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I won’t be there next week for their graduation, but I was there years ago to see the pomp and celebration of four years of accomplishment for the young men and women of West Point. I have also lectured at the Air Force Academy and was impressed with the collective as well as the individual [...] Continue reading Graduations My former profession is guilty again of limited interest and giving short shrift to an on-going story of emotional import and national honor. You may recall a number of years ago the images of coffins from the war were banned from our nightly television screens by the Bush administration. For their own reasons the Bush [...] Continue reading War Coffins Some thoughts on courtesy. Courtesy is the ability to be aware of the needs and concerns of others and to respond to them with selfless grace. It is an attribute of character. It is also a waning personal craft in today’s culture of instant gratification, in the self fulfillment of the “me” generation. When you [...] Continue reading Courtesy I wasn’t there today, but I was there years ago to see the pomp and celebration of four years of accomplishment for the young men and women of West Point. I have also lectured at the Air Force Academy and was impressed with the collective as well as the individual dedication of the cadets and [...] Continue reading Graduation and Beyond |
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A Sad Day
Here’s the bulletin from the Washington Post yesterday afternoon. “President Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base by helicopter on Tuesday to pay his respects to the 30 U.S. troops who were killed Saturday when their Chinook helicopter crashed in Afghanistan. The president canceled a scheduled appearance in Northern Virginia to be present for the [...]
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