It seems pressure remains high on IOC Chairman Jacques Rogge to honor the Munich 11. I couldn’t be gladder. I am not deluded enough to believe he will bow to international opinion, but I am heartened by the attention the issue has received. In “Doing the Right Thing” and “Bearing the Torch”, Ken Kovacs and I presented our […]
Bearing the Torch – Part 2 of 2, by Ken Kovacs
Here is Ken Kovacs’ piece on remembering the Munich Massacre. He is a Pastor at Catonsville Presbyterian Church. The piece also appears in The Catonsville Patch. It was a pleasure to work with him, and an honor to be his partner in writing about this important event in our history and how to heal. As Aliza […]
Doing the Right Thing – Part 1 of 2
“Imagine those poor guys over there. Every five minutes a psycho with a machine gun says, ‘Let’s kill ’em now,’ and someone else says, ‘No, let’s wait a while.’ How long could you stand that?” So asked Frank Shorter, an American long-distance Olympic runner. It was a good question, and it wasn’t hypothetical. He was […]