Bartow Houston, Author at Washington Daily News

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Write Again …Just puke ’em and purge ’em

Hello, everyone. Hope your week has been good. Today’s column is mostly not by me. That is, it’s some esoteric items plucked almost by random ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Wednesday, March 22, 2023 4:15 pm

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Write Again…Sweet memories rekindled

Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining me here today. That sentiment is genuinely sincere. Truly. Now, today’s piece is prompted by a letter I recently received. ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Thursday, March 16, 2023 10:07 am

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Write Again …We are the beneficiaries

James Baugham, Gilbert Bonner, David Boyd, Joseph Brooks, James Carter, Horace Cowell, Allen Cuthrell, Alfred G. Davis, Edward Doughty, William B. Ebron, Hubert Ellis. Robert ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Wednesday, March 8, 2023 1:01 pm

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Write Again…Peripatetic ruminations

Once out of the warm and loving embrace of my Uncle Sam – three years to be precise, and four days -1 enrolled at East ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Thursday, March 2, 2023 3:28 pm

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Write Again…My time at the White House

You remember “Tip” O’Neill. The long-time fixture in the U.S. House of Representatives, who rose to the top of that legislative body, finally to wield ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 2:47 pm

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Write Again … In the long green grass

SOE were initials for Special Operations Executive. World War Two history buffs, and I am one, and have been for at least sixty-plus years. When ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Wednesday, February 15, 2023 1:46 pm

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Write Again … Eighty years ago this month

In the February issue of my American Legion magazine there is a short piece titled “An Eagle Scout’s Dorchester Connection.” Let me, mostly verbatim, share ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 4:48 pm

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Write Again …Do we need to be warned?

Here’s a bit, more than a bit, of food for thought: “In religious circles, rote memorization is the means of learning favored by some, but ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 4:17 pm

Columns

Write Again …The Picker and the Pickee

Thomas was a really nice, mild-mannered young boy. He was a student in one of my seventh and eighth grade classes at Pantego, 1973-4. “Pantego? ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 5:02 pm

Columns

Write Again…Man’s search for meaning

Viktor E. Frankel. Ever heard of him? Of course not. Neither had I. So. Who was this man we had never heard of? Well, he ... Read more