April 23, 2005

I propose the NAACP Coalition focus on the following projects during 2005 designed to improve the quality of life for All of God’s Children in Milwaukee Metro Area:

Police Community Partnerships to Stop Violence in Our City

Support for the Bridgework, the National Association of Black Vets(NABVets), the NAACP, the Veterans Administration, Soldiers Home Foundation “Rebirth of Freedom Commemoration of Dr. King and African American Veterans” this July 8, at the start of the NAACP National Convention

Spark a “Rainbow Membership” Drive for a Rainbow NAACP in Milwaukee

Spark and Develop Internet Organizing and Support for Social Enterprises and Small Business in Milwaukee

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April 23, 2005

20 Citizen Work/Teach/Live Places at the Soldiers Home

Dear All,

Does anyone have a realtor to recommend who would like to imagine putting together a proposal to combine 20 citizens interested in purchasing or leasing a work/teach/live place at the Soldiers Home.

I would imagine that the Soldiers Home Foundation and the City of Milwaukee would give preference to citizens who had skills they would share with veterans whose lives would be greatly helped by training that would lead to multiple skills sets, the higher the labor value embodied the better.

I also think these organizations might even entertain some “sweat equity” restoration proposals. Say a painter would do $5,000 worth of painting on one of the buildings in return for $5,000 worth of space.

No guarantees, but it is my understanding that the citizens of Milwaukee have a chance to purchase the Soldiers Home from the Federal Government.

How will we develop the Soldiers Home?

To serve the veterans, first and foremost, as best as can be configured. Partnerships between civil society and veterans oranizations and social enterprises and small businesses (large businesses?).

What say?

Why not?

Godsil

P.S. If anyone would be interested in looking at the Soldiers Home buildings and grounds with an eye toward being part of a Soldiers Home Co-Op or Soldiers Home Guild Development Group or some combination that would do justice to the space and provide things of high value for veterans and the common good of Milwaukee, there will be a May Day gathering from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. that will involve people who have been working in the Save the Soldiers Home Movement, including Sandy Folaron, Cleo Pruitt, Virgina Cassel, James Carlson, Peter Blewett, and many more. Feel free to call me at 232 1336 if you have any questions.

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April 23, 2005
Dear Henry, Jerry, and Cleo,

I have a vision of you three standing on the footsteps of “Old Main,” of the Soldiers Home, inviting all of God’s children of Milwaukee to join the NAACP, Celebrate a New Birth of Freedom at the King Commemoration, Save the Soldiers Home, and Create 1,000 New Jobs in Restoring the Soldiers Home.

Why not?

godsil

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April 23, 2005
Dear All,

There has been a gathering of citizens from a variety of neighborhoods and identity groups at the beautiful NAACP offices this winter that has a fledgling web site started by James Carlson and Tegan Dowling of Emergency Digital.

http://www.milwiki.org/index.php/NAACPCoalition/HomePage

We can buy tickets Monday through Friday at the offices, from Mrs. Riley, who should be called beforehand to make sure she is available. Her number is 562 1000.

I am happy to help out too at 232 1336.

It will be a great moment in the history of our fair city when All of God’s Children gather at a Brewers Tailgate Party starting at 4:30 p.m., at the Helfaer Field at Miller Park, just to the east of the Soldiers Home, or to the south of the stadium.

Clear sailing,

Godsil

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April 23, 2005

Dear Dave,

Might you be up for a brief “walk-about” with some of your friends at the Soldiers Home on May Day, May 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sandy Folaron will be available to talk about Soldiers Home Foundation and Milwaukee City plans and visions around 10 a.m.

Cleo Pruitt will be available around noon to talk about National Association of Black Vets sponsored and NAACP endorsed “Rebirth of Freedom” Celebration July 8.

James Carlson will talk about Bucketworks and the linking of internet empowerment with economic and cultural development in our fair city.

I will spin visions about the future of the Metro Milwaukee Federation of Neighborhoods.

What visions and strategies might you wish to share with friends at the awe-inspiring Soldiers Home?

http://www.soldiershome.org/

 http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SoldiersHome/HomePage

Godsil

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April 23, 2005
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/TedSeaver

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/TowardsABookOnTedAndCarolSeaverFamily

Dear Joe,

What a treat to meet an elder of the movements like yourself…at the Soldiers Home!

The above links will lead you to a number of pages written in honor of our dear friends Ted and Carol.

In my next note I’ll send you a great picture of Joe Ellwanger at the Soldiers Home!

