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Heading for Trouble
Do we really want to occupy Iraq for the next 30 years?
September 4, 2002

Country music's most popular song this summer is a defiantly nationalistic tune by Toby Keith, in which he warns potential adversaries that if they mess with us, "we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way." Last week the Chinese government showed us its way. Read on...

Don't Call on the Guard
1989

The National Guard is entering what the Pentagon has euphemistically termed "the nationwide crusade against drugs." Which is hardly going to cause either the billionaire kings of crack or the minor moguls of the open-air markets to lose much sleep. Read on...

Viet Vets Didn't Kill Babies, and They Aren't Suicidal
April 6, 1986

Give yourself the "Great Rorschach Test of Vietnam." What comes to mind when you hear the words 'Vietnam Veteran?"

Quite frankly, whether your reaction is anger, arrogance, sympathy or respect, chances are it is also filled with negative connotations. When we think Vietnam veterans, we think problems. Read on...

This Holocaust Still Goes On
Why do we ignore it?
April 14, 1983

In this week of remembering the anguish of the Holocaust, in these days of commemorating those who survived, let us take just a moment to consider the crimes that continue in Cambodia. Read on...

The Power of Remembering
May 25, 1981

"By making a distinction between a failed war and their dedicated warriors, the Japanese have illustrated the spiritual power of commemoration and the nobility of military service."

There is strength to be gained from remembering.

The ancient Druids knew this, as did the Greek, and the Romans and the women of the defeated Confederacy after the Civil War, all of whom made a practice of strewing the graves of dead warriors with flowers. So did Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone, who I once intoned, "Show me the manner in which a nation or a Community cares for its dead, and I will measure exactly the sympathies of its people, their respect for the Laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals." Read on...

The Invisible Vietnam Veteran
August 1974