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Bargain of the day .50c at the library #hitch #hitch22 #christopherhitchens #athiest #rip #neverforget #autobiography #books #bargains #bargainhunter
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“We are going to do a bit of landscape work in a small way”
‘August 27 1919, Paris – Yesterday morning I received my Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Army after two years and two months of service, long enough for me – Am now a civilian – Today I signed a contract with the American Army to take care of the work at the cemetery at Suresnes, just thirty minutes from Paris. The A.E.F. has a cemetery there with over a thousand graves which has to be in good shape. The work will be done by French labor and does not amount to very much after things are once put in to shape. My salary is 150 dollars a month which will just about let my wife and I live but then it was a case of take that or starve to death while I was awaiting developments…’
Several weeks later, Allen Peck writes about his work for the cemetery:
‘Spent the day in inspecting and obtaining prices on evergreen trees and various species of plants for forming hedges – Walked through miles of nurseries – We are going to do a bit of landscape work in a small way: about forty trees of about six or seven varieties, and a hedge across the back of the grounds to form a sort of back curtain or screen to set off the white crosses and the various shades of evergreens. I don’t know how it will finally look, but I trust, all right.’
American aviator who just married a French lady and decided to settle in France for a while – Allen Peck’s WW1 Letters Home 1917-1919 – Photos: 1918 & 1919, scenes at the American Cemetery of Suresnes – Gallica, Library of Congress, APS Library
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#neverforget #alwaysremember #nineeleven #nyc #grateful #911 #fiveminutejournal (at Freedom Tower NYC)
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#Repost @komakes: I drew this because I wanted to remember the 49 beautiful people who died… in my hometown [on June 12, 2016]. Who died in a place that was meant to signify acceptance and safety. I urge you to read their names and the words loved ones have written and said about them. To my friends who lost someone, I’m so sorry. We will never forget, and as time will prove, love will win if we continue to educate, to unite, to remain vigilant, and of course, to love. #lovewins #orlandostrong
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#Setiembre11 #NeverForget (at New York, New York)
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Some set a trail to blaze, and are survived by those whom continue to write the #legacy - All the feels, in my father’s coat. #myfathersdaughter #roots #neverforget - #newyear #newdecade #goals #2020 #happynewyear #happynewyear2020 #love #ootd #vintageralphlauren #vintage #ralphlauren #kidsseeghosts #mua #slay #boss #tomboy #chic #january #january2020 #lit #heart #hope #feels #mood #vibes #fit : @b.don_law @timeoutmarketnewyork @timeoutnewyork (at DUMBO, Brooklyn)
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Episode 8 #Genocide from my YouTube docu-series Armenian American. April 24 is the day we remember 1.5 Million Armenians who were systematically slaughtered by the Turks, including my great great grandfather who had his head chopped off and his body dragged around the city for everyone to see as they took out all the community leaders and walked the helpless women, children, and elderly across the Syrian desert to die. You are gone but not forgotten and we are still fighting for the day where America officially recognizes this atrocity as a Genocide ⚫️ .
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#April24 #Armenia #Armenian #ArmenianGenocide #Hope #Genocide #Turkey #America #Syria #Memorial #Remember #NeverForget #Documentary #YouTube #CNN #Yerevan #Hye #MightyHye #Flame #Hayastan #American #ThePromise #KeepThePromise (at Tsitsernakaberd)
Watch me go big #photoshoot #music #producer #creative #fire #watchme #power #begreat #memes #instalike #bigbrothernigeria #mysically #musicislife #musicispower #nevergiveup #neverforget #musicproducer #charliebrown @charlie310brown shootouts photos done by @jayputyouon
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An unforgettable day for the whole Pakistan. Nobody can forget the deadliest attack. May Allah grant the martyrs Jannah
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When we open our hearts, we find love everywhere we go. ❤️
As the daughter of a native New Yorker, being in #NYC this week has been especially sentimental for me. As I look around the city, taking it all in, and connecting with all types of people from so many backgrounds - it’s made me realize how much heart is in this city. While NY’ers might not wear their hearts on their sleeves, the truth is - love is everywhere.
In tribute to #NewYorkCity and the #911memorial, I send you all love, wherever you may be.
