*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on December 24, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. 2020’s been difficult for all of us, so this December Matt Cavanaugh’s turned Peak Perspectives’ microscope on heroes and heroism. This is…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on December 17, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. 2020’s been difficult for all of us, so this December Matt Cavanaugh’s turned Peak Perspectives’ microscope on heroes and heroism. This is…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on December 10, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. 2020’s been difficult for all of us, so this December Matt Cavanaugh’s turned Peak Perspectives’ microscope on heroes and heroism. This is…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on December 3, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. 2020’s been difficult for all of us, so this December Matt Cavanaugh’s turned Peak Perspectives’ microscope on heroes and heroism. This is…
*Note: This essay was published in the Los Angeles Times print edition on February 15, 2019. It can also be found online here. A century ago, on Feb. 17, 1919, the U.S. Army’s 369th Infantry Regiment, nearly 3,000 African American soldiers and known as the Harlem Hellfighters, returned from World War I and marched up Fifth Avenue…
A version of these remarks were delivered on Friday, October 19, 2018, for the annual Founders Day lecture at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. ******************************* I believe in heroes and you should too. Here’s the story of one. On January 2, 2007, about midday, Wesley James Autrey, a 50-year-old construction worker was waiting for a train…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on July 15, 2018. It can also be found online here. They’re safe. The world sighed relief as the 13 members of the “Wild Boars” soccer team emerged safely from the Tham Luang Cave in northern Thailand. Their safety was secured in large part by…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on May 27, 2018. It can also be found online here. Han Solo is an American hero. Across Colorado, the country and the world, millions will flock this Memorial Day weekend to see “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and the young Alden Ehrenreich take on…