Posted on 12/31/2018 3:49:11 PM PST by mairdie
"Auld Lang Syne" by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and by the Marine Band. A Memorial to "41" and his wife. I loved his presidency and I miss them both. Everyone needs grandparents.
It would have been a different world if he had beaten Clinton. Thank goodness Trump is a fighter.
Your understanding of history is marginal
Nah I’m just some schlumpy engineer with patents and products on market
Actually, I had a gentleman want to come to see me for my knowledge of the Civil War judge advocate corps. I have a 42’ long hallway, floor to ceiling bookcases on both walls, leading into a massive library. My history specialty is Revolutionary War and Civil War and New York history. Great grandfather was the one who ran the investigation for Stanton on Lincoln’s assassination and was a special judge advocate during the trial. I collect original documents, where possible.
What’s your specialty?
That’s exciting. I did some military/industrial complex work back in the day. We came in 2nd in the contest to design the DoD-I language that became Ada. Later I was with IBM Research. Our part of the company didn’t get into products, but we always appreciated the part that did. My grandfather has some of the railroad signal patents.
HUGS, Mairdie!
Please keep on creating!
Actually, I had a gentleman want to come to see me for my knowledge of the Civil War judge advocate corps.
>>etchings
Dinasaurs! Of course you’re having trouble.
Offer to show them your computer system (which can’t travel, of course) and find some incredible graphics and memes. Who would be able to resist?
Your comments are exactly what I would say. It is a beautiful memorial.
I nearly went into cardiac arrest when I read your description of the library. That is a portrait of my idea of heaven. Lover of books I am.
Nan, M.Div
Many thanks, WVNan.
If you’re from West Virginia, that’s an absolutely awe-inspiring part of this great country. One problem I had for the years we spent in NY state was that they didn’t mow the roadside close to the road, and the trees were so close that you had no views at all. Your part of the country, if you’re from there, has views to bring such peace and joy.
http://www.iment.com/maida/favs/house/library/
THREE YEARS to build the actual library, as opposed to the hallway leading to it, and it still isn’t fully finished. The hard part for the hallway was that it’s 28 bays and every shelf is routed for dishes. That was a mindnumbing woodfinishing job for me. When I designed the library, I left off the routed channel. AND I built the shelves out of stair treads. Finishing THOSE was a breeze. One side of the hallway is just the size of paperbacks. The other side is normal book depth. When I did the library, I divided the bays between art book depth and DVD depth.
that was a lovely tribute although I am rather conflicted on the entire Bush clan and their behavior and statements vs President Trump. Was it you who taped the info follow on about ‘the envelope(s)’ ???
I have the same conflicts. Trump is my center. Everyone else is just peripheral.
But before there was Trump, there was Bush. And before Bush, there was Eisenhower, whom I adored. I didn’t get into Reagan until after he was out of office. I was too impacted by news reports. Blame it on youth. But by the time Bush came around, I was able to make distinctions and realize that the news about Reagan was wrong. He was a great man. Bush was my candidate.
I stayed with him thru his whole term and was devastated when he lost, then suffered thru Carter and was jubilant when Bush’s son won. It was very gradual, during W’s term, that I stopped financially supporting the Republican party. I kept writing notes on their requests saying fight and I’ll start sending money again.
Then Clinton and Obama and the world was being destroyed before my eyes.
And there was Bush, still silent and I still wouldn’t contribute.
Until Trump. Suddenly my fighter had come. All would be okay. And then the Bush family started badmouthing him, but I could understand their reaction. He was a fighter and they weren’t used to being fought or publicly insulted.
I understood, that is, until they started supporting O. And even that made sense. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
So I can follow all the logic of anger with their positions. What I can’t follow is hatred. All I have is disappointment and the hope that their eyes will be opened and they’ll realize that Trump is the right answer and the only other answer is extreme progressivism. And I have a memory of a time when I loved the Bush family greatly and thanked luck and ambition that they had beaten Democrats 3 times.
No, I didn’t watch any of the funeral coverage. Most times it’s repetitive and saccharine. I never followed any of the envelop discussion. Struck me as pure conspiracy theory and not worth my effort or time.
I grieve for Bush 41, and I grieve for what he could have done for Trump if he had gotten over what was just politics. My hope is that Trump will succeed for the good of our country, and that W will live to understand. Trump was massively clever to celebrate HW. It had to take the edge off the Bush family anger with him, and gives them a chance for eventual rapprochement.
I don't. He was a traitor, as are ALL the Bush family; and you are a fool's fool.
You insult because you’re seething with anger and hurt yourself with that bitterness. My deepest sympathies.
No insult,no anger. Your blind love for all things Bushy is proof you’re a fool’s fool.
I’ll never insult you. I consider you wrong but you have the absolute right to be wrong.
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That really says it all, does it not?
Almost
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