by Robert M. Katzman February 28, 2022
When President Zelensky telegraphed:
Come and Get Me You Son of a Bitch!
A flat lonely mountaintop
In Southern Israel, named Masada
A fortress of Jews against the Romans in 73 AD
Held out for two years
Against impossible odds
Then when the Roman’s thousands finally
Reached the top
The 900 Jews killed themselves
Rather than become slaves to the Romans
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by Robert M. Katzman © February 23, 2022
This is a true story about corruption and coercion in 1969, when Richard J. Daley was Boss of Chicago and the little guys were helpless.
by Robert M. Katzman © March 12, 2022
By Robert M. Katzman © February 4, 2022
Here is a real world ordinary man witness recollection of the horror of that accident where the smaller and thus lethal old train telescoped inside of the densely populated Illinois Central’s newer train. I had two newsstands then in Hyde Park, the larger one at 51st and Lake Park, the other a green aluminum newsstand (after a drunk torched it) at 53rd and Lake Park.