• Fancy Day

    So every once in a while a friend and I would spend a Saturday doing a marathon of British period shows or movies. We recently watched Dickens’ Little Dorrit, and before that Wives and Daughters, and Cranford. Next up is Lark Rise to Candleford, then Downton Abbey, and finally Upstairs, Downstairs. While we watch we…

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  • A “Devil Dog’s” Story

    By PVT Al Barker, No 118, 43rd CO, 5th Reg, US Marines The US declared war upon Germany April 6, 1917. I was going to college at the time. I went to spend a weekend in New York City and happened to be in Union Square where recruiting of soldiers, sailors, and marines were taking…

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