MEMORIAL DAY 2020
TO MY FALLEN BROTHERS: LCPL CARROLL FANKHAUSER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 8/24/65 PFC ROBERT FERNANDEZ, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 6/20/65 CPL BRIAN GAUTHIER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/11/65 LCPL REYNALDO GUZMAN, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. 1/25/66 1STLT WALTER...JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #4
May 18 — This weekend, we attended – if that’s the right word — a virtual memorial service for our friend Karen Wessel Marcus, who died of Covid19 two weeks ago. It was streamed live from St. James Episcopal in Scarsdale, N.Y., Karen’s...JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #3
May 13, 2020 We have been more or less sheltering in place at our winter home in Patagonia, Arizona, for the past two and a half months. I use the qualifying term “more or less” because in this sparsely populated region there is ample room to go hiking,...JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #2
I have to begin with an apology and a correction. In my last post, I misreported the date of Karen Wessel Marcus’s death as Sunday, May 3. It was actually Monday, May 4. During this pandemic, the days have lost their distinctiveness. Half the time, I don’t know if its...JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #1
JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR This will be the first of periodic blogs I plan to post during the pandemic of 2019-2020. May 6, 2020 — Karen Wessel Marcus, my wife, Leslie’s, best friend since sixth grade, died of the Coronavirus Sunday night at 9:16 p.m. Eastern time. Her...VIDEO INTERVIEWS: MY WRITING INSPIRATIONS, THE VIETNAM WAR, AND SERENDIPITY
These short interview videos cover a series of topics, ranging from my thoughts on writing and journalism to looking back at my first book, Rumor of War and the war that inspired it.
INTERVIEW ON AMERICA’S #1 TRAVEL SHOW
This link — https://rmworldtravel.com/podcasts/2020-2/ — will take you to RM World Travel, America’s number one travel show on radio. This broadcast, which aired March 28, is worth listening to in its entirety. Perhaps it will offer you an escape...IMPERIAL COLLEGE REPORT ON COVID19
The web is full of misinformation about the Corona Virus, as it is about far too many things. Below is the link to an authoritative and thorough analysis completed by a team of epidemiologists and statisticians at the Imperial College in London. Their report was sent...KEEPING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE
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