понедельник, сентября 11, 2006

DC and Gettysburg pictures Part Two: Air and Space Museum


Smithsonian Castle

Spirit of St. Louis, you're looking at the underbelly of probably the most important prop plane ever.


Hook-up of Soviet and American spacecraft.


No explanation needed




A moon lander. It never made it to the moon but still there it is.

суббота, сентября 09, 2006

RFK's Text

Here are the texts of the two speeches from the RFK Memorial.

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance"

South Africa 1966 (A dangerous place and time for him to say those things, I might add.)

"Aeschylus wrote: In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our despair. Against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

What we need in the United States is not division, what we need in the United States is not hatred, what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether the be white or they be black.

"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that and say a prayer for our country and our people."

Indianapolis 1968

My Trip to Washington D.C and Gettysburg: Pictures from Morning in DC and Arlington National Cemetary


Chinatown gate. That's my cousin's, Willis, head in the foreground.

Gen. Kearny. He was a one-armed Civil War general; when he led charges he held the reins by his teeth. Coinceidently, he died in such a charge.









RFK Memorial, Robert F. Kennedey, little brother of John was murdered in 1968 while running for President as a peace candidate. If he hadn't died he probably would've become President, instead Nixon was elected and America got seven more years of Vietnam and eventually, Watergate.





Amphitheater: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

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