Double-Nickels

Yes, another birthday. Born in '55, turning 55.

Turn on speakers, turn 'em up LOUD!
Us old folks are hard o' hearin'!



7:45am - Power went out late last night - came back on around 2am. Wasn't sure if I would watch the sunrise this morning, as is my birthday tradition, but Ole Sol shone brightly through the window to awaken me. It's a beautiful day. Gonna be a scorcher - 98 forecast today, the hottest day of 2010 (so far)!

Welcome to Summer

Happy Father's Day

Every child should be blessed with a Father like you.
I love you, Dad, with all my heart.
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Watergate Day

Carl Bernstein / Bob Woodward
The 2 Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story.
The infamous break-in occurred early on June 17, 1972

Flag Day

The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814



Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

http://www.thefoxnation.com/culture/2010/06/07/watch-marine-stuns-crowd-tea-party

http://www.4shared.com/file/111567884/2abefc7a/StarSpangledBanner_whole-story.html

God Bless America!

Sara Anne Graduates

D-Day

"You are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you... I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle."
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thanks, Coach!

John Wooden
1910-2010

June, 2010