Writing

September 17, 2010

Service for our country: A Meigs has been in our service since West Point was founded

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I just had the good fortune to have been invited by Stewart Vanderwilt to a lunch presentation by General Montgomery...

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September 7, 2010

The Letter Project

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“Maybe Africa should never have been called the Dark Continent; I find it nice here and wish you could...

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August 26, 2010

LETTERS HOME

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Soldiers have written home to comfort and console their loved ones since Plutarch wrote to Timoxena during the wars...

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June 6, 2010

D-Day, 2010: How Good It Is To Have Been Born On Third Base

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This is a hard photograph to look at, but please do. It’s about us. One of the most blistering...

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May 23, 2010

A three day weekend

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the...

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May 14, 2010

Armed Forces Day

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Fist. Club. Rock. Sword. Spear. Arrow. Gun. Cannon. Tank. Bomb. Mushroom cloud. Mushroom. Glade. Hollow. Grave. Tomb. Tombstone. Cemetery....

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May 12, 2010

The first American in St Lo, France

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Major Thomas Howie used a field telephone to tell his commanding officer that his battalion of the 116th regiment...

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April 27, 2010

Sanctuary

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Flee, yes. But… where? When the sanctuary is no longer a sanctuary. St. Lo, France, July 18,1944

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April 22, 2010

Ruins

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Flee, yes, but where? After more than two thousand years of doing laundry in their quiet streams, a thousand...

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