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A New England Mother’s Thoughts on Memorial Day: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their … half-gaiters?” What?! "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" is more dramatic and poetic than "Don't fire until you see the whites of their half-gaiters!" But the latter is the historically accurate version.
The air was thick with gunpowder and fear as I crouched behind the rough earthen walls we’d scrambled to build atop Breed’s Hill in these last hours of June 17, 1775, and the British were coming — red coats glinting like blood in the summer sun. General Israel Putnam had ridden among us earlier, urging…
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I was in Rome the day the 2025 Papal Conclave convened. It raised thoughts of the "body of Christ." Where Catholics are one piece of a global faith puzzle, who and what does God truly care about?
By Kristen Star Borchers
These questions are not about individual …
100 Years on the Road
By VERITAS CHRONICLES
There is no more iconic or romantic section of cross country travel in the USA than the Mother Road, Route 66. Next year, 2026, marks 100 years since the establishment of …