As I get older (full disclosure, I'm not yet 70, but I can see it from my back porch), I tend to look back at my life and remember, with amazing clarity, certain days. I know I'm not unique in this. I'm sure everyone has an event where they can recall exactly where they were and what they ...
For those who remember the way savagery shattered serenity on Sept. 11, 2001, the last 25 years haven't dimmed the memory of the evil that occurred that day. One remembers the photos of the missing, murdered plastered on Manhattan's buildings and street poles and The New York Times obituaries ...
"True is it that we have seen better days." -- William Shakespeare Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed on our soil in 1941. That December day, which Franklin Roosevelt eloquently ...
Fair was marvelous Editor: I have to thank Copper Shores for the wonderful "free lunch" on Senior Day at the fair. The food was great and the servers were gracious. The fair itself was marvelous. I enjoyed it immensely. So many interesting events and the animals were so well kept and the handlers were patiently answering our many questions. I'm so glad I went. Charlotte Brinkman Civilizational erasure To the Editor: Henry David Thoreau said, "The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men." Even William Federer, well-known historian, warned back in 2011: ...
PARIS — Gloria Steinem sent me a personal message not long ago thanking me for my "generous and encouraging" words that "make it worth getting older." Not worth it enough, apparently. Because one of the most visible faces of American second-wave feminism has just passed away peacefully at ...
Smoke still rose from the ruins of the World Trade Center, and the smell of nearly 2,000 deaths lingered miles uptown. A reporter asked New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani whether he worried that the city's Muslim neighborhoods would be attacked in revenge for that Islamist-inspired atrocity. ...
