Plaque to be installed at former home for school presidents
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Archives For Honor
Funeral services for Edward Walsh, Michael Kennedy set
Hundreds filled the small fire house on Centre Street in West Roxbury Friday night to honor two fallen firefighters who called this Boston neighborhood home.
Miles away from Engine 33 on Boylston Street, there wasn’t an empty space inside Engine 30.
Watch NewsCenter 5’s report on vigil | Watch report on procession for Lt. Walsh
Lt. Edward Walsh and Firefighter Michael Kennedy died Wednesday when they were trapped fighting a fire in a brownstone apartment building in the Back Bay.
Among those in attendance, Sean Monahan, who grew up with Kennedy.
Photos: Growing memorial for firefighters
“He was just always there for you. Whatever you needed, he was there and that’s why these people are here. He touched so many people,” said Monahan. “When I first heard, it had to be a mistake, it couldn’t, it couldn’t be him. He was the last person you would think that would happen to. Of all those people down there he was just such a strong individual, mentally, physically.”
Fund for firefighters’ families
Kennedy’s girlfriend was surrounded by friends and family.
Firefighters injured in the Beacon Street fire came with their families to show support.
A wake and funeral Mass for Walsh will be held at St. Patrick’s Church in Watertown, where he grew up. The wake will be from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Kennedy’s wake will be Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at P.E. Murray Funeral Home in the West Roxbury neighborhood. His funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Holy Name church in West Roxbury.
Forty-three-year-old Walsh was married with three children under age 10. Thirty-three-year-old Kennedy, a former Marine, was single.
TOLEDO, Ohio — At the Ohio Air National Guard base near Toledo, Lt. Col. Frank Dailey still can’t believe the honor recently bestowed upon him. Watch the video 8-year-old boy pays it forward
Lt. Col. Frank Dailey
CBS NEWS
“It’s incredible being recognized in such a manner,” he says.
It happened at a Cracker Barrel, of all places. As the security camera shows, Dailey entered the restaurant on Feb. 7 for an early lunch. At about the same time, 8-year-old Myles Eckert came in with his family.
Myles was very excited. He’d just found a $20 bill in the parking lot. He’d started thinking of what he could spend it on.
“I kind of wanted to get a video game, but then I decided not to,” Myles says.
Myles Eckert
CBS NEWS
He changed his mind when he saw the guy in uniform.
“Because he was a soldier, and soldiers remind me of my dad,” Myles explains.
And so, with his dad in mind, Myles wrapped the $20 in a note that read, “Dear Soldier — my dad was a soldier. He’s in heaven now. I found this 20 dollars in the parking lot when we got here. We like to pay it forward in my family. It’s your lucky day! Thank you for your service. Myles Eckert, a gold star kid.”
Myles wrapped the $20 in a note and gave it to Lt. Col. Frank Dailey.
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Army Sgt. Andy Eckert was killed in Iraq, just five weeks after Myles was born. All the kid has ever had are pictures and dog tags, other people’s memories and his own imagination.
“I imagine him as a really nice person and somebody that would be really fun,” Myles says.
The dad he imagines must also love a good story. Because after lunch that day, Myles asked his mom, Tiffany, to make one more stop.
“He wanted to go see his dad,” Tiffany says. “And he wanted to go by himself that day.”
Myles pays a visit to his dad.
TIFFANY ECKERT
She took a photo from the car. Follow the footsteps and you’ll see Myles standing there behind the flag, presumably telling his dad all about it. And whether heaven heard him or not, his good deed continues to impress here on earth.
“I look at it every day,” Dailey says of the note Myles gave him.
It turns out Myles gave him a bigger gift than $20.
“A lifetime direction, for sure,” Dailey says.
Dailey says he’s already given away that $20 and plans to do much more. He also hopes that little green Post-It will inspire other people across the country to give — to give as sincerely and dutifully as that father and son.
Read all the details here http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/November-22-1963-Death-of-the-President.aspx
Today we honor all of those currently serving in the military
We honor all those that have served in the military
and we honor all those who gave their lives so that we may continue to live ours
We honor all the families, especially the children who have shared their loved ones
We are all indebted to you for all that you have given us
Thank you all for your willingness and courage that you offer up for our safety
We all extend to you our undying gratitude – Thank You!
Felina Silver Robinson (Brookline MA)
Quotes About Lies
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin
― George Carlin
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
― Benjamin Disraeli
“So you’re always honest,” I said.
“Aren’t you?”
“No,” I told him. “I’m not.”
“Well, that’s good to know, I guess.”
“I’m not saying I’m a liar,” I told him. He raised his eyebrows. “That’s not how I meant it, anyways.”
“How’d you mean it, then?”
“I just…I don’t always say what I feel.”
“Why not?”
“Because the truth sometimes hurts,” I said.
“Yeah,” he said. “So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“Aren’t you?”
“No,” I told him. “I’m not.”
“Well, that’s good to know, I guess.”
“I’m not saying I’m a liar,” I told him. He raised his eyebrows. “That’s not how I meant it, anyways.”
“How’d you mean it, then?”
“I just…I don’t always say what I feel.”
“Why not?”
“Because the truth sometimes hurts,” I said.
“Yeah,” he said. “So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf
― Virginia Woolf
“A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington
― George Washington
“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society
― Ally Carter, Heist Society
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Adolf Hitler
― Adolf Hitler
“All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need…fantasies to make life bearable.”REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THELITTLE LIES.
“So we can believe the big ones?”
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
“They’re not the same at all!”
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET
YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”MY POINT EXACTLY.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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