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VETERAN MUSICIAN BOB DYLAN has been honored at a ceremony by US President Barack Obama.
Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony in the White House yesterday.
The president said the 71-year-old folk musician had a “unique gravely power” to his voice which helped redefine “not just what music sounded like, but the message it carried and how it made people feel,” reports Rolling Stone Magazine.
Famous for songs such as “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and “When the Ship Comes In”, Dylan wore blacked-out sunglasses even as the US president put the medal around his neck.
A White House statement said Dylan was being commended for his considerable influence on the civil rights movement of the 1960s and for having a significant impact on American culture over the past five decades.
The New York Times reports that the medal is awarded for “meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States or to world peace or to cultural or other significant endeavors”.
Others to receive the award include included novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and Madeleine K Albright, the former US Secretary of State, during the Bill Clinton administration.
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Interesting little read, thanks Journal.
It appears that many make a living out of bringing up debris from great depths.
I don’t agree with this .
A sheer commercial entity.
There are companies that salvage valuble cargos from cargo vessels such as valuble metals & make a good living from it. In my view its just recycling & does not invade the final resting place of some poor souls lost at sea. I think myself taking little personal items from a ship like the titanic is only about fueling our curiosities & as such is grave robbing. I dont mind observing the wreck of the titanic & understanding what happened. However removing valuable commercial cargos that can be used again & may even help clean up the seabed a little should continue & be encouraged
Grave robbing!!
Or marine archaeology !! How much has been made off of Egyptian artifacts etc
What good is it doing at the bottom of the sea? While the ship’s hull makes for a good reef for marine life, I doubt they need jewelery!
Also, I don’t consider it grave robbing because those “graves” were NOT put there on purpose. unlike the egyptian tombs.
Excellent article.
I’m gonna assemble a crew as soon as I’ve raised the 200,000.
i agree. auctions of titanic wreckage items is no different than what Egyptian archaeologists have done to sell items to museums from their digging expeditions. its a double standard if one agrees with Egyptian archaeologists “grave robbing” and not with titanic maritime recovery missions.
hmm easy way to make fast cash
Completely disagree. I would see it as marine archaeology.
I would want part of who I was to be remebered. I would hope that with every piece that comes up that we become closer to the lives that didn’t survive. Its not grave robbing at all. Its simpling remembering who we are as people. And trust me ladies with nice jewelry don’t want it rotting at the bottom of the ocean.
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