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Every tear has a story, that’s why we gather here today.
To talk about this one and that one and how that one got away.
In the midst of heartbreak, pain, and sympathy.
Every tear has a story, that’s why we’re here today.
Take off those sunglasses and they’ll be no rain today.
Stand in solitude and let those tears run down your face.
Because every tear has a story, that’s why we’re here today.
Here is the deal.
You are a guy between 25 and 34.
You have lived in zip code 19124 for a while.
You sit for an interview for 2 to 3 hours at St. Mark’s Church.
You leave with an AmEx gift card for $50.
Simple as that.
Interviews are confidential, they will ask for your name, birthdate and address, but they take careful steps to protect all information. (All confidentiality procedures are overseen by Temple University).
The information collected during interviews is for research purposes, and will be used to write an academic book. The purpose of the research is to study the experience of living in a community with a high rate of prisoner reentry and to document the experience of men age 25-34 as they try to make ends meet in today’s economy.
If you are interested or just want to find out more, call Jesse Brey at (814) 430-3463. We also have a Spanish-speaking interviewer.
If you know someone who might be interested, pass this information on to him. If he is accepted, you will receive an AmEx gift card for $25. When he meets for the interview, he should pass your contact information to the interviewer.
Frank Borman commanded Apollo 8, the first spacecraft to leave earth orbit for a moon orbit on December 21, 1968. Commander Borman had a pretty good idea of his risks on this flight. The Apollo 1 command module had been destroyed when a flash fire swept through it during a launch rehearsal test only eleven months earlier. The three men inside perished.
To hear him tell it, Frank Borman was as unimaginative as it gets. He had trained as a pilot
And it turns out, he, the other 2 members of the Apollo 8 crew, and the rest of the astronauts, before and after, did exactly what Commander Borman wanted. We won the space race, and eventually we won the Cold War. President John F. Kennedy, in 1963, bet a substantial portion of the American economy on winning that race to the moon. You can see a portion of the speech here at this link.
Patriotic scientists, technicians, and astronauts saluted and made it work. And they won the Space Race for us. Then, in no small part due to that victory, in 1989 the Berlin Wall came down and in 1991 the Soviet Union Collapsed.
Frank Borman’s orders for the Apollo 8 flight included taking a number of photographs, not including any of Earth from Moon orbit. But:
Even if he was as unimaginative as he claims, Frank Borman knew a great picture when he saw it, so he took the shot. It is here:
The picture, often called “Blue Earth”, taken by Borman in 1968, became a powerful symbol for idealists like me, inspired by JFK and the progress of the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movements. Two years after it was taken, that photograph was central to the organizing of the first Earth Day, in April of 1970.
Happily, Frank Borman, America’s modest hero, yet lives – in retirement in Montana at 90.
It is impossible to measure exactly, but it is perfectly clear that Frank Borman and his NASA colleagues made life better for me, everybody I love, everybody else that I have loved since 1968, and everyone living in freedom right now.
I am not going to put this into a file to be an obituary when the time comes because I want to say this to the live hero while there is time:
Thank you Commander Borman.
Learning how Philly government works can be a circuitous and sometimes frustrating thing. In my experience, it takes years. It takes walking the halls…
Source: PlanPhilly | An education in how to be a better neighborhood advocate
My friend, Neal Gale, is a Green Party candidate this year for the U. S. Senate. Neal is well known hereabouts as a long time Frankford resident, and there is already some local interest in supporting him.
If the patience of the management of the Frankford Gazette holds out, I will write at some length for its readers about why this is a really good moment for a third choice. For now, though, my plea is;
If you want to help Neal’s campaign, let me know at johnbton47@gmail.com
