War
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I may be the only person I know who has been attacked by a Navy SEAL – and lived to talk about it.
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What I really wanted to be when I grew up was a famous novelist – at least as famous as Jules Verne, and maybe even as good. Now I’m resigned to having once visited an event, probably as a seven- or eight-year-old, that was also visited by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who was then within a…
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“Then you knew where you were.” The passing of #MichaelHerr.
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There’s a link between “Mr. Hockey” Gordie Howe and my Canadian cousin Scotty Davidson, who died in WWI. Follow me there.
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I am privileged to teach in a first-year writing program at a northeastern U.S. university that allows me to draw in readings as I see fit, as long as the structure of the class follows a model shared by other classes in the program. My class is called “War Stories.” Everything we read has something to…
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(Above photo by Todd Heisler / Rocky Mountain News) Monday, May 30, 2016, is this year’s Memorial Day – a federal holiday set aside to honor Americans who died while serving in our nation’s military. Officially, the day has been noted in some manner since 1868, when it was called Decoration Day. It is not to…
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