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Showing posts with label memorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorials. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2024

Opinion: This Memorial Day weekend is the perfect time to teach children to love America despite its wounds

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An illustration piece from 'Manual of Patriotism' 1900. (Library of Congress photo via The Wall Street Journal) As we launch into Me...
Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Roundup for World Press Freedom Day: Americans think news media hurt democracy; journalists concerned about press freedoms; site picked for Fallen Journalists Memorial

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Associated Press chart refers to "the news media" as singular, which is not helpful. --Al Cross, Institute for Rural Journalism ...
Friday, December 04, 2020

Trump gets bill to authorize Fallen Journalists Memorial

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Congress has passed and sent to President Trump a bipartisan bill authorizing the planning and construction of a memorial in Washington, D.C...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Tom Hendrix died two years ago today, but the wall he built to honor his Yuchi Indian great-great-grandmother lives on

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Tom Hendrix in 2014 ( NYT photo by Robert Rausch) Two years ago today, Tom Hendrix died at 87, and The Rural Blog failed to take note....
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Judge-historian defends Confederate monuments, says race problems run deeper than stone

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Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Bill Cunningham Debate about the memorials to Confederate fighters continues to spread across the South...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Retired Marine from Montana walks 3,000 miles across the country to honor fallen soldiers

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In a great example of capturing rural life, Vince Devlin has a story in the Missoulian about a Montana man who spent more than five mont...
Thursday, April 05, 2012

W.Va., Labor Department pause to remember 2nd anniversary of worst coal mine disaster in 40 years

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Two years ago today the worst coal mining disaster in 40 years happened in Raleigh County, West Virginia, at the Upper Big Branch undergrou...
Friday, September 02, 2011

Remembrances of, and resources for, 9/11

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The Rural Blog is published primarily for rural news media, most of which stick to events and issues in their own communities, especially if...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

Memorial to Flight 93 is incomplete and short of money, maybe because it's the only rural 9/11 site

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"Of the three memorials that commemorate the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, the Flight 93 National Memorial stands out," Curtis Tat...