Holocaust day of remembrance
The United States Congress established Sunday, April 15, 2007 as a national “day of remembrance”:http://www.ushmm.org/remembrance/dor/years/2007/ to honor the memory of the millions who perished in Germany during the Holocaust. I recently ran across a piece I wrote 14 years ago, as I thought about what the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in 1993 meant [...]
Global Guerillas
Want to better understand what’s going on in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the “war on terror”? Forget about the conventional press: John Robb’s “Global Guerillas”:http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ blog is in a league of its own. John, a former tech CEO, tech analyst, and oh yeah, “special ops pilot”:http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/about.html for the Air Force, is working on a book about [...]
D-Day Memorial
The first time I went to Normandy I was amazed that anyone made it ashore on D-Day. Those cliffs are high, and the beaches are wide. It’s humbling.
The American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer is a must-see, too. [EdCone.com]
Add another to your list, should you find yourself in Normandy: the “Musée de la Paix”:http://www.memorial.fr/ in Caen. It’s [...]
Reagan clarified the clash of ideas
That’s the money quote from Will Saletan’s “latest column”:http://slate.msn.com/id/2101835/ at Slate, where he takes the money quote from Reagan’s farewell address in 1989:
bq. _”There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”_
Saletan goes on to write, “In clarifying his own views, [...]
Ronald Reagan, RIP
Stephen “says”:http://www.watchblog.com/democrats/archives/001200.html it best: “as a kid, Reagan was the very definition of a president.” I was 9 when Ronald Reagan was elected. My family was very much Republican at the time (my Dad worked on George W. Bush’s 1980 presidential bid), and I liked Reagan. I remember playing in Scott Prudhomme’s front yard when [...]
Reagan’s health failing?
Wire reports have “President Reagan in failing health”:http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-06-05-reagan_x.htm. If this is the end, I hope it’s a peaceful one for he and his family. Hard to imagine he’s 93 years old.
*Update:* CNN.com is “reporting”:http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/05/reagan.health/index.html that a spokesperson for Reagan’s family is downplaying the rumors of Reagan’s imminent death. Most interesting, from the CNN report, is [...]
Kennedy Museum in Dallas
Last night’s gala dinner at the “Mertias”:http://www.meritas.org/ conference was held at the “Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza”:http://www.jfk.org/. I stood on the street the motorcade drove past, then a few minutes later, looked out the same windows Lee Harvey Oswald looked out before he assassinated President Kennedy.
It was overwhelming — standing on historical ground always [...]
