Writing
November 15, 2011
Porcelain on Steel: Women of West Point’s Long Gray Line
On the NightstandPorcelain on Steel, (2010), Fortis Publishing, $17.95, by Donna McAleer, is a provocative reminder that social evolution is rarely...
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Remembering Eleven Eleven
ArticlesOnce, in the days before corporate sponsor naming rights, we named our sports fields ‘Memorial Stadium.’ When the national...
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Winners of the ‘Patriotism is More than a Bumper Sticker’ Contest
ArticlesIn anticipation of Veterans Day, or Armistice Day as we once named it and Remembrance Day as it still...
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Author of the Year for French Letters: Engaged in War
ArticlesI did not see this coming, but I am so happy that it did. I am honored to be...
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Today is September 20. Welcome to Arnhem.
ArticlesOperation Market Garden, in 1944, was the largest airborne invasion in history, and it failed. General Montgomery brushed aside...
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Walking a mile in someone else’s shoes — two memoirs of great courage
On the Nightstand‘Code Name Christiane Clouet’ is a memoir, written by Claire Chevrillon, a school teacher whose family fell afoul of...
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