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Friday, July 16, 2021

Surviving War and Terror: Sister Hildegard

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Sister Hildegard in her apartment On my second day in Dresden, I met Sister Hildegard.  She is 84 and has lived in Dresden all of her long l...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Fun with Five Euro Notes

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  This morning we visited the Terezin concentration camp.  We parked in the designated lot.  When it was time to leave, the automatic parkin...

Christian Nationalism in Fort Worth, Texas, Calls Itself Mercy Culture, Preaches Hate and Division. Church of Trump Worship.

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From the  Washington Post An American Kingdom A new and rapidly growing Christian movement is openly political, wants a nation under God’s a...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Christian Nationalism and the Church at the Flossenburg Concentration Camp

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  A Church built onto a guard tower at the Flossenburg Concentration Camp When I visit concentration camps, along with learning about the ho...
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...