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BOB BROWN: “We Remember But Warriors Try To Forget”

“Sir, may I have permission to speak honestly? Frankly, I don’t want to be here. My wife said get help or she’s leaving. She’s said it many times since I...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: An Object at Rest

Without the always-on duties of a care partner now for less than a week, I’m...

BOB BROWN: Sitting Alone in America

We are an aging, sedentary, less engaging people who are preoccupied with problems more than...

FRED FIRST: LONESOME HIGHWAY: Together, Apart

It would be an ending; and it would be a beginning: the day that Ann...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump Should Not Accept A Qatari Boeing 747 As A New Air Force One

Qatar is the ultimate frenemy. That is because Qatar has a U.S. Air Force base...

BECKY MAUPIN: Losing and Learning: The Realities of Motherhood

As soon as we find out that we are expecting a new baby, we almost immediately begin envisioning what our future will look like....

STUART REVERCOMB: The Egret’s Visit

The name of the book that contains a collection of columns I wrote for The Roanoke Times in the early 2000s is entitled “Whispering...

BOB BROWN: “What is Money?”

Charles Dickens’Dombey and Son was first published in 1848 but still retains its importance. Dombey, a successful businessman, longs for a son to follow...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: What U.S. Admiral Would Exchange Our Navy For Communist China’s Navy?

I am no expert on the U.S. Navy, but our navy has eleven aircraft carrier strike groups with state-of-the-art jets deployed throughout the world....

SCOTT DREYER: Remembering VE Day

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men living and...

FRED FIRST: Moms Live Forever

She would have celebrated her 100th birthday this September, the birthday month in our family. Had she dodged the bullet of that one health challenge...