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Seattle event: An American physician in Gaza (opens the original)
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Dear friends,It’s with great pride that I announce the publication of a very special new Blue Ear Books book, The Blood on My Hands: A Memoir of a Moral Catastrophe by Dr. Mimi Syed with Dr. Helen Hwaihi. Dr. Syed is an American emergency physician who has done two volunteer stints in Gaza, and Dr. Hwaihi is her young Palestinian colleague.The Blood on My Hands contains 23 short chapters, covering specific patients and situations that Dr. Syed encountered in Gaza. All are powerful in their impac
9/11: We should never forget the pain and loss (opens the original)
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Most Americans remember exactly where they were on 11 September 2001. I sure do, and I thought it was time for me to share my story. It was 25 years ago that I met the President of the United States on that day, and got a peek into the execution of our country’s leadership and attack response at the very top.I was active-duty military stationed as Deputy Chief of Staff at United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), Offutt AFB, Nebraska. One of eleven combatant commands in the Department of Def
“There are no unsacred places”: Wendell Berry’s memory will trouble my thoughts (opens the original)
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I think of Wendell Berry every time I use my chainsaw.Berry, the novelist/essayist and unofficial poet laureate of the sustainable agriculture movement, died this week at 92. I met him several times through my association with The Land Institute and visited their Kentucky home to write a profile of his wife, Tanya. But my main connection to Berry is through his writing.Back to my chainsaw. I lived in cities most of my life, including when I was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. N
Our stories exist alongside one another’s (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, my younger brother surprised me when he asked if we could listen to the audiobook of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist together. He’s not much of a reader, but as we made the long drive home to Texas from a weekend of hiking in the Colorado mountains, he was the one who suggested we put something on.Now, I’m very much a reader, but we went into listening to this particular story
Graduation Day in Iraq (opens the original)
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The long, cumbersome process of handing over Camp Bucca prison to the Iraqis training as detention officers culminated with cadet graduation one late April day. Erin and I had graciously accepted the invitation from the Army National Guard instructors of the academy, who had quietly helped us identify sources within the student body. The Department of Defense had to activate the Army National Guard from Rhode Island, among other states, to help fill persistent personnel gaps in Iraq after nearly
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