In November 1918, days before the official end of the war, an American professor named Moina Michael wrote her own poem, “We Shall Keep the Faith,” which was inspired by McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields.” In her poem (also shown below), she mentioned wearing the “poppy red” to hono...
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“The only time it really gets to me is when it surfaces on the field. . . . One time when I was playing in an American Legion game against Notre Dame (High), I came to the plate and they started singing the theme to ‘Raiders (of the Lost Ark).’” Harrison Ford, who sees B...
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...
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
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 ...
One day there was an open field, but not just any open field. This field was guarded by a goddess, Nixious (Nix-e-ous) goddess of disease. In this field laid her treasure, a young rancher and her cottage with sheep. This rancher impressed the goddess, and earned the name Simkaxzi ...
His intention had been to avoid violence and damage, but he concedes that, once the exhilarating whirr of rivet-removal was under way, a few younger recruits fell victim to demolition fever and started hammering on the windows, creating a noise like 'the battle drums of the Bronx'. On...
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...
The decision came down to Syd Pollock, the Clowns’ white owner, who was never afraid of a bold move. His team had become the most profitable of any in the Negro League—possibly the first whose players never missed a payday. He carried no weak links on his team; he could not afford...