#newyork #neverforget #thebigapple #love (at New York, New York)
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Her smile #rip #grandma #bestwoman #greatest #love #grandkids #cousins #young #forever #memories #neverforget #smileon #likes #familyfirst #family #throwback #sunday #alwayssayiloveyou
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Twenty years ago today people died because they were American (or chose to enjoy life in America). Think about that. Photos from our apartment by @kerry.dolberg #neverforget (at New York, USA)
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HBD High Priestess..
Your memory lives on
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#hbd #ninasimone #neverforget #civilrights #soul #singer #blues #musician #talent #beautiful #writer #portraitsofcolorfulpeople #digitalart #digital #illustration #eyeofrobyn #colorful #classic #oneofakind #phenomenalwoman
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Remembering 911. 19 years later, it’s a day I’ll never forget.
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I was working in midtown and had planned to go to Century 21 Department stores early that morningThe store was located directly across from the World Trade Center.
My boss held me back to talk and I was so annoyed with him for doing that. In hindsight, I was very lucky because I could’ve been in that building that day taking the train.
When I was getting ready to head out, a co-worker asked if I heard that a plane crashed into one of the towers at the World Trade Center. We assumed it was a small plane and thought it was just an unfortunate accident. Then 15 mins later another co-worker called in and said a another plane crashed into the second tower while she was watching the news. That’s when we knew something was wrong and scrambled to get a tv. We watched in horror as everything unfolded including the collapsing of both towers. The phone lines were jammed and my office became chaotic since many people, including me, had family and friends that worked in those buildings. It all felt like a really bad dream that I couldn’t wake up from.
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My husband and I walked over 125 blocks to get home in Washington Heights that day. I still have the sneakers I wore on that journey(see carousel). The feeling of fear, sadness, anxiety and pain I felt during those miles cannot be described. I was young and didn’t know how to process it.
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Unfortunately we all someone who lost a family member, friend or work colleague that day and things felt heavy. Much like the way things are feeling today.
Don’t know how I’ll process this current time in our lives either, but I know I’ll never forget.
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Today’s miles dedicated to everyone lost.
Gone but not forgotten
#remembering911 #September11 #911 #NYC #Neverforget #Gonebutnotforgotten
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James Gilroy remembers one woman: “She had a business suit on, her hair all askew. This woman stood there for what seemed like minutes and then she held down her skirt and jumped off the ledge. I thought, how human, how modest, to hold down her skirt before she jumped. I couldn’t look anymore.” #neverforget #911 #911memorial #worldtradecenter #flightattendantlife #september11th #worldtradecentermemorial (at World Trade Center)
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Day 150 of 365 - Memorial Day - the wreath laying ceremony at the Norfolk African-American War Memorial in West Point Cemetery, Norfolk Va.
#usct #daughtersoftheamericanrevolution #dar #memorialday #neverforget #norfolkva #historiccemeteries #365days #365daysphotochallenge #hasselblad907xspecialedition #norfolksocietyforcemeteryconservation
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1/2000s | f8 | ISO 800 (at West Point Cemetery (Norfolk, Virginia))
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9/11 memorial. #neverforget #911 #nyc #love #flowers #inmemoriam #godblessamerica #ilovenyc #precious (at World Trade Center 9/11 Memorial, NYC)
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“One night I heard two, I believe, nurse’s aides—not the actual nurses—standing outside my door sort of laughing…[They said] ‘I wonder how long the faggot in 208 is going to last.’” – Ken Ramsauer to Geraldo Rivera, May 1983 (via “How to Survive a Plague,” by @bydavidfrance)
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[Please note, the second picture in this post is of Ramsauer near the end of his battle with AIDS; he appears, as David France describes, “in grotesque medical distress.”]
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Pictures: (1) Ken Ramsauer Memorial & Candlelight Vigil, Central Park, New York City, June 13, 1983, photo by Robert Maass; (2) Ramsauer, left, after the Rivera interview, c/o Contact Press Images, via @nymag.
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On May 23, 1983, thirty-four years ago today, less than a year after his diagnosis, and four days after he gave a nationally televised interview to Geraldo Rivera on the growing AIDS crisis , New York City hardware store manager, freelance lighting designer, and activist Ken Ramsauer died of AIDS-related illness. He was twenty-seven.
