Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—May 11, 2014: Happy Mother’s Day to all.
1. Mother’s Day—first celebrated in 1908 in Grafton,
West Virginia, and now the number one holiday in terms of eating out and number
three in terms of cards. For all of you blessed with having a mother in your
life and for each and every mother hope this is your day.
2. Mothers at the Wall Day—paying a somber
homage to those additions to the names in granite at the Wall and the mothers
who grieved over the loss of a child who served this nation in the Vietnam War;
today 14 more names were added.
3.
National Eat What You Want Day—celebrating
the independence of sons and daughters who after so many years of mom’s admonitions
and exhortations to “eat your peas and carrots” and “to have dessert you must eat your broccoli,” now have their own
day of culinary decadence.
On this day
in:
a. 1910 Glacier National Park in Montana was created by an Act of Congress.
b. 1973 citing government misconduct charges against Daniel Ellsberg for
releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, detailing government misinformation
concerning the Vietnam War, were dismissed.
c. 1987 Doctor Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine
performed the first hurt-lung transplant.
Mothers and their influence on their sons and daughter are
forever: “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short
while, but their hearts forever.” Anon
Please enjoy
the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if
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entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for
poems on Mother’s Day, climbing into the
mountains to be nearer to God; the 2014 Boston Marathon; on the Mustangs going
to the Dance with a losing record; to honor Cindy Abbott, a half blind 54 year
old mother suffering from a rare disease who competed in last year's Iditarod
until forced out with a broken pelvis after 600 miles to join a great
collection of my poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes
On The Newsworthy Times for poems on Boko Haram’s jihadist war on school
girls; Blues and Reds uniting to force approval of Keystone XL; Condi Rice at
Rutgers’ loss withdrawing as a commencement speaker; death of a 77 year old
pilot at air show trying to cut a ribbon; more on Phoenix VA deaths; the
just released nonredacted Benghazi emails; Kerry’s apartheid characterization
of Israel; Obama’s admission that he does not know whether new “sanctions” will
work against Putin; the scandal of vets dying in Phoenix while waiting to see a
doctor; coffee as the new wonder drug to curtail Type II Diabetes to join
numerous other comments on news events always in rhyme of course.
©May 11,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
