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fort-warrenI was reshaping my Civil War chapter, with a scene on May 12, 1861 — with soldiers in the newborn Union Army singing a song for John Brown. That happened at Boston’s Fort Warren, on the harbor’s Georges Island.

250px-Fort_Constitution,_New_Castle,_NHAs I was trying to evoke that day, I realized a potential problem; I’d begun the prior chapter in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as members of that state’s Seventh Infantry boarded a train in 1846 taking them to the Mexican-American War. (Above is a rendering of their base, Fort Constitution. Did I need to ditch one of those scenes, and avoid the rhyme?

In some ways, however, the imperfect rhyme made sense:  the wars were very different, but some of the themes and players were the same. That earlier war had a lot to do with slavery, something the soldiers in 1846 had likely heard from New England preacher William Lloyd Garrison. Just west of Portsmouth, in Springfield, MA, John Brown was making a name for himself as a wool broker, joining the local Black church, and becoming part of the Underground Railroad. And it was Brown, as much as anyone else, who persuaded many anti-slavery activists that slavery could only be ended with violence.

So the young men convened at Fort Warren that day, mostly members of the 11th and 12th Massachusetts Regiments of the newborn Union Army, were not just responding to April’s assault on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy. They had grown up hearing about the Slave Power, the powerful Southern planters who controlled half the national economy with a product born of free labor. They knew about that previous war, with Mexico, which ended with two new slave states in the Union. They knew about Bleeding Kansas, right after that war ended, in which pro-slavery Missourians battled “Free Staters,” the latter under the leadership of John Brown.

And they certainly knew about Brown’s effort to jump-start a war against slavery — including his prediction, in the New York Tribune in 1857: “They never intend to relinquish the machinery of this government into the hands of the opponents of slavery. It has taken them more than half a century to get it, and they know its significance too well to give it up. If the republican party [sic] elects its president next year, there will be war.”

John-brown-song-cs-hall-1861-librofcongressThe election of Abraham Lincoln, the previous fall, had been followed by the secession of most Southern states, and the assault on Fort Sumter. No surprise, then, that when they wanted to  relax and sing a drinking song, they chose this one.

I don’t know if those soldiers thought of themselves as dissenters, though I’m choosing to include the entire Union Army as acting in dissent. Certainly Ambrose Bierce did, signing up with the Ninth Indiana around that same time, honoring an uncle who’d supplied guns to John Brown, while Harriet Tubman was already a Union spy, committing gender-dissent in her field-hand disguise. Not to mention Frederick Douglass’ sons, among the very first U.S. Colored Soldiers, or Jesse Macy, a Quaker who insisted on becoming a battlefield medic, thus creating a new form of conscientious objection.

I’ve been saying that “The Civil War flips the script on dissent,” a cheap phrase that nonetheless conveys how disorienting it feels for me, an anti-war writer, to count as ways my characters whose actions helped one side kill multitudes. What is less in dispute: they felt they were creating something entirely new, and willing to die for it.

So far, my chapters have started only in the Northeast: Chapter One in on a Pennsylvania battlefield, Two in a Bronx boarding house, and now this twofer for Portsmouth and Boston. Though both of these chapters then venture far west and south, from Kansas to Cuernavaca. I hope readers don’t find problematic my using these New England stories as springboards, but so much American dissent was born there right along with the country.

Just as disorienting, of course, is alternating between these final revisions and reporting on present-day dissenters like Reality Winner. Unstuck in time no longer covers it.

Old soldiers, new century

biercememAgain with the cutting-room floor — this time with a section I’d worried was superfluous when I wrote it, but had been irrationally seized with wondering how my two Civil War storytellers had reacted to the beginning of the 20th century.

Old Soldiers in a New Century

The morning of August 18, 1906, is seasonably hot for West Virginia; Lewis Douglass is glad to take off his shoes and walk the rest of the way.

At 66 years old, Douglass is far from the only veteran here. Among the 45 marking “John Brown Day” on the third day of the Niagara Movement’s first U.S. conference, a few other U.S.Colored Troops have made it, along with some “buffalo soldiers” and Philippines vets. Douglass has mostly kept quiet this week, listening as a youngish firebrand named du Bois argued for hope amid the nadir of black-white relations since Emancipation: “Our enemies, triumphant for the present, are fighting the stars in their courses, but justice and humanity must prevail….We will never give up, though the trump of doom finds us still fighting.” Today, Douglass looks away as the younger men thunder “Thank God for John Brown! Thank God for Garrison and Douglass!”

Now, as the heat rises, the crowd leaves behind their fans and parasols for the sacred walk to John Brown’s fort. Walking beside Douglass is a writer for the newspapers of Osvald Garrison Villard — grandson of the Garrison who so often hosted John Brown.. She describes carefully the now-barefoot scholars and activists singing “John Brown’s Body, ‘ just as George Garrison did with the Massachusetts 55th so many years earlier.

Before they get to the fort, someone switches the words to those Julia Ward Howe drafted for the war: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored… Standing in front of the aging buildings freshly trimmed of weeds, it gets louder for His truth is marching on. Douglass doesn’t mind the light morning rain.

By the time of that second Niagara meeting, Lewis Douglass had already suffered a stroke, which hadn’t quite silenced the voice that had reviled McKinley’s war. As one of the original mavericks blowing the whistle on American racism, he wasn’t prepared to let the new century repeat this original sin. Other Civil War vets were also not quite done reminding the country about that sin, and about the traumas inherent in war.

A few months after that gathering, Douglass editorialized:“Our people must die to be saved and in dying must take as many along with them as it is possible to do with the aid of firearms and other weapons.”i He was responding to a wave of lynchings – the freelance ‘executions’ of Blacks by whites, often for the alleged crimes of others.ii Douglass’ war, fought against the nation’s second original sin, was nowhere near over. And like other Civil War vets , he knew he was moving against the nation’s insanely popular president, Theodore Roosevelt.

Ambrose Bierce, whose newspaper had bred the Spanish-American War, was sniping at Roosevelt in his new book The Cynic’s Word Bookiii: “The President of the United States was born so long ago that many of the friends of his youth have risen to higher political and military preferment without the assistance of personal merit.”iv Mark Twain, who like Bierce had been invited to the White House as a national humorist, told his biographer that Roosevelt, though “perhaps the most popular man he had ever met,” was also “far and away the worst president we have ever had.” But America seemed giddy with certitude.

President Roosevelt, “the hero of San Juan Hill,” had also kept America’s international profile high, including brokering peace in 1905 between established empire Russia and the emerging colossus of Japan. Mark Twain hadn’t been impressed, calling the peace treaty the most conspicuous disaster in political history,” because Russia could now more successfully quash dissent before it turned into revolution. But most of the nation was on board, seeing it all a product of Roosevelt’s Progressive manifesto: all the worlds problems could be solved by smart people.

That Russo-Japanese treaty led to one of the very first Nobel Peace Prizes for Roosevelt, The Nation hoping that Roosevelt might “modify his own conventional ideas about the necessity of being armed to the teeth.vi” Perhaps, the magazine mused, the same Progressive energy that had built railroads could help “reliev[e] the poor of Europe from the crushing burdens of militarism.” Thus was the Spanish-American War recast in glowing terms, as a kind of pact with the future. Some of the old vets had fallen in love with the Progressive cause, which had helped doom the always-shaky Anti-Imperialist League. Twain couldn’t get his work published anymore, after his searing “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”: Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief …. for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! Twain had specifically targeted the general who’d “won the Philippines”:

Dewey could have gone about his affairs elsewhere, and left the competent Filipino army to starve out the little Spanish garrison and send it home, and the Filipino citizens to set up the form of government they might prefer, and deal with the friars and their doubtful acquisitions according to Filipino ideas of fairness and justice — ideas which have since been tested and found to be of as high an order as any that prevail in Europe or America.

We must stand ready to grab the Person Sitting in Darkness, for he will swoon away at this confession, saying: “Good God, those ‘niggers’ spare their wounded, and the Americans massacre theirs!” […..] And to show him that we are only imitators, not originators, we must read the following passage from the letter of an American soldier-lad in the Philippines to his mother, published in Public Opinion, of Decorah, Iowa, describing the finish of a victorious battle: “WE NEVER LEFT ONE ALIVE. IF ONE WAS WOUNDED, WE WOULD RUN OUR BAYONETS THROUGH HIM.”

