You’ll go speechless ………………

• 1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.
• January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.
• 1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.
• 1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.
• 1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.
• 1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.
• February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.
• 1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.
• 1973. A few seconds before Chile’s elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.
• 1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.
• 1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and missionaries.
• February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain . The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.
• 1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon.
• 1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.
• 1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.
• 1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.
• 1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.
• 1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola.
• 2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan.
• 2002. Soldiers and villagers in Iran are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father's pants before he is buried.
• 2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.

This life is a great puzzle and the survival is a greatest mystery!!! We are much fortunate... we have food, clothes, shelter, freedom, safety, enough money, and friends and still we are fighting for small reasons.....think are those reasons big enough than these ??????
with warm regards & best wishes,
YOURS EVER FRIENDLY,

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dies at 83

By JOHN ROGERS
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
His publicist, Jerry Digney, told The Associated Press he died at his home.
Although not the original Bozo, Harmon portrayed the popular clown in countless appearances and, as an entrepreneur, he licensed the character to others, particularly dozens of television stations around the country. The stations in turn hired actors to be their local Bozos.
"You might say, in a way, I was cloning BTC (Bozo the Clown) before anybody else out there got around to cloning DNA," Harmon told the AP in a 1996 interview.
"Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult and the childlike ways in all of us," Harmon said.
Pinto Colvig, who also provided the voice for Walt Disney's Goofy, was the first Bozo the Clown, a character created by writer-producer Alan W. Livingston for a series of children's records in 1946. Livingston said he came up with the name Bozo after polling several people at Capitol Records.
Harmon would later meet his alter ego while answering a casting call to make personal appearances as a clown to promote the records.
He got that job and eventually bought the rights to Bozo. Along the way, he embellished Bozo's distinctive look: the orange-tufted hair, the bulbous nose, the outlandish red, white and blue costume.
"I felt if I could plant my size 83AAA shoes on this planet, (people) would never be able to forget those footprints," he said.
Susan Harmon, his wife of 29 years, indicated Harmon was the perfect fit for Bozo.
"He was the most optimistic man I ever met. He always saw a bright side; he always had something good to say about everybody. He was the love of my life," she said Thursday.
The business - combining animation, licensing of the character, and personal appearances - made millions, as Harmon trained more than 200 Bozos over the years to represent him in local markets.
"I'm looking for that sparkle in the eyes, that emotion, feeling, directness, warmth. That is so important," he said of his criteria for becoming a Bozo.
The Chicago version of Bozo ran on WGN-TV in Chicago for 40 years and was seen in many other cities after cable television transformed WGN into a superstation.
Bozo - portrayed in Chicago for many years by Bob Bell - was so popular that the waiting list for tickets to a TV show eventually stretched to a decade, prompting the station to stop taking reservations for 10 years. On the day in 1990 when WGN started taking reservations again, it took just five hours to book the show for five more years. The phone company reported more than 27 million phone call attempts had been made.
By the time the show bowed out in Chicago, in 2001, it was the last locally produced version. Harmon said at the time that he hoped to develop a new cable or network show, as well as a Bozo feature film.
He became caught up in a minor controversy in 2004 when the International Clown Hall of Fame in Milwaukee took down a plaque honoring him as Bozo and formally endorsed Colvig as the first. Harmon denied ever misrepresenting Bozo's history.
He said he was claiming credit only for what he added to the character - "What I sound like, what I look like, what I walk like" - and what he did to popularize Bozo.
"Isn't it a shame the credit that was given to me for the work I have done, they arbitrarily take it down, like I didn't do anything for the last 52 years," he told the AP at the time.
Harmon protected Bozo's reputation with a vengeance, while embracing those who poked good-natured fun at the clown.
As Bozo's influence spread through popular culture, his very name became a synonym for clownish behavior.
"It takes a lot of effort and energy to keep a character that old fresh so kids today still know about him and want to buy the products," Karen Raugust, executive editor of The Licensing Letter, a New York-based trade publication, said in 1996.
A normal character runs its course in three to five years, Raugust said. "Harmon's is a classic character. It's been around 50 years."
On New Year's Day 1996, Harmon dressed up as Bozo for the first time in 10 years, appearing in the Rose Parade in Pasadena.
The crowd reaction, he recalled, "was deafening."
"They kept yelling, 'Bozo, Bozo, love you, love you.' I shed more crocodile tears for five miles in four hours than I realized I had," he said. "I still get goose bumps."
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Harmon became interested in theater while studying at the University of Southern California.
"Bozo is a star, an entertainer, bigger than life," Harmon once said. "People see him as Mr. Bozo, somebody you can relate to, touch and laugh with."
Besides his wife, Harmon is survived by his son, Jeff Harmon, and daughters Lori Harmon, Marci Breth-Carabet and Leslie Breth.
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Associated Press writers Polly Anderson in New York and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this story.

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"BEAUTIFUL STRANGER"

So here I decided to write a poem to tell you how much I appreciate your response of writing to me and loving to know me more.
Here it goes...................... Title....

"BEAUTIFUL STRANGER"
"Beautiful Stranger

With all my heart
I miss you and long for the day
to be with you.
God has been so kind
to bless me
with one who seems to be so
pure at heart!
Forever am I thankful
to share a friendship
and have a special someone
in my life.
Never had I dreamed
that one would come along.
With all my soul I want you
and feel the need
to be one with you.
You make my life
a living dream... so far away.
Isn't that impossible?
I have known you
for a short period of time,
but it seems like forever.
I am so comfortable with you,
I just can't explain it.
With all my mind
I try to picture you.
So sweet, so caring, so loving.
How can this be?
Your smile lights upthe darkness within me
I am so high with your presence.
You light up my life.
Never in darkness I remain. "