Tag Archives: war

Spirit/Essay. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Posted on September 1, 2018 by healingwoman

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 Time that is Given to Us.

Posted on November 14, 2015 by healingwoman

Once, “Is Paris burning?” referred to World War II and the question was whether retreating German troops would destroy the city because they could or would leave it intact because they could. Today I weep for Paris because it burned … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Rocky Hill.

Posted on October 2, 2014 by healingwoman

For fans of my dog breed, bearded collies, North America has shrunk this week to Gettysburg for the U.S. national specialty. I grew up near there and visited with my father, a military historian. The ghosts of our civil war, … Continue reading →

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Essay. Lessons from Doomsday.

Posted on August 3, 2014 by healingwoman

The world has too many conflicts for the media to cover them all at the top of the hour. Yet our horrible obsession with war has temporarily been displaced by obsessive fear of disease, the hemorrhagic fever Ebola. In thinking … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Rocky Hill.

Posted on July 2, 2014 by healingwoman

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. The Rocky Hill (revised)

Posted on November 20, 2012 by healingwoman

On a swelteringly hot day, two armies collided at a little town located at the junction of major roads. By day’s end, men defending their home ground had dug in along a ridge that marked the boundary of the town’s … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Rocky Hill

Posted on September 30, 2012 by healingwoman

The Rocky Hill On a swelteringly hot July day, two armies collided at a little town at the junction of major roads. By day’s end, men defending their home ground had dug in along a ridge, with the very end … Continue reading →

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Essay. Remember.

Posted on September 5, 2012 by healingwoman

Forty years ago today, the final act of the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes and coaches participating in the Munich Olympic games occurred. I remember it with the fixed memory of a 12-year-old child staring at a television set, waiting … Continue reading →

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Essay. Their Finest Hour

Posted on August 19, 2012 by healingwoman

The memory I will carry longest from the summer Olympiad of 2012 is not from the games. In the United States, the NBC network showed a documentary, “Their Finest Hour,” before the last night of athletic coverage. The documentary was … Continue reading →

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Essay. Storms.

Posted on March 14, 2012 by healingwoman

–Before the thunderstorm– Almost every time I check the news, there are photos and video footage of natural disasters such as tornadoes, blizzards, and fires. A few days ago was the one year anniversary of the major earthquake, tsunami, and … Continue reading →

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