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Memorial Day this Monday; Walt Whitman on remembering the dead and suffering …

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Whitman was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. A short excerpt below the link. How and Why We Remember the Dead: A Memorial Day Lesson from Walt Whitman Whitman particularly felt the urgent need to recall the soldiers who suffered and died in the military hospitals, which he called “the Untold and Unwritten History … Read more

Pipeline protestors establish themselves in a shipping container “home”

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Interesting protest idea. According to the article below the police cut open the container and arrested them. Protests over a planned gas pipeline took an interesting turn Wednesday when two people locked themselves inside a shipping container blocking the construction site on the Peekskill-Buchanan border. According to a press release from ResistAIM, the protesters had … Read more

Yankees (finally!) back to .500

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Yankees reach key benchmark behind untouchable Eovaldi With a 6-0 win over the Blue Jays in The Bronx, the Yankees got back to .500 (22-22) for the first time since April 14, when they were 4-4. All it took was six straight wins, a string that began with Tuesday night’s starter, Nathan Eovaldi, on the … Read more

WW II soldier’s remains recovered, Id’d, and returned to New Orleans

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A bittersweet story. More than seven decades after being killed during World War II, Pvt. Earl Joseph Keating is finally coming home to his native New Orleans after his remains were discovered on the Pacific island where he died in 1942. Pvt. Keating will actually be buried in two places. Some of his remains were so intertwined … Read more