Writing

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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April 19, 2010

Flee, yes, but … where?

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Flee, yes, but … where? The laundry women may first have heard the sound of war twenty or thirty...

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April 16, 2010

Rivers

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Rivers not only brought boat loads of wine, grain, fruit, and construction materials (and Norsemen), they also brought people...

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April 14, 2010

Engaged in War

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Rivers were the roads of France since before Caesar led the Romans into Gaul. Towns were built on rivers...

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January 5, 2010

2010

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January 1, 2010, was the first New Years Day that I woke up without calling my friend Marty. Marty...

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October 3, 2009

The Books of Others

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Alice called me during a book festival signing last Saturday and asked a rather pointed question — “Are you...

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