Let Us Have Peace
March 30, 2008 | Filed Under Grant's Tomb, Harlem, Mausoleums, Neighborhoods, West Side
Elizabeth is visiting and we’ve been hanging out together and having fun. We stopped by Grant’s Tomb, the largest mausoleum in North America. The bodies of Ulysses S. Grant , the Union Civil War General and 18th President of the U.S., and his wife Julia Dent Grant are entombed there.
The phrase "Let us have peace" greets visitors at the entrance of the mausoleum. It is taken from Grant’s words in his 1885 memoirs. I think it’s an important wish, especially coming from a man of war. Inside, there’s a mural of the two generals shaking hands.
We need peace. Let us have peace.
Paz
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I hope you have a great time with Elizabeth. Gorgeous first and third photos Paz. Let us have peace is appropriate now more than ever. I hope you had a great weekend. Oh, and I made the baked carrots recipe for myself, they were excellent! Thanks for sharing!
YES!!!!
Your photo is better than mine.
I walked up to Madison Square Park yesterday and there was a little festival going on – music and dancing and children jumping around having fun.
Couldn’t tell at first what group was celebrating?
Indian? Israeli?
Found out it was Persian.
Made me remember we are all PEOPLE first.
Sorry to be preachy – just feel we do need PEACE!!!!
This is an especially lovely post, Paz…Peace…Peace and Love are two things the world needs so much. So good to be able to catch up on your posts here now that we’re back from our vacation.
) Happy Days with Elizabeth in town ((HUGS))
Hi Melissa: I’m having lots of fun with Elizabeth. I hope to meet you in person and everyone else one day. I’m excited you were able to make the roasted carrots and liked them. Yay! I think I’ll make them again this week. Thanks for letting me know.
Hi Elizabeth: Naw! Your photo was just as good, if not better (which I think it is). Hey! I don’t think you’re being preachy at all and if you are, preach away. You’re right. People first. We need to remember that.
TRACY! So glad you’re back! Yay! Welcome back!
Peace and love to all,
Paz
Nice monument!
A Swede – John Ericsson – was involved in the American Civil War. He designed the USS Monitor, the first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy. She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, in which Monitor fought the ironclad CSS Virginia of the Confederate States Navy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor
The ladies look a bit sad? Maybe they’re predicting a peace deficit for the future. So far they’ve been right.
Interesting post!
The yellow windows are unusual and stunning.
Alexander
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Hi Peter: How very interesting. I had no idea about John Ericcson and his role during the Civil War.
LOL! Per: I hadn’t noticed the look on the women’s face before, but I think you’re right. I hope the peace deficit they foresaw is coming to an end.
Hi Alex: The windows are very special.
Best to all,
Paz
Great photos Paz. Which IS peace in Spanish. Is that where your name comes from? Very fitting here.
Yes, get preachy Elizabeth. If enough people do, maybe we will have some peace!
I have not been by in a while. Nice to catch up with your photos.
Hi PAz,
Thanks for the visit…
I love your photos…so stark and clear, but moving at the same time…Love New York, my fav place in the world..the message for peace…in fact yesterday there was no power, storm,etc…so I sat at the widow till it got too dark, and was writig and drawing about peace……ie: it’s not a thing, but a way…that still space inside you……
xx
Hi Frank: Nice to see you here. Paz is also Portuguese, which is where I get the name from.
Hi Julia Rose: Nice to see you here, too. How cool to spend the time writing and drawing about peace. Very cool!
Best to all,
Paz