We’ll give the lead today to Dave Whamond’s Day by Dave (AMS), because he’s Canadian and the poem that inspired Poppy Day was written by a Canadian doctor during World War I, when thousands fell but the churned up ground proved a welcome environment for the bright red flowers. There’s a great deal more about […]
Christopher Weyant captures the moment in a way that, as the fellows say, seems a sign of how bad things have become. There have been a lot of “but I hate her” comments coming from the left about Liz Cheney’s past record, and they’re as much a sign of our societal cancer as those equally […]
St. Olga’s feast day is July 11, but given who she was and what she did, St. Patrick should yield his day to her this year. Ukraine’s patron saint is Josaphat, a Ukrainian monk who yielded himself up to be killed by a Russian mob, but we’re not celebrating meekness at the moment. Olga is […]
We defer to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to set the scene for November 11, 1942, the first Armistice Day after Pearl Harbor. It had been a busy 11 months, and, while troops of the French puppet government were defeated in Africa, Rommel was still hanging on: Two days later, papers would bring news of the British […]
Looking back 75 years, we find ourselves on the edge of victory but with plenty yet to go. There was a lot of good news: The Allies were about to break the German hold on what would be known as the Battle of the Bulge, though the fighting would continue for another month, while, in […]