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I decided that this would be a good time to visit the 9/11 Memorial at Eagle Rock Reservation. I was out that way for a doctor’s appointment today and I had hoped to get out of there and get home earlier, but it didn’t work out that way, so I figured that there was no harm in a side trip since my schedule was blown anyway. I was finishing up my appointment and figuring that I was going to make a quick exit when the doctor informed me that she was taking me to see her personal assistant who would explain their new “portal” system to me and help me register. Oh...just great! I don’t even like the sound of the word “portal”. Come to find out, today is “day one” of the introduction of the portal system which will allow you to get in touch with the doctor directly (which may be a good thing, because there has NEVER been a time when I have called that office and have NOT gotten the recording from the assistant that she is “away from her desk... blah blah blah” and I play phone tag with her for the rest of the week.) I also learn that I am “Victim #4” of the portal system explanation. I have turned my cell phone off and she tells me to go ahead and turn it on because she has to send me an email with the link that I need to register. I ask her if she wants me to sit there and register right now, and she thinks that is a great idea because this way she will get to see how it all works. Ut oh... this alerts me to the fact that victims #1-3 somehow managed to escape and I become the guinea pig. Ok, turn it on, receive the email with the link, open the link and she tells me to fill in the name and birth date and not to worry about filling in the insurance information. The insurance information is already filled in, which tips me off to the fact that she has never seen what is in this link and I wonder why if all the insurance info is there, why isn’t the name and birth date there also, But I don’t ask. Next it tells me to pick a username. I ask her if it has to be a certain number of letters.... she doesn’t know. So I pick a username and then a password.... which takes me for.ev.er. because I don’t seem to be capable of typing it in the same way twice.... I blame it on the site... she doesn’t know, she’s never seen it! So, finally I get the password in there, the same way, twice... and a warning comes up.... Username must be between 8 and 75 letters. 75 LETTERS?!! Who picks a username with 75 letters??!! So, I relay this info to her and she writes it down. So, I pick a new username. I’m in. Now she tells me that she has to send me a message through the portal and I have to respond to it and then we are done. She sends the message, I get an email telling me I have a message and a link to log in. I open the link and I can’t log in. This goes on for quite awhile until I remember that I had to change my original username. (I don’t tell her this! Again, she assumes it is a problem with the site!) So, now I am logged in and it tells me I have a message, but I can’t open it, and I ask where I am supposed to go to respond to it. She doesn’t know. So, she calls the doctor in, who also doesn’t know. So, I figure out where to go to respond and there is a drop down menu and I ask which selection I am supposed to choose. She doesn’t know, and the doctor doesn’t know. So, they decide that they will call in another doctor that has successfully navigated this portal system. So, this is where it becomes satisfying (and somewhat comical) to me....I (read that in bold large type!!) am now monopolizing the time of two prominent specialists and their personal assistant ... hehehe.... and they can’t charge me for their time (and I should be charging them for mine!!) The second doctor takes my cell phone and finishes the process (she may have figured out that it is I, that am the problem with the portal system!) . “This is a test message” Message received. “Thank you.” Message sent. Done. So, I now ask what she thinks will happen to victims #1-3 (without actually calling them victims), so we review the entire procedure while she writes it all down and says she will send emails out to them with the instructions. Truthfully, I’m pretty sure that victims #1-3 will do just fine on their own, because they probably are able to type their password in twice consecutively for verification purposes and were also probably able to recall the 75 letter username that they selected. But if I had to be there longer than I wanted to, I was going to have some fun, and as I left the personal assistant thanked me numerous times for my time, my patience and for helping her figure all of this out. And I never once mentioned that it was my screw ups that made it so difficult to begin with. (do you think she knew that all along?) And when the time comes that I need to access this doctor via the portal system, what are the chances that I will remember my username and/or password? That’s right.... slim to none!!!
Anyway.... next stop 9/11 Memorial at Eagle Rock Reservation West Orange, NJ
A beautiful memorial... marble wall with engraved names overlooking the Manhattan skyline, along with bronze statues, pieces of steel and concrete from the foundation of the Twin Towers, and numerous plaques.
The poster we donated to Amersham Museum was used in 1936 to promote a book of walks called Chiltern Strolls & Rambles. This lady remembered going on the walks from the book with her family when she was little. These days she's leading walks around the area.
LONDON TRANSPORT COUNTRY WALKS – A Recollection
September 2nd 1939 was my sister’s fourteenth birthday. The next day she gathered her presents around her as we listened to the sombre broadcast of the Declaration of War. I was six. We had just returned from our annual holiday by the sea, our father being fortunate enough to work for a company which gave him two weeks’ holiday a year. That was the last time the family saw the sea for six years. Instead we turned to the countryside within reach of our local Metropolitan Line station. For these adventures we used a small buff-coloured paperback called LONDON TRANSPORT COUNTRY WALKS. My sister would lead, reading out the directions and landmarks to be spied. Occasionally she would be made to relinquish it to me for a few lines – what responsibility!
In early 1940s self-sufficiency Britain, meadows were ploughed up to grow wheat, oats and barley. Wasting no space on paths, the crops were sown right up to the hedges and one trod carefully. I collected the leaves of different trees, berries, hips, nuts for a nature-tray at home. We discovered that stiles came in many forms, my favourite being the rare ladder-stiles at Newland Park between Chorleywood and Chalfont St. Giles. The clear shallow swift flowing water of the River Chess at Rickmansworth and Sarratt Bottom in Hertfordshire was a delight for paddling.
