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Friday, July 9, 2021

Meeting an American Author in a Paris Bookstore

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  Author, professor Nita Wiggins at  The Red Wheelbarrow bookstore opposite  Jardin Luxembourg in Paris.    My first full day in Paris, I wa...

Talking to Amtrak Conductor About Late-Life Enlistment, Loving the Cold War Army

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  Many Amtrak conductors and other rail workers are veterans. Over the past quarter century of commuting to Philadelphia on Amtrak, I got t...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Who Fights Our War? Veteran of the Tet Offensive in 1968 Working Security at Kennedy Airport

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The Tet Offensive in 1968 was the beginning  of the end of the War in Vietnam This afternoon I checked in for a flight to Paris on IcelandAi...
Monday, June 28, 2021

My Summer Vacation: More Concentration Camps

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Arbeit macht frei the ironic and terrible sign at the gate  of Auschwitz and other Nazi Concentration Camps Next week I am flying to Germany...
Monday, June 21, 2021

The Three Little Pigs in French--the original gruesome version

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  Last night I read the original version of "The Three Little Pigs" in French. Children's books used to be so much more grue...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

My Daughter's First Book -- Amelia's Journey to Find Family

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  Lauren Auster-Gussman, my oldest daughter,  with her book Amelia's Journey to Find Family If I were asked to name one thing that defin...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

"He's Got No Damn Common Sense" said Sergeants of Soldiers, But It's True of All of Us

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By the time Thomas Paine wrote  Common Sense in 1775 ,  the idea of common sense was already disappearing.  "He's got no damn commo...