~Birthday Today~

AUDREY HEPBURN

b. May 4, 1929  /   d. Jan. 20, 1993

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people."

 ~Audrey Hepburn~

BIRTHDAY TODAY.........

ERMA LOUISE BOMBECK
Born - Erma Louise Fiste

AMERICAN HUMORIST

Born: February 21, 1927 Died: April 22, 1996

~~~~~~~~

"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage.
Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of
them."

~Erma Bombeck~

hAppY BIrThDay tO You...............

IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY...........................
CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY THAT YOUR TWO SISTERS ALLOWED YOU TO GROW STRONG AND HEALTHY!!.............

AND EASY TO LAUGH AT!!!!

(If you had been the brother of someone else we would have missed all the fun)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM

YOUR SISTERS

YOUR MANY FRIENDS

AND ALL YOUR RELATIVES (OF WHICH YOU HAD NO SAY IN)

Shall we dance???

WE LOVE YOU!!

hAPPy BiRThDAy tO yOu!!!!!

IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY.......................

RAISE YOUR HAND !!!!

And then let's all get up and dance........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CUZ ~~

Sending best wishes and lots of love.

~~HAPPY BIRTHDAY~~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR DAD TODAY ON WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS 86th BIRTHDAY!

Our Dad.... one of the wisest, humorous, dedicated, personable person that ever lived. We all continue to love and miss you and still use your good advise.

Thankyou for always (and still) being there for all of us.

U.S. Navy Birthday

HAPPY 235th BIRTHDAY

UNITED STATES NAVY

USS Freedom

Birthday Today

HAPPY 70th BIRTHDAY

JOHN LENNON
Born: October 9, 1940 Died: December 8, 1980

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon

"There are places i'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends i still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life i've loved them all"
— John Lennon

Still missing you................

BWI Celebrated 60th Birthday

YESTERDAY -- In 101 degree heat BWI had a birthday yesterday and my sister and I were unaware of it as we sat and waited for a relative's plane to land. Gee, I didn't see a birthday cake!

Sixty years ago an airport carved out of Anne Arundel County farmland ushered Baltimore into the airliner age

Today, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is the nation's 23rd busiest.

The airport, dedicated by President Harry Truman as Friendship International Airport, now serves about 21 million passengers and handles more than a quarter-million takeoffs and landings a year. BWI is an important base for low-cost carriers and is estimated to support about 22,000 jobs. It was one of only two large U.S. airports to grow in 2009.

"We are the low-cost-carrier airport," said BWI Chief Executive Paul Wiedefeld, pointing to the strong growth of such carriers as Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways.

Friendship replaced Harbor Field, a 360-acre municipal airport on the site of what is now the Dundalk Marine Terminal.

Mayor Theodore McKeldin appointed a committee to study the idea of building a new airport in 1943. The site that was selected is between Baltimore and Washington, which at the time was served only by National Airport, on a plateau high above sea level, which reduces the dangers of fog.

In 1945, the city created the Baltimore Aviation Commission to oversee construction of the airport. Its cost would eventually run to $15 million about $136 million in current dollars.

For all its cutting-edge features in 1950, Friendship did not remain a paragon of modernity for long. Though passenger growth remained strong through the 1960s, Friendship would be eclipsed by more advanced facilities soon after it opened. Once jets began commercial operations in 1957-1958, Bentley said, "you had the airports all over the country mushrooming."

In the 1970s, the state spent $36 million to take over the airport, renamed it Baltimore-Washington International to capitalize on its location and launched a $70 million rebuilding program.

In 2001 a $1.8 billion expansion began with a long-term hub for Southwest Airlines, which began flying out of BWI in 1993 and is now the airport's biggest customer.

But BWI has retained some of the feel of the original airport with less "tenseness" than some of its rivals, Wiedefeld said.

"We did not lose sight of the personal connection the people feel you have compared with other airports," he said. "It's still Friendship Airport in a lot of people's minds.

www.wbal.com

Birthday Today........

HAPPY 64th BIRTHDAY, CHER

Cherilyn Sarkisian- Born May 20, 1946

El Centro, California

"Women have to harness their power -- it's absolutely
true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And
if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the
corner."
~CHER~

Happy Birthday, Sister

Tomorrow, November 21, (I won't say what year) I was given the greatest gift of a lifetime!
At not quite 2 years old myself I can not recall my reactions at the time. But I do know that it was one of the greatest gifts I could have ever received in my lifetime.
That "gift" was my sister.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I hope there are many more for us to share together.

And here's to all the past memories of adventures while we were kids and still wrapped
snuggly in the warm existance of a stable household. Here's to the memories of growing up still
each others best friend. We have stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder, hands clenched together through all of the happy times and even while facing deaths and the gloom life brings.

The days of home made icecream and cake and spaghetti dinners have long past. And through the years we have changed some of the traditions ourselves. But what does remain unchanged is that we have those many memories to share and we will be sisters of the closest kind forever.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SISTER. AND MANY MANY MORE. WE ALL LOVE YOU.

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
-- Toni Morrison