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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 [...] Continue reading A Sad Day I often come to this point in the day before I choose what to post and I have nothing in mind. So what I do is let my conscious mind go blank and see what results. Done. Above my desk is an old photo I took while covering the war in Vietnam in 1968. It [...] Continue reading Vietnam Kid 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 What a day today is! On this day: President Obama has more meetings in Russia. He did sign an agreement in principle to cut each nuclear arsenal by one quarter. The media, seemingly all the media, will broadcast the memorial service of pop star Michael Jackson. I don’t deny the greatness of Michael Jackson. I [...] Continue reading Tuesday There are many reasons to get involved in this year’s elections and the reasons have nothing to do with politics or propositions or personalities. The reasons are citizen warriors, ordinary people with names. All were killed in action. Today they are tearful memories for some and just names to others, but they were the living [...] Continue reading Reasons |
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Vietnam Veterans Day
Like many of you Vietnam was part of my life. I was there as a young journalist and when I came home it was to cover protests, not parades, criticisms not commendations, and critiques not a thank you for wearing the uniform of American’s fighting forces Yesterday was an acknowledgment of that service to prinicipal [...]
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