Category: Columns – News
-
Some blame belongs right here at home
(Published in The Express-Times on Sept. 14, 2001.) There burns within me a righteous fury that cannot be stilled by the patriotic platitudes and postures of politicians who wrought upon us the anti-Americanism in this world. I have yet to direct that fury, but I will. American politicians tell us Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on the […]
-
Conflict is over politics, not religion
(Published in The Express-Times on July 23, 2001.) When terrorists sprayed gunfire Friday morning into a children’s community center in Belfast, Northern Ireland, two women “bundled the children into the cupboard after they were sprayed with splinters from the bullet-riddled door,” The Irish News of Belfast reported Saturday. The Irish News identified one woman as […]
-
Stories not meant to be told
(Published in The Express-Times on May 27, 2001. Awarded Best Columnist Award by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.) My grandfather doesn’t talk about the war. Oh sure, I know the basics. Irving Levine, my mom’s dad, enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduating from high school in Brooklyn. He served in the Pacific theater as a […]
Daniel Walsh 