Honor

Take Time to Make This Day a Memorial Day

Rachael Freed | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Tradition, Holidays, Names, Legacy, Memorial Day, Legacy-Writing, Family, Mindful Living, Memorial Day 2012, Honoring Veterans, Honor, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News

Traditionally Memorial Day is to honor the memories of those we've lost, particularly those who sacrificed their lives in military service for our country.

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Investiture Ceremony at the New Zealand Embassy, Washington D.C.

Connie Lawn | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Investiture, Queen Elizabeth II, New Zealand, Honor, World News

The heavy and handsome gold medal was presented at a ceremony at the New Zealand Embassy by a terrific man, Ambassador Mike Moore. I am grateful, and pleased I got through the ceremony without crying, passing out, or tripping.

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Don't Let Mother's Day be Martyrs Day!

Dr. G | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Parenting, Gifts, Moms, Mothers Day, Children, Kids, Honor, Motherhood, Mothers-Day-Pkg, Parents News

This Mother's Day, let your kids make breakfast and stay in bed while they're in the kitchen. Take time for yourself. Ask for a gift you actually want. Read the cards you get and believe them.

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A Life Well Lived, a Love Well Shared

Dr. Lawrence M. Schall | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Death and Dying, Obituaries, Death & Dying, Regrets, Love, Remembrance, Death, Life, Honor, Healthy Living News

It sure seems like a whole lot of the most special people in my life are leaving this life. I guess that happens as one gets older, and I honestly can...

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AIDS. Remember Me?

Kergan Edwards-Stout | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Rememberance, HIV/AIDS, Lgbt, Tribute, Author, Literary Fiction, Honor, Gay, Book, Songs for a New Depression, Books News

Everyone has their own way of honoring our fallen, lost to AIDS. There is no one correct way of doing so. For me, I chose to write.

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Tadashi Shoji and Honor Fall 2012

Joy Adaeze | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Shailene Woodley, Alexa Chung, Red Carpet, Octavia Spencer, Joy Adaeze, Tadashi-Shoji, New York Fashion Week Spring 2012, Honor, Hair-Beauty-Beauty, Fashion Week, Black Voices News

After actress Octavia Spencer's SAG and Golden Globe award winning Tadashi Shoji dresses, many were looking forward to what the designer would show for Fall.

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Saluting Rapists

Robert Koehler | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Penn State, Rape, Military, Values, Honesty, Honor, Sexual Abuse, Jocelyn Elders, The Citadel, Sexuality, Masturbation, Politics News

When sex is hidden in the shadows -- when it's something you can't talk about (but you can brag about) -- it easily becomes one more tool of domination, wrapped in an unspeakable shame that preserves its secrecy.

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What Would You Do?

Urizenus Sklar | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Mike McQueary, Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, Character, The Sims Online, Pit Bulls, Joe Paterno, Honor, Education News

Anyone can freeze in the moment. But of course the real question is what would we have done in the minutes and hours and days and weeks and months and years following the event like the one Mike McQueary witnessed.

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We've Survived Much Worse. This Was It.

Peter Samuelson | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: firststar.org, Tragedy, Recovery, Great Recession, American Resilience, Honor, Strength, Stubbornness, 9/11, Recession, Depression, Great Depression, Politics News

Every recession feels like the end of the world to those hurt by it. Sometimes the best thing a struggling society can do is to remember how it was ab...

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It's Time to Honor All Our Fallen Heroes

Terry Newell | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Civil Servants, Burial Flags, Honor, Civil Servant Death, Civil Servants Honor, Civil Servants Die, Civil Servant Ceremony, Politics News

When Victoria Delong, who served in the U.S. Cultural Affairs Office in Port-au-Prince died in Haiti during its devastating earthquake last January, it was left up to her agency to decide whether and how to honor her.

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Saluting Military Families This Memorial Day

Major Dan Rooney | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Folds of Honor, Military, Memorial Day, Military Children, Folds of Honor Foundation, Military Families, Veterans, Scholarships, Honor, Budweiser, Patriotism, Impact News

This Memorial Day, it is not only appropriate, but imperative that we remember the other causalities of service: military families. Their needs are great.

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Honoring the Veterans and Those Who Tell Their Stories

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ernie Pyle, World War II, William Mauldin, Honor, War, Veterans, Politics News

For every war, we need great storytellers so that the generations that follow will understand the real war that was fought. World War II's man was Ernie Pyle.

