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To lay a fellow service member to rest is the most solemn duty that a veteran or active duty member can experience. Members of the United States military act with selfless service, pride, and respect to the point that it is in our DNA. This is part of what makes a servicemember’s final sendoff so emotionally impactful. We are all in it together.
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One of the most contentious and anxiety inducing topics to come out of the COVID-19 crisis is the infected patient’s right to privacy as opposed to the community’s right to know. Since the median age in the United States is 38.3 years (born in 1982), few are left who remember quarantine signs posted on the doors of those with diphtheria, polio, scarlet fever or smallpox, and many of those folks have now died from the virus. To explain how we arrived at this right to privacy would take more space than I have, but all I can say is that after reading some forgotten history, I’m conflicted.
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As students get ready to go back to high school in the fall, they’ll all have to meet the Board of Education’s time-honored requirement of studying two years of a foreign language. Different schools offer different options with regards to which languages they teach. The students will be trained to communicate to a foreigner “Where is Monica” or “Where is Peter going?” In case you are curious, he is going “To the lake.”
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I am a non-parent. However, I am a pretty awesome uncle.
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One of the things that this COVID-19 episode has brought home to me is that rural Texas has got to look out for itself, speak up for itself and elect people who will carry our message to Austin when we can’t. What I’m talking about is the dissemination of information related to coronavirus cases, or rather the lack of information, in rural counties.
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Thank you, Willy! Earl Pitts did it for me again with another commentary on the Coronavirus. This past Friday he poked fun at today’s version of quarantining, because as Earl said, “real men” have been doing this for decades. It’s called working in the garage!
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Greetings to all. With the news overrun with this virus thing, there has not been very much in the way of veterans’ news to report, therefore my column has been “missing in action,” so to speak.
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Without a doubt, my biggest disappointment with a sports organization has to be that of the Houston Astros, of whom I’ve been a lifelong fan. What great seasons they’ve had, particularly over the past five years. Always in contention, playing in top form, getting clutch hits and even winning the World Series, the Astros have delivered big time to their fans.
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