Alan Caruba's Blog Posts Tagged 'Memorial' (2)

By Alan Caruba



I was a young working journalist during the era of the Civil Rights movement and one evening I was covering a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the campus of Drew University in Madison, NJ. I was accompanied by Vivian Braxton, a civil rights activist who said, “Let’s go… Continue

A poem by Henry Reed from World War Two captures the brutal absurdity of war as it depicts a new soldier listening to a field lecture on the various parts of a rifle and compares it to the beauty of the world around him. Unspoken is the need, from time to time, to fight for the freedom to enjoy that beauty.





Naming of Parts

By Henry Reed



Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,

We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,

We shall have… Continue