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online guestbook Torrecillas
Born in 1937 the same
ASHCROFT, RICHARD year as Finsler’s Comet and
BRASTAD, AMY
passing with Comet Neo-
CATTALINI, EUGENE wise, his tall stature, mag-
CONSER, EUGENE netic personality and beam-
DABO, CATHERINE ing smile made him just as
DUNDON, ARTHUR impactful. Ned was kind
ECKERT, JEAN and a gregarious storyteller
EDDLEMON, RUTH who always had a great
GHOSHAL, DR. ABHA joke to tell. He was eager
GREER, RICHARD to share his wisdom and
quick to lend an ear. Ned
HOCKENBERRY, DR. JOHN was a man of Faith and a
HOGAN, MARY
devoted member of Em-
KOLB, BARBARA manuel Lutheran Church in
MANNING, JOSEPH San Jose for over 50 years.
MC CONNELL, BARBARA He was happiest surround-
MC IVER, MARILYN ed by loved ones and of-
NARA, ALLAN ten found communing with
PAXINOS, SPYRO his neighbors at Hill Top
RITTER, RICHARD Manor. He was preceded
RUSS, ANDY in death by the love of his
SHAHEEN, JAMILEH life and wife, Helene. He
STOKES, EDWARD is survived by sons Michael,
STROTMAN, Hiram, Oscar, Edward, Paul,
ELIZABETH Samuel and daughter Mary.
THOMPSON, BRUCE He was also blessed with
THORPE, DAVID his grand children: Char-
TORRECILLAS, NED lie, Reyna, Jessica, Hiram,
Jennifer, Sophiee, Evanne,
VENATOR, LUI Tyler, Jaymee, Joshua, Ol-
YANEZ, DIANE
ivia and great-grandchildren
YEE, JR., HARRY Mia, Anthony, Nova and
Ivy.
This index may not
reflect all obituaries
published.
Obituaries may not
appear in
alphabetical order.
Eugene Conser
David R. Thorpe Joseph B Manning
Suffered major illnesses, Joe (“JB”) passed away
he proudly thrived through peacefully on August 7, af-
challenges and rewards as a ter a long, blessed life. He
Master Locksmith, The Key was born in North Carolina,
Man. His knowledge and but saw the world serving
interests spanned a wide in the United States Navy
range and depth of topics for over 22 years. After re-
eagerly shared with others. tiring from the Navy, he
Donations: UUFLG, 15980 settled in San Jose to fin-
Blossom Hill Rd, Los Gatos, ish raising his family. Joe
CA 95032. Private memorial. loved San Jose weather, the
SF Giants, Mexican food,
and most of all his family
and many friends. He was
preceded in death by his
cherished and much missed
wife, Melba Joyce (“Chips”).
He is survived by his chil-
dren, Joseph B Manning, Jr
(Lynn), Patty Powers (Bill),
Wanda Sue Manning, Rod-
ney Manning (Kristi), and
Sheila Livengood; grand-
children and great grand-
children. A Celebration of
Joe’s life and home-going to
heaven will be celebrated at
a later date.
Barbara McConnell
On Monday August 17,
2020, Barbara McConnell
died from cancer after hav-
ing lived a long and full
life. Barbara was born
in Oakland, California, to
George and Jane Anne
Wylie McConnell. Barbara
grew up in Oakland and
succeeded in her school
studies attending Oakland
High School where she
was active in Beta Alpha
Psi (National Accounting
Society). Upon graduating
she attended The Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley
campus, where she was
active in the Beta Gamma
Sigma Society (Commerce
Scholastic Society) earning
a Bachelor of Science de-
gree in Business Adminis-
tration with an emphasis in
accounting, obtaining a
General Secondary Creden-
tial and graduated Phi Beta
Kappa. Barbara then at-
tended San Francisco State
where she earned her Mas-
ter’s degree.
Barbara taught school
for 38 years in the Oakland
School District at Fremont
High School until her ear-
ly retirement in 1995. She
enjoyed fishing but was
not successful in catching
many, Barbara also loved
picking grapes and bottling
wine annually with friends.
She was highly active in
the Retired Teachers Asso-
ciation serving on the se-
lection committee for the
annual scholarship awards
and monthly luncheons.
She traveled extensively in
Europe for teachers’ confer-
ences.
Barbara loved to talk and
meet new people. She nev-
er met anyone with whom
she could not strike up a
conversation on almost any
subject. She was loved by
everyone she met.
She was regularly active
in the Park Avenue Pres-
byterian Church in Oak-
land for 45 years and never
missed a Sunday. After
the service she was always
downstairs making lunch
for all that attended.
Barbara was preceded
in death by her long-term
companion Brad Estes. She
is survived by Michael and
Vickie Eckert, her cous-
ins Lisa Wylie, Regan Wy-
lie, Tom Newman, Nadine
Brown, Russell Brown, Ed
Brown, Jane Wylie, Ger-
ald Ricker and many other
family members and close
friends near and far.
A virtual memorial ser-
vice will be held online
September 20th at 12:15
am. For information about
the memorial service con-
tact jerryricker19@gmail.
com. Memorial contribu-
tions may be made to Park
Blvd. Presbyterian Church,
4101 Park Blvd. Oakland,
CA 94602 (510) 530-5311

Elizabeth Rita In Loving Memory

Strotman

Beth, 87, a lifetime resi-

dent of Gilroy, passed away
on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020
with her loving family by
her side. She is survived by
her husband; Ted Strotman,
Daughters; Susan Yates,
Elizabeth Strotman and
husband Luca Pavani and Dr. Abha Ghoshal
Lynette and husband Bill
Breyton. Also survived by
her Grandchildren; Ted and DR. ABHA GHOSHAL M.SC, Ph.D.
Evan Yates, Andrew, Grant “Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the
and Danielle Breyton and afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
Great Grandchild; Olivia We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Dr.
Yates. She will be dearly Abha Ghoshal, who recently passed away on the evening
missed. of August 1st. Abha is survived by her two children (Subha
and Suparna), her five grandchildren (Robi, Niru, Amaya,
Ariya, and Diya), and her husband Sudanshu. She is also
survived by her great legacy of accomplishments, as both
a devoted scholar and a corporate executive. She was a
VP ADP and later on DIRECTOR VISA INTERNATIONAL.
Please visit: https://www.oakmontmortuary.com/tributes/
Abha-Ghoshal
 Richard Dabney (Tex) Ritter Paul Cattalini

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Jean K. Eckert
Born July 15, 1935 Huntington, NY. Died August 30,
2020 Sunny View Retirement Community, Cupertino, CA
Jean Ann Kirchner, born in Huntington, New York, July
15th, 1935. In high school she met the love of her life
Richard (Dick) Eckert, and after marriage (1957), moving
around the country first with the Navy, then with United
Airlines, they settled in Los Altos, CA. in 1970. Along
their way they adopted two boys, Steven (1964) and Peter
(1967).
Jean’s love of model ship building ,and all things nauti-
cal, from a young age continued to grow and in 1982 she
founded the South Bay Model Shipwrights. Returning to
her hobby first with “kits”, she entered the Dutch yacht
Mary 1660 into the Mariners’ Museum 1991 Scale Ship
Model Competition, kit class. She was the first woman to
ever enter this national competition, and she took Bronze.
In 2000 she again entered the competition this time in
the semi-scratch devision (scratch built except for fittings)
with her Nonsuch and took GOLD!
Jean and Dick moved into Sunny View Retirement for
their final years. Jean became very active and engaged
in the community. She worked with the Resident Counsel
and in giving back to the community. Her philanthro-
py includes providing the Michael Verde Memory Bridge
workshops for increasing communication with those with
dementia, which she provided in honor of Dick after he
passed from Alzheimers in 2014.
Jean is proceeded in death by her sons Peter (2009),
Steven (2014) and husband Richard (2014).
Gravesite service Thursday September 3rd, 2020 at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, 22555 Cristo Rey Dr., Los Altos, CA.
In lieu of flowers , donations in Jean’s name to Sunny
View Foundation 22445 Cupertino Road, Cupertino, CA
95014 preferred.
Paul died unexpectedly in San Jose, CA on August 1.
He is survived by his wife, Magdalena, his brothers Alvin,
David, and Robert Cattalini, and his sisters Marietta (Marni)
and Claudia (Zia) Cattalini. He was predeceased by his
parents, Albert and Marie Cattalini and his sister, Charlotte
Hewitt. A native of Vallejo, CA and a 1972 graduate of
Vallejo High School, he served in the U.S. Army before a
lifelong career in telecommunications. Paul’s enthusiasm
for projects, his laughter, and his generosity will be missed
by nieces and nephews of two generations and a large
extended family of cousins, in-laws, and friends. As Paul
Richard Thomas Ashcroft spent the last years of his life caring for his beloved wife,
Maggie, memorial donations to the Alzheimer’s Association
are suggested. Funeral services will be conducted at a lat-
Richard “Dick” Thomas Ashcroft passed away on May er date. Visit paul.cattalini.com for information.
18, 2020 at home at age 85. He was born on November
9, 1934 in Utica, NY, the son of Edwin and Ann Bogan
Ashcroft. He graduated from Utica Free Academy
and Clarkson College of Technology (now Clarkson
University), Potsdam, NY in 1956 with a Bachelor of
Electrical Engineering degree. While in college, he met his
future wife in 1954, Beverly Rita Trimm, a student at the
State University of New York also located in Potsdam, NY.
On July 6, 1957 they married in Malone, NY.
Upon graduation he joined DuPont Chemical Corporation
in Niagara Falls, NY as an instrument engineer design-
ing chemical process control systems. A year after join-
ing DuPont, a huge rock slide destroyed the 25 cycle hy-
droelectric power generating station at the base of the
Falls. The station powered most of the chemical plants
then operating in Niagara Falls. He and two other electri-
cal engineers were selected to convert the entire DuPont
plant to the new 60 cycle hydro plant to be built by the
State of New York and local utility companies. In 1960 he
joined General Dynamics in Rochester, NY as a program
administrator, advancing through various levels of engi- Mary K. Hogan
neering and marketing positions. In 1968 he joined Aydin
Energy Systems in Palo Alto, CA as the Vice President of
Marketing. In 1976 he was involved in forming Stanford
Mary Kathryn Hogan died peacefully on Sept. 3, 2020
Technology Corporation in Palo Alto, becoming their Vice at the age of 90. She was the only daughter of the late
President of International Marketing and moving his family Kathryn Kelley and John E. O’Brien Sr. She grew up on
to Geneva, Switzerland. From there he traveled extensive- her parent’s dairy farm in Slate Hill, NY. Mary was a
ly throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. graduate of Middletown High School and Dayton Business
In 1979 he returned to San Jose and assumed the position School. She married Frank J. Hogan in 1951. Mary was
of President of STC. In 1980 he spun out a product line a member of Mt. Carmel Parish in Middletown for over
that became International Imaging Systems, becoming its 50 years. She gave much of her time to a variety of vol-
President until retiring in 1996.
unteer activities for Mt Carmel Parish and School. Mary
An ROTC graduate from Clarkson, he served two tours retired in 1996 after closing a family business.
of active duty in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the first as
In 2011, she moved to Los Gatos, CA to be close to her
an instructor in the Army Signal Corps, Fort Monmouth, family. Mary enjoyed California, but considered herself
NJ and the second as the Operations Officer in a Signal a true “Middletowner” at heart. She cared for her fam-
Company recalled to duty during the Berlin War Crisis. He ily and friends deeply. Mary and Frank hosted Saturday
was discharged in 1962 as a Captain.
“pie nights” for anyone looking for laughter and love…
Dick served on the Board of Directors of the Electronics and her specialty homemade pies. Her crocheted blankets
Association of California and the American Electronics were given to all she loved, most often with her signature
Association, where he was a member of their Executive “touch of blue”.
Committee. He was a member of the Industrial Committee
Mary is survived by her devoted children, her son Paul F.
of the Santa Clara County United Way for three years, Hogan and his partner Randi J. Kinman of San Jose, CA,
Chairman of the Board of the Santa Clara County Family and her two daughters, Ann M. Bundlie and her husband
Services Association, Board member of the western Roger L. Bundlie of Los Gatos, CA and Mary E. Hogan of
Regional Family Services Association and as a member of Los Gatos, CA. She is also survived by many nieces and
several high tech start-up companies in the Silicon Valley. nephews as well as several cousins, all of whom she re-
He served a term as President of the Clarkson Alumni mained close to. Mary was predeceased by her husband,
Association as well as a member of the University’s Board Frank, brothers, John E. and Dean A. O’Brien and daugh-
of Governors for several years. In 1991 he received the ter, Cpt. Lori A. Hogan, USAFA.
Clarkson Golden Knight Distinguished Alumni Award. As Maya Angelou wrote, “People will forget what you
Dick is survived by his wife Beverly, a son Mark said, what you did… but people will never forget how
(Sandra) of Farmington Hills, MI; a daughter Pamela (Chris you made them feel.” Mary made you feel special.
Cotterel) of San Jose, CA, a daughter in law, Julie Ashcroft A private funeral mass will be held for immediate fam-
of Cary, NC; a brother James (Doris) Ashcroft of Marcy, ily in Los Gatos. A celebration of life and inurnment in
NY; ten grand-children and 14 great-grandchildren. He Middletown NY will be held at a later date when travel
was predeceased by his parents, a sister Theresa Roy of and gathering is safe.
Fulton, NY, a brother Jeremiah of Charleston, SC, a daugh- The family extends a heartfelt “Thank you” to all of
ter Catherine Ann McMahan of Santa Rosa, CA and a son Mom’s care staff at the Princess Lodge in Campbell, CA.
Thomas Michael of Leominster, MA. Memorial contributions can be made to your local
Due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions no funerals Humane Society or to Habitat for Humanity.
are permitted. A small service was held in the Memorial
Garden at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in San Jose
CA on May 28, 2020.

Jamileh Saad Shaheen

Jamileh, also known by many as Julie, was born and

raised in Birzeit, Palestine (in the occupied West Bank);
the Holy Land. She was born to loving parents, Suliman
and Aziza, and was the 6th of 7 children.
Jamileh was sent to Ein Arik, a nearby village, to teach
elementary school and it was there that she met her late
husband Peter Essa Shaheen at the church where he
played the organ and led the choir. Jamileh and Peter
were married, moved to Jerusalem where they had three
of their four children, and eventually moved to Jericho for
Peter’s work with the United Nations.
Peter and Jamileh immigrated to Pittsburgh, PA in 1955,
where they had their fourth child and Jamileh worked
with Peter in their grocery store. They ultimately settled
in San Jose, CA in 1970, where they enjoyed the beautiful
weather and the abundance of fruit trees in their Almaden
Valley home, reminiscent of the old country. They raised
four children and doted on their seven grandchildren and
11 great-grandchildren. They were married for 57 years
before Peter passed away in 2008.
Jamileh was a talented seamstress/tailor and worked at
Sear’s for several years. She was also known for her deli-
cious home cooking and baking. Her home was always
open for parties, meals, and card games with her imme-
diate and very large extended family spread around the
world and her many friends. No one could leave Jamileh’s
house feeling hungry or without a package of food to go!
Jamileh was a brilliant storyteller and you would hear
laughter and love spilling from her home while she rolled
countless pots of stuffed grape leaves. She was truly a
force to be reckoned with, fiercely loyal and always pas-
sionately giving sage advice. Jamileh was a legend – any-
one connected to the Shaheen family considered her their
“Tata Julie”. Her generosity, wisdom, and unconditional
love for her family will never be forgotten. Jamileh’s strong
faith was her guiding light and she was a devoted parish-
ioner of Holy Spirit Catholic Church for over 40 years.
Jamileh is survived by her children, daughter Victoria
(Bill–deceased), sons Victor (Amal), Henry (Mary–de-
ceased), and Richard; grandchildren Andrea (Greg),
Peter (Jamie), Chris, Nicole (Jens), Jaclyn (Tom), Jami
(Mathew), and Jordan; and great-grandchildren William,
Sara, Nikolaus, Breanna, Noah, Austin, Jaxon, Eliana,
George, Mathew, and Sophie. She is also survived by her
brothers-in-law Paul (Kay) Shahin and John (Nora) Shahin,
sisters-in-law Tarez (Issa–deceased) Saad Shahin and Mary
(David) David, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Private viewing and funeral services for the immedi-
ate family will be held at LIMA-CAMPAGNA-ALAMEDA
MISSION CHAPEL and HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH with burial
to follow at SANTA CLARA MISSION CEMETERY.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to Loaves & Fishes in
San Jose.
Edward C. “Ted” Stokes
Edward C. “Ted” Stokes, retired Senior Vice President
of Bechtel Power Corporation and long-time resident of
Menlo Park, passed away on September 5 after a brief
illness. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and
great grandfather who also enjoyed community activities,
golf and skiing.
Ted served in the Navy in WWII, and soon after the
end of the war he met Shirley, the love of his life to
whom he was married for 70 years. Ted’s college years
were spent attending Brigham Young University, Branch
Agricultural School (today Southern Utah University), and
the University of California at Berkeley, where he gradu-
ated in Engineering. In 1955, Ted joined Bechtel, the com-
pany he would stay with for over 35 years. He and Shirley
settled on the San Francisco Peninsula where they lived
happily for the next 15 years, raising their three children,
Jeannie, Brad and Kelly.
Ted’s professional career as a chemical engineer and
project manager with Bechtel involved him in projects
across the globe and took the family overseas for six years
where they lived in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, London
and Abu Dhabi. They happily returned to the Bay Area
and lived in Menlo Park for over 40 years as their family
grew to include five grandchildren and two great-grand-
children.
Ted’s career success continued, and he rose to the posi-
tion of Senior Vice President of Bechtel Power Corporation.
During his tenure in this position, Ted was also involved
in the greater business community, serving as President of
the World Trade Club, President of the Bay Area Affiliate
of the National Minority Supplier Development Council -
where he was named “Man of The Year” in 1987, and as
Member of the Boards of the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce, the International Visitors Center and Sharon
Heights Golf and Country Club.
Ted was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor
of Business in 2011 by his alma mater Southern Utah
University where he and Shirley helped fund the Edward
& Shirley Stokes Open Chemistry Lab.
Ted was devoted to his wife Shirley whose passing in
2017 was felt for the rest of his days. Their ashes will lie
side by side at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in an urn that
Ted had inscribed, “A Great 70-Year Marriage”.
The family will be planning a celebration of life when
it is possible to gather. Please contact ecsecs0920@gmail.
com to request information.
Marilyn McIver
Died peacefully at home in San Jose, CA after a coura-
geous battle with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). Born in
Seattle, WA to Edward John McIver and Joyce Leas McIver.
In 1957 her family moved to San Jose where Marilyn at-
tended Five Wounds Grammar School and graduated from
Presentation High School. She went on to study journalism
at UC Riverside.
A beautiful, gregarious soul with a megawatt smile and
a razor sharp wit, Marilyn had a zest for life that was
contagious. She was perfectly suited to her career in hotel
hospitality, planning elaborate events and excursions for
corporate clientele. “Mac’s” extravaganzas were legendary.
She excelled in her profession and was a generous men-
tor to many.
Marilyn travelled the world and felt fortunate to have
lived and worked in Maui, Palm Desert, Puerto Rico,
Chicago, Scottsdale and Tucson, Arizona before returning
home to the Bay Area 3 years ago.
Possessed of a big heart and ever present humor
Marilyn’s gift was bringing people together. Her many
lifelong friendships were a testament to her loyalty and
kindness. Friends meant the world to her and during these
last housebound months she cherished their lengthy tele-
phone conversations. Marilyn had many interests- dancing,
tennis, sewing and golf, but, she had an absolute passion
for holiday celebrations. Now she’s in heaven planning
her Halloween costume.
Preceded in death by her parents and her sister Shannon.
Survived by her devoted brother Ned McIver of San Jose,
CA, sister Megan McIver of San Diego, CA and niece Tara
McIver of Arizona.
Funeral arrangements are pending due to Covid-19. In
lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to
MSA Coalition 7918 Jones Branch Drive Suite 300 McLean,
VA 22102
 Barbara Kolb

