There is no sunlight in a casket. As Det. Joseph Lemm laid in his casket no sun shined upon his gold shield, nor the medals he earned, as a cop…as a war veteran. […]
In Their Shoes
The Infidels Among Us
On the way to the gym for a swim this morning I passed a lady at a school bus stop with her apparent six-year-old boy. The school bus was behind me […]
Bloody Boots, Bloody Boots, Blo…
History, damned, hungry, history. We finish a war, it’s history. But history won’t remain sated. It reaches up into our present and demands another helping of flesh and bone, of our sons, […]
Our K 9 Service Veterans
When the sign says, POLICE DOGS DO NOT ENTER, well, you just don’t enter without an escort. That’s just your basic survival mechanism talking. So I called inside by phone. P […]
Delight at the end of De Tunnel
“Call me up”, my partner said to him, “I’ll lend you my gun.” 1966: subway token 15 cents, gas, 32 cents per gal. All machines really do, as Hyde writes, is, “shuttle […]
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