The need for copy editors
Submitted by Dwight Zimmerman on June 2, 2012 - 08:07CNN.com posted on June 2, 2012, a good article on the need for copy editors:
www.cnn.com/2012/06/01/opinion/perlman-romney-needs-editor/index.html?hp...
Once Upon a Time…
Submitted by Joyce Faulkner on May 28, 2012 - 14:41The coffee shop lights were dim. I could not make out the faces of the folks sitting in the far corner. I opened my book and thumbed to a short story titled, Andrew. It was one of my favorites. It was about two soldiers whose paths crossed in the wilderness as they found their way home after the Civil War. It was about dealing with having killed ― and it was about dealing with your own approaching death. Those are risky subjects for a writer ― but for once, I nailed it. At least, I thought so.
I cleared my throat and began.
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Submitted by Robert MacPherson on May 27, 2012 - 15:15
By Bob “Mister Mac” MacPherson
“I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.” – Maya Angelou
Remembering the First Ashore on Omaha Beach
Submitted by Dick Davidson on May 23, 2012 - 11:56June 6, 1944…
D-Day…
0600 hours / Six o’clock in the morning…
Omaha Beach…
Easy Red Sector…
Hell was about to happen!
I was a Pharmacist’s Mate in the Sixth Naval Beach Battalion. They assembled and trained our unit under hush-hush conditions. The reason for all the security was that our only mission was to be the first regular unit to land on the beach. They started training us before anyone even knew where the invasion would be. We certainly didn’t know when it would happen.