Back from Washington DC...last nite on the train..i thought about the two quick days..in and out..meeting people from acrosss the country..and the world..sitting in a Senators office..working with Vets groups..amazing..
we are very excited about our work and the way in which we can change the future of Home ownership in this country.
I had watched the show on the Freedom Riders..i thought how they almost got killed for riding on a bus...I thought about Abraham Lincoln going to Peekskill, about FDR on train stops..about the last ride for the Kennedys to Arlington.. about the drivers from Ethiopia in Washington where in 1984 I was fortunate to help the country with supplies for famine..
Where are we in this country today..do we need Freedom Riders again..in the country..in Westchester..
the train drove through the S Bronx...where i used to volunteer on 163rd and Shakespeare..i saw the beautiful river, then a fire going on with six hooks and ladders...a family member calls me..Jim there is a fire on Orchard St ..in Yonkers next to our house..someone had a fire in the room..a great response by Yonkers Fire Dept. Vinyl siding melted on the home, not ours..but our Hardy Plank..a durable better product did not...the house was where we donated furniture and food for a family that for three months had lived on a floor...
I arrived back in new rochelle where our headquarters is..to think of the recent crime in a downtown with no walking police..our walking neighborhood needs great walking police...do we need Freedom Riders? You tell me.
the Excitement is Building...
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