Barbara Kolb - June 19, 1924 – September 9, 2020. Santa Clara

Our beautiful, wonderful, funny and loving Mom has finally gone to heaven to dance
with our dad, Bill, the love of her life, as he sings “Dream” softly in her ear.
Barbara Allen was born in Spokane Washington and grew up in Glendale and Oakland,
California. A classic WWII love story; she met Bill Kolb, at a USO dance at Alameda
Naval Air Station. A marriage proposal in a rowboat on Lake Merritt was followed by a
wedding and honeymoon bus trip to the state capital, Sacramento. Thus began a mar-
riage of 58 years, a family with ten children, and truly everlasting love.
Mom and Dad raised us with kindness, love, a sense of adventure, and lots of sports
and laughter. She passed on her love of chocolate, the Giants, the neighborhood, burnt
toast with butter, homemade chocolate frosting with graham crackers, See’s Candy and
most of all her love for all of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces,
nephews, and the many friends of her children that became adopted family members
over the years.
Barbara’s life will be celebrated by her children, Mary Gilbert, Kathy Imwalle, Claudia
Thomas, Peggy Aaron, Glenn Kolb, Amy Tucker, Pam Treder, Debbie Viloria, Suzy
Andrade and Leslie McCoy, her nine sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, fifteen grandchildren,
eleven great-grandchildren, countless nieces, nephews and several ‘honorary children’.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Elizabeth McMahon Allen, her brothers, Ned
and Mike, her sister, Pat, and her beloved husband, Bill.
Mom supported each of our personal endeavors and was an active parent volunteer
with the Santa Clara Swim Club throughout the 1960s and ‘70s and the Santa Clara Junior
Theater through the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Throughout her 96-years, Barbara Kolb was ever-curious. An avid reader, in addition
to countless novels, she read the newspaper ritually every morning to stay informed and
active in her community, country, and the world. Mom donated to a variety of charities
to protect children, Native Americans, endangered animals, and the environment, as well
as to support Special Olympics, cancer research, and political candidates.
Growing up, Mom was an amazing role model of civic responsibility as she worked on
local, state, congressional, and presidential campaigns. Her deep compassion for others
persisted and her greatest present hope was to vote on November 3rd to restore honor
and decency to the White House by casting her vote for Joe Biden in the presidential
election. Here, we give voice to the vote she was unable to cast.
The Kolb Family would like to express our deep gratitude to the Kaiser physicians
and Home Health nurses and aides for the wonderful care they provided for our Mom.
So raise your margarita, Oreo, piece of See’s candy, drumstick (the ice cream kind) or
piece of toast, sing a rousing chorus of Take Me Out to the Ballgame, and cheers to her
wonderful 96 years and the fabulous life she has shared with us all. We will miss you
Mommy. Thanks for all your love!
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to Siskiyou County Special
Olympics – P.O. Box 545, Weed, CA 96094; the Giants Community Fund - https://
www.mlb.com/giants/community/fund; or Second Harvest Food - https://give.shfb.org/
donatenowBank.
More importantly, VOTE!
Spyro Paxinos
Spyro Theodore Paxinos passed away on August 25, 2020, surrounded by his fam-
ily after a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He is survived by his devoted wife,
Esther, daughters Ellen and Christine, granddaughters Nina, Eva, Ana, and Ani, sons-in-
law Rainer Cvillink and Dan Maruccia, and brothers Kosta and Yiorgo. He is preceded
in death by his beloved sister, Nina.
Spyro was born in 1937 on the island of Ithaka in Greece. In 1953, after severe earth-
quakes decimated his home in the frail post-war country, Spyro left Greece to find work.
Just shy of his 16th birthday, he traveled to Zimbabwe, where he worked as a server in
a café. From Africa, Spyro journeyed to his sister in Melbourne, Australia, and worked
at his uncles’ fruit shop and eventually owned and operated a milk bar. In Australia, he
met Esther, the love of his life, who was studying at the university. Not having finished
high school, he was unable to study in Australia. Encouraged by his brother Yiorgo
who was studying at the University of California, Berkeley, he applied to immigrate to
the United States. His visa was granted in 1965, and he joined his two brothers in San
Francisco. Esther arrived in 1967, they married, and for the next 53 years, remained
inseparable. Spyro attended night school while working as a vacuum salesman in his
brother Kosta’s shop. In just 27 months, he not only obtained a high school diploma,
but graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He moved his family
to San Jose and found work as an engineer at DCA, (later Trio Tech), a reliability test-
ing laboratory serving the aerospace industry. Spyro eventually acquired the lab, now
known as General Test Laboratory (GTL), and served as its President and CEO until his
retirement in 2002.
Spyro was extensively involved in the Greek community in the Bay Area. He served
on the Parish Council at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in San Jose and was a
founder of both its Greek School and the Democritus Society. In later years, he was one
of the founding members of the Elios Society. Spyro was also a 32nd degree Mason, a
Shriner, and a past master of the Mountain View Masonic Lodge.
A philanthropist particularly devoted to Lefki, the village where he was born, Spyro
was recently honored and celebrated for his role in restoring the village church and
renovating the school to create a community venue for the village.
Spyro was happiest in Koutoupi, his home by the sea on Ithaka, Greece. Once retired,
he spent six months of the year there, hosting a seemingly endless stream of friends and
family from around the world. He tended to his vineyard and winery in Lefki and was
known for legendary parties where everyone on the island was invited.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, burial services were limited to immedi-
ate family. A celebration of his life will follow once restrictions are lifted. In lieu of
flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Spyro’s memory to the Michael J.
Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (https://www.michaeljfox.org), or to the Saint
Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in San Jose, CA (https://saintnicholas.org).
Lui Venator
Lui James Venator passed away peacefully at San Jose Regional Medical Center after a
fall on April 11, 2020 at age 88. For his last may years he could be seen in Hollister,
a lanky farmer with a baseball cap who went to the gym every morning at 5 AM and
spent the day either working on his several properties in the downtown area on in
his walnut orchards or in his extensive shop. Articulate and kind, he had a smile and
friendly eyes for everyone. This was Lui Venator; a world wanderer and adventurer,
home from decades spent living and traveling in South East Asia, during war and peace-
time, settled back in California where he’d spent his childhood and formative years.
When he was born, Lui’s father, Louis, was the US Naval Attaché in Beijing, China. It
was 1931 and the Japanese army was set to take over that part of the world to protect
their investment in the South Manchurian Railroad Company. This effort included a
campaign of terror. It was not a good place for an American Trade Official and his
young family.
With baby Lui and his older sister Nancy, also born in China, the Venators fled to the
coast and traveled by ship back to Southern California. There Lui had a pleasant child-
hood in sunny Newport Beach. Having developed a romanticized ideal of life on the
seas from his Navy trained father, Lui set out to pursue a career as a merchant marine
after high school. Lui enrolled in the California Maritime Academy, which was one of
the best training grounds for Merchant Marines.
However, after two years he realized he wanted a broader education and subsequent-
ly enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley. During the summers both at
the Maritime Academy and at Cal, he worked as a merchant seaman sailing all over
the world. While at Cal, he pledged Sigma Chi fraternity where he later became the
president. After graduating with a bachelors degree in history he joined the Navy.
He trained as a pilot and later left as an officer. He then joined IBM marketing large
computers. After a few years he left and returned to working on boats in Southern
California and the Caribbean. He spent his twenties sailing in the summer and skiing in
the winter, even earning money as a ski instructor.
1959 found him in Squaw Valley building his own cabin. He had chosen Squaw Valley
because the next year the Winter Olympics were going to be held there. Somewhere
along the line in that carefree life he became an excellent carpenter.
In September 1960 Lui started Law School at Berkeley Law, then known widely as Boalt
Hall. He made close friend there including retired Presiding Justice of the California
Court of Appeal Conrad Rushing who tells affectionate tales of sitting under the large
plaques on the outside of the building, receiving instruction from notables such as
Holmes and Cardoza, and eating lunch together (usually tuna fish sandwiches). Lui
was curious about the ranch where Rushing had grown up and drove there and bought
two sheep fleeces from Rushing’s father. He brought them back to Berkeley where he
treated and sewed them into clothing. Like Jason (without the Argonauts) back from the
Black Sea, not with a golden fleece, but a shearling vest.
After law school and a stint at Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) Lui
joined the San Jose law firm of Miller Morton Wright and Caillat where after three years
he made partner. The firm represented a number of local building contractors and he
became quite an expert in managing their affairs. In 1969 he was offered a job as a
construction lawyer in the new consortium known as RMKBRJ – Raymond International,
Morrison and Knudson, Brown and Root , JR Jones. The United States Government had
hired these several companies to act together in building very large projects in Vietnam
– Highways, bridges, port facilities and airports.
As usual, Lui made many good friends there and although the job entailed working
with complex construction problems and contracts he got out of the office now and then
– particularly with his friend Phil Pomeroy for a real adventure. In one escapade, Lui
and friends launched a mission to reclaim a ship. The company owned a large ship that
had been abandoned by it’s crew because of hostile action. It was a dredge, a crucial
component of keeping the deep water ports the company had build open to shipping
traffic. With Pomeroy and four others, Lui boarded her at night and armed with mari-
time training was able to start her engines and sailed her, without lights, back to port.
In 1971 the construction company closed down most of it’s building operations and
Lui went to work for ITT Federal Electric Company, a telephone and power utility with
lines and equipment in several Southeast Asian countries. It was then that he met is
wife Lien (Hue) Luu.
By email, his friend Chic Chicarelli wrote “He was happy as a confirmed bachelor who
self-declared that he would never have any more romantic relationships nor get married.
I kidded him that this sounded like ‘famous last words’ of a bachelor. Luckily, he soon
met a beautiful young Vietnamese lady named Lien and they were married and she gave
him a long and very happy life together. I remember many projects that we developed
together in China, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia, where
Lui gave us very substantial assistance. He was one of the very few highly skilled
counsels who would study the legal issues and then help our sales teams find ways to
succeed on an opportunity. Lui and Lien and their children Minh and Lanchi built a
beautiful life together in Hong Kong and later on their ranch in Hollister.”
But, before their life in Hollister would happen, Saigon fell and Lien and the children
were forced to leave Vietnam, flown from the roof of the American Embassy to San
Francisco where the Rushings picked them up and gave them refuge in their home in
the east foothills of San Jose. Lui had also been flown off that roof but landed on a
merchant ship in the South China Sea.
After a time in Hollister, the family moved back to the east and Lui’s new office in
Hong Kong where he worked on projects for ITT,. Particularly expanding the Sheraton
Hotel footprint in the Asian Pacific. One of his great accomplishments was successfully
negotiating with the communist government the opening of the Beijing based ‘Great
Wall Sheraton’ – a rare western luxury hotel in the Chinese capital. The children at-
tended the Hong Kong International School and Minh graduated returning to the US to
attend the California Maritime Academy. He graduated with a Bachelors of Science in
Maritime Engineering. Minh now runs MinhJet as a sole proprietor and has been restor-
ing, maintaining and modifying warbird jets for over 20 years. Lanchi graduated from
HKIS and went to UC Davis. Moving to New York, she completed her MBA at NYU and
is now a Sr. Vice President with Estee Lauder Companies.
Lui had one sibling, Nancy who passed on two years ago. He leaves behind his wife
Lien, his son Minh and his wife Kathy and their children Tyler and Kaitlyn, and his
daughter Lanchi and her husband Brian and their two children Sophie and Sylvie.
Lien and the family are still planning to host a gathering to celebrate Lui’s life as soon
as it is safe for everyone to attend. It will be later than hoped, but will definitely take
place. The family will make arrangements and announce the event when large gather-
ings are permitted. In the meantime, Lien extends her love and thanks to all who have
helped her in these last few months.

Amy Aiko Brastad

Harry Yee, Jr.

Amy passed away peacefully in the early morning hours
of September 9, 2020. She was the devoted wife of the late
Peter Brastad and daughter of the late Issei and Kikuko
Nonoguchi. Amy spent a large part of her adult life work-
ing with dogs: breeding, training, showing and trialing in
Obedience and Agility until over 90 years old. Her be-
loved Sheltie, Joy was Amy’s constant companion these
last days. Nothing gave her more pleasure than working
with her dogs.
Amy is the sister of Kazuo Nonoguchi and Hoshiko
Kadota. She leaves behind several nieces and nephews,
and a wealth of friends. She is the very special friend of
the Signorotti families, the Ionis Family, the Toeller family
& the Butera Family. For the last two years, Amy was lov-
ingly cared for by Mary Liversedge.
Amy will be laid to rest with her husband. Donations
may be sent in memory of Amy to NorCal Sheltie Rescue,
Inc. (norcalsheltierescue.org) or to Live Oak Adult Day
Services (liveoakadultdaycare.org). A life well lived.
Catherine Miljas (Milias) Dabo
Catherine, affectionately called Baba, passed away peace-
fully in her home of 75 years.
Catherine is survived by her eldest daughter Pauline
Dabo Mifsud (Bill, deceased), Jane Dabo Cruz (Joe),
Mitch, Jr. (Julie) and Ann Marie (Rose).
Catherine has eleven grandchildren, William Charles, II,
(Monica) Michael Joseph (Michelle), Christina, Catherine
Heller (Richard) and Jenna, Jonelle Cruz and Stephanie
(Dan) LaPray, Mitch,III, (Jill), Tyler Joseph, (Jaimie) John
and Kimberly( Curtis) Brown. Catherine is also survived
by twenty-seven great-grandchildren, nephew, Peter
(Pam), and niece Kathy (Bob). She leaves many nieces
and nephews in Canada and Croatia.
Please visit: www.grunnagle.com
Harry Hong Yee, Jr. longtime resident of Campbell, CA
passed away Sept. 9, 2020. Born in Honolulu, HI. He
served in the US Air Force during the Korean War. While
in the service he met and married Lorraine Halloran and
had 5 children. He later married Evelyn Martin and had 2
more children. Harry worked for Lockheed Martin until he
retired in 1993. He loved his hobbies of fishing, dancing,
traveling, gardening, and cooking.
Harry was preceded in death by his father Harry Yee,
Sr., mother Rhoda Leong, sister Pat Smith, daughters Ruth
and Julie, and grand daughter Lara.
He is survived by children: Ray (Susan), Janet, Phillip,
Sharon, and Norman. Grand Daughter Vickee (Neil), Great
Grandchildren: Bella, Wyatt, Rachel, and Jesse, Siblings:
Patsy, Paul (Henrietta), and Vicky (David)
Harry will be interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery.

