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Please see some of these incredible men I photographed working on the book Code Talker Stories. They were humble, proud, fearless patriots. Ronald Reagan declared August 14 to be national code talker day. Yjey cant be erased. www.deborahogrady.com/portfolio-it...

from A Tale of Two Cities

and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
-Walt Whitman

re-examine all you have been told at school, or church, or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face...

Whitman continued:
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life...

Walt Whitman:

"This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labour to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people...

Everyone should be quiet near a little stream and listen