by Charles Cameron | Dec 6, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — mostly written as news came from the hospital that his condition had turned critical, updated and posted now that his death has been announced ] . Already I am feeling the presentiment of grief, and so much of what I feel stems from this...
by zen | Nov 11, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Today is Veteran’s Day. It is a day when Americans remember all of those who served, in peace or war. Originally, this day was called Armistice Day in honor of the cease fire that came in ” the eleventh hour of...
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 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...
