Saturday, October 21, 2006

Shoot without shooting

"It's been quoted so many times since it was first uttered during FDR's first inaugural address in March 1933, it's become almost too familiar -- we hear it without really hearing it." - Arianna Huffington I referred to this, Monday, October 09, 2006, and have been thinking about it, the Sing Sing exhibit in New York Urban Cultural Park in Ossining, NY, standing in Watertown, NY airport with one of the editors of "Archaeology" Angela Schuster, as a big 747 Aer Lingus jet landed out of the blue, and the NY Dept. of Correctional Services buses pulled up to it I thought for the new prison at Cape Vincent, NY (where some of the Bonapartes were seen and perhaps lived) with apparently no crash equipment and one small hangar her husband had flown their recently restored plane to, through the last night's storm, while we were watching "Young Guns" at the mall. We were at Sacketts Harbor tracking down human remains in the area where condos were planned in this Lake Ontario-side touted retirement community, where its said over 45,000 may have been encamped in the War of 1812. We were testing near a small fort that was manned by the veterans of the American Revolution, and at one point called the County Coroner to verify the bones we had found were historic, in the parade field where a young lieutenant, Ulysses S. Grant had served, fresh out of West Point Academy in the Madison Barracks, a future captain on Governors Island, a General in the Civil War, a President of the United States and who is interred in Grant's Tomb with his wife on Manhattan Island in NYC. (Add: "Both Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia Dent Grant are still in New York's General Grant National Memorial, commonly known as Grant's Tomb." bluffr.com) In the intro film clip of "To Kill a Mockingbird" from the book by Nelle Harper Lee, the narrator, remarks that in 1932, "Macon County had been recently told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself." It then has the dialogue begin with Atticus and the boy, a guest at their table. Atticus explains his father told him he could shoot all the bluejays he wanted but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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