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A member of the Army National Guard 38th Infantry Division receives his combat patch during a ceremony in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, March 12, 2017. Guardsmen who received their combat patch hail from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware, Michigan and Tennessee and their primary role in theater has been to train, advise and assist Afghan National Defense and Security Forces. (NATO photo by Kay M. Nissen)
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Connecticut DOT P-40 836, known as 'Patches" due to its shabby appearance, shoves an eastbound CTrail Shore Line East train in Old Saybrook, CT.
Sam Patch began working as a child laborer in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in a textile mill. When he was not working, he entertained other boys by jumping off the mill dam. By his mid 20s he was working at a mill in Paterson, New Jersey, and was jumping off ever-higher spots. He was beginning to attract crowds for his well-advertised stunts. In September 1827, he jumped off the 70-foot Passaic Falls in New Jersey, pleasing a large crowd that had gathered.
Patch continued his career jumping from bridges, factory walls, and ship's masts. He became the first of Niagara Falls' famous daredevils.
Patch was the star attraction at an event designed to draw visitors to the falls. A 125-foot ladder was rigged for Sam's jump over the gorge below Goat Island opposite the Cave of the Winds. Less than an hour before the scheduled noon jump, a chain securing the ladder to the cliff wall snapped, breaking 15 feet from the ladder. Rescheduled for 4 PM, Patch jumped on time. A boat circled near the entry point, but Patch did not appear. When he was finally spotted on the shore, a great roar went up from the crowd. Sam Patch was the first to jump over Niagara Falls and live. Bad weather and the delay in his arrival drew a disappointingly small crowd for this jump, so Patch announced he would jump again. A few days later, 10,000 gathered to watch him keep his word. His slogan, "Some things can be done as well as others," became a popular slang expression across the nation.
Patch then went to Rochester, New York, to challenge the 99-foot-high High Falls. He jumped the falls one time privately, for practice, witnessed by his companion Joe Cochrane.
[edit] Last jump
His first jump on November 6, 1829 drew a disappointing crowd, so he picked Friday the 13th to do it again. After a pre-jump celebration in several local taverns, he threw his pet bear cub off the 25-foot tower he had built at the brink. Accounts from the 8,000 present differ on whether he actually jumped or fell, but he did not achieve his normal feet-first vertical entry. A loud impact was heard and he never surfaced. Rumors were passed that he had hidden in a cave at the base of the falls, and was enjoying all the excitement he had created. But his frozen body was found in the ice in Charlotte (Rochester) early the next spring by Silas Hudson. Local ministers were quick to blame the crowd for urging him to jump, and put the guilt of his death on them.
The patch presented to my wife's grandfather, Robert Lee, who worked on the Solar Maximum satellite.
I decided to use the flash on it. This was the only angle I could find that didn't reflect off the glass and wash out the patches.