This is Memorial Day. Today we remember our fallen warriors. I’d like to introduce to you Captain Benjamin Lewis Salomon, a dentist with the 105th Infantry Regiment. He’s one of only three dentists and twenty-seven Jews to have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Salomon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 1, 1914. He…
Unknown unknowns of Israel’s next war
January 30, 2015
On February 12, 2002, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made his famous remark about unknown unknowns. Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say…
Never heard of this instrument
March 20, 2014
I began playing the bass at eighteen. When I was thirty, I became a music journalist, a job I held for ten years. My brother Pat Wictor is a professional folk singer. From 2002 until 2012 I didn’t listen to music because it was too painful, representing the loss of all that I loved. Still,…