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Steve Mason: Writing His Way Home

June 8th, 2012

By Jan Barry When he died at age 65 in May 2005, Steve Mason’s obituary appeared in newspapers across America. Virtually all of them noted that Mason was “the poet laureate of the Vietnam Veterans of America whose searching blank verse was read at the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.” That […]

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Tags: memorial, poetry, Steve Mason, veteran, Vietnam
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Never Forget, Never Forgive

September 11th, 2011

Articles written by Editor
Tags: 9/11, attack, memorial, terrorism, terrorist, war
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The Mosque at Ground Zero

August 26th, 2010

By Tom Carter It would be hard to find another issue as emotional and poorly understood as the so-called mosque at Ground Zero. The issue was created for the most part by a Muslim and his wife and became a hot potato when they announced that ground would be broken for the project on September […]

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Tags: Constitution, Ground Zero, islamic, memorial, monument, mosque, Muslim
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Stop Memorializing a Monster

July 21st, 2010

By Trevor Dane The Bust of Joseph Stalin at the National D-Day Memorial Museum Has to Go On average, over 15 million tourists descend on Washington, DC each year to walk among the hundreds of inspiring and precisely sculpted monuments honoring many of America’s most historically famous political and cultural leaders. Of course, Washington DC […]

Articles written by Trevor Dane
Tags: bust, Churchill, D Day, dictator, memorial, monument, Roosevelt, Stalin
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