Diane Nancy Yañez
Diane entered eternal rest on August 1, 2020 at the age
of 57. Diane is survived by her loving husband of 34 years,
Alfred Yañez of San Jose, sons Mitchell Yañez (Cristina)
beloved grandchildren Emma & Jacob, Matthew Yañez
(Tricia Alvernaz) and Michael Yañez. Sister Heather Scott,
brother Mark Mahoney and sister Karen Mahoney. She
is preceded in death by her parents Donald and Nancy
Friend, her stepmother Joyce Friend and brother Matt
Mahoney. Survived by 15 nieces and nephews, 5 sisters-
in-law, and 7 brothers-in-law and her loving Willowbrook
Dr. extended family.
Diane graduated from Cupertino High School Class of
1981. She would have celebrated 20 years in October as
the estate manager for Ken & Linda Raasch.
Family above everything was her creed and she loved to
host all family events at her home. Diane enjoyed travel-
ing with her husband and family. She was a loving and
caring Nana to her grandchildren Emma & Jacob, who
brought her so much joy and happiness.
She loved playing board games with her loving nieces &
nephews and would be super competitive, especially after
a few glasses of her favorite Chardonnay wine. She was a
loyal and enthusiastic supporter of the San Francisco 49ers
and San Jose Sharks, which she enjoyed attending with
family and close friends.
Diane will be remembered for her contagious smile and
laugh, her warmth and her love of life. “As is a tale, so
is a life: Not how long it is but how good it is, is what
matters.”
Due to COVID-19 restrictions a private family service
was held on Tuesday, August 11th. Donations in memo-
ry of Diane Nancy Yañez may be made to the American
Heart Association, 1 S. Almaden Blvd, #500, San Jose, CA
95113 - 408.977.4950.
Linda Trudel
Linda Trudel of San Jose and Santa Clara County resi-
dent for 37 years, passed away peacefully in San Jose
on September 6, 2020. Beloved wife of Murray Trudel.
Loving mother of Jeff, Darren, Blair, and Scott, and the
late Murray Jr. Caring sibling of Corky, Keith, Marylin,
Judy, and the late Joyce and Joan. Dear grandmother
to Hannah, Tashima, Natalie, and Cozette, Cherished
daughter of the late Jack and Frida Cummings. A native
of Windsor, Canada, age 76 years. Born and raised by
Uncle George and Grandma Frida in Windsor Ontario.
Linda married Murry L Trudel PhD, shortly after they were
blessed with Jeff, Murray, Darren Blair, and Scott. She en-
joyed bringing essential items to shelters and people who
were down on their luck. She was an extremely dedicated
mother with a curiosity towards mystery, and a great inter-
est of crafts of all sorts.
Family and friends are invited to attend the Funeral
Service on Wednesday September 16, 2020 10:00am at
LIMA & CAMPAGNA SUNNYVALE MORTUARY, 1315
Hollenbeck Ave, Sunnyvale. Committal and burial will
follow at GATE OF HEAVEN CEMETERY, 22555 Cristo Rey
Dr. Los Altos.
Andy Russ
Andy Allen Russ, 63, departed this life unexpectedly on
September 2, 2020.
Andy will be forever missed by his wife of 43 years,
Sandra Thielbahr Russ; his daughters Kelly Russ Ripley
(Marc) and Kristen Russ; mother, Darlene Friday (Gordon);
sister, Jean Hader (Ed); father-in-law, Glenn Rickard; and
sister-in-law, Jenny Thielbahr. He will be greatly missed
by his nephew, two nieces and many aunts, uncles, cous-
ins, friends and colleagues.
He was preceded in death by his father, Jerry Russ;
brother, Kevin Russ and mother-in-law, Jane Rickard.
Andy was born in Sacramento, CA on January 10, 1957.
His formative years were spent in Chico and Rancho
Cordova, CA.
Andy was a graduate of Cordova High School and
earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science
from California State University, Sacramento. His career
spanned 41 years with technology companies throughout
Silicon Valley, most recently at Cisco.
Donations in Andy’s memory may be made to the
Parkinson Association of Northern California.
The family will hold a memorial service at a later date.
Visit https://www.eastlawn.com/obituary/andy-allen-russ/
Richard Lee Greer
Richard Lee Greer passed into the Hands of God on the
26th of June, 2020 after a long and courageous journey
through health issues. His devoted Wife, Hannah Greer,
passed away on the 6th of December, 2019.
Richard L. Greer was born on February 18, 1936 in
Birmingham, Alabama. He is survived by his daughters
-- Dr. Deborah Greer (San Francisco, CA); Roni Raulwing
and her husband Peter Raulwing (Saratoga, CA); son --
Rick Greer (San Jose, CA).
Richard L. Greer was also survived by his siblings--
Robert Greer (Alabama) and Carrie Williams (Alabama).
Although physical distance separated the family, they re-
main unified in the comfort and privilege of having loved
this extraordinary man of Christ.
Richard and Hannah were married on the 30th of
November, 1966 and celebrated their 53rd wedding anni-
versary in 2019. During their decades-long marriage, they
shared a love for the Lord, the good things in life - the
company of family, close friends and great food.
Richard proudly served his country for 21 years in the
United States Army and was a Vietnam veteran. He loved
Westerns, boxing, and was a “baby whisperer”. He could
calm any child that was distressed in no time.
Through Hannah’s effort, Richard traveled to many parts
of Europe and lived with his family in the US, Korea, and
Germany.
Richard proudly served in the US Army for 21 years and
10 years at Westinghouse. His two main important roles
were “dad” to three rambunctious children and a faithful
disciple of the church. With his love, faith and belief,
Richard L. Greer left a loving mark on all he met and
touched.
Allan Yoshio Nara
Allan Yoshio Nara passed away peacefully in his home.
Allan was born in Los Angeles to Komao Nara and
Takeno Kubota who came from Yamanashi, Japan. He
had a sister Florence Ozawa (Yosh) who passed away
a few months ago. His family went to Heart Mountain
relocation camp in Wyoming during WWII. After the war
his family moved to Minneapolis. He earned a degree in
Business Administration from the University of Minnesota.
After his mother passed away he and his father moved to
Mountain View. He was drafted and served two years in
the army signal corps in San Luis Obispo. He met and mar-
ried Sylvia Sadako Higa in 1953. She was from Kauai, HI.
They had three children: Cathy Nakamura (Jerry), Karen
Isobe (Gerald) and Steve Nara (Patty Bach). He has seven
grandchildren: Corey and Michelle Nakamura, Brandon
Isobe (Christina) and Brittany Isobe Gutierrez (Eslie) and
David Nara. He has two great grandchildren (Austin and
Connor Isobe). His father, Komao, lived with them his
entire married life until his death at age 96. Allan was an
active member of the Mountain View Buddhist Temple
where he served on the board of directors for many years
and was temple board president in 1995. He and Sylvia
enjoyed many friendships at the temple. Private services
will be held for family at the mortuary. Please view/sign
the guestbook at cusimanocolonial.com; Donations may
be given to the Mountain View Buddhist Temple.
Dr. John H Hockenberry
Dr. John H Hockenberry Jr. Ph.D., Lockheed Executive
and Tres Pinos resident, died on August 27th, at the age
of 95.
He is survived by his wife, June Hockenberry (née
Mancini); his children, Lynda and David (Michele); his
grandchildren, Melissa and Jared; his brothers. Edward
Hockenberry (Ann) and Paul Hockenberry (Janet). He is
predeceased by his brothers, Lee (Barb) Hockenberry and
Terry O Hockenberry.
Born and raised in Butler, PA, John joined the Army
to serve in World War II, earning him the Bronze Star
and the Combat Infantry Badge from the U.S. Military,
and later being named Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion
d’Honneur, the highest French distinction for military ac-
complishments.
He earned a BS and an MS in Physics from Thiel College
(PA) and a Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio State University
(OSU). John’s career was broad, spending numerous years
as an executive for Lockheed (Sunnyvale, CA). His proj-
ects included the Agena Satellite program (managing 50+
flights), and the Space Shuttle Tile programs.
John was also an active member of his church, Christ
Fellowship (Hollister), where he was loved by all.
He will be deeply missed by his friends, family, and all
who knew him.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to your lo-
cal animal shelter, such as Peace of Mind Dog Rescue
(https://www.peaceofminddogrescue.org/index.php).
Arthur “Ray” Dundon
Ray Dundon passed away, due to complications from
a Hip replacement surgery. He served in the Military as
a Paratrooper in the United States Army and continued
his 40+ years as a firefighter. He was so proud to be
a Paratrooper and Firefighter. He found and married the
love of his life (Karen) and had two boys (Rick and Jeff),
three Grandchildren, and five Great-Grandchildren. Ray
retired from Station 3 in 1994. He went on to travel the
world with great friends.
Ray is survived by his Loving Grandchildren and Great-
Grandchildren. His Fun, Loving and Heroic Spirit will be
greatly missed by All. May you Rest in Peace with your
Sweetheart and Sons.
Family and Friends his service will be held at Los Gatos
Memorial at 2255 Los Gatos Almaden Rd. San Jose on
September 19, 2020 at 11am. There is a limited amount that
can attend, due to COVID so we will have his Memorial
Live Online. We will have a Celebration of Life at a later
date. For Further information about the Live Memorial on-
line, please contact Darling Fischer at 408-354-7740.
Bruce Thompson
Bruce Thompson died at home Aug. 19, 2020 from mul-
tiple health issues. His family was with him. Bruce was
born in Lynnwood, Calif., and raised in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Bruce moved to the Beaverton area in 1978 with his wife
Penny, whom he adored the rest of his life. In his early
adult years, he worked as a steam ship agent. Later, he
worked in Special Education at Beaverton High School,
where he was also on the water polo and swim team
coaching staff.
Bruce enjoyed camping, teaching his two daughters how
to fish and crab, and throwing a baseball with them. He
was caring, thoughtful, and emotional. Bruce would pick
his daughters up from school when they were sick and
care for them. He gave flowers to his wife regularly. He al-
ways cried and left the room when watching “Old Yeller.”
Bruce had a great sense of humor and enjoyed laughing
at himself as well as making others laugh at themselves.
Known as Bruce the Moose by his Little League team, he
could be stubborn, so stubborn, that after a massive stroke
in 2006, he worked to retake and successfully pass the
driving test. Bruce maintained his independence for sever-
al years driving himself to and from the gym. Bruce spent
his final days teasing his family during card games and
watching western movies. He found peace surrounded by
his wife, two daughters, and lots of love.
Bruce is survived by this mother, Gladys; his wife, Penny;
two daughters, Amanda and Maris; two grandchildren,
Rory and Rosie; sister, Carol; brother, David; and many
nieces and nephews. Bruce was preceded in death by his
father, Garrie; and two brothers, Rickey and Wayne.
In Bruce’s honor, please consider a donation to The
Special Olympics.
Ruth Elaine Eddlemon
Ruth passed away peacefully at home at the age of 85.
She was born in San Jose California to Russell and Evelyn
Templeton (deceased). She was the center of our fam-
ily, a devoted wife and mother, a devout Christian true
to her faith. She was a member and former Deacon of
Westminster Presbyterian Church. ?She was a gentle and
loving soul and will be dearly missed. She was preceded
in death by her loving husband Ronald W Eddlemon and
son Steven W Eddlemon. She is survived by her children
Ron (Leslie), Julie (Jerry) Smith and Brad; nine grandchil-
dren and four great-grandchildren; her brothers Fred and
James Templeton and their families.
Graveside service will be held on Wednesday, Septem-
ber 16th at 11 am Los Gatos Memorial Park.
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Unscramble these Jumbles,
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to form six ordinary words.

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A NEED is something you must have A WANT is something you would like
in order to survive. For example, you to have but can live without. A music
need shelter, clothing, food, water player, television and bike are wants
and sometimes medicines. not needs.

Food is a human
need. You can’t
live without it!
But
ice cream and
other treats are
wants, while healthy
fruits and veggies
are needs!

Wants or Needs Through History

Look at each of the periods of history below. Write a W next to the things that you think would
have been a WANT in that time. Write an N next to those items that would have been needs.
Cross out the items that didn’t exist at that point in history.

SANDALS GOATS CATTLE BOOTS

FIRE SPEAR
FIRE SHELTER HAT HOUSE
WATER DOGS
GOLD PYRAMIDS ROPE GUITAR
CAVE/SHELTER FRUIT
SPICES WHEELS HORSE
RADIO FISH
CATS

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What do you think?

Over time, most needs have stayed the same. But some things are needs in one time period and
wants in another. For example, during the times of the American West, having a horse helped
people travel and hunt. While some people did not have horses, most did, and they were highly
needed. Today, having a horse is more of a want.

What do you think? In which time period would a digital tablet be a need and in which time
period would it be a want? Why would a digital tablet be a need in the time of coronavirus?

Draw a GREEN circle around needs that have stayed the same over time. Draw a RED circle around things that have
been a need in one time period and a want in another.

Wants and Needs Newspaper Search

Look through the newspaper for pictures of things or
words that represent wants and needs. Paste them into
the correct side of the chart below:

Standards Link: Use the newspaper to locate information.

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This issue of Kid Scoop focuses on the difference between needs and wants.

Our weekly feature teaches that needs are things we need to survive, such as food, water and
shelter.

However, if you ever have to leave your house during a disaster and need to sleep somewhere
else for a while, it is a good idea to have an Kid’s Emergency Activity Kit so you will have
things to do and share with other kids. These can all be stored in a backpack or duffel bag. Just
make sure you can carry it easily. Some suggested items for your Kid’s Emergency Activity Kit:

• A few of your favorite books and Kid Scoop pages

• Crayons, pencils or marking pens and plenty of paper
• Scissors and glue
• Two favorite toys such as a doll or action figure
• One or two board games
• A deck of cards
• A puzzle (One with lots of pieces is good—it takes a
long time to do!)
• Small people figures and play vehicles that you can use
to play out what is happening during your disaster—such
as an ambulance, fire truck, helicopter, dump truck, police car, small boats
• A special stuffed animal or puppet
• A special blanket or pillow
• Pictures of the family and pet

List anything else we may have left out:

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Throughout history, people of all ages have needed more

than things. We also need to laugh, to love and to feel safe.
Connect the punchline to each riddle.

HISTORY
The noun history means
events of the past.

The castle tour told of its

ancient history.

Try to use the word history in memory.

a sentence today when talking
Lots of
with friends and family.
ANSWER:

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A penny saved is …
How would you finish this sentence?

Yesterday and Today

Look through the newspaper for five things that did not exist when your parents were children.
Ask your parents if that is true? Then look though the newspaper with your parents to find other
things that didn’t exist when they were children.
Standards Link: Use the newspaper to locate information.

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Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways and diagonally.
Then see how many of these words you can find in today’s newspaper.

MEDICINES
SURVIVE
SHELTER
H I S A M E S T E O
HISTORY
TRAVEL R E T L E H S R S Y
TABLET I C R W D A N U R R
WATER T T E T I O R S O O
WANTS
E C T R C V O B H T
HORSE
CARDS L A A A I A I F H S
CAVE B R W V N K N U D I
SAME A D E E E N N E E H
HUNT T S D L S T N A W S
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THE FIX

GOP wary of mail-in voting

BY A MBER P HILLIPS precisely because election officials across the
country think it’s the safest and most efficient

