Ed Lyons

Those innocent days

Last week, I watched an "Andy Hardy" movie. You remember -- the series with Mickey Rooney as a young man and his family during the 1940s.

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    'A Ducketh Tale'

    Each Sunday, our church (Grace Community of North Fork) asks one amongst its congregation to deliver a message/story for the children.

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    2012 was a rough year

    This column should come as a surprise!

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    Rest easy my brother

    My brother Larry Curtiss lays in that moonscape known as the Santa Nella Military Cemetery.

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    I got the funnies

    Those of you who have read this column over the past 20 years must certainly conclude that, in this case, the term "Freedom of the press" is particularly apropos.

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    Apologizing American

    Those who read this column have followed me back to war times in our history. Times that some of us have experienced or whose families have experienced ... times with outcomes that still affect our lives.

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    The fire that left her alone

    The scene: Da Nang, Vietnam in the mid 1960s -- an airfield where we occasionally landed to refuel.

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    The 'happy valley'

    It was in 1950 that our country decided to increase our confrontation of the communist thrust towards the dominance of international politics.

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    The Berlin Airlift

    At the end of WWII's European Theater of Operations, the area controlled by Germany was divided up amongst the conquering allied nations: Russia, England and the U.S. The capital city of Berlin, even though it was in the Russian sector, was split bet

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    Proud to serve

    War stories ... memories ... a pastime for old warriors. A history that the newer generation needs to know, knowledge that will help them in their own call to arms, once again, "what is past is prologue."

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    Taxation with representation

    Down through the ages, one of the most frequent causes of a revolt by the people has been excessive taxation.

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