My dad was always obsessed with keeping up with the news. When we returned from Thailand to the US to live in 1971, this meant that I woke up every morning hearing the news on the radio, and our dinners were accompanied by the CBS Evening News on TV, with Walter Cronkite. I was only… Continue reading I Hated Walter Cronkite
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Hearts and Minds, Echoes in the Desert
written by my father, Al Straughan: I do support the British and American troops in Iraq, though I regret that they are there and I believe that there are no good reasons for their being there. I further regret that all of this cannot simply end and the troops be withdrawn, because this would only… Continue reading Hearts and Minds, Echoes in the Desert