Letter To Our Irish Kinsmen:  Cromwell Would Be Against the Eighth Amendment, Too

My parents never forgot their Irish roots.  Their callused hands have long-since disappeared from this earth, but their spirit still beats strongly – within us. When they boarded that tender in Cobh to be ferried to a British ocean liner for an Atlantic crossing, calmly — but firmly — they were admonished, "Keep the Faith." They did.

My parents never forgot their Irish roots.  Their callused hands have long-since disappeared from this earth, but their spirit still beats strongly – within us. When they boarded that tender in Cobh to be ferried to a British ocean liner for an Atlantic crossing, calmly — but firmly — they were admonished, "Keep the Faith." They did.…