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.
“April Flowers,” a group exhibition organized by New York Sun Arts contributor Xico Greenwald, opens today at the Queens College Art Center. The exhibit presents floral-themed artworks by 22 artists. “From the vegetal patterns of Islamic tile design…
By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
March 15, 2016
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC is paying tribute to First Lady Nancy Reagan, who died March 6th at the age of 94. A painting on paper of Mrs. Reagan in a cherry-red dress by portraitist Aaron Shikler has been installed in the museum’s…
By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
January 13, 2016
New York School painters Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson lived parallel lives. Born in 1924, they died at 90, just a few weeks apart, a year ago. They came of age in an art world dominated by Abstract Expressionism, but opted to work…
By STEPHEN MOORE, Special to the Sun
April 16, 2016
If you want to see welfare-state socialism in action, go to bankrupt Puerto Rico. Let’s hope Bernie Sanders’ voters are paying attention to what their worker paradise dreams turn into in real life. Puerto Rico is a financial basket base with…
Uninspired by the presidential race? This past weekend brought an emphatic reminder that some of the most consequential lives are led by those who are never elected to political office. The reminder came in the form of the obituaries for Barbara…
Since writing last week that the moment of truth had arrived for Donald Trump, even I, and even at this late date, have been astounded at the frenzied amplification of the hysteria of his opponents within the Republican party and in the national press…
The idea of governments laying a super-high tax on the sale of guns is starting to take hold, according to the latest dispatch from Americans for Tax Reform. Its story is linked on the Web site of Matt Drudge, whose nose for news is a medical miracle because of its uncanny ability to spot constitutional absurdities before other editors. Americans for Tax Reform quotes the governor of the United States territory of the North Mariana Islands as asserting that a thousand-dollar-a-gun tax should serve as a “role model” for states.
Senator Sanders is emailing supporters to highlight the fact that his opponent in the Democratic presidential primary, Hillary Clinton, is being supported by “enormous checks from people like Alice Walton (yes, Wal-Mart).” And it is true. Federal…
President Obama owes Americans a public explanation for why his administration is lobbying Congress to protect Saudi Arabia from lawsuits by families of those killed in the attacks of 9/11. The lobbying was disclosed Friday in a scoop by the New York…
News that Old Hickory is going to be removed from the $20 Federal Reserve Note in favor of a woman has a certain logic. We favor including women among the faces featured on our currency. Secretary Lew of the Treasury Department is reportedly set to…
What’s up with all of this after-the-fact complaining we’ve heard from Donald Trump in the wake of his recent losses to Senator Cruz? Yesterday, Mr. Cruz romped in Wyoming. Mr. Trump charged that the Texan had bought the delegates. A week earlier…
In the Republican presidential primary in New York, the Sun urges a vote for Senator Ted Cruz. It hasn’t been our normal practice to endorse in the primaries, but this year the vote, set for Tuesday, will take on outsized importance as we career…
Maybe the main speaker at the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund ought to be Donald Trump. The reason we offer the suggestion is that just as the IMF begins its parley in Washington this week, the London Financial Times is out with a…
Here’s our message for those who are threatening a lawsuit over the nominating process in the Republican and Democratic parties. In the Republicans’ case the anger is among the Trump voters who fear their candidate could get to Cleveland with the most…
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
April 13, 2016
President Obama hasn’t said yet whether he’ll visit Hiroshima when he’s in Japan next month. But he’s being encouraged to do so and even, by some, to apologize for America’s use of the atomic bomb in 1945. Following is the speech I’d like to hear . . .
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
April 13, 2016
In the din of the campaign for the U.S. presidential nominations, there has been little attention in the United States to what could be one of the most important votes in modern history, on whether the United Kingdom remains in the European Union or…
A report card on Canada’s federal government as it approaches six months in office would have to be reasonably positive. There have been no horrifying blunders such as in the Pearson-Gordon “60 Days of Decision” in 1963, which led to an interesting…
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