Not surprising, perhaps, that when Twain submitted his newest antiwar essay, “The War Prayer,” to his home magazine Harper’s Bazaar, it was rejected as being unsuitable for the ladies. He didn’t even try to publish his “Comments on the Moro Massacre (March 12, 1906)”, written after 994 Filipinos were killed in a counterinsurgency operation led by U.S. Army general Leonard Wood. Twain knew that while the Philippine War was officially over, the occupation was proving just as lethal. vii

Twain’s satiric praise for General Wood alternates with headlines from U.S. newspapers: DEATH TOLL NOW NEAR 900; IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL SEXES APART IN FIERCE BATTLE OVER MOUNT DAJO. “I was never so enthusiastically proud of the flag till now!”viii He knew that this new pax Americana, this pact with the future, hadn’t been signed by those charged with enforcing it. Many of that war’s combatants, home but still in uniform, and a little worried about this new “world leader” stance.

That included some of the African-American “Buffalo Soldiers,” many of whom had been in Cuba with Roosevelt. Eighth Infantry chaplain and poet Charles Frederick White said so in books of blank verse; the lyrical Plea of the Negro Soldier was followed by a bitter successor The Negro Volunteer, which described both battles and foul mistreatment by white commanders.

White’s verses would have fit in well with accounts collected by W.E.B. du Bois, who’d already made dissent his life’s work; soldiers were definitely included in du Bois’ quest to change the realities that had replaced slavery for African-Americans. And his Movement, a few days after that second meeting of in West Virginia, responded en masse after the “Brownsville Affair,confronting President Roosevelt on behalf of of the 25th Infantry’sBuffalo Soldiers.”

On August 13, just as du Bois, Lewis Douglass and the others were gathering in West Virginia, a shooting at a bar in that Texas town had led whites to blame the black soldiers newly relocated to Brownsville. Despite confirmation by their (white) commanders that all of the soldiers had been in their Fort Brown barracks that night, Roosevelt had ordered that all three companies – 167 men, six of whom had been awarded the Medal of Honor – be discharged “without honor,” ineligible for veterans benefits. Roosevelt had refused to reconsider his decision even after a plea from Booker T. Washington, the biggest booster of black enlistment and supporter of Roosevelt’s wars. du Bois’ Niagara Movement—organized partly as a radical alternative to Washington, who du Bois called “The Great Accomodator”—sprang into action after Brownsville.

Du Bois brought in his dear friend Major Charles Young, the third Black graduate of West Point and a Niagara co-founder, as members lobbied Congress. They caught the attention of Senator Robert Foraker, an ambitious politician who was also a Union Army veteran. Foraker led a call for a Senate investigation and fought for the battalion’s reinstatement; by January, Roosevelt had rescinded the part of the order, though full reversal would take a century. Foraker, for his part, “merely felt the same about the Constitution in 1906 as Private Foraker had felt in 1862” and would later campaign for president under the slogan “Remember Brownsville.”

Fellow Civil War vet Mark Twain didn’t speak out about Brownsville, but his late-career writings came from a similar sense of mission, and he also knew that that war hadn’t come close to abating that original sin. He’d considered a book-length history of lynching and even wrote the introductory “The United States of Lyncherdom,” before deciding (perhaps wisely) that such a book couldn’t come from a white Missouri writer. (Elisha Bliss, his publisher, told him that he “shouldn’t even have half a friend left down there, after it was issued from the press.”) Still, Twain had started 1906 with a Carnegie Hall benefit for Tuskegee University alongside anti-lynching activist Fanny Garrison Villard. The latter, William Lloyd’s daughter and ally of du Bois, was also one of the co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League.

Twain’s fellow veteran/humorist, Ambrose Bierce, never wrote about Brownsville; his first biographer said that while he’d fought to end slavery, he “loathed” black people in their postwar form. None of which had changed his 1864 revelation that Black soldiers had been his equal back at the battle of Nashville, when they “did not hesitate a moment: their long lines swept into that fatal obstruction in perfect order and remained there as long as those of the white veterans on their right. And as many of them in proportion remained until borne away and buried after the action. It was as pretty an example of courage and discipline as one could wish to see.”

But Bierce had by now stopped writing that“War Topics” column, and had left the Examiner. It was Cosmopolitan Magazine that now bore his signature mix of misanthropy, trauma and magic. His clearest commentary on the ‘race problem’ appeared in this black-comic definition: “NEGRO n.The piece de resistancein the American political problem. Representing him by the letter N, , the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: Let n=the white man. This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.”

This droll observation. the closest Bierce ever got to acknowledging the effects of white supremacy, was a far cry from the 30ish columnist who’d written whole stories in the 1880s ridiculing black speech. But Bierce was nowhere near joining Twain and du Bois in challenging Jim Crow. If du Bois, Twain and Lewis Douglass were trying to build a more equitable future, Bierce’s attention was draw more to the past, including the war they had all shared.

Bierce revisited his life as a lieutenant in 1863, setting one story in his brigade’s raid on Confederates at Woodbury and another on executions he’d overseen as provost, one for desertion and the other for killing civilians, “a particularly atrocious murder outside of the issues of war.”xiii For Cosmopolitan Bierce used his signature vivid details and spooky framing, for “Two Military Executions” and “A Baffled Ambuscade.” Then, in “What May Happen Along a Road,” he remembered his last battle, in Franklin, Tennessee:

After resetting their line the victors could not clear their front, for the baffled assailants would not desist. All over the open country in their rear, clear back to the base of the hills, drifted the wreck of battle, the wounded that were able to walk; and through the receding throng pushed forward, here and there, horsemen with orders and footmen whom we knew to be bearing ammunition. There were no wagons, no caissons: the enemy was not using, and could not use, his artillery. Along the line of fire we could see, dimly in the smoke, mounted officers, singly and in small groups, attempting to force their horses across the slight parapet, but all went down. Of this devoted band was the gallant General Adams, whose body was found upon the slope, and whose animal’s forefeet were actually inside the crest. General Cleburne [pg 326]lay a few paces farther out, and five or six other general officers sprawled elsewhere. It was a great day for Confederates in the line of promotion.

For many minutes at a time broad spaces of battle were veiled in smoke. Of what might be occurring there conjecture gave a terrifying report. In a visible peril observation is a kind of defense; against the unseen we lift a trembling hand. Always from these regions of obscurity we expected the worst, but always the lifted cloud revealed an unaltered situation.

Bierce had begun to revisit his old battlefields, spending time at Shiloh and Murfreesbro and Stone’s River. He described these travels in letters, both to his editors as well as his niece Lora. One of his last pieces for Hearst was the gothic “A Resumed Identity,”in which an old veteran is revisited by the soldier he once was. Then, severing his ties with Hearst, Bierce kept moving south, headed toward the newest war: Mexico, whose recent revolution had inspired an insurgency led by Pancho Villa. His dispatches from south of the border read like a prose poem, or one of his Dictionary definitions.

December 13, 1913.might do for a listing under “Nationalism”: Ridden in four miles to mail a letter. Ride from Juarez to Chihuahua hard—nights cold, days hot. Allusion to Jornada del Muerta (journey of death) of thousands of civilian refugees, men, women and children. Train load of troops leaving Chihuahua every day. Expect (next day) to go to Ojinaga, partly by rail. Mexicans fight “like the devil”—though not so effectively as trained soldiers. Addicted to unseasonable firing, many times at random. Bierce’s note doesn’t mention Pancho Villa, but Bierce was hoping to meet this new wild card of Mexican politics, and had written to friends that he was headed to Ojinaga, which became site of a massive New Years battle between federales and Villa’s guerrilla force. xv Whether Bierce died there, or somewhere else, has been debated ever since.xvi

That battle of Okinaja actually included U.S troops, there to support the federales and the government of Victoriano Huerta. If Bierce had lived to write about it, he might have wondered if history was rhyming. Afterward, with Bierce, Twain and Lewis Douglass all dead, a new generation of storytellers would be required. So would new types of dissenters.

Bayard Rustin had class: a story from Todd Gitlin

bayardrustin_drtrmhoward_civil_rights_rally_may241956Which disguised his radicalism only occasionally.

