I have mentioned before that I felt somewhat out of my league when I was bumped up to the accelerated class (6B) at Hexter Elementary School in September 1964. All those kids were smart and none more so than Kathy Ann Downer. A 5-star student In...
Approximately 750,000 Texans (12,000 of them female) served in the American armed forces during World War II. And of that number, 22,000 died—1.19% of all men between the ages of 19 and 44. None dare say that Texans failed to do their patriotic...
It was 9 p.m., four years ago today. Four hundred and seventy-six people—33 crew members and 443 passengers, most of them 11th grade students at Danwon High School in Ansan—boarded a cruise ship named Sewol at Incheon. They headed south, bound...
During my 10 ½ years in Korea, I have inhaled vast amounts of second-hand smoke. I have never smoked and would never do so, believing it to be a vile and disgusting habit. The deleterious effects of smoking on the human body are legion. People...
The Seoul subway system—not all of it underground—is enormous, and that is how I got to Seonghwan on this early spring morning. Line 2 to Line 4 to Line 1, and there I was. A city of 30,000 people, it sits on the northern edge of South...
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