Word: bunkerism
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...this was a bomb, we should stand up to the terrorists, not give in to panic. If paranoia wins, the bombers win: they rob us of our peace of mind and our tradition of freedom; we accept a bunker culture in which liberty loses to suffocating security measures. We dishonor the memory of our dead by giving in to hysterical fear. And we betray our children, who look to us for strength. We take pride in singing about the home of the brave; now is the time to show that this is. PATRICK GRANT New York City...
Look for the tell-tale signs of gentrification--the too-freshly painted fire escapes and Volvos parked along the street as you leave the North End. Then cross the Charles River to the predominantly Irish Charlestown and Bunker Hill Monument, a 220 foot obelisk that commemorates one of the first battles of the Revolutionary...
...Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role that resulted in a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. From 1979 to 1981 he played Carroll O'Connor's business partner in an All in the Family spin-off, Archie Bunker's Place...
...WORLD WAR II SURVIVOR WHO WAS drafted at 16 and was decorated with the Iron Cross. I ended up in Hitler's bunker as one of his last couriers. Not until I saw documentaries about the concentration camps and followed the Nuremberg trials did I realize the extent of the Nazi war crimes and recognize there were millions of innocent victims. We should not ask if Bosnia is worth dying for, but instead ask if thousands of innocent people, mostly women and children, are worth protecting. I wish that I had had the chance of putting my life...
...same time that the Bunker Hill was aflame, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, commander of the American forces fighting to capture Okinawa, was undertaking a new offensive to seize control of the island. The Americans knew the tiny speck in the Pacific was the ultimate stepping-stone to the empire's home islands. Throughout the 83-day struggle for Okinawa, Buckner's favorite toast, over bourbon and water, was "May you walk in the ashes of Tokyo." Aware of this objective, his enemy, Lieut. General Mitsuru Ushijima, prepared a war of attrition to keep Okinawa from becoming a staging ground...