Writing
D-Day, 2010: How Good It Is To Have Been Born On Third Base
ArticlesThis is a hard photograph to look at, but please do. It’s about us. One of the most blistering...
CONTINUE READING →A three day weekend
ArticlesIn Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the...
CONTINUE READING →Armed Forces Day
ArticlesFist. Club. Rock. Sword. Spear. Arrow. Gun. Cannon. Tank. Bomb. Mushroom cloud. Mushroom. Glade. Hollow. Grave. Tomb. Tombstone. Cemetery....
CONTINUE READING →The first American in St Lo, France
ArticlesMajor Thomas Howie used a field telephone to tell his commanding officer that his battalion of the 116th regiment...
CONTINUE READING →Sanctuary
ArticlesFlee, yes. But… where? When the sanctuary is no longer a sanctuary. St. Lo, France, July 18,1944
CONTINUE READING →Ruins
ArticlesFlee, yes, but where? After more than two thousand years of doing laundry in their quiet streams, a thousand...
CONTINUE READING →Flee, yes, but … where?
ArticlesFlee, yes, but … where? The laundry women may first have heard the sound of war twenty or thirty...
CONTINUE READING →Rivers
ArticlesRivers not only brought boat loads of wine, grain, fruit, and construction materials (and Norsemen), they also brought people...
CONTINUE READING →Engaged in War
ArticlesRivers were the roads of France since before Caesar led the Romans into Gaul. Towns were built on rivers...
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