D-Day has become a proxy for the remembrance of the entirety of World War II, a great crusade ”to set free a suffering humanity” by men who fought not for conquest, but to end conquest, in the words of FDR’s … Continue reading
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I recently came upon this worrying description of what happens when an economic downturn lingers on and on. People see that “the waste of unemployment, the inequality, injustices and inefficiencies of laissez-faire capitalism… The brazen indifference of an arrogant ruling … Continue reading
I have hung my flag out today, as I do on the other patriotic occasions in the calendar when we celebrate our country, its invention and survival — Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Veterans Day. Today, of course, … Continue reading