WOUNDED BIRD

The Russian brute destroys By killing, by grief, by loss. Cities, towns, and villages Racked and ruined By soldier brutes who follow their l...

Icon of MLK by Tobias Haller From Martin Luther King's speech at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, four days before he wa...

My thoughts and feelings on this Sunday when many churches honor the living and dead veterans of our wars are far too conflicted for me to w...

Former Senator Chuck Hagel was finally confirmed as Secretary of Defense, after his confirmation was stalled in the Senate by members of th...

I hate war. I hope and pray that our two most recent wars will be our last - a foolish hope and prayer perhaps, nevertheless...   Oh, a...

Has the US ever been at peace since the end of World War II?  I do not refer only to declared wars,  but rather to any fighting in which US ...

Each Memorial Day seems sadder and more difficult to get through than the last.  Yesterday was a bummer, a miserable day.  Perhaps next year...

Let us honor the fallen in our wars by caring well for the survivors, the wounded in body, mind, and spirit, the healthy, and the famil...

From Bob Herbert in the New York Times : So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneo...