RetrophischI’ve stood outside a church in Kigali where this happened. Where the priest(s) abandoned to the mob those seeking safety.
It was sobering to drive past it every single day we went to the orphanage to see or pick up the little boy who would become our youngest son.
Oh man, @iamjamiefoxx would be perfect for this, too.
Legendary World War II B-29 Pilot, Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Robert “Bob” Vaucher Dies at 102. www.aopa.org/news-and-…
(Thanks to @ReneeLeonardKe1 on Twitter for posting about the story.)
Thirty-five years ago today, we lost the Challenger and its crew. I stood in the library between classes at my high school, mouth agape, watching the footage with several classmates.
“Roger, go at throttle up” forever seared into our memory.
#totouchthefaceofGod
Conrad Heyer was born in 1749, fought as part of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and was photographed in 1852 at 103 years of age.
I am a day late noting it, but Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) has an excellent historical piece on Cinco de Mayo. Oh, the what-ifs from this period of history alone could churn out a score of Harry Turtledove alternate-history tomes.
What is with accidental fires and holy sites today??? www.newsweek.com/notre-dam…
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.” — Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833)
“But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm… But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 46
I wonder what our fourth president, a strict constitutional constructionist, would think of us now.
“Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 39
Oh, what of our history we have forgotten.