R
epublican officials have been worried
for weeks that President Trump is scar-
ing his supporters (and theirs) away
from voting by mail with his near-con-
stant, baseless warnings that it would lead to
widespread fraud.
Now we have solid evidence that Republi-
cans are way less likely than Democrats to vote
by mail in the fall. They would much rather vote
in person.
A new Washington Post-University of Mary-
land poll finds that while Democrats are split
on whether they prefer to vote in person or by
mail, 71 percent of Republicans say they plan to
vote in person, 21 percent by mail, and 9 per-
cent by dropping off their ballot.
There’s evidence that Trump’s frequent
warnings about mail voting are convincing
Republicans to avoid it: While 95 percent of
people who say they’re definitely voting for
Trump are confident that their ballot cast in
person on Election Day will be counted accu-
rately, that goes down to 45 percent when asked
how confident they are of the same outcome
when voting by mail. Sixty-five percent of those
definitely voting for Trump predict that fraudu-
lent attempts to vote will happen very or some-
what often. And 97 percent give the president
the benefit of the doubt that his disparagement
of mail voting is aimed at trying to discourage
fraud, rather than stopping people from voting
against him.
Why is that a potential problem for Trump
and Republicans?
It could make it more difficult for these
voters to cast ballots. All states will offer some
kind of in-person voting in November, even the
nine states and D.C. that are automatically
sending out ballot to voters.
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Bill Hurley fills out his ballot Tuesday in New
Hampshire. Most Republicans polled said
they plan to vote in person in November.
But election officials warn that there could
be long lines as they try to space people six feet
apart, and the search is on for bigger venues.
But that won’t be the case in every communi-
ty. Many are closing some regular in-person
polling places, meaning there’s a risk people
could show up at the wrong place to vote.
In addition, if election officials assume that a
significant portion of voters will choose the
by-mail option, they may not staff these polling
places well enough to handle big groups of
voters showing up to cast ballots. Or they may
not be able to. Many jurisdictions are worried
about a shortage of poll workers to keep the
process moving smoothly.
Maybe this won’t be as big of a deterrent to
Republicans casting their ballots for Trump as
some fear. All but nine states offer early in-per-
son voting, according to the National Confer-
ence for State Legislatures, and that could
defray lines.
But voting by mail is expanding in the fall,
way to cast ballots in a pandemic. At least 83
percent of Americans can vote by mail in the
fall, according to a Washington Post analysis.
All but a handful of states have expanded their
absentee ballot programs to allow people to
vote by mail if they don’t want to risk getting
coronavirus by voting in person.
Voting by mail comes with its own concerns
— most of them about disenfranchisement
rather than fraud. Such as: voters who don’t fill
out their ballot correctly, or mail it too late, or
Postal Service delays, or litigation changing the
rules at the last minute.
The final reason this GOP trend away from
mail voting is concerning is less about one
party’s success and more about a larger concern
over how the outcome will be viewed.
One possible scenario is that results from
in-person polling are released on election
night, and because Republicans seem much
more likely to cast votes that way, Trump is
ahead. Then days or even weeks later, mailed
ballots are counted and Trump’s lead shrinks or
is overtaken by Biden. And that, political scien-
tists warn, has the makings of a constitutional
crisis where one or each side feels like the
election was stolen.
Given Republicans’ skepticism about mail
voting to begin with, they seem primed to
believe any arguments made by Trump or his
allies that fraud — rather than legitimately cast
ballots that simply took longer to count — could
cost the president the White House.
There’s one piece of news in this poll that
should hearten election officials: Majorities in
both parties say they expect results will take
longer to count than election night, which is
exactly the expectation election officials are
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‘I wanted to always
play it down’
In new book, Woodward reveals Trump knowingly minimized virus’s threat to country
BY R OBERT C OSTA
AND P HILIP R UCKER
P
resident Trump’s head
popped up during his top-
secret intelligence brief-
ing in the Oval Office on
Jan. 28 when the discussion
turned to the coronavirus out-
break in China.
“This will be the biggest na-
tional security threat you face in
your presidency,” national secu-
rity adviser Robert C. O’Brien told
Trump, according to a new book
by Washington Post associate edi-
tor Bob Woodward. “This is going
to be the roughest thing you face.”
Matthew Pottinger, the deputy
national security adviser, agreed.
He told the president that after
reaching contacts in China, it was
evident that the world faced a
health emergency on par with the
flu pandemic of 1918, which killed
an estimated 50 million people
worldwide.
Ten days later, Trump called
Woodward and revealed that he
thought the situation was far
more dire than what he had been
saying publicly.
“You just breathe the air and
that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said
in a Feb. 7 call. “And so that’s a
very tricky one. That’s a very
delicate one. It’s also more deadly
than even your strenuous flu.”
“This is deadly stuff,” the presi-
dent repeated for emphasis.
At that time, Trump was telling
the nation that the virus was no
worse than a seasonal flu, predict-
ing it would soon disappear and
insisting that the U.S. govern-
ment had it totally under control.
It would be several weeks before
he would publicly acknowledge
that the virus was no ordinary flu
and that it could be transmitted
through the air.
Trump admitted to Woodward
on March 19 that he deliberately
minimized the danger. “I wanted
to always play it down,” the presi-
dent said.
“I don’t want people to be
frightened,” Trump told reporters
Wednesday at the White House
after excerpts of the book were
released. “I don’t want to create
panic, as you say. And certainly,
I’m not going to drive this country
JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST
In 18 on-the-record or the world into a frenzy. We
interviews, want to show confidence. We
President Trump want to show strength.”
discussed the Aside from exploring Trump’s
coronavirus handling of the pandemic, Wood-
pandemic, systemic ward’s new book, “Rage,” covers
racism and North race relations, diplomacy with
Korea with North Korea and a range of other
Washington Post issues that have arisen during the
associate editor Bob past two years.
Woodward. The book also includes brutal
assessments of Trump’s conduct
from former defense secretary
Jim Mattis, former director of
national intelligence Daniel
Coats and others.
The book is based in part on 18
on-the-record interviews Wood-
ward conducted with the presi-
dent between December and July.
Woodward writes that other
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quotes in the book were acquired
through “deep background” con-
versations with people in which
information is divulged and ex-
changes recounted without the
people being named.
“Trump never did seem willing
to fully mobilize the federal gov-
ernment and continually seemed
to push problems off on the
states,” Woodward writes. “There
was no real management theory
of the case or how to organize a
massive enterprise to deal with
one of the most complex emer-
gencies the United States had
ever faced.”
Woodward questioned Trump
repeatedly about the national
reckoning on racial injustice. On
June 3, two days after federal
agents forcibly removed peaceful
protesters from Lafayette Square
to make way for Trump to stage a
photo opportunity outside St.
John’s Church, Trump called
Woodward to boast about his
“law and order” stance.
“We’re going to get ready to
send in the military slash Nation-
al Guard to some of these poor
b-----ds that don’t know what
they’re doing, these poor radical
lefts,” Trump said.
In another conversation, on
June 19, Woodward asked the
president about White privilege,
noting that they were both White
men of the same generation who
had privileged upbringings.
Woodward suggested that they
had a responsibility to better “un-
derstand the anger and pain” felt
by Black Americans.
“No,” Trump replied, his voice
described by Woodward as mock-
ing and incredulous. “You really
drank the Kool-Aid, didn’t you?
Just listen to you. Wow. No, I don’t
feel that at all.”
As Woodward pressed Trump
to understand the plight of Black
Americans after generations of
discrimination, inequality and
other atrocities, the president
kept answering by pointing to
economic numbers such as the
pre-pandemic unemployment
rate for Blacks and claiming, as he
often has publicly, that he has
done more for Blacks than any
president except perhaps Abra-
ham Lincoln.
In another conversation about
race, on July 8, Trump com-
plained about his lack of support
among Black voters. “I’ve done a
tremendous amount for the Black
community,” he told Woodward.
KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY/KOREA NEWS SERVICE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST
Top: North Korean “And, honestly, I’m not feeling any
leader Kim Jong Un, love.”
left, and President They spoke again about race
Trump met in the relations on June 22, when Wood-
demilitarized zone in ward asked Trump whether he
2019. thinks there is “systematic or in-
Above: President stitutional racism in this coun-
Trump’s adviser and try.”
son-in-law Jared “Well, I think there is every-
Kushner and former where,” Trump said. “I think prob-
secretary of state ably less here than most places.
Rex Tillerson are Or less here than many places.”
both discussed in Asked by Woodward whether
Bob Woodward’s racism “is here” in the United
forthcoming book, States in a way that affects peo-
“Rage.” ple’s lives, Trump replied: “I think
it is. And it’s unfortunate. But I
think it is.”
“Rage” includes the first re-
ported excerpts of letters Trump
exchanged with North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un, and quotes
Trump in his interviews with
Woodward using expletives to de-
fend their pen-pal relationship.
Even as U.S. intelligence chiefs
warn that North Korea is unlikely
to ever surrender its nuclear
weapons and that Trump’s ap-
proach is ineffective, the presi-
dent told Woodward he is deter-
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mined to stay the course and
dismissively says the CIA has “no
idea” how to handle North Korea.
Kim welcomed Trump’s over-
tures with over-the-top prose in
letters. Kim wrote that he wanted
“another historic meeting be-
tween myself and Your Excellency
reminiscent of a scene from a
fantasy film.” And he said his
meetings with Trump were a “pre-
cious memory” that underscored
how the “deep and special friend-
ship between us will work as a
magical force.”
In another letter, Kim reflected
on “that moment of history when
I firmly held Your Excellency’s
hand at the beautiful and sacred
location as the whole world
watched with great interest and
hope to relive the honor of that
day.”
Trump was taken with Kim’s
flattery, Woodward writes, telling
the author pridefully that Kim
had addressed him as “Excellen-
cy.” Trump remarked that he was
awestruck meeting Kim for the
first time in 2018 in Singapore,
finding Kim to be “far beyond
smart.” Trump also boasted to
Woodward that Kim “tells me
everything,” including a graphic
account of Kim having his uncle
killed.
Trump reflected on his rela-
tionships with authoritarian
leaders generally, including Turk-
ish President Recep Tayyip Erdo-
gan. “It’s funny, the relationships
I have, the tougher and meaner
they are, the better I get along
with them,” he told Woodward.
“You know? Explain that to me
someday, okay?”
In the midst of reflecting upon
how close the United States had
come in 2017 to war with North
Korea, Trump revealed: “I have
built a nuclear — a weapons sys-
tem that nobody’s ever had in this
country before. We have stuff that
you haven’t even seen or heard
about. We have stuff that Putin
and Xi have never heard about
before. There’s nobody — what we
have is incredible.”
Woodward writes that anony-
mous people later confirmed that
the U.S. military had a secret new
weapons system, but they would
not provide details, and that the
sources were surprised Trump
had disclosed it.
The book documents private
grumblings, periods of exaspera-
tion and wrestling about whether
to quit among the so-called adults
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of the Trump orbit: Mattis, Coats
and then-Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson.
Mattis quietly went to Wash-
ington National Cathedral to pray
about his concern for the nation’s
fate under Trump’s command
and, according to Woodward, told
Coats, “There may come a time
when we have to take collective
action” since Trump is “danger-
ous. He’s unfit.”
In a separate conversation re-
counted by Woodward, Mattis
told Coats, “The president has no
moral compass,” to which the
director of national intelligence
replied: “True. To him, a lie is not
a lie. It’s just what he thinks. He
doesn’t know the difference be-
tween the truth and a lie.”
The loathing was mutual.
“They care more about their alli-
ances than they do about trade
deals,” Trump told White House
trade adviser Peter Navarro at one
point, according to Woodward.
Jared Kushner, the president’s
son-in-law and senior adviser, is
quoted by Woodward as saying,
“The most dangerous people
around the president are over-
confident idiots,” which Wood-
ward interprets as a reference to
Mattis, Tillerson and former Na-
tional Economic Council director
Gary Cohn.
Kushner was a frequent target
of ire among Trump’s Cabinet
members, who saw him as un-
trustworthy and weak in dealing
with heads of states. Tillerson
found Kushner’s warm dealings
with Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu “nauseating to
watch. It was stomach churning,”
according to Woodward.
The book charts the Trump
administration’s failings and mis-
steps on the pandemic, as well as
the decisions and actions of Pot-
tinger, Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention Director Rob-
ert Redfield, infectious-disease
expert Anthony S. Fauci and oth-
ers.
Fauci at one point tells others
that the president “is on a sepa-
rate channel” and unfocused in
meetings, with “rudderless” lead-
ership, according to Woodward.
“His attention span is like a minus
number,” Fauci said, according to
Woodward. “His sole purpose is to
get reelected.”
In their final interview, on July
21, Trump vented to Woodward:
“The virus has nothing to do with
me. It’s not my fault.” n
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Trump cites violence as political fuel
The BY M ICHAEL S CHERER
pattern
P
resident Trump has reverted
to using graphic depictions
continues of violence as a centerpiece
of his reelection campaign
from his strategy, using his Twitter account,
his stump speech and even the
2016 White House podium as platforms
for amplifying domestic conflict.
election His 2016 focus on radical Islamist
terrorism and undocumented-im-
tactic migrant crime, which he credited
with helping him win the Republi-
can nomination, has been replaced
by warnings of new threats as he
elevates gruesome images of Black-
on-White crime, street fights involv-
ing his supporters and police-mis-
conduct unrest nationwide.
The pattern continued over La-
bor Day weekend, when he tweet-
ed video of a melee in Texas be-
tween protesters and security offi-
cers during an event for a Trump-
affiliated group and two
celebratory videos of a protester in
Portland, Ore., with his feet on fire.
One of the videos was scored to the
Kenny Loggins song “Footloose,”
and the second featured mocking
play-by-play commentary by a
mixed-martial-arts announcer.
“These are the Democrats
‘peaceful protests,’ ” Trump wrote.
“Sick!” On Monday, he retweeted a
prediction that political unrest
“could lead to ‘rise of citizen mili-
tias around the country.’ ”
On Tuesday night, he sought to
tie unrest directly to his Demo-
cratic opponent, Joe Biden.
“The violent mobs — you see
these mobs all over the place. They
are Biden people,” Trump said at a
rally in Winston-Salem, N.C. “If
Biden wins, the rioters, arsonists
and anarchists win.”
Top: A protester The strategy echoes the ap-
carries a banner for proach that fueled his climb in
the right-wing Proud politics as he shocked the political
Boys group at a world with graphic warnings
protest in Salem, about “rapists” crossing the bor-
Ore., where Trump der illegally from Mexico, wel-
supporters and comed the families of crime vic-
counterprotesters tims to speak at his events and said
clashed last week. he favored instructing the military
Bottom: Protesters to target the families of Islamist
wave a Black Lives extremists, a probable war crime.
Matters flag at a He also repeatedly encouraged as-
Portland police saults on protesters at his events.
precinct. In each case, the unprecedented
focus on violence by a high-profile
American politician allowed Trump
to attract attention, turning his ral-
lies into unpredictable and raucous
affairs that were widely viewed. It
also set the stage for Trump to estab-
lish his political persona as a strong-
man itching to dominate threats
foreign and domestic.
Nearly four years after winning
that race, Trump is making the
same argument, albeit about dif-
ferent dangers, using the specter
of violence amid Black Lives Mat-
ter protests to claim superior
toughness and promising forceful
resolution if given the chance.
Amid a pandemic that has killed
more than 188,000 Americans, the
jarring political gambit has shifted
the focus of the presidential cam-
paign, forcing Biden to air an ad,
titled “Be Not Afraid,” focused on his
own opposition to the recent vio-
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PAULA BRONSTEIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
lence in Oregon and Wisconsin.
“The president is on offense, and
that is always a good thing,” said
Roger Stone, a former Trump politi-
cal adviser who received a presiden-
tial commutation after seven felony
convictions this summer. “The law-
and-order issue really motivates the
president’s base, and it also appeals
to independents.”
Trump also has returned to using
his Twitter account to broadcast
falsehoods that perpetuate racial
conflict. For the third time this sum-
mer, on Aug. 30 he retweeted a
video of a Black man brutally attack-
ing a White person, this time with a
caption falsely suggesting that the
assailant in a New York subway as-
sault in 2019 was connected to Black
Lives Matter or antifa.
The White House argued this
month, as Trump did in 2015, that
he was not responsible for the
accuracy of his retweets.
Politically motivated street fights
have become more common during
his presidency. Conflicts at protests
have led to injuries in recent weeks
in places such as Kalamazoo, Mich.;
Bloomington, Ind.; and Weather-
ford, Tex., as protesters of police
misconduct have clashed with
counterprotesters who are some-
times dressed in Trump-branded
apparel and claim to be helping to
keep the peace. In one case, a gun-
wielding Trump supporter in
Kenosha, Wis., was charged with
murder after allegedly killing two
protesters and injuring a third. A
supporter of a far-right group was
fatally shot during a counterprotest
by Trump backers in Portland last
month. The suspect, a backer of the
far-left antifa movement, was killed
by law enforcement.
In the face of this violence,
Trump has condemned the actions
of left-wing rioters but declined to
condemn violence by his support-
ers, even as he falsely claims that
Biden is refusing to denounce vio-
lence on the left.
A July 9 set of talking points
distributed around the White
House by Stephen Miller, an advis-
er who wrote Trump’s 2016 nomi-
nation speech, previewed the mes-
sage that Trump would settle on
for the final push to the Republi-
can National Convention.
The solution Miller described,
which Trump soon incorporated
into his rhetoric and advertising,
was to portray Biden as a funda-
mental threat to public safety. “No
one will be safe in Joe Biden’s
America,” the document read. The
Democratic nominee, Miller’s doc-
ument continued, will “abolish the
American Way of Life.”
The shift sought to rehabilitate
Trump’s political message of dom-
inance and turn the discussion
away from the pandemic, which
public polling showed had be-
come a drag on the president’s
support.
“You can’t really tell people that
there is no covid crisis, because
they are surrounded by it,” said
Matthew Baum, a political scien-
tist at Harvard University. “The
only thing you can do is make
something else louder.” n
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Virus creates contrasting campaigns
BY J OSH D AWSEY,
M ICHAEL S CHERER
AND A NNIE L INSKEY
in Londonderry, N.H.
W
hen the announcer at
President Trump’s re-
cent rally here urged a
packed airplane han-
gar of supporters to don their
masks, a cacophonous round of
boos erupted, followed by defi-
ance. No matter that the attend-
ees’ chairs were inches apart,
their temperatures had not been
taken and masks were required by
the state.
Joe Biden, meanwhile, has
barely left his home without a
mask for months, and he makes a
point of keeping voters — when he
encounters any — at a distance
from himself and one another.
Events at drive-in theaters have
been kept under 50 — people, not
cars — to respect state guidelines.
This contrast continued Tues-
day, when Trump flew to Florida
and North Carolina, addressing
crowds in both places, while
Biden’s camp announced by
9:30 a.m. that he would make no
public appearances all day. It’s a
likely snapshot of the race’s final
weeks: one campaign fueled by
in-person events, raucous gather-
ings and defiant crowds flouting
health rules; the other driven by
quiet, small-bore events with ev-
eryone masked and spaced apart.
These are more than just com-
peting messages for a country
riven by a pandemic less than two
months before an election. Re-
publicans and Democrats each
say their opponents are making a
fatal error — with the Trump cam-
paign attempting to cast life as
largely normal, while Biden and
his campaign largely stay at home.
“That’s great, great news for
us,” Republican National Com-
mittee Chief of Staff Richard Wal-
ters said of the Democrats’ ap-
proach. “It’s an elitist viewpoint
that says you have to remain
locked down indefinitely until Joe
Biden says you can come out of
your basement. It’s a typical Dem-
ocrat strategy where you take the
choice of the individual away.”
If Trump is showcasing his
While Trump draws raucous, mostly maskless
crowds, Biden settles for socially distanced ones
brand of defiant individualism,
Biden is seeking to demonstrate
his rationality and willingness to
heed experts. Democrats say
Trump is scaring away swing vot-
ers alarmed by the pandemic
while appealing to a core base that
sees public health measures as
going too far.
Virtual campaign efforts, by
phone and text, they say, have
returned results that are just as
good as rallies or door-knocking.
“Trump wants the anti-mask
protester vote, and that vote is not
our persuasion target,” said Wis-
consin Democratic Party Chair-
man Ben Wikler.
While Biden’s team conducts
no in-person campaigning and
has yet to open a stand-alone
office in any swing state, Trump’s
operation has regularly flouted
recommendations from local and
state officials to hold in-person
events and opened more than 280
offices.
Elliott Echols, the RNC’s na-
tional field director, says the party
has held 31,000 in-person cam-
JIM WATSON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
paign events since June 11 and
knocked on more than 1 million
doors every week in August. It has
doubled door-knocks since 2016,
he said, and prizes such personal
encounters over digital contact.
Overall, the president has
forged ahead with a traditional
campaign, while downplaying the
continued severity of the virus.
The strategy poses some risks, as
some campaign advisers privately
note his handling of the pandemic
is his biggest political albatross.
Trump aides say to expect ex-
tensive travel — sometimes sev-
eral stops in a day — in the cam-
paign’s last weeks. Trump has dis-
pensed with his arena-filled ral-
lies for now, but he continues to
address large gatherings in sites
like airplane hangars or parks.
Since the novel coronavirus ar-
rived in the United States, officials
say, Trump has gone ahead with at
least 10 high-dollar, in-person
fundraisers, often mingling with
hundreds. Some guests have worn
masks, but many have not, ac-
cording to people at the events.
POLITICS
Former vice
president Joe Biden
(D), donning a mask
and standing away
from others, speaks
with supporters
outdoors in
Lancaster, Pa. Biden
has made much
fewer public
appearances than
President Trump due
to the pandemic,
though his campaign
said that will change
in the final weeks
leading up to the
election.
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Trump has spent extended time
at some events taking close-in
photos with donors. Campaign
aides say attendees are given a
rapid test before entering, but
such tests are not always accurate.
Trump campaign spokeswom-
an Samantha Zager said the oper-
ation transitioned to virtual cam-
paigning when the pandemic
emerged and in mid-June shifted
back. “Throughout the pandemic,
we’ve followed state and local
guidelines to seamlessly adapt be-
tween virtual and in-person
events,” she said.
Privately and in public, Trump
has often mocked Biden for wear-
ing a mask, and some of his allies
have used Biden’s limited travel as
a way to highlight his age and
suggest he is ducking a more
strenuous schedule. Biden is 77,
and Trump is 74.
Biden has broadcast a message
opposite to Trump’s, even as he
adopted a more aggressive sched-
ule this past week. That included a
stop in Michigan, where cam-
paign officials have insisted that
the total attendance for the out-
door event, including Secret Serv-
ice and reporters, will not exceed
the state guidance of 100 people
and will maintain social distanc-
ing.
“Donald Trump’s voter out-
reach fails to understand the con-
cerns of Americans right now,” the
Biden campaign’s states director,
Jenn Ridder, said. “He is blatantly
having events. He is blatantly go-
ing to doors. And the reality of this
country is, they are worried about
the economy, they are worried
about sending their kids to school,
and they are worried about covid.”
With a fully remote workforce
of 2,500 staffers, the Biden cam-
paign has relied on long-distance
outreach, largely by phone or text
message, and has reported log-
ging more than 2.6 million one-
on-one conversations with voters
in August.
But Biden’s strategy also carries
risks, as some supporters and ac-
tivists in key states have signaled
that they are disappointed they
have not seen a more direct per-
sonal presence from the nominee
and his campaign. n
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VOICES FROM THE PANDEMIC

‘Mom, help help help help!’

AS TOLD TO E LI S ASLOW

E
verybody’s doing this,
right? It’s normal. It’s basi-
cally what parenting is
now. That’s what I keep
telling myself whenever I’m hid-
ing in bed for a few extra minutes
and trying to get ready to face the
day. It helps me to think about all
the other families in the same situ-
ation. Otherwise, it can start to
feel impossible, like this is all there
is and this is the only house left in
the world.
We don’t leave here anymore.
We’re on our own island and
there’s no way out. Every school
lesson for the kids, every bit of
work I can somehow find time for,
every meal, every chore, every ac-
tivity, every thought or conversa-
tion — it all happens inside this
house. My preschooler has his lit-
tle desk out in the hallway where
he does video lessons and sings his
school songs. My fifth-grader,
third-grader and kindergartner
are set up with computers for vir-
tual learning in the living room.
The kitchen has been taken over
by storage bins for school supplies.
The dining area is for virtual P.E. I
roam from desk to desk to help
with their log-ins and passwords
and all the other problems that
come up. “Mama, I need help.
Mom!” I’m trying to do my job so I CAITLIN O'HARA FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

