by Mark Beckwith | Jun 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
Last week, while on a bicycle trip across Western Maryland, our group stopped for a four-hour bike tour of the Antietam battlefield. I remembered from my high school American history course that the September 17,1862 battle was one of the bloodiest of the Civil War....
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
“The war is over now” Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared in testimony at a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. From a spokeswoman from the Department of Homeland Security, in a May 25 statement, “these sanctuary politicians should be thanking ICE...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
In college, we complained endlessly about the food. The steak, served every Saturday, was charred beyond recognition. The vegetables were rarely fresh, and always undercooked. The cheesecake, served once a week, was a rude facsimile. While we continuously kvetched...
by Mark Beckwith | May 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
The photograph accompanying this post is of my two grandfathers in military uniform. They fought against each other in World War I. As far as I know, they were never on the same battlefield. I never heard either of them talk about their war experience, but I heard a...
by Mark Beckwith | May 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
I was living in Worcester, Mass. in 2005 when the city required its residents to buy yellow trash bags, which could only be filled with certain items and had to weigh less than twenty pounds. Like most residents of the city, I was not happy with this imposition. It...
