Tag Archives: Memorial Day

The Turning Point

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here  With the Civil War now 160 years in the rear-view mirror, historians continue to debate the point at which the Union prevailed. When was the high-water mark of the Confederacy? At what moment in what battle were the South’s hopes, realistically, finally thwarted?  No consensus has emerged. But the epic three-day conflict of July… Read more »

The Company of the Willing

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It’s hard to overstate the eagerness of many underage men to join America’s armed forces in World War II. Calvin Graham was one of them. In August 1942 he walked into a recruiting station in Fort Worth, Texas. The recruiting officer had a pretty good idea Calvin was too young to… Read more »

Heroes

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On February 23, 1945, less than six months before the end of World War II, U.S. Marines fought their way to the top of Mt. Suribachi on the tiny volcanic atoll of Iwo Jima. AP photographer Joe Rosenthal clambered up the slopes behind them, hoping to take a picture of the raising of the American flag. He was too late. … Read more »