~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~

"Moun mouri pa konnen valè dra blan."

The dead do not know the value of white sheets. (Funerals are for the living.)

Haitian proverbs

September 9, 1959: Rock 'n' roll is about to become big, but not in Peoria. That is, unless Sam, as DJ Howlin' Chick Howell, can manage to keep the radio station where he's employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.

"I'd like to read you something we found in our news files dates August 16, 1945, the day after the Japanese surrendered and World War 2 ended,

"The guns are silent now and so are many of the men whose hands once held them.

Never again will they see their wives or mothers.

Never again will they hear their children laugh.

And never again will they smell the sweet scents of home.

And for what?
For what did these husbands and fathers, these brothers and sons, give their lives so many thousands of miles from home?

I say it was for one word, and that word is freedom. The freedom to pray. To write. To speak. To feel. To be. As we see fit, and not as others would dictate to us.

To this freedom, which has been so dearly bought for us, it is up to us, the living, to dedicate our lives and our futures... to its eternal protection."

These words were written by Frederick Beeman, the editor of the Peoria Dispatch. And I sincerely hope that Mr. Beeman would see it in his heart that all we are looking for here is... a little freedom, too"

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different" -Coco Chanel