joanmcq Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Not that I'm taking off work.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Taxed Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Take the day off you deserve it. Happy memorial day to you as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 A big THANK YOU to all those who have served in the past and continue to serve in the present. This country owes a debt of gratitude which can never be repaid. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion EA Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all who serve/served and keep us safe: military, first responders, even good samaritans. My family is grateful for your service and for the service of your loved ones, present and past. Hubby wants to go to the movies (our "dinner & a movie" consists of expensive but convenient concession stand food and a movie or two!). So, I may stay up late (what's new?!) to work on some clients that may not call this weekend but will certainly be calling Tuesday morning if they haven't heard from me. Sun is finally out, and it's looking a lot like Spring if not quite Summer. Reflect, but also enjoy the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted May 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 And it's raining here! Got cold so quickly I had to throw on a sweater and long pants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack from Ohio Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Finished planting the garden. We have 3 14' rows of Bluelake green beans, 3 Roma tomato plants, 3 Earlygurl tomato plants, 2 straight neck yellow squash plants, and on two corners of the garden, giant sunflowers. Garden is 14' X 14'. I am now working on amending a 2011 return where JH did not include property insurance on 4 rentals. The next task is a big farm I have on extension. Happy Memorial Day. We owe our freedoms to everyone who has served in the military. All gave some, some gave all. This weekend is to memorialize and remember those who gave all. God Bless America!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 In this month's Atlantic, it is reported that a Pennsylvania newspaper writer described the Gettysburg Address as "silly remarks" , and a London Times article referred to it as "dull and commonplace". I suppose my thoughts would be, does anyone remember anything either of those two correspondents ever wrote or said? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb39 Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 In this month's Atlantic, it is reported that a Pennsylvania newspaper writer described the Gettysburg Address as "silly remarks" , and a London Times article referred to it as "dull and commonplace". I suppose my thoughts would be, does anyone remember anything either of those two correspondents ever wrote or said? I remember memorizing the Gettysburg Address in grade school. God Bless America and all of our service people everywhere! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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