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Something happened on Tuesday that could be called bizarre, miraculous, extraordinary, hopeful, curious, and remarkable and there wouldn't be a lie in any single one of those words. And it involved a series of messages in my Facebook inbox that had been sitting there for a few days by this past Tuesday.

But first, some background:

I've written ( Read more... )

-- The Great War Novelist America Forgot - David Frum, The Atlantic, May 17, 2015

"Wouk doesn’t deny the horror of war, but he doesn’t look closely at it. There’s nothing here like the horrific description of the death of the bombardier Snowden in Heller’s Catch-22: the still-living intestines spilling out of a man’s gashed, bleeding body. Even ( Read more... )