In the Carpathian Mountains

Romania has a rich and complex history, which I never quite understood, until I decided to study and summarize the history section in Welcome to Bucharest and Romania, gifted to us by the concierge at EuropaRoyale Hotel Bucharest in 2019. After finishing this …

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A Italian woman finds her murdered son and caresses him in her shock and sorrow. (Screen grab from Women of the Resistance.)

Brave female resistance fighters in Italy were tortured, and often murdered, for their bravery in the World War II resistance movement.

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A woman kisses a man while cooking on an open fire outside an apartment building which had no electricity, water or gas since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Bucha, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Courtesy Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2nctqso

I, like so many, feel utterly helpless sitting here at home while a maniacal monster scourges the landscape of Ukraine. I wish I could reach back in time and change the course of history and the insidious spread of communism …

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Purchase William E. Dimorier: Servant Leader It’s been a long time coming, but the Dimorier Project finally has something to show for years of research and writing to honor a good man—William E. Dimorier. After numerous efforts to get William’s story …

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Perry Monument 1968 Note the steps. This is before the moat was built, which is dry and littered today. My mother told me that she and her best friend used to sit on the steps and "solve the problems of the world."

If funds leftover from a War of 1812 centennial had been used to build a stadium, there might never have been Perry Memorial on Presque Isle State Park.

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Christina Marie Watson (Photo courtesy of MaryAlice Ball, Tina’s sister)

Two strangers came together at a cemetery on a bright, sunny Memorial Day 2020 weekend and shared memories of the sweet girl whose spirit brought one to care for her grave so many years later. They reminisced about her shortened life and the unthinkable circumstances surrounding her death.

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Sgt. Leo J. Waldinger, Erie Police Department; Erie, Pennsylvania

“. . . the entire force, from the highest echelons down, despite the shootings, that the police principle, ‘let the other guy shoot first,’ should be followed.

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