saltydad

Belated by one day, but didn't want to let the 65th anniversary of D-Day go by without a mention. There are at least 2 European sites I want to visit before I die. One is Auschwitz, where I lost a number of family members. The second is the beaches of D-Day and the cemeteries where the heroes who died are resting under long rows of alabaster white stones (and all of them were heroes). The two extremes of human potential. Our own undying gratitude to all those who are still with us (and I read that 853 World War II American vets die every day), and to the families of those who paid the extreme sacrifice, British, Canadian, French and American. Thank you.

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Men In Nursing- "A Few Good Men"

"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures." - Francis Bacon





"If by a liberal, they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind; someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions; someone who cares about the welfare of the people, their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties; someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicion that grips us; that is what they meant by a liberal, I am proud to be a liberal."
John F. Kennedy, September, 1960


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