Category: Blog
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From Father to Son, with Love – Essay 1
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By Mathias B. Freese I am in Chicago now. I left to visit my son, Jordan; Mary, my wife,wanted to see her sister, Jenny, after many years away from herhometown. By Lake Michigan, a vast expanse from shore, with itsfertile coastal area and abundant wild life — rabbits nonchalantlysquatting mutely…
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David’s Sling
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By Mathias B. Freese As an undergrad and American history major at Queens College, 1958 to 1962, I recall reading in a text by Henry Steele Commager, his observation that Churchill represented an “antique courage” during the early years of WW II. He remarked that Churchill essentially accomplished what Edward…
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Raymonde – Excerpt from Again. Again and Again.
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Raymonde I wonder if there will be a name for what is happening to us – slavery, for example, colonialism, socialism, Marxism which I am well conversant with. Arrested for my political activities and for being a Jew by the Nazis and transported to this camp, I have spent 9…
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CRO-MAGNON — TEMPLATE
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I sit on this crag overlooking a gentle valley. I don’t think about the future. I don’t think about the past. One is long gone, the other out there where I don’t live. I am the only one of our clan that spends early morning time thinking. I think now,…