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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...
CONTINUE READING →2010
ArticlesJanuary 1, 2010, was the first New Years Day that I woke up without calling my friend Marty. Marty...
CONTINUE READING →The Books of Others
ArticlesAlice called me during a book festival signing last Saturday and asked a rather pointed question — “Are you...
CONTINUE READING →In Memory of Characters
ArticlesMy friend Mitchell, in charge of machine guns for Colt Firearms, was the first civilian flown to Pearl Harbor,...
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