A story the invaluable Todd Gitlin told me a few years back, which I likely can’t include in the book, but don’t want lost:

In the beginning of March 1965, Rustin met with former SDS president Todd Gitlin, who was considering a protest at Chase Manhattan Bank to explore potential for multi-racial, innovative organizing. Dressed to the nines and in his trademark stentorian voice, the civil-rights leader and executive secretary of the War Resisters League had an unusual message for the earnest young students. Despite his suspicion of SDS’ hard-left allies such as the the US Communist Party’s student “W.E.B. du Bois Clubs,””1 the elder organizer also told Gitlin that SDS needed to be more radical in what they sought. “He said we weren’t being militant enough,” Gitlin remembered. “We saw him representing the seamlessness of Gandhianism — and he was saying that with a week of sit-ins at Wall Street and the banks, we weren’t risking enough.”

I can almost hear the man singing.

45 years ago, people learned what had happened in My Lai

mylainewsweekAnd all  earlier drafts of my book included a sort of big-picture retelling of those events, focusing on signature dissenters like Hugh Thompson and Ron Ridenhour. Now that I’ll be referring to those events ONLY in a leaner, character-based narrative, I wanted this blog to have this version, of which I am pretty proud.

I do wonder now who’s followed up with the quieter dissenters – the guys who said no. Any miilitary reporters want to tell me?

But these are human beings, unarmed civilians, sir”

At the end of 1969, reports flooded the U.S. newspapers about an incident not dissimilar to what had apparently happened at Liberty Bridge, bearing color photos by Army photographer Robert Haeberle, taken on March 16, 1968 in the hamlet of My Lai.

Nowadays, the name “My Lai” evokes Auschwitz, calling to mind images with which the mind has trouble coping, and Nurnberg, the small city where Nazi war ctiminals were put on trial. But the story of My Lai is often also a story of a string of dissenters.

Warrant officer Hugh Thompson didn’t plan to be one, flying over the province in support of Task Force Barker, 1st Infantry of the Americal Division. Formed in 1942 to defend the South Pacific island New Caledonia, Americal was remembered at Guadalcanal, Papua New Guinea and Quang-Tri.

The week of March 15, Task Force Barker’s mission was relatively straightforward: to wipe out the Vietcong 48th Infantry. “The operation was to commence at 0725 hours on 16 March 1968 with a short artillery preparation, following which C/1-20 Inf was to combat assault into an LZ immediately west of My Lai (4) and then sweep east through the subhamlet.”i

Despite the copies of the Geneva Conventions soldiers were instructed to carry, the Division was also operating under orders that which exempted “hot spots” like My Lai from the Conventions’ protection. Directive 525-3 from the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), “Combat Operations: Minimising Noncombatant Battle Casualties,” carefully noted that “Specified strike zones should be configured to exclude populated areas, except those in accepted VC bases.ii

As he flew over the area, Thompson knew that Charlie Company had just lost 34 men in a single grenade attack. He also knew that orders since Tet named women and children as possible Vietcong. But Thompson and his crew were still astonished at what they saw from their helicopter on the 16th: “Everywhere we’d look, we’d see bodies. These were infants, two-, three-, four-, five-year-olds, women, very old men, no draft-age people whatsoever.”iii As one platoon turned their guns full force on a farmer, U.S. Army photographer Haeberle was horrified: “”They just kept shooting at her. You could see the bones flying in the air chip by chip.” Haeberle carefully photographed those corpse-filled huts in full color, even before Thompson arrived.

Thompson also left the task of investigating what had happened to his superiors: the command, he reasoned, “didn’t need me there to court-martial these renegades.”iv One of Calley’s sergeants, Michael Bernhardt, said that they were expecting an investigation, but “Some colonel came down to the firebase where we were stationed and asked about it, but we heard no further.” v The action’s official post-operation Army communique made no mention of civilian casualties, numbering the Viet Cong body count at 128 and noting that Charlie Company had recovered two M-I rifles, a carbine, a short-wave radio and enemy documents. vi

As for Charlie Company, “[Capt. Ernest ]Medina …called me over to the command post and asked me not to write my Congressman,” said Bernhardt,vii said one of a handful of Charlie Company soldiers who had not taken part in the massacre. The “lawful disobedience” practiced by this group was as varied as the war itself.

Sgt. Bunning told his squad leader that “I wasn’t going to shoot any of these women and kids.” Stephen Carter refused to shoot a woman holding a baby coming out of her hut. Paul Meadlo, who did participate when pressured by Calley, was described as “sobbing and shouting and saying he wanted nothing to do with this.” viii A year later, Meadlo told reporters who asked how: “From the first day we go in the service, the very first day, we all learned to take orders and not to refuse any kind of order from a noncommissioned officer.” Their roles that day appears to have been influenced by multiple factors including their age, whether their MOS had them were carrying light, trigger-easy M16s, their proximity to the actual giving of the illegal orders, and their personal perspective on the issue of war crimes.ix

But even the refusers never told the outside world to what had happened. It took a year before that year-long embargo was broken.

Spc. Thomas Glen, from the 11th Light Infantry, had tried in late 1968, writing the staff of Gen. Creighton Abrams that such behavior “cannot be overlooked, but can through a more firm implementation of the codes of Military Assistance Command Vietnam and the Geneva Conventions, perhaps be eradicated.”x Abrams never responded, but his assistant Major Colin Powell reprimanded Glen for speaking so vaguely, and added that “There may be isolated cases of mistreatment of civilians and POWs, [but] this by no means reflects the general attitude throughout the Division.” Just as Powell was writing, Corporal Ron Ridenhour was preparing to prove him wrong.

Ridenhour had learned the news from an old friend who had joined Charlie Company a few months earlier: “ Hey man did you hear what we did at Pinkville?…. Men, women and kids, everybody, we killed them all….We didn’t leave anybody alive, at least we didn’t intend to.” xi

Seized by “an instantaneous recognition and collateral determination that this was something too horrible, almost, to comprehend and that I wasn’t gonna be a part of it,” Ridenhour tracked down members of Charlie Company one by one. “They couldn’t stop talking,” Ridenhour said later. “They were horrified that it had occurred, that they had been there, and in the instances of all of these men, that they had participated in some way.”

In March 1969, Ridenhour wrote a letter as specific as Glen’s was vague, naming every soldier he’d interviewed and detailed their accounts, including that Capt. Medina had warned soldiers never to speak about My Lai. “I remain irrevocably persuaded,” he told the Joint Chiefs, the President and every TV network, ‘that … we must press forward a widespread and public investigation of this matter. “xii

At the closed set of hearings that resulted, Hugh Thompson and others identified the man directing the massacre as Calley. Calley insisted that he was implementing the mission set forth by his commander Captain Medina, but he was still the only one indicted for the murder of “one hundred and nine Oriental human beings.”

A freelance Pentagon reporter named Seymour Hersh soon saw the indictment. “My first thought was not wow this will end the war, but What a story!” When he went to Fort Benning to find Calley, Ron Ridenhour “gave me a company roster, and I began to find the kids.”

The resulting interviews and photos ran nationwide — the week of the moon landing in July 1969. So it took some time for all of us to get this glimpse of what we know now was standard operating procedure during that war.

It certainly didn’t get mentioned during all the laudatory moon-shot retrospectives. But attention still, I think, must be paid.

(Photo: Stephen Carter and My Lai, Newsweek)

ii Via Gareth Porter, “ My Lai Probe Hid Policy that Led to Massacre.” Interpress Service, March 15, 2008.

iii From remarks at “My Lai 25 Years After: Facing the Darkness, Healing the Wounds,” Tulane University, 1994. Accessed via University of Missouri (Kansas City) digital resource, “Famous American Trials: The My Lai Courts-Martial,1970.” http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/mylai.htm, December 2008.

iv Fall 2003 Lecture, Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis MD.

v Seymour Hersh, Hamlet Attack Called “Point-Blank Murder”. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 20. 1969.

vi Seymour Hersh, “Lieutenant Accused of Murdering 109 Civilians.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 13, 1969, p. A1.

vii Hersh, November 20. op. cit.

viii Peers final report….

ix Rives Duncan, “What Went Right at My Lai: An Analysis of Habitus and Character in Lawful Disobedience.” Ph.D. diss., Temple University, 1992. I owe Major Duncan full credit for use of the term “lawful disobedience,” here and elsewhere.

x Via Robert Parry and Norman Solomon, “Colin Powell and My Lai.”Consortium News, October 1996.

xi “My Lai 25 Years After,” op.cit.

xii Ibid.

a bridge for Memorial Day

(The guy who sang the song above didn’t serve, but his dad Ernest sure did, spending the rest of his life in nightmares.)

