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Remembering Mama

Posted on July 8, 2020July 10, 2020

My mother’s 100-year-old body has just given out on her, and as I write this she is resting peacefully in the nursing home where she lives. She’s not expected to last more than a few more days, perhaps weeks. The following are excerpts from the eulogy I’ll deliver at graveside, if my emotions allow. Grateful […]

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Divine Intervention on a Tiny Pacific Island

Posted on July 7, 2019July 7, 2019

My father talks in his book Para(graph) Trooper for MacArthur about a World Are II incident in which he believes divine intervention saved his life. This begins with a man named John Edwards, a Pennsylvanian who maintained supplies for the troops. He and Dad shared a tent on the tiny Pacific island of Morotai. Shared […]

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‘It is required of a man that he share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.” In the blog that follows I hope to live up to those words from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. This quote always appeared on my father's editorial page.

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Remembering Mama

Divine Intervention on a Tiny Pacific Island