God bless,

Godsil

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April 21, 2005

marcoux5@milwpc.com, robert.cocroft@cvivet.org, DNeilson@milwaukee.org, cleopruitt@yahoo.com, sfolaron@execpc.com

The Five Who Saved the Soldiers Home, 2005

Dear All,

It would be of immense value to the great cause if Cleo could meet with the rest of you at the steps of Old Main sometime soon.

Might anyone suggest a few times for aim for?

Save the Soldiers Home!
Address the “Unfinished Business!”

Godsil

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April 20, 2005

Dear Rachel and Henry,

What a treat to find two young Americans of Dominican High fighting the good fight for civil rights.

I hope to take your pictures together on the steps of “Old Main” at the “Rebirth of Freedom Celebration,” July 8, 5 to 8 p.m.

Love,

Old Man Godsil

NAACP and Dept. of Defense Dignitaries w. Cleo Pruitt at the Soldiers Home

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Hello! I do have a website for the production company I formed with La’Ketta Caldwell and my husband. 2 Loud Sisters: http://2loudsisters.bravehost.com Please, check it out and tell me what you think!

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Original Message -----

From: cmtyroof@execpc.com
To: SHERI PANNELL
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: Does Sheri Have Her Own Web Site Yet Godsil Asks? Wiki is Very Easy

Dear Sheri,

Bucketworks and Emergency Digital are waiting for you to launch your own web site. Godsil would help you promote your “social enterprise.”

http://www.milwiki.org/Profiles/Groups

Why not?

Godsil

At 04:59 PM 4/17/2005, you wrote:
YEAH! Congratulations Cleo, Sandy and all involved! And a great move for the city of Milwaukee and Wisconsin.

She who sings prays twice,
Sheri Williams Pannell

Upcoming Performances…

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra with
narration by Sheri Williams Pannell
Young People’s Concerts 2005
Uhlein Hall - Marcus Center
April 19, 2005
call Emily Wacker, 291–6010 for tickets

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Original Message -----

April l8, 2005

From: cmtyroof@execpc.com
To: godsil@milwaukeerenaissance.com
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: Soldiers Home Likely to Be Owned by Citizens of Milwaukee: Sandy Folaron and Cleo Pruitt To Discuss Future, May 1, 10 a.m., From the Steps of “Old Main”

Dear All,
It looks to me like the Soldiers Home will be saved.
The citizens of Milwaukee will likely become the owners of the Soldiers Home.We will probably transform it into a National Shrine for the cause of peace.We will probably breathe fresh new life into as a center for learning arts
and commerce, for young and old, and for sacred gatherings for healing our nation’s wounds and ancient enmities. We will be able to be honest with one another at the Soldiers Home, as we talk about the “wars within” that have taken more lives than all of our official external wars combined.

The Soldiers Home will become a place for community and conviviality, as well as awe and reverence. On the Sacred Days of all of our beautiful
identity groups from across the planet, all Americans, Old Americans, the Oldest Americans, and New Americans, the Newest Americans, will find people, all of God’s children, walking the beautiful grounds, enjoying the inspiring architecture, deep with meaning, escaping the intensity of the
big city. Praying.We will probably transform it into a place where veterans are honored and supported, spiritually and materially.The Soldiers Home will probably become a key feature of Milwaukee’s 21st Century Renaissance. It will probably become the soul of the city, our new city center,
connected by trams, bike and walkways, all the way to the Lake.For our youth, the Soldiers Home will probably be where its easiest to teach authentic citizenship, inspire vision, compassion, character, and competence.

The Soldiers Home was almost lost behind the freeway ugly and din, behind the ballpark ugly oceans of asphalt, and behind the modern buildings making up the hospitals and administrative buildings to tend to the needs of our
veterans. Some of the women soon to get public acknowledgement for their critical roles in the Save the Soldiers Home movement will be at the Soldiers Home
May Day Gathering, May 1, between 10 and 2 p.m.
Sandy Folaron and Cleo Pruitt are the most recent Women to Save the Soldiers Home, 2004–2005. Their role in this great drama is worth a book, one for each of them.

Here is one of the early drafts of Cleo Pruitt’s “Rebirth of Freedom Celebration Visions,” now endosed by the National Association of Black Vets(NABVETS), the NAACP, the Soldiers Home Foundation, Visit Milwaukee, the local VA, the Milwaukee Federation of Neighborhoods, and more to be
announced as the great day, July 8, 2005, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., approaches.

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/NAACPSoldiersHome/NewBirthOfFreedomProposal
This is one vision of a future Soldiers Home Foundation in the making.

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/Poetry
Here are some of the internet documents available to myself regarding this great event, which will eventually include correspondance documenting Sandy’s key role in this.

