Around New England

No ‘Clean Needles’ for Heroin Addicts Across from Church; From A Van, Instead

Matthew McDonald

The AIDS Support Group has abandoned plans to provide clean needles to heroin users at a building next to a residential neighborhood across the street from a Catholic church in the Cape Cod town of Falmouth.

But the organization plans to offer needle exchanges from a van.

Serving Their Country – in Normandy and Vietnam
Commentary

Serving Their Country – in Normandy and Vietnam

Robert Bradley

It was truly inspirational to view the ceremony honoring some of the incredibly brave survivors of the June 6, 1944 D-Day assault on the beaches of Normandy. What tremendous courage and heroism! They deserve our everlasting thanks and gratitude. 

And then there are those who did not survive the assault – the thousands buried in the astonishingly beautiful U.S. cemeteries in Normandy. The words adorning a British World War II cemetery elsewhere surely apply to the thousands of heroes killed on the Normandy beaches:

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