by admin | Apr 19, 2016 | History
You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it’s a lot of fun to...
by admin | Apr 16, 2016 | History
“Education in Jesuit schools seeks to transform how youth look at themselves and other human beings, at social systems and societal structures, at the global community of humankind and the whole of natural creation. If truly successful, Jesuit education results...
by admin | Apr 13, 2016 | History
Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their childrens schools, or as boarders in their homes. They view this as protecting themselves and their...
by admin | Apr 5, 2016 | History
My memoir of the final days of Xavier High School as, in the words of Antonin Scalia, “a thoroughly military academy” has expanded a bit thanks to one of my classmates making a contribution. In terms of the narrative it fits in here. We are in late 1967,...
by admin | Mar 30, 2016 | History
Whatever Regimental glory I won when I graduated in 1953 is unrecorded. The one item I can point to is that I rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel, commanding officer of the Marching Band. I count that an honor because traditionally the post had been held by a Major....
by admin | Mar 30, 2016 | History
You’ll never outrank me, Tom. Cadet Staff Sergeant Peter Reilly to Cadet Corporal Thomas Burns sometime in 1969. Famous last words. Most young men – mercifully, they fail to realize it – reach, in the sixth form of a big school, the acme of such...