can pay the bills. I’m trying to take

college classes online at night to
get myself into nursing school.
How? When? Sometimes, I go into
the bathroom for a few seconds so
I can take a breath or send an
email and lock the door.
I guess you could say it’s been
humbling. My kids are remote
learning for at least the first quar-
ter, and then the school is going to
reevaluate. It’s the right decision.
The virus numbers are still bad
here. When the school made it
official, I was like: “Okay. I’m a
single mother. I’m used to juggling
for my kids. I can handle this.” I
manage a doctor’s office, and they
told me I could work from home.
The school emailed advice on how
to prepare for distance learning,
and I took it up to the next level. I
Jessica Santos-Rojo on working, teaching and parenting at home
printed daily schedules for each of
the kids and posted it to their
desks. I created a whole system of
“Mama Bucks” as a reward to keep
them motivated, so they could
earn fake dollars for movie nights
and treats if they had good behav-
ior. I hung a poster on the kitchen
wall with our class rules. “Be re-
spectful.” “Raise your hand before
talking.” “Do your best.” “Work
hard and have fun.”
They’re good kids. They tried to
follow all the rules, but they get
sick of staring at a screen and they
want to be with their friends. My
oldest two boys deal with ADHD,
and how many 4-year-olds are go-
ing to be totally self-sufficient? I
was squeezing in five, six hours of
work each day when I probably
should have been sleeping, but I
guess that was still too much. I
started getting emails from their
teachers. “Why is this assignment
missing?” “Why wasn’t he signed
into the video chat for math?” “Is
there any way to offer them more
support?”
I cut back my hours to part-time
at the end of the first week, and
lately they’ve been going down
even more. My boyfriend and I are
spending through our savings. I
Jessica Santos-Rojo barely make enough to cover my
with her sons, from car and my phone, but what choice
left, Keanu, 10; do I have? The kids come first. My
Kylian, 4; Kael, 5; boyfriend pitches in with them a
and Kailen, 8. The lot and my mom helps whenever
Arizona family is she can, but they need me. They
coping with online need every piece of me at every
schooling through at minute.
least the first Their password isn’t working.
quarter of the year. Their Chromebook is out of batter-
ies. Their video feed went dead.
They need me to give them an-
other writing prompt. They want
lunch. They want snacks. They
can’t find a pencil. The pencil is
broken. The pencil is too sharp.
The eraser is the wrong color.
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They’re bored. They’re hungry.
They’re whining. They’re fighting
with me, and they’re fighting with
each other. “Mom, why is he look-
ing at me? Mom. MOM! Tell him to
stop looking at me!”
Sometimes I’ll be talking on the
phone to an insurance rep for
work, but it’s an interruption ev-
ery few minutes. The preschooler
needs to nap, but instead he’s
throwing a tantrum. He wants to
go outside, but it’s 110 degrees, so
it’s Disney Channel on a loop, and
now I feel bad about that. My
kindergartner is learning how to
write his numbers and letters, so
he needs everything. “Mama, help.
Can you show me?” My fifth-grad-
er is supposed to be writing an
essay about negative political
propaganda. “Huh? Mom, what do
they even mean?” My third-grader
wants help with his subtraction, so
I’m trying to show him how to
borrow the one, but it’s, “No. No!
My teacher didn’t teach us that
way.” So then he’s bouncing off the
walls. He’s fast-forwarding
through all his videos, getting up
from his desk and telling me he’s
done with all his schoolwork for
the day. “What? How? It’s 10 in the
morning. How can you possibly be
done?”
I catch myself snapping and
losing my temper sometimes, and
I hate that. I went through my own
issues with being picked apart and
bullied at school, and I still have
the emotional scars. I was the Mex-
ican kid, the fat kid, four-eyes. It
created all kinds of self-worth is-
sues. I want so much better for my
kids. I want them to know they’re
special and precious. I should be
able to do that, right? I adore them.
None of this is their fault. I can be
patient. I can be calm and kind.
How hard should that be? I hold
up my hand and I tell them I need a
minute. I walk away and try to get
some air, but their voices carry.
“Mom, now! Mama, please!
Mom, help help help help help
help!”
I can’t find a safe place to ex-
plode. When this is finally over, I’m
going to drive to one of those
places where you can pay money
to smash and destroy things, be-
cause I could have a lot of fun with
a sledgehammer right now. But
how am I supposed to let it out?
There’s never any time. There’s
never the right space. I don’t want
to snap at my boyfriend, because
he’s doing everything he can and
this whole thing has already taken
its toll on our relationship. I tried
talking to a few relatives, but they
don’t have kids, so they don’t get it.
They were like: “Is it that bad?
Maybe you should go back to
work.” Like I wouldn’t enjoy get-
ting into my car and driving into
the office right now, with my nice
comfy chair and my personal cof-
fee maker and a door I can close?
Thank you. Thank you for that
loving advice.
The best outlet I have is when-
ever my boyfriend watches the
kids so I can go to the grocery
store. He tells me, “Why don’t you
do a big shop and get it all done at
once?” But it’s like: “No. I want to
go every day. I want someplace
quiet without little hands tugging
at me. It’s for my sanity.”
I swallow it. I keep it all down.
I’ve learned how to hold back my
emotions and internalize. My
youngest was born at 30 weeks
with major heart problems. He
was teensy tiny, 2 pounds and 11
ounces, and he stayed in the NICU
for 77 days. I would lose it in the
waiting room all the time, but I
never let him see me cry. I’d go into
his room and sing to him, smile,
tell him how proud I was. I showed
him love and positivity, and be-
lieve that it helped. Isn’t that par-
enting? You take on the hard stuff
and you try to give them the good.
But lately, the exhaustion and
depression has started to come
out sideways. I’ll catch myself in
the shower when I’m finally
alone, standing and crying under
the water. I’ll stay there for a few
minutes and let it out. How many
more days? How much longer can
life continue like this? But then I
hear them calling, and I put my-
self together and come back out
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NATION
Experts say cases
will surge this fall
BY J OEL A CHENBACH
AND R ACHEL W EINER
I
nfectious-disease experts are
warning of a potential cold-
weather surge of coronavirus
cases — a long-feared “sec-
ond wave” of infections and
deaths, possibly at a catastrophic
scale. It could begin well before
Election Day, Nov. 3, although
researchers assume the crest
would come weeks later, closer to
when fall gives way to winter.
An autumn surge in covid-19,
the disease caused by the novel
coronavirus, would not be an
October surprise: It has been
hypothesized since early in the
pandemic because of the pat-
terns of other respiratory viruses.
“My feeling is that there is a
wave coming, and it’s not so
much whether it’s coming but
how big is it going to be,” said Eili
Klein, an epidemiologist at Johns
Hopkins University School of
Medicine.
The pandemic is already a
dominant campaign issue, and
it’s not clear that even a spike in
deaths would apply much torque
to the presidential race. Out-
breaks in some states could also
bring pressure further down the
ballot and conceivably affect
turnout if there is so much com-
munity spread that voters who
planned to cast ballots in person
feel unsafe going to the polls.
The warnings from research-
ers come at a moment when,
despite a rise in cases in the
Upper Midwest, national num-
Jessica bers have been trending down-
Santos-Rojo at ward at a slow pace for several
her home in weeks following the early-sum-
Gilbert, Ariz. mer surges in the Sun Belt.
For this single Respiratory viruses typically
mom, virtual begin spreading more easily a
schooling for couple of weeks after schools
her four sons resume classes. Although the
is a challenge. pandemic has driven many
school districts to remote learn-
ing, there is a broad push across
the country to return to some-
thing like normal life.
Viruses tend to spread more
easily in cooler, less humid
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weather, which allows them to
remain viable longer. As the
weather cools, people tend to
congregate more indoors.
The coronavirus has a relative-
ly long incubation period, and
the disease progression in pa-
tients with severe illnesses also
tends to be drawn out over
several weeks. As a result, any
spike in deaths will lag weeks
behind a spike in infections. And
the infection surges have consis-
tently followed the loosening of
shutdown orders and other re-
strictions.
A recently published model
produced by the University of
Washington’s Institute for Health
Metrics and Evaluation forecasts
a “most likely” daily death toll of
1,907 on Election Day, roughly
double the current toll. Under
the IHME forecast, the numbers
would continue to rise until early
December, peaking at more than
2,800 deaths daily.
By year’s end, 410,000 people
in the United States will have
died under the model’s most-like-
ly scenario. That’s more than
double current fatalities. The
model also produced best-case
and worst-case scenarios — rang-
ing from 288,000 to 620,000
deaths by Jan. 1 — depending on
the degree to which people wear
masks, adhere to social distanc-
ing and take other precautions.
“I firmly believe we will see
distinct second waves, including
in places that are done with their
first waves. New York City, I’m
looking at you,” said Andrew
Noymer, an epidemiologist at the
University of California at Irvine
who studied the October surge in
cases when the mild pandemic
influenza virus circulated in
2009.
“I expect fall waves starting in
mid-October and getting worse as
fall heads into winter, and reach-
ing a crescendo certainly after the
election,” he said. “Some places
will peak around Thanksgiving,
some places will peak around
Christmas, some places not until
January and February.” n
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A family’s 76-year quest for truth
BY D ANIELLE P AQUETTE
in Thiaroye, Senegal
B
efore the old man dies, he
yearns to see his father’s
bones.
It’s the only way to
clear his family’s name, he said,
and prove a long-buried truth to
the world: Hundreds of West
African soldiers who fought to
liberate France in World War II
were killed upon their return one
morning at the order of French
commanders.
Biram Senghor, 82, is among
the last living sons of the victims,
who belonged to a force known
as the Senegalese Sharpshooters.
Now he hopes the global reck-
oning over racial atrocities past
and present will help lift their
legacy out of obscurity. France
has maintained that 70 Sharp-
shooters were laid to rest at a
military cemetery near the Sene-
galese capital, but historians
from both continents say that the
true number is likely higher than
300 — and that the war veterans
actually remain in a mass grave.
“We have to dig them up,”
Senghor said on a recent after-
noon, fury lacing his voice. “We
have to count them. We have to
rebury them individually like
human beings. To truly honor
them.”
Painful chapters of history
burst open worldwide after
George Floyd’s killing renewed
outrage this summer around old
symbols and systems of oppres-
sion. The relationship between
Senegal and France, dating back
more than three centuries, is
fertile ground for such moral
excavation, activists here say.
The West African territory was
the European power’s regional
headquarters until its independ-
ence in 1960, and leaders on both
sides have hesitated to probe the
collective memory too deeply.
Senghor, a colonial-era vet-
eran himself, has made the plea
for exhumation to French and
Senegalese presidents since the
1970s, urging them to correct the
record once and for all.
Today, no one disputes that the
story began with a group of West
M’bap Senghor fought for the French in World
War II, then died at their hands upon his return
African soldiers, freshly returned
from deployment, asking for
their wages.
They had gone four years with-
out the promised amount and
confronted colonial authorities
of Charles de Gaulle’s French
provisional government in a Sen-
egalese garrison town called Thi-
aroye.
That’s where things get murky.
A general reported a violent
uprising in Thiaroye on Dec. 1,
1944, writing at the time that
killing their comrades was a
“necessary painful stab in a dan-
gerous abscess.”
Senegalese researchers say
that was a lie: The West Africans
no longer had weapons. They
had protested and cornered a
general but released him un-
harmed. The French responded
with machine guns.
Historians are still unable to
trace about 350 men known to
have been at the camp, Senega-
lese officials say, and consider
them probable victims.
Senghor’s father had been la-
JOHN WESSELS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
beled a “deserter.”
French historian Armelle Ma-
bon helped him uncover that
record at a military archive office
in Caen, France. It bolstered his
appeal to a Paris court for a
correction: “died for France.”
“My father and the Sharp-
shooters — they did not run
away,” Senghor said. “They did
not abandon their families. They
are here in a mass grave.”
A bloody end near home
M’bap Senghor was a millet
farmer until the order came in
1939: He’d be fighting Nazis in
France.
He didn’t know how long. He
didn’t have a choice.
During the conflict, France
drafted roughly 200,000 West
Africans into battle, Senegalese
historians say. They were known
as the Sharpshooters, a name
born of mockery around their
lack of formal training.
At least 14,000 died. Others —
including M’bap — fell into the
hands of German soldiers, who
Biram Senghor, 82,
has spent decades
trying to prove that
his father was not a
“deserter” after the
war, but was killed in
the 1944 Thiaroye
Massacre in
Senegal.
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sent Black prisoners to labor
camps in northeastern France,
saying they wanted to rid their
soil of “racial contamination.”
He languished there until free-
dom came in 1944.
His life ended less than a
month later about 100 miles
from his home.
As colonial officers prepared
their reports for Paris, survivors
— 34 of whom were later jailed
on mutiny charges — spread
word of a massacre at the mili-
tary outpost in Thiaroye, telling
people that French soldiers had
opened fire on unarmed West
Africans just after the 9:30 a.m.
roll call.
The violence didn’t seem like a
hasty response to a mortal
threat, a French officer’s chef
later told researchers — the colo-
nial leader’s wife had warned the
Senegalese cook to hide that
morning in a cellar.
Senghor, who was 6 then,
remembers his grandmother tell-
ing him through tears: The
French killed your father.
The next generation
The military cemetery in Thi-
aroye rests off a busy road.
Senghor tries to make the
three-hour trek at least once a
year. This year, the pandemic
stopped Senghor from visiting.
He last came with his son in
October to pray at the spot
where M’bap is thought to be
buried under a baobab tree.
Father and son asked God to
deliver justice.
One August afternoon at
home, the old man took out the
last letter he wrote to the Senega-
lese and French presidents last
year. It will probably be his final
missive, he said. The unfinished
job haunts him, but his energy is
dwindling. He sorely needs eye
surgery.
“I don’t think I will do it
again,” he said.
His son told him not to worry
— he’ll keep fighting the Senghor
family battle.
No matter what the court rules
or the Senegalese government
decides, M’bap’s great-grandchil-
dren will know his story. n
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Illegal mining sees boom in Brazil
BY T ERRENCE M C C OY
AND H ELOÍSA T RAIANO
in Rio de Janeiro
A
lessandro Souza is a gold
hunter. He chases it deep
into protected Indig-
enous lands in the Ama-
zon rainforest, traveling days by
foot and canoe, and doesn’t
emerge until his pockets are full.
Sometimes he’s gone two months.
Sometimes six. The only certainty
is that he’ll be back, because hunt-
ing gold is his business, and busi-
ness is booming.
“Today’s market quote,” Souza
messaged his WhatsApp group,
Goldminers Without Borders, one
recent day: Gold was going for
nearly $1,800 an ounce. Souza
posted an arrow pointing sky-
ward.
The novel coronavirus has dev-
astated Brazil, infecting more
than 4 million people and killing
over 128,000. It’s also fueling the
largest gold rush in the Amazon in
years — with the potential for
long-lasting consequences to the
rainforest.
Driven by the skyrocketing
gold prices, surging unemploy-
ment and lax government en-
forcement, people are traveling
from all over the country to hun-
dreds of illegal mining sites, in-
vading protected Indigenous
lands, stripping swaths of forest
bare, poisoning rivers with mer-
cury and laundering illegal gold
through mineral shops. And
they’re largely getting away with
it.
Much of the activity is concen-
trated in the underpoliced state of
Pará, where Souza lives in the
remote mining hub of Itaituba,
and where gold exports have risen
sharply this year. Deforestation
associated with mining on Indig-
enous lands, where such activity is
illegal, has reached record highs.
In interviews, law enforcement
officials, Indigenous leaders, fed-
eral inspectors and even gold
miners say the administration of
President Jair Bolsonaro has
neglected its responsibility as
steward of the Amazon. At a time
when scientists say the forest is
being dangerously destabilized by
The coronavirus crisis has driven more people to
search for gold — causing an environmental crisis
deforestation, Bolsonaro has
pushed to scale back enforcement
and legalize mining on Indig-
enous land.
Bolsonaro, a former army cap-
tain, has deputized the military to
crack down on environmental de-
struction, but it has been ineffec-
tive. The government’s chief envi-
ronmental enforcement agency,
Ibama, has been constrained by
budget cuts, unfilled vacancies
and Bolsonaro’s criticism. It has
scaled back the destruction of
mining equipment found at ille-
gal gold digs — a tactic advocates
say is a key deterrent — and re-
duced operations to curb crimi-
nality in the Amazon.
“This moment is different,” said
Sérgio Leitão, the executive direc-
tor of the Choices Institute, an
environmental organization.
“The valuation of gold, the
amount of manual labor that will
work for almost nothing, the re-
duction in enforcement, and a
government that is supporting
the legalization of more gold min-
ing. This is a perfect storm.”
Illegal gold mining accounts
for only a small fraction of defor-
estation in the Amazon — far less
than agricultural practices — but
its effect is more insidious. Mer-
cury is an essential tool in the
process, used to collect and purify
gold traces found in the soil. Its
toxicity seeps into the soil, air and
water. Maritime ecologies have
collapsed. Indigenous communi-
ties have been poisoned. Years
after mining, the earth remains
barren and lifeless.
“It ends up killing nature,” said
Marilene Nascimento, a cook at
illegal gold-mining sites outside
Itaituba. “The rivers aren’t the
same. The fish die. For years and
years, they don’t come back to
normal.”
After years working on digs, Na-
scimento has grown ambivalent
about her work. She can’t forget
the environmental devastation she
has seen, and last year she swore
she wouldn’t go back. But then the
pandemic hit, other work opportu-
nities dried up, and a friend was
calling, asking if she wanted to
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make some good money.
“It’s hard to see nature being
destroyed,” Nascimento said. “But
you make so much money.”
The forest has long been a
safety net for Brazilians. During
the economic downturn in the
1980s, as many as 100,000 peo-
ple descended on the mine
known as Serra Pelada. Another
wave followed during the global
financial crisis in 2009. And
again in 2013.
Bolsonaro, who was elected in
2018, has promised to expand
mining even further. The son of a
Serra Pelada miner, he says min-
ers aren’t criminals, but workers
struggling to survive. He has wel-
comed them into meetings and
criticized Ibama for destroying
their equipment.
Senior Ibama inspectors, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
LUCAS LANDAU nymity out of fear of reprisal, said
Bolsonaro’s rhetoric and policies
have emboldened gold miners
and made their own work all but
impossible. When investigators
are allowed to go out, they say,
illegal miners mock them. They
say that nothing will stop them.
A miner uses water That the gold is coming out of the
to dissolve layers of forest, one way or another. That
subsoil — the first Bolsonaro is on their side.
step in the mining “We’re getting so much political
process — in Brazil’s pressure,” one of the officials said.
Pará state. Mining on “It’s practically impossible to
Indigenous lands in head out into the field. We’re be-
the Amazon ing assailed constantly. . . . People
rainforest is illegal, aren’t being punished.”
but under President Many miners see Bolsonaro as
Jair Bolsonaro, their champion. He has defended
Brazil has scaled them against environmentalists,
back enforcement. nongovernmental organizations,
Indigenous advocates, pressure
from foreign leaders, and the gov-
ernment itself.
Souza wasn’t looking forward
to his next dig. He hated being
away from his children and wife
for months. But he said he had
little choice.
“If I stayed in the city to try to
find work, I wouldn’t be able to
put my kids through school,” he
said. “There’s no work.”
He wished he could tell his
family how long he’d be away.
“The miner knows that he is
leaving,” Souza said. “He doesn’t
know when he’ll return.” n
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HE MESSAGE ARRIVED ON A WEEKDAY
morning when Bryce Cleary, 53, was at his
medical practice. The doctor had just
finished typing up patient notes on his office
computer and decided to log in to his new
Ancestry.com account. It had been a Christmas
gift from his wife. He had just received his
genealogical results tracing his Swiss and Irish
family roots. But now Cleary noticed a note in
his account’s inbox.
He clicked and read: “I did not expect to see
such a close relation on this site. I apologize if
this is uncomfortable with me reaching out to
you.”
His office that day in March 2018 was crowded
with the family photos of a man happily an-
chored in his place, a position carved out deliber-
ately over the past decades. There was Cleary, a
The
teenager, with his Corvallis high school football
team. There he was as a middle-aged doctor,
smiling with orphans in Ghana, and at his
wedding to his second wife, his arms wrapped
19 children
around his three grown sons.
Almost all of Cleary’s life had played out
within a short drive of where he now sat. He
was 10 minutes away from his childhood home.
he never
Seven minutes from the fields where he — and
then years later his sons — played high school
baseball. Five minutes from the church he
attended as a kid, the same church where his
expected
mother’s ashes had been scattered. The only
significant time he had spent away from Cor-
vallis was during medical school in Portland at
Oregon Health & Science University, where at
to meet
one point he became a sperm donor.
Now, nearly three decades later, as he kept
reading, Cleary realized that Ancestry had
identified him to one of his donor children. In
fact, to two of them.
The message was from a woman in her 20s.
She wrote that she and her sister were both
Genealogy site Cleary’s. “I thought I might write to say thanks
for donating all those years ago,” she wrote, and
revelations raise then asked about his family medical history.
“Again, I apologize if reaching out is too much or
tough questions overstepping any boundaries,” she added.
Cleary had spent little time thinking about his
for a former sperm donor children. He said that at the time he
donor with a donated, he was told there would be at most five
and all would be located on the East Coast, and
family of his own his own role would be hidden behind anonymity.
When genealogical websites like Ancestry and
23andMe became popular, he realized he one
BY K YLE S WENSON day might be revealed to the children he helped
in Corvallis, Ore. bring into the world. He had begun wondering if
that day would come. He was not prepared,
however, to be matched with a donor child
within days of his DNA test results hitting the
site, or for what would come next.
Technology has given users of genealogical
databases the opportunity to know more about
themselves, to expose family secrets and explore
historical roots with forensic exactitude. The
databases now have millions of subscribers, and
as their popularity has grown, so too has their
influence: When the coronavirus pandemic be-
gan, for instance, both Ancestry and 23andMe
announced that they had started large-scale
studies using their databases to look for genetic
clues for patterns of infection.
But what if the information that’s now
increasingly available, and increasingly part of
the mainstream, becomes overwhelming, as
Cleary says has happened to him? In the two
years since that first message of gratitude, he
has learned that there were not just two donor
children but at least 19, that many lived within
two hours of his home and that he may never
really know how many donor children exist.
The knowledge he’s gained because of expand-
ing technology has hauled the most intimate
details of his life into a courtroom as part of a
lawsuit he filed and has led him to say, “I wish
in retrospect I was ignorant of all this.”
None of that was on Cleary’s mind, though,
as he read the first message and began to type
out a response.
IT WAS 1989 WHEN HE DECIDED TO BECOME A
sperm donor, long before the existence of
public genetic databases that could link donors
to their children. Cleary was in his early days of
medical school then and remembered that
faculty members would often ask for research
volunteers. Sleep deprivation studies. Electro-
cardiogram tests. One day a woman from the
hospital’s fertility clinic arrived looking for
sperm donors.
“At that time when you’re a first-year med
student, you want to help everybody,” he said.
“That was the appeal to me. Why not? You’re
doing a great thing for a couple.”
He did have concerns. Cleary had grown up
in a large and close family in Corvallis, and his
ambition was to return home and start his own
version of such a family. When he spoke to the
staff at the OHSU fertility clinic about donat-
ing, he said, he explained he was worried about
donor children in Oregon meeting and mixing
with the biological children he hoped to raise.
According to Cleary, he was told that his
samples would be shipped to the East Coast,
where they would be used for five pregnancies
at most. The rest would go to research.
Cleary started making weekly trips to the
clinic, earning $40 for each sample. He contin-
ued over the course of a year but eventually
stopped as the life he envisioned for himself
began clicking into place. He married a woman
from Corvallis after his first year of medical
school. They had their first of three sons. The
young family moved back to their hometown in
2000 and later adopted a 7-month-old girl from
Russia. Cleary eased into a family medical
practice and spent his days caring for patients,
many of them people he had known all his life
— former teachers, members of his church, his
sons’ baseball coaches.
After his divorce from his first wife, Cleary
married again in 2011, expanding his family
with four grown stepchildren. In December
2017, his second wife presented him with the
Ancestry.com kit for Christmas.
Three months later, Cleary sat staring at the
message from the young woman whom the
website had identified as his daughter. In the
decades since medical school, his life had been
so crowded with his family duties and career,
he had devoted little thought to the possibility
of donor children. “For all those years I was so
busy with my life, I just thought it was some-
thing I had done,” he explained later. Now he
realized that was only possible because they
had been so abstract. “But it’s so much different
when you actually communicate with them.”
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From left: Robert

Cleary, Bryce Cleary,
Katy Cleary and Sam
Cleary share stories
at their home in
Corvallis, Ore.,
in December.

