This may be the only thing we did NOT see in the last session of the Maryland General Assembly:
Hat Tip: Wonkette
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Posted: 1620 GMT (0020 HKT)
TAPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) -- Pandemonium broke out in Taiwan's parliament
Tuesday when deputies attacked a woman colleague for snatching and trying to eat a proposal on opening direct transport links with China in a bid to stop a vote
on the issue.
Lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) charged
toward the podium and protested noisily to prevent the review of an opposition
proposal seeking an end to decades-old curbs on direct air and shipping links
with China.
Amid the chaos, DPP deputy Wang Shu-hui snatched the written proposal
from an opposition legislator and shoved it into her mouth, television news
footage showed.
Wang later spat out the document and tore it up after opposition
lawmakers failed to get her to cough it up by pulling her hair.
During the melee, another DPP woman legislator, Chuang Ho-tzu, spat at
an opposition colleague.####
Columns on Frederick John Magsamen
May 24th, 2006
Westminster Eagle on May 24th, 2006:
“On Memorial Day, Westminster's own Freddy Magsamen is No. 11 in our hearts ” 05/24/06 - By Kevin E. Dayhoff:
“Next Monday,
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The most comprehensive column on Freddy Magsamen is in the
Winchester Report on the Westminster Eagle Website:
“On Memorial Day, Freddy Magsamen is No. 11 in our hearts “
http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
May 24, 2006, “Lest We Forget!” Kevin E. Dayhoff
http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=1615
Monday is Memorial Day. It was almost 140 years ago that the tradition of setting aside a day to honor our country's fallen heroes began with Gen. John A. Logan's May 5th, 1868 General Order No. 11 to adorn the graves of Union soldiers with flowers.
Also, related:
“Carroll County Maryland Vietnam Memorial Park, Westminster ”
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Columns on Frederick John Magsamen
May 24th, 2006
Westminster Eagle on May 24th, 2006:
“On Memorial Day, Westminster's own Freddy Magsamen is No. 11 in our hearts ” 05/24/06 - By Kevin E. Dayhoff:
“Next Monday,
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=978&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=1189178&om=1
The most comprehensive column on Freddy Magsamen is in the
Winchester Report on the Westminster Eagle Website:
“On Memorial Day, Freddy Magsamen is No. 11 in our hearts “
http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
May 24, 2006, “Lest We Forget!” Kevin E. Dayhoff
http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=1615
Monday is Memorial Day. It was almost 140 years ago that the tradition of setting aside a day to honor our country's fallen heroes began with Gen. John A. Logan's May 5th, 1868 General Order No. 11 to adorn the graves of Union soldiers with flowers.
Also, related:
“Carroll County Maryland Vietnam Memorial Park, Westminster ”
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Labels: Magsamen Frederick John, Military, Military Memorial Day, Military Veterans Day, People Carroll County, Vietnam, Winchester Report, Westminster Eagle, The Tentacle
Westminster Maryland Memorial Day Pictures
According to the Historical Society of Carroll County:
“Miss (Mary Bostwick) Shellman began
From unattributed notes in my file, the origins of Memorial Day go back to:
Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of former Union soldiers and sailors - the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) - established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers.
Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared it should be May 30. The first large observance was held that year at
The cemetery already held the remains of 20,000 Union dead and several hundred Confederate dead.
Presided over by Gen. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant and other
After speeches, children from the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan Home and members of the GAR made their way through the cemetery, strewing flowers on both
Local Observances Claim To Be First
Local springtime tributes to the Civil War dead already had been held in various places.
One of the first occurred in
Today cities in the North and the South claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1866. Both Macon and
A stone in a
Official Birthplace Declared
In 1966, Congress and President Lyndon Johnson declared
By the end of the 19th century, Memorial Day ceremonies were being held on May 30 throughout the nation.
State legislatures passed proclamations designating the day. The Army and Navy adopted regulations for proper observance at their facilities. It was not until after World War I, however, that the day was expanded to honor those who have died in all American wars.
In 1971 Memorial Day was declared a national holiday by an act of Congress, and designated as the last Monday in May.
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GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN'S MEMORIAL DAY ORDER
General Order No. 11 - Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic
May 5, 1868
I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land. In this observance no form or ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.
We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose, among other things, "of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion." What can aid more to assure this result than by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foe? Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their death a tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the Nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and found mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of free and undivided republic.
If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain in us.
Let us, then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from dishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us as sacred charges upon the Nation's gratitude,--the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan.
II. It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to call attention to this Order, and lend its friendly aid in bringing it to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.
III. Department commanders will use every effort to make this order effective.
By command of:
JOHN A. LOGAN,
Commander-in-Chief.
N. P. CHIPMAN,
Adjutant-General.
The Adventures of Mr. Moose
May 27th, 2006
