World War I

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Lindsey Fitzharris on Visionary Surgeon Harold Gillies

Robin Lindley interviews Lindsey Fitzharris who wrote The Facemaker about pioneering surgeon Dr. Harold Gillies. Today Dr. Gillies restored the mutilated faces of wounded British soldiers during World War I. Today he is widely considered to be father of modern plastic surgery.


Lest We Forget

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana, 1905

The other day, after having commuted, on and off, for over 40 years from the Hartsdale, NY RR station, I noticed, for the first time, a plaque on a rock with the inscription, "Lest We Forget  1917-1918." The plaque, of course, was a memorial to local veterans of WWI, the seminal event of the 20th Century.  And, while it is true that both the...