Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day

Korea 6-21-51, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment Memorial Service in the field.
Photo Credit: USAA

Memorial Day

[1787 - Delegates convene at Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention]

[1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher,
poet, born in Boston, Massachusetts]

[1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap
dancer, born in Richmond, Virginia]

[1886 - Philip Murray, labor leader, CIO
founder, born in Blantyre, Scotland]

[1889 - Igor Sikorsky, engineer of first helicopter, born in Kiev, Ukraine]

[1895 - Dorothea Lange, photographer and photojournalist, born in Hoboken, New Jersey]

[1918 - Claude Akins, actor, born in Nelson, Georgia]

[1919 - Lindsey Nelson, sportscaster, born in Campbellsville, Tennessee]

[1926 - Miles (Dewey) Davis III, jazz musician, born in Alton, Illinois]

[1929 - Beverly Sills (Belle Silverman), opera soprano, born in Brooklyn]

[1935 - Jesse Owens equals or breaks 4 world records in one hour]

Never Forget

  IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
  Between the crosses row on row,
  That mark our place; and in the sky
  The larks, still bravely singing, fly
  Scarce heard amid the guns below.
  
  We are the Dead. Short days ago
  We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
  Loved and were loved, and now we lie
  In Flanders fields.
  
  Take up our quarrel with the foe:
  To you from failing hands we throw
  The torch; be yours to hold it high.
  If ye break faith with us who die
  We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
  In Flanders fields.

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

William's Whimsical Words:

Never forgotten.

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