Category Archives: freedom

The New Warsaw -Jenin – Gaza

August 14, 2023 – 10:50 am

In the summer of 1939 the German blitzkrieg overran Western Poland and laid siege to Warsaw. The City surrendered on September 29, 1939. The Wehrmacht or the German army occupied the Polish capitol backed by the Einsatzgruppe EG IV and the Einsatzkommandos. By November 1940 the commander of EG IV, Josef Meisinger ‘Butcher of Warsaw’ […]

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D Day plus 80

June 6, 2023 – 8:23 pm

During the night of June 6, 1944 24,000 airborne troops had parachuted behind the enemy lines. At 6:03am the Allies conducted an amphibious assault on Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, which the biggest naval invasion in history and included soldiers from the Nazi-occupied lands; Czechs, French, Poles, and the Norse. The five beaches varied in degrees of […]

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Cinco De Mayo

May 5, 2023 – 5:38 am

Ten years ago my brother-in-law and I left the cabin on Watchic Pond. My sister remained in the kitchen prepping for lunch. The bright spring sun had heated the morning and the thermometer nailed to a tall pine read 72F The morning put the dock in the lake in early May. The water temperature hovered […]

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GOOD DAYS FOR US ALL

February 6, 2023 – 7:33 pm

div class=”separator” style=”clear: both;”> I was born on May 29 1952 at Boston’s Richardson House. My mother’s labor had taken hours and she had always claimed that she had gone down to the Valley of Death to deliver me. I was born healthy, so my first day on Earth was a good one. Many followed. […]

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Lorraine Hotel Fifty-Three Years Ago

January 16, 2023 – 6:08 am

In April 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to address a gathering at the Masonic Temple. The city’s black sanitation workers had walked off the job to protest working condition and low wages. The speech keynoted by the phrase ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop.” That night King stayed at the Lorraine Hotel with […]

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