Back in our Nation's Capitol
I am at the end of my second trip to Washington DC it was a memorable one. We got an inch of snow on Sunday, it finished melting today.There was a bar that had a state of union party. The premise: pick a word and everytime the president says it, shots are $1. We didn't go but it sounded like fun.
I went to the FDR and Thomas Jefferson memorials, missed them last year. A piece of advice, snow on marble is treacherous.
Some of our leaders need to visit the FDR memorial, just a few quotes:
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded . . . I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed . . . I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."
"The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation…it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world."
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all war."
"We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war."
Just a thought.
posted by Deeboh @ 11:13 PM
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