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Damian interviewed in internal Advisory Board Company Newsletter: March 2015
from Damian:
1976: Grosse Pointe
South High School Graduation Address: "I was forced to
leave a world today..."
"He Fell Under Me" A true story of my most memorable moment on a dance floor.
A Project Manager's Dilemna: A reflection on what can be a maddening role in a technology company
About Abraham Lincoln:
Lincoln's Condolence Letter to Mrs.
Bixby...
It was believed that Mrs. Bixby of
Boston lost 5 sons in the war... (actually two, and not
five, of Mrs. Bixby's sons were killed)
The
Sullivan Ballou Letter ...
Written in anticipation of
The Battle of Bull Run: July 14th, 1861
President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is the only
speech I have memorized.
(and is an inspiration to me, even today... A clear, cogent and
eloquent expression of the work at hand in the Civil War)
A
Window of Vulnerability: The Counting of Electoral Votes in 1861...
(and
is an inspiration to me, even today... A clear, cogent and
eloquent expression of the work at hand in the Civil War)
Merlin on Gods's Light - An excerpt from The Crystal Cave© by Mary Stewart
from "A Private
History of Awe" By Scott Russel Sanders:
Regarding Science &
Physics
Regarding Religion
Current
Affairs pieces:
War
is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
(from
Amnesty International NOW magazine, Winter 2002)
I believe that Kevin Phillips is one of the most
important political/economic/social authors of our time:
Excerpts from "Wealth
& Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich"
Damian's review of
Wealth And Democracy - written for, and published (for a
time) on Amazon.com
Exerpts
from "Arrogant
Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of
American Politics"
The best
speech I've ever read on Vietnam was given by Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. (one of my heroes), in 1967
(exchange
the word "Communism" for "Terrorism" in this writing, and the
truth of these words seems all too timely and poignant)
Why are we still in Vietnam?
Preface to The Vietnam Wars: 1945-1990 by Marilyn B.
Young
(This
piece points out that "that war continues to be a primary
instrument of American foreign policy and the call to arms a
first response to international disputes")
An excerpt from Demian, by Herman Hesse
points to the loss of spiritual integrity in both the individual
and society
(as in all
expressions of truth, there seems to be a timelessness to these
observations)
A Well-Considered piece on Ecomic
Growth
(actually
picked this up from the back of a box of Celestial Seasons
Chamomile tea)