"Aye aye o - Shake your foundation"

- AC/DC

"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them." ~ Charles C. West

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." ~ Henry Ford

There is a quote from Eisenhower engraved outside of the Holocaust Museum in DC that reads:

“The things I saw beggar description…The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering…I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations to propaganda.”

i'm glad you posted that VA. i would so love to see that place wiped from the face of the earth, but i also know that once something is out of sight, it is soon also out of mind. we can never allow the horror of that place to be forgotten.

One day late, but:

"Arbeit macht frei"

70 years ago. Never again.

On my cousin's facebook page:

Most people today will readily put their mouth on the genitals of a stranger but still wont touch that brown tip on the end of a banana.

my quote for all that "oh hell no..."

I wasn't referring to a lack of trust and openness. But IMHO anyone who would cold-call a profile across the country and fly to meet them is nuts. A friend or even someone you'd chatted quite a bit with is another matter.

What I did not include in my initial post was language from their profile which would have been useful. "Trying to convince him...not sure it's going to work" and "new to all of this". That's simply icing on the cake.

When we were actively swinging Trooper would have been fine with me flying to see a SM friend. Not so much someone we hadn't previously met, or even some that we had met.