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Remembering the Men of D-Day: In the Era of Trump who Will We Channel?
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I find the days around Memorial Day and the anniversaries of the Battle of Midway and the D-Day landings to be a time when I become quite reflective about what it means...
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Requiem for an Alliance: D-Day at 74 Years
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It is hard to believe now as we look at the serene beaches of Normandy that seventy years ago they were places of desperate combat in which hundreds of thousands of...
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What Have We Done? Moral Injury and Our Unending Wars
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It is not every day that one reads about himself in a book by a Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent and author. I did that this week. Back in 2014 I was...
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A Cautionary Tale of Soldierly Obedience: The Fate of the Desert Fox
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Some seventy-three years ago in Ulm Germany that a car pulled up to the residence of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the car was the driver and two Generals dispatched...
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I Don’t Have the Answers but You Might as Well Live: Thoughts on Suicide
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, This is a hard article to write because it takes me back to points in my life after my return from Iraq that all I wanted to do was die and even had plans of how I...
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“It Can’t Happen Here” but it is Happening Before Our Eyes
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, In 1935 the American writer Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel called It Can’t Happen Here. It was a semi-satirical novel about a Fascist state coming to power in the United...
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Repeating Historical Myths: The Trump Administration and the “Stab in the Back”
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, In light of the many flagrant lies, historical myths and conspiracy theories being floated by President Trump and his supporters is always appropriate to look at...
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Handshakes, Betrayals and a Piece of Paper: Trump Outdoes Neville Chamberlain...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am an old Cold Warrior. I have served for almost 37 years in the military including tours or deployments on the intra-German border in the 1980s waiting for the...
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Are we All His Accomplices? Acquiescence in the Age of Trump
Edward R. Murrow Friends of Padre Steve’s World, The great American journalist and pioneering radio and television broadcaster Edward R. Murrow said: “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When...
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In Today’s Struggle for Principle with Trump there Will be No Republican...
Stephen A. Douglas Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As I watch President Trump’s administration attack the law, the Constitution, and violate the civil rights and human rights of citizens as well as...
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A Thousand Years Will Pass and This Guilt Will Not Be Erased: How Genocide...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World I am posting late today because last night I was too tired to write and over the past few days I have been doing a lot of reading. Let me say up front that the title of...
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Preach the Truth: Silence in the Face of Evil is Itself Evil, Not to Speak is...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, We live in an unsettled world where almost everything that we had grown to accept as normal is being upended including basic understandings of societal responsibility...
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Breaking Precedent: Trump and Hitler Compared to their Predecessors
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I recently read German historian Joachim Fest’s book Inside Hitler’s Bunker: the Last Days of the Third Reich. The book is the basis for the German language film...
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I Will Support and Defend… Reflections on 35 Years of Commissioned Service in...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Thirty-five years ago today I swore an oath as a newly commissioned officer in the United States Army. It is an oath that along with my baptismal, confirmation,...
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Executive Orders and Final Solutions: the Hidden Evil of Trump’s Immigration...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Holocaust survivor Primo Levy wrote:“ Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready...
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Resist the Dystopian Law and Order of Trump or be Condemned by History
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I love the virtues of the law. When I was in seminary I had friends who asked me why I wasn’t in law school and they didn’t mean it as a compliment. In high school and...
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Reflections on Life as an Authoritarian State Arises
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, We are visiting friends in the Washington DC area as we get ready to celebrate our wedding anniversary Monday. It is nice to be relaxing with each other, another friend...
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Friends, Papillons, World Cup, and the Padre’s Pizza
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It has been a nice day with our friends in the DC area and our Papillon dogs. It was very relaxing, I got to sleep late, enjoy a nice home cooked breakfast with our...
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Celebrating 35 Years of Marriage to the Kindest, Sweetest, Prettiest Person...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Thirty-five years ago today I married the love of my life and despite many stupid and thoughtless actions we are still married and probably happier than we have ever...
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The Day I Came to Love Iran: Reflections on the World Cup, Sports, and our...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have a confession to make. After I watched Iran play its first match in the World Cup against Morocco I was hooked, and I hoped that they would advance at least into...
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