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Forrest

Many interests, especially history and politics.

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[June 21, 2026
I spent so much time in my friend Mike’s house growing up that I knew his parents as Mama and Papa. His father, Kenneth Edward Nyboe, was born in 1924 in New York City but spent his summers in Maine, where he knew my mother and my aunt and where he met, and secretly married, my aunt’s friend Helen Bryant just before he shipped overseas to be in the tank…
Letters from an American

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• This is a lovely tribute, Heather Cox Richardson. And, there are many more thanks to the men and women who served, than Elon Musk's $s
  • My father was on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, and there was that part of him that ached for those young boys whom the emperor sent out as Kamikazes targeting the ships. The photos told the story.

Heather Cox Richardson

• June 20, 2026
  The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a metaphor for the Trump presidency. Beginning in early April, Trump boasted he was going to fix the reflecting pool after what he claimed was gross neglect by former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. He claimed the repairs, including sealing the pool and painting it “American flag blue,” would cost a…
  Letters from an American

• And, to summarize it all up, it's the Reflecting Pool Personified. A "thank you" shout out to Gov. Tim Walz!