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Why Anonymous?

  Why Anonymous?   By:  Fiona Saiter     Why do people write anonymous words?  Don’t they want credit for things they are so passionate about?  I don’t really understand.  It seems if...

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Veterans Day November 11th

Veteran's Day is a day set aside to honor the veterans of America's wars. It was originally known as Armistice Day to commemorate the official ending of hostilities in World War I - which occurred at the...

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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The Path He Takes 1. The guard takes 21 steps which refers directly to the 21 gun salute, the highest honor given any military or foreign dignitary. 2. The guard hesitates after his about face for 21 seconds...

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Here Is Your Favorite Ghostwriter Speaking:

Poetry and "litte cruel fairy tales" by the Flemish writer Patrick Bernauw aka the Lost Dutchman around the Great War 1914-1918. Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel, An Angel Born in No Man's Land,...

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In Flanders Fields

The last entry of the First World War poetry series "Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel" is a Special about the most famous poem from the First World War: In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae.

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Final Remnant

Arthur GulumianWill I be remembered…?I walk towards convinced doom,And one battle I can not retreat—My pace seems slowed— almost stopped,Yet I know I move closer…The sound of a dark melody is played...

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Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel (1)

"I am five, six, seven and my father has cake for my birthday and because it's Armistice Day..." - A young girl starts telling an amazing and horrific story about the Great War...

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Fela Kuti and Afrobeat Music

I was first introduced to Fela's music in the early 80s by Frank Hill and Charles Emerson, two eclectic, underground DJ's who ran a world beat show on our local NPR station called "Reggae Sound System." They...

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