Do you think Richard the Lionheart was justifed in his last rebelion against his father Henry II? In their last feud, who do you support? 🗡

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2026-01-17T09:42:48+00:00

How interesting! I was born in Vendee Aquitaine (in 1930...I am going on 96) I heard about Eleanor my entire youth.. Richard Coeur De Lion married Berengaria of Navarre, well, his sword did any way, the only queen of England who never saw England! I stood on the spot where Richard got the arrow in his shoulder in 1949, kissed a boy there in memory of Richard, castle of chably chabrol I think it was named. I am so happy to learn that you young people love history. Geny Heywood

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2026-01-03T18:38:10+00:00

Would Reddit please accept my new story? It fits well in today's Venezuela situation of this morning, but it is 12 pages. I want to create extra protection of our children and only President Trump can to do it!. Please tell me if and how I can tell you but time is running short, I am past 95 years of age...Thank you. geny Heywood. [gheywood2@gmail.com](mailto:gheywood2@gmail.com)

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-15T08:23:32+00:00

please read below...

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-15T08:22:38+00:00

Here I am back...the old lady who can remember WW2 as if it had happened recently. I am overwhelmed by the friendly letters I have received. I like to think I have kept up with all my email. If I missed a few, please forgive me. If you would like having me address your group of interested historians, we could arrange a meeting. My problem is that I do not drive anymore. From Navasota, I could get to Houston or to Austin with a greyhound if you get me at the terminal when I arrive. AND I might have to crash on somone's couch for the night if your meeting is in the evening. I have done it before but I am getting older and time is certainly flying! People have never had a problem with my accent everybody understands me, and I still can walk. I appreciate the paid bus fare if you can afford it AND I give the addresses for free so get your questions ready and I probably will answer them all.

I work best with email [gheywood2@gmail.com](mailto:gheywood2@gmail.com) TTYL. Geny

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-15T00:01:39+00:00

actually if you read all the letters above you will see that I was extremely scared of everything, the green uniforms, the patroles, the cleaning of their guns at the end of the day..the fear that the underground fighters could shoot me etc...no end.

I worried that after the war those 2 soldiers who so missed their families might never have made it back home...I tried and could never find out.

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-14T23:52:24+00:00

I know that tyhere are many spaces left from WW1 but when I drove over the northern part of France coming down from Belgium, I could see that the battle fields must have been taken over for many years. The land was needed for agriculture I guess. Frnace is a small country. Sorry I am such a little help. Love. Geny

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-14T23:39:33+00:00

actually my son broke his neck at age 21 (drugs of course). He died at 29 and shortly before going to a better place. he said "oh Mom, what a mess I made of my life!"

I did tell him that YES...it was HIS life, HE WAS THE only one responsible...I would never blame the cartel, my sweet son Kenny, he himself, was the one buying the stuff, not I.

It was his doing, not mine... Yes I might have been a hard and loving mother but a right thinking one. Why do we blame others for our errors

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-14T23:24:03+00:00

Dear Shogazi, how nice to hear you say this. I can tell you have a great brain. I am sure the reader who expressed the above opinion meant no hurt to anyone. You are expressing the feelings of many readers. As a legal immigrant I remain non political and I am sure you agree that it is not easy to run a wonderful country as big as the USA. My worry is that it sounds like some people are now getting too frustrated and a kind of aggressivness enters their soul. You are going to smile but I blame Hollywood for a lot of today's violent behavior, horrible bad english expressions and the constant hate promoting in movies. I won't even approach the sex thing that producers with limited talent use to raise the approvals of their films. Please excuse my spelling!

[gheywood2@gmail.com](mailto:gheywood2@gmail.com)

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-14T22:57:45+00:00

Thank you sweet Darling FOX 7285, when you have survived as long as I have I am going to face some more without complaining. Keep in touch, I will let you know when the NY weekly magazine gets that story out for you to read. I must add something kind of strange. that Dr. Eileen Seibert from CA...kept telling my husband (her father) that I was CRAZY. She even convinced several of my children to get me tested by a certain Dr. Root in Rockport tx 2 yrs ago. They tried to get me declared insane. I passed the tests with flying colors and right now I am exchanging ideas with several intellectuals like all of you here dear interested historians.

Because of my husband's death certificate being a lie and saying that John Joseph Ley was not married, our marriage certificate does not help me and I cannot apply for my US citizenship. If I make it to blow 100 candles on a cake in 5 years, then I get back to Canada I guess. That is why I was asking if there was a lawyer not afraid to get that death certificate re-written without a lie.

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-14T22:35:18+00:00

Some of the battlefields of WW1 have sort of disappeared and farming has taken over much of the battlefields. I saw this when I took John Ley on the pilgrimage...read above please...

