RSS- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
- Britain? Kaput! By Walrus.
- Declaration “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity
- The situation and some possible courses of action … A Pat Lang post reposted from 26 February 2022
Category Archives: Obituary
“Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale”
Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, New York 22 March 2014 My wife’s father passed away after a long battle with dementia. His life … Continue reading
Richard Sale – In Memoriam
Richard Sale Richard died last night of pancreatic cancer. He had suffered with that for three years. He was a dear personal friend and until his last illness wrote often for SST. pl
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I stopped watching …
"In Kitchen Confidential he wrote candidly about falling into a depression that was fanned by his substance abuse. “I could no longer bear even to pick up the phone; I’d just listen to the answering machine, afraid or unwilling … Continue reading
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“Mick” Trainor – dead at 89
I was lucky enough to have some wonderful friends in the military; enlisted men too numerous to list, Colonel Robert Sawyer, Colonel David Hackworth and Lt. General Bernard Trainor, USMC come to mind immediately. Mick was a product of Jesuit … Continue reading
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Razan al-Najjar (F B Ali)
Razan al-Najjar died on Friday, June 1st. She was a 21-year old Palestinian nurse and paramedic. And a mother. She was killed while running (along with other paramedics) towards the Gaza border fence with Israel. They were running to treat … Continue reading
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Soldiers. She is ours and we are hers.
"Charles would have been retired by now and probably coaching Jordan on a flag football team. He would have been the one to take care of the back-to-school medical forms that I turned in almost a month late. I know … Continue reading
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Sacred to the memory of…
An Indian friend sent this phtograph from a church in North India. It reminds me that there are veterans graves everywhere. It reminds of the monument I crossed a strret to look at in the dusty little Vietnamese town of Lai … Continue reading
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We have lost a friend- Leila Abu-Saba
I regret to inform the SST community that Leila Abu-Saba has left us all after reaching the end of her long struggle with cancer. Requiescat in pace. pl http://mondoweiss.net/2009/10/goodbye-to-leila-abu-saba.html
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