Category Archives: Our common legacy
I watched the flag pass by one day. It fluttered in the breeze. A young Marine saluted it, and then he stood at ease. I looked at him in uniform So young, so tall, so proud, He’d stand out in any crowd. I thought how many men like him Had fallen through the years. How [...]
Blackfive introduces the Warrior Legacy Foundation and Ace joins in Matt has a post up at BLACKFIVE telling the whole story, but basically those of us who didn’t feel the warrior class and those who support them were being heard have formed this group. We will be ensuring that the stories that have been ignored [...]
The Holocaust Memory Keeper Father Patrick Desbois is a French Catholic priest who, virtually single-handedly, has undertaken the task of excavating the history of previously undocumented Jewish victims of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union, including an estimated 1.5 million people who were murdered in Ukraine. Father Desbois was born 10 years after the [...]
As heirs to Western civilization, our common legacy as is so vast and so great, we can not take it all in. At best, we dip into it from time to time, sometimes as a citizen when we vote or speak against the government without any fear ; sometimes as believers when we gather [...]
A photo album by a Nazi leader in the camp that lay forgotten in an attic for sixty years. “They were young and out for a good time.” Auschwitz through the lens of the SS looks a lot like a resort camp. Cohen: We all know that monsters do monstrous things. But when you see [...]
By focusing on his sexual life, the recent BBC series on the Tudors fails, I am told, to remind us that Henry VIII became a bloody tyrant. John Hinton calls it A spot of blood and grease on the history of England. Holbein’s strutting monarch shows Henry in his last dozen years [...]
Look what was in the attic of the family home of Thaxter Spencer in Waltham, Mass, for more than a hundred years until he donated the photo albums, letters and diaries to the New England Historic Genealogical Society last June The earliest photo, taken in 1888, of Helen Keller and Anne [...]
From This Republic of Suffering, the new book by Drew Gilpin Faust, the first female president of Harvard University. Mortality defines the human condition. “We all have our dead — we all have our Graves,” a Confederate Episcopal bishop observed in an 1862 sermon. Every era, he explained, must confront “like miseries”; every age must [...]
If you are collecting information about your family origins, you must see The Peopling of the World to see how far back your ancestors go. Kudos to the Bradshaw Foundation for the presentation created by Stephen Oppenehimer that shows the world migrations of the human species based on the latest genetic research based on a [...]
