Shall we play a game?

[jrboeke]

Thank you @pbstv and @toonseum-blog!

[jrboeke]

Happy Mother’s Day to my amazing mom—and to all the remarkable mothers out there. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” That sentiment rings true in my heart today and every day. Thank you, Mom, for your unwavering love, your strength, and the countless ways you've shaped my life. I hope today brought you the joy and recognition you so richly deserve. 💐❤️

[jrboeke]

May 9, 1993 30 years ago #OnThisDay in @chicagocubs history ▸ Cubs' first baseman Mark Grace hits for the cycle in a 4-5 loss to the @padres. Grace is the 11th, and to date most recent, franchise player to achieve the feat, following Jimmy Ryan (1889, 1891), Hack Wilson (1930), Roy Smalley (1950), Lee Walls (1957), Billy Williams (1966), Randy Hundley (1966), Iván de Jesús (1980), and Andre Dawson (1987).

[jrboeke]

General Colin Powell was more than a towering figure in American history—he was one of the finest leaders I’ve ever known. He led with clarity, conviction, and a quiet strength that inspired trust and excellence in everyone around him. I witnessed his deep sense of duty, integrity, and humanity. He balanced global responsibility with personal kindness, and he never lost sight of the people behind the mission. I carry his lessons with me still.

[jrboeke]

Civic duty accomplished. Go #vote ! #IVoted2020 (at Clark Magnet High School)

[jrboeke]

October 13, 2015

#OnThisDay in @chicagocubs history ▸ Cubs’ announcer Pat Hughes delivers one of his best calls as the Cubs eliminate the @stlcardinals 6-4 in game four of the NLDS and move on to the 2015 NLCS.

[jrboeke]

The 20th Maine's Quarantine Experience with Smallpox

Read about one of the most famous examples of quarantine in the Civil War. The 20th Maine was kept out of Chancellorsville due to smallpox.

April 17, 1863 - A few months before they played a key role in the Union Army's defense at the Battle of Gettysburg, the 20th Maine experienced a vicious outbreak of smallpox [prompted by a tainted vaccine] forcing the entire regiment to be quarantined in an effort to protect the rest of the Army of the Potomac.

Newly appointed regimental commander, Lt. Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, allegedly tracked down the army’s chief of staff, General Daniel Butterfield, and screamed: “If we couldn’t do anything else we would give the rebels the smallpox!” 

Fortunately, Chamberlain’s pleas were to no avail. The 20th Maine was spared from the fighting during the Battle of Chancellorsville, preserving its already depleted manpower, thus allowing the Regiment to play its pivotal role on Little Round Top.

[jrboeke]

Of America and sacrifice: Is the country ready to step up?

WASHINGTON (AP) — For most Americans alive today, the idea of shared national sacrifice is a collective abstraction, a memory handed down from a grandparent or passed on through a book or movie....

Will this generation stand up to become America’s next “Greatest Generation”? Now is the time, as the coronavirus poses not only an existential threat to life, liberty, and happiness, but perhaps also an inflection point for political discourse in the United States...

Now is not the time for partisanship nor finger pointing.  Now is the time for the great silent majority of reasonable, moderate Americans to step forward and demand our leaders, and our society, chart a different course. A course that won’t just require individual and collective sacrifice, but will necessitate a unity unseen since WWII. A single-mindedness that includes an end to our tribalistic and regional political ways, 

The test is now, and as Jon Mecham wrote:

“In the end, this [coronavirus] presents a great and compelling test of our national sense of ourselves as exceptional, generous and resilient, Perhaps we are all of those things. One thing’s for sure: We’re about to find out.”

[this-day-in-baseball]

[jrboeke]

December 3, 2010

#OnThisDay in @chicagocubs​ history ▸ Former third baseman Ron Santo passes away in an Arizona hospital from complications of bladder cancer and diabetes. The 70-year-old, considered one of the best players in Cubs history, rejoined the team in 1990 as the Northsider’s WGN radio announcer, enamoring his listeners with his devotion to the lovable losers and gaining their admiration for his continued failure to gain induction into the Hall of Fame, an honor he will receive posthumously in 2012.

[calumet412]

Cubs uniforms for each year played in the World Series, since 1906, Chicago.

[americasgreatoutdoors]

[jrboeke]

Happy Independence Day! From sea to shining sea, the U.S. Department of the Interior is proud to protect our national treasures, share the American story and help people connect with nature, history and culture. We’re thankful for our freedoms and all those who defend them. Photo of fireworks on a previous July Fourth on the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, D.C. by Nathaniel Gonzales (www.sharetheexperience.org).

[dailycalvinandhobbesenglish]

(December 11, 1986)

[swiftzeldas]

[jrboeke]

June 23, 2019

#OTD in @chicagocubs history ▸ Cubs shortstop Javier Baez hits his 100th career home run, a 3 run dinger off of @mets pitcher Seth Lugo. The blast gives his team a 5-3 lead, and the margin of victory, on the 35th anniversary of “The Sandberg Game”.

[jrboeke]

Happy Birthday Chicago! The Windy City was incorporated as a city 182 years ago today, on March 4, 1837.

[jrboeke]

Today is the official start of the holiday season for me... Two Lumps of Coal?I 

Happy St. Nicholas Day! 

[jrboeke]

Following his loss in the 1992 Presidential Campaign, my Commander in Chief gave this 1993 address about leadership, military force, and moral responsibility to the Corps of Cadets at West Point. It seems as important and timely now, as it was then...

"In the wake of the Cold War, in a world where we are the only remaining superpower, it is the role of the United States to marshal its moral and material resources to promote a democratic peace. It is our responsibility, it is our opportunity to lead. There is no one else."

- George H. W. Bush, January 5, 1993

In memory: President George H. W. Bush, born June 12, 1924 - died: November 30, 2018.

[pharwarner]

I believe a fellow gamer of a friend of a friend was interested in what I paint/play. Here’s an example. Set up for display purposes is a VERY loose interpretation of the battle of Eshowe in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.