Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam died in a traffic accident 5 months before the publication of his landmark book about the US war in Korea. In the days following the author’s death, fell

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Three unfinished logs sit in email box, unfinished. And there they'll sit for time immemorial. Like the child that was never born, the breast that never suckled, the chic that never got laid. Yea, two meanings, I meant the bad one. Umm ... lets see,

Rode waves of excitement to a town full of the big, the awesome and the decadent. I crashed, the others caught more and they soared. So I'm back now, sitting and listening to Rush. I see blue and purple, affluence, courage and nobility. Then again, d

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