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Jul03

Lady Liberty's Crown Opens on 4th of July

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will officially reopen the crown of the Statue of Liberty to the public on July 4, 2009. Katelyn Sabochik, Director of New Media for the Department of the Interior, tells us how to get the experience through the internet.
 

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will officially reopen the crown of the Statue of Liberty to the public on July 4, 2009.  About 20 lucky visitors will be among the first to climb the 354 steps to the crown on Saturday morning, but thanks to the power of technology, everyone can join in the celebration.  The public can view photos of the day’s events on Flickr and follow Lady Liberty on Twitter.  

July 4th marks the first time visitors can tour the crown since it was closed following the 9/11 attacks.  About 240 visitors per day will be able to tour the crown, but you can visit the Statue of Liberty anytime from home by taking the new Statue of Liberty National Monument virtual tour
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Jul03

Military Family Life Question of the week: What is your favorite family-vacation memory?

As a child most of our longer-vacations as a military-family focused on visiting family across the country. Three kids, in the back of Mom & Dad's Chevy looking forward to getting to our final destination.

My parents did all they can to keep the whole family comfortable in our journey across the country. Mom had special presents for each of us as we crossed another state line. Trips always started off with a new stuffed animal and then along the way we got coloring books, hot wheels, or other small tokens that could be found at the Dollar Store. Nothing too noisy to distract the driver but still fun things to keep us excited. Of course we got a lot more gifts traveling through New England than in the Southwest. Amazing that it takes HOURS to get through Texas but only minutes to cross the tip of Delaware or Rhode Island. The Car-Gifts gave us something to look forward and made the whole trip a little bit more 'sane'.

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Jul03

DOT Sets the Record Straight

The Deputy Secretary of Transportation sets the record straight, explaining that states and territories have obligated or dedicated $16 billion of their highway stimulus money to over 5,000 construction projects.
 
Those of us here over at DOT want to set the record straight when it comes to whether or not Recovery Act money is getting out to states and putting people back to work. There are reports in the press, specifically in Thursday’s USA Today, that say only a fraction of stimulus dollars dedicated for construction projects is reaching states. This simply isn’t true.
 
So far all 50 states and the territories have obligated or dedicated $16 billion dollars of their highway stimulus money to over 5,000 construction projects. Of those projects, over 1,500 of them are underway - bids are being made, equipment and supplies are being purchased, contractors are hiring and workers are working.
 
The USA Today story said states have only received "$132 million from the stimulus package out of $27.5 billion earmarked for road construction funding." This is false and shows a misunderstanding of the way states get federal money for highway projects. Let me explain.
 
We fund highway projects through a reimbursement process, meaning states send us bills for highway work as it’s getting done. For example let’s say Virginia obligated or dedicated $200,000 of its Recovery dollars to resurface several miles of a road. Once Virginia awards a bid and the work gets underway the contractor will send the state a bill periodically for the work as it progresses. The state pays the bill then turns to us for reimbursement (which in government speak is referred to as an outlay) – in many cases they get the funds the same day.
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Jul03

An Experience of the Lusitania.

This article comes from the Kildare Observer and is a personal account of the sinking of the Lusitania.

Thomas McCormack traveled 3rd class and gives an interesting perspective from the not so affluent passenger.

ROBERTSTOWN MAN ON THE "LUSITANIA" 29/05/1915

STORY OF HIS EXPERIENCES

A FORTY FEET JUMP FOR LIFE

Amongst the survivors of the Lusitania disaster was a young man named Thomas McCormack a native of Robertstown, who arrived at Cooleragh, near Blackwood last week, where he now resides with his relatives, and showing little signs of the terrible ordeal he had passed through. When I called on him to hear his story on Tuesday, writes our representative, I found him engaged in carting turf from the bog of his uncle.

Starting with his narrative, Mr. McCormack said he had been about two years in the United States and decided to come home, booking on the Lusitania, as in ordinary times. Before leaving he was not aware of any threat on the part of the Germans to sink the ship. He saw no placards in New York, and although he had seen the daily papers for a week before he left he noticed no published warning. The first he heard of submarines was on the Wednesday preceding the disaster, when he saw the ships' life boats hung over the sides. He inquired of a sailor the reason for this and was told it was done so as to be prepared for attacks coming near England, and also that there was no cause for alarm as it was done on all trips then. Coming to the eventful day, he said they sighted land about 11 a.m., and they were beginning to consider themselves safe. He was walking on the main deck about 2 o'clock when he heard the two bangs. They were not very much, he added, and he did not know what was wrong till he noticed the ship keeling over to starboard and saw a bit of a panic with people tumbling over one another running for life belts. He also went to procure his belt, but as he was traveling third class, his berth was situated three flights of stairs below, and before he had descended more than half way he found himself more than half way he found himself knee deep in water.
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