Road Trip Through History
Road Trip Through History: Museum of Memory and Human Rights
The Bombing of La Moneda (the Chilean equivalent of the White House) on September 11, 1973, by the Junta’s Armed Forces. My Own True Love and I went to Chile over the holidays for a family wedding and a spot of adventure. We set off knowing where we needed to be when and no idea…
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Road Trip Through History: The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
More than a month ago I promised you a report on our visit to the LBJ Library. I fully expected to sit down and write it later that week. The fact that I wandered off into other historical by-ways is simply a reflection of how easily I’m distracted, not on the quality of the museum.…
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Plane Spotting
Like anyone who has spent time hanging around the British or American homefronts of World War II, I am familiar with the concept of plane spotting.* Plane spotters were trained to look at planes on the horizon and ask “How many?” “Where are they headed?” “Are they ours or the enemy’s?” It never dawned on…
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