I've been thinking recently...
-- I still remember how I cried when my grandfather died.
-- I still remembered when I needed to stay home to rest.
-- All people that are tired were not born so. Too much work, too much socializing, too many duties, too many cares and anxieties, and thin exhausted anemic blood, are responsible in most cases for that tired feeling, a dangerous indication of approaching illness or of entire breakdown of health. For these conditions we recommend good standard medicine.
-- “Che” Guevara’s death was a crippling--perhaps fatal—blow to the Bolivian guerilla movement and may prove a serious setback for Fidel Castro’s hopes to foment violent revolution in “all or almost all” Latin American countries.
-- Those communists and others who might have been prepared to initiate Cuban-style guerilla warfare will be discouraged, at least for a time, by the defeat of the foremost tactician of the Cuban revolutionary strategy at the hands of one of the weakest armies in the hemisphere.
-- On October 9 at 5:30p.m., there arrived DOA an individual who military authorities said was Ernesto GUEVARA Lynch, approximately 40 years of age, the cause of death being multiple bullet wounds in the thorax and extremities. Preservative was applied to the body.
-- “I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man.”
-- The broad outlines of Havana’s public position are generally predictable. Guevara will be eulogized as the model revolutionary who met a heroic death. His exemplary conduct will be contrasted to the do-nothing, cowardly theorizing of the old line communist parties and other “pseudo-revolutionaries” in Latin America and elsewhere.
-- They’ll kill all of us like we’re guerilla fighters.
-- On the morning of September 11, 1973, the military launched another coup against the Allende government. At 9:10 a.m., Allende made his final broadcast from the presidential palace, announcing that he would not resign the presidency.
-- Allende purportedly joined in defending the palace, which was under heavy attack. Once it became clear that the military would take the palace, Allende told the defenders to surrender. Allende died during the final events of the coup: his death is now widely regarded a suicide.
-- In June 1975, Pinochet announced that there would be no future elections in the country.
-- During his rule, 3,200 people were executed or disappeared.
-- Debate continues on whether the United States provided direct support for Pinochet’s coup. The United States had a long history of engaging in covert actions in Chile.
-- In anticipation of the storm, officials in Plaquemines and St. Charles Parishes declared a mandatory evacuation on August 27, 2005. The same day, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco held a press conference to discuss the potential severity of the storm. Nagin declared a state of emergency in New Orleans but did not order a mandatory evacuation until August 28.
-- At 5:00 a.m., the US Army Corps of Engineers received a report that the 17th Street Canal had been breached. At 8:14 a.m., the Industrial Canal was breached, flooding the Lower Ninth Ward. By 4 p.m., the London Avenue Canal levees had breached as well, leaving approximately 80 percent of the city underwater.
-- The New Orleans Superdome was opened as a shelter of last resort for those who had not evacuated. By August 31, about 26,000 people had filled the Superdome, which lacked the food, electrical power, and bathroom facilities to accommodate all of them.
-- State, local, and federal officials traded blame for delays in the evacuation, which became a subject of prolonged controversy. Widespread criticism of the federal response to Katrina led to the resignation of Michael Brown as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
-- Even after Brown’s departure, criticism of the Bush administration’s Katrina response continued, figuring into the 2008 presidential race.
-- “And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this – this is working out very well for them.” – Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept 5, 2005
-- Sometimes I wonder if I will drown like my hometown did.
-- George W Bush let everything around us drown.
-- Sometimes I wonder if people will cry about me when I die like how I cried when my grandfather died.
-- That era has passed. Nothing that belonged to it exists anymore.