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"Remembering Barbara Bush" at Engage at the Bush Center, presented by Highland Capital Management, was held on September 24, 2018. The two-part event celebrated the life and legacy of Mrs. Bush. Moderated by Cokie Roberts, the panels included Barbara Bush, Jenna Bush Hager, Pierce Bush, Jeb Bush, Jr., Ellie LeBlond Sosa, Andy Card, Susan Baker, and Susan Page.
Photos by Grant Miller for the George W. Bush Presidential Center
The Golden Gate Bridge: a beautiful man-made structure admired by countless numbers of people.
I found this amazing and slightly secluded location where not too many people go. This picture was meant to be uploaded a lot earlier, but I never got around to it until now.
"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."
... we had these cool bicycles with the banana seats and high rise handle bars and we'd decorate the spokes with these little plastic thingies, or attach baseball cards with clothespins to make that cool clicking sound when we rode (baseball cards that today may have been worth hiundreds... or God forbid you attached a Mickey Mantle... well, lets not even go THERE!!) I also remember that every once in awhile the chain would fall off getting grease all over the bottom of my pants (bell bottoms!!)... and also those rare times that my pants bottom would get caught IN the chain. (UGH!)
I spent the day in Kutztown at the antique extravaganza again with my friend Katie and saw this bicycle which brought back those memories. Good times today...good times back then! A great day and we were just finished walking the field when the skies opened up. Perfect timing!
Tomorrow Dayna and I are off to visit my sister at her vacation "camp" on the Susquehana River in PA (http://www.flickr.com/photos/srussell/4302712524/in/photostream) . Time for Smores!! We're bringing the marshmallows, graham crackers and Hershey bars!! Woohoo!!
i recall with a faint remembering when there were hands to touch me and a heart to envelope me.
now its me
with so many extra e's.
and no one to take them
with care and warmth.
so i dress myself each day
and let the light love me
instead
remembering August 1961, when that wall was raised… This photo I made in March 1989 in Kreuzberg, near Lohmühlen-Brücke.
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside. The Union Army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates.
Burnside's plan was to cross the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg in mid-November and race to the Confederate capital of Richmond before Lee's army could stop him. Bureaucratic delays prevented Burnside from receiving the necessary pontoon bridges in time and Lee moved his army to block the crossings. When the Union army was finally able to build its bridges and cross under fire, urban combat in the city resulted on December 11–12. Union troops prepared to assault Confederate defensive positions south of the city and on a strongly fortified ridge just west of the city known as Marye's Heights.
On December 13, the "grand division" of Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin was able to pierce the first defensive line of Confederate Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson to the south, but was finally repulsed. Burnside ordered the grand divisions of Maj. Gens. Edwin V. Sumner and Joseph Hooker to make multiple frontal assaults against Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's position on Marye's Heights, all of which were repulsed with heavy losses. On December 15, Burnside withdrew his army, ending another failed Union campaign in the Eastern Theater.
bout 600 yards to the west of Fredericksburg was the low ridge known as Marye's Heights, rising 40–50 feet above the plain. (Although popularly known as Marye's Heights, the ridge was composed of several hills separated by ravines, from north to south: Taylor's Hill, Stansbury Hill, Marye's Hill, and Willis Hill.) Near the crest of the portion of the ridge comprising Marye's Hill and Willis Hill, a narrow lane in a slight cut—the Telegraph Road, known after the battle as the Sunken Road—was protected by a 4-foot stone wall, enhanced in places with log breastworks and abatis, making it a perfect infantry defensive position. Confederate Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws initially had about 2,000 men on the front line of Marye's Heights and there were an additional 7,000 men in reserve on the crest and behind the ridge. Massed artillery provided almost uninterrupted coverage of the plain below. General Longstreet had been assured by his artillery commander, Lt. Col. Edward Porter Alexander, "General, we cover that ground now so well that we will comb it as with a fine-tooth comb. A chicken could not live on that field when we open on it."
Seven Union divisions were sent in, generally one brigade at a time, for a total of fourteen individual charges, all of which failed, costing them from 6,000 to 8,000 casualties. Confederate losses at Marye's Heights totaled around 1,200. The falling of darkness and the pleas of Burnside's subordinates were enough to put an end to the attacks. Longstreet later wrote, "The charges had been desperate and bloody, but utterly hopeless." Thousands of Union soldiers spent the cold December night on the fields leading to the heights, unable to move or assist the wounded because of Confederate fire. That night, Burnside attempted to blame his subordinates for the disastrous attacks, but they argued that it was entirely his fault and no one else's.
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November 11, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary since the end of the First World War, Armistice Day.
After four years of conflict, the guns fell silent. And we remember those who have given their lives on the battlefield, defending our country.
Liverpool City Centre.
On Thursday 15th October 2015, Cullybackey College 6th form History students attended a conference on “Remembering 1916” in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.
November 11, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary since the end of the First World War, Armistice Day.
After four years of conflict, the guns fell silent. And we remember those who have given their lives on the battlefield, defending our country.
Liverpool City Centre.
Remember the Original "Pony" Cars? This is an Original vintage Burgandy (a beautiful and eye catching red), the interior is Black Crinkle Vinyl.
I remember doing this myself, on these same railings at the edge of South Park when I was about 8 or 9. Erin automatically did the same today on the way to my mum's house in Bootle. Must be in the genes!!
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Located in the western outskirts of Berlin, the Berlin-Grunewald station was used to deport Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in the east. Today, where all of this happened, there is the Platform 17 Memorial inaugurated in January 1998 to commemorate the deportation done by Deutsche Reichsbahn during the years of Nazi Germany.
Between October 1941 and the spring of 1942, trains left Berlin from the Grunewald Station in the direction of extermination camps and ghettos on the eastern part of Europe. It was October 18 when the first train from the Deutsche Reichsbahn left Grunewald Station with about a thousand Berlin Jews. They were heading to Lodz, in Poland and, probably, they never came back to Berlin again.