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A Monument To Memory (The Radio Operator)

  • I am ambivalent about Memorial Day.  On the one hand, it offends me that, for most Americans, Memorial Day has become just another holiday weekend--a getaway to the beach, the opening of the pool, a sale at the garden center.  I once served as an Army nurse, in a stateside hospital to which wounded soldiers were evacuated regularly.  So for me, the "memorial" part of the weekend always overshadows the "holiday" part.  

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Army Nurse

 A half-century after joining the Army Nurse Corps, a woman reflects on the long-ago choice, made as a girl

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Armistice Day

One hundred years ago, a found poem on Armistice Day

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Return Armistice to Veterans Day

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Armistice on Veterans Day

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