To my Father, and Johann Sebastian Bach — especially

On a day like today, some significant humans arrived planet earth.

1685

Johann Sebastian Bach, the incomparable German composer and musician, in Eisenach, Germany.

1856

Henry Ossian Flipper, the USAmerican soldier who was the first US African American to graduate from West Point, after having been a slave, born in Thomasville, Georgia.

1931

Rolando Eliezer, my magnificent father.

1960s

Sabine, a wonderful loving soul, in Hamburg, Germany.