Took a Break from Business Banking Advice...
Posted by Bill McDermott on Wed, Jul 07, 2010 @ 03:37 PM
Friday, I took a break from business banking advice and our family flew to Washington DC to visit our daughter who is interning there for the summer. It is a rare privilege to celebrate the 234th anniversary of our independence in the Nation's capital.
Thanks to Alan Blinder, our family visited the White House on Saturday. As I was walking from the China Room to the Red Room to the Green Room, I was thinking about all the people and circumstances that had occurred in this house over the past 200 years approximately. It was amazing!
We then went to the National Archives to see the Declaration of Independence and Constitution which were on display there. On the 4th, we found our spot on the lawn just below the Lincoln Memorial and watched the fireworks shot from the Capitol over the Washington Monument. It was a special time and one I will never forget.
Yesterday, we toured the US Capitol.
I didn't know that each state recognizes 2 leaders and sends a statue to the Capitol to honor those leaders. One of the statues that the state of Georgia has sent is of Crawford Long. I didn't see the other one. Does anybody know who it is? The video that preceded our tour of the Capitol reminded of one of the terms that is on our coins and currency. "E plurubus unum", Out of many, one.
This motto originally suggested that out of many colonies or states emerge a single nation, in recent years it has come to suggest that out of many peoples, races, religions and ancestries has emerged a single people and nation. Let's celebrate America and Americans for liberty and diversity!