Casey Sean Harmon

The British Parliament was anything but content over the signing of the American Constitution in 1787. It made official, among many things, the independent right for America to stand on its own as a free nation---under God. No longer would there be taxation without representation. No longer would the American people have to suffer under unjustified rule from the old world. The signing of the Constitution set apart America from any other nation in existence, establishing her as a just a...

The horror...

The sights, the smells

The feeling that comes over my soul

I am reminded of Babel

Of a sin so great, a people so confused,

that an entire nation was cursed

I obsurve this world

I wonder---how?

People weren't made to like this...

...to crave this...

Yet people everywhere do

O God, help me!

I do not wish to step on anyone's toes, and yet...

I must speak!

Help me to speak the right words

Empo...

?Japan should have known better. I tell you what, it was bound to happen!?

   The general reached over and flipped off the radio. Extracting a mouthful of smoke and tobacco from the cigarette hanging out his mouth, he blow the smoke into the face of his American friend, the chef at The Crawford Diner, who in turn closed his eyes and faced the opposite direction.

   ?But think of all those innocent women and children, bill.? the chef said, turning back to the ge...

A lot of debate has went on as to whether or not women should be allowed in the infantry. It has been stressed many times that women are not as physically capable of performing the tasks of men, hence making the infantry a “man’s profession.”  However women prove every day that this argument has no strength. For instance,  during military training, women must perform the same tasks that men do. They must participate in the same competitions. They are required to ca...

Reading requires some effort. And a purpose. For who would sit and read through the pages of a book, or the paragraphs of an article, if the writings hadn’t a point? Reason inspires motivation; a willingness to break away and devote one’s self--minutes, maybe hours--to mere characters on a page. I think we all can agree that the effort it takes to read is almost a natural routine, if you will; however, as natural and enjoyable as it may be, we still have to bring ourselves to a st...

People become possessive. We search for things that make us happy, and when we find them we don’t want to let them go. Happiness can be found in anything, from objects to people. And, depending on the environment, people sometimes go to extremes with what we consider “pleasing.”

   One of the number one killers in America is drug abuse. People do drugs for a number of reasons. Whether it’s because they want to fit in, they think drugs make them forget ...

Possessing numerous voices is okay

   "Alas, now I must admit! It was I who stole the volume, bound and cased, from yonder sanctuary!"

   For the most part, this little excerpt out of my imagination sounds all right. If you could see the whole picture, the European setting, you would agree that it fits in with the style at hand.

   Then what is wrong? Nothing. It just isn’t my usual voice, that’s all.

 ...

Memories, dear memories

They haunt and they inspire

They remind us of the past

and force us to consider the future

We can't escape them, try as we may

They will always come back, sometimes in the form of a dream

Our memories can enslave us

They can latch onto our heels and pull us under

We become miserable souls--poor, miserable souls!--when we allow our thoughts to get the best of us

Our bodies start to deform and before long we are as ug...

I study the world, these eyes of mine

wondering what I behold

Could it be, there’s more to life

and my spiritual heart gone cold?

I rush to the fire to warm it up

to make it beat again

‘Tis covered with frost a good ways down

stiffened with years of sin

Yet something--something--urges still

for me to know my inner will

this heavy burden I strive to kill!

to function well within

Pa...

Experience proves itself worthy for one Cropfine man today after a close encounter with a bomb at his home. It all started when retired veteran Mark Weldon stepped outside to check his mail on Rabbit Foot road in Cropfine, about five miles south of Tell City. Earning his experience in the Navy, and having fought in two wars, Weldon can naturally sense right off when something is wrong. However on this day it wasn?t until the last second that he gained this practice-given acumen, realizing, ju...