Share On this anniversary week of the 9/11 attacks, I’ve been thinking a lot about how it felt then to be an American, and how we’re feeling now. I remember acutely the day, of course, the immense shock and the dawning realization of our vulnerability. We were experiencing directly what we’d never encountered, an...
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Share There are 260,000 graves in Arlington National Cemetery. This weekend each one of them has an American flag on its headstone, placed there by soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry. Today is Memorial Day, the day on which we traditionally honor the men and women who died in military service. In 1971 Memorial...
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Share Today, May 19th, is Armed Forces Day in the United States. In 1949, according to the Department of Defense, “President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country.” Today, I’d like...
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Share The handsome young man on the left, posing for his proud parents behind the camera, is my dad, Leon Lambert. The family story is that he lied about his age and enlisted in the Navy at seventeen. But as I do the math, I’m not sure. He turned eighteen in September 1941, and...
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Share Bob Dylan turned seventy years old yesterday. How on earth did that happen? If Dylan is now officially an old man, then that makes me…well, old enough to have been listening to him since the beginning. At the end of ABC News this afternoon, broadcast from the scene of tornado damage in Joplin,...
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Share A number of readers have requested that I republish this, so here it is (updated for 2011): This January 15th would have been Martin Luther King’s 82nd birthday. His life made such an impact on our nation, it’s sometimes difficult to remember he was only 39 when he was assassinated. Share this:
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Share There are 260,000 graves in Arlington National Cemetery. This weekend each one of them has an American flag on its headstone, placed there by soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry. Tomorrow is Memorial Day, the day on which we traditionally honor the men and women who died in military service. In 1971 Memorial...
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