08-12-2012, 07:20 PM
An automated acknowledgment of my Garrison nomination was just received:
Dear Charles:
Thank you very much for submitting a nomination for the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. We are grateful for your participation and we appreciate your dedication to the ideal of principled public service.
Nominations for the Profile in Courage Award are accepted year-round. Every nomination we receive remains active for two years. If your nomination is submitted before February 1, it will be considered for the Profile in Courage Award presented in May of the same calendar year, and again the following year. If your nomination is made after February 1, it will be considered during the following two calendar years.
A confirmation of your submission appears below. On behalf of everyone at the Kennedy Library Foundation, thank you for your nomination for the Profile in Courage Award.
With best wishes,
The Profile in Courage Award Committee
Dear Charles:
Thank you very much for submitting a nomination for the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. We are grateful for your participation and we appreciate your dedication to the ideal of principled public service.
Nominations for the Profile in Courage Award are accepted year-round. Every nomination we receive remains active for two years. If your nomination is submitted before February 1, it will be considered for the Profile in Courage Award presented in May of the same calendar year, and again the following year. If your nomination is made after February 1, it will be considered during the following two calendar years.
A confirmation of your submission appears below. On behalf of everyone at the Kennedy Library Foundation, thank you for your nomination for the Profile in Courage Award.
With best wishes,
The Profile in Courage Award Committee
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene