by Ken Sehested | Nov 11, 2020 | Opinion
Veterans Day doesn’t lend itself to commercial attention like its twin, Memorial Day. This is probably because it’s squeezed between two other cash-registering holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving, and it does not coincide with a car-cultural observance like the Indy...
by Ken Sehested | Nov 11, 2019 | Opinion
Veterans Day doesn’t lend itself to commercial attention like its first cousin, Memorial Day. That’s probably because it’s squeezed between two other cash-registering holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving, and it does not coincide with a car-cultural observance like...
by Jonathan Barr | Aug 12, 2014 | Opinion
A hundred years ago this August, the world sunk into the dark trauma of World War I—a conflict so costly and all-consuming that no one could be left untouched by its shadow. Millions of lives were cut short, and millions more scarred by the experience of battle. So...
by Joe LaGuardia | Aug 7, 2014 | Opinion
July 28 marked the centennial anniversary of World War I’s beginning. For many, it was the war to end all wars; for powerful clergy that shaped religious and political life in America at the time, it was the very war by which God would usher in his kingdom. In...
by Leroy Seat | Jul 28, 2014 | Opinion
War began in Europe in July 1914, 100 years ago today. It was originally called the Great War—great meaning “notably large in size”—but after a second war that was even greater in size, it has come to be known as World War I. The immediate cause of WWI was...