GINTA – The Remembrance Day files: it feels like family
‘In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns [Continue]
Remembrance Day
EDITORIAL – Let’s keep one special day every year free of blowout sales
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE OF THE HALLMARKS of the free enterprise economy is our great enthusiasm for using just about any occasion on the calendar to go on a [Continue]
KNOX – Generations hand down tales of war and sacrifice
SGT. BILL BOLDT’S letter, penned while convalescing in France, began on a reassuring note. “Now Sis, don’t be alarmed,” he wrote, referring to the Red Cross [Continue]
GINTA – Let us always remember all that they did for us
MY GRANDFATHER was a WWII veteran. He died when I was nine, and so did the stories that he might have been inclined to share. I have old photos of him in uniform, and I know [Continue]
WHAT’S UP DOWNTOWN – Remember the sacrifices of our war veterans
“IT WAS A SHORT PEACE in a terrible war.” These were the remarks of Alfred Anderson, a Scottish veteran, recounting the events of the Christmas Truce of 1914. This [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – The wars and soldiers we seem to have forgotten
Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Charge of the Light Brigade TALK TO war veterans, and one of their biggest worries is that [Continue]
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