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He also now found himself wrestling with
questions he never imagined confronting,
questions about his responsibilities toward
children he never expected to meet. “Who am I
not to give them information and tell them
about my health history?” he explained, and so
in his first reply he outlined his family medical
background, adding: “Too many cheeseburg-
ers have gotten me fat. But I am working on it.”
Over the next months, he continued to swap
messages with the woman and her sister,
learning among other things that they had
been raised by a single mother. With each
exchange, he felt a deepening sense of attach-
ment, and as Cleary spent more time talking
with the sisters in 2018, he believed that if any
of the other donor children appeared, he could
be there for them, as well.
That moment came in January 2019. It was
another workday. Cleary was again at his
medical practice, sitting at his office computer
between patients. The email was from a wom-
an named Robyn Fox. She thanked Cleary for
donating all those years ago. He responded
with a friendly email, thanking her for getting
in touch. He mentioned he understood that he
might have as many as five donor children.
When Cleary returned to his office later in
the morning, another new message was in his
inbox from a different stranger. As he began
reading, he saw that the sender’s name was
Allysen Allee and that she was also a donor
child.
He read: “I recently learned some disturb-
ing information I think you should be aware
of.”
He read: “It was brought to my attention
that you are under the impression there would
be a max of five children born of your donation
and that they would be in the East Coast. I was
extremely bothered by this because it could
not be further from the truth.”
He read: “We know a MINIMUM 14 were
born. . . . I can tell you right now that some of us
have lived in the same town, or even attended
the same schools at some points.”
WHILE CLEARY SAT AT HIS COMPUTER
absorbing the news, Allee, 26, was in an empty
classroom an hour and a half north in Vancou-
ver, Wash. A high school teaching assistant,
she had interrupted her day to send the
message, propelled by a sense of urgency.
Technical innovation had shaped Allee’s life
even before she was born, when her mother
and father traveled to OHSU for a sperm
donor. More recently genetic databases had
allowed her to know the identities of her donor
siblings and patch together a second family,
one that grew with each new genetic match.
Allee had learned that she was a donor child
when she was 19. “I was really fine with it. For a
lot of people who find that out, it’s shattering,”
she said later. “But for me, my mom and dad
wanted me so badly that they had me no
matter what.”
But she did have questions. A few weeks
after finding out, she said, she went to OHSU’s
Right: Allysen Allee,
one of Bryce Cleary’s
donor children,
recently had a child
of her own, Journey.
Opposite page: Some
of Cleary’s children
have met in person,
including Madi
McCallum, Allee and
Robyn Fox.
fertility clinic, where she remembered a staff
member handing her a single sheet of paper —
“Profile for Sperm Donor #8928” — that listed
some of his basic characteristics. Hair color:
Brown. Eye color: Gray/Blue. Occupation: Pro-
fessional, science-related. Religion: Baptist.
Allee wasn’t interested in her donor father
as much as the identities of potential brothers
and sisters. She said the OHSU staff told her
there were other children born from the same
donor and referred her to a national registry of
donor children who had made their birth
history and contact information public.
Not much later, Madi McCallum, 28, was
coming home from her job in San Francisco
when her cellphone buzzed with a text from an
unknown number: “This is probably the
weirdest text you will ever get, but I’m looking
for a Madi who was conceived using donor
#8928,” it said.
“Oh my gosh,” McCallum wrote back. “Hi,
yes that’s me.”
“Hello, I’m Allysen. And apparently I’m your
sister.”
McCallum had been born in Grants Pass,
Ore. Like Allee, she had discovered she was a
donor child when she was 19, and like Allee,
she wanted to find her donor siblings, which
was why she had uploaded her phone number
to the online registry and waited more than a
year before Allee’s message.
They learned that their lives synced in many
ways. They had the same unmanageable hair
and thick eyebrows, and such a revulsion to
the taste of cilantro that it seemed genetic.
Even their dispositions mirrored each other.
“We both have been told a lot that we can be
intimidating, that we both have really strong
personalities, and it didn’t come from our
moms,” McCallum said.
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MORIAH RATNER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Together, they went to Portland to meet
with an OHSU official. According to both,
when they asked how many brothers and
sisters they might have, they were told that
there had been 14 births within the Oregon
region and that samples had been sent else-
where as well.
After leaving OHSU, Allee and McCallum
decided to find as many siblings as possible.
They tapped the online genetic-testing mar-
ket, uploading their own DNA to multiple
websites. Right away they matched with a
young man in his 20s from Portland.
“Instantly there was a connection,” Allee
said. When the three met for the first time, the
physical resemblance was there. Same fore-
head. Same nose. Same eyes.
The three became close. They used a private
Facebook group chat to explore their similari-
ties and differences while they continued to
look for other siblings.
They also used the information they had
received from OHSU about the donor’s own
brother and sisters to search ancestry websites
for other family connections. Eventually Allee
came to the conclusion that Bryce Cleary, a
doctor in Corvallis, was their father. A picture
she tracked down online seemed to confirm it.
It was all there in his face. Same prominent
forehead. Same wide nose. Same deep-set eyes.
But none of them felt the need to let Cleary
know they existed.
“In my mind, he didn’t sign up to be a dad,”
Allee said. “He signed up at that time to help
families.”
In January 2019, Allee got notice of a new
match, to Fox. After Allee and the others
reached out to her and Fox responded, they
passed along information about Cleary, in-
cluding his email address.
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“I rewrote it about 20 times,” Fox said
recently about the email she sent. His re-
sponse, she said, was “phenomenal . . . he sent
me an email back with all his information.”
The only thing she said she was confused
about was when he mentioned having a maxi-
mum of five donor children. Allee had told her
there were 14.
She shared with the others on Facebook
what Cleary had written, and Allee remem-
bered becoming angry. Just that month they
had discovered two new siblings, and they
expected more connections soon. “He needs to
know this,” she thought. Allee started typing.
“I am insanely (maybe overly) disturbed by
this and the fact that this is not the informa-
tion you were given at donation or concep-
tion,” she wrote to Cleary. “I feel that it’s
something that not only effects our lives as
donor children but potentially the lives of your
own children that you raised.”
ALLEE’S EMAIL LEFT CLEARY FEELING CON-
fused. The genealogical websites had given
him a window into the lives of his donor
children. But what he now saw there was not
what he had expected.
Questions started tumbling through his
mind, starting with the women two of his sons
were married to and his third son’s fiancee.
Could any of the women be his donor children?
He mentally pictured each, thought about their
eye color, their hair, their height and shape,
searching the details for any echo of his own
features.
He felt relieved when there were no similari-
ties, but then came more questions: How many
children could there be? Where exactly are
they? Are they alive? Are they healthy? Are they
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“There’s this
constant battle
between
curiosity
and dread.”
Bryce Cleary,
whose sperm
donations fathered
at least 19 children
COURTESY OF ALLYSEN ALLEE
happy? Do they want to meet him? Could they
be here?
Everywhere Cleary went, he found himself
confronted by the questions. Sunday church.
Restaurants. The 7-Eleven where he filled up
his Big Gulp mug with Diet Pepsi every morn-
ing.
One day he sat across from a new patient, a
young man in his 20s. As usual, he asked for a
family medical history. The patient said he
didn’t know. His mother had used a sperm
donor. Cleary excused himself, stepping into
the hallway. When the flash of panic finally
stopped, he returned to the examination as if
nothing were wrong. But that feeling of anxi-
ety wouldn’t lift, especially after he learned
from Allee that one of the siblings she matched
with was a woman who not only had grown up
in Corvallis but once worked in Cleary’s medi-
cal building.
A few months after Allee’s email, Cleary
opened his front door in Corvallis and greeted
the sisters he had first learned about the
previous year. After many emails, this was the
first time they had met in person, and it was
his first face-to-face encounter with a donor
child. He wrapped each in a hug and felt a jolt
of paternal affection.
“I meet people every day, and there was
something different here,” he said later. “It
really was a different feeling being in the same
room with them.”
Nine months after getting Allee’s email,
Cleary filed a lawsuit accusing OHSU of fraud
and inflicting emotional distress, and asking
for $5.2 million in damages.
After the suit was filed, the university issued
its only public comment to date, saying in a
statement that “OHSU supports and adheres
to patient privacy laws,” that its “laboratory is
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rigorously reviewed and . . . in compliance with
all state and federal regulations,” and that
“OHSU stopped recruiting anonymous donors
and collecting anonymous sperm samples in
2011.”
The statement continued: “Today, new pa-
tients seeking donor sperm samples are re-
ferred to multiple outside sperm bank options
to select a suitable donor, and samples are
shipped to OHSU laboratories for patient use.
A limited supply of OHSU anonymous donor
sperm collected prior to 2011 is available to
patients.”
Soon after that, Cleary’s attorneys found
additional donor children, bringing the total
to 19. And soon after that, Cleary felt his
anxiety deepen even more.
For the decades when he knew nothing, the
children had been abstract, easy to ignore.
Then they were names on emails and polite
messages in his inbox. Now they were real
people, people whose hands he had shaken,
young men and women with their own chil-
dren and families, lives he could see on Face-
book. He began seeing a therapist. He logged
off Ancestry.com and made his Facebook page
private. Then, at least for the time being, he
decided to cut off communication with the
donor children he had been speaking with.
“The ones who know who I am, they have
the option to get in touch,” he explained. “But I
also think there’s a bunch running around who
have no idea they’re donor kids. As the years go
by, they are going to jump on a website and
find out. Then they have to make that choice.
But I’m stuck sitting waiting for a knock on the
door or an email. Emotionally, it’s tough for me
to do that. There’s this constant battle between
curiosity and dread.”
HE WASN’T ALONE IN DEALING WITH THE
implications of this. The faces he was looking
at on his computer screen were of people also
working through how their lives had been
changed.
Fox knew now that the next addition to her
donor family might be waiting whenever she
sat down at her computer. “Anytime I get a
Facebook request, I automatically look at their
noses, then I send a screengrab to my siblings
to see if anybody else got a hit on any of their
genealogical sites to this person,” she said.
McCallum thought of her growing family as
a gift, but also one in which each new sibling
would be changed irrevocably by the knowl-
edge. “Once we’ve gone there, we can’t go
back,” she said.
Allee recognized that for the donor chil-
dren, the knowledge about their biological
family tree would keep coming. “I’m thankful
this much information is accessible, because if
it wasn’t, I wouldn’t have been able to find my
siblings,” she said. “But it’s frustrating and
overwhelming to know that it’s going to al-
ways keep happening. There’s never going to
be a moment when we’re like, ‘Okay, we found
everybody, we’re done.’ There’s always going to
be a next one.” n
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How the country lost its loose change

BY R ACHEL S IEGEL

W
hen the nation’s coin
shortage trickled
down to Giant Wash
Coin Laundry, chief
executive Daryl Johnson plas-
tered his stores with signs urging
customers to bring in loose quar-
ters and reprogrammed the
change machines at his Minneap-
olis-area chain to take only small-
er bills.
At one point, Johnson crossed
state lines to head to Omaha on a
critical mission to acquire $8,000
worth of quarters from another
laundromat owner who had coins
to spare.
“I was like, ‘I’ll take them!’ ”
Johnson said. “It was about 10
hours round trip. I went and
bought all of his quarters and
wrote him a check.”
Americans don’t have to look
far to see the damage wrought by
the pandemic and recession. Car
cup holders, sofa cushions, piggy
banks and maybe even wallets
laden with pocket change are
fueling the nation’s great coin
debacle.
In yet another 2020 plot twist,
coins aren’t making their way
through the economy, with the
repercussions rippling from the
upper echelons of the federal DANIEL SULZBERG FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

government down to ice cream

shops and bank teller windows.
With more people staying home,
buying less and shifting their
spending online, the natural flow
of pocket change through banks,
restaurants and retail stores has
dried up.
(For those keeping score, the
U.S. Mint says this is not a coin
shortage or supply problem. The
mint says it’s a circulation bottle-
neck that can only be cleared up
with the public’s help.)
Whatever it’s called, this lack of
coinage seems to be a challenge
that ever-divided government,
businesses and Americans can
unite behind. There’s a new coin
task force, complete with its own
hashtag: #GetCoinMoving. Busi-
nesses heavy in coins are helping
businesses without. A Chick-fil-A
in a South Carolina mall is invit-
ing people to bring in their rolled
As people stay home and buy less, coins are hard to come by
coins in exchange for cash and a
free sandwich. Casinos are trying
to tempt would-be gamblers to
empty jingling pockets in ex-
change for free slot play.
For its part, the U.S. Mint is
actually on track to produce more
coins this year than it has in
almost two decades, having
ramped up production to fill the
void. Like everything else about
this pandemic, the coin shortfall
is unprecedented, at least for
modern times.
Simply making more coins
won’t completely solve the prob-
lem — hence the U.S. Coin Task
Force, established in July to pin-
point how to kick the supply
chain back into gear.
At the table are exactly whom
you’d expect: the mint, the Fed,
bank and retail industry groups,
plus representatives for the big
armored carriers that drive the
money around, coin aggregators
and federal credit unions.
For some businesses, getting
enough coins in circulation is key
to staying alive. Brian Wallace,
president and chief executive of
the Coin Laundry Association,
said 56 percent of laundromats
take quarters as their only form of
payment. Back in June, Wallace
said his association was getting
calls from members saying they
were limited in how many quar-
ters they could get from banks
and wondering if other business-
es were in a similar spot.
“At the front end of the pan-
demic, we were deemed to be an
essential business because we’re
providing a basic public health
service,” Wallace said. “In some
instances, it made it more chal-
lenging to deliver on that service.
If we can’t make change, we can’t
make money.”
In August, the U.S. Mint put
out a public service announce-
ment, with the head of the mint
asking Americans to use exact
change when making purchases
and to turn coins in for cash at
coin recycling kiosks.
In a hearing on Capitol Hill this
summer, Federal Reserve Chair
Jerome H. Powell said the central
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bank was quick to realize that the
flow of coins had more or less
come to a stop. At the time, Powell
said the expectation was that as
the economy started to reopen,
coins would be back on the move.
Earlier in the pandemic, the
mint scaled back the number of
employees working shifts to al-
low for social distancing, U.S.
Mint spokesman Michael White
said. By mid-June, the mint had
ramped back up to full produc-
tion.
“This is not a coin supply
problem,” White said. “It’s a circu-
lation problem, and we need the
public’s help to solve this. . . .
Every little bit helps.”
Earlier this summer, officials at
First Citizens Bank in Iowa were
initially worried they wouldn’t be
able to get their full coin orders,
said Tara Kruckenberg, vice presi-
dent of teller management.
That didn’t turn out to be much
of an issue, but Kruckenberg said
the bank still sought out anyone
who could bring in idle coins to
help the bank and its customers,
such as restaurants, grocery
stores, convenience stores and
laundromats, that rely on coins
for daily business.
At Sundaes Restaurant and
Tasty Freeze in Grand Gorge, N.Y.,
owner Andy Mumbulo hasn’t had
issues getting the coins he needs
from his bank. But he is taking
precautions, just in case. The
restaurant posted a sign asking
customers to use exact change, if
possible, and offering cash in
exchange for coins.
Mumbulo is thinking about
tweaking the prices on his menu
so that after taxes, his items
would come out to whole dollar
amounts. For example, he might
raise the cost of a $2.50 soda
(including free refills) to $2.78, so
that the final bill is an even $3.
On the other end of the saga,
this crisis is creating some coin
heroes, too. When Johnson went
on his 10-hour coin expedition, he
met Peter Mayberry in Nebraska,
who exchanged thousands of dol-
lars in quarters he didn’t need.
Mayberry’s chain of Omaha-
based laundromats runs on dollar
coins. He’s put calls out in Face-
book groups so people can set up
their own swaps.
“Anybody that wants to buy
quarters, I’ll sell them quarters,”
Mayberry said. “I feel like some
people are afraid to ask. Don’t
be!” n
Hotels have found a new
function: College housing
BY S HANNON M C M AHON
W
hen University of Pitts-
burgh senior Stana
Topich returned to
campus in early Au-
gust amid the coronavirus pan-
demic, it wasn’t to the 19-story
freshman dorms where she had
expected to close out her college
experience as a resident assistant.
Instead, she moved into the Resi-
dence Inn Pittsburgh Oakland/
University Place, a newly renovat-
ed three-star hotel.
Along with two nearby hotels,
the property is exclusively hosting
Pitt students this semester, with
masks required and capacity limi-
tations in place. The school says
it’s working with area hotels to
“de-densify” campus housing and
help reserve some dorms for quar-
antining. The hotel housing comes
at no extra cost to students, the
school told The Washington Post.
Housing block agreements be-
tween universities and hotels are
enabling a return to campus
across the United States. For ho-
tels, the partnerships are bringing
back business during a time when
decreased bookings have meant
furloughed workers. But some stu-
dents are worried the new normal
could be an isolating experience.
“The best thing about living in
the residence halls is being able to
walk around the floor when every-
one has their door open, and . . .
striking up a conversation,” Topich
said.
Graduate Hotels, a chain of 26
college-town properties across the
United States, says it has wel-
comed the new business and now
has over 1,000 students living in
more than a dozen of its hotels.
“We take great pride in being
able to provide a solution to par-
ents and students,” Graduate Ho-
tels President David Rochefort
said. The hotel chain partnered
with the Cleveland Clinic to de-
velop its new cleaning guide-
lines, and it said other properties
are hosting students at univer-
sities in Tennessee, Ohio and
North Carolina.
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Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center and two other hotels are acting
as University of Pittsburgh student dorm rooms this school year.
The trend has spread through-
out hotel chains and states. Emer-
son College in Boston has taken
over eight floors of the nearby W
Hotel to house 192 students after
partially reserving sections of one
residence hall for quarantine
rooms. Pitt says that 1,100 first-
year students have been assigned
to the three hotels that are operat-
ing exclusively for its students:
two separate Residence Inns and
the Wyndham Pittsburgh Univer-
sity Center.
The Wyndham’s general man-
ager told The Post that it wel-
comed the opportunity to house
students because it brought back
dozens of furloughed Wyndham
employees.
“Quite frankly, we suffered
greatly from mid-March until the
summer when we secured this
business” from Pitt, Wyndham
Pittsburgh University Center gen-
eral manager Coleman Hughes
said. “It’s meant the ability to
bring 25 team members back to
work, which has been really posi-
tive for them and their families.”
Pitt, Emerson, Wyndham and
Graduate Hotels all said their in-
stitutions have created joint
health and safety protocols to pro-
tect returning staff, including lim-
iting interactions between stu-
dents and requiring masks in all
indoor areas — except for when
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students are in their own rooms
alone or with their assigned room-
mate.
In the W, students are relegated
to their own designated elevators
and entrances, and they are not
permitted in sections of the hotel
that may be open to non-
university guests.
Pitt senior Topich said her focus
is on ensuring that freshman resi-
dents don’t gather in groups larger
than the six people permitted in
rooms. She said that while most
students head outside to nearby
parks when they want to socialize,
she can’t control what they do
“behind closed doors.”
Nicole Poitras, an RA at the W
Boston, said Emerson students are
limited to four students per room
and that, so far, her residents seem
to be taking the rule seriously.
Both Poitras and Topich said
that despite the new measures in
place, and despite fears of loneli-
ness, the hotels have begun to feel
like home.
“I walk around and see people
doing laundry and coming back
from class, and it’s starting to
feel like a normal residence hall,”
Poitras says. “And that’s really
awesome, because I was worried
I was going to feel isolated in
some way . . . but I don’t. I know
who my residents are here and
we’re all together.” n
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Simon & Schuster. an almost spiritual allure. The
340 pp. $27 gigantic creatures are stand-ins
for the sea, Giggs tells us, poster
children of boundlessness itself.
But that boundlessness is under
siege as we humans increasingly JACQUES BOISSINOT/THE CANADIAN PRESS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

