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WHEN YOUR FATHER BECOMES YOUR DAD
June 19, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Father’s Day is a time for special reverence, especially when your dad is gone. It’s almost easier then, sad to say, because you don’t readily recall the difficult moments. All children… Continue reading
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BULLIES IN DARKENED ALLEYS
June 13, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com The terrible news that a gunman walked into a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and destroyed 50 people, leaving 53 others hospitalized in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history has… Continue reading
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‘TRIUMPH DES WILLENS,’ AGAIN?
June 6, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com NÜRNBERG, Germany — This once-again beautiful city in the center of Deutschland, removed for more than 70 years now from World War II bombing and almost complete devastation, is both typically… Continue reading
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MOMENT OF SILENCE
May 30, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com When my double Great-Grandfather Robert Wilhelm Guenther left Appomattox and then his mustering-out as a Union soldier in June 1865, he accomplished the greatest feat of his four-year “career” — he… Continue reading
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THE ST. GEORGE ROUND TABLE
May 23, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com A shiny new hotel has opened in Nyack, N.Y., a Hudson River village that for decades was the work home of newspaper stiffs like me. I hope The Time Nyack enjoys… Continue reading
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STILLNESS AT WEIDEN
May 16, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Weiden, Germany — On a recent walk here in the centuries-old farmland of this Bavarian region while visiting family, I came upon a war memorial, a bit worn and not as… Continue reading
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FAMILIAR SHADOWS
By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Even if people once in our lives have left us or we them, or if circumstances — changes — took them away, there is certainty in familiar shadows, a feeling more than apparition actually, that… Continue reading
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SI BARBER’S LOOK AT ‘TRUE’ ROYALTY
May 1, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Americans share a “document of intent” with our British cousins. For our former royal mother country, it is the 1215 Magna Carta, which actually was reissued, modified and was more relevant… Continue reading
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‘Sláinte’ to the Irish
April 24, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com No man, no woman, no child is free as their god intended if their history, their inheritance, their rightful destiny are lassoed by another master. That was the Irish in the… Continue reading
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HOME BUT CHANGED
April 18, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Having just returned from a family trip to Germany and Austria, and immediately thrown as an American into the country I cherish, the horizon has been expanded that I cannot fully… Continue reading