Funny Thing About Christmas
Funny thing about Christmas… how it just is… how it just persists.
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An American Thanksgiving
It is the most American of holidays. The day when we neither commemorate nor celebrate nor observe anything or anyone. The day we simply go home—if we can and however we can, even if only in our thoughts—and give thanks.
What a Father Taught Me
It’s like a pair of really big shoes. Every year, I have to walk up and put my feet in them and look silly because I can never fill them.
Fallen Heroes, Never Forgotten
When I was a kid we called it Decoration Day and, in a practice observed since 1868, it always came on May 30.