He was the star basketball player, but he was humble about it. He dated the head cheerleader, though at the time he preferred the company of friends.I’m talking about Gene Painley of Uniontown, who died recently. Gene was a friend and a touchstone of my youth. Later, seeing him as an adult, ...
Ken Burns’ 10-part documentary series "The Vietnam War" aired last September on PBS.It was of great interest to me, having spent a year at Danang Air Base between 1969 and ‘70.In Episode 5, the viewing audience was taken to the prison facility known as The Hanoi Hilton, where we saw an ...
Labor Day. Once upon a time, during presidential election years, this was the day on which the political knives came out.It was the day on which the candidate from the Missouri heartland, or the farm in Illinois, or the comfortable mansion on Cape Cod, or the Texas ranch, would fly to Michigan ...