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The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen
opening thoughts: on the Tuskegee Airmen and preparing for storms
 producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins
Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude)
streaming live at wnhnfm.org noon&7pm EST on the dial-94.7FM Concord NH
opening thoughts 
for Veterans Day...a poem by Marilyn Nelson about the Tuskegee Airmen
Lonely Eagles
For Daniel “Chappie” James, General USAF and for the 332nd Fighter Group
Being black in America was the Original Catch, so no one was surprised by 22: The segregated airstrips, separate camps. They did the jobs they’d been trained to do.
Black ground-crews kept them in the air; black flight-surgeons kept them alive; the whole Group removed their headgear when another pilot died.
They were known by their names:
“Ace” and “Lucky,” “Sky-hawk Johnny,” “Mr. Death.” And by their positions and planes. Red Leader to Yellow Wing-man, do you copy?
If you could find a fresh egg
you bought it and hid it in your dopp-kit or your boot until you could eat it alone. On the night before a mission you gave a buddy your hiding-places as solemnly as a man dictating his will. There’s a chocolate bar in my Bible; my whiskey bottle
is inside my bed-roll.
In beat-up Flying Tigers that had seen action in Burma, they shot down three German jets. They were the only outfit in the American Air Corps to sink a destroyer with fighter planes. Fighter planes with names
like “By Request.” Sometimes the radios didn’t even work.
They called themselves “Hell from Heaven.” This Spookwaffe. My father’s old friends.
It was always maximum effort: A whole squadron of brother-men raced across the tarmac and mounted their planes.
My tent-mate was a guy named Starks. The funny thing about me and Starks was that my air mattress leaked, and Starks didn’t. Every time we went up, I gave my mattress to Starks and put his on my cot.
One day we were strafing a train.
Strafing’s bad news:
you have to fly so low and slow
you’re a pretty clear target.
My other wing-man and I
exhausted our ammunition and got out. I recognized Starks by his red tail
and his rudder’s trim-tabs. He couldn’t pull up his nose. He dived into the train and bought the farm.
I found his chocolate, three eggs, and a full fifth of his hoarded-up whiskey. I used his mattress
for the rest of my tour.
It still bothers me, sometimes: I was sleeping on his breath.

WHITE WASHING HISTORY...THIS IS FASCISM
The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Insurers plan for extreme events that could crater their solvency. Shouldn’t all levels of government do the same?

What if a storm like Melissa hit the northeast US? Remember Hurricane Melissa? It hit Jamaica and Haiti just over a week ago, killing more than 60 people and causing billions in property damages, only a fraction of which will be covered by insurance. It was one of the two strongest Atlantic storms recorded in modern times. The US was mostly spared this time — the northeast coast experienced some dangerous swells, but that was it.

What if a major hurricane, or series of major storms, hit the nine states of the Northeast, a region that accounts for about a fifth of the nation’s economic output? We keep focusing on Miami and the southeast coast, but the Northeast US has experienced the largest increase in extreme precipitation in the nation over the last 30 years — and tropical cyclones and atmospheric rivers have played a significant role in that trend. Flood risk and infrastructure weaknesses are a major problem in Northeast states.

part one: John Warner inside higher ed 

Why Not Give Students What They Really Need? Some are saying humanistic study is the future. I’ve been saying this forever. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/10/17/schools-should-help-students-be-human

John Warner is a writer, editor, speaker and consultant, author of seven books ranging from political satire, to his most recent books, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (Johns Hopkins UP) and The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (Penguin/Random House). With 20 years of college teaching experience and seven years as a contributor to Inside Higher Ed, John has become a national voice on issues of faculty labor, institutional values, and writing pedagogy.


part two:
opening thought:
Even ICE Is More Popular Than Congress Now, Says Brutal Poll
Americans have little faith in Congress to do the right thing.
Americans have lost so much faith in their government that they trust Congress less than they trust Immigration and Customs Enforcement—an organization already hated by the majority of the country.
New polling from the Institute for Global Affairs, a nonprofit at the Eurasia Group, raised the question: “For each group, how much do you trust that they act in the best interest of average Americans?” Overall, Americans trusted the military at a 49 percent “net trust percentage.” They trust ICE at a negative 11 percent rate, and Congress ranks lowest at negative 32 percent.The party breakdown for the answer is also revealing. Democrats have a negative 67 percent view of ICE, while Republicans have a 61 percent favorability of the agency. Independents were at negative 23. This comes as the oldest Congress in history leads the country through an affordability crisis that has seen countless Americans, young and old, feel like they have no chance at achieving a better quality of life than their parents. These numbers are particularly alarming given just how immensely unpopular ICE is, as federal agents descend upon communities and literally pull families apart to meet deportation quotas.  https://newrepublic.com/post/202987/ice-more-popular-congress-poll
Rich Barlow author of 
Before Trump, and Before the Young Republicans, There Was the Dartmouth Review
Long before Trump, a group of Dartmouth students weaponized outrage and satire to seize the spotlight. 
Rich Barlow: Journalist for 44 years, including formerly at the Lebanon Valley News and as religion columnist for the Boston Globe. Writer for Boston University since 2010. Is that enough?

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