The piece behind yesterday’s photos went up today at the Inquirer, with a small amount of reader mail. Ak of the latter (so far) was respectful, and some of it was of the sort that reminds one why this profession is worth something.  More than one was from people who were themselves soldier-dissenters —  some others local Quaker types, one of whom writes:

I really like your commentary.  It makes me feel better, more patriotic about Memorial Day.  It’s the sort of thing that’s needed annually to bridge us to those of us who oppose wars of choice and support defense with those who feel all wars we fight ought to be supported.

I guess that’s the point: you can say “Happy Memorial Day” if you note the huge losses the day was meant to honor.

Have a great weekend.

On Memorial Day, remember these priests, poets, politicos and pranksters!

That’s how I’ve tended to characterize the huge, diverse and boisterous movement working to stop the U.S, war against Vietnam, 1963-1975. I should have written an essay here about them last month, for the anniversary of the 1975 evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, but I could barely fit them in a chapter for the book.

A surprising number of the above, though, were recent veterans of World War II, who then popped into mind during the anniversary of V-E Day; so I wrote something that will run tomorrow in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Given space constraints, I’m informed there won’t be a photo: so here’s a photo preview of those included in the piece, which wasn’t even all of those in the movement. An honor roll of some for whom Memorial Day was an open wound, in their hearts every day:

Rev. William Sloane Coffin, greeting POW Americans in North Vietnam.

Rev. William Sloane Coffin, greeting POW Americans in North Vietnam.

  • Former Army intelligence officer William Sloane Coffin, founder of the hugely influential Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam (CALCAV).

  • howardHoward Zinn, whose long career as an historian, organizer and inspiration to us all was preceded by the young (already anti-fascist) bombardier seen at right.

  • Burning draft cards in Catonsville. Md.

    Burning draft cards in Catonsville. Md.

    Philip Berrigan, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge, shown here in prhaps the moment symbolizing his work during Vietnam — one of the first stops in a lifetime of anti-militarist  civil disobedience.

  • William_Kunstler_Former Army cryptographer William Kunstler, who followed his Pacific service by co-founding the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented war resisters from Berrigan, above, through the years to Gulf War objector Colleen Gallagher in 1991. In  1968, his face and voice became inescapable during the trial of the Chicago Seven, as at right.

  • Kurt-Vonnegut-US-Army-portrait (2)And this skinny little private was Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, captured in the Battle of the Bulge, he became a prisoner of war — and turned that exoeriene into one of the strongest anti-war novels ever written.

I’ll post the link tomorrow, which includes more on all of these. There are so many more who I couldn’t squeeze l into 750 words: not Lew Ayres and the other World War II COs, not Rev. Paul Moore, who found his pacifism after the abbatoir of Guadalcanal. But I still think this is a fine Memorial Day tribute to those lost in all our wars.

No #47traitors here;The Logan Act’s namesake just wanted peace with France

If you’ve been following national politics some, you may have heard, from both the left and the right, people naming the “Logan Act” as a way to penalize those Republican senators who sent a letter to Tehran behind Obama’s back. This isn’t the site for it, so I’ll leave it to Charlie Pierce to  explain the atrocity.

What I can do, however, is make “Logan Act” less of a partisan mantra – and explain why we care about it over here. It’s actually an oooooold amendment to the Sedition Act: not the 1917 Act, whose buddy the Espionage Act is currently being used to prosecute whistleblowers, but JOHN ADAMS’ 1798 version. Trying to make like George Bush and get on with a sorta-war with France, Adams had to contend with two soldiers, a current Army medic and one veteran-chaplain-poet, neither of whom thought the newborn nation they’d fought for should take on naval kabuki as its first order of business.

220px-GeoLoganThe ink was barely dry on the Constitution when the first of America’s Wars for Unclear Purposes began: the naval duel with France known as the Quasi-War. By the time the latter ended in 1800, two soldier-dissenters had tried to prevent it—Quaker physician/militiaman George Logan {left} and former Continental Army chaplain Joel Barlow—while Matthew Lyon, now “the asp” of colonial politics, was imprisoned for publishing his objections , calling President Adams names, and publishing “confidential” memos meant for the elite.

The two who tried to prevent it were both Francophiles. Logan, whose grandfather had been secretary to William Penn, was a physician who had spent the war attending medical school in Switzerland and traveling in Europe; upon his return, he hobnobbed with his local militia and began serving in the Pennsylvania legislature.

Fluent in French and something of early enthusiast for the French Revolution, Logan watched closely as Adams responded to French naval maneuvers, made uneasy by unresolved treaty obligations and a new U.S.-Britain treaty. Also watching closely was Yale poet Barlow, veteran of the Battle of Saratoga, now living in France, having rushed to help the French with their Revolution. Barlow wrote home and encouraged Madison to send commissioners to meet with Talleyrand, horrified when said envoys were unable to get him that appointment.  As naval insults continued and anti-French sentiment was high in Congress, Logan took it upon himself to go to France, to see if he could possibly talk to the Directory and test the waters for peace.

While Logan was taking the Quaker path and listening, back home Adams had secured new funds for the U.S. Navy and recalled General Washington in preparation for a ground war. He also acted to crack down on the Federalist press, which in classic 18th-century flavor was a flood of insults to the “tyrant” Adams. Congress then passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, the latter of which made it a crime to criticize the President. Fines were set of up to $2,000 for any person convicted of uttering, writing or printing any “false, scandalous and malicious statement against the Government of the United States; or either House of the Congress of the United States, with intent to defame… or to bring them […] into contempt or disrepute.”

There was a special Logan Amendment added to the Act, written especially for George Logan, whose freelance diplomacy was regarded as traitorous. Logan had, however, met with Talleyrand; after securing the release of some captured U.S. sailors, he sailed for home in August carrying a list of possible terms for peace negotiators. When he arrived in November, he was immediately, if briefly, arrested.

Thinking about all this is enough to turn me into Alanis – as in, “Isn’t it ironic…” To rail against GOP senators who love war against Iran by threatening to use legislation meant to stop an enthusiastic Quaker from preventing a war – that’s jujitsu of a worthy sort.


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Tomato Kadhi | Tangy Tomato Curry with Chickpea flour

Tomato Kadhi ~ A tangy tomato-based curry thickened with chickpea flour

1 year. That’s how long this recipe has been slumbering in my drafts. There’s always something holding up a recipe in draft-mode, which is why I have almost as many drafts as posted recipes. But hey, that is the cost of writing up no-fail-recipes right? 🙂

I had to get this one on the fast track when I heard my sister had a kadhi-disaster last week. That was the last straw. Really. I mean, we’re sort of like kadhi-sisters.. or maybe rasam-sisters.. well, just about anything sour and tangy does it for us. So when she tells me that her attempt at making kadhi was anything but successful, there was no way I wasn’t going to post this recipe right away. After all, I think of her every time I make kadhi! The recipe itself is pretty straight forward, and you could use a variety of vegetables to make the curry. The only way it could possibly go wrong is if you add too much besan (chickpea flour) or if the flour gets burnt. So my dear sis – you’re out of excuses now. Get cooking and get it right!

