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A Wartime Visit To Ukraine: Day 5
By: C William Hanson Jr. Welcome to our issue which marks a date exactly six months after that of our first publication Much credit goes to our able staff members, including, Anna Calvagna, Lauren Peacock, Tristan Palazzo, and Jack Hughes for whatever advancement one might observe in our journalistic prowess. On June 28, 2022, I…
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A Wartime Visit To Ukraine; It’s Not a Firecracker
By: C William Hanson Jr. If you, our readers, have this New Year’s weekend seen sparks in the sky, you have probably been seeing fireworks. If you have heard explosions, they have probably been firecrackers. Here in cities from Dnipro in the east to Odessa in the south to the Ukraine’s centrally located megacity Kyiv…
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A Wartime Visit To Ukraine: First Afternoon In Kyiv or the History of Combat Journalism in Nine Minutes
By: C William Hanson Jr. Some words about our title this month: If Mel Brooks can present in 132 minutes a History of the World including previews of interplanetary space travel, the Carriage House Players can present The “Complete Works “ of William Shakespeare in 90 Minutes (abridged), and Anna Russell can perform Der Ring…
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A WARTIME VISIT TO UKRAINE: FIRST MORNING IN KYIV
By : C. William Hanson, Jr. On June 27, 2022, I awoke in Kyiv after three days of 1m travel had brought me to the city the previous evening. Alex, my guide and interpreter, had arranged to pick me up, and we proceeded to explore the wartime city. My visits to Ukraine involved either…
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A WARTIME VISIT TO UKRAINE: DAY THREE
By : C. William Hanson, Jr. Kyiv Train Station in Kyiv, Ukraine. On June 27th, 2022, I returned to Kyiv for my first wartime visit. I felt excited that I would soon be seeing friends, at least those friends who were remaining in Ukraine and braving the bombardment. What stories of the war might…
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A WARTIME VISIT TO UKRAINE: DAY TWO
By : C. William Hanson, Jr. September 1st, 2023* *An incomplete draft was issued July 7th, and has been replaced by the finished article below Lviv train station in Lviv, Ukraine. The story of the first day generated this comment, “a subject that is on a lot of people’s minds these days.” Hopefully, the continued…
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A WARTIME VISIT TO UKRAINE: DAY ONE
By : C. William Hanson, Jr. August 1st 2023* *An incomplete draft was issued May 29th, and has been replaced by the finished article below Friends and family, looking worried, told me to be careful. Several wondered why on that 24th of June 2022 in Budapest I was boarding a train headed eastward towards Ukraine.…