The Lost Ways

The SHTF we all prep for is what folks 150 years ago called daily life:

...no electrical power, no refrigerators, no Internet, no computers, no TV, no hyperactive law enforcement, and no Safeway or Walmart.

They got things done or else we wouldn't be here!

In this short article, I will unearth a long-forgotten secret that helped our ancestors survive famines, wars, economic crises, diseases, droughts, and anything else life threw at them... a secret that will help you do the same for your loved ones when America crumbles into the ground.
I'm also going to share with you three pioneer lessons that will ensure your children will be well fed when others are rummaging through garbage bins. In fact, these three old teachings will improve your life immediately once you hear them.

My name is Claude Davis.
You may know me from my website, AskaPrepper.com, or you may have seen my warnings in the media. But few of you know me personally. My story is emotionally heavy, with struggles and disappointments but also with faith in God and a strong will to survive that finally led to my being here...
So pay close attention because this video will change your life for the good!

Lesson No. 1: Don't Take Anything for Granted!

My grandfather came to America from Ukraine just before World War 2 and started a small farm in Texas. But before that, when he was only 12 and still in Ukraine, he survived a horrific famine. Out of the one hundred families that lived on his street, only 20 people lived to tell the tale.
What you are about to hear is a real recollection-as it was written in a personal journal just after the crisis by one of his neighbors:

"Where did all bread disappear, I do not really know, maybe they have taken it all abroad. The authorities have confiscated it, removed it from the villages, loaded grain into the railway coaches, and took it away someplace. They have searched the houses, taken away everything to the smallest thing. All the vegetable gardens, all the cellars were raked out, and everything was taken away.

It was so dreadful that every day became engraved in my memory. People were lying everywhere as dead flies. The stench was awful. Many of our neighbors and acquaintances from our street died.

...we tried to survive the best we could. We collected grass, goose-foot, burdocks, rotten potatoes, and made pancakes, soups from putrid beans or nettles. Collected gley from the trees and ate it, ate sparrows, pigeons, cats...and dogs. When there was still cattle, it was eaten first, then the domestic animals. Some were eating their own children. I would have never been able to eat my child. One of our neighbours came home when her husband, suffering from severe starvation ate their own baby-daughter. This woman went crazy."

Another neighbor wrote a petition to the authorities. Here is just a paragraph:

"Please return the grain that you have confiscated from me. If you don't return it, I'll die. I'm 78 years old, and I'm incapable of searching for food by myself."

Of course, nobody cared. In a crisis, it is everyone for himself! Although...in many cases, families did still remain families. Just after the winter, when there was absolutely nothing to eat, my grandfather, together with his mother, went to the nearest town where the government had established a soup kitchen.
Unfortunately, the 25-mile long journey was too much for his mother. After just five miles, she couldn't walk anymore.
My grandfather noted in his journal:

"Mother said, 'Save yourself; run to town.' I turned back twice; I could not bear to leave my mother, but she begged and cried, and I finally went for good."

I don't know about you...but I'm a father myself, and when I read these things, I burst into tears.
Please allow me to take a wild guess without getting mad at me... Your life's not perfect - but at least you have a computer or a mobile device to read this article on. Your fridge is probably half full - and while you have your problems, starvation is not one of them. And even though your job or retirement could be more enjoyable... you probably have enough money to at least get by.
And that's great!
But make no mistake taking this for granted!
History has shown us many times that it can all fly away in a split of a second.
The biggest misstep that you can take now is to think that this can never happen in America or to you!
All that my grandfather and our ancestors - who came here and formed America -lived through would be in vain without lesson number 2:

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Call me old fashioned; I don't care...but I completely believe in America and what our ancestors stood for.
They all had a part in turning this land into one of the most powerful countries in the world.
Many died and suffered before a creative mind found an ingenious solution to maybe a century old problem. Believe it or not, our ancestors skills are all covered in American blood. This is why these must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same for our children and our children's children.
But now, my friends, we are sitting on the edge of oblivion.
Our fathers and our grandfathers were probably the last generation to practice basic things like building a root cellar or making pemmican.
Our ancestors laid the bricks and built the world's strongest foundation...that we are about to -irreversibly forget!
And we're going to pay the ultimate price for this.
Because if you have a big, strong house with a weak foundation, it doesn't matter if it looks nice on the outside-the next flood will sweep it away!
And that is exactly what will happen to most Americans in the coming crisis!
Here we are, human beings in the 21st century, several lifetimes and a world away from our grandparents and their ways. Have we become better at living? I think not. I watch as we become ever more expectant that the world owes us a living. Consumerism has reached epic proportions and people feel aggrieved if they don't own the latest gadget.
The truth is we have never been more disconnected from life, from the world, from the soil, from the trees, and from our own souls.
We are straying away from our roots on a dangerous road from which there will be no turning back. And the good and bad news is that we are the last generation that can truly do something about it.
We no longer know how to live without refrigerators, without cars, without phones or without supermarkets.
What will you do tomorrow if you simply are unable to buy things?

I sometimes even think we're kidding ourselves with our Bug Out Bags and with our three-day food rations. Wouldn't we be better off looking at what the pioneers took with them when they traveled from Independence, Missouri all the way to Oregon City?

Game meat was unreliable even then, so don't think that they made this five-month journey counting only on that. If your life depended on this, what Bug Out Bag would you take with you? I know I would stick with whatever the pioneer had with him. He had to travel weeks on end without much help while taking cover from some native tribes at the same time.
And this is just a small, tiny example!
I don't want to see our forefathers' knowledge disappear into the darkness of time...and if you care for your family...and what America stands for...then neither should you!
This is the third and most important lesson of all:

"It's always up to you."

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