Warm, humid summer day in Jersey City.
Wait for early evening...
...to ride bicycle...
...to Liberty Park.
It begins to sprinkle.
I recall a hidden nook in the park with a shelter.
Go there & park bicycle...
...wait and watch the rain.
Faint rainbow appears.
Some evidence of rain.
Sky clears.
I ride home slowly.
The first Baltic Remembrance Day is scheduled June 14 in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians who were deported by Soviet authorities in 1941.
The event, coordinated by the Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC), is scheduled at 4 p.m. [on June 14, 2009] at the Victims of Communism Memorial at the intersection of Massachusetts and New Jersey avenues, according to a JBANC press release.
Organizers of the event will call on the Russian government “to take responsibility for its history, and to acknowledge and apologize for these acts, which it has never done,” according to the press release.
Nearly 15,500 Latvian men, women and children were rounded up and deported to Russia from June 13-14, 1941, according to historians. Many of those deported worked for or had ties to the Lavian government, or work social or cultural leaders. Similar deportations took place in Estonia and Lithuania.
A second deportation, aimed largely at people resisting collectization of agriculture, took place in late March 1949. More than 42,000 people were forced to leave Latvia.
He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
Caveat: I haven't been there yet. I promise a report (and photos) in the fall.
Do Canadians know they are the luckiest people on earth? Well, they do own some of the grandest real estate on earth.