Tomato Kadhi | Tangy Tomato Curry with Chickpea flour

Adapted from Tarla Dalal’s recipe for Tamatar ki Kadhi

Serves: 4 | Cooking Time:  30 minutes

  1. 4 large tomatoes, quartered
  2. 1 – 1.5 cups vegetables of choice, cut and ready to go (any one or a combination of cluster beans, boiled potatoes, okra, cauliflower, carrots)
  3. 2 tbsp oil
  4. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
  5. 1/4 tsp fenugreek (methi) seeds
  6. 1 tsp cumin (jeera) seeds
  7. 1/4 tsp asafoetida (hing)
  8. 2 tbsp chickpea flour (besan)
  9. 1 tsp red chili powder or to taste
  10. 1/4 cup tamarind extract (see notes)
  11. salt to taste
  12. a few steps of cilantro, finely chopped for garnishing

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  1. Boil the tomatoes in 1 cup water, with the lid on, for about 7-8 minutes and let it cool down.
  2. Drain and reserve the cooking water from the tomatoes, and blend the boiled tomatoes to a fine puree (optional step: peel off the skin from the tomatoes).
  3. While the tomatoes are cooking/cooking down, get started with the curry by heating some oil in a pan.
  4. Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds and hing to the hot oil. Allow mustard to crackle (just a few seconds in hot oil will do it).
  5. Turn down the heat, add 2 tbsp gram flour and saute for a minute or until it turns golden brown in color. Be careful to not burn the gram flour, and act quickly to stir well so that no lumps are formed.
  6. Add the chopped veggies and saute for a couple of minutes.
  7. Add the reserved water from boiling the tomatoes, plus another 1 cup of water and stir well. There should be no lumps from the besan.  Note: This makes a thick curry, so to make it thinner add more water.
  8. Cook on med heat for about 7-10 minutes until the veggies are half-done.
  9. Add the pureed tomatoes, red chili powder and tamarind extract. Season with salt to taste.
  10. Cook on medium heat for about 10-15 minutes, until the veggies are done and the kadhi has reduced down to desired consistency.
  11. Turn off the heat and garnish with finely chopped cilantro.

Serve hot with pulao or just plain steamed rice!

  • You could use juice of 1/2 a lime/lemon, adjusted to taste, instead of the tamarind extract to add sourness to the kadhi.
11 Responses to “Tomato Kadhi | Tangy Tomato Curry with Chickpea flour”
  1. Preeti says:

    Tried this last night & came out wonderful!. Thanks Aish!

  2. Lakshmi Koushik says:

    Hi Aish, this is very good. We call this as Bombay Chutney. My mom makes it very nicely .

  3. Pinky says:

    delicious! I add lemon instead of tamarind
    , that comes out pretty good too.

  4. Sangeetha. says:

    Thanks for this recipie. Cant wait to give it a try. Super liked it, when I had it at your place. -Sangeetha.

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Games are about making people happy..

Today evening was quite some evening..

We played football – 9 on 9 in a muddy field with rain(for most part of the 2 hours). Very few of us really knew each other.. there were a few friends but most of all, we were getting to know each other and boy- was it fun?

We played 2 long games until darkness kicked us out of the field.. all through there were cheers, celebrations, tricks, speed, skill – all on display. Eventually, nobody cared who won or lost..

We had fun.. and that’s all that mattered.. :)

How To: Wear Soft Lenses..

As per instructions from my expert eye doctor:

Pre-preparation: Get used to touching your eye in front of the mirror. Do this a few times till your own fingers don’t seem ‘that’ alien.. :)

1) Wash hands and dry them
2) Soak lens in moisturizer/liquid provided with lens..
3) If you start with your right eye.. pull the bottom and top lids(top lids + eyelashes) and hold them tight..
4) Place the soft lens on your index finger of your right hand(assuming that’s the strong hand) – the shape should be like that of a cup.
5) Bring it to the eye and let it just touch the eye. The capillary action on the lens will suck it in and now, once it is in the eye..slowly bring your index finger out and look downwards/rotate your eye..
6) Once that, is done – release the bottom lid and again rotate it till you begin to see it in place(in the mirror) and then slowly release the top lid..

*If the lids are released early, they will push the lens out.
** This can be extremely annoying if being done in the first time -especially for guys as they aren’t used to putting make up near the eye and hence, learn slower..

+ Take heart though, a few million people around the world wear lenses.. so it can’t be THAT hard..

it still takes me 15 mins to put both of them in.. haha..


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5 Mindfulness Tips To Help You Stay Grounded | Blogging

A recent study from Harvard found that 47% of our time is spent wandering in thought. That means that nearly half the time, we aren’t present with what we’re actually doing. How different would our lives be if we cultivated mindfulness?  If we allowed ourselves to fully present in every experience? Here are five simple mindfulness practices to help you cultivate awareness in your everyday life and remain rooted in the present moment. The best part? The more you do it, the easier it becomes.

Introducing a simple 5-10 minute mindfulness meditation once or twice throughout your day can completely reorient your perspective. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University found that mindful meditation can ease stress, anxiety, depression and even pain. Through meditation, we change the way our mind relates to thought. When unproductive or negative things arise, we learn to recognize them as just thoughts, gradually getting better at letting them ebb and flow without becoming attached. Try starting your practice with an app like Headspace to establish a solid base in the practice.

Moving your body every day is so important. Whether it’s a 15-minute yoga flow in the morning before you head to work or getting up to stretch at your desk throughout your day, dropping into your body through mindful movement will help you stay grounded in the present moment. While you stretch, try to maintain an awareness of your breath,  filling and expanding your lungs from your belly up and fully exhaling as feels comfortable. Your breath in conjunction with the movements will get your circulation flowing, waking you up and connecting your body and mind for total awareness. Here’s an easy morning flow to get you started.

Giving your body the hydration it needs is an act of self-love. It’s also an easy reminder to stay mindful and connected to your body throughout the day.  With each sip, try to be aware of the water coming into your body: is it warm or cold? Does it have a taste? How does your body feel after you drink it? Whether it’s tea, water with berries or a supercharged water with supplement, getting liquid in your body is essential for healthy body and a happy mind. Try one of these reusable bottles to stay sustainable while you sip.

Fully engage your senses in each experience. Eat your meals mindfully; observe the spaces you enter; drink in your surroundings. Try to engage as many of your senses as you can in your immediate environment. In this way, you are actively bringing your mind down from whatever thoughts it may be wandering in and into your present environment  Smell, touch, sound, taste, and sound are all there to ground you in here and now.

Get outside! Go for a walk, take a hike, grab a bike. Nature is here and now, always in its perfect state. Being fully present inside of that atmosphere can bring immense calm. By allowing ourselves to connect with the natural world, we allow ourselves to be just as we are. By non-judgmentally and gratefully observing what occurs around us, we are better able to understand what occurs within us and vice versa. Find your breathe in a quiet outdoor space and inhale the fresh air – explore with your senses, come fully into the present moment and deeply exhale.


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The Sundown Paints the Shadows Through the Daylight; Miami

So, if there’s one thing that absolutely fascinates me about Miami so far, it has to be the cities skyline.  I think it’s gorgeous, the way the sun plays with the clouds and the silhouettes just make everything stunning.  Just because it’s sunny doesn’t mean it’s not raining…  Here are my favorites from my collection so far.

The first one was while I was driving (yeah yeah, I know….hush).  I was going Westbound on 395 into Downtown from South Beach and had to take a moment to catch the penultimate Miami photo.Next was right after a rainstorm.  The rain just…suddenly…stopped!  And it was beautiful!This is my view each and every morning when I walk out to my car.  Sometimes it’s just too gorgeous to pass up.As ominous as this cloud looks, it actually didn’t result in rain, just a gorgeous view from my balcony.This cloud, however, was much more terrifying.  This was Tropical Storm Isaac.  It resulted in Miami-Dade closing its doors for a day (or two) but it wasn’t really that bad.  (It wasn’t until Hurricane Sandy happened by that I noticed our balcony door actually has a hole in it.  Water flooded in.  It wasn’t pretty.)
This is one of the random mornings where I actually woke up and left on time! (*gasp*)  It’s much darker than usual…but so lovely.  I love the cloudy contrast.This is at Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach.  Rosita and I drove quite a ways to rep Texas at a Toby Keith concert.  We weren’t the only Texans there.  It was nice.  However, if I may say, Toby seemed a little down-hearted at this concert.  I’m convinced it’s because he had just come from Texas…and nothing anyone says otherwise will convince me I’m wrong.This was the sunset as it was reflected on the water.  Shot, once again, from the parking garage.  The last time I saw all these colors together, it was in a candle from Safed.Though this makes the sky look like cotton candy, and there was a very convenient flag for me to quickly place in the shot, this was actually a 45 minute long lightening storm that I watched go by during a Miami Norland Vikings football match.  We won. 😉So, I posted these pictures just because.  No particular reason.  But these were my favorites and I figured they needed to be shared.

Next week I’m heading out to a little city.  You might have heard of it.  I hope it’s still there….  New York City (center of the universe…)!!!

Rosita Tran III and I, Alison Cohn, will be embarking upon our first big girl vacation because we have real big girl jobs and we can AFFORD IT!

