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							<title><![CDATA[Funny Thing About Christmas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.american.com/archive/2011/december/funny-thing-about-christmas</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Kinney Bennett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Funny thing about Christmas&hellip; how it just is&hellip; how it just persists. Some people try to ignore it.Some people try to change it, or rename it, or pretend it&rsquo;s something else. But in the end it&rsquo;s still Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Christ.We are told...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What a Father Taught Me]]></title>
							<link>http://www.american.com/archive/2013/june/what-a-father-taught-me</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Kinney Bennett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Father&rsquo;s Day always leaves me a bit uneasy.It&rsquo;s like a pair of really big shoes. Every year, I have to walk up and put my feet in them and look silly because I can never fill them.And there is more than a whiff of coerced obligation to the whole thing, a sense that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fallen Heroes, Never Forgotten]]></title>
							<link>http://www.american.com/archive/2011/may/fallen-heroes-never-forgotten</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Kinney Bennett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid we called it Decoration Day and, in a practice observed since 1868, it always came on May 30.Early on that morning or a day or two before it, in the soft twilight of a spring evening, folks would walk through the local cemeteries with baskets of flowers or small American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Guardians]]></title>
							<link>http://www.american.com/archive/2010/november/the-guardians</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Kinney Bennett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, will stand a tip-toe when this day is named. &mdash;Shakespeare, King Henry V, 1598.Remember them.Give them a thought. Give them your thanks.They are the Guardians. On land, at sea, and in the air they have been the guardians &mdash; of our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Memorial Day Is About Duty, Not Death]]></title>
							<link>http://www.american.com/archive/2012/may/duty-and-sacrifice</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Kinney Bennett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the majority of Americans, Memorial Day is first and foremost a three-day weekend. Time to watch the Indianapolis 500 or a baseball game; time to open the swimming pool or have a picnic. The American flag will be appropriated to embellish ads for supermarkets, department stores, car...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[United States: An Astounding Enterprise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.american.com/archive/2011/june/this-astounding-enterprise</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Kinney Bennett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Adams thought the day of independence should be commemorated by &ldquo;Acts of Devotion to God Almighty,&rdquo; and further &ldquo;solemnized&rdquo; (as he confided in a letter to his wife, Abigail) &ldquo;with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and...]]></description>
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