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Friday, August 28, 2009

 
Honoring Senator Kennedy: People who wish to honor Senator Kennedy are urged to line the motorcade route at the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, City Hall Plaza and the Boston Common

From Jim Moore's blog, Thursday, August 27, 2009 -
Three minutes ago I recieved the following:

People who wish to honor Senator Kennedy are urged to line the motorcade route at the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, City Hall Plaza and the Boston Common, in front of the Statehouse on Park Street. BRING SIGNS IF YOU HAVE THEM. I’m sure that it would be appreciated if there is a good crowd on the motorcade route. Please forward this message.

At 1:00 PM on Thursday, Senator Kennedy and his family will depart Hyannis Port by motorcade en route to Boston. Arrival time in Boston is expected to be about 3 PM. Senator Kennedy will travel Route 3 North to Route 93 North into Boston. Senator Kennedy will exit at Government Center, and travel down Hanover Street into the North End, past St. Stephen’s Church, where his mother Rose was baptized and her funeral mass celebrated. Continuing down Hanover and crossing over the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, the park Senator Kennedy joined community leaders in creating that gives mothers and their children green space in the heart of the city. The park sits on the same land young Rose Fitzgerald enjoyed as a child. Senator Kennedy will pass Faneuil Hall where Mayor Menino will ring the bell 47 times. Continuing to Bowdoin Street, Senator Kennedy will pass 122 Bowdoin, where he opened his first office as an Assistant District Attorney and President Kennedy lived while running for Congress in 1946. He’ll pass the JFK Federal Building where his Boston office has stood for decades, and then travel to Dorchester Street into South Boston and to the JFK Presidential Library.
ARRIVAL AT JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Approximately 4 p.m. The motorcade will arrive at the JFK Library.

THURSDAY 6 PM to 11 PM (or longer if needed) Body will lie in repose at the JFK Library.
FRIDAY 8 AM to 3 PM Body will lie in repose at the JFK Library.
# posted by Ingrid J. Jones @ 8/28/2009 0 comments

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

 
Forgotten soldiers of Cyprus campaign will get memorial at last

Almost 400 British servicemen killed by guerillas in Cyprus in the 1950s are finally to be honoured after Daily Telegraph readers helped raise £80,000 to build a memorial to them.

From The Daily Telegraph
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
04 Aug 2009

Forgotten soldiers of Cyprus campaign will get memorial at last

The vast majority of those who died at the hands of Greek-Cypriot terrorists were young men carrying out National Service, some of the last British conscripts to lose their lives in service of their country, but their sacrifice had remained largely unreco Photo: GETTY
A monument bearing the names of all 371 soldiers, sailors and airmen killed during four years of bloodshed will be unveiled on Remembrance Day in a military cemetery on the island.

The vast majority of those who died at the hands of Greek-Cypriot terrorists were young men carrying out National Service, some of the last British conscripts to lose their lives in service of their country, but their sacrifice had remained largely unrecognised for 50 years.

The campaign for a memorial to them was highlighted in The Daily Telegraph in April, and drew a magnificent response from readers, whose generosity has enabled the British Cyprus Memorial Trust to press ahead with its plans.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon, a former Chief of the Air Staff who served in Cyprus in the early Sixties and is a patron of the appeal, said: "We're hugely grateful to everyone who has given money so far, which has enabled us to honour the memory of those who died."

The Trust has also set up a pioneering online Book of Remembrance, containing the names and short biographies of each of the dead. It includes a facility for friends and relatives to add their own comments, recollections and photographs and has already been viewed by more than 6,000 people since it went live last month.

Sir Michael said: "We felt that by putting a Book of Remembrance online we would achieve a unique form of tribute to those who died, as it is accessible to anyone and it can grow and develop over the years. We have already had a huge response to it and I'm sure it's an idea that will be picked up by veterans of other campaigns."

The Cyprus Emergency, as it was known, lasted from 1955 to 1959, and involved a series of murderous attacks on servicemen in what was then a British colony by members of EOKA (the Greek acronym for National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters).

The British servicemen are buried at Wayne's Keep Military Cemetery, near Nicosia, but the graveyard is virtually inaccessible to the public because it lies in a UN-patrolled no man's land which divides the Greek and Turkish parts of Cyprus.

For now, the memorial will be erected in another British cemetery in Kyrenia, on the north coast, with the blessing of Turkish Cypriots. It has been built in sections so it can be moved to Wayne's Keep in the future if the political landscape changes.

The Trust still needs to raise more money, however, for the future upkeep of the memorial.

* To donate to the appeal, make cheques payable to British Cyprus Memorial Trust and send your donation to British Cyprus Memorial Trust, 26, York Street, London, W1U 6PZ. To donate online or visit the Book of Remembrance go to www.friendsandrelations.com/partners/bcmt

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