Thomas E
06-21-2009, 09:16 AM
The "Start/Finish Line" Memorial is dedicated to the memory of the participants from the past of the "Greatest show on wheels" - A remembrance of yesterday . . .
As the ranks of the auto racing communities are slowly thinning, whether it was the "Hot Dog" or "Chrome-Shoe" driver's, car owner's, the folks who lettered and numbered the cars, and the loyal fan's; it causes one think and reflect, "I'm glad I knew them, I remember when . . . These passing modern gladiator's that handled their steeds of steel, rubber, chrome, and paint, in their arenas of competition of asphalt or dirt, varying in sizes from a fifth mile, half mile or mile, and the famed "Brick Yard" or Daytona.
We watched them win big, and DNF too; and there were the heart stoppers, those who went through that famed "X" and you would hear the bumpers "click". Our favorite driver might crash and that was it for the night, we would visit them in pits and say, "You'll do it the next time." We have seen the best, and some we dubbed the track villain; there were the also ran’s that help provide some real entertainment it made for good competition. And when it was all said and done . . . Well let’s just say they are a part of our very colorful past we'll always "Remember them"
A thought for today . . .
If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing,
If you like or if you love him, tell him now.
Don't withhold your approbation till the preacher makes oration,
And he lies with snowy lilies o'er his brow.
For no matter how you shout it, he won't really care about it,
He won't know the many tear drops you have shed.
If you think some praise is do him,
Now is the time to tell it to him,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he is dead.
More than fame, more than money,
Is a comment kind and sunny,
And the hearty warm approval of a friend,
For it gives to life a savor,
Makes you stronger, makes you braver,
And it gives you heart and spirit to the end.
If he earns some praise bestow it,
If you like him let him know it,
Let the words of true encouragement be said,
Do not wait till life is over and he is beneath the clover . . .
For he cannot read his tombstone when he is dead.
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected."
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
As the ranks of the auto racing communities are slowly thinning, whether it was the "Hot Dog" or "Chrome-Shoe" driver's, car owner's, the folks who lettered and numbered the cars, and the loyal fan's; it causes one think and reflect, "I'm glad I knew them, I remember when . . . These passing modern gladiator's that handled their steeds of steel, rubber, chrome, and paint, in their arenas of competition of asphalt or dirt, varying in sizes from a fifth mile, half mile or mile, and the famed "Brick Yard" or Daytona.
We watched them win big, and DNF too; and there were the heart stoppers, those who went through that famed "X" and you would hear the bumpers "click". Our favorite driver might crash and that was it for the night, we would visit them in pits and say, "You'll do it the next time." We have seen the best, and some we dubbed the track villain; there were the also ran’s that help provide some real entertainment it made for good competition. And when it was all said and done . . . Well let’s just say they are a part of our very colorful past we'll always "Remember them"
A thought for today . . .
If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing,
If you like or if you love him, tell him now.
Don't withhold your approbation till the preacher makes oration,
And he lies with snowy lilies o'er his brow.
For no matter how you shout it, he won't really care about it,
He won't know the many tear drops you have shed.
If you think some praise is do him,
Now is the time to tell it to him,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he is dead.
More than fame, more than money,
Is a comment kind and sunny,
And the hearty warm approval of a friend,
For it gives to life a savor,
Makes you stronger, makes you braver,
And it gives you heart and spirit to the end.
If he earns some praise bestow it,
If you like him let him know it,
Let the words of true encouragement be said,
Do not wait till life is over and he is beneath the clover . . .
For he cannot read his tombstone when he is dead.
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected."
~ Henry David Thoreau ~