Charles Taylor in the Star-Ledger pens an ode to one of the great country-pop songs of all time, Glen Campbell‘s “Galveston.” The song, as he reminds us, remains relevant today, as American soldiers fight deadly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the American government pretends their deaths mean little — so little, in fact, that we cannot see the coffins returning.
Channel Surfing, The South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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