Responding to my post yesterday about Google’s decision to leave Memorial Day uncommemorated, a friend reminded me about Gerard Manley Hopkins’s moving poem “The Solider.” Were I come o’er again’ ...

Dear Readers: Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. “Vigil Strange I ...

William C. Ross, 81, is a Tucson resident who spent 22 years working on- and off-air for radio stations in Knoxville, Tenn., Norfolk, Va., and Pittsburgh. In 2009, Ross, now retired, began writing a ...

Gary Young, UCSC alumnus, new Director of UCSC's Cowell Press, Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, UCSC adjunct professor of literature. Photographed at the Cowell Press. Shot for the UCSC Review, ...

PITTSFIELD — A crowd gathered at Pittsfield Cemetery on Monday, but there was no burial to be seen. Instead, a picture of one was painted with words. “Four soldiers tall and straight, wearing full ...

As I was looking around online Saturday, I happened to come across the text of President Obama’s Memorial Day weekend radio address. Here’s how it begins: Hi, everybody. This weekend is Memorial Day-a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Communities across Indiana and the United States are coming together Monday to honor the country’s fallen heroes on Memorial Day. Nationwide, people will observe the National ...