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Black men still fighting for equality

Posted Sun, 2011-11-20 13:49 by EAGLE

Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements.

In his downward course he meets with no resistance­, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress.

If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness­ he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradict­ion to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence.

In one case he may provoke contempt and derision, but in the other he is an affront to pride and provokes malice.

Frederick Douglass - September 25, 1883

11/11/11 VETERANS DAY

Posted Fri, 2011-11-11 15:26 by EAGLE

Message from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Veterans Day 2011
November 10, 2011

Tomorrow, at the 11th hour, on the 11th day, of the 11th month of 2011, we will pause to honor America's Veterans and celebrate their contributions to our way of life. Few have given more to our Nation than the men and women who have served in our Armed Forces in peace and in war.

Generation after generation—from Bunker Hill and Bennington to Baghdad and Abbottabad—protected, defended, and preserved the principles and ideals that define our democracy. Across that remarkable sweep of history, today's America was shaped at Lexington and Concord, Antietam and Gettysburg, in the skies over Midway, on the beaches of Normandy, in winter's grip at Chosin Reservoir, in the heat of Ia Drang Valley, from the Persian Gulf into Afghanistan and Iraq by those who wore our Nation's uniforms. Over twenty-two million living Veterans today embody our exceptional character and values as a people—each a line in our Nation's history, but together many chapters towards today's future.