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Memorial Day 2025: Different from all the others
Note to readers: Due to illness, I’ve been away from these Letters for nearly a month. Nothing serious, let alone life-threatening. But it was tiring in the extreme and irritating beyond that. All is well now, though, just in time for some thoughts about one of my favorite subjects: Memorial Day and veterans. Next week, […]
Once again, history rhymes
Have you ever heard of Marinus van der Lubbe? Probably not, but were it not for this young, itinerant Dutch construction worker with poor eyesight, the Second World War might never have happened. His is a story of a lone-wolf agitator. It is also a metaphor and a cautionary tale for our time. Let me […]
We need to be reminded of the respect we owe our veterans.
Across America, we see groups and organizations, most of them small and local, that do what they can to demonstrate the respect we owe veterans. For example, here in Massachusetts, in Braintree, the home of John Adams, the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra is dedicating the final performance of its season this coming Saturday night to the […]