This Memorial Day, We Remember
From today's homepage: Afghans who saved us, a Marine's case against MAGA, diversity is a strength for the Army and more.
This Memorial Day, Remember the Afghans Who Saved American Lives
ON MAY 14, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY Kristi Noem, citing “improved security” and a “stabilizing economy,” rescinded President Joe Biden’s Temporary Protective Status order providing legal residence for more than 10,000 Afghans who came to the United States after the Taliban took over their country. This decision, whi…
Bulwark on Sunday: A Marine's Case Against MAGA
This week on Bulwark on Sunday, Bill Kristol talks with Michael Wood about Texas politics, his 2021 run as a Never-Trump Republican, and whether he’ll challenge Ken Paxton as a Democrat in the next Senate race.
The Army Draws Strength from Diversity
NEXT WEEK, I’LL TRAVEL BACK to my alma mater, West Point. My class, the Class of 1975, serves as what is called the fifty-year affiliate class to the graduating Class of 2025. Our class has walked the last four years with t…
Memorial Day—for All Americans
We may disagree with one another about our vision for our country, but so did the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines we honor today.
‘We Owe Them Something’
Editor’s note: What follows are President Ronald Reagan’s remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on the morning of Memorial Day in 1986, after placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
‘Our Hearts Were Touched with Fire’
Editor’s note: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. delivered this address to a group of Civil War veterans in Keene, New Hampshire, on Memorial Day in 1884. Not yet a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Holmes was at the time serving on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He was also a fellow veteran of the Civil War.
I am not happy about how we left Afghanistan, and I do not blame Biden. I wish more would recall that it was Donald J. Trump who negotiated our withdrawal with the Taliban. Joe Biden only completed the task because Trump made an agreement to have the withdrawal completed AFTER his term ended. We’ll never know if Trump planned to uphold his end of the contract. Now he’s revoking the protected status of our Afghani brothers in arms and their families—typical Trump behavior. We need to win our country back from the tyranny.
I sincerely hope that someone at The Bulwark will be doing a side by side comparison of Reagan's address to what is said at Arlington today.
Also, thanks for continuing to publish Ted Johnson's 2022 piece. When it was first published, I posted that I hoped it would be rerun every year. I light of current events compared to 2022, it feels more and more like something we all need to be reminded of not just every year, but every day.