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SoldiersHome/RawMaterialFilesReSoldiersHomeMovement2004?from=Godsil.RawMaterialFilesReSoldiersHomeMovement2004
Thank you for your soon to be exciting role as a Milwaukee citizen saving
the Soldiers Home!
Godsil

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April 17, 2005
MacyMP@state.gov

Great American Emancipator of 20th Century Honored Alongside the Great American Emancipator of 19th Century at the Soldiers Home of Milwaukee the Beautiful

Are there Afghan citizens who would like to know about life in Milwaukee?

Would pictures from the daily rounds of Milwaukee citizens along with their comments be of value in “humanizing America?”

Do we want our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters to know about the daily lives of average Americans?

The first picture I sent portrays Cleo Pruitt and Artur Kalendjian preparing to create a bronze of portions of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, set in stone, about 20 feet to the west of Lincoln’s “Gettysberg Address.” They are measuring Lincoln’s stone and exploring design concepts for King’s.

The Great American Emancipator of the 20th Century alongside of the Great Emancipator of the 19th Century. At the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee.

Installation Ceremony July 8, 2005, 5 to 9 p.m.

Walking and talking about this and more on May 1, May Day at the Soldiers Home, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

More to come.

Godsil

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April 17, 2005
GBorowski@journalsentinel.com

Main Victory of Barrett’s Tenure Will Be the Soldiers Home

sfolaron@execpc.com, cleopruitt@yahoo.com, vcassel@sbcglobal.net, Bill Sell <county@bikethehoan.com>, kkeller11@earthlink.net, Tess Reiss <contessa_milw@yahoo.com>, Jan@riverwestcurrents.org, dave@shepherd-express.com, dschlieman@aol.com

Hey Greg,

The biggest win of the Barrett Mayoral Regime will be his allowing and helping Milwaukee to save the Soldiers Home.

I would encourage you to speak with Rocky Marcous or Sandy Folaron about this issue.

Godsil

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April 17, 2005

Dear Michael,

Glad to know you are well!

Are there any “best” sources available to me who is very, very hungry for the best possible information sources re Afghanistan?

Are there introductions you could make that would connect me with the finest minds, the stoutest hearts, and the richest souls around the noosphere interested in the future of Afghanistan?

Afghanistan is like the Soldiers Home of Milwaukee.

If enough find minds “attend to” Afghanistan the good “word” could spark good work, n’est-ce pas?

Perhaps some of these conversations might be between members of the National Association of Black Veterans at the Soldiers Home? Or the NAACP? Or the Riverwest Neighborhood Association? Or the Metro Milwaukee Federation of Neighborhoods?

Are there to emerge Anglophone Citizens of Afghanistan who would like to share some stories and potential collaborative visions with some Anglophone citizens of Milwaukee? Or, we would create some yahoo groups or interactive and user friendly web locations a la www.Bucketworks.org and http://www.milwiki.org/Profiles/Groups.

I am building a sprawling garden of prose regarding our efforts to fight the good fight in Milwaukee the Beautiful. Most of it is mine, but I’m hoping to find others giving “voice” there when the Spirit moves them. It is a “wiki” web site that allows for anyone to create visions and spark mighty collaborations.

God bless,

Godsil

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April 17, 2005
Hey Tegan,

How about placing Shelby’s painting of “Old Main” on the major Soldiers Home section of the Milwuakee Renaissance.

How about telling me how many minutes it took to do it.

How about telling me the balance of our account, given the work you’ve done for me and the work I and Shedd have done for you.

:)

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April 16, 2005
Dear Josephine,

Have you yet met Cleo Pruitt, key to the Save the Soldiers Home Movement, in partnership with Jerry Ann Hamilton of the NAACP and Brigadier General Bob Cocroft?

Looking forward to making introductions if you have not yet met Cleo.

God bless,

Godsil

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To: cmtyroof@execpc.com
Cc: cmkiker@wi.rr.com
From: “Kristin Gilpatrick” <kristin@heronextdoor.com>
Subject: Re: Old Godsil Repairing Roof of Soldiers Home Chapel

Jim and Charles:
This is GREAT news! Thanks for the hard, snowy and cold
work - those who will use the Chapel in the near future
appreciate it!
Kristin Gilpatrick, president
Soldiers Home Foundation, Inc.
P.S. Charles: If you can send an invoice by Jan. 4, we
can vote to pay it at our Jan. 5 meeting

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:57:34 −0600,
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Dear All,
Merry Christmas!
I and my family are greatly privileged
To be part of
So fine a preservation community.
Please let me know if you can’t open this picture
And would like to see the beginning of the renewal of
The Soldiers Home Chapel!
God bless,
Old Godsil
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