In researching a recent post on my Substack Commentary page, I came across a New Yorker essay that included this paragraph: “Brown University’s Costs of War project estimates that post-9/11 American military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Pakistan killed nearly a million people between 2001 and 2023, including more than four hundred thousand … Continue reading A number that stopped me, and numbers you should know
Memorial: A French homage to the Private John Kreiner who did not come home to Baltimore
As a columnist, I have interviewed many American combat veterans. That includes veterans of World War II, several of them when my editors in Baltimore sent me to Normandy to cover the 40th anniversary observances of the D-Day invasion and the beginning of the liberation of France. But, of all the stories I wrote -- … Continue reading Memorial: A French homage to the Private John Kreiner who did not come home to Baltimore
