Leadership Stories
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Sallie: True Loyalty at Gettysburg
On Oak Ridge, off Doubleday Avenue at Gettysburg, a bronze soldier stands on a granite pedestal with his rifle ready, watching the fields to the west where the Confederate line came across on July 1, 1863.
Reflections on Memorial Day
A rainy morning at Arlington, the quiet men of an earlier generation, and the question the fallen ask the living: will you carry it now?
Memorial Day...A Friend Who Did Not Return
A Memorial Day poem to a friend who didn't come home, and a warning to be slow when the next war is proposed.
The General Who Refused the Podium
General Lucian Truscott turned his back on the crowd to speak to the graves. Leadership from quiet accountability, not a podium.
Memorial Day: Honoring Sacrifice and Uniting Communities
Columbus, Mississippi. Waterloo, New York. Charleston, South Carolina. John traces the many origins of Memorial Day.