Day: June 6, 2008

The casualty lists for that one day are brutal. For the U.S. there were 1,465 dead and 1,928 missing (If you're missing, it's a safe bet you are dead). I am named for a cousin of my father's who was never found. About 19 years old. I believe he was in one of those amphibious tanks … Read more

The cause of course, is his cause for canonization. Here's a nice feature piece from earlier this week: Charting a Path to Sainthood – washingtonpost.com Blesseds and saints aren't metaphors in Catholic doctrine. They are held up as real examples of people who successfully imitated Jesus in their lives (or deaths, in the case of … Read more