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Death Feeds Life Feeds Death

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ancestors, Continuity, Days of the Dead, Honor, Autumn, Autumn Festivals, Death, Life, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News

Mid-autumn, when all of nature seems to be dying, has long been the season to observe feasts of the dead in Northern cultures.

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Final Notes About the Closing of a School

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joe the Nerd, Sestak, Vietnam War, Veterans, Honor, Joe Sestak, Politics News

There are things that are beyond politics. This is one of them.

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Honoring the Divine Feminine: The CoSM Retreat

Jennifer La Lima-Ortmuller | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Chakras, Feminism, Femininity, Divinity, Spirituality, Freedom, Honor, Spiritual Retreat, Connecting With Nature, Healthy Living News

The speakers at CoSM were guides. They led the way as each of us tapped into our own creative, individual self.

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SPOTLIGHT ON FILM: Mary Ann Smothers Bruni Speaks Out Against 'Honor Killing' in the Middle East

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slideshow, Sundance Film Festival, Jordan, Turkey, Middle East, Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, Honor, New-Political-Films, Political Films, Iraq, Film, Honor Killing, Arts News

WHO: Filmmaker Mary Ann Smothers Bruni WHAT: 'Quest for Honor' WHEN: August 6 - 12, New York (IFC Center); August 13 - 19 Los Angeles (ArcLight Hol...

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For Better Or For Worse, By the Power Vested In Me

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marriage, Honor, Ordination of Women, Southern California, Faith, Religion News

Nine years ago, when I spent five minutes and $10 becoming duly and legally ordained online, it was a lark (and provided fodder for my very first religion column.) I really never expected to use it.

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How Old is Wisdom?

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan had an interesting take this weekend (July 17) on President Obama's poll numbers and problems with the economy ...

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Fourth of July Weekend: Lake Kiowa

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Wwii, Duty, CBS Sunday Morning, Bill Geist, Lake Kiowa, Honor, Fourth of July, Commitment, WWII Veterans, Ideological-Divide, Family, Healthy Living News

My father is a World War II veteran. Yesterday, the community of Lake Kiowa, Texas honored him and 31 other survivors of the 'greatest generation' for their contribution.

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Legacy: Honoring Our Mothers

Rachael Freed | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Healing, Legacy Writing, Legacy, Mother's Day, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Legacy-Writing, Ethical Will, Honoring, Honor, Gratitude, Healthy Living News

As women, our mothers remain not just with us, but in us. Our connection with mothers is stronger than memory, a kind of permeation that goes beyond anything verbal.

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Refuting the Latest Arguments Against Gay Troops

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Gays in the Military, Honor, James Bowman, Barack Obama, Weekly Standard, Palm Center, Politics News

Defenses of the military's gay ban have long been rooted in the moral belief that homosexuality is wrong, but its champions cast their defense of the policy in terms of the famous "unit cohesion" rationale.

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Romantic Relationships Are Hotbeds for Serious Lies

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford, Living a Lie, Friends, Relationships, Personality, Money, Clues to Deception, Kinship, Newt Gingrich, James McGreevey, Serious Lies, Lying, Infidelity, Rudy Giuliani, John Ensign, Silvio Berlusconi, Passions, Deception, Sex, Honor, Self-Presentation, John Edwards, Spouses, Romantic Partners, Identity, Nonverbal Behavior, Healthy Living News

The BIG lies, the ones we consider most serious, are usually told by and to the people with whom we are most intimate.

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Betraying the Idea of America

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barak Obama, President Obama, Oval Office, Honor, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Fourth of July, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

This shabby performance is all the more dismaying because abandoning the Bush/Cheney years and all they represent is why Mr. Obama was elected in the first place.

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The Buck Stops Somewhere: Mumbai Vs. 9/11

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Clarke, Honor, 9/11, Rice, Moral Responsibility, Oberoi Hotel, Taj Mahal, Mumbai, Tenet, Patil, Mueller, Mumbai Attacks, Louis Freeh, Politics News

Following the Mumbai attacks, the Indian home minister, Shivraj Patil, resigned to take "moral responsibility" for the deaths of 188 people. After 9/11, no federal officials resigned. Who was US Patil's counterpart?

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Obama Ad Targets McCain's "Vile," "Truth Be Damned" Distortions

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Distortions, John McCain, McCain Distortions, Campaign Ads, Honor, Vile, McCain Honor, Truth Be Damned, Barack Obama, Politics News

As promised by campaign manager David Plouffe last week, the Obama team is "taking the fight" to John McCain with a tough new ad entitled "Honor." Wit...

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