PAIJ'S BACKROUND -
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE -
To choose the best candidate, it is important to know the people you are voting for who will lead our Nation.
- Paij can trace her American heritage back to her ancestors who fought for freedom:
- American Revolutionary War,
- War of 1812,
- Civil War,
- World War II.
- Her ancestors immigrated from England and France to the East Coast of colonial North America.
- As pioneers, they migrated through
- Pennsylvania,
- Indiana,
- Kentucky,
- Tennessee,
- Kansas,
- Oklahoma,
- Texas, and
- Georgia.
- In the 1880s her maternal grandfather moved by train and covered wagon as a youth from Latrobe, Pennsylvania to Penalosa, Kansas where they farmed, operated a cane mill and lived in a sod house.
- At 24 he rode in the land run of April 1892 on the Cheyenne-Arapahoe Strip.
- He staked his claim near Kingfisher, OK.
- Single handedly defended his claim against would be claim jumpers in a gunfight.
- Built a house, barn, and farmed the land he claimed.
- Paij's paternal great, great grandfather was Dr. Jesse Boring,
- He was a Lawyer,
- Preacher, and
- Doctor in the American Civil War.
- He was instrumental in establishing the Orphans Home in Georgia in 1871 following the Civil War.
- The Orphans Home is now the Methodist Children's Home in Decatur, GA.
- Paij's father joined the Navy prior to WWII.
- He was at Pearl Harbor when Japan attacked.
- As radioman, he ran across the compound to his station the morning of December 7, 1941.
- Aircraft strafed the ground as he ran killing many of those who ran with him.
- He made his way to the radio room where he sent the message to US submarines, including his own, the Dolphin (SS-169), lazing off the coast of Hawaii taking on sun and fresh air:
"This is not a drill.
Dive!
Japan is attacking Pearl Harbor
Dive!"
- After the war he joined Boeing Aircraft Company where he became the Boeing Test Integration Engineering Manager for the Apollo 11 spacecraft for our Nation's historical first lunar landing ~
“The Eagle Has Landed”