Today is my 28th birthday and since I was born bright and early in the morning I am already officially 28 years old now.
All I really want is to be able to spend time with my family today. Making memories and having laughs with people you love is the best gift ever. But I had also signed up on
Facebook to raise money for the American Association for Cancer Research as a birthday gift. I just need one more person to donate and then we'll have reached the goal I had hoped for which was for five of my friends to donate $28 to the cause.
Here are quotes from people born on March 22nd from thinkexist.com. One of them is from Reese Witherspoon. She said, "Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out." I like that. Reese turns 33 years old today.
Today is Sunday, March 22, the 81st day of 2009. There are 284 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On March 22, 1765, Britain enacted the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act was repealed the following year.)
On this date:
In 1638, religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.
In 1820, U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington.
In 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.
In 1929, a U.S. Coast Guard vessel sank a Canadian-registered schooner, the I'm Alone, in the Gulf of Mexico. (The schooner was suspected of carrying bootleg liquor.)
In 1933, during Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
In 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state went into operation.
In 1945, the Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo.
In 1958, movie producer Mike Todd and three other people were killed in the crash of Todd's private plane near Grants, N.M.
In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson named General William C. Westmoreland to be the Army's new chief of staff.
In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Ten years ago: Acting as his own lawyer, Dr. Jack Kevorkian went on trial on murder charges for the first time, telling a jury in Pontiac, Mich., he was merely carrying out his professional duty in giving a lethal injection to a man with Lou Gehrig's disease as shown on CBS' "60 Minutes." (Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder.)
Five years ago: Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, enraging Palestinians. Terry Nichols went on trial for his life in the Oklahoma City bombing. (Nichols, already serving a life sentence for his conviction on federal charges, was found guilty of 161 state murder charges, but was again spared the death penalty when the jury couldn't agree on his sentence.)
One year ago: Vice President Dick Cheney, visiting the Middle East, said the U.S. had an "enduring and unshakable" commitment to Israel's security and its right to defend itself against those bent on destroying the Jewish state. Jeffrey Buttle of Canada won the men's title at the World Figure Skating Championships in Goteborg, Sweden.
Thought for Today: "Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve." - Joseph Joubert, French moralist (1754-1824).
Happy Birthday to everyone born on this day! I pray your lives are as blessed as mine!
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"One day I went to work and Grace was at her desk and she was crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said that she'd been driving to work and she'd seen an ambulance and she pulled over and the car in front of her pulled over and the ambulance passed them. She said that she suddenly thought about how when someone is in danger or is hurt that an ambulance is called and that everyone moves so that the paramedics can get to that person in the shortest time possible. She said that all of a sudden she realised how wonderful that was. We, all of us, in this society, move so that someone we've never met can get help."