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Weeks later, on June 13, more than fifteen hundred people gathered in Central Park to honor Ramsauer, who the New York Times described as “a national symbol of the discrimination and pain suffered by victims of a condition that ravages the body’s immune system.”
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Mourners at the memorial raised candles and held numbered signs to reflect the growing number of New Yorkers lost to AIDS. In a speech, Rivera said that Ramsauer “wanted society to know the discrimination and negative publicity that has allowed this disease a mortal head start.”
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“In New York,” David France explains, “there were just 722 cases reported, half the nation’s total. It seemed they were all at [Central Park] that sweltering evening. My friend’s mouth hung open…I was speechless. We had found the plague…From there, it was an avalanche.” #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #NeverForget #NeverAgain #KenRamsauer #Resist
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On May 17, 1989, twenty-eight years ago today, Tom Fox, the subject of Michael Schwarz’s photo series “When AIDS Comes Home,” received word that his recent radiation and chemotherapy treatments failed, leaving no other treatment options. Schwarz took this picture seconds after Fox learned the news.
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Tom Fox died on July 11, 1989. Photo c/o @ajcnews. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #NeverForget #NeverAgain #Resist (at Atlanta, Georgia)
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“RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS – OUTBREAK OCCURS AMONG MEN IN NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA—8 DIED INSIDE 2 YEARS,” by Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times (@nytimes), July 3, 1981.
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Just a month after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first published a report announcing that five gay men in Los Angeles had died of a rare form of pneumonia, a second CDC report confirmed that the disease—identified as the typically malignant Kaposi’s Sarcoma—was spreading among young gay men beyond California.
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On July 3, 1981, thirty-six years ago today, in what is considered to be the first mainstream coverage of what ultimately became known as HIV/AIDS, the New York Times included a piece on this second CDC report.
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“It said that all the guys had the same history of having had all these sexual diseases: amoebas, hepatitis A and B, mononucleosis, syphilis, and gonorrhea,” Larry Kramer later told Eric Marcus (@makinggayhistorypodcast). “The late 1970s were the years of the amoebas—we forget that. Just as everybody talks about AIDS now, you couldn’t go to a party in the late 1970s without everybody telling an amoeba story. When I saw that article in the Times I was scared because I had had all of those diseases.
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“A few weeks later I had a conversation with Dr. Friedman-Kien from @nyuniversity, who told me in essence, ‘This is what’s happening. You’ve got to stop fucking.’ … As a result of that conversation, Dr. Larry Mass, who had been writing about this new health problem in a local gay paper even before the Times wrote about it, and two other guys—now both dead—and I, invited everyone we knew to come to a meeting here at my apartment.” That meeting resulted in the establishment of @gmhc, the world’s first AIDS service organization.
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Significant mainstream media coverage of the AIDS epidemic did not begin for at least five—and, some would argue, ten—years after the July 1981 article. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #Resist #NeverForget #NeverAgain
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“THOMAS GERARD DELDEO, FEBRUARY 4, 1963 – APRIL 18, 1994,” Barbara and Sal Deldeo carry a picture of their son during one of the Stonewall 25 parades, New York City, June 26, 1994. Photo © Constantine Manos.
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On June 26, 1994, twenty-three years ago today, an estimated 1.1 million people participated in the massive Stonewall 25 celebration in New York City, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
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As the New York Times explained, “they marched in not one but two parades – an officially sanctioned one on the East Side of Manhattan demanding that the United Nations protect the rights of homosexuals worldwide, and a smaller, unofficial one up Fifth Avenue from Greenwich Village, organized by several dissenting groups that broke ranks with the others to make the point that the most urgent problem facing gay people is AIDS.”
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Among those marching in the official parade were Barbara and Sal Deldeo of Wilmington, Delaware (pictured), who marched for their son, Thomas Gerald, who died months earlier at age thirty-one after a 10-month battle with AIDS. “Neither had ever marched before,” the Times said of the Deldeos, “not against the Vietnam War, nor in marches against nuclear weapons, not even on Memorial Day. They carried [the] picture of [Thomas Gerald] – a San Francisco actor and yoga instructor – on a placard, like so many others carrying photographs of the dead.
