Honoring Yogi Berra

Yogi Berra was a great Yankee catcher, but he did more. He served in World War II, including participating on D-Day.  He was involved in civil rights activities, and in educational activities.  So, there is a petition on his museum website to sign, to have him be a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. They need 100,000 signatures by Monday, June 8, 2015, and when I signed a few minutes ago, they were at over 53,000. The link is https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/award-yogi-berra-presidential-medal-freedom-his-military-service-and-civil-rights-and-educational-activism. I was watching the national broadcast of the Yankee vs. Angels game, and this was announced during the game.  When I tried to get on the website right after the announcement, I could not. That tells me a lot of people also signed on.   I was just checking, and they have over 55,000 signatures now.  I have to believe there will be enough signatures by Monday. 

This is not about honoring a great Yankee player.  This is about honoring an iconic American.

The Air Force Band of the West

Tonight I went to the concert performed by the Air Force Band of the West http://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/pdfs/USAF%20Band%202014.pdf  at the Texas Tech Museum .  Ostensibly, this was a Veteran's Day celebration.

I have been to several concerts at the museum over that last couple of years. For the first couple of concerts, the museum grossly under-estimated the seating needs, and was ill prepared to bring in extra chairs.

For this concert, the museum had over estimated the seating.  Having said that, there was a very good crowd, and we were very appreciative of the band, including giving them more than one standing ovation.

This was a very good concert.  It was a blatant commercial for recruiting to the armed services, but that is what I would expect. The caliber of the performance far out-weighed the marketing message.