In Spring 1940 two neighbouring families joined us on an expedition and I have a small black and white photograph (no colour then) of a three-family picnic on its banks. I recall we saw a kingfisher.
I remember our well-thumbed copy of COUNTRY WALKS with affection. It gave me a life-long love of the countryside, and when in a grown-up life, I moved from the suburbs to Buckinghamshire, it felt like coming home.
Patricia R. Cooper
October 2011
A series of stock photos taken of the Remembering Vietnam Exhibit in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery at the National Archives building in Washington, DC.
Last Name HUNWALD
First Name JOLAN
Maiden Name DUSHINSKI
Father's First Name AHARON
Sex Female
Place of Birth DOLNA,KIELCE,KIELCE,POLAND
Marital Status MARRIED
Spouse's First Name SANDOR
Spouse's First Name* ALEKSANDER
Permanent residence TRNAVA,CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Profession HOUSEWIFE
Place during the war TRNAVA,SLOVAKIA,CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Place of Death AUSCHWITZ,Camp
Date of Death 1942
Type of material Page of Testimony
Submitter's Last Name REIKH
Submitter's First Name ELA
Relationship to victim COUSIN
Registration date 10/05/1956
Betty Ford stands with Queen Elizabeth II during a receiving line for a state dinner held in the Queen's honor. Here, the Queen and Mrs. Ford greet Major League Baseball player Willie Mays. July 7, 1976. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
Remembering what it was like to shoot film: working beach in SE Kent, mostly abandoned, taken with a Leica M6 and Summicron-M 50
The local council are conducting a project called "Midlothian Remembers" to record the locations off and the Names that are remembered on these memorials.
While out for a drive in the country with my gal, we rounded the corner to view this wonderful old house from between the bushes and trees, we had to stop. The owner was out raking up leaves, he gave us permission to photograph his property of many acres, which included a two acre pond and vineyards surrounding this old home.
During our conversation Bill explained that his wife had passed on, together they had made the beautiful place their home for 55 years. Bill also shared with us to look out for his love's chair overlooking her favorite spot of the pond. Rememberance.
I want to go back one day to photograph their very special place.
I wish I had room to show you more.
sometimes
i remember a girl
in my 5th or 6th grade class
from the mid 1940s
she was thin plain and dirty
she wore very simple
homemade flour sack dresses
her dirty socks fell down
around her worn shoes
she had filthy stiff straight hair
sort of brownish gray
she was unwashed
she was a monotone
she was very quiet
not saying a word
and very shy
she lived on a red mud hill
in an unpainted shack
on the edge of the runway
of the airport
her eyes were dead
i feel very sad
when I think of her
Remembering GG Allin, the notorious punk rocker from the North Country of New Hampshire, during an acoustic music performance by the Murder Junkies, his last band, at his grave site in Littleton, N.H.,on the weekend of his 25th-year death-a-versary.
You gotta take the good
with the bad
smile with the sad
love what u got
& remember what u had
learn to forgive
but never forget
learn from your mistakes
but never regret
people change
things go wrong
just remember...
life goes on
The local council are conducting a project called "Midlothian Remembers" to record the locations off and the Names that are remembered on these memorials.
Some wounds never heal.
Civil War Reenactment Photo 2011.
Munfordville Green River Bridge Battle.
Civil War in Kentucky September 14-17, 1862
Attorney General and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton greets sheriffs at the Remembrance Day ceremony at South Memorial Park in Vancouver.
S. H. Kress Store, 5 - 10 - 25 Cent Store. Not today. What can you buy for 5 cents?
In the history books about Sarasota..."The original cost estimate of $40,000 rose to $50,000 and represented the bulk of the total of $55,061 in building permits authorized during the first six months of 1932.
The Art Deco Style building was described as follows: "The new building clearly defines the modern trend in architecture and stands out on Main Street like a magnificent temple, extending a warm welcome to all."
The history of the chain from Wikipedia: S. H. Kress & Co. was the trading name of a chain of "five and dime" retail department stores in the United States of America, established by Samuel Henry Kress, which operated from 1896 to 1981. In the first half of the 20th century, there were Kress stores with ornamented architecture on "Main Street" in hundreds of cities and towns. In 1964 Genesco, Inc., acquired Kress. The company abandoned its center-city stores and moved to shopping malls. Genesco began liquidating Kress and closing down the Kress stores in 1980. The remaining Kress stores were sold to McCrory Stores on January 1, 1981. Most continued to operate under the Kress name until McCrory Stores went out of business in 2001.
. . . Christian Michael Otto Regenhard.
Part of the display from 9/11 in St. Paul's. A little research showed that he was born in 1973, IQ of 146, joined the Marines like his dad (now a retired police detective) before he was 19, joined the NYFD, completed training, and had been on the job 6 weeks as a "proby" when he answered the call while filling in for someone else on 9/11. He was with Ladder Company 131 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, when he was lost in the twin towers.
RIP Christian+
Front cover of a cookbook dated 1939. From my small collection of Kate Smith memorabilia. I remember her fondly.
For JFDI challenge 50 today - Children's TV. I spent ages trying to think of a character but I kept coming back to that image of the girl and her clown (I don't own a clown hence the rather terrifying adjustments to the doll!) so I thought I'd go for that. I was going to mock up the background too but then I saw hereios were doing weather photos and decided to 'frame' this on one of my old rain photos instead, seemed appropriate for today!
You can see the original image that inspired this here:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2012/apr/22/th...
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