Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Thursday, March 16, 2017

America may miss out on the next industrial revolution


We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor,...have no health care—that's the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south. - H. Ross Perot 1992
Very interesting and good read. Where do you see us in 20 years as a nation? Will we actually manufacture, assemble anything? We have sold our soul to various trade agreements that have produced nothing but a great sucking sound.
Wait…so sending virtually all our technological manufacturing overseas to Countries that are also stealing our IP blind to save a few bucks makes it tougher for Americans in the long run? #MAGA

Friday, December 7, 2012

Dec. 7th....

Today, is "unconditionally" a day of remembrance.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to these United States!
Happy Birthday President Coolidge!
God bless both!

Friday, September 18, 2009

Flint native and WW2 pilot Violet Wierzbicki to receive the Congressional Gold Medal



I just think this is a great great story! (url)

Her dark, windswept hair breezed around her as the 25-year-old pilot posed on the wing of a plane she flew during World War II.

It's been 70 years since Flint native Violet Wierzbicki took the vintage photo as a member of the exclusive, pioneering group known as the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

The trailblazing civilian females got no benefits, no flags on their graves and it took 34 years to receive militarization.

But now, more than half a century later, Wierzbicki is among an estimated 300 surviving WASP in the country to finally be recognized for their service with the Congressional Gold Medal -- the highest honor Congress can bestow on a civilian.

"It's overwhelming. I cried," said Wierzbicki, 92, in a brief phone interview from the Santa Cruz, Calif. retirement home she lives in. "We were forgotten for so many years. It's an honor."


And yes, I even find the photo sexy!


Saturday, July 18, 2009

Goodbye to a hero: World's oldest man WWI veteran Henry Allingham dies aged 113

Goodbye to a hero: World's oldest man WWI veteran Henry Allingham dies aged 113


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200516/Goodbye-hero-World-War-I-veteran-worlds-oldest-man-dies-aged-113.html#ixzz0LdCPuepe

What a great great article. Take the few minutes to read this. What a great article on a hero. Strength of character this man!

Henry Allingham
Henry Allingham

Henry Allingham dressed in his military outfit as a young man and, left, as a 113-year-old veteran

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

New photograph of Lincoln, could be his last taken...

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=356102&affid=100055&silentchk=1&

Very interesting story about yet another rare photo of Lincoln.

Also if you are interested in photos of Lincoln, check out this official site:

http://www.lincolnimages.com