My World Ft Worth Police and Firefighters Memorial
This is a new memorial in Ft Worth it is part of the huge Trinity park and is a nice tribute to those men who have given it there all so that there does not fade as just a distant I know they will never forget
What a very moving post and lovely place! Wonderful to know that these heroes are being honored for all they do! Wonderful photos as well, Marcia! Have a great week!
Sorry I am late getting to your PhotoHunt post. This is a great post to remember the other heroes. I got here after you posted your birthday message to your son so I got to see that. I was curious as to which Temple that is in the wedding shot. I don't remember that door on the Dallas Temple. Great take on this week's theme and have a super weekend.
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
8 comments:
What a very moving post and lovely place! Wonderful to know that these heroes are being honored for all they do! Wonderful photos as well, Marcia! Have a great week!
Sylvia
Police and firefighters should be remembered! Great post.
aloha,
very beautiful photos, i love this beautiful memorial, so peaceful
thanks for sharing this...my world tuesday is on my plant fanatic blog
this is a beautiful set of pictures. I love how you have presented them. Happy Memorial Day.
Beautiful photos.
Hope you'll enjoy your weekend!
I'm a bit late, but here is my entry -
Mariposa's PhotoHunt
wonderful photos of a somber place. thanks for sharing.
Sorry I am late getting to your PhotoHunt post. This is a great post to remember the other heroes. I got here after you posted your birthday message to your son so I got to see that. I was curious as to which Temple that is in the wedding shot. I don't remember that door on the Dallas Temple. Great take on this week's theme and have a super weekend.
another touching post.
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