Fifteen years ago today, the world most Americans thought we lived in came crashing to the ground. Fifteen years ago today, nineteen agents of an entity that had sworn to bring fire and death to the United States succeeded in that mission. They struck the heart of our commercial power, struck the heart of our […]
I’m a little behind on this one, not that that should surprise anyone. I needed a couple of days to figure out how I felt about Mr. Williams’s death. That just sounds weird, doesn’t it? Mr. Williams. My stuffy conventions aside, I doubt many of us ever called him that. He was Robin Williams, or […]
I can’t quote a single line of her poetry. All I know of her work is the multitude of beautiful, inspiring quotes anyone can find online. But she was undeniably a woman of great courage. A woman whose words shaped our lives for decades, and will continue to do so for decades more. We’ll miss […]
There are more than a million of them, stretching back 239 years. Many, many more if we count those who came home broken and died earlier than they might have otherwise. I know a few of their names. So do you, I would guess. None of us knows all their names. Some are unknown entirely. […]