Veterans: What Are Your Favorite Military Terms, Acronyms, and Phrases?
By David M. Swindle
COL. Austin Bay (ret.) is updating EMBRACE THE SUCK for Liberty Island. The original pamphlet was a short but pithy dictionary of American military idioms used by servicemen and women. The original edition focused on the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century — some of the idioms, terms and acronyms had […]
Week Thirty-One: The Torricelli Option
By Curtis Edmonds
It had been a bracing week on the campaign trail. I got up every day at five o’clock and walked precincts throughout the district. At that early hour, I spent a lot of time waiting with parents at bus stops. You would figure this would be a great time to talk to parents about progressive […]
Cakes and Bullets
By Robert Watts Lamon
I was taking my usual walk in the cool morning of late April. The azaleas were still in bloom, and the fledgling birds were hopping on the shoulder of the road. As I topped the last hill and was heading for home, I noticed something lying on the grassy shoulder, something leathery–sort of a large […]
PreTeena October 3-9 2016
By Allison Barrows
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