WWII Homefront 'Rosies' Honored in D.C. (AP)

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Mom With 14 Kids, One on the Way,
Honored (AP)

Mom With 14 Kids, One on the Way,
Honored (AP) 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
AP - With her 14 children in tow and pregnant with her 15th, Michelle Duggar waddled into Arkansas' Capitol on Wednesday to accept the state's Young Mother award.

Pat Tillman Honored Before NFL Draft
(AP)

Pat Tillman Honored Before NFL Draft
(AP) 04/24/2004 11:34 AM
AP - Pat Tillman was praised at the NFL draft as a hero by commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who wore a black ribbon with Tillman's name on it and a Cardinals helmet pin with the No. 40 attached.

Other News: Web Inventor Honored

Other News: Web Inventor Honored 06/16/2004 10:22 AM
Tim Berners-Lee wins a big prize for inventing an open Web, and TechNewsWorld notes some of the other Internet creators.

VT honored for G5 supercomputer cluster

VT honored for G5 supercomputer cluster 06/08/2004 03:36 PM
Virginia Tech is the recipient of the 2004 Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement Award in Science...

Boy Who Got 'Crybaby Award' Honored (AP)

Boy Who Got 'Crybaby Award' Honored (AP) 05/28/2004 02:17 PM
AP - A middle school honor student who was humiliated when his basketball coach gave him a "Crybaby Award" last month was feted at a school assembly Friday with applause from his peers and an apology from the coach.

Sex Pistols honored (exploited?)

Sex Pistols honored (exploited?) 07/19/2004 11:47 AM
In September, The Hospital gallery in London will display items belonging to Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, including a blood-stained "Never Mind the Bollocks" poster collected from the Chelsea Hotel room where the couple lived (and she died).

"The collection of artefacts, including original T-shirts, posters and handwritten lyrics, has been assembled over 15 years by art dealer Paul Stolper and Andrew Wilson, deputy editor of Art Monthly. They told The Independent on Sunday that the hotel items were sold at auction by Sid Vicious' mother, Anne Beverley."

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In other Sex Pistols news, plaque were ceremonially unveiled in north Norfolk to honor two venues where the Sex Pistols had played important early and late gigs. Link

Reagan to Be Honored With State Funeral
(AP)

Reagan to Be Honored With State Funeral
(AP) 06/06/2004 08:26 PM
AP - Ronald Reagan was remembered with jelly beans, flowers and American flags on Sunday at memorials in his hometown and outside the mortuary where the former president's body lay.

As Clinton Is Honored, a Brief Break
From Politics. Very Brief.

As Clinton Is Honored, a Brief Break
From Politics. Very Brief. 06/14/2004 10:33 PM
Members of the Bush administration and John Kerry's brain trust held a brief truce to unveil the official White House portraits of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Five Cos. Honored for Tax and Accounting
Technology Innovation

Five Cos. Honored for Tax and Accounting
Technology Innovation 06/14/2004 02:16 AM
SmartPros Jun 14 2004 5:49AM GMT

WWW creator honored with award and €1m
prize

WWW creator honored with award and €1m
prize 04/15/2004 07:41 AM
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web while working for CERN in the early 1990s, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize, reports AP...

Pilot says sorry for WWII bombing

Pilot says sorry for WWII bombing 07/12/2004 05:52 AM
A German wartime pilot who accidentally bombed a church in Northumberland says sorry to the people living in the village.

National WWII Memorial

National WWII Memorial 05/30/2004 11:36 PM
National World War II Memorial .. What a travesty .. new eyesore .. website .. war

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"National WWII Memorial"

"National WWII Memorial" 05/31/2004 09:53 PM

Father of the Web honored with first
Millennium Technology Prize

Father of the Web honored with first
Millennium Technology Prize 04/17/2004 11:26 AM
Tim Berners-Lee, commonly credited as the father of the World Wide Web, has won the first Millennium Technology Prize. The prize is "is awarded for outstanding technological achievements that directly promote people's quality of life.

Keitel Honored at Istanbul Film Festival
(AP)

Keitel Honored at Istanbul Film Festival
(AP) 04/16/2005 09:13 PM
AP - Actor Harvey Keitel was awarded a lifetime achievement prize Saturday at the closing ceremony of the 24th Istanbul Film Festival.

