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Mayhem, confusion, cover-up, deceit — I watched the Aug. 7 congressional hearings involving Gold Star parents of the thirteen service members who died two years ago on Aug. 16 from the Kabul, Afghanistan, suicide bombing with mixed emotions of empathy, compassion, sadness and festering anger.
A couple years back I was walking down a hospital corridor in Rhinebeck wearing a well-used ball cap featuring an American flag logo when a passing woman sarcastically remarked “Make America great again?” I fixed my gaze upon her and replied “Madam, America has always been great but there’s always room for improvement”.
‘Freedom’s Quest’ — Declared and drafted on July 4, 1776, by then America’s 13 subjugated British colonies. Colonies fed up with the British crown’s monarchical authoritarian rule over them. They craved freedom so much that they rebelled against overwhelming British odds and firepower.
(D-Day: June 6, 1944)
At the altar where I first joined the sanctuary of God I ask to seek divine guidance for me in the great struggle that looms ahead,” General Douglas MacArthur would write Dr. W.P. Witsell, rector of Christ Episcopal Church at Little Rock, Arkansas, prior to the Normandy invasion.
May Day/May Day; no, not our international distress call, but rather my anxious unknowing thoughts as I sit concealed on a mountainside May day pre-dawn morning wondering what dawn will conjure up on this new day. A heart-pounding adrenalin rush or a tranquil wilderness encounter.
Spring showers, emerging flowers — the awakening and rebirth of a new year. Mother Nature kindly stretching days into evenings. Multi-colored birds offer cheerful choirs of song to announce a new nesting season. Buds slowly unfurling to blossoms. National past-time sports kicking off new seasons. Outdoor activities in towns bustling.
Once again we are able to congregate for tasty prepared wholesome breakfast functions at the Millerton American Legion Post 178 on Rt.44 East hosted by the Post and the 4-H Dutchess County Long Rifles youth shooting team.
I write to readers about a story of sympathy, generosity and big hearts: Dave and Christine MacMillan, past residents of the town of North East, departed New York four years ago bound for a new home and life in Florida.
Christians believe that more than 2,000 years ago, God sent Jesus Christ among us to save us from self destruction. Jesus gave his life in that endeavor, hopefully not in vain.
I have been following the brutal invasion of Ukraine closely and though defensive support from the U.S. and NATO has been slow walked or denied over the past year, the Ukrainian people and their president Zelenskyy have proven to be fierce patriots fighting overwhelming odds with military might, holding the Russian army at bay.
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