It's not nothing that we look at our flooded neighbors on the gulf and check our belts for tools we might have to put in play. Hard-jawed, shirt-off-your-back culture has put Texans in the water for days wading out to find their neighbors. Money, food, boats: purpose leans us toward the tv and hurricane season is made kaleidoscopic in citizen rescues.
Maundy
It was spring of 2007. America was deep into our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the conversations I had with friends and professors on campus at Saint John's often orbited the new vocabulary of 'enhanced interrogation.' The Abu Ghraib torture revelations from years earlier still reverberated in young people preparing for the 2008 presidential campaigns and we weighed the wisdom of the Bush administration's troop surge in Iraq.
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