We were the “Victory Babies” — the people born in 1945, the year the Allies defeated Germany and Japan, the watershed year into a new world of the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, rock ‘n’ roll, Vietnam … But…
The Victory Babies: Now we’re 64 …
Month: May 2009
Our venerable guardian: Rising from the ashes
It’s just always been there, our courthouse. Like a huge, brick and stone sentinel, it watched over generations of Jefferson Countians from its lot on East Main Street. It was unchanging, or seemed to us to be, like few things…
Torture? Sometimes it’s appropriate
“Torture doesn’t work!” That was the mantra chanted over and over again during last year’s presidential election by those supporting Barack Obama, and vilifying George W. Bush for allegedly approving treatment of captured terrorists that would put Attila the Hun…