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Politico Article: Max Cleland, A Veteran Who Kept Fighting From A Wheelchair

ArticlesBy ejuniperDecember 27, 2021

Long before he was a U.S. senator, Max Cleland, who died this year at 79, was a U.S. Army captain, a soldier’s soldier who earned Silver and Bronze Stars for valor in Vietnam. At the Battle of Khe Sanh, he lost both legs and his right arm, but he was never given to complaining. Like…

NY Times: A Final Interview With Hank Aaron: ‘I Recognized That I Had a Gift’

ArticlesBy ejuniperJanuary 23, 2021

I was born in Atlanta in 1960, and when the Braves moved to town from Milwaukee after the 1965 season, Hank Aaron became my all-seasons hero. That didn’t seem unusual in my family, because my New Jersey-bred mother and Pennsylvania-raised father considered themselves civil rights foot soldiers. But it was anathema to my white classmates.…

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