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, 
      
    • Georgia
      
    • Kansas,
      
    • Oklahoma and
      
    • Texas
      
• 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”