Walter Johnson Student Wins Raskin’s 2021 Congressional Art Competition
Yun Ji Choi of Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda took first place in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District’s 2021 Congressional Art Competition. Her digital art piece, titled “Promise to Keep You Safe,” will hang in the U.S. Capitol for one year.
“Congratulations to Yun Ji Choi on winning this year’s art competition for 8th District high school students,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md. 8). “I salute the 17 second-place honorees and thank all of the student participants for sharing their boundless artistic vision. I encourage everyone to check out all of the strikingly impressive student artwork in our virtual gallery.”
Who are Michael Collins’ children? Apollo 11 astronaut’s family explored
Astronaut Michael Collins, who is one of the first three-member crew on Apollo 11, leaves behind three children, Kathleen, Michael Jr. and Ann.
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins died on April 28th, 2021, at the age of 90 after a long battle with cancer in the last few years.
Buzz Aldrin, who is the only surviving crew member of the mission, wrote in a poignant tribute: “Dear Mike, Wherever you have been or will be, you will always have the Fire to Carry us deftly to new heights and to the future. We will miss you. May you Rest In Peace.”
Senior, John F. Kennedy High School
Having moved to the United States from Ethiopia when she was 5, Hewan Kidanemariam is aware of inequities in the world especially when it comes to health care. She says her early interest in medicine was influenced by her mother, who was a medical aide during that country’s civil war and would tell stories of bandaging wounded soldiers.
“It really comes down to impact. There are other professions where you can help people, but it’s more indirect,” says Hewan, 17, who lives in Silver Spring and aspires to be a physician. “In health care, you have a more intimate relationship with a patient and a direct impact on a patient’s life.”
John Kerry / US special presidential envoy for climate
DC connection: The former presidential candidate was a military brat who spent part of his childhood in the District, attending Jackson Elementary and St. Albans.
Random fact: His family lived across the street from newspaper columnist Joe Alsop. Kerry was also a Cub Scout with Brit Hume.
Photograph courtesy of U.S. Senate
Susan Rice / Head of the Domestic Policy Council
DC connection: Rice was born and raised in Washington. She graduated from Beauvoir and National Cathedral School.
Random fact: As a child of DC insiders, Rice grew up surrounded by prominent Washing-ton figures: Civil-rights activist Peggy Cooper Cafritz was her godmother, and Madeleine Albright is a family friend.
Laura Ingraham
A long, long time ago, Joe Biden was against using executive orders to ram through what is properly left to the legislature.
“Some of my Republican friends and some of my Democratic friends even occasionally say, well, if you can’t get the votes by executive order, you’re going to do something, things you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus,” declared Joe Biden.
Well, the dictator threw that idea out the window because, of course, the Biden brigade has a country to remake and redeem. So today he continued taking a wrecking ball to his “unity goal.” The man who served up as you know, he was the VP to the two term African-American president. He’s tripled down on the negative view that America at her core is racist.