Monday, August 5, 2013
[1850 - Guy de Maupassant, writer, born near Dieppe, France]
[1858 - Julia Archibald Holmes is the first woman to reach the summit of Pikes Peak]
[1864 - Battle of Mobile Bay, RADM David Farragut: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"]
[1884 - The Cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid at Bedloe's (now Liberty) Island]
[1889 - Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, born in Savannah, Georgia]
[1906 - John Huston, Academy Award-winning director, actor, writer, born in Nevada, Missouri]
[1911 - Robert Taylor (Spangler Arlington Brugh), actor, born in Filley, Nebraska]
[1926 - Jeri Southern (Genevieve Lillian Hering), singer, born in Royal, Nebraska]
[1930 - Neil Alden Armstrong, NASA astronaut, born near Wapakoneta, Ohio]
[1963 - United States, Great Britain & Soviet Union sign Nuclear Test Ban Treaty]
[1984 - Joan Benoit wins first women's marathon
at Los Angeles Olympic Games]
Hospitals once were places of healing.
Stay in one today; it is most revealing.
You seek in vain for peace and quiet.
While around you swirls a noisy riot.
Around the clock you must awaken.
Vital signs recorded; meds are taken.
At your open door all chatter and laugh.
Patients be damned; They are The Staff.
William's Whimsical Words:
Any fool knows that what a sick person needs and wants is rest and quiet. I challenge you to find either in a hospital.
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