to his work detail, and there he went again:
"Man, I'm gonna told you yankee boys, we kick ya'll's butts so bad down
in Chickamauga, if we had a little more amunition, we'd-a run ya'll off
the continent." The Camp Commander ordered the Cajun to his HQ again.
"Okay", the yankee Commander began, "you're crushing morale in camp. You
have to stop".
The Cajun replied, "I don't gonna do it". The yankee Commander said,
"Okay, I'll make you sergeant of the guard...AND give you $10,000".
The Cajun said, "$10,000"; Okay, you got a deal".
The Cajun was delivered $10,000 cash and a new yankee uniform.
The next day, the Cajun brought the Confederate prisoners out on work
detail.
He was standing around with his yankee privates and said,
"Ya'll see dem Confederates, they surely kicked our butts down in
Chickamauga!"
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AND THIS TOO! me
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"It is a
Revered thing
To see an ancient
Castle not in decay
But how much more it is
To behold an ancient family
Which has stood against the waves
And the weathers of time"
Author: FRANCIS BACON
PASS A GOOD TIME CHER
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Boudreauxs in the sauce factory
There was a factory in Eunice that produced the world's best cajun
sauce.
The factory was owned by a Yankee entrepreneur, but it employed a dozen
local boys, all related,brothers, cousins, uncles, all of them
Boudreauxs. Well, one day the owner came in and saw Claude
Boudreaux standing on a chair with both arms arched above his head. He
was hollering "I'm a lightbulb, me! I'm a lightbulb, me!"
The owner was furious, but he calmly said,
"Get off that chair and get back to work or you're fired." Claude didn't
miss a beat, arms arched over his head started hollering again,
"I'm a lightbulb, me! I'm a lightbulb, me!" So the owner had no choice.
"Okay, Claude," he sighed, "you're fired."
Claude got down from the chair, picked up his lunch box and started
heading out the door.
The other 11 Boudreauxs grabbed their lunch boxes and started to follow
him.
"Wait," the owner said to them,
"I only fired HIM!
I didn't fire the rest of you."
But one Boudreaux turned around and said to the owner,
"Well, Beb, we gotta quit.
Can't be workin witout dat light, no!"
~Acadian Flag~
"To commemorate the 200th anniversary (1965) of the Acadian exile into
Louisiana and to remind us of other important influences on Acadians.
Dean Thomas J. Arceneaux of USL, a native of Carencro, designed the
Acadian Flag.
Exiled in 1755 from their native homeland, the Acadians arrived
in Louisiana under Spanish rule. Because the Acadians prospered under
Spanish rule, a portion of the flag bears the golden arms of Castile, a
prosperous European Spanish kingdom, on a red field.
The second third of the Acadian flag was designed to symbolize
the French heritage. The three-petaled (silver on a blue field) fleurs
de lis, (flowers of the Iris lily), was taken from the amorial emblem of
the kings of France.
The last third of the Acadian flag, a white field superimposed
by a golden star, has a dual meaning to the Acadians. When the first
settlers departed France for the new world, the Virgin Mary was highly
venerated; a period of great devotion to the Virgin. The King of France,
Louis XIII, and the Pope, Pius XI, had declared the Virgin Mary the
patroness of the kingdom, (Patronne de Royaume), and Patroness Saint of
all the Acadians in Canada, Louisiana and elsewhere. According to
history, on the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, August 15,
important family groups arrived in America. Therefore, the gold star and
the white field have deep religious significance, and was designed to
reflect back to Acadians earliest beginnings.
The gold star on the Acadian flag symbolizes early Acadian
patriotism in the new world. The exiled Acadians arrived in Louisiana
around the same time the American colonist were struggling to gain their
independence from the British crown. When the war began, the Spanish
king sent word to Benardo do Galves, Governor-General of Louisiana, to
help the new colonist "harass" the British by assembling a "motley band"
of 600 Cajuns, blacks, mulattoes, etc. Vividly remembering what the
British had done during the expulsion, they succeeded in capturing Fort
Bute at Manchac, Fort Baton Rouge, Fort Charlotte at Mobile and
Pensacola.
The golden star not only has religious connotations, but
reflects Cajun patriotism as well. Because the Cajuns were citizens of
Spain at the time of the American Revolution, their star could not
appear on the first American flag. This star on the Acadians flag now
serves as a reminder of the Cajun's participation in the American
Revolution and of Louisiana's contribution to the beginning of a new
nation."
Cajun-Lynx~Un Chauvin est un Jingo ou, en englais, a violent patriot".
CONGRÈS MONDIAL ACADIEN - LOUISIANE 1999
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MOJO Gonna Git'Ya! POO!!YAI!! I ís aid lo\/e ís ßlínd
Fríendship, however, ís Çlaírvoyan.
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