Memorial Day: It’s a day of BBQs and dipping your toe in the not-quite-warm-enough pool, and looking around to see everything busting out in glorious technicolor. It’s also the day when we pause to remember— and honor- those of our parents and grandparents who fought wars to protect the freedoms enshrined in our democracy.
In the U.K. it’s a day in November, called Remembrance Sunday. In Warsaw, Poland, Poles commemorate the heroes of the 1944 Warsaw Rising on August 1 at 5p.m. when everyone and everything in the city comes to a total standstill for one minute. Continue reading “Why Today I’m Remembering The World War We Fought Against A Fascist Nazi Madman”
Things looked so bleak in Florida the morning after the midterms, I wondered whether I would ever again feel joyful about visiting the state. As of the writing of this blog, recounts, even manual recounts, look likely. But the frontrunners as of yesterday morning continued to be Rick Scott for Senate, and Ron DeSantis, the Trump mini-me, for Florida governor.