Tomorrow marks the first year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, which lead to the deaths of 33 people, including the shooter. It is the deadliest school shooting in American history. College and university around the country will more than likely have some form of remembrance service, I would think.
Earlier today Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Holy Roman Catholic church, arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, DC to begin a six day tour, two city tour. It is the first US visit for the Pope. Even though I'm not Roman Catholic, I should at least acknowledge the fact that he is here. He is the inspirational leader of millions of Christians around the world. I hope has a safe tour here in the US and a safe journey back to the Vatican.
I was visiting cbsnews.com and read a story, which was an exclusive eariler this morning on CBS This Morning. Apparently a 15 minute film exists of the actress Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962, performing a sex act on a man during the 1950's. At the time, the FBI apparently analyzed the film, attempting to determine who the man in the film was since his face did not appear in the film according to one of the two video clips that accompany the article, which you can read here. They suspected it was either JFK or his brother, Robert. I say, "Who gives a FRAK!". I mean, come on. According to the article, the film in question was in the possession of the son of an deceased FBI informant who made a copy of the original, which is still classified. Here are some questions that I thought of that should be asked, but will never be answered: Why did they need the film to begin with? Why was it so important to ID the guy in the film? For all anyone knows it could have been baseball player Joe DiMaggio, who she was married and divorced to in 1954 or playwright Arthur Miller, who she was married to from 1956 to 1961. Also, why does the FBI still have the original, much less have it still classified? I realize there are people who do care about Miss Monroe and her image even if she has been dead for 45 years so I'm not going to dwell on this topic anymore, especially since I have never seen a single one of her films... maybe I should. Oh, well. Enough of that.
History, particularly Franklin D. Roosevelt, records that December 7 is "a day that shall live in infamy..." but what about yesterday, April 14. History records some tragic events on April 14. I bring this up 'cause I remembered that the Titanic hit the iceberg during the night of April 14, 1912 and sank in the very early hours of the next day. So I looked at Wikipedia, discovering (and remembering in the process) that US President, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on that day in 1865 and also on that day in 1970 an oxygen tank exploded in the service module of the Apollo 13 capsule preventing the Apollo 13 astronauts from landing on the moon but not from getting home. So is April 14 infamous or not... you decide.
Last two things then I'm done. I hope everyone has gotten their taxes done, since it is Tax Day here in the US and that the St. Louis Cardinals are currently in first place in the NL Central. To everyone out there, "Live Long and Prosper."
