From the Los Angeles Times … As Shohei Ohtani takes center stage, remembering baseball at Manzanar prison camp … By Jack Dolan Staff Writer Photography by Brian van der Brug Oct. 28, 2024 Dan Kwong stands on the pitcher’s mound at the restored baseball field at Manzanar National Historic Site, where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World …
Cowboy2 and I listening to Supreme Court arguments in Trump ballot case, Feb. 8, 2024.
— Displaced Palestinians seeking shelter fled Al-Nasser hospital in southern Gaza as Israeli campaign to eradicate Hamas terrorists continued. — Iran launched air strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Syria while U.S. again targeted Houthi weapons sites in Yemen. — Conservative Supreme Court justices reportedly leery of case law favoring executive branch regulatory authority. — Texas …
I am watching birds and sifting through email. It’s morning and almost the end of 2023. Most of the emails I receive are from journalism outfits, conservation groups and the AARP, almost all seeking money. The birds are more fun. I’m sure the non-profit journalism folks know this but my legacy or mainstream media providers …
This is from Part 1 of A.J. Liebling’s World War II report for The New Yorker on the allied invasion of Normandy, published June 23, 1944, a few weeks after the June 6 invasion began. Liebling was aboard a large infantry landing craft (LCIL) for the invasion. “After the services, printed copies of Eisenhower’s message …
I had high hopes when I went to vote 50 years ago in a beautiful place at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. I was 23 but Nov. 7, 1972, was my first time to cast a ballot because the 26th amendment and 18-year-old-vote wasn’t ratified until 1971. I went with a couple of buddies …
… is very long, lndeed. “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” Speech given at the National Cathedral, March 31, 1968. The blurry byline on the copy of “A Singing Heard in Selma’s Mud” …
NOTE TO READERS: THIS POST IS FROM FIRE SEASON 2021. With Beatty’s Cabin unfortunately in the news — threatened this June 2021 by the Rincon Fire on the east side of the Pecos Wilderness — I went to the bookshelf for my prized first edition of this Pecos classic. Here is a fine (linked) profile …
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