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A Good Man From the Past: Betrayer or Betrayed?
“The archive does not contain the complete record of the past that it promises.” —Helen Freshwater, “The Allure of the Archive” (Poetics Today, 24.4) ♦◊♦ Four years ago, I visited the Howard Gotlieb...
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A Father, Not Forgotten
Mark Ellis looks back, gratefully, on his father’s service. It has been 60 years this Veteran’s Day since my father got notice of my birth by way of a Western Union telegram delivered to the front...
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George Zimmerman: The Tragic Limitations of Situational Awareness
Mark Greene believes Americans need to rely less on guns and more on situational engagement. There has been a lot of discussion online about George Zimmerman, the Florida man who is on trail for...
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Gender-Enforcing Soap for Your Fragile Masculinity
Yet another ad campaign based on the idea that the worst thing in the world is to be, or resemble, a woman. Now in Regular or Extra Sexist. Do you have a “mangina”? According to one company, Duke...
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The Old Man Is Way Cooler Than You
Marco Greenberg has come to the somewhat sad realization that he will never be as cool as his dad. According to demographers, I’m a baby boomer, but it feels to me I’m more like an accident of...
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Navy Vet Returns to North Korea For Body of Comrade Who Died 60 Years Ago
60 years after his plane was shot down during the Korean War, the Navy’s first black pilot may be coming home. Ensign Jesse Brown was the Navy’s first black pilot, but only two years after making...
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The Story of Reckless: The War Hero You Never Knew Of
You’ve heard of the famous racing ones: Seabiscuit, Secretariat, War Admiral. But there’s one horse– a decorated military hero– you haven’t heard of. It’s the story of Sgt. Reckless, the little...
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Thank You for Your Service and Welcome Home!
Veteran: One who wrote a blank check to Uncle Sam for up to and including their life. — Veteran’s Day will never mean the same thing to me again. It will actually mean something. Growing up, it was a...
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5 Days Before His 14-Gun Salute at Arlington National Cemetery
Lisa Hickey gives us a Memorial Day poem in remembrance of her grandfather. — He was decorated from each of the 20th century wars that I’d been forced to study as a middle schooler – World Wars One...
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‘The American Plan’ – South Florida Is Playground For Corruption In David H....
As the Korean War grinds to a halt, 25-year-old deserter Philip Narby is hiding out in Havana, Cuba. He’s got mysterious scars, a grueling drug addiction, and a memory wiped clear of family or friends...
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More Folks Have Died by Bullet Than Battlefield and We’re in Another Civil War
For a war to be a war, does it need to be fought in proximity? Does it need to be fought only days apart from each other? Sunday, even more souls were taken from this earth by the bullet – 14 total...
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Thanks Dad, For Not Killing That Guy
Alex Steed remembers the night his dad almost became a murderer. —- A generation before I was born and before he married my mother, my father was married to a woman with whom he had 5 children. He...
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Good Memories Count, Head to Toe
The troop train stopped for a short layover in Winslow, Arizona, March 1952. We were returning from Korea, riding the train the right way, back across America. The train commander said we could hang...
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The Forgotten War that Still Reverberates
The video provided for this assignment, entitled Cold War, Korea, 1949—1953, concept by Ted Turner and narrated by Kenneth Branagh, covered the events of the Korean War and it included real footage and...
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A Dreamt Preface for a Reading at Nahant Library
I want to let the audience enter the cubicle where the work came from. This is what I’ll tell them: I’ll celebrate with you by telling you what I know. I’ll tell you how it is with me. This is what I...
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Verse By the Pocketful
I’m not sure I knew I was setting out on an important journey. The whole battalion had been marching for three days, in the rain, the heat, the Korean miseries. Was something new trying to break into...
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Scary Daddies Part 3: Red Forman
Breaking them Down Dads of yesteryear were really good at one thing: tough love. Few fictional characters pulled off this brand of the hard-ass father figure as good as Red Forman from the Fox sitcom...
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