Category Archives: Other Voices

Ernie Pyle is Dead

Posted on March 15, 2007 by David St Lawrence

Independent war correspondent Michael Yon made favorable comments about some mainstream media correspondents in Iraq. Michael’s thoughtful dispatch from Iraq compared the wartime environment in which Ernie Pyle wrote to the environment in which today’s war correspondents struggle to survive. … Continue reading →

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Poised between darkness and light…

Posted on January 28, 2007 by David St Lawrence

Michael Yon is a freelance journalist with the last battalion of American soldiers in Mosul, at this critical moment while Mosul is poised precariously between progress and descent into chaos. The other American forces have been withdrawn from Mosul to … Continue reading →

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Bill Ardolino on patriotism, family tradition and the Jacksonian tradition

Posted on January 15, 2007 by David St Lawrence

Blogger Bill Ardolino interviews Lance Corporal Nathan (Chad) Yeager and I learn that the  Jacksonian tradition is alive and well. I realize that this is a tradition I was raised in and never connected it to the Jacksonian era. Lance … Continue reading →

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Making Lemonade – a new idea for Thanksgiving

Posted on November 23, 2006 by David St Lawrence

  When life hands you lemons, you can whine about the unfairness of it all or you can sing. The latest ripples in the blogosphere are coming from the cheerful sounds of Complaints Choirs! Finnish husband-wife artist team, Oliver Kochta … Continue reading →

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