by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 8, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis I spent Memorial Day morning at the ceremony at the Veteran’s National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico which honored America’s service men and women who gave their lives fighting for this country as well as those who became disabled as a result....
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 9, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis For the past 25 years, the US government has honored its military veterans with a nationally broadcast special concert on the Mall the evening before Memorial Day. This year’s concert was – as in years past – a special tribute to those...
by zen | May 27, 2013 | Monitor
I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet...
by aelkus | May 27, 2013 | Monitor
Running through much common misunderstanding of drones, autonomous weapons ,and modern warfare is a romantic fetish of the “natural” and a demonization of the machine and those who use it. Dan Trombly and I have talked about it from the perspective of...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 11, 2012 | Monitor
[by Charles Cameron — for the UK, US and others, a day to remember ] . . . The Great War ended on this date a little short of a century ago, November 11th, 1918. My grandfather, Sir Henry Clayton Darlington, commanded troops at the Hellespont, so for me that war...
