Posts by Pamela
No Man’s Land
If you’ve been hanging out here in the Margin’s for a while, you may have noticed a pattern to histories about women’s contributions in times of war. Groundbreaking women kick their way through a closed door against the military and society’s objections. After they prove their worth, the military opens its arms in invitation, and…
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Ernie Pyle’s War
A handful of the journalists who reported on the Second World War have kept a place in the U.S.’S historic memory in the years since the war: Edward R. Murrow, William Shirer (1), Margaret Bourke-White, cartoonist Bill Mauldin.(2) Even within that short list, Ernie Pyle was and is a special case. Only Mauldin came close…
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In Praise of Nurses
I don’t know about you, but at the moment my grasp of my calendar is shaky. I’m over scheduling myself for Zoom events, in part because my May calendar has all the now scheduled stuff on it as well as my virtual stuff. I missed Independent Book Store Day, the last Saturday of April, which…
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