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New American Journal 2021 Year in Review in Stories and Pictures

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By Editor Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – This time last year, we were experiencing the snow on the ground after the white Christmas in Knoxville, Tennessee, where I wrote: “As the sun comes up over the smokies, reflecting the first morning light off a thick layer of Christmas white snow covering the ground and…

National Park Service Announces Entrance Fee-Free Days for 2022

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Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Park Service will offer five entrance fee-free days in 2022, free admission days designed to encourage discovery and visitation of the country’s variety of national parks. With at least one in every state, national parks are accessible places to visit to refresh the body, mind and spirit, according to…

NASA’s Webb Telescope Launches on Christmas Day

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Staff Report – GREENBELT, Md. — Early on Christmas morning, when many Americans were just waking up wondering if this would be the Christmas when Donald Trump would end up behind bars, the good scientists at NASA were busy at work as the new James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST on an…

A Christmas Carol for Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All in 2021 and 2022

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The Big Picture –  Story and Photos By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Merry Christmas from the New American Journal, no matter how you celebrate the holiday — or whether you celebrate at all. While Christians around the world celebrate Christmas as an annual festival commemorating the alleged birth of God’s son Jesus, we…

A Visit from St. Nicholas

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By Clement Clark Moore – ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of sugar-plums…

Winter Solstice 2021: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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Do not go gentle into that good night – Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning…

The Last Thing We Need is Another Day Which Will Live in Infamy

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – No one should aspire to being in a state of infamy. Yet it seems human beings have a genetic predisposition to end up there whether they plan it or not. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl…