09-28-2010, 03:35 PM
HAH!
Today there would be a Congressional investigation, the Government would have seized control of the railroad, the deceased would have had hero's burials, their families would have been remunerated to the point that no descendant for generations would have to toil for a living, the two little kids with the instruments would have a band with state-or-the-art instruments, a recording contract and studio time to write many "worker" songs about the event ... and we'd still be bickering over whether the correct permits had been pulled, in the right order, by the correct contractors and that all required fees had been paid to the proper governmental bureaucracies for final approval to commence work on putting that memorial placque out in that field!
Thank God (I can still say that, can't I?) back then they said, "Whoops! Didn't think that would happen!" and the railroad quietly took care of making arrangements for the families of the deceased privately.
Well ... at least that's how we like to remember "the Good Old Days" when people had couth, scruples, morals, honor and several other fine, upstanding words that describe decent character that have curiously vanished from this nation's lexicon.
"... with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
-- the last words of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Today there would be a Congressional investigation, the Government would have seized control of the railroad, the deceased would have had hero's burials, their families would have been remunerated to the point that no descendant for generations would have to toil for a living, the two little kids with the instruments would have a band with state-or-the-art instruments, a recording contract and studio time to write many "worker" songs about the event ... and we'd still be bickering over whether the correct permits had been pulled, in the right order, by the correct contractors and that all required fees had been paid to the proper governmental bureaucracies for final approval to commence work on putting that memorial placque out in that field!
Thank God (I can still say that, can't I?) back then they said, "Whoops! Didn't think that would happen!" and the railroad quietly took care of making arrangements for the families of the deceased privately.
Well ... at least that's how we like to remember "the Good Old Days" when people had couth, scruples, morals, honor and several other fine, upstanding words that describe decent character that have curiously vanished from this nation's lexicon.
"... with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
-- the last words of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln