Gazette-Mail editorial: Reflections on war on Veterans Day

Editorial: When veterans succeed, everyone wins

Today’s veterans made a conscious choice to serve their nation at a time when they could have been laying the groundwork for a successful civilian life. In return, they are owed the chance to catch up.

Gazette-Mail editorial: Reflections on war on Veterans Day

Today is the day the nation sets aside to honor our veterans of the armed forces. It's always a particularly important day in West Virginia, where the rate of service is so high.

Veterans Day, Vonnegut and the consequences of war

It’s Veterans Day and as I sometimes do, I’m thinking today about the memorable preface to Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel, Breakfast of Champions.  This is what he said.  So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called A…

Veterans Day and The Stolen Children of War and the Paris Circus with a secret by Jina Bacarr

When Jewish mothers arrived at Auschwitz holding tight onto their children, they had no idea their little ones would be ‘stolen’ from them and murdered after the selection. Innocent babes with chubby cheeks and big eyes along with young boys still in short pants and shy little girls in pigtails. It’s a fate too horrible […] The post Veterans Day and The Stolen Children of War and the Paris Circus with a secret by Jina Bacarr appeared first on A …