What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it’s a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.
― Bob Dole, One Soldier’s Story: A Memoir
April 29, 2004 – The National World War II Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., to thousands of visitors, providing overdue recognition for the 16 million U.S. men and women who served in the war. An Announcement Stone proclaims that the memorial honors those “Americans who took up the struggle during the Second World War and made the sacrifices to perpetuate the gift our forefathers entrusted to us: A nation conceived in liberty and justice.”
This photo was taken in Key Largo, Florida in January of 2014. Only two days until I return to the Keys and enjoy this view during breakfast again!
“Tropical Sunset” is one of my favorite James Coleman originals. At the time I added it to my collection almost 20 years ago it was one of the few pastels he had done. Looking forward to visiting the James Coleman Gallery Key West this week!
I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don’t have to study people who came before you. You don’t have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what’s right for you, and you can’t do it in any other way.
– Barbra Streisand
April 28, 1965 – Millions of American television viewers tuned in to a primetime hour of 22-year-old Barbra Streisand in her first-ever TV special, the triumphant My Name Is Barbra. It won two Emmys and a Peabody Award and helped make Streisand a household name.
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
April 27, 1667 – Blind and impoverished poet John Milton sells the copyright to his masterpiece Paradise Lost for a mere 10 pounds. Once printed, the poem was immediately hailed as a masterpiece of the English language.
This song about old age and loneliness, written about an old couple, is a theme relatively unexplored by songwriters. What’s amazing is how it rings so true despite being written by a 25-year old young man. John Prine cuts to the soul of humanity like no other.
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