Robert Kennedy, Jr was born Jan 17, 1954. He’s 70. Donald Trump was born June 14, 1946. He’s 78. I was born Dec 5, 1945, and I’m 78. (Note: I got this information online from Wikipedia, and it is the…
Category: Military and Veterans
A Letter from Cumberland Gap, Our Last Talk
I had expected a Quickening, but not before Christmas. This is from a Vietnam vet, Infantry platoon leader, college roommate one year, a fine prosecutor, then judge, and a good courthouse philosopher of Thomas Jefferson’s ilk: We will have to…
The Timeline of Freedom, How and Why
I want to tell this story as it was seen and heard the first time in a classroom filled with black mothers, and their babies in a nursery across the hall….in the 1990s. In 1996 I began teaching a…