The Tribune gave the front page of the Views section on Dec. 6 to the anonymous "Matthew Alexander," who did not use his real name for security reasons. I wondered why. It struck me that Dec. 7 would be the 67th year since the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. ...more

December 10, 2008

These are tough times; about to get tougher. I drove out of town the other day with my old friend and former Tribune history writer Leland Hawes. We were going to a memorial service for Steve Raymond. We had both known him as an editor and friend at the Trib. Raymond was one of the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March at the beginning of World War II, and we were going to his memorial service at the Florida National Cemetery near Bushnell. ...more

September 26, 2008

Steve Raymond told me about a year ago that he never expected to live this long, by at least a half century. ...more

September 10, 2008

My favorite letter this week comes from Valerie Sumner Morales. The letter was not about her dad, but I want to mention her father, the late Col. Robert Sumner, on the heels of Memorial Day. A lot of you might remember him as an instructor at the University of Tampa. ...more

June 2, 2008

Atom Bomb Saved Lives The published Rall's, Wright's and al-Qaida's views of the atomic bombing of Japan being a crime are by self-serving people who have not read/studied history or are purposely ignoring it. ...more

May 11, 2008