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A Failure of Skepticism
December 9, 2009 05:03 PMTwo years ago, a weekly paper in suburban Chicago profiled an elderly character who had been asked to lead the village’s Fourth of July parade. John Dietz, often seen scooting around Oak Park in an electric cart, was to... Continue reading
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Corps Values
March 1, 2007 08:30 AMEarly last year, my cousin, a Marine captain based in Okinawa, sent me a Wall Street Journal story about changes in Army basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The article had been e-mailed back and forth around the... Continue reading
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