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“‘You just feel like you are sharing him with so many, like his death wasn’t in vain,’ Mrs. Deldeo said as they turned with the march onto 57th Street and deafening cheers rose from the predominantly gay crowd of onlookers. ‘You don’t get this kind of support in Wilmington.’
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“She grew teary telling of how her son came home to die, how he finally reached an understanding with his father, how he went peacefully one day, his clothes no longer fitting his gaunt frame. ‘He was my only one,’ she said. ‘Explain that karma.’” #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #Resist #NeverAgain #NeverForget #Pride2017 (at New York, New York)
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“NEVER AGAIN – NEVER FORGET – 6 JULY 1943-22 JUNE 1988 – A GAY VIETNAM VETERAN – WHEN I WAS IN THE MILITARY THEY GAVE ME A MEDAL FOR KILLING TWO MEN AND A DISCHARGE FOR LOVING ONE,” Leonard Matlovich’s headstone, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Photo by L. Brown, © @lgbt_history.
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On March 6, 1975, after meeting with Frank Kameny and @aclu_nationwide attorney David Addlestone, who explained they hoped to find a gay service member with an impeccable record to challenge the military’s ban on homosexuals, Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich—Vietnam veteran, Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient, and lecturer on race relations in the Air Force—delivered to his commanding officers a letter explaining that he was homosexual, that his "sexual preferences will in no way interfer[e] with my Air Force duties,” and “therefore request[ing] that those [regulations] relating to the discharge of homosexuals be waived in my case.”
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When one officer asked what the letter meant, Matlovich responded, “it means Brown v. Board of Education.”
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From there, Matlovich became the face of the fight against the military’s ban, and his appearance on the September 8, 1975, issue of Time magazine made him the first named openly gay person on the cover of a U.S. newsmagazine. Describing to Time his experience speaking at Christopher Street Liberation Day, Matlovich said, “I found myself, little nobody me, standing up in front of tens of thousands of gay people. And just two years ago I thought I was the only gay in the world. It was a mixture of joy and sadness. It was just great pride to be an American, to know I’m oppressed but able to stand up there and say so.“
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Unlike many others in his place, Matlovich received an honorable discharge, and a court ultimately ordered his reinstatement; Matlovich, however, took a financial settlement.
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In 1987, Matlovich announced he had contracted HIV; that June, he was among those arrested at the White House while protesting the Reagan administration’s response to AIDS.
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Leonard Matlovich died on June 22, 1988, twenty-nine years ago today; he was forty-four. #NeverAgain #NeverForget #Resist #LeonardMatlovich (at Congressional Cemetery)
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Ken Ramsauer memorial (participants holding signs reflecting the growing number of AIDS victims), Central Park, New York City, June 13, 1983. Photo © Alon Reininger.
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On June 13, 1983, thirty-four years ago today, more than fifteen hundred people gathered in New York City’s Central Park to honor Ken Ramsauer, a New York City hardware store manager and activist who died of AIDS-related illness on May 23, 1983.
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Days before his death, Ramsauer gave a nationally televised interview to Geraldo Rivera on the growing AIDS crisis, bringing much-needed visibility to those living with the disease, and making Ramsauer, as the New York Times described him, “a national symbol of the discrimination and pain suffered by victims of a condition that ravages the body’s immune system.”
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Mourners at the memorial raised candles and held numbered signs to reflect the growing number of New Yorkers lost to AIDS. In a speech, Rivera said that Ramsauer “wanted society to know the discrimination and negative publicity that has allowed this disease a mortal head start.”
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The Ramsauer memorial was one of the first highly-visible events honoring victims of the epidemic. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #NeverForget #NeverAgain #KenRamsauer #Resist (at Central Park)
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As you prepare for this upcoming Memorial Weekend…As you start to smoke your brisket and your BBQ ribs, chill your beer, make travel plans, or head to your favorite beach stop for a minute and remember exactly why you are able to take part in this tradition…someone served, someone sacrificed so your country our country your freedom our freedom was protected….Thank you to all our armed forces who sacrificed so we could be safe and free…
#ImProudToBeAnAmerican #memorialday #armyproud #neverforget (at Los Angeles, California)
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