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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: November 2013
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Friday, November 22, 2013. Michael Shaara Prize Acceptance Speech. I was recently honored to recieve the Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. Here is the acceptance speech I gave:. It is my great privilege to accept this award, named in honor of his father Michael, from Mr. Jeff Shaara. My love of history was instilled in me by my own. When the movie Gettysburg came out, we went to see it on the first Saturday afternoon.
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: October 2012
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Wednesday, October 24, 2012. By way of full disclosure I should reveal that I have both voted for and volunteered for Democrats and Republicans alike over the course of more than twenty five years as an eligible voter, so to some of you I may bear the Scarlet ‘D’ or ‘R’ depending on your affiliation. See, I am one of those people both sides come courting every four years when they want to garner enough votes to get them elected. But you see, ju...
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: A Tale of Two Countries, and One Very Outdated Amendment
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Sunday, December 16, 2012. A Tale of Two Countries, and One Very Outdated Amendment. Unfortunately, we have seen this before. The horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School represents only the escalation of gun violence in this country to a previously unimaginable level. The faces of the teenage and young adult victims at Columbine and Virginia Tech have now been replaced by those of five and six year olds. On March 13, 1996, a man named...
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: June 2015
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Saturday, June 20, 2015. Take Down That Flag. The design we see today was not the original one for the flag of the Confederate States of America. No, for the first two years of the Civil War, the official Confederate flag was the Stars and Bars, comprised of two horizontal red stripes and one white one, with a blue field decorated with white stars in the upper left hand corner. Look a little familiar? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: January 2013
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Wednesday, January 23, 2013. A tribute to my Father, on what would have been his 76th birthday. This is the eulogy I delivered for my father, a great and humble man. Here we are, this whole congregation, gathered to celebrate his. Life, and talk about him. With him right at the center. Of such a thing, and if you knew my father even just a little, you know that he’s LOVING every minute of this. So yes, this is a joyful moment. And not the ̶...
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: A scene from May the Road Rise Up to Meet You that didn't make the final cut - The 1863 Draft Riots
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Wednesday, March 13, 2013. A scene from May the Road Rise Up to Meet You that didn't make the final cut - The 1863 Draft Riots. Your head still throbs from eight hours on the train and all you want is to get to Seanny’s house to get some rest and let the bruises go down a bit, now that the bleeding’s stopped, so you don’t have to see Marcella this way. Mischief, you think, when’s there ever. Not mischief goin’ on down in the Points? Didn’...
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: Take Down That Flag
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Saturday, June 20, 2015. Take Down That Flag. The design we see today was not the original one for the flag of the Confederate States of America. No, for the first two years of the Civil War, the official Confederate flag was the Stars and Bars, comprised of two horizontal red stripes and one white one, with a blue field decorated with white stars in the upper left hand corner. Look a little familiar? September 5, 2015 at 11:48 PM. Ethereal tem...
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: March 2012
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Wednesday, March 28, 2012. Blame it on Snooki. Yesterday I finally got to see the most recent Academy Award Best Picture, “The Artist,” but not before I had been sufficiently warned. There on the box office window, typed in bold and ominous font, was a sign that read:. 8220;The Artist” is a SILENT, BLACK and WHITE movie. And the surgeon general has determined that it may cause migraine headaches, cancer, leprosy.). And what was once idiotic is ...
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: December 2011
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Every year we hear about how Christmas has become too commercial, about all the wrong things, and every year the evidence of it is all around us. The music starts playing on the radio and in the stores a day or two earlier every year, having long-since jumped Thanksgiving and pushing in on Halloween now, with Labor Day in its long-range plans, no doubt. Christmas is not about a cheerful spirit. It is not about family.
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: A tribute to my Father, on what would have been his 76th birthday
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You. The Official Book Website. Wednesday, January 23, 2013. A tribute to my Father, on what would have been his 76th birthday. This is the eulogy I delivered for my father, a great and humble man. Here we are, this whole congregation, gathered to celebrate his. Life, and talk about him. With him right at the center. Of such a thing, and if you knew my father even just a little, you know that he’s LOVING every minute of this. So yes, this is a joyful moment. And not the ̶...