By Ray Lenarcic Imagine if, on a beautiful summer’s morn, they came in and took your children away, taken to a boarding school where they’d learn a new language, have to wear new clothes, be subjected to a new culture, forced to...
Read MoreBy Ray Lenarcic One of my favorite Christmas stories is an account of the origin of the candle in the window tradition. As you’ll later read, its theme has resonance today. Set in a small mountainous village during the early...
Read MoreBy Ray Lenarcic They helped us big time. Now it’s our turn. They are the Afghan translators who worked and were deeply respected by our servicemen and women who fought in that mountainous hellhole. The former were integral...
Read MoreBy Ray Lenarcic Benedict Arnold betrayed his country. But before he did, he helped to save it. Twice. Prior to explaining how some necessary background information is needed. Our War for Independence was long and difficult, with...
Read MoreBy Ray Lenarcic Your child has cancer—four words no parent ever wants to hear. I know. I heard them. My youngest daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor several years ago and has survived to date. I’ve worried about her every...
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I was not a Vietnam combat veteran, nor was I a veteran. My over 30 years of veterans’ advocacy...
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By Ray Lenarcic Flag Day, the second and least acknowledged of our “patriotic trilogy” (Memorial...
Read MoreBy Ray Lenarcic I’ve written several times about one of the highlights of growing up in Little Falls, N.Y.-attending the First Baptist Church and having the unmitigated privilege of being party to the magnificent sermons of the...
Read More By Ray Lenarcic Battling sub-zero temperatures and an enemy outnumbering them 20 plus to one, they...
Read More By Ray Lenarcic Several writings dealing with the subject of war have had a profound, enduring...
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