It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, as we all heard Donald Trump say “I like people who weren’t captured” about former prisoner of war John McCain in 2015, but The Atlantic is reporting today that the President’s disdain for men and women in uniform goes far deeper. Here’s how the article, written by Jeffrey […]
Tag Archives: World War II
Donald Trump refers to Americans who died in war as “losers” and “suckers”
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, anti-American, Belleau Wood, bone spurs, disrespecting the troops, Donald Trump, draft dodging, James LaPorta, Jeffrey Goldberg, John McCain, losers, Marines, Nazis, Paris, Paul Eaton, suckers, Vietnam War, Vladimir Putin 104 Comments
My friend, Ned Cartledge, on the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp
With everyone talking about the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my mind went, as it often does when thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, to my friend, the Atlanta folk artist Ned Cartledge. Cartledge, as I may have mentioned here before, saw the horrors of the Nazis firsthand toward the end of the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1945, 82nd Airborne, 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion, Atlanta, Auschwitz, cesspool, concentration camps, Dwight D. Eisenhower, folk art, Gardelegen, Gardelegen massacre, genocide, Germany, holocaust, holocaust denial, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Kurt Vonnegut, Lorrie Mell, Ludwigslust, Nazi, Ned Cartledge, Neuengamme, never forget, propaganda, racism, scapegoats, starvation, torture, Unitarian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, war, war crimes, Wöbbelin 7 Comments
The passing of my Mimi Dorothy
Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, the last of my grandparents, passed away yesterday evening at the age of 93 in Lexington, Kentucky, not terribly far from where I was was born 50 years ago, and where she lived for most of her adult life. She was one of my favorite people in the entire world, and […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Beardstown, Bob Avery, cancer, Clementine, Death, Dorothy Avery, family history, family photo, friends who have passed, Galesburg, grandparents, Great Depression, hospice, Illinois, John Lambie, matriarch, Mimi Dorothy, Mothers' Day, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Robert Avery, Shane Land, Sweden, telegrams 18 Comments