Some of the places we anticipate seeing:

  • The Way Station (Doctor Who themed bar with a TARDIS bathroom)
  • The Empire State Building (we’re not going in.  Not waiting in THAT line…)
  • The Giant Weeping Angel andbythatwemean The Statue of Liberty.  Don’t blink. 😉
  • Ground Zero…if it’s accessible post-Sandy.
  • The Village
  • Canal Street

Things we intend to do:

  • Zita wants to run in Central Park.  Which she is more than welcome to do.  Without me. =D
  • See Wicked.  The tickets came in the mail a week ago.  Holy crap, I’m excited.
  • Walk Times Square at night.  For the first time. 🙂
  • See Skyfall?  Maybe?  I kinda want to!

If you have any more recommendations for MUST-DO things in New York (aside from the obvious and the touristy) feel free to comment or reach out to me in some way/shape/form.  I’m open to any and all suggestions…but I reserve the right not take them.  😉

After New York, I come back to Miami and teach for a few days before mom’s coming to visit!  She wants to see me teach.  I’m excited.

Then, another week of suffering before I’m back home for Thanksgiving.  I have about 3 days in Dallas, so if you want to see me, let me know.

Following that, four weeks in Miami until WINTER BREAK.  Potential Christmas plans include…Dallas for two weeks!  Working on it!

Also!  New and EXCITING news!  Current plans involve going back to Israel for about 10 days in August of 2013.  Keep a look out and I’ll keep you abreast of any forthcoming information.

Until next time, (may it be shorter than the last time…)

Author: alisonlcohn

Graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Communications Advertising. Traveled a bit. Taught for two years. Administered aptitude tests for a while. Worked as a Training Associate for Guardian Mortgage and a Quiz Master for Geeks Who Drink. Obtained my Master's in Film, Television and Screen Media in London, England. Now seeking a full-time something-or-other. Nice to meet you!

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  1. Well my suggestion is to get the oatmeal at shoot can’t believe I forgot the name of the market..I will get back to you on that..also the Harry Potter exhibit is back. I think you saw that. Then the piano at FAO schwatz.

    1. OMG, I had NO IDEA that it was back! I was going to go last year when I was blowing through New York…but Irene put a wrench in those plans. What is it with hurricanes and New York when I’m traveling there?
      Goodness, TOTALLY hitting up the exhibit. You win all the points.

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Together but Alone

It’s the 21st century, 2016. We live in a world where having technology is the norm, it’s common. If you don’t have it, you stand out. Technology connects us to the people arounds us and people around the world. Even so, it keeps us more distant from each other as well.

Let me explain. Many have said that we are more likely to electronically send something that we wouldn’t dare say aloud. The current generations are being raised in a society that hides behind a screen. We learn to wear a mask created by social media where we show what we want people to see instead of who we are. We are surrounded by people we think we know, but really, all we know is their status.

As humans we desire to have relationships with others but we are doing this through followers and Facebook friends instead of face-to-face. We live in a digital world, a fantasy of sorts, we believe what we want to believe instead of what is true. We learn that we can’t trust because let’s face it, we all wear our own masks. We’re so fixated on who society says we should be that we don’t even know who we are.

Look around you, people are on their phones. When you can go to a restaurant, you see couples on their phones not living in the moment, not being present where they are. Society and media has created a culture where we are together all the time, but are we really? I’d like to say we are but really we are more alone than ever. There used to be a day where friends were made at local restaurants, coffee shops, activities not on the internet behind a glass screen. We feel more alone than ever yet we don’t make a change, more depression than ever yet we keep doing things the same.

It’s time to make a change. So the next time you go out put down the phone, take a look around you, talk to someone new. Let’s create a revolution where we stop hiding behind a media mask but start showing who we are. Go past the surface level conversation and really care about who people are.

Be real, be you, and don’t let anyone tell you that you should hide who you are. You were created wonderfully unique, embrace it and show the world how amazing you are.

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Healthy February Recipes

Italian Meatball Soup

Most Italian Meatball Soup recipes contain crusty bread and orzo pasta in addition to the meatballs and veggies, so in order to ensure your best fitness results we’ve left those high-calorie, high-carb ingredients out of this delicious recipe. Instead we’ve filled this comforting soup with wholesome ingredients like sweet potato, chickpeas, kale, tomatoes and onion. Serve hot and enjoy!

Servings: 10

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Here’s what you need…

  • 1 lb loose Italian sausage
  • 1 sweet potato, peeled and diced
  • 2 Tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 2 yellow onions, diced
  • 1 Tablespoon garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • ½ cup dry white wine
  • 4 cups chicken broth
  • 1 (15 oz) can diced tomatoes in juice
  • 1 (15 oz) can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  • 1 (5 oz) package baby kale

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
  2. Form the sausage into 40 small meatballs using about a teaspoon of sausage per meatball. Place the meatballs on one of the prepared baking sheets and bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.
  3. In a medium bowl toss the diced sweet potato with 1 teaspoon of olive oil and a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Spread the sweet potato over the remaining baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, until tender.
  4. Heat the olive oil in a soup pot over medium-low heat. Add the onions, garlic, Italian seasoning, sea salt and red pepper flakes. Partially cover and cook for 10 minutes, until the onions are soft. Increase the heat to high.
  5. Deglaze the pot with the wine and cook until evaporated. Stir in the broth, tomatoes and sweet potato and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium and simmer, 8-12 minutes.
  6. Stir in the meatballs, chickpeas and the kale until wilted. Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Enjoy!

Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 397 calories, 19g fat, 26g carbohydrate, 705mg sodium, 7g sugar, 9g fiber, and 20g protein.

Asian Spinach Salad

Here’s the perfect fresh salad to serve as a compliment to your next healthy stir-fry dinner. The dressing is simple to mix together at home and is filled with delicious Asian flavors like sesame and chili garlic. Use fresh organic spinach, radish and cucumber for the best flavor and highest nutritional value.

Servings: 4

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For the Salad Dressing

  • 3 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 Tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
  • 1 teaspoon coconut palm sugar or honey
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • ¼ teaspoon chili garlic sauce

For the Salad

  • 4 cups fresh spinach
  • 1 cucumber, sliced
  • 1 bunch of radish, sliced

  1. Whisk the dressing ingredients in a small bowl.
  2. Combine the spinach, cucumber and radish in a salad bowl. Toss with the dressing and season with salt and pepper. Enjoy!

Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 67 calories, 5g fat, 5g carbohydrate, 282mg sodium, 2g sugar, 2g fiber, and 2g protein.

Quinoa Nourish Bowl

Here’s a Nourish Bowl that’s a great recipe to model! Once you’re ready, get creative and add your own favorite greens, protein, healthy fat, veggies and healthy carbs to a bowl and dive in. Enjoy!

Servings: 2

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Here’s what you need…

  • ¼ cup uncooked quinoa
  • ½ cup chicken broth
  • 1 Tablespoons spaghetti sauce
  • 1 teaspoon water
  • 1 cup fresh spinach
  • 2 hard boiled eggs, peeled and sliced in half
  • ½ avocado, pitted and chopped
  • 6 cherry tomatoes, halved
  • sea salt and black pepper to taste

  1. Combine the quinoa and broth in a small pot over medium high heat. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and cook, covered, for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and mix in the spaghetti sauce.
  2. In a small skillet place the water over medium heat. Add the fresh spinach and sauté until tender.
  3. Divide the quinoa between two bowls and top each with one of the eggs, and half of the spinach, avocado and tomatoes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Enjoy!

Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 323 calories, 15g fat, 33g carbohydrate, 286mg sodium, 8g sugar, 10g fiber, and 15g protein.

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Wholesome snacking can be just as quick, simple and convenient as junk food snacking. Really! All it takes is a little bit of forethought. Make a batch of these Turkey Snack Meatballs on the weekend to set you up for a week filled with smart, healthy snacking. And just like that you take another giant step towards that leaner, healthier, more energetic you. The best version of you.

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  • 1 lb ground turkey
  • ½ cup yellow onion, diced
  • ¼ cup red bell pepper, diced
  • 2 Tablespoons fresh mint, minced
  • 2 Tablespoons red curry paste
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1½ teaspoon fresh ginger, minced
  • ½ teaspoon ground coriander
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • ¼ teaspoon black pepper

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 F and lightly grease casserole pan with olive oil.
  2. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl, shape into 20 meatballs and place in the prepared pan.
  3. Bake for 25 minutes or until cooked through. Enjoy!

Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 50 calories, 2g fat, 3g carbohydrate, 116mg sodium, 1g sugar, 0g fiber, and 5g protein.

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A new report has surfaced which suggests that Obama OK’d millions of dollars worth of free legal advice to illegal immigrants while he was still president.

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The Obama administration approved $310 million in free legal advice to young illegal immigrants despite federal law barring charging taxpayers for helping immigrants avoid deportation, according to a new report.

The Immigration Reform Law Institute said that the funding was provided to a top legal defense group to help unaccompanied alien children under the age of 18 land with a sponsor in the U.S.

In 2015 and 2016, contracts reviewed by IRLI showed that several worth $310 million went to one nonprofit legal group, the Vera Institute of Justice. A top director has ties to liberal philanthropist George Soros.

At issue, said the group, is immigration law that bars using tax dollars to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation. In a report, IRLI said:

The Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 292, states that aliens in removal proceedings “shall have the privilege of being represented (at no expense to the government).” Immigrant special interest groups, sometimes on behalf of unaccompanied minors, have tried since 1996 to challenge this section, claiming it violates aliens’ rights. Federal courts have always rejected these claims.

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The plot continues to thicken as investigations into former Congressional IT aide Imran Awan and the nature of his relationship with Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  The investigation continues to reveal that Wasserman Schultz acted in ways that clearly were not in keeping with her oath of office nor were they in any way in the best interest of the American people.

It seems that Wasserman Schultz planned to continue to keep Awan on the Congressional payroll even once Awan returned to Pakistan if his escape from the U.S. had taken off as planned. Literally, the only thing that is keeping Awan from continuing to fleece American tax payers with Wasserman Schultz help and assistance was the FBI’s interception and subsequent arrest at the airport.

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Awan booked a round-trip ticket to Pakistan in July and planned to depart Monday, July 24 with a return ticket in six months. He was arrested at Dulles Airport during his attempt to leave.  The Associated Press reported that Awan’s lawyer, Chris Gowen, said Awan “had informed the House of his plans to visit his family.”

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Public statements and congressional payroll records suggest Wasserman Schultz also knew Awan’s wife, Hina Alvi, a fellow Congressional IT staffer, had already successfully fled the U.S. for Pakistan while she was also a criminal suspect.

Six months of actions reveal a decision to continue paying a man who seemingly could not have been providing services to her, a person that a mountain of evidence suggests was a liability, not an asset. Awan had access to all of Wasserman Schultz’s computer files, work emails, and personal emails for a long time. He was also recently accused by a relative in court documents of wiretapping and extortion. The question is WHY?

Awan and Alvi have been the targets of a criminal investigation by Capitol Police since February 2017, yet Wasserman Schultz refused to fire them.  In fact, Awan was not fired until Tuesday after he had already been indicted for bank fraud and Alvi had already fled the country with the couple’s children to Qatar some weeks ago. Wasserman Schultz even went to far as to claim police refused to show her any evidence and that without evidence she felt free to assume Awan and Alvi were simply being targeted due to Islamophobia.

Wasserman Schultz’s office emphatically stated that Awan’s termination was prompted as a result of his Monday arrest, rather than the more appropriate action of firing him after the House Sergeant at Arms banning him and his wife from touching congressional computers or even as a result of his intention to spend 6 months in Pakistan.  All of that collectively suggests that should Awan been able to board his flight without being detained he would STILL be on the Wasserman Schultz’ payroll despite having fled the country.

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According to an FBI affidavit, Alvi left the country under similar circumstances on March 5.  She withdrew their three children from school without informing Virginia education officials. packed up all her possessions, and hid over $12,000 in cash on her person.  The FBI also documents that Alvi had hundreds of thousands of dollars waiting for her in Pakistan. The money is believed to have been obtained via mortgage fraud and wired overseas with a fabricated explanation.  Just two days after Alvi fled the U.S. House records should Alvi was removed from Wasserman Schultz’s payroll.

Alvi had a round trip ticket with the return scheduled for her to return in a six month period.  However, the FBI stated they did not believe she had any intention of returning to the U.S. No one can seem to answer the simple question as to why Alvi was terminated for employment just two days into a trip that she claimed was temporary.  Yet Awan was not terminated and it did not appear he would be for a 6-month move to Pakistan. Due to the fact that Alvi only worked part time, it is peculiar that her absence would have even been noticed within a two day period unless someone informed Wasserman Schultz’s office.

Awan and Hina have been banned from the House network since February 2, 2017, by the House Sergeant-At-Arms.  Awan and Hina are listed as Wasserman Schultz’s only IT staffers.  Payroll records through March 31 which is the latest pay period available, show no other or additional IT staffer or vendor was added to the payroll after their ban either. Yet despite the ban, Awan was seen in the House office building on multiple occasions. He continued in an “advisory” capacity for Wasserman Schultz “providing advice on technology issues.”

As IT administrators, the suspects could read all emails sent and received by the lawmaker and see all files on the staff members’ computers, numerous House IT aides said. WikiLeaks shows that Awan also had the password to Wasserman Schultz’s iPad.

Interesting to note that in spite of Wasserman Schultz supposed concern for so-called racial profiling and Islamophobia, every single other Congressional colleague that employed Awan, Alvi, or their other relatives on the Congressional payroll fired them.  This includes Rep Andre Carson of Indiana who just happens to be Muslim himself.  Rep. Carson was highly critical of Wasserman Schultz’s attempts to prevent Capitol police from examining a laptop tied to Awan. Wasserman Schultz threatened the police chief with “consequences” if the laptop was not released into her custody.

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The Hauntings Of Fox Hollow Farm

FoxhollowThe Graves family went into Fox Hollow Farm in Indiana, with no clue what was waiting for them. “Paranormal Witness” recounted the legacy of the farm. Serial killer Herb Baumeister lived there, and killed at least thirteen young men before committing suicide in Canada after escaping U.S law in the 1990s.

He buried their bodies all-around the farm. Law enforcement removed more than 5,000 bone fragments, but the Graves found more. They reported seeing ghosts and hearing strange knocks, but it was Joe LeBlanc, a man who rented an apartment on the property, who had the most specific encounter.

He claims to have made contact with the ghost of Herb Baumeister, even recording the session. A voice could be heard repeating the phrase, “The married one.” LeBlanc had been asking who was walking in the kitchen. As all of Baumeister’s victims had been single, he determined this answer must mean the spirit was Baumeister himself.

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Herb Baumeister was once again be the subject of a television show. The famous Hamilton County serial killer was featured last night on “Paranormal Witness” on SyFy. The episode is “Fox Hollow Farm” after Baumeister’s property.

Baumeister was the Westfield businessman who authorities believe stalked Indianapolis gay bars in the mid-1990s, picked up unsuspecting men and drove them to his property where he allegedly killed and buried them.
He was considered a suspect by police, but fled to Canada as investigators began digging up the backyard. The remains of several men were found on the grounds.

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Early life

The oldest of four children, Baumeister’s childhood was reportedly normal. By the onset of adolescence, however, he began exhibiting antisocial behavior; acquaintances later recalled the young Baumeister playing with dead animals and urinating on a teacher’s desk. As a teenager, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but did not receive further psychiatric treatment. As an adult, he drifted through a series of jobs, marked by a strong work ethic, but also by more and increasingly bizarre behavior.

He married in 1971, a union that produced three children.

In the early 1990s investigators with the Marion County Sheriff’s Department and the Indianapolis Police Department began investigating the disappearances of gay men in the Indianapolis area. In 1993, investigators were contacted by a man claiming that a gay bar patron calling himself “Ron Rosen” had killed a friend of , and had attempted to kill him. The detectives told him to contact them in case he ever saw the man again. In November 1995, he called them and supplied the man’s license plate; after checking the license registry, investigators discovered that “Ron Rosen” was actually Herb Baumeister.

