David,
The card is fine. Perhaps you already have this in mind: a series that highlights a different Revolutionary Virginian each year? It would be quite a series!
Perhaps everyone already know this. But it¡¯s interesting to consider?the blurb TJ wrote for his own?tombstone:
Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
That¡¯s how we wanted to be memorialized, and as he wrote, ¡°not a word more.¡±?
73,
Ray KN2K
He designed his own tombstone to read ¡°author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia¡± and as he requested ¡°not a word more¡±?
On Sunday, February 26, 2023, 8:48 AM, David Wright <dwright@...> wrote:
Please see draft of 2023 K2B QSL card.
The theme is signers of the Declaration.
The idea was to get away from the battle / military aspect, and maybe add a hint of educational content.
With seven signers from Virginia, it seemed TJ was the obvious choice.
I understand some wokesters won't appreciate TJ -- or any of the other founding fathers.
But maybe there can still be one day where we put that stuff aside.
I was going to put in that TJ's first draft condemned slavery, but there's not much upside to getting into that discussion.
Comments / suggestions solicited, and appreciated.
David, K2WPM
