Walz served in Nebraska, Texas and Arkansas before moving to Minnesota in 1996. He was in the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery based in New Ulm. He specialized in heavy artillery and had ribbons for proficiency in sharpshooting an...
which employs 40,000 men, join the disturbances. The czar’s government does not know what to do. Day after day in February the marches go on. Finally the czar orders the military to suppress the demonstrations. People are killed. But now, unlike in 1905, the soldiers have little to los...
First there is the right luggage, whether finding bags small enough to qualify as ‘carry on’ for the plane, or cases large enough to contain all the necessaries for two weeks in the sun. Then come decisions about clothes: do we take a bare minimum, or instead give ourselves lots of ...
Everyone watched as the gifts were opened, slowly and individually, while Kenny kept up a stream of drunken, slightly obscene but very funny patter, and the piles of torn paper and ribbons mounded up at our feet. Thea and I swapped a satisfied glance: the room was filled with laughter ...
There is nothing like ribbons, bows, and shiny wrapping paper with foil and glitter but all that stuff is stuff you can't stuff in the blue bin. The same goes for packing peanuts, Styrofoam and plastic wrap. Don't even think about putting ornaments or holiday string lights in the bin ...
The Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, was the first COVID hot spot in the U.S. Forty-six people associated with the nursing home died, exposing how ill-prepared we were for the pandemic — and how we take care of our elderly. This is their story.
So, you don't have celebrities wearing ribbons on their lapels for HTLV like they do for HIV research. And Hollywood is a notoriously short-sighted place. It tends to ignore what's not right in its face. HIV is a cause celebre. HLTV is not. Which is a shame. By GeorgeMont — On...
It took Nixon to go to China and it took Trump to end white male dominance. The big change in the US is that women now feel empowered, maybe even obligated, to come forward and tell their stories. And they are telling them. And bad behavior is being outed and long overdue changes ...
Not since a Chicago newspaper headlined “Dewey Defeats Truman” has there been a massive public screw-up on the order of what happened at the Oscars on Sunday night. But it’s an ill wind that blows nobody some good, and the huge embarrassment for Warren Beatty,...
She always dressed me younger than my age, junior dresses in high school that little kids wouldn’t want to wear, t-shirts with muppets, lots of pink and hair ribbons -- that sort of thing. As a result, I attracted more than my share of creepy old men trying to lure me into their...