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POPS'I'm the guy who received your son's heart' Mark Phillips was a 21-year-old graduate of York Tech. He worked as a diesel mechanic, but wanted to drive big rigs. He was working in that direction when the accident occurred. On Sept. 22, 2007, he was riding his Yamaha V Star on Route 30, heading toward Gettysburg, with his best friend and his father. He wasn't feeling well and was lagging behind when the two other riders made it through the light at Kenneth Road. A witness later told police that it looked like his motorcycle folded. It didn't. It flipped. His mother suspects that he became ill, threw up and while doing that, gripped the front brake too hard, causing the bike to flip. He wasn't wearing a helmet and suffered extensive brain injuries.
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POPSObama: Normandy. Inchon. Khe San. Gettysburg, et. al.
It's Not that the content of President Obama's speechs are extraordinary or his ability to give one second to none but for those of us who notice such things he goes around hitting Home Runs out of the ballpark like he's Babe Ruth or Hank Arron...or you might say he's a striker who's gonna take the team to the World Cup. Put aside all the criticism he gets daily in the corrosive media - he has a tremendous love of his country, it's struggles and it's history . It's very inclusive of us all. Finally, after 65 years of praising Normandy someone mentions Inchon & Khe San. It's also very balanced, he see the good and the bad but knows that better is better. He's said, 4example, the war in Iraq was W-R-O-N-G. Has any president every said a war was wrong before? Of course this may not be everyone's cup of tea but to honor the dead soldier in a nation's struggles is a worldwide and (sorrowful) eternal task, Here, his speech tolls the Liberty Bell. May we all come to rest in
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POPSLiberals claim Lincoln as their own??? The idea that were Lincoln alive today he'd be a liberal is completely absurd! The claim that the Southern Democrats of Lincoln's day are the Republicans of today is completely false... You gotta love the revisionists, they're just so darned creative.
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POPSGay bishop to kick off Inauguration events It doesn't totally erase the fact that Rick Warren will be doing the invocation and the actual inauguration, but this is at least an important acknowledgment of the new president's support of the LGBT community.
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POPSAmericans Fail Civic Literacy Quiz Earning a college degree does little to increase knowledge of America’s history, key texts, and institutions. Only 24% of college graduates know the First Amendment prohibits establishing an official religion for the United States. Only 54% can correctly identify a basic description of the free enterprise system, in which all Americans participate. I felt bad for getting a B, but some of these results are just pathetic...not really too surprising though.
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POPS This Day In History ~ Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Quote: "My speech will soon be forgotten; yours never will be. How gladly would I exchange my hundred pages for your twenty lines." — Edward Everett, to President Lincoln after he delivered his Gettysburg Address Question of the Day: What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address? Lincoln's aim in his Gettysburg Address was to extoll liberty and honor the people fighting for our nation who died in hope that there would still be a nation in the end. Yes, they are associated, but the Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address occurred four months apart. By 1863, Abraham Lincoln was in the third year of his troubled presidency and the devastating American Civil War. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Document Image http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc_large_image.php?flash=false&doc=36
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POPSImpact Of Geology On The U.S. Civil War: War From The Ground Up Whisonant and Ehlen also studied the terrain at Antietam, the site of the bloodiest battle in the Civil War, where on 17 September 1862 up to 23,100 soldiers were killed, wounded, or declared missing. "What's so striking at Antietam," says Whisonant, is that "two geologic units underlie . One is a very, very pure limestone that as it erodes it literally melts. Mostly what you get with that is a very even, level, open surface -- there just aren't a lot of deep holes and high hills that give soldiers a place to hide." On one area of this flat surface, known as Miller's Cornfield, "armies just shot each other to pieces until absolute exhaustion set in."
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