Grandmom Honored for Toasty Toes Mission
(AP)

Grandmom Honored for Toasty Toes Mission
(AP) 05/26/2004 06:26 PM
AP - An Ohio grandmother who in seven years has knitted thousands of slippers for soldiers and sailors has been named Patriot of the Year by a nonprofit group that supports the military.

Google Founders Honored By Marconi
Foundation

Google Founders Honored By Marconi
Foundation 09/23/2004 07:29 PM
Search Engine Journal Sep 23 2004 10:42PM GMT

Reggae Legend Peter Tosh to Be Honored
(AP)

Reggae Legend Peter Tosh to Be Honored
(AP) 05/06/2004 01:05 PM
AP - Late reggae legend Peter Tosh will be honored at the fourth annual Calabash International Literary Festival later this month.

Veterans Honored at American Music
Awards

Veterans Honored at American Music
Awards 11/16/2003 11:49 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 16 2003 10:32PM ET

Pioneer Who Kept the Web Free Honored
With a Technology Prize

Pioneer Who Kept the Web Free Honored
With a Technology Prize 06/14/2004 02:24 AM
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, who in giving his creation to the world for free changed it forever, is finally compensated with a $1 million prize from a Finnish tech foundation.

Vatican to release WWII POW information

Vatican to release WWII POW information 06/08/2004 03:30 PM

Downtown Washington, DC and the new WWII
Memorial

Downtown Washington, DC and the new WWII
Memorial 06/06/2004 11:12 AM

Took the airplane down to my hometown of Washington, DC for a bit of exercise this weekend.  The city was built to awe the citizens with an inhuman scale.  Plazas are vast and the Mall itself is a forbidding barrier if you're trying to walk from place to place on a hot or cold day (the architects who wrote A Pattern Language concluded that no public square would be effective unless it was small enough that people could recognize each other from opposite ends).  The government buildings are huge and discourage casual entry by being set back from the street and not having any retail shops on the ground floor as a commercial office building might.

The D.C. of my childhood is vastly different from the D.C. of today.  Those imposing buildings that symbolize the government's power are now wrapped in concrete highway barriers that broadcast the government's fear of a lone terrorist driving a truck filled with a fertilizer bomb.  Around the Federal Reserve building, for example, the barriers cover part of the sidewalk so as a pedestrian you're separated from the street by a wall of concrete.  The effect is certainly ugly and it will be interesting to see what happens if a beautiful Old World city such as Paris needs to be secured against lone terrorists in trucks.  But in a way the cowering of the government marks the triumph of the individual in American society.  "God created men; Colonel Colt made them equal" wasn't quite right after all.  It was the terrorists who blew up the Marine compound in Beirut and those who blew up the World Trade garage in 1993 who actually made individual men the equals of government.

There is one new building in Washington, D.C. that harks back to an era when governments were all-powerful and individual men and women subordinate:  the World War II Memorial.  This is at the east end of the Reflecting Pool and adjacent to the Washington Monument (now wrapped in an ugly high security fence).  The new monument looks as though it was built by Soviet architects and indeed looks a lot like the WWII memorial in East Berlin.  The thing is huge and it makes one pause and reflect... "We'd better not start any more wars or we're going to run out of space on the Mall."

[My visit to the Memorial coincided with protests in Europe against American power in the form of George W. Bush, visiting to celebrate the American victory over the Germans in Italy.  Picking up on the theme of an earlier entry, I suppose it would not have been very politic of him to respond by saying "We're sincerely sorry for being so bellicose and we're going to show it by giving Italy back to the Germans..."]

Overall I still love Washington, D.C.  Where else can you drive on a riverside parkway, 100-percent paid for with Federal tax dollars, and pass adjacent signs reading "The George Bush Center for Intelligence" and "Turkey Run"?

War on Terror Like WWII Mission, Bush
Says

War on Terror Like WWII Mission, Bush
Says 06/02/2004 10:52 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 3 2004 3:20AM GMT

Bush likens war on terror to WWII

Bush likens war on terror to WWII 06/02/2004 02:55 PM
President Bush says the war on terror is like the struggles against tyranny in World War II and the Cold War.