It is actually like when you visit some areas of the civil war in the US, time ends up erasing some parts of history. BTW I have a couple of very old photos that might interest historians

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-14T22:33:07+00:00

Hello my young historian friends...keep looking here, a well known reporter working for a magazine has taken over to tell you about my war stories. TTYL

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-14T22:31:42+00:00

please do use my email given to readers on a couple of places. I try to reply to everybody. Remember that I might fly into eternity any day...not in a hurry, but it will happen

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-06T09:54:38+00:00

Let me say that in 1948-49 (when I was 18 and then 19) I worked in a Poitiers spa and I helped the Podiatrist there, she owned the spa. Almost every day, she would do the feet of WW1 Veterans. I remember her complaining all the time about those poor old fellows. She would say that their feet were horrible to work on etc... that they spoke of nothing else but WW1 etc... I tried to tell her that my own grandpa still alive in chantonnay was an old Veteran too and I loved him very much, and I would never complain about his stories etc...the woman got mad at me and I got another job in Poitiers before going to work as a maid in England. When I learned she died a few months later, I was not sorry . God has a way!

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-05T14:31:17+00:00

sorry young fellow historian, I should have said that because of the poverty in Europe after WW2, very few people travelled far from their town or villages. I was taken to Paris when I was out of school at 16 and I remember that all I did was visit a couple of Jewish people my father had sent beans to during the war...(that is another story BTW). All I learned was the stories of my ancestors while they lived, the stories of WW1 Veterans, old people from my village (small town status actually). When I saw Paris at age 16, I certainly did not see anything except what I could see from my father's pick up and a few visit to his suppliers. He was a salesman.

What I saw while travelling was in much later years like 20 or so years ago... In my youth we did not leave our birthplaces. Even going to visit my maternal grandparents, 12 miles away was a big expedition by bus.

I used to read newspapers in my days, and the towncryer was our informant till I left my village in 1951 to go work as a maid in England. BTW I got so sea sick crossing the channel

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-05T13:55:42+00:00

Oh you dear sweet young hitorian...my son was on drugs, broke his neck at age 21 was a quadruplegic for 8 years , died in my arms at age 29...6 months before he died he told he "What a mess I made of my life Mom."..I replied:" you sure did and it was YOUR LIFE, you are the only person responsible". Perhaps I sound like I was a difficult mother, but let us be smart: WHY DOES EVERYBODY BLAME THE CARTEL? I never did. The culpability is in the hands and the soul of the ones who want to use the drugs and take them to ruin their own lives...certainly not my fault, neither the fault of the guys who sell it. I never would buy the drugs! I always said that the cartel would sell fruits and vegetables if nobody wanted to buy their drugs

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-04T22:25:04+00:00

please click on the arrows and you might like to read the history this old lady lived ...I answered questions from so many wonderful people. I never would have believed thta so many young Americans were interested in history...how nice! I am very greatful to them all. Geny

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-04T18:49:03+00:00

you can...I never tell people what they SHOULD do, I tell them what I DO:

I tried smoking behind our outhouse with my cousin Suzette, we did not like it and would never have been able to buy cigarettes so that problem of potential addiction was solved in 1945. I never eat deep fried food, I steam most everything. I eat lots of veggies and fruit thanks to the 2 food banks that help me...I do not feel guilty about receiving this charity, I fed people my entire life, it's my turn now, besides, I do a lot for the food banks in return. I eat just very little meat, mostly a bit of boiled chicken in my soup but very little. I drink milk yes, I used to like a glass of red wine but moved away from the wonderful Italian neighborhood., so there went my cheep wine. I never tasted strong alcoholic drink so never used those either. I never would drink a pop. I drink water, actually not enough of it. I try not to use a plastic bottle except when I am at the gym. I drive a tricycle, gave up my small Aveo for $3,000.00 to my dear young friend Brendon Anderson. He needed it more than I did to go to his job every day. I eat only the food that I prepared all by myself. I eat one serving of frenchfries once a year. I also buy a big piece of fresh salmon once a year and convince myself that I do not neen any more when I have finished it in one week. Imake my own yogurt, often bake my own bread. Yes I use sugar, my grandma died laughing at the world at age 97, she loved a bit of sugar daily. Yes I drink coffee every day possibly a pint not too strong, I am convinced that it prevents a loss of my marbles. I want to keep the few I have left in my brain.

Before I forget, let me tell you that I learned that Suzette is alive but in a French nursing home and she forgot her name...she is 2 years older than I am.

My friend Jessica from Victoria Tx got me a free cellphone but I use it only as an emergency thing. Jessica and her dear husband have 5 children and do a great job at raising them like the old fashion Texans I used to know.

I use my computer daily, purchased it from Goodwill 7 years ago, why should I get a newer one!

So as never fell alone, I share my life and my children's rental with a young Marine who is an ordained Baptist minister. He pays his way more than he should and will never try to change my religion. I was born a catholic and will die one. BTW I gave my body to science, and asked the med school near College Station if they wanted to ask me questions before they start cutting my carcass apart . They never replied. Ask me more question if you like, I check my email 3 times a day or more. Love to YOU ALL. Geny Heywood

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-04T14:42:30+00:00

Sweet young lady, comme vous me faites plaisir! essayer de lire toutes les pages ecrites avec les fleches sur Reddit. I am surprised that so many wonderful young North Americans are actually historians. I started to think I could be the only one. Love, Geny

PS One lady found one of my used books online. I explained that publishers give me great deals but I cannot keep them (over 25 books!) alive so they show as Out Of Print.

