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Thank you Maurita: How “soon” we forget…..a good reminder of our “privileges” today that women fought so hard for just 90 years ago! I certainly didn’t know this piece of history about women who picketed to get the right to vote. Sounds like some Islamic country that has no regard for women.
This is a piece of history was featured in the film “Iron Jawed Angels”.
‘Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.’
Here is the story of our Mothers and Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago.
Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. Read more »
Honoring our fallen heros
Remind those of our sacrifice and don’t confuse arrogance with leadership. How many French, Dutch, Italians, Belgians and Brits are buried on our soil, defending us against our enemies? We don’t ask for praise, but we have absolutely no need to apologize!
Our arrogance in alphabetical order:
1. The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne, France. A total of 2289 of our military dead.
2. The American Cemetery at Ardennes, Belgium. A total of 5329 of our dead.
84th Annual Memorial Day Celebration
Memorial Day Concert and Ceremony
When: Monday, May 31, 2010 1:30 PM
Where: Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park
1111 Aurora Ave North
Seattle, WA 98109
206-362-5200
Band Concert at 1:30pm
Ceremony at 2:00pm
On Monday, May 31, 2010, Evergreen Washelli will host their 84th Annual Memorial Day Commemorative Service. Please join fellow citizens to honor America’s fallen and salute the flags on the ‘Avenue of Colors.’ The Seattle Pacific University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform, as well as soloist Maria Kesovija. The concert begins at 1:30pm and the ceremony will commence at 2:00pm. A guided tour of the Medal of Honor Recipients to follow the ceremony.
More info here: http://washelli.com/wordpress/?p=1823
‘In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.’
History Repeats Itself
If only humanity had the collective knowledge gathered from generations of experience! This blog has pointed out how current news is just a repeat of what has happened before, and here is another one.
In January of 1969, Skelton offered his television audience his reminiscence of an incident from his schoolboy days in Indiana. Mr. Lasswell, Skelton’s teacher, felt his students had come to regard the Pledge of Allegiance as a daily drudgery to be recited by rote: They had lost any sense of the meaning of the words they were speaking. The teacher asked, “If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each word?”
George Everett “Bud” Day (born February 24, 1925) is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions in combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. Here is his story: Read more »
Autobiography of an Immigrant
While researching my family’s genealogy, I located a ‘shirttail’ cousin who had a wonderful autobiography of my great-uncle.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DAVE STEINFELD
I WAS BORN April 8, 1889, in Holstein, Russia, in Saradauf, near the Volga. Mother died when I was three weeks old, and my grandparents raised me until I was twelve years old. I had one brother, Henry, five years older than I, and a sister who would have been between Henry and me, who died when she was a baby.
My folks were blacksmiths. As far back as I can remember, my grandfather and dad used to make shovels for all the little colonies around the neighborhood. Read more »
Jefferson Quotes
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Read more »