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Sunday, D-Day, and These Days

Posted on July 8, 2020 by

This past Sunday, which was July 5th, Martha and I were returning home from a visit with our granddaughter, Riley, and we stopped at the Southern Kitchen in New Market, Virginia for lunch. Because it was Independence Day Weekend, I … Continue reading →

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Independence Day 2020

Posted on June 30, 2020 by

Humanity advances on all fronts thanks to individuals who possess innumerable skills, ideas, beliefs, perspectives, and talents. Let there be no mistake: The United States of America is the greatest expression of the individual in the history of humanity. The … Continue reading →

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Gunfight at the O. K. Corral and Gone With the Wind Have a Connection

Posted on April 7, 2020 by

I don’t know about flattening this virus curve, but I have been working hard at flattening my own emotional curve, which seems to rise and fall within minutes on some days. A good book helps me, as I’m sure it … Continue reading →

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Robert E. Lee, Reconciliation, and Race. And Grandmothers

Posted on February 5, 2020 by

I just finished reading the fourth and final volume of Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize winning (1935) biography R. E. Lee. Very well written, and extremely well researched, I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in General Lee’s … Continue reading →

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Coming Up

Posted on January 7, 2020 by

Happy New Year! I hope 2020 is off to a rousing start for everyone. There are a couple of events, one  immediate, and one in April, that you should mark on your calendars, both of which are related to World … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving, 1945

Posted on November 19, 2019 by

I’ll Remember You All is now available from Amazon in paperback and for e-readers. I have ordered copies as well, so if you are local, feel free to get a copy directly from me, inscribed, of course! (Don’t forget Christmas … Continue reading →

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What is the Saddest Song?

Posted on September 23, 2019 by

Living life to the fullest isn’t just about maximizing the happiness in it, it is also about embracing the sadness and the pain. I use the word embrace very deliberately. After all, one can’t know happiness without knowing its opposite … Continue reading →

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Winchester’s Own, Spottswood Poles

Posted on September 3, 2019 by

Spottswood Poles was one of the greatest Negro League players, and he was born just a few miles from where I write this, in Winchester, Virginia. Please enjoy the twelth installment of Off the Beaten Basepaths:

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The Bedford Boys Tribute Center

Posted on June 13, 2019 by

It is really Green’s Drug Store, and not Omaha Beach that is the epicenter of the Bedford Boys story. Green’s was not just the main hang-out in town, which meant that every one of the Bedford Boys had been there … Continue reading →

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D-Day Arrives in Marsh Point

Posted on June 5, 2019 by

Seventy-five years ago tomorrow morning, Americans up and down the East Coast awoke–or were awakened by–the news that the Allies had begun the invasion of Fortress Europe by landing troops on the beaches of Normandy. (Of course, folks on the … Continue reading →

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