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Outside the Walls is the blog of Dick Bernard.

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The 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

It is not hard for me to remember Pearl Harbor Day. Seventy years ago my Dad’s brother, my Uncle Frank, near the end of his 6th year on the USS Arizona, lost his life aboard the ship. I’m old enough to have “met” him, in Long Beach CA, five months before he died.

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Hon. Lloyd Axworthy on the responsibility to protect, et al

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

How does one recap nearly 50 years of a career in public service presented in under two hours? How does one recap that two hours in 700 words (the more-or-less standard length of a newspaper opinion column)?

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Occupy Wall Street – Minneapolis (OWS) and the Tea Party

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

As I write, 6:30 p.m. on November 14, a big rally of Occupy Wall Street is apparently taking place in downtown Minneapolis. I say “apparently” because I don’t know for sure if, or how, plans may have changed due to posturing by local government, and response by the OWS folks to that.

That will be part of the news tomorrow IF the news media choose to cover the event*.

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Penn State, Joe Paterno, and relationships between vulnerable children and authority figures

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

There is no need to recite the volumes already, or to be, written about the story at Penn State. (I write, when they are on the field against Nebraska, at this moment, behind 10-0. Entering the game they were the 12th ranking football team in the nation, their opponent the 19th ranking team).

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