Tell your Ma and tell your Pa, I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas...

Talking about Archaeologists find ancient remains of infants - Science - MSNBC.com I excavated around an adult "twin" burial in City Hall Park, NYC, in 1999, to show its extents, (and others) to get a planned water fountain moved, in the "First Almshouse" cemetery in City Hall's park. Problem is, it was also next to a British Army barracks, the "Village Green" and nearby the Revolutionary War era jail too, so there are also enigmatic burials too. While I was doing so, Mayor Giuliani had the State of Arkansas flag flown over City Hall in 1999. He came out twice, a weekday, and a weekend day to see us. City Councilman Speaker Vallone had legislation immediately passed preventing a mayor from ever ordering a flag flown over City Hall at his or her whim again, the then mayor had called from Arkansas to have it flown. One of the archaeology supervisors was from there. I later had lunch with his former wife's (and newswoman, actor, and former "First Lady" Donna Hanover) police bodyguard in Queens with an investigative journalist. One of the few WWII Merchant Marine Congressional Medal of Honor winners was a friend of our family, Swedish-American, Gus Alm, who lived near the shore on Shore Dr. near Lafayette Ave. in the Bronx, NY. He had been crushed between a boat and ship in a rescue of servicemen from the burning water. There were few medals given to Merchant Mariners I read, who suffered disproportionate losses, and had more people of different ages, than any of the other armed services then and maybe now. My grandfather was in the Merchant Marine for about 20 years enlisted in his 40's, had been "sixteen" in the Canadian Scottish Black Watch troops in the trenches of WWI. His brother, a Master Mariner, was torpedoed while Captain of the "City of Atlanta" off of Cape Hatteras in January, 1942 by U-123, while sailing from NYC to Savannah, Georgia. Two survived out of 45 or 46, he not among the survivors.