ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain Has a Thought about: JOY “Grief can take care of itself, but to get full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” [the family] - Following the Equator #quote #MarkTwain

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

#WASP Douglas AAF, Douglas , Arizona BACK Elizabeth McGeorge Sullivan 43-6 7 Nov 1917 - 3 Jun 1993 Col Dyer Bonnie Edmunds 44-1 14 June 1920 – 21 July 1990 Capt. Loomis Doris Brinker Tanner 44-4 6 Dec 1919 – 9 Feb 2019 Lora Harris Cunningham 44-7 8 Oct 1919 – 15 Sep 2004

Buddies #photography

19 November 1962 Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud, Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) last surviving daughter dies. (8 June 1874 – 19 November 1962) #MarkTwain #Literature

“The Bashful But Batty Belles of Bay 6” #WASP Class 44-W-2 Mary “Minkie” Heckman (21 June 1918 – 11 June 2004) Jean Palmer Hascall Cole (12 March 1922 – 11 July 1993) Dorothy “Sadie” Hawkins Goot (8 June 1923 – 24 March 2016) …

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

Trees #photography

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

#WASP Shirley Jeanette Tannehill 44-W-4 Assigned: Spence AAF, Georgia. Died in a Texas traffic accident. (3 Feb 1921- 14 June 1961) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain Has a Thought about: FEELINGS “Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results.” #quote #MarkTwain

Bridge Over the Rogue River Prospect, Oregon

Mt. Shasta - California #photography

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

#WASP Allison Cameron Burns McBride 43-W-5 “THEY WERE ALWAYS SURPRISED WHEN A GIRL JUMPED OUT OF THE COCKPIT.” Romulus AAF, MI (21 May 1920- 13 June 2014) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain Has a Thought about: KNOWLEDGE “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know.” - Life on the Mississippi #quote #MarkTwain

Six years after El Pueblo motel opened its doors, the motel’s proprietor, Philip Johnston, devised a plan to enlist Navajo men into the U.S. Marines Corps. Their mission: create a secret code based on the unwritten Navajo language.

Good morning, tribe

BREAKING: Epstein survivors just released one of the most powerful PSAs I’ve ever seen. Spread this everywhere so every member of the House is forced to watch it. Just a reminder: Ask about the Epstein list. Every. Single. Day‼️ #BlueCrew #Resist #ResistTrump #ProudBlue #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

#WASP Eula Elizabeth "Betty" Morton Brown, 44-W-8 Assigned Greenville AAF, Mississippi. After WASP Flight attendant Delta Airlines (21 May 1922 - 29 Sep 1988) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

Mt. Shasta - California #photography

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain Has a Thought about: THEORY “How empty is theory in the presence of fact.” - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court #quote #MarkTwain

Reminder Ken Burns’ American Revolution on PBS 📺 starts tonight, a new episode every night. Reviews say you’ll look at the Revolution a new way. Looking forward to it! 🇺🇸

Storey County Courthouse – 1876-1877 Virginia City, Nevada @photography

#WASP Stella Jo Baker Claiborne 44-W-4 Assigned: Marana AAF, Arizona (24 March 1921 – 7 August 1994) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain Has a Thought about: CHARACTER “When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.” - My Father Mark Twain, Clara Clemens #quote #MarkTwain

Applegate River Southern Oregon #photography

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

#WASP at WACO AAF TX 1944 [Front] Clarice Siddal Bergemann 44-W-2 10 July 1918 – 26 October 2004) Lorraine Zilner Rodgers 44-W-2 (11 September 1920 - 3 July 2018) Mary Jane Isham Ehrman 44-W-8 (30 September 1919 – 23 November 2003) ...

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain Has a Thought about: GENTLEMEN “No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.” - "A Double-Barreled Detective Story" #quote #MarkTwain

Strolling An Oregon Beach #photography

#WASP/#WAFS Aline “Pat” Rhonie Brooks Joined Nancy Love & WAFS September 1942. British Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA: 1944. (16 August 1909- 7 January 1963) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain Has a Thought about: RESPECT “When people do not respect us, we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.” - Following the Equator #quote #MarkTwain

On Veterans Day, I think of my first interaction with wounded Vietnam War veterans, who I visited as Miss World USA. I think of how impactful it was. It forever changed my view of war, of sacrifice, of honor, and of suffering.

Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, swam the Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands to mark the 80th anniversary of the rescue of her father’s PT-109 crew. John F Kennedy, elected president in Nov 1960, served as a naval officer in the Pacific during WWII. www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...

Autumn on the Ashtabula River Ohio #photography

#WASP Mary Nesbit Hearn 44-W-6 “I was absolutely convinced that they couldn’t win the war without me.” (19 February 1921 – 7 February 2015) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain Has a Thought about: MUSIC “Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.” #MarkTwain

#WWII Ira Hayes was born in 1923 in the town of Sacaton, Arizona, located within the Gila River Indian Community, a reservation featuring members of both the Pima and Maricopa tribes (Hayes’ heritage was Pima). He was the oldest of the six children of Joseph Hayes, a WWI veteran.

I love the look on their faces.

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

For DAD! #VeteransDay

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME" Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman in Portland, Oregon. BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS. #aviation #aviationhistory

#WASP Class 43-W-4 Trio Faith “Bucky” Buchner Richards (25 May 1921 – 20 Sep 2002) #The38 Hazel Ying Lee Louie (25 Aug 1912 – 25 Nov 1944) Grace Clark Fender (13 Aug 1920 – 8 Oct 2011) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WWII

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain Has a Thought about: CONFORMITY “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect). - Notebook, 1904.” #MarkTwain