Showing posts with label heroes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heroes. Show all posts
Friday, March 06, 2026

EMPERATORI PARS VE GHARB (THE PERSIAN EMPIRE AND THE WEST)

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by J. P. Linstroth   To Our Armed Forces      Combat between a Persian (left) and a Greek (right), depicted on a cup at the National Archaeo...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

SWAMP THING

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by Mark Hendrickson Kermit the Frog grew up in a swamp    before he moved to Manhattan    where all the rats still skate on butter.   He tri...
Monday, February 17, 2025

TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND BRAIN ROT

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by Bonnie Proudfoot AI-generated graphic by Shutterstock for The New Verse News . Don’t tell me you spent all your allowance  on comic books...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

COLORING BOOK WITH SECRET SUPERHEROES

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by Bonnie Proudfoot This is a coloring book without lines. This is a coloring book where Jane wears any clothing she feels like wearing and ...
Sunday, May 08, 2022

FAR FROM THE WAR

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by Charles Hughes Cover of the May 6, 1944 issue of The New Yorker . Far from the war, days bloom— Some gorgeously—as in A sickroom hopes ca...
Friday, March 18, 2022

ON ANOTHER AVERAGE EVENING

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by Ethan McGuire Top: Art by Molly Crabapple, special to ProPublica, April 24, 2020. Bottom: Graphic from National Nurses United . She lies...
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

WE ARE UKRAINIANS TOO

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by Jonel Abellanosa "What love is greater than the wholesome and heroic love of your own country? What other love? Nothing else." ...
Sunday, March 06, 2022

THE GHOST OF THE OLD COUNTRY

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by Kathryn A. Broderick My grandmother is from the Old Country A land of winding cities, valorous heroes, and ancient towers Across the gree...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

LOSERS AND SUCKERS

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by  Nan Ottenritter My Dad  Date of enlistment:                                         21 May 40 Education:               ...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

MISSION

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by Wendy Hoffman Credit: Doug Mills/ The New York Times , May 29, 2020. The moon lifts its holy head like a sanctified queen. Huma...
Monday, March 30, 2020

THE PROMISE OF HANDIWORK

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by Jen Schneider A single tear drops and pools on uneven hardwood planks. Startled white mice scamper. Droppings where gravel and c...
Friday, February 07, 2020

THE SMEDLEY D. BUTLER BRIGADE

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by Art Goodtimes Smedley Darlington Butler by  Robert Shetterly / Americans Who Tell the Truth John Bolton Mitt Romney ...
Friday, May 17, 2019

REPRIEVE

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by Emily Jo Scalzo months will bleed by when gunshots don’t echo down school hallways in classrooms or lecture halls a reprieve f...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

A MOTHER READS OF YET ANOTHER HERO

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by Devon Balwit Kendrick Castillo was killed while trying to stop one of the assailants during a shooting at his school in Highlands Ra...
Friday, February 23, 2018

HELL IS PUNGENT WITH GUNS

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(My Neighbor Calls Gun Owners ‘Beelzeguns,’  Says They Call Themselves ‘Gun Nuts’  Because Otherwise They Don’t Have Any Balls) Gr...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

A CHRISTMAS SONNET

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by Cally Conan-Davies Aleksander Reed "Alek" Skarlatos is an American actor and Oregon Army National Guardsman specialist who...