Tag: war
member name: Verie Sandborg
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July 28, 2009 08:37 PM EDT --
Pam and I chortle as we watch the video monitors and listen to the commentator report the 1860 presidential campaign in 21st-century style. We are in the Campaign 1860 Gallery in The Abraham Lincoln Presidential . . .
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November 08, 2009 06:35 PM EST --
Across the sea, thousands of miles from the Atlantic shores of the United States in a cemetery near Tunis-Carthage, Tunisia, lie the graves of 2,841 American Military Dead. Buried at the 27-acre . . .
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March 11, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
Getting a busy signal again, I hung up the phone. It was a mid March day in the early 1980s, and I had been trying all evening to call my father long distance at his retirement residence in Michigan to . . .
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April 29, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, which aired on April 17 on the Sundance channel, confronts the U.S. denial of an emerging oil crisis and our inadequate energy policies and technologies. It pulls . . .
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March 29, 2007 02:28 PM EDT --
If I were an advisor to President Bush, I would recommend a strategy to help him save face and seemingly hold the upper hand regarding Iraq war policy. Helping him look good may be the only way to . . .
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March 20, 2007 04:33 PM EDT --
On the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, one particular statistic in a recent poll of Iraqis commissioned by media groups jumps out at me. Half of those surveyed thought that attacks . . .
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April 12, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
Not saying a word, I mentally cried Ow! and quickly pulled back my hand and rubbed my fingers to take the sting out of them. Our teacher, Miss Hollins, had just stepped on the fingers of my right . . .
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April 12, 2006 01:57 PM EDT --
Peace releases
The pain of the dead
Who sigh thanks that at last
The wounds of war are over,
Healing surrounds us.
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October 21, 2006 01:40 PM EDT --
Letting go
Of assumptions
That don't fit
This emerging life
Of a planetary
Consciousness,
Releasing
Unjust claims
That hold us hostage
To outworn mindsets,
Which drive us
To destroy ourselves
And . . .
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August 11, 2006 08:22 PM EDT --
Publicly, I've been mostly quiet about the war between Israel and Hezbollah/Lebanon. But that doesn't mean I haven't thought about what's happening. I've tried to sort out the . . .
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January 12, 2007 04:22 PM EST --
My daughter Pam and I squint into the sunlight as we emerge from underground parking onto Michigan Avenue this second Sunday in January. We're in downtown Chicago from the suburbs to view the . . .
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September 03, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
Our planet is becoming a global society closely connected through trade and media, but diversified in resources, values, customs and histories. In such a society, war is an anachronism. With . . .
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November 13, 2006 03:20 PM EST --
The evening after the 2006 US elections, I attended an informative lecture with discussion by Peter Kenney on Building Democracy in Baghdad. Peter spent 13 months in Iraq as a contractor for the . . .
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June 22, 2005 12:00 AM EDT --
Over the last few years, a good proportion of the news and information we receive in the news media has related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Given that the media has a finite amount of print space . . .
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August 21, 2006 02:00 PM EDT --
Today's Chicago Tribune carries a photo of Illinois Senator Barack Obama while on an African tour visiting the Robben Island prison where Nelson Mandela was held for 27 years. Obama describes . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:30 AM EDT --
In late July, the U.S. announced a proposal to sell an estimated $20 billion of high-tech and sophisticated arms to Saudi Arabia and its neighbors. According to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, . . .
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November 16, 2005 07:14 PM EST --
Chapters I-V posted 8/15/05
Chapter VI posted 10/16/05
Chapter VII posted 10/30/05
April 16, 2004. Today is our last day of touring on the trip, and it's a busy one. The morning takes us to Victory . . .
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September 26, 2006 09:02 PM EDT --
Discovering a seminal sentence or paragraph to enlighten my thoughts helps me live life more authentically by showing me a different perspective and new possibilities. Below are some of these "pearls . . .
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