Posts by Jonathan Patrick Herzog

Two atheistic groups and a lawsuit call on Washington to end its sanction of religion in the military. Critics decry this as an attack on a venerable tradition. But the blend of martial and spiritual in the armed forces is largely the residue of the fight again communism in the late 1940s and 1950s. What will the Obama administration do?

Answering the call of their beleaguered leader, they turned out in large numbers — a coalition determined to wage an impossible fight against an increasingly insurmountable foe. Tough folk. Sturdy folk. Some considered them rag-tag and bobtail. Though they achieved victory in only one battle of an already decided war, they celebrated nonetheless, [...]