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Back to School 2010

Brian1695 Wrote: Sep 03, 2010 11:14 AM
Guarding our Empire overseas. Freedom has nothing to do with it. That is why the US has a Constitution!
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Back2Basics Wrote: Sep 03, 2010 3:20 PM
Cynic! This column isn't about the military, but about how our children grow up incredibly quickly. And how precious they are to us.

A new generation has joined the Mullings household. This is for her.

The children of America have gone back to school. And, in nearly every household, there is at least one person who is standing over the kitchen sink in tears, wondering where the years have gone.

I understand.

Every year at this time, I remember a wonderful essay I heard on NPR the summer before The Lad first went to college. A woman talked about the day she sent her daughter to kindergarten for her first day of school. "My husband told me not to cry," she...

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