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memorial day

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Waypoint Transition

  • Jo Unruh
  • April 26, 2022
I want to know more of what it is like to feel lost and not always have someone there to tell me how to find my way. Or, to tell me my way.
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War Narratives #7: Turning a Corner

  • Caleb Cage
  • July 5, 2016
As we sat around telling the funniest stories we could remember from our time in Iraq, I noticed that the easy cynicism of our twenties was gone, and so was the rigid hierarchy of the military.
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Remembering the Blue and the Gray

  • Roxie Pell
  • May 27, 2014
Memorial Day is a time of both national reflection and diverse local tradition. In a piece connecting poetry and community storytelling, The Atlantic offers some literary history in observance of…
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Memorial Day Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • May 28, 2013
We hope you had a good Memorial Day weekend. We certainly did—we chowed down on delicious Rumpus features.
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Memorial Day, 2013

  • Jason Novak
  • May 27, 2013
Happy Memorial Day! To start the holiday off right, an illustration from Rumpus illustrator-in-chief Jason Novak:
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More Memorial Day

  • Brian Spears
  • May 31, 2010
“Rogers tried to explain the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation to the woman. “‘Well, you’ll have to fight your way out there before you can get that wench,’ she said.…
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Old Man Bar—A Special Memorial Day Essay

  • Otis Haschemeyer
  • May 25, 2009
I sat there with an 8 ounce beer glass in the semi-dark in a long room cluttered with those often set apart from the herd, either because of their alcoholism—which…
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