
"...gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime....let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us as sacred charges upon the Nation's gratitude,--the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan." --General John Logan, General Order No. 11, 5 May 1868

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RULES for MAY will continue the same
--2 Plays per day Max. 1 Unit each or
--Can double up on one play for 2 units
--Moneylines, sides, totals, teasers, and props!!
--1 parlay (2 teamer) per week by each pundit, but no greater then -250 in any leg--
*Post odds and book please!
***No lines before Midnight EST please***
(playing for the same 2 prizes as in April, 1st and 2nd place)
Pundit Progress thru May 29th

GLTA :toast:
TODAY:
1790 - The smallest of the United States joined the first 12 states as number 13. Rhode Island, the Ocean State, probably got its name when discoverer Verrazano noted that, the area we know as Rhode Island, looked about the size of the tiny Greek Isle of Rhodes. Rhode Island’s capital city is Providence, and the tiny violet is appropriate as the state flower. Probably the most famous variety of chicken, the Rhode Island Red, is the state bird.
1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, became the first humans to reach the top of Mount Everest.

BDAY:
1736 - Patrick Henry
American revolutionary patriot: “...give me liberty, or give me death!”; died June 6, 1799

1903 - Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope)
comedian, entertainer, actor; died July 27, 2003

1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35th U.S. President [1961-1963]; married to Jaqueline Bouvier [two sons, one daughter]; nickname: JFK, Jack; youngest, first Roman Catholic, first to win Purple Heart, first to serve in U.S. Navy, first to win Pulitzer Prize [book: Profiles in Courage], fourth U.S. President to be assassinated, secondnd buried at Arlington National Cemetery; assassinated Nov 22, 1963

