7.24.2008

Will be back tomorrow

Today is a state holiday, Pioneer Day, which means I do not have work today (the benefit of living in Utah, be happy for me!)

Basically, we commemorate the early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for fleeing persecution in the east and traveling by hand-cart on foot to the Salt Lake Valley. There was a lot of death and suffering during their travels. They left the east because their homes were being burned, husbands being tarred and feathered and mobs killing there families, all because of disagreance of religious beliefs. It became to dangerous to live there.
You can read about the devotion the pioneers had and the extreme trials they went through here and here.

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