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Tonight in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Freedom Tower is all lit up in Red White and Blue lights. Bottom floors red, middlw white and upper floors blue, we saw tower of lights, they went off about 9, maybe they were testing them for tomorrow nights ceremonies.
The War of 1812 didn't involve Hawaii. Keep up, please.
Didn't the British bomb Hawaii during the Franco-Prussian War of 1812? I believe they were firing on Hawaii from Fort Sumpter. Nathan Hale, a Hawaiian patriot famously said during the bombing: "Give me a Mai-Tai, my throat is parched."
After the bombing "The Mai-Tai was still there" and that prompted Francis Scott Key to write the theme from Hawaii-Five-O.
Upon further consideration, perhaps I'm on the Mayor's side after all. We should no longer refer to the site of the World Trade Center as "Ground Zero." Instead, I propose (the envelope, please)...
EpiCenter
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