By Michael K. Bohn March 4, 2013 It was an odd sight, using a Cadillac as a cutting horse. John Harding, the driver, pointed at a cow and calf about fifty yards away … Continue reading
Other Writing
The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing: A Rehearsal for 9/11
Michael K. Bohn Just after noon on February 26, 1993, a yellow Ford Econoline van and a red Chevrolet Corsica eased down a service ramp to the B2 basement level of the World Trade Center complex in lower Manhattan. Two … Continue reading
Half a century ago, world perched on brink of nuclear war
Michael Bohn | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — On Saturday, Oct. 20, 1962, President John F. Kennedy entered the Oval Room in the family living quarters of the White House. He joined 12 of his closest advisers, whom he had called … Continue reading
Book review. No Easy Day: A Crime or a Good Story?
Michael K. Bohn Thirty minutes into the SEAL Team Six raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the officer-in-charge knelt beside a bullet-ridden body. His men had cleaned the corpse’s face of the grisly effects of a … Continue reading
The Politics of Terrorism
English National Opera The Politics of Terrorism, Michael K. Bohn. February 25, 2012 By the time Palestinian gunmen had hijacked Achille Lauro in 1985, Americans had seen enough images of terrorism in the news media that most had succumbed … Continue reading
They Focus on ‘Orphan’ Disease
Alexandria Gazette-Packet, February 23, 2012 Michael K. Bohn Malignant mesothelioma is a tumor found in the lining of the lungs, heart or stomach. Exposure to asbestos causes mesothelioma. It lies dormant and asymptomatic within people for as long as … Continue reading
The Dead List–The White House Situation Room on 9-11-2001
McClatchy Newspapers, Sep. 11, 2011 WASHINGTON In the minutes following the extraordinary assault on New York’s World Trade Center, horrified air traffic controllers tracked another plane headed for Washington DC: American Flight 77. Victor Padgett, a supervisor at Reagan … Continue reading
Plymouth Haven – A Neighborhood in Transition
Mount Vernon Gazette, January 14, 2011 The old adage “What goes around comes around” applies to both carousels and cycles in residential real estate development. In suburban growth, an early go-round that began in 1940 whirled through Fairfax County as … Continue reading