I had to explain Veterans Day to my students. Not the part about honoring veterans. There are a large number of military families in our neighborhood, and our former principal was a Marine, so we’ve had annual assemblies at the school. They know what a veteran is, what they didn’t get was why was it […]

Photo Credit: from Shaun Noonan’s photostream on Flickr.com I know our antebellum innocence Was never meant to see the light of our armistice day – Vienna Teng Antebellum One of the stories in our family is about my husband’s foster-father, who joined the Army in WWI by lying about his age (he was around 16 […]