As a cadet at the Military Academy the master earned the sobriquet “Private Bone Spurs,” due to the crippling ailment that would ultimately prevent his service in Crimea. But later he experienced a miraculous healing. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The pictures of him in his uniform always strike me as so sad. The one where he is standing in full dress uniform next to his mother and father is quite eloquent -- so far as you can see, he doesn't even have a face.
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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