Persuading the Body Politic, One Heart at a Time
Clink! Clink! Cha Chink! I expected three one dollar bills to come out of the vending machine, but instead I got three shiny, gold-colored Thomas Jefferson dollar coins. I scooped them up, dropped them in my coin purse, and headed off to hear the afternoon speeches by Bill Bennett, Frank Gaffney, and Geert Wilders. Between [...]
The Side for Human Dignity
In his own words, the story of a man who chose the side of human dignity: Medical evacuation home from Vietnam September 1st 1968. I left from Da Nang Hospital where I had been since August 7th when I suffered multiple shrapnel wounds to my entire body. In flames from the 155 explosion under [...]
The Gift Of Heroism Remembered
“The peace in Southeast Asia which demonstrators demanded and our 94th Congress enacted caused millions of deaths. More were killed in just the first year of peace than during the preceding decade of war.” Bruce Herschensohn from An American Amnesia p. 63 It’s a distressing journey I have chosen to take; to investigate the wrongs [...]
