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A little more Latin

Inveniam viam aut faciam - Find a way or make one.


This is the Latin phrase borrowed from Rear Admiral Peary's island website here in Casco Bay. Sounds like a good saying to me.

Inveniam viam aut faciam -

http://www.pearyeagleisland.org/aboutfriends.htm

Yes, it's true.

I've lost a lot of hair, and begun to see a lot more gray, but despite other reports this is not me kissing the Maine Moose. Joe

Jim Morrison

Some tunes to ponder. I know the feeling Jim. I do too.

March 4th. It is always good to march forth.

February 22, 1980

What a day. Lake Placid, New York, what a city, what a place. I still get goose bumps, and sometimes even fight back a tear hiding as emotional jitters left over from that incredible moment in time. Jim Craig, Mike Eruzione of Winthrop, MA, Coach Brooks, and the rest of that of that squad of college students; Vladislav Tretiak the goaltender whom I was told that the Russian trained by firing pucks out of a canon. I can still hear the voice of Jim Mackay today like it was yesterday. I was 7 years old. My life would never be the same.

Voltaire

"If I were accused of stealing the towers of Notre Dame, I should escape first and discuss afterward."
- Voltaire

Apathy

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) Germany, in regard to the apathy of the Germany people during the rise to power of the Nazis. I hope in Millinocket we don't have to change these sentiments to "those who wrote for the newspaper," "the others who had opinions," and "anyone who spoke out."

Photo taken of marker at the Boston Holocaust Memorial while home visiting friends and family.