A first in Olympia

By weeklyvolcano on February 25, 2008

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Last Friday at the State Capitol in Olympia, Rajan Zed, a Hindu chaplain and Indo-American leader, performed the first Hindu opening prayer in the 154 year history of the Washington State Legislature. I got a press release hyping the event late last week and thought it sounded like a really cool thing to stick on the Spew. It was history, after all.

Not long after, I completely forgot about it. Damn short term memory loss.

Anyway, today a picture of the historic event found its way to my inbox and I thought I'd pass it along. This post is a day(weekend) late and a dollar (at least 78 cents) short, but I figured what the hell. Better late than never, right?

Here's a story about the prayer from the Seattle PI.

And here's the picture I mentioned.

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