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GoBeYoungBlueGoBeYoungBlue(c)Jen Knutzen @ McGhee St Photograh

Youth: I want to see you game boys. I want to see you brave and manly and I also want to see you gentle and tender. Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars but remember to keep your feet on the ground. : Go Be One 2014

This is one of the engravings at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, layered over graffiti written on a street post box.  The text from Roosevelt Island comes from a speech he gave at the 1907 graduation ceremony of Sidwell Friends School in DC. 

Keywords: DC, The Written Word

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