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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Iraq updates.
Those who do choose to work with us, have to have lots of courage on a daily basis.
Posted in Hilla, Iraq
Tagged Hilla, Iraq, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Provincial Reconstruction Teams
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Unaccompanied tours – or when Dad is away in Iraq
It has been 3 months since Kenneth went to Iraq and I became an “unaccompanied tour” spouse. No one ever writes about all the myriad of support avenues that the US government provides families in my situation. The State Department, … Continue reading
Beautiful places near Warsaw…
Young Polish couple at Żelazowa Wola, Chopin’s birthplace
Posted in Poland
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Species-ism or The silent screams of the Gastropods…
…or the crunch of Polish snails. Every night I take out Ginger, our perky dog from Gdansk, for her last walk around the garden. While she spends time tracking down the numerous hedgehogs that seem to explore the yard at … Continue reading
Posted in Poland, Rule of Law
Tagged Aberration, Beware, Environment, Gastropods, International, plant rights, Rule of Law
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The Great Escape.
Some of the things that have amazed me about Poland: I was just listening to the radio and the music score of the movie The Great Escape was playing… What a score! It always makes me feel good! Yet, this … Continue reading
Thoughts on leaving Poland – Part 1 – Discovery
Moving in the Foreign Service. We are hitting the last leg of our unaccompanied tour in Warsaw. Only 6 weeks left before we depart to go home. Bitter-sweet thoughts come to mind. Poland is a beautiful country, rich in magnificent … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Service, Moving, Poland, Travel
Tagged Foreign Service, Luftwaffe, Norman Davies, Poland, Warsaw ghetto, Warsaw uprising, World War II
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Memorial Day 2008.
Hi Daddy, Sorry I haven’t written to you in a while. A lot of things have been going on. I miss you so much. How have you been? Is heaven everything they say it is? I know it’s probably that … Continue reading
Updates from Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq.
Here are some of Kenneth’s most recent blog entries… [Saddam Hussein] did little to lift the standard of living in southern or south-central Iraq and he aggressively persecuted the Shia in the wake of the 1991 uprising. Many males from … Continue reading
Posted in Hilla, Iraq
Tagged Al Hillah, Babil, Iraq, Provincial Reconstruction Teams, PRT
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The power of good.
Children and philanthropy Our daughter, a 15-year old, was recently involved in spearheading (organizing, choreographing, advertising, etc.,) with her best friend a charity dance extravaganza at the school to raise money for a Children’s Hospital’s new ambulance. Amazingly, the kids … Continue reading
Showing off at Warsaw’s Łazienki Park
Photo by John M. Dillon
The Bible versus scientism.
Reading articles like the one below makes me long for my days as a Philosophy major… I was introduced to the fine and erudite journal Azure when I attended the Democracy and Security Conference that was held in Prague last … Continue reading
Credit where it’s due.
I just shared with my daughter this article that appeared in The Australian, so that she can refute some of the arguments she hears about how selfish and stingy and stupid we Americans are. The need to paint Americans as … Continue reading
Posted in anti-Americanism
Tagged aid, anti-Americanism, Humanitarian relief, International
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Irena Sendlerowa: Member of the “decent” race.
Irena Sendlerowa had a gentle and sparkling gaze. She was a giant of a human being, working against all odds to wrench 2500 children from the arms of their miserably desperate parents, risking her life as well as others in … Continue reading
Posted in Auschwitz, Holocaust, Irena Sendler, Poland
Tagged Irena Sendler, Irena Sendlerowa, Jewish Ghetto, Poland, World War II
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