By Roger Thompson, Stony Brook University See Ellouise Schoettler’s Arlington National Cemetery: My Forever Home here. Start a discussion with Roger and others who’ve viewed the performance below. Two years ago, I visited my father-in-law at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. He had been buried in 1997, two months before I married…
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Grounded: a review by Eduardo Ramirez
This fall, Susannah Martin directed George Brant’s play Grounded at the San Francisco Playhouse. Eduardo Ramirez, MSgt, USAF (Retired) attended one of the showings thanks to the complimentary tickets Kirk Johnson and Nickie Braucher of the SF Playhouse offered free of charge for veterans. As follows, Ramierz shares his brief review of the play: Lauren…
Spotlight: Art Schade’s “Not Alone”
An excerpt from Art Schade’s “Not Alone,” a non-fiction piece featured in the forthcoming volume of The Journal of Military Experience: The group leader asked me to talk about my post-war years, an area where he knew I had some success. I told them that when I left the Marines after four years, I was youthful…
Spotlight: Virgil Huston’s “Valhalla” by Kathryn Broyles
Virgil Huston’s poem “Valhalla” which will be featured in Blue Streak this November. * * * Valhalla —Virgil Huston In modern times why do warriors fight pointless and counterproductive wars? Do they really believe that Afghanistan is a noble cause? Iraq? That make us hated more by those we try to rule. Is it just…