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On the Space Shuttle Challenger
Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We […]
High Flight
by: John Gillespie Magee, Jr. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
August 28, 2011, the 48th anniversary of the groundbreaking March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom witnessed the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. It is fitting that on this date, reminiscent of the defining moment in Dr. King’s leadership in the Civil Rights movement; in the form of solid granite, his legacy […]
Washington Monument
First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of his Countrymen. Built to honor George Washington, the United States’ first president, the 555-foot marble obelisk towers over Washington, D.C. George Washington’s military and political leadership were indispensable to the founding of the United States. As commander of the Continental Army, he rallied Americans […]