Investigators approached Baumeister, told him he was a suspect in the disappearances, and asked to search his house. When Baumeister refused, investigators confronted his wife, Julie, who also forbade police to search the house. By June 1996, however, Julie Baumeister had become sufficiently frightened by her husband’s mood swings and erratic behavior that, after filing for divorce, she consented to a search. The search of the 18-acre (73,000 m2) estate named “Fox Hollow Farm” was conducted while Baumeister was on vacation; it turned up the remains of 11 men, only 5 of whom were ever identified.

Baumeister escaped to Ontario, where he committed suicide at Pinery Provincial Park by shooting himself in the head. In his suicide note, he described his failing marriage and business as his reason for killing himself. He did not confess to the murders of the men found in his backyard.

In addition to the murders at his estate, Baumeister is also suspected of killing nine more men, the bodies of whom were found in rural areas along the corridor of Interstate 70 between Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana.Julie Baumeister told authorities that her husband made as many as 100 business trips to Ohio, on what he said was store business.

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Years passed while the estate and mansion stood empty. It was on the market now, and the incredibly cheap property was sold to Rob and Vicky Graves. The mansion had been gutted after it was vacated, and everything in it was new. The Graves thought everything bad was gone from the mansion. Every thing seemed great in their new home except one day when Vicky experienced an unexplained occurrence. She had attempted to vacuum up gravel from around the lush indoor pool. The gravel had been tracked in by her kids. The vacuum kept coming unplugged at the extension cord without any explainable reason for the unpluggings. Vicky was a bit confused when it happened three times. She sensed she was not alone and that they or what ever it was did not want her there. She shrugged the feeling off.

Rob worked at a car dealership, and his colleague Joe Le Blanc had been facing a terrible daily commute to work which left him often times late for work. Joe needed to move closer to the dealership and naturally Rob offered to let Joe move into the spare apartment on the estate. Joe, unfazed by the history of the house Brought his belongings and his dog Fred and moved into the apartment. He fell asleep once he and Rob were finished moving him in because the move had been an exhausting one. While sleeping he dreamed that he was running for his life. He felt that something bad was chasing him. He awakened in a state of panic and tried to run. He hit the door frame so hard he collapsed onto the floor. He was in terrible pain. Shards of glass were everywhere and they had gotten into his hands. He was unsure what he was running from but he felt the sense he had to get out of there as fast as he could.

Something caught Vickie’s eye one day when she came home from work to find Rob painting. He had accomplished a surprising amount of work on his task. She was looking over his work when she noticed it. A man in a red T-Shirt was standing in their yard. As he turned and walked away from her she realized that she couldn’t see his legs. Suddenly all of him disappeared. She and Rob walked over to the the area where the man had been only to find nothing. Rob installed security cameras on the premises in hopes of catching him on them if the stranger came back.

One night while Joe was washing dishes in his apparent he heard a knock on the door. The knocking became insistent and when Joe opened the door nothing was there. He looked around and finally went back in and locked the door. He could not shake the feeling of discomfort because he felt he was being watched. Fred, Joe’s dog started behaving like he saw something but Joe saw nothing.

Another night Joe was walking Fred when he heard something in the woods. Fred had stopped and his ears were standing straight up like he was listening to something. As they headed back toward the apparent Joe and his dog saw a man in a red T-Shirt. The stranger turned and headed toward the woods and disappeared. Fred gave chase after him anyway though. Of course Joe chased after his dog because he had no way of knowing the intentions of the stranger in the red shirt. While still in chase to find his dog, Joe came face to face with the stranger. Terrified, Joe turned and ran for his life. Fred was chasing close behind as well. Upon Joe telling Rob and Vicky about the incident they realized that they had both seen the same man.

One night Joe was awakened by someone once again knocking on his door. He called out to see who it was but received no answer. He felt the panels in his door and they were vibrating from the knocking. Joe pulled the still vibrating door open only to see no one was there. He noticed the doorknocker was raised as if some unseen hand was ready to knock with it again. when it came down and completed it’s knock Joe closed the door. He bolted it shut and felt a bit safer. He went back into his room to find a growling Fred than he heard a sound like the doorknob turning.

The door knob twisted and vibrated violently from whoever was trying to get in. The sound stopped and seconds later the door burst open and wood chips went flying across the apartment. Unnerved but baffled he stepped out of the apartment and when he turned to come back inside he saw a man inside the apparent. The man was screaming and running for his life. He was trying to get away from some unseen person. Joe now suspected his intruder had been one of Baumeister’s unfortunate victims. He, along with Rob and Vicky Graves researched what was known about the events on the property. They were viewing some old news footage including pictures of some of Baumeister’s victims when Joe spotted a picture of the ghost which was running for his life in the apartment. Rob couldn’t help but to worry that Joe might be becoming obsessed with the Baumeister case.

One day Joe was walking through the woods with Fred. Fred took off running and Joe chased after him. When Fred stopped something caught Joe’s eye. He dug it out of the leaves and it was a human bone. He took it to Rob and Vicky. She knew instantly that it was human. She thought it was a Femur. He had found it near the same area where they had seen the man in the red shirt.

Rob reported the finding to the lead detective on the case, who agreed to come out and show them where the events had happened. It was believed that Baumeister had strangled his victims near or even in the woods.

Now one of Joe’s friends, A man named Jeremy, wanted to come to the house. Jeremy wanted to lay to rest the reports of the house’s hauntings. They were in the pool and diving to retrieve dead beetles which had sank to the bottom of the pool. Joe felt someone touch his back. His first thought was that it was one of the boys. He realized they were on the other side of the pool.

It couldn’t have been them. Joe was pulled under the water as he swam back toward his friends. Invisible, cold fingers gripped his neck and were choking him. Jeremy saw Joe grabbing toward his neck. He had a panicked look like none Jeremy had ever seen before. Joe managed to escape and he hurried out of the pool He was in a state of terror and demanded his friends get out of the pool immediately. He feared it would get one of them as well, and perhaps even succeed in killing them.

Finally, one night Joe was working at his computer. He heard a metallic scraping noise so he investigated. he found a knife laying on the counter and there were cuts in the wood walls. It made him question if someone had been stabbed in the kitchen. He watched a ghost hunter show, and he unplugged everything that could possibly make any noises. He used his cell phone because it had a pretty decent recorder in it. He decided to do an EVP session and see what he caught.

He asked if anyone was there and within moments Fred started barking. Joe took the cell to the computer to listen and see if anything was recorded. There as a clear response to his question. The voice said “The married one.” All of Baumeister’s victims had been single gay men. The only one there who had been single was the Murderer himself. Herbert Baumeister had to be back from his grave and to this day Joe is convinced that He is still around. It is apparent that evil never dies it simply changes form and continues to be a form of evil.

Current residents and visitors to the property have reported unsettling feelings, unexplainable noises, and even seeing apparitions inside the house and round the grounds.A paranormal investigation team, including psychics, a demonologist, EVP and visual specialists, investigated the 18-acre estate over a six-month period.

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Tuscumbia Aliens – Claude Edwards Story

Claude Edwards of Tuscumbia, Missouri, was a hard-working 64-year-old farmer and he didn’t believe in flying saucers or little green men. That was until the early morning of February 14, 1967. Edwards began the day as always, with his morning walk from his home to the barn. As he came over a small hill and was able to see his fields he knew this day was going to be very different.

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The first thing that Edwards noticed was that all of his cattle were at one end of the field, all of them looking in the same direction. Edwards looked to see what had captured the attention of his herd and gazed upon an amazing sight.

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It was one of those flying saucers, sitting in his field, surrounded by a group of little green men. The aliens were about three feet tall and moving about very quickly. The farmer said the little green men had big black eyes or perhaps were wearing goggles. Where the nose and mouth should have been was a protrusion that Edwards believed may have been some type of breathing device.

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As for the saucer, a giant mushroom, about 18 feet in diameter. It had oval-shaped port holes through which Edwards could see a wide range of colored lights that seemed to be rotating. Not being armed, Edwards picked up a couple of rocks and approached the saucer.

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The farmer later said that he planned to throw the rocks at the saucer in an attempt to puncture the saucers skin and prevent it from flying away.

His plan failed because as he got about 15 feet from the craft he ran into an invisible force field. He said it was like walking into a wall and he was not able to get any closer. At some point the little green men got back into the saucer and it began to move.

The saucer slowly lifted from the ground and headed off, gaining speed as it went until out of sight. Edwards never reported seeing the strange visitors again and there were no other witnesses, except a herd of cattle who remained silent.

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