“When you are 4 or 5 years old, and your parents and your grandparents tell you about this, it sticks with you,” said Benoit Noel, 42, who helps administer a museum commemorating what happened on Utah Beach. “Everybody in Normandy remembers the...
Remembering all who gave their lives for their country, and for the ideals for which this nation stands. This sentence from the Declaration of Independence best represents those ideals for me: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,...
If you want to know what it looks like and sounds like when someone literally embodies their brand promise, and then delivers it with power, look no further than the sermon preached by The Most Reverend Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, at the...
In honor of all Mothers on this Mother’s Day, but especially my mom, Lillian, for whom work was love, and whose work was always connected to The Great Work of the Universe; to Lillian, whose work began on February 23rd, 1930, and whose work was complete on February...
For the second time in two years, I’ve fallen into the pool while cleaning it. But it wasn’t a “clean” fall, the kind where you clear the edge of the pool and simply get wet. No, each time I’ve racked up the right side of my body. Two years ago, it was a torn rotator...
No, I’m not calling you fat. The Airbus A380 cruises at 564 MPH, at an altitude of 43,100. The ride is smooth as silk. But to get there, it has to overcome a takeoff weight of 1,274,271 pounds. Each of the four EA GP7200 engines delivers 70,000 pounds of thrust, and...
