The memories are still fresh, some 60 years later. [Anthony] Acevedo keeps reading his entries, scrawled on the pages with a Schaeffer fountain pen he held dear.It's difficult reading, but worthwhile reading.
He was one of 350 U.S. soldiers held at Berga an der Elster, a satellite camp of the Nazis' notorious Buchenwald concentration camp. The soldiers, working 12-hour days, were used by the German army to dig tunnels and hide equipment in the final weeks of the war. Less than half of the soldiers survived their captivity and a subsequent death march, he says.
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One vet's story
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“This is Capt. James T. Kirk of the Federation Starsh—” *boooom*
I got thinking of 1994’s Star Trek: Generations, enough to dig up the film’s trailer. It makes the movie feel small, which it honestly is. I’ve…
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Poetry, recited, on screen
Back in December 2016, I wrote this, called “Soup.” You can write poems about anything, and I decided to write a poem about soup. And because I…
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Out-Of-Context Theater.
“Luckily many [whales] know how to be gentle. “(This is somehow a real fact and not a detail of a Chuck Tingle novel.)”
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