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Robert Emmet stands in Triangle Park
A statue of the Irish hero Robert
Emmet stands in Triangle Park at Massachusetts Ave, 24nd Street, and S Streets,
NW. Jerome Connor, a DC Irishman who cast the statue at the Washington navy
yard, sculpted it, it was the first statue to be cast in the District of
Columbia.
After its unveiling the bronze
statue, standing 7-feet tall, was placed in the rotunda of the Museum of
Natural History until 1964 when it was taken down and placed in storage. In
1966, the statue was taken out of storage and placed in Triangle Park.
Robert Emmet, at the age of 25, led rebellion
against British rule in 1803 and was captured, tried and executed. The English,
being the English, then beheaded him. Since various members of his family were
arrested simply for being related to the young man, no one claimed his body.
His last words were “I have but a
few more words to say — I am going to my cold and silent grave — my lamp of
life is nearly extinguished — I have parted with everything that is dear to me
in this life, for my country’s cause; with the idol of my soul, the object of
my affections. My race is run, the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into
its bosom. I have but one request to make, at my departure from this world– it is
the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man, who
knows my motives, dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice nor ignorance
asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace. Let my memory be left in
oblivion, and my tomb remain uninscribed until other times and other men can do
justice to my character; when my country takes her place among the nations of
the earth, then, and not until then, let my epitaph be written. I am done.”
Robert Emmet's older brother,
Thomas, immigrated to the United States after Robert's execution and would
eventually serve as the New York States Attorney General.
It sounds vain
It sounds vain but I love the
person I’ve become, because I fought like hell to become this person.
All’s Well That Ends Well.
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong
to none.” Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well.
This really burns me up
There are a lot of good, decent
people working in the foster care system but they are far outnumbered by people
like the clowns below in the AP article. Of course the fact that we pay the average
social worker about the same that we pay a fast food worker has something to do
with that.
Why did a 14 year girl hang herself?
Where was her social worker? Where were her foster parents? Where were her parents?
How come nobody noticed that child was on the edge?
I’ve said this hundreds of times;
if the average American knew what was going on in the foster care system they’d
call for blood. These are children we're talking about, not a bunch of soulless social problems and the guys that are supposed to stand up for them are largely idiots who don't really give a damn.
I came across this sentence today
“You are not what you have done. You are what you have overcome”. If I ran things, I’d arranger for
every foster kid to get that message.
Child welfare lawyers to judge:
We made a 'simple mistake'
Published March 09, 2017
Associated Press
MIAMI – Florida Department of Children & Families
lawyers told a judge they made a "simple mistake" when they gave her
incorrect information about the welfare of foster children who may have
witnessed a teen hang herself on Facebook live.
Judge Maria Sampedro-Iglesia had
ordered the agency to explain why they shouldn't be held in contempt of court
over a mix-up in identifying a girl who was in the home Jan. 22 when
14-year-old Naika Venant died. In a Feb.
28 order, she threatened to possibly jail the agency's top Miami attorney.
Attorneys said the children are getting the services they need and that the
agency never meant to mislead the judge.
One of my neighbors down the road
One of my neighbors down the road has these midget horses, I've never met him but it occurred to me he might be a midget, how great would that be?
Emerson said it better but the message is the same
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” - Henry David Thoreau
We went to a dog show on Sunday,
We went to a dog show on Sunday, Eli's mother, aunt and sister were showing. I didn't use a flash in fear of upsetting the dogs so the few photos that came out aren't very good, but anyway...
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