One Who Never Asks Either Knows Everything

Diamonds Are Nothing More Than Chunks Of Coal That Stuck To Their Jobs.

A Little While Ago I Visited Omaha Beach For The Second Time In My Life. In The Intervening 26 Years, Nearly 20,000 Tides Had Come And Gone And Little Remains Visible Of The Greatest Military Landing In Man's History Of Endless Warring. What's To Be Seen Is Mostly In A Superb Museum And A Panoramic Cemetery. The Cemetery Memorializes With Dignity And Grandeur The Event And The Dead, And Moves One Deeply. Before They Die Less Precipitously And/or In Lesser Purpose, Americans Who Can Should Visit World War Ii's Normandy Beach. Such Seeing And Remembering Helps A Man's Perspective.

Enlightening Editorial Writers Is Even More Difficult Than Educating Educators.

At Today's Prices For Medicines, Doctors And Hospitals-if The Latter Are Available At Any Price-only Millionaires Can Afford To Be Hurt Or Sick And Pay For It. Very Few People Want Socialized Medicine In The U.s. But Pressure For It Is Going To Appear With The Same Hurricane Force As The Demand For Pollution Control If The Medicine Men And Hospital Operators Don't Take Soon Some Draconian Measures... At The Present Rate Of Doctor Fees And Hospital Costs Under Medicare And Medicaid Plans [taxpayers] Are Shovelling In Billions With Nothing But Escalation In Sight.

Generous Gestures Yield The Most When That Isn't Their Purpose.