Usually I marked the day by doing some community service work, but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the District of Columbia for being my home for eight years.

And that is why we honor this man –- because he had faith in us.

And in November, a century and a half after On the Origin of Species was published, we commemorate the beginnings of the theory by which we all know him.

Please accept this little gift as a souvenir.

Just to remember me by, you know.