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From his desk at the FBI's Washington Field Office, Pete Lapp could see smoke blackening the sky above the Pentagon. After the twin towers fell, a sight he and other agents had watched on a television in a supervisor's office, Lapp assumed they would...

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a word picture as a metaphor created by an English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, which characterises how powerful and superior effective words, information and even education can be in resolving conflict...

Art can help to tell the story of the Holocaust – and help make sure such a horror never happens again, an art collector said this week. Gilad Hayeem, who supplied many of the exhibits for the Shoah exhibition at the Bermuda Society of Arts Gallery f...

Dear Sir, Today (January 27, 2021) is Holocaust Memorial Day. We must never forget the millions of people, primarily Jews, who were incarcerated in death camps by Adolf Hitler’s regime. I remember the vivid images shown in the newspapers and newsreel...

I understand what President Donald Trump was trying to express in his now-famous “Mission Accomplished” tweet on Saturday. And in fairness, in the military we often do use that expression to convey the successful completion of a discrete tactical tas...

Spring for most of us signals a time for a fresh beginning, as flowers blossom and birds chirp as though they want to spread the news that life is meant to be enjoyed. Here in Bermuda, while we have problems, our children attend school daily, without...

As innocent civilians continue to be slaughtered within the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, our greatest present-day humanitarian catastrophe can be largely attributed to the Muslim world having failed the people of Syria. Even though many nations an...

The Islamic republic of Iran held another Holocaust cartoon festival this month, inviting the usual despicable cast of characters. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif assured the New Yorker that although the event would proceed, Iran would ensure t...

The massacre at Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum on Wednesday didn’t just bear all the hallmarks of modern extremist terror, it was an almost precise re-enactment of one of the first such large-scale atrocities. In 1997 six insurgents disguised as mem...

It’s been almost 70 years since Bermuda experienced war at first hand. The entire Island was mobilised during the Second World War. The entire population was prepared, vigilant and ready to meet the dangers which threatened the Island. Hundreds of yo...

A young Bermudian pilot and Second World War prisoner, shot dead while attempting to escape, now lies in an Italian military cemetery with his name and Island home for an epitaph. The plain-chiselled tombstone of James Outerbridge differs little from...