use the world’s oceans as slaugh-
terhouses and dumping grounds.
The good news is that in an age
when ocean garbage gyres are
visible from space and fisheries
everywhere are crashing, whales
endure. Centuries of whaling —
the most intensive commercial
exploitation of any wild animal
on Earth — decimated some pop-
ulations. Yet remarkably, no com-
mercial species of whale went
extinct. The global anti-whaling
movement of the 1970s led to a
ban in 1982. Japan and a few
other countries still retain small
quotas, but the centuries-long
killing spree is over.
The ban bought whales time,
Giggs says, but no assured future.
Sperm whales and humpback
numbers have bounced back.
However, new threats abound.
Excess carbon dioxide in the at-
mosphere has acidified the
oceans, killing off many krill, the
shrimplike crustacean that some
whale species eat. The charismat-
ic animals are increasingly struck
by ships, entangled in abandoned
fishing nets and deafened by the
booms of the seismic cannons
used during underwater oil pros-
Scientists say whales play a key role in the health of the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere.
pecting. They are also being poi-
soned by a witches brew of indus-
trial chemicals that concentrate
in their oily blubber. The two
dead humpbacks that Giggs
writes about needed to be treated
as toxic waste, so fouled was their
flesh by pollutants.
Cetaceans are an older — per-
haps wiser — lineage than our
own. Their very presence on
Earth can seem redemptive,
Giggs writes, in an age when the
living world is rapidly being deci-
mated. Moreover, whales chal-
lenge our smug anthropocen-
trism and belief that we have the
world figured out. They have big
brains, but scientists can’t say
what exactly they use that prodi-
gious brain power for. Whales are
master communicators, forming
“linguistic” communities whose
vocalizations, in the case of
humpbacks and related species,
can resemble songs in their intri-
cacy and aesthetic appeal. Still,
nobody is sure what the songs
mean or why whales sing them.
Who are these animals that
appear so unlike us, yet are as
playful and communicative as we
are? Whale mothers breastfeed
their young with milk dyed pink
by their diet of krill. They are
demonstrably affectionate with
their babies and typically gentle
with humans who cross their
paths. They appraise us with bas-
ketball-size, unblinking eyes,
seeming to peer into our depths
and read us.
Ecologists are discovering the
critical role that whales play in
the life of the oceans and even,
surprisingly, in the composition
of the Earth’s atmosphere, Giggs
reports. Their manure fertilizes
plankton, and the turbulence of
their passage pushes these tiny
plants closer to the sunlit surface
where they thrive. Plankton ab-
sorb carbon dioxide, sequester-
ing carbon at the bottom of the
sea when they die, and they emit
more than twice as much oxygen
as all the rainforests on the
planet. “Each whale has been
calculated to be worth more than
a thousand trees in terms of
carbon absorption,” Giggs writes.
Protecting whales may be one of
the best things that we can do to
put the brake on climate change.
Facts like these are eye-open-
ing. But the book shines most
brightly in its poetry. A whale
sneezing sounds like “a roll-up
door slamming,” descending krill
are “jerky as little cocktail um-
brellas.” Giggs’s writing has an
old-fashioned lushness and elab-
orateness of thought. Although,
Giggs focuses too much, for my
tastes, on the dying and decompo-
sition of whales and not enough
on describing living animals. I
wanted more stories about how
whales interact with one another
and with us.
This is not the book for those
kinds of anecdotes. But its finest
passages — and they are many —
awaken a sense of wonder. That
other lives as marvelous and mys-
terious as these still exist is, for
the moment at least, a reason to
celebrate. n
Schiffman is an environmental
journalist. His latest book is a poetry
collection, “What the Dust Doesn’t
Know.”
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Paying homage
to Agatha Christie
F ICTION l R EVIEWED BY M AUREEN C ORRIGAN
I ‘N
t’s the predictable compari-
son: Ruth Ware is British and
a writer of mysteries that
characteristically feature
groups of people threatened by
mortal danger in closed settings.
Ergo, ever since her debut thriller,
“In a Dark, Dark Wood,” came out
in 2015, Ware has been dubbed
“the new Agatha Christie.”
Except, in this rare instance,
that comparison, tired as it may
be, is fitting. Not only do Ware’s
novels wink at Christie in a saucy
way, but Ware herself is turning
out to be as ingenious and indefat-
igable as the Queen of Crime. Over
the past five years, Ware has pro-
duced five suspense novels, each
one markedly different from its
predecessor.
Ware’s latest is titled “One by
One,” and it’s the most brazenly
Christie-ish of all her novels, di-
rectly taking inspiration from
“Ten Little Indians,” which had an
even more racially offensive title
when it was originally published
in England in 1939. A year later,
the novel was published in Ameri-
ca as “And Then There Were
None.” In Christie’s novel, a group
of strangers is lured to an isolated
house on an island, where, in short
order, a psycho prunes the guest
list. In Ware’s tale, the characters
are summoned to a private retreat
in the French Alps where ava-
lanches tremble atop every sur-
rounding mountain peak and the
guests are picked off, one by one.
The guests at the retreat
worked at Snoop, a company that
makes a music app that allows
users to listen to whatever music
other subscribers, including ce-
lebrities such as Jay-Z or Lady
Gaga, are listening to in real time.
The workmates who gathered for
this work retreat are as hip as their
product. For instance, Tiger-Blue
Esposito (certainly one of the
most inspired names for a charac-
ter) is identified on the company’s
website not as the publicist, but as
the “head of cool.”
As we quickly learn, the motiva-
tion for this retreat isn’t simply
BOOKS
Memoir displays
author’s evolution
N ONFICTION l R EVIEWED BY
employee bonding. Snoop has be- ot a Novel,” the latest
come such a sensation that a stu- from Jenny Erpenbeck,
pendous buyout offer is on the bears the subtitle “A
table. One of Snoop’s co-founders Memoir in Pieces,” and
wants to take the money and run; yet it does not include much mem-
the other is adamantly against the oir, strictly speaking. Though this
buyout. The votes of other em- author’s 2017 novel, “Go, Went,
ployees have broken evenly on Gone,” was greeted with acclaim,
both sides. The deciding vote for the new selection of essays her
turns out to be a former low-level American editors preferred a
employee who was paid in a cou- shorter selection than appeared in
ple of shares when the company the original German. Thus the au-
was a mere start-up. Because she thor’s recollections of growing up
abruptly quit the company some in the Communist East, and of the
ONE BY ONE
time ago, she’s deeply uneasy upheavals that followed the Wall
By Ruth Ware
about being summoned back into coming down — the memoir ma-
Gallery/Scout. 384 pp.
the Snoop fold during this com- terial, in other words — are con-
$27.99
bative retreat. fined to a brief opening section.
As in Christie’s mysteries, part That section is titled “Life,” and
of the great pleasure of reading indeed, the reminiscences have a
“One by One” lies in rereading key crackling vitality. The memories
passages and realizing how dim are expressed with masterful
one was (as a reader) the first time touches of repetition, achieving a
round. Much of the crucial infor- telegraphic poetry. Nevertheless,
mation is out in the open, right the section comes to no more than
there on the page in dialogue and a handful of pieces, a number of
description, but Ware expertly them only a couple of pages.
scatters red herrings galore so that Meatier by far is the group that
even the most alert reader be- follows, “Literature and Music.”
comes diverted into false deduc- These investigations into Erpen-
tions and dead ends. beck’s joint calling (she directs
As the body count mounts, so opera, as well as writing novels)
too do Ware’s multitudinous bristle with erudite allusion, not
methods of doing away with the to mention sheer smarts. Repeti-
victims. Like Christie, Ware pre- tion remains a hallmark of her
fers to have her killings transpire style, but here it turns canny,
NOT A NOVEL
“offstage,” making “One by One” yielding aphoristic gems: “Both
A Memoir in Pieces
that increasingly rare literary literature and music are closely
By Jenny Erpenbeck
achievement: a non-grisly thriller. connected to . . . silence, in their
New Directions.
The final section, where the last essence they are nothing but in-
212 pp. $16.95
intended victim is locked in a terpretations of . . . silence, at least
ghastly battle of wits and endur- insofar as they aim to arrive at
ance with the unmasked killer, has something like truth.” She medi-
to be one of the most ingeniously tates on forebears from the Broth-
extended plot climaxes in the sus- ers Grimm to the late W.G. Sebald,
pense canon. I don’t know how and in the process illuminates
Ruth Ware manages to keep up fresh parallels between timeless
her pace of writing such fine and fable and postmodern experi-
distinctive suspense novels every ment.
year; but, on behalf of suspense A lengthy trio of university lec-
lovers everywhere, may I say that tures amounts to an ars poetica,
I’m grateful she has turned out to meditations that address her play-
be a marathoner, rather than a writing as well as her fiction. The
sprinter. n three talks resonate with memo-
rable lines (“The world is there in
Corrigan, the book critic for the NPR every word, no matter how small”)
program “Fresh Air,” teaches literature and serve as a centerpiece for the
at Georgetown University. entire text. Combined with the
19
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rest of the section’s belles lettres,
the impact is of a master at work,
someone who ought to be consid-
ered for the Nobel — just as some
critics claimed, following her
breakout with “Go, Went, Gone.”
This latest book closes with “So-
ciety,” just two essays. These pack
a terrific punch, however, as they
confront one of our moment’s
most pressing issues, namely, the
untold millions of displaced peo-
ple seeking asylum. The first of-
fers an obituary, alert to the most
telling details, for an African im-
migrant Erpenbeck came to know
in the course of her research. The
second, the book’s closer, is a lec-
ture delivered in 2018 in deepest
Republican Oklahoma. There Er-
penbeck has the temerity to affirm
the humanity of contemporary
refugees — in particular the fami-
lies coming across the Rio Grande.
Boldly citing President Trump’s
notorious obscenity concerning
impoverished African countries,
she insists, in a ringing if unprint-
able final line, that we all come
from such downtrodden places.
“Not a Novel” cannot claim to
be a coherent whole. Neverthe-
less, its pig-in-a-python ungainli-
ness contributes to the fascina-
tion. Variety proves its own re-
ward, since in every guise this
artist makes virtuosic adjust-
ments, changes of tone or rheto-
ric.
Despite their differences, these
essays come together to assert the
value of the writer’s vocation.
Whatever her subject or tone, Er-
penbeck keeps coming back to
how her work enables us to know
the unknowable, especially in our
ever-changing heads and hearts.
“It takes an entire lifetime,” she
contends, “to unravel the myster-
ies of our own lives,” and in that
task we have no better tool than
fiction, poetry, drama — or even
memoir. n
Domini’s latest book is a novel, “The
Color Inside a Melon”; his next will be
the memoir “The Archeology of a Good
Ragù.”
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OPINIONS

Justice’s takeover of case

should have us screaming
E.J. DIONNE There has been a tendency over the years to romanticize
JR. the corruption of the old political machines. You often
is a columnist for The
Washington Post. hear: “At least they got stuff done.” Politicians involved in
what George Washington Plunkitt, the legendary 19th-
century leader of New York’s Tammany Hall, called
“honest graft” are cast as gleeful cynics who were
refreshingly candid about their motivations.

But corruption is a dagger case brought by the journalist

aimed at republican E. Jean Carroll, thus opening
government. It turns what is the way for Carroll’s lawyers
supposed to be an institution “to seek a DNA sample and an
devoted to the common good under-oath interview from the JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST

into an instrument of private
gain. And the very worst forms
of corruption turn what
citizens count on to be neutral
venues of legal adjudication
and law enforcement into
instruments of personal
political power. Leaders of free
governments cannot be above
the law, and their political
adversaries cannot be denied
the law’s protections.
This is why the Justice
Department’s move to
intervene in the defense of
President Trump in a
defamation lawsuit brought by
a woman who says he raped
her should have friends of
freedom shouting from the
rooftops. For the
U.S. government to substitute
itself for Trump as the
defendant puts the department
at the disposal of one man,
forces taxpayers to cover the
costs of the president’s defense
in what is a quintessentially
private matter and is plainly
aimed at preventing the public
from learning more about the
charges in the lawsuit before
the election.
Yes, be very suspicious:
Justice entered the scene only
after a state judge in New York,
as The Washington Post
reported, “had rejected
Trump’s bid for a delay” in the
president.”
The flimsiness of Justice’s
rationale for what the New
York Times rightly labeled “a
highly unusual legal move”
would be shocking if anything
that happened under Trump
and Attorney General William
P. Barr — who has clearly
embraced the role of Trump’s
consigliere — could shock us
anymore.
In her suit, Carroll accused
Trump of defaming her when
he told the Hill newspaper in
June 2019 that he could not
have raped her because she
was “not my type.” Trump also
issued an official statement
accusing Carroll of lying.
Justice claims it can stage
what is in effect a takeover
because Trump’s comments
came while acting in his
official capacity. Really? Some
current and former Justice
lawyers concerned about Barr’s
maneuver are raising exactly
the right question, the Times’s
Alan Feuer writes: “Was it
truly within the scope of the
president’s duties to comment
on the physical appearance of
a woman who had accused him
of rape?”
In a normal world, that
question would answer itself.
But we have left anything
approaching the normal
Voters cannot become numb to the abuses of power from Attorney
General William P. Barr and President Trump, the columnist writes.
administration of justice. At a
news conference on
Wednesday, Barr acted as
though this was no big deal,
citing a 2006 ruling involving
a Republican member of
Congress as precedent, and he
had the nerve to call the
episode a “little tempest that’s
going on . . . largely because of
the bizarre political
environment in which we
live.” Never mind that Trump
and Barr are principal
architects of this
environment.
Barr did not mention that if
a federal judge rules in favor
of Justice’s intervention,
Carroll’s whole lawsuit would
go away because Trump would
come under the protection of
the federal government’s
“sovereign immunity.” Barr’s
minions are, quite literally,
trying to deny Carroll her day
in court. At taxpayer expense.
We should worry about
something else in our public
life that has gone haywire
because of Trump: He has faced
so many credible accusations of
assault and sexual misconduct
that any new allegations get
buried in some “been there,
done that” file.
Trump and Barr are
counting on this abuse of
power to be tossed into this
yellowing, bulging folder and
dismissed. But a Justice
Department that can
arbitrarily protect a president
can just as arbitrarily turn its
investigatory and
prosecutorial powers against
the president’s political
opponents.
“I think a lot of us are
extremely alarmed, frankly, at
the threat of autocracy,”
Donald B. Ayer, a former
deputy attorney general under
George H.W. Bush, told
Politico last month. Ayer, part
of a group of Republican
Justice Department appointees
who endorsed former vice
president Joe Biden, added of
Trump: “He’s going to be
unleashed if he gets a second
term. I don’t know what’s
going to stop him.”
Which is why voters need to
resist becoming numb to
forms of corruption that not
only violate the norms of good
government but also threaten
to undermine equal justice
and democratic rule. They are
the only ones who can stop
Trump. n
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TOM TOLES

Trump lacks loyalty to Pentagon official told the Syrian Kurdish

commander who led the assault
that this rapid assault “never
and Carol D. Leonnig in their
book, “A Very Stable Genius,”
Trump said: “You’re all losers.
would have happened without You don’t know how to win
Donald Trump.” There would anymore.”
DAVID Reconciling Donald Trump’s self-promoting “Art of the Deal” with have been too many meetings Trump really did seem to
IGNATIUS the military’s reserved code of loyalty and service was always a under his predecessor, President think he knew better than his
is a columnist for The stretch. In Trump’s early months in the White House, though, the two Barack Obama. generals. “I wouldn’t go to war
Washington Post. cultures seemed to coexist without much damage. Trump wanted victory in with you people,” Trump told
But the fabric began to fray by mid-2017. Trump increasingly Afghanistan, too, so long as it them, according to Rucker and
treated the military as props in the reality-TV show of his presidency. was fast and unambiguous. Gen. Leonnig. “You’re a bunch of
He wanted them for parades and victory celebrations, not the anguish John Nicholson, the U.S. dopes and babies.”
of combat. He seemed to take his strategic guidance from Fox News commander in Kabul, was given The commander who
more than his commanders. The generals and admirals kept their authority to use America’s most succeeded best in keeping the lid
mouths shut, but the resentment was building. intimidating conventional on, as Trump grew cockier, was
weapon against the Taliban — Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the
The bad marriage exploded Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the so-called “mother of all chairman of the Joint Chiefs. A
earlier this month, when former former chairman of the Joint bombs.” No more anguished tall, reserved and utterly reliable
senior staff members told Jeffrey Chiefs of Staff, denounced meetings in the Situation Room. Marine, he was often able to curb
Goldberg of the Atlantic of their Trump for “politicizing the men The gloves were off. Trump’s impulsive decisions and
shock at Trump’s crude and women of our armed forces.” Trump initially saw Mattis as a steer him toward steady policy,
comments about combat and Retired Gen. Jim Mattis, the man in his own image — without infuriating him.
loss — and his reported former defense secretary, called awarding him the Trumpian What the military came to
characterization of fallen Trump “the first president in my nickname “Mad Dog,” even understand over the past four
warriors as “suckers” and lifetime who does not try to though the ascetic Mattis was years is that, for all Trump’s talk
“losers.” The quotes were unite the American people.” closer to a monk than a mongrel. of patriotism, he truly is
anonymous, but it has been an Retired Gen. John F. Kelly, a Over the two years Mattis ran the transactional. Throughout his
open secret in Washington that former Trump White House chief Pentagon, his relationship with career, he has always believed
many prominent retired four- of staff, said he agreed with Trump grew poisonous. The that loyalty was for chumps.
stars have regarded Trump with Mattis. more Mattis tried to educate The military understand their
growing horror as he assaulted It’s hard to remember now Trump, as in his widely reported role in a democracy. They have
the traditions of discipline and that Trump’s dealings with July 2017 seminar in the “tank” obeyed Trump as their
professionalism that are military leaders started off pretty at the Pentagon, the more Trump commander in chief, even amid
bedrocks of military life. well. I remember traveling in became resentful. his tirades and insults. And they
The first open break point May 2017 with our Special Trump berated his generals at will continue to do so if he’s
came in June, after former Operations forces to the newly that gathering — with language reelected. But many of them
military leaders watched Trump liberated town of Tabqa, at the that’s eerily similar to what was won’t like it: Trump just isn’t a
try to use the military to put gates of the Islamic State’s reported in the Atlantic this past guy with whom you’d want to
down protests for racial justice. capital of Raqqa. A senior U.S. week. According to Philip Rucker share a foxhole. n
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BY STANTIS FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE BY LUCKOVICH FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

Roaring market leads to worries homes keeps climbing.

