UNALLOYED HEROISM: The Medals of George �Bud� Day (1925-2013). At the top is the Command Pilot Badge of the Air Force. The ribbon at the top left is the Medal of Honor, next to the Air Force Cross. The second row contains, from the left, the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The third row starts with the Bronze Star with a V device for Valor, then the Purple Hearts, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Air Medal with silver and bronze oak leaf clusters. Below that row are the Presidential Unit Citation, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with V for Valor, then the ribbon with the red-white-and-blue on either end and the black in the middle that is the Prisoner of War Medal, followed by the Combat Readiness Medal. The fifth row contains the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the American Campaign Medal, and the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. The sixth row contains the Victory Medal of World War II, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal, and the Vietnam Service Medal. The seventh row contains the Air Force Longevity Service Award, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal, the Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon, and the Commander Badge of the National Order of Vietnam. The last row contains the Vietnam Gallantry Cross, the Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Award, the United Nations Service Medal for Korea, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal.
By CAROL DIAMOND, Special to the Sun
December 13, 2016
Artist Thaddeus Radell�s current exhibit at Bowery Gallery presents recent oils by a painter at the top of his game. Though Mr. Radell�s commitment to furthering the tradition of figure painting dates back to his student days (he studied with New York…
By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
October 11, 2016
Visitors to artist Gregory Amenoff�s current exhibit might mistake the paintings on view as the work of a nature lover. The artist is displaying small, medium and large-size landscape-based abstractions teeming with organic shapes that suggest trees…
By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun
October 4, 2016
Rarely have I looked forward to a museum exhibition with quite the eagerness with which I�m anticipating a visit to �Crown of New England,� the paean to Mount Washington that opened October 1 at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire…
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, Jr., Special to the Sun
December 14, 2016
Over the weekend an obscure columnist � obviously a casualty of the November 8 election and writing under the name Paul Farhi � filed a column in the Washington Post lamenting that after an extensive search of the newspapers of this great country he…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 14, 2016
This is the ninth time I have witnessed, usually from afar but not this time, a party transition in the administration of the United States government. British prime minister Harold Macmillan famously described the process in 1960�61 as like the…
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
December 12, 2016
For sheer accumulation of elite institutional prestige, it�s hard to top Atul Gawande. He is a professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health and a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine, where I�ve enjoyed…
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
December 22, 2016
A lot of hot battles bear watching out for in 2017. President Trump versus Congress. President Trump versus the press. President Trump versus the Democrats. President Trump versus the Chinese, Mexico, Iran, and the Islamic State. But one of the…
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Dear Editor� I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 21, 2016
The year ends amid the most astonishing display of sour grapes, mass embarrassment, and unspontaneous amnesia in living memory of U.S. presidential elections. The national press, sleepwalking toward the inauguration they did everything possible to…
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun
December 17, 2016
Roughly translated, �dugri� means �straightforwardness.� Antonym: diplomatic ambiguity. The Turkic word, pronounced DOOH-gree, entered the Hebrew language and became a staple of Israeli discourse. President-elect Trump�s approach to diplomacy appears…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 16, 2016
A pandemic of denial over the incoming president of the United States grips his Democratic opponents, and, like most American fads and traits, is as strong in Canada as anywhere. It is now five weeks since the election, and we have watched an…
The best thing that could happen in respect of the contretemps over whether the Russians hacked the American election would be for the Central Intelligence Agency to be haled into the courtroom of Paul Diamond, United States District Judge. He is the…
Could the bombing Sunday at Cairo prove to be a turning point in the war against Christians in the Middle East? The attack killed dozens of Coptic Christians � mostly women and children � while they were worshipping in a church. The world, it has all too often seemed, has become accustomed to mayhem in the Middle East. But the slaughter Sunday is extraordinary in its nihilism, even in a country where the Christian minority has been targeted for years. It deserves to be addressed by the highest levels of our leadership.
What is really driving the losing presidential candidate of the Green Party, Jill Stein, in her quest for a recount of the presidential vote in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin? That is the question that we�re left with in the wake of the…
By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun
December 15, 2016
The Electoral College is due to meet Monday, when the electors chosen on November 8 will establish Donald Trump as the winner. Then Democrats� efforts to steal the election will finally come to an end � right? Don�t bet on it. So bitter are American…
By EFRAIM COHEN, Special to the Sun
December 13, 2016
Could President-elect Trump be the leader who finally moves the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem? He promised during his campaign to implement the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, which calls for Jerusalem to be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel and for the Embassy to be established in that city.
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun
December 9, 2016
In a season when some of our greatest intellectuals are trying to figure out how to make their peace with Donald Trump, let us take a big-hearted view of the mea culpa, mea maxima culpa just issued by historian Niall Ferguson in respect of Brexit…
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