June 2013

June 28, 2013 / Last updated : June 28, 2013 ronnie Cisco High School Class of 1964

Crashing the Cisco Beauty Pageant — Night of the Long Knife

Among the many things that make my life-long friendships from Cisco High School extraordinary and remarkable by so many standards is the fact their unpredictable development and uncommon youthful exuberance continued well after high school into the college years, into the years over which we all married. The interval between high school and the marking […]

June 5, 2013 / Last updated : June 5, 2013 ronnie Historical Commentary

Guns, “Gun Control,” and School Massacres (Part The Fifth) — “Four Dead in O-HI-O”

When May 4 rolled around for another year this past time, the anniversary of the Kent State Massacre of 1970, I was jolted into the realization that, curiously, something is missing from the discussion on guns, gun control, and school massacres: you don’t hear about the National Guard in the discussion. This seems strange to […]