Opinion

A YEAR OF PROTEST Through public protests, rallies and marches since the May 2020 death of George Floyd, we have seen a revived, frank—and yes, at times, confrontational—national conversation over racial injustice, policing and other issues.

The following is an excerpt from a Jan. 19, 1989, speech by President Ronald Reagan as he awarded the Presidential Freedome to Mike Mansfield, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, and George Shultz, former secretary of state. It was his final speech to the nation as president.

TEXAS REPUBLICANS FEAR ballots more than bullets. State lawmakers passed permitless carry legislation during their recently ended regular session—letting most adults carry guns in public without licenses, permits, or training—and sent it to Gov.

Memorial Day (originally Decoration Day) honors the over one million military personnel killed in all our wars since our revolutionary war. From 1868 to 1970, Memorial Day was observed on May 30.

MY PARENTS DID a cross-country drive from Texas to visit my sister in Michigan and me in Ohio. They entertained grandbabies, celebrated birthdays, lavished us with love, and then went on their way back to God’s country.

The following is the text of a Memorial Day tribute written by Malouf Abraham Jr. in the mid-1980s. He thought it might be his entry into a design competition for a stone to be placed in a new Veteran’s Memorial Plaza in Ohio.

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was an emperor so fond of new clothes that he spent vast amounts of money on them. He only went out when he had the chance to show off his new clothes. Other emperors could be found sitting in council. However, it was said of this Emperor that “He is sitting in his wardrobe.”

A group of four student composers from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music visited Canadian last week as part of a project to create six musical compositions that will become a part of The Citadelle Art Foundation’s permanent collection (see Rotary Report on page 16).