Sunday, May 24, 2015

The eve of the holiday that's original name was...

The name when first begun Decoration Day now known as Memorial Day.

Here's a great site to share with the family for tonight and tomorrow:

http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/memorial-day-history

It is so very important for the young ones to know that the day is not just the unofficial start of summer or a day of picnics and barbecues, outdoor games and boating, fishing but an important remembrance holiday for our veterans past and present.

Moving on...

John Forbes Nash Jr. and his wife, Alicia, were killed today in a taxi cab accident in New Jersey on the turnpike, he was 86 and she was 82, and if you don't recall who he was he was a Nobel laureate mathematician who was still a professor at Princeton, who the movie A Beautiful Mind was about, his dealing with schizophrenia; Russel Crowe played him. He and his wife will be sorely missed.

Anne Meara also died today at age 85 and as of this writing the details have not been available, but if anyone of you remember her as the delightful other half of the comedy team Stiller and Meara than you have quite a hysterically memory of a modern day Burns and Allen, oops not that modern, but that funny and loving as a couple for sixty-one years. Their son is the well renown actor Ben Stiller, of course with those genes, his movies are usually all comedies, except a Night at A Museums' franchise, subtly funny but more fun.

Days like this reminds us of the importance of remembering the ones no longer with us, as well as to be thankful for the ones surrounding us in the here and now.

On that note of a given, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and to also ask you all kindly to count your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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