The American Legion CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS PLAN The first steps When to activate the plan: with any situation that threatens the integrity or reputatioModified from NewsPlace.org
It all started when I crossed the French gray threshold of Mme. Claudine, beauty specialist. Up to that time, I have always considered myself happy. My life was singularly free from care and sorrow, and I knew nothing of the bitterness of labour. But that is all over now. I will n...
I had one instance that stands out, when I was county auditor, where I had a gentleman walk up to me and started telling me about a book he was reading about the fall of the Roman Empire. And he was telling me why it fell, and I thought it was going to be some interesting lesso...
Memorial Day was originally known asDecoration Day, starting with the American Civil War. It’s believed that the tradition of honoring the dead was inspired by the way Southern states decorated the graves of both Confederate and Union soldiers with flowers, wreaths, and flags. Several cities and...
Every year, the American Legion program called Boys State brings in some of the best and brightest young men to experience simulated democracy first-hand. They are divided into two different “parties,” and then must choose their leaders, give speeches
So it was that I subtitledEutopiaa tale of “terrible optimism.” The story is about the racist and ableist underpinnings of what was at the time considered a utopian idea: to build an objectively better human race by culling the members that the eugenicists believed to be inferior. That is...
1. Verne Gagne was not gonna sell AWA to anyone, even as eminent domain closed in on his properties. It took until 2006 IRL plus a hefty amount of dementia for his kids to give it up. It being purchased and incorporated into the WCW lettering when WCW already w...
A few years ago, there was some neo-Nazi rally thing going on in a smaller town in Sweden, which sucked of course. The silver lining is that the people who went out to protest them came out in such a legion — a bigger crowd against the Nazis there. I saw a picture from that whe...
the framework of the group, the decision was made to carry out large-scale research into the reality in the classroom. One of the central research questions was whether everyday practice in (primary) education was actually rather resistant to modernization and whether there was a “grammar of...
Over the course of 25 years he’s been on everything from “Love American Style” to “Seinfeld” (he was the Smog Strangler in the Kramer-goes-to-Hollywood episodes). His non-Ron film credits run from “Evilspeak” to a small part in “Forget Paris” to the upcoming Pamela Anderson ...