All My Ancestors

20 January 2009

Tombstone Tuesday

Filed under: Memes, Mississippi, Oklahoma by allmyanc

Today seemed like a good day to publish the tombstone of a politician, it being Inauguration Day and all.

This is the burial site of one of Oklahoma’s first two senators,  Thomas P. Gore, grandfather of Gore Vidal.  He was blind as the result of two separate childhood accidents.

Thomas Pryor Gore

1870 MS – 1949 DC

Fairlawn Cemetery

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

I love Oklahoma. I love every blade of her grass. I love every grain of her sands. I am proud of her past and I am confident of her future. The virtues that made us great in the past can keep us great in the future. We must march, and not merely mark time.”

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