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Spirit/Essay. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

U.S. Senator John McCain will be buried today, one of many people throughout the world: some famous, many little known, too many unknown except to families or to God. Some people will have no one to bury them. When I … Continue reading

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Essay. The Rocky Hill.

Gettysburg reaped its harvest of death in 1863. Its lessons echo. People will die in war today, fighters and civilians. As at Gettysburg, too many battles will involve people who speak the same language, share the same religion, come from … Continue reading

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Essay. Memorial Day… for all of us, in memory of all of them

This weekend is the Memorial Day weekend in the United States, with Monday the holiday itself. I remember childhood Memorial Days as days of wandering around the cemetery trying to find my grandfather’s grave or my great aunt’s: Although the … Continue reading

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Article. Violence is violence, wherever it happens.

Doctors, social workers, and others who work with people exposed to intense or long-term violence have long realized that these individuals tend to show increased responses to possible threat akin to a prey animal’s high responsiveness to stimuli that may … Continue reading

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