Never Forget

On this anniversary of my Brother being killed in Iraq, I cannot help yet reflect on former President Bush’s recent gaffe, where he calls attention to the “unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq” when meaning to refer to Ukraine. The former President followed his corrected gaffe by sullenly saying, “Iraq…

As we celebrate and honor those who have died in service of the United States of America — our nation and its values — we are reminded that freedom and peace are the end goal here. Not war which we pray will be outlawed and made obsolete. We are…

The 2002 Biopic is about the true life story of the late Pianist and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman. He was an accomplished pianist and also famed autobiographer of the memoir The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw. His life was ultimately spared by a German…

For the Shoah to never happen again, we cannot let the memories and their stories disappear. In 1914, my great-great-grandmother wanted to keep a memory as “[they did not know what the future holds]”. This is my Hungarian family, the Trebitsch, my mom’s last name. …

Never Forget January 6th, 2021 Matthew R. Bishop — January 6th, 2022 One year ago today, our nation was attacked. On January 6th, 2021, enemy invaders stormed, sacked and pillaged the US Capitol for the first time since the War of 1812 more than two full centuries ago. Our republic…

Never Forget. I posted the following on Facebook on the night of January 6, 2021: Reflections after being riveted to the TV today during the ‘Raid on Democracy’ by Trump’s willfully-ignorant, sycophantic, naïve, manipulated, pathetic thugs/mob who stormed the Capitol and violated American ideals to support their psychotic, narcissistic, criminal…