Here are some stories commemorating both Memorial Day and the June 6 anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944: Pete Giron was a Western Union delivery boy in Greensburg during the Second World War. He was a high school kid, 15 or 16 years old, too young to serve in the military, ...
Q. Good morning and Happy Memorial Day. Why did my gramps get mad at me? I woke up this morning and went to his place like I do just about every day off from school, and I said good morning like always and then I said I was upset because my mom has to work so we鈥檙e not having a picnic for ...
What's an ally worth? Plenty, if you're in a foxhole or storming a beach with one. The same is true if, as a U.S. soldier, you had a native-guide ally on your team in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan in the treacherous months and years after 9/11. Not so much if you are a member of ...
My proper British grandmother, Dora, loved cats (as long as they lived outdoors). There was never a time when we did not have at least two or three feral cats on our back porch. They always sat on the porch steps and played with me as a kid. Kitties were my friends. Twenty years later, we ...
Q. I think I want to take a gap year. I worked hard in high school, especially since 10th grade. My grades are great, and I got into my first-choice college. My family is happy, my teachers are proud, you know the drill. But I鈥檓 exhausted. Before you ask, no it鈥檚 not that I want to forego ...
As a teacher, husband, and new father in the 鈥�70s, expectations of what it meant to be a man changed. I can remember telling a friend, 鈥淚 grew up idolizing John Wayne and had to become Alan Alda.鈥� For my younger readers, it meant that men raised to admire the strong, silent, macho type ...
