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May 27, 2024 · Remembering the dead. This is a photo of my grandfather, Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr., giving the Memorial Day address at the Anzio/Nettuno cemetery on May 31, 1945. As you can see in the photo, the microphone stand is to his left.
May 29, 2024 · We've got this. If your news diet consists mostly of domestic politics and scandals bedeviling both political parties – albeit one party more than the other – it’s easy to settle into an “all is lost” or “it will never get better” attitude. Our political news is depressing.
May 22, 2024 · 7 Days in May. In the Manhattan trial of defendant Donald Trump, the prosecution rested yesterday. The defense rested today. Judge Juan Merchan has given the 12 jurors and four alternates the rest of the week off, until the day after Memorial Day next week, when closing arguments will begin.
2 days ago · Republished with permission from Lucian K. Truscott IV. Ed Fancher, the publisher of the Village Voice, died at 100 years of age last September. This column is an expanded version of my remarks delivered by Zoom on Saturday for his memorial, held at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park, near where Ed lived.
May 28, 2024 · Lucian K. Truscott IV, a graduate of West Point, has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He has covered stories such as Watergate, the Stonewall riots and wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.
May 21, 2024 · Gen. Lucian Truscott Jr., who had made the initial pitch to Marshall, believed the term “commando” was too British and instead argued that these men should be called “Rangers.”
May 26, 2024 · And on Memorial Day 1945, Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott Jr., commander of the U.S. Fifth Army, delivered what may well be the most moving and iconic of all addresses, according to the Pennsylvania...
