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Friday, November 14, 2025

Becoming a US Citizen While Serving in the Military

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While I was in Washington DC advocating for Ukraine , I met Lesya Jurgovsky . We were both members of the Pennsylvania delegation . She liv...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

The Sobibor Nazi Death Camp

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Sobibór , deep in the forests of eastern Poland near the Bug River , was one of the most secret and lethal of the Nazi death camps. Built in...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

The Treblinka Nazi Death Camp

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  After visiting the Chelmno Death Camp, Emily and Cliff and I drove to the Treblinka Death Camp, located about 80 kilometers northeast of W...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

The Chelmno Nazi Death Camp

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 Yesterday, I visited Chelmno , known in German as Kulmhof , the first Nazi death camp established for the systematic extermination of Jews....
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Anselm Kiefer in the Panthéon--The first major new art installation in the Pantheon in a century

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  I returned to the Panthéon after previous visits over the past decade, to see the first new art exhibit in crypt of the Republic in a ce...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations and the Moral Backbone of the American Founders

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  When Marcus Tullius Cicero retreated to his villa at Tusculum in 45 B.C., he was a man in mourning. His daughter Tullia had died, the R...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former Foes, Now Allies! My New Friend Ihor was on the other of the Cold War

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  Ihor Chernik and I in the Cannon Congressional Office Building (Good pun, soldiers in the Cannon building....) Today and tomorrow I am on...