Some call it an iconic homage to the Greatest Generation, others see a kitschy depiction of violating sexism looming on the Sarasota waterfront.

Maybe we prize Preston and his generation so much because they didn’t realize they were great until someone told them.

I found the verse to be moving, so I share it with you, our readers. Sometimes it is wise to look

This column should reach you, our loyal readers, a day or two before Christmas. That means we might depart from the usual opinion, to concentrate on well wishing. I’d like to do that as I approach my 75th Christmas.

Several years ago, a journalist and television anchor by the name of Tom Brokaw wrote a weighty encomium to the 15 million or so men and women of the World War II era armed forces and to their war industry civilian counterparts on the home front.

Five-star General MacArthur may have been right about old soldiers when he quoted an old West Point song to academy graduates, but the words do not pertain to young soldiers.

Last week Japan commemorated the 65th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack when an American B-29 dropped an early version of the nuclear weapon on the city of Hiroshima, instantaneously wiping out most of the city and killing an estimated 140,000 residents.

The public release of classified material by Private First Class Bradley Manning may or may not have been an act of treason, comforting to the enemy and hurtful to the coalition effort in Afghanistan.