The past few weeks I’ve seen not one, not two, but three young men with missing limbs. One had lost an arm, one a leg, and the most recent, both legs. Maybe I’m wrong, but their relatively close cropped hair signified that they were military.
The DC area has Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital. Inside [...]
Archive for December, 2008
A new Greatest Generation
Posted in Essays & Inspirations, On Society, tagged Greatest Generation, Iraq, veterans on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A tragic day of innocence lost
Posted in Essays & Inspirations, Fatherhood, On Society, tagged Adam Walsh, John Walsh on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I woke up to a jarring story in the newspaper. The killer of Adam Walsh was finally identified.
On July 27, 1981, Adam went into a deparment store with his mother. She lost track of him for just a second…and he was abducted by the person we now known as his killer, Ottis Toole. [...]
