ON THIS MEMORIAL Day, as we remember those who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, it is also a time to remember those who served and are still living. The military members and veterans with physical wounds are easy to spot, but those with the "invisible war wounds" of PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury, and mental health issues can be just as severely affected.
The government's oppression of the media needs to stop
There are already too many countries in the world where the idea of a free press is a lie, or a joke.
By Helen Ouyang
At age 33, I outlived my father this year. He died when he was only 32. I was 3 years old and my brother was 5.
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Letters to the Editor
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Encouraging words: Speak up As someone who stutters, the most important thing to me is that chef Marc Vetri says he is not ashamed of stuttering ("Marc Vetri opens up about living with a stutter," May 14). People of my generation and earlier were made to feel ashamed. In m
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Cyber-sheriffs for the virtual Wild West
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While the Internet teems with "angel" investors searching for the next jackpot, it suffers from a shortage of guardian angels. Criminals have been wreaking havoc all over cyberspace lately, while governments and corporations have struggled to keep up with them.
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Artificially sweetened
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As powerful lobbies go, "Big Sugar" doesn't sound that menacing. But it is indeed the "biggest and the meanest of the farm lobbies," as one expert put it to The Inquirer. And it lived up to that reputation in Washington this week, when it defeated a bipartisan effort to rein in federal subsidies that pointlessly inflate sugar prices.
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Poetic justice: Vietnam vet's words soothe modern tragedies
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There are many kinds of desperation, as many as the stars above and the souls beneath them.
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Making diplomas more meaningful
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Pennsylvania needs to raise the bar on student achievement by moving forward quickly with more rigorous high school graduation tests.
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Stop delaying prison's closing
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When a U.S. military commander suggests medical facilities at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, may have to be upgraded to care for aging terrorism detainees, it's a clear sign that President Obama needs to redouble efforts to deliver on his 2008 campaign pledge to close the embarrassing facility.
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