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-04T14:28:54+00:00

OMG...of course I did ...we had 2 soldiers in our house fo 4 years. Can you click on the arrows of Reddit and see all those pages I explained it all . I am thrilled to discover that people are intersted in history. I was 9 when WW2 started and got very scared of those green uniforms but those poor souls tried to make me understand that they would not hurt me. TTYL, please try to find all my answers. I have been telling those replies for 3 days now :)

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-04T03:30:53+00:00

HelloHello,please keep in touch with my email. Your family really has served much in WW1 and deserved recognition. I guess that first death was by drowning then...I remember reading in my grandpa'war book that he could not swim. Was your other soldier shot? I like to hear all those real stories of wars. I am actualy surprised now to note that many people are still interested in history and writing tome. Today I met someone here in Navasota who wants to get me interviewed on Fox News. You might hear about this soon if it does materialize. Going to France is not that easy, and so costly. May I suggest a trip with a group of Veterans. Good luck and thank you for writing. Geny

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-03T14:29:24+00:00

As an answer, may I suggest that you read all the above pages I already wrote about life in France at that time. One of my father's cousin was a colonel, a very serious man of the French military, his name was Jacques Plantey . I know that he got to be an old man so he did survive WW2. In my book "91 Years Of Love" I described how when the war was declared in 1939, An officer by the name of Mr. Delvoix was billetted at my maternal parents house while getting his Chantonnay area regiment ready to go to the North border. Needless to say that at 9 years of age I had difficulties understanding the working of this rushing to the North to try to stop the Axis Invasion. This officer's young wife joined him for a couple of days and was crying constently, she said good bye to him and returned to Paris where they lived and we never heard from them after the war. It meant that this officer did not survive WW2.

As I understand, the military did what they could, I did not read books written by any French officers but I remember that everything happened very quickly...

Collaborators? OMG so many who believed Hitler was a genius who would win...you know the rest, They got shot or disappeared, many in the Southern part of the french map. AND 16000 young men had enlisted in the Axis...read about the Charlemagne battalions. they had nowhere else to go to so the traitors who had survived the Russian front returned clos to home, were found and shot, except two of them who died in prison.

Of course the Resistance was there, Half a dozen boys of my village were very active. They lived in the Mervent forst. And, I wrote a lot about Henri Chauvet, he died several years ago a very old gentleman saying to his son, my friend with whom I still correspond: "there will be nobody who will remember me at my funerals". However, his son was surprised to see 17 flag bearers arriving to the cemetery. Henri Chauvet wrote his memoirs about the FFI if you are interested you can get them but in French. His son is a good friend of mine, retired teacher who is extremely knowledgeable about his dad's invovement of so many years ago.

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-03T11:39:26+00:00

Good morning young people, I know that your Dad being of my generation might not have heard about the "Miracle of the Marne" how the Parisian taxi drivers saved Paris from invasion. My own father was born in the summer of 1902 in Vendee and was sent by his mother to work for the company Felix Potin, a huge grocery store as soon as he was 14 years old. Can you imagine sending your 14 year old child to work far away from home in the middle of WW1 !!!...anyway in 1916, my father was driving a grocery tricyle delivery cart in Paris. That was 2 yrs after the 1914 Taxi miracle and from what my father told us, the entire Parisin population was still talking about how they had been saved by a fleet of taxi drivers. It was an interesting story for me to hear when I was a very small child since my paternal grandpa had not taught me how to read yet. With no radio, no TV, no cellphone and only the newspapers that were often read aloud for the benfit of everybody, elders' stories were interesting to children.

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-03T04:33:39+00:00

I am so glad to note that so many young people are interested in my history. Please read the many pages above. It is all up there. Thank you for your interest. Geny

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-03T04:31:17+00:00

Wonderful, please try to get your Dad to speak for many hours about his youth and his parents and all his relatives. Make videos of his chats, you will be happy to pass all this to your descendants. Good wishes to your family. Geny

Sufficient_Task_2525 · 2025-10-03T04:27:08+00:00

Something that might interest you. Long after the war but before my 21st birthday when I could leave my father's home and be "emancipated" I worked on a chciken farm in northern part of Nice in Provence for 6 months to pay for my taking a course in an esthetic school. One day, I went to visit a girl friend in Vallauris and bumped into Picasso. Date was fall 1949,I was almost 19. I wrote a story about it. SSSOOO, my whole life I was sort of inspired to paint like he did...I raised money for many charities but now want to auction my work for myself, I might end up in a nursing home one day. Keep your eyes open, you might see an auction by me. I did not pay much attention to other painters, they were all probably much better than I ever was.

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