http://www.phillipbonosky.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 07 May 2010 12:30:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An Introduction to The Secret War: Washington’s First Invasion of Afghanistan By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould We first acquired Phillip Bonosky’s book, Washington’s Secret War Against Afghanistan shortly after its original publication in 1985. Back in those days getting any information about life in Kabul that didn’t emanate from “anonymous government ... http://www.phillipbonosky.com/blog/?p=12            War had been declared in September, 1939--but a most peculiar war, it turned out to be.  After having served up Memel, the Sudatenland, the Rhineland, Czechoslovakia itself to Hitler, egging him on eastward, Chamberlain had cried betrayal when Poland was attacked and subdued in a ... http://www.phillipbonosky.com/blog/?p=10                           The Talligewi once lived here.  We felt their furtive ghosts everywhere.  Near Peach Valley and River Avenue, right across from the Mill, is where you could dig up their broken arrow heads, some still so sharp you could cut your fingers on them, and this power to draw ... http://www.phillipbonosky.com/blog/?p=9 For over 80 years I've been haunted by a parody of a World War I song of which I remember a portion, but not all. This is the part of the parody I remember: "My country tis of thee, I come from Germany, my name is Fritz. Give me some sauerkraut, ... http://www.phillipbonosky.com/blog/?p=5      Everybody would like to have a soap box and everybody deserves one.  When I was a kid living in a small steel town, we desperately needed some way of expressing our opinions.  Now, on the surface, with all the newspapers that were available you would think you had every ... http://www.phillipbonosky.com/blog/?p=4