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two Girls Come to Play
Two Girls Come to Play
As I look back through the prism of time
There on the porch I see
Two little girls come to play
In their kingdom of fantasy
They climb to their lookout
In the branches high
They sit telling secrets
As the hours pass by
The challenge each other
The challenge each other
Daring tricks to top
Like hanging without hands
And dead man’s drop
“Let’s ride bikes?”
You hear them shout
And before you know it
They’re out and about
Down the Street
And around the block they go
To adventurous places
That they don’t know
Roller skates, dolls
And so much more
But one of their favorites
Was playing store
Mud pies and rocks for eggs
Coffee ground from dried up weeds.
Leaves for lettuce, flowers for fruit
The yard provided all their needs.
With an ironing board
For their counter top
They were open for business
It was time to shop
And there in that front yard store
On many a summer day
The neighbors looked out and saw
Two little girls come to play
They played all day
And never grew tired
Of all the make-believe
Their imagination inspired
Now the years have come and gone
And their toys are all put away
But still the folks can see
Two little girls come to play.
Great Grandmother and her Brother in Piantedo
Greek Festival 2012
THE FEASTING HAS BEGUN
USS Iowa becomes Museum
Aside
Grandpa’s ship becomes a Museum: The Iowa will leave the Bay Area for the last time Sunday: The ship can be tracked on its journey to Los Angeles at pacificbattleship.com.
After seeing service in three wars and hosting more American presidents than any other battleship, the Iowa will take its final journey Sunday down the California coast to Los Angeles, where it will live out its days as a floating interactive museum.
When the Iowa leaves the Bay Area – its home for the past decade – it will mark the last time a World War II-era battleship passes under the Golden Gate Bridge, said Bob Rogers, Northern California spokesman for the nonprofit Pacific Battleship Center. The Iowa is the last of its kind.
“She was built to go to sea and to simply engage enemy ships and slug it out until one sank,” said Rogers, whose group will run the museum. “She and her sisters – the Missouri, the New Jersey and the Wisconsin – they were the mightiest and the most powerful battleships the United States ever made.”
The Iowa first saw service in 1943 and transported President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Iran late that year for the Tehran Conference, at which the Allies agreed to open up a second front against Germany.
The battleship served as Adm. William Halsey Jr.’s flagship during the surrender of Japan and broadcast the surrender ceremony from its sister ship the Missouri to the world
The ship also served “with distinction” in the Korean War, Rogers said, before being put into the reserve fleet. In 1984 it was reactivated and saw service during the first Gulf War, when it patrolled the Persian Gulf, before being put back in retirement in 1990.
The Iowa was also the scene of one of the Navy’s worst peacetime disasters, when one of its turrets exploded during gunnery practice off Puerto Rico in 1989. Forty-seven sailors were killed.
The ship had been docked in the Suisun Bay mothball fleet since 2001, and some naval enthusiasts hoped to transform it into a museum on San Francisco’s waterfront. The city’s Board of Supervisors voted against the idea in 2005, however, with opponents saying such a museum amounted to an endorsement of sorts for the Iraq war and for the ban that existed at the time on gays and lesbians in the military.
In recent months, the Iowa has been at the Port of Richmond, being prepared for its last journey and final task.
The ship will be flanked Sunday by the Coast Guard cutter Tern, the SS Jeremiah O’Brien and Roosevelt’s onetime yacht, the Potomac, as it leaves the bay. It is expected to pass through the Golden Gate at about 3:30 p.m.
The battleship’s departure marks the end of an era in the Bay Area, where naval installations once ringed the shoreline. But Rogers said the Pacific Battleship Center is excited about its new mission.
“Everyone is thrilled,” Rogers said.
Battleship’s departure
After seeing service in three wars and hosting more American presidents than any other battleship, the Iowa will take its final journey Sunday down the California coast to Los Angeles, where it will live out its days as a floating interactive museum.
When the Iowa leaves the Bay Area – its home for the past decade – it will mark the last time a World War II-era battleship passes under the Golden Gate Bridge, said Bob Rogers, Northern California spokesman for the nonprofit Pacific Battleship Center. The Iowa is the last of its kind.
“She was built to go to sea and to simply engage enemy ships and slug it out until one sank,” said Rogers, whose group will run the museum. “She and her sisters – the Missouri, the New Jersey and the Wisconsin – they were the mightiest and the most powerful battleships the United States ever made.”
The Iowa first saw service in 1943 and transported President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Iran late that year for the Tehran Conference, at which the Allies agreed to open up a second front against Germany.
The battleship served as Adm. William Halsey Jr.’s flagship during the surrender of Japan and broadcast the surrender ceremony from its sister ship the Missouri to the world
The ship also served “with distinction” in the Korean War, Rogers said, before being put into the reserve fleet. In 1984 it was reactivated and saw service during the first Gulf War, when it patrolled the Persian Gulf, before being put back in retirement in 1990.
The Iowa was also the scene of one of the Navy’s worst peacetime disasters, when one of its turrets exploded during gunnery practice off Puerto Rico in 1989. Forty-seven sailors were killed.
The ship had been docked in the Suisun Bay mothball fleet since 2001, and some naval enthusiasts hoped to transform it into a museum on San Francisco’s waterfront. The city’s Board of Supervisors voted against the idea in 2005, however, with opponents saying such a museum amounted to an endorsement of sorts for the Iraq war and for the ban that existed at the time on gays and lesbians in the military.
In recent months, the Iowa has been at the Port of Richmond, being prepared for its last journey and final task.
The ship will be flanked Sunday by the Coast Guard cutter Tern, the SS Jeremiah O’Brien and Roosevelt’s onetime yacht, the Potomac, as it leaves the bay. It is expected to pass through the Golden Gate at about 3:30 p.m.
The battleship’s departure marks the end of an era in the Bay Area, where naval installations once ringed the shoreline. But Rogers said the Pacific Battleship Center is excited about its new mission.
“Everyone is thrilled,” Rogers said.
Battleship’s departure
New info/photos in the Famiglia di Italia section
Go to the Famiglia di Italia section to see more photos and to read about this part of Italy the home of Nonno
Bob’s Back
Bob’s steroid injection for his back pain went well today. The doctor mad sure he got it right by printing a big YES on the right side if the back. So much for modern medicine
News
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Dominic Lorenzo Photos
Deutsche Familie
Rhineland-Palatinate is in the middle Rhine River valley in the west of Germany, bordering France and the state of Saarland to the south, Luxembourg and Belgium to the west, and the states of North Rhine-Westphalia], Hessen and Baden-Wuttenberg to the north, east and southeast. For many years it was a part of Prussia. It is from this region that our German relatives emigrated