Internet opens history of WWII

Internet opens history of WWII 06/01/2004 01:05 AM
Washington Times Jun 1 2004 5:42AM GMT

Bittersweet Tribute Set for WWII
Veterans (AP)

Bittersweet Tribute Set for WWII
Veterans (AP) 05/29/2004 01:56 AM
AP - For many veterans, the new World War II Memorial in the nation's capital is a fitting tribute. But they wish more of their buddies were alive to be here.

German military phrasebook from WWII

German military phrasebook from WWII 03/31/2005 12:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: Nico sez, "I scanned this original 1943 US Army German phrasebook today. I think the phonetics are very strange and funny." Link (Thanks, Nico!)

"says their lives are not equal to those
who perished in WWII."

"says their lives are not equal to those
who perished in WWII." 04/11/2004 08:15 AM

Eurostar tribute to WWII hero

Eurostar tribute to WWII hero 04/27/2004 10:10 AM
Rail company Eurostar names a new train after a French spy credited with saving London from V-1 flying bomb attacks.

Make your own WWII victory shoes

Make your own WWII victory shoes 05/05/2004 05:04 PM
"Scrap materials, the end of an ordinary box, scraps of leather or canvas, are all you need to manufacture a pair of comfortable, serviceable play shoes." So says the introduction to this Sunset article from 1943 on how to make your own "Caterpillars." I'd rather have these than those embarrassingly smug Adbusters sneakers. Link (If the link gives you problems, use the access code KAYAK to gain admittance. What a dumb rule!)

Age Keeps WWII Vets Out of Parachute
Stunt (AP)

Age Keeps WWII Vets Out of Parachute
Stunt (AP) 05/08/2004 02:36 PM
AP - A group of World War II veterans won't get to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of France next month the way they wanted — the Army decided they're too old to safely parachute into Normandy.

Bush Likens War Against Terrorism to
WWII (AP)

Bush Likens War Against Terrorism to
WWII (AP) 06/02/2004 01:47 PM
AP - President Bush, preparing new Air Force officers for war, cast the fight against terrorism as a struggle between freedom and tyranny similar to World War II and the Cold War.

DVD-Day for Disney's WWII films
(USATODAY.com)

DVD-Day for Disney's WWII films
(USATODAY.com) 05/18/2004 12:01 PM
USATODAY.com - Hollywood is still abuzz over the Walt Disney Co.'s refusal to let its Miramax division distribute director Michael Moore's new documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which is critical of President Bush.

The Fallen Are Honored, Even as Toll
Climbs (Los Angeles Times)

The Fallen Are Honored, Even as Toll
Climbs (Los Angeles Times) 06/01/2004 05:51 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Memorial Day ceremonies in the drizzly national capital on Monday honored troops who have died on two current fronts — Iraq and Afghanistan — and in two past wars, World War II and Vietnam.

Former Hungarian Olympian honored by
Athens 2004 website

Former Hungarian Olympian honored by
Athens 2004 website 09/24/2004 07:43 AM
English.eastday.com - Fri Sep 24, 06:51 am GMT

Creative Industry’s Best Interactive
Media Solutions Honored

Creative Industry’s Best Interactive
Media Solutions Honored 04/08/2005 04:50 AM
The Horizon Interactive Awards announces the 2005 winners. [PRWEB Apr 8, 2005]

Sleepycat Software Honored for Industry
Leadership in SD Times ...

Sleepycat Software Honored for Industry
Leadership in SD Times ... 05/15/2004 06:56 PM
LinuxElectrons,TX-8 hours ago ... Customers such as Amazon, AOL, British Telecom, Cisco Systems, EMC, Ericsson, Google, Hitachi, HP, Motorola, Openwave Systems, RSA Security, Sun Microsystems ...

Bush Likens War on Terror to WWII
(Reuters)

Bush Likens War on Terror to WWII
(Reuters) 06/02/2004 03:31 PM
Reuters - President Bush on Wednesday compared his war on terror to America's mission in World War II, likening the Sept. 11 attacks to Pearl Harbor and the upheavals in the Middle East to Cold War Europe.

WWII Vets Gather for Memorial Dedication
(AP)

WWII Vets Gather for Memorial Dedication
(AP) 05/29/2004 07:25 PM
AP - America dedicated a memorial Saturday to the fast-thinning ranks of World War II veterans, a poignant last hurrah drawing together tens of thousands of old soldiers, sailors and heroes of the home front.
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