Every Day Is Paddy’s Day

Maybe my Aunt Eileen bought the small shamrock lapel pin for my father, Shamus. Maybe my Aunt Catherine carried the little green and gold piece of Ireland back from one of her early trips to Cornamona, in County Galway, where my grandfather was born. Thrilled with the keepsake, every day for decades Shamus stuck that […]

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Fighting A Different Kind of War

Cold rain fell this morning on Jimmy Reddington’s grave, cleansing his aging gray headstone and soaking a soft blanket of grass in the fresh new spring. Jimmy died 53 years ago today during combat in Vietnam. In years past, compatriots who served with him when he fell and fought by his side on other savage […]

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