Category: History and Culture

A more perfect union

And be careful. I’ll be checking it twice. Actor David Huddleston in Santa Claus: The Movie We are on day 183 of 15 days to slow the spread. American actor David Huddleston was born in Vinton, Virginia on this day in 1930. He died in 2016. While the quotes from Blazing Saddles and The Big …

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We said we’d “never” forget

We are on day 177 of 15 days to slow the spread. It was a crisp, clear September morning. You can’t have lived through the day not remember in vivid detail where you were when you heard. I was at the office, checking the news. “A plane has hit the World Trade Center.” Someone crazy …

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