Even in an optimistic scenario,
in which, say, a vaccine is
housing market: interest rates.
The long, secular decline of
interest rates and inflation since
produced by year’s end, the 1970s has been one of the
commercial real estate may major reasons for the long,
MEGAN One thing, above all, was relentlessly drummed into me at the struggle for quite a while. You secular increase in the value of
MCARDLE University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business: You, private citizen, don’t need to imagine everyone owner-occupied housing. Just
is a columnist for The should not attempt to outguess the market. Asset prices represent our teleworking from far-flung how much interest rates matter
Washington Post. collective best guess about the future value they will return to owners. locations; just imagine offices becomes apparent when the Fed
Those guesses are often wrong. (Predictions are hard, said Yogi Berra — becoming places where drops rates to rock bottom.
especially about the future.) But your guesses are at least as likely to be employees gather a few days a Over the years, I’ve said that
wrong as everyone else’s, so there’s no point wasting money, or mental week and work from home the “interest rates can’t stay this low
energy, on trying to time your bets. rest of the time. In such a world, forever” and been punished by
short commutes become much the gods of the Efficient Market
The past six months have taken rates to refinance. less valuable, while demand for my hubris; I won’t make that
much away from me, but they have The other America has the grows for square footage. This mistake again. Instead, I’ll ask
only built up my faith in this people whose job requires their would depress demand for office what happens if they stay this
axiom. Had someone asked me in physical presence. Many are out space and cozy, close-in way. The Fed couldn’t lower
March, I would have predicted of work and worried about how to apartments — and activity for all interest rates further to cope with
that after six months of pandemic, pay their rent or mortgage; those the associated businesses that the next crisis — and banks won’t
the housing market would be full who still have jobs are stuck in serve commercial cores. pay us to take their money.
of panicked people frozen in their place and worried about getting That adjustment would not be These are my distant and fuzzy
homes, except for those who were covid-19. Unless more emergency easy. Businesses will fail, taking worries, though steadily coming
being evicted. Instead, the housing relief is forthcoming from the out personal savings and lifelong into view: How much of what we
market is roaring. government, many of those fears work. Bankers and investors will consider a “normal” housing
I won’t sully my diploma by will come true, making the have to retrench, making new market, such as steadily growing
prophesying some inevitable contrast between winners and projects harder to fund. Some prices, is actually a function of the
collapse. But I will outline my losers in this economy not merely local governments will have to long, slow decline in interest
short-, medium- and long-term stark but intolerable. rebuild their tax bases from rates? And what does the end of
worries about what this reveals. In the medium term, the story scratch. Homeowners in that trend foretell for the people
In the short term, the housing is of three markets: single-family megacities, who have come to who are counting on selling their
market tells a story of two homes, multifamily housing and think of steady home price house to finance retirement — or
Americas. One has the educated commercial real estate. In the appreciation as a sort of natural the central bankers who are
and professional classes, most of worst-case scenario — in which law, may well see their biggest counting on loose monetary
which can work from home. there is no vaccine for a long time asset lose substantial value. policy to finesse whatever future
They’re breaking leases to move — demand for multifamily This brings me to the longest- disaster hasn’t yet arisen?
to the suburbs or the country; housing and commercial real term story, which played a pivotal I’m afraid I can’t see an easy
trading up to bigger places; estate both crash, while demand role in previous crises and a answer to those questions. But I
taking advantage of low interest for suburban, exurban and rural supporting role in the current can see enough to make me fret. n
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FIVE MYTHS

Militias
BY J OHN T EMPLE

All summer, heavily armed self-declared militia groups have been

popping up at Black Lives Matter protests, claiming that their presence
deters violence. Almost all belong to the “patriot movement,” a broad
coalition of organizations that share a general resentment of the U.S.
government. It can be difficult to make sense of this loose movement
because of its tangled web of conflicting ideologies and alliances,
including its complicated relationship with President Trump. That
confusion has led to many myths. Here are five of the most common.

MYTH NO. 1 government. But they’re not all

Militia members are
especially prone to violence.
The appearance of heavily
armed groups at Black Lives
Matter protests suggests a strong
Trump supporters. “Patriot”
purists find it hard to reconcile
decades of anti-government
ideology with their new reality.
Some believe that anyone in LOGAN CYRUS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

and direct link between militia
membership and violence. The
Anti-Defamation League warns,
“The threat of violence is implicit
every time armed paramilitary
groups confront the government.”
In truth, however, solo
extremists are more dangerous
than organized “patriot” groups.
A 2015 Southern Poverty Law
Center study of domestic
terrorism concluded that “lone
wolves” or “leaderless resistance”
groups were responsible for most
of the violence; the vast majority
of attacks were the work of one or
two people.
In my reporting and research, I
have seen that militias often shun
newcomers who seem too violent,
partially because the members
fear that the wannabe might be
an FBI plant.
MYTH NO. 2
Right-wing militants
love President Trump.
The ADL’s Mark Pitcavage said
that in the 2016 election, “for the
first time in its 25-year history,
the militia movement had a
presidential candidate that they
love.”
No doubt, Trump’s rise has
delighted and emboldened many
armed militants who love having
a president who shares their
disdain for the federal
charge of the federal government
is, by definition, the enemy, and
that includes Trump.
Ammon Bundy, who became a
movement big shot when he led
the occupation of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge in 2016,
has spoken out against Trump,
criticizing his immigration
policy in 2018. The dissonance
was especially acute this summer
when Trump said he might use
military forces against civilians
in the United States. One militia
expert said her sources in the
movement were divided over
Trump’s threat. Some thought it
looked like a classic example of
government tyranny, but they
were worried that criticizing the
president would amount to
supporting antifa.
MYTH NO. 3
Militias’ anti-government
views are wildly extreme.
The Southern Poverty Law
Center labels members of the
anti-government movement as
“extremists.”
Militia and “patriot”
organizations are united by their
distrust of the federal
government, but that view is far
from radical these days. In 1964,
77 percent of Americans said they
could trust the government in
Washington to do what is right
Black Lives Matter protesters confront self-declared militias and “white
pride” organizations at a rally in Stone Mountain, Ga., on Aug. 15. Most
militias, though, aren’t motivated primarily by racial grievances.
most of the time. Today, only
17 percent of citizens say the
same.
Many “patriots” seemed to
have joined the cause for social
reasons, or because they liked
guns, or because they wanted to
be part of something they saw as
historic and grandiose — not
because their views were far more
radical than those of typical right-
leaning Americans.
MYTH NO. 4
The ‘patriot’ movement
has a consistent ideology.
The trouble may start with the
word “movement,” a useful
shorthand term but not an
accurate way to describe the loose
association of groups. They are
not bonded together to advance a
shared political or social idea in
an organized fashion. “Patriots”
are motivated by a varied and
sometimes conflicting array of
issues. Some focus on gun rights
or immigration; others get riled
up about privacy, taxes or
government overreach. They
disagree often and are united only
by their vow to protect the
citizenry against a tyrannical
federal government.
MYTH NO. 5
Racism drives the
‘patriot movement.’
Members of right-wing
militant groups are
predominantly male and White,
and they often end up at events
also attended by racist groups,
leading many to believe that all
militia organizations are
motivated primarily by racial
concerns. And it’s true that, after
Trump’s election, I noticed an
uptick in anti-Muslim and anti-
Latino online activity among
individual “patriots.” The
decision by several militias to
target Black Lives Matter
protests hasn’t helped their
image here.
But while there are plenty of
virulent racists among the
“patriots,” racism is not usually
part of their publicly stated
ideology. Ammon Bundy supports
Black Lives Matter and efforts to
defund the police. n
Temple, a journalism professor at West
Virginia University, is the author of “Up
in Arms: How the Bundy Family Hijacked
Public Lands, Outfoxed the Federal
Government, and Ignited America’s
Patriot Militia Movement.”
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Jude Law stars in “The Third Day.”

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Jude Law stars in eerie
drama ‘The Third Day’
TV Media
T
he disturbing and captivat-
ing new series “The Third
Day” premieres Monday, Sept.
14, on HBO. The thriller was
originally scheduled to premiere
May 11 of this year, but the proj-
ect was put on hold due to the
coronavirus pandemic sweeping
the globe, which made produc-
tion almost impossible and de-
layed the show’s release.
“The Third Day” follows Sam
(Jude Law, “The Nest,” 2020), a
man who travels alone and ends
up on a mystical island off the
British coast in the dead of sum-
mer. In a separate but connected
dimension, another outsider
named Helen (Naomie Harris,
“Black and Blue,” 2019) also
finds her way to the island.
The series features other stars,
including Katherine Waterston
(“Fantastic Beasts and Where to
Find Them,” 2016), Paddy Con-
sidine (“How to Build a Girl,”
2020), Emily Watson (“Cher-
nobyl”), John Dagleish (“The
Gentlemen,” 2019) and Freya
Allan (“The Witcher”).
The series is divided into three
distinct yet interconnected plots.
The first batch of episodes, en-
titled “Summer” and directed
by Marc Munden (“Utopia,”
2013), follows Sam as he explores
the mysterious island. He’s met
there by locals who are keen on
preserving their traditions, no
matter the cost.
The second chapter, “Au-
tumn,” will be a live event broad-
cast from London, England. It’s
been described by producers
as a “major immersive theater
event.” This live installment of
the series, which features Law,
Harris and the rest of the cast,
can be viewed on a single take,
and it’s meant to let the audience
step inside the story as it unfolds.
“Autumn” offers the audience
a deeper experience of the mysti-
cal island, allowing them to view
it in a real-time broadcast. This
interactive segment runs in a
single, uninterrupted, cinematic
take that showcases the locals’
rituals and traditions and how
they blur the lines of reality.
The third batch of episodes,
“Winter,” was directed by Philip-
pa Lowthorpe (“Three Girls”).
It focuses on the strong-willed
Helen, who arrives on the island
in search of solutions. But when
she inadvertently creates a big-
ger conflict, it eventually leads
to a battle that will determine
the future of the island and its
inhabitants. The psychologi-
cal thriller is nothing short of
mesmerizing, as it lays out an
enchanting yet twisted world
where nothing is what it seems,
and viewers are taken on a
series of crazy twists and turns
that ultimately lead to a shock-
ing climax.
A new, more expansive trailer
for the series (after the teaser
that was released in April)
has been unveiled by HBO. It
features Sam driving into the
island as locals talk about the
place being something special.
But the road to it suddenly ends
as it sinks underwater, and it
seems that Sam will be trapped
in paradise for good.
Best Bets
The island’s inhabitants are
tight-lipped, and as the truth of
local rituals and the island’s se-
crets start to sweep over Sam, he
attempts to resolve the trauma of
his past as his present is flooded
with his nightmares.
Some are already compar-
ing the show to the now-classic
ABC series “Lost” and the
1973 British horror flick “The
Wicker Man,” due mostly to
the eeriness and mystery. Ac-
cording to critics, “The Third
Day” has the potential to keep
audiences on the edge of their
seats. Meanwhile, fans who
have been treated to an early
viewing have compared it to
the celebrated 2019 horror film
“Midsommar,” which featured
a couple getting entangled with
a pagan cult during a trip to
Sweden.
Filming for series began in
July 2019 in the United King-
dom after it was announced
that Law would be fronting the
cast. Munden was then hired
as director for the first three
episodes, which were written by
Dennis Kelly (“Pulling”). That
same month, the cast was ex-
panded, and it was announced
that Waterston, Considine and
Watson had joined the cast. By
August, Harris and Dagleish
had joined the lineup, too, with
Lowthorpe on board to helm
the final three episodes.
With Law on board, it’s no
wonder that the show is already
making waves. He’s been rec-
ognized for his exceptional per-
formances with a BAFTA Film
Award, two Academy Award
nominations and four Golden
Globe nominations. He’s also
received nominations for three
Laurence Olivier Awards and
two Tony Awards for his the-
ater performances. In 2007, he
was presented with an Honor-
ary César award and was rec-
ognized for his contribution to
World Cinema Arts and named
a Knight of the Order of Arts
and Letters by the French gov-
ernment.
 TV Media
T his fall TV season may
look a little different
than years past, but studios
are finding ways to bring
viewers fresh shows nonethe-
less. Networks are scouring
the globe to find just the right
series for North American
audiences, and one such ac-
quisition is poised to reel in
viewers with action, mystery
and conspiracy.
Emmy Award winner
Archie Panjabi (“The Good
Wife”) returns to television
as Kendra Malley, a recently
widowed TSIB investigator
who is called in when passen-
ger Flight 716 mysteriously
vanishes somewhere over the
Atlantic in the premiere of
“Departure,” airing Thurs-
day, Sept. 17, on NBC’s
streaming service Peacock.
Recently divorced, Malley
works alongside her former
boss and mentor, TSIB senior
manager Howard Lawson,
played by Academy Award
winner Christopher Plum-
mer (“All the Money in the
World,” 2017).
The six-episode British-
Canadian production was
originally commissioned by
Canada’s Global and aired
in the U.K. in 2019. Now,
thanks to a deal with NBCU-
niversal, audiences in North
America will be able to enjoy
the show, which is described
as a “high octane conspiracy
series” in an official news
release.
“’Departure’s’ gripping
storyline — steeped in con-
spiracy, mystery and intrigu-
ing characters — is a great fit
for our international channel
brands and will have our
viewers on the edge of their
seats,?” NBC executive Steve
Patscheck commented in the
release. “We look forward to
bringing this thrilling series
and its stellar, award-winning
cast to our fans around the
world.”
With English actor Panjabi
and Canadian performer
Plummer at the forefront
of the series, the drama has
big-name international ap-
peal. Panjabi’s portrayal of
Kalinda Sharma in CBS’s
“The Good Wife” not only
earned her a following of
American fans but also plenty
of accolades. She became
the first Asian actor to win a
Primetime Emmy for acting
in 2010. She went on to win a
2012 NAACP Image Award
and has been nominated for
a Golden Globe and three
Screen Actors Guild Awards.
A virtual legend, Plummer
should need little introduc-
tion. His acting career spans
seven decades, beginning
with his first starring role
in 1958’s “Stage Struck.”
Of course, millions of fans
remember him as Captain
Georg von Trapp in the
iconic movie musical “The
Sound of Music” (1965).
His awards and nominations
are too numerous to count,
but the highlights include an
Oscar in the Best Supporting
Actor category for “Begin-
ners” (2010), two Primetime
Emmy Awards and two Tony
Awards.
Panjabi and Plummer
bring their talents back to
television in “Departure.”
Directed by “Orphan
Black’s” T.J. Scott, the show
was created by Vince Shiao
(“V-Wars”). It was filmed in
Ontario, Canada, and Lon-
don, England in 2018 and
2019 and features an inter-
national ensemble cast led by
Panjabi and Plummer. Fellow
Hollywood A-lister British
actor Claire Forlani (“Meet
Joe Black,” 1998) also stars as
MI5 officer Janet Friel, who’s
assigned to the investigation.
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 ‘The Bachelorette’ to feature twists
have been filming in a quarantine Murder,
TV Media bubble. Mayhem and
Madness,”
So. Much. Drama. That’s the History (the which was a
simplest way to describe what’s channel) seems to be in a “re- huge hit for
been going on behind the scenes build” mode, and executives have Netflix earlier
of the upcoming season of “The called in Tim “The Tool Man” this year.
Bachelorette.” Taylor to help them out. There are
That’s the character played currently two
by Tim Allen (“Last Man Stand- high-profile
ing”) in the 1990s sitcom “Home adaptations
It looks like Season 16 will break Improvement,” which ran for in the works,
with tradition by featuring two eight seasons on ABC. The series but in this race to big ratings num-
Bachelorettes: Clare Crawley, the featured a show-within-a-show, bers, NBC and Kate McKinnon
previously announced Bachelor- “Tool Time,” which was hosted (“Saturday Night Live”) might
ette, and, unexpectedly, Tayshia by Allen’s character and Al Bor- have the edge.
Adams. land, played by Richard Karn McKinnon’s project, “Joe
This is bigger news than Crawley (Hulu’s “PEN15”). Exotic” (working title), recently
throwing shade on Twitter or do- It’s been over 20 years since received a straight-to-series order
ing some online sleuthing to learn the series wrapped, but nostalgia from NBCUniversal. It’s not your
about her suitors (those didn’t go is running high because Allen typical series order, either — it’s
over well with Bachelor Nation). is still fielding questions about a a cross-platform order, which
And it comes amid rumors that possible reboot. It’s all just talk means “Joe Exotic” will air on
Crawley’s pandemic-delayed quest at this point — after all, Allen is NBC (broadcast), USA (cable)
for love was a little too successful — busy with “Last Man Standing,” and Peacock (streaming).
or rather it was successful too soon. which has been renewed for a It’s worth noting that “Joe Ex-
Crawley allegedly exited the ninth season. otic” was pitched last fall, before
show just two weeks into filming But fans, take heart: History the docuseries premiered. It’s
after a suitor, said to be Dale Moss, has greenlit a new TV project that based on the second season of
quickly won her heart. And it might be the next best thing to a the Wondery podcast “Over My
wasn’t long before Adams, already “Home Improvement” revival. Dead Body,” which focused on
a Bachelor Nation favorite, was Carole Baskin’s battle to end big
spotted on location at the La Quin- Hollywood is champing cat ownership and her escalating
ta Resort and Club in La Quinta, at the bit to bring you a drama- clashes with exotic animal lover
California, where the cast and crew tized retelling of “Tiger King: Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel.

TV Media
Q: Our local TV listings
used to feature a show called
“Longmire” a while back,
and we wondered if there are
any new episodes and where
to find them.
A: “Longmire” has been
through a lot since it last appeared
on a TV schedule, but, for better or
worse, its trials are over.
It aired its first three seasons on
A&E, between 2012 and 2014,
before getting canceled. It turned
out the network may have under-
estimated the western drama’s
popularity, because a major public
outcry followed, leading the online
service Netflix to pick the series up
again and produce new episodes.
So, if you lost track of it after it
left the regular TV schedule, you
have lots to catch up on. Indeed, it
lasted as long off “air” as it did on:
Netflix produced three more full
seasons.
But that was it. Netflix an-
nounced ahead of time that
Season 6 would be the show’s last.
That’s good news, too, in a way. It
meant the writers could give the
show a proper, conclusive ending.
All this is to say that if you’re
willing to sign up for Netflix (if
you haven’t already), you’ve got
lots more “Longmire” to see, and
you’ll be satisfied with the result.
Q: Was Liev Schreiber ac-
tually a boxer? He seems like
it on “Ray Donovan.”
A: Hard-looking actor Liev Sch-
reiber does seem to favor boxing
projects, but it was the work that
came first — he only started box-
ing to prepare for a movie.
He says he started doing it in
the early 2000s to prepare to play
the great boxer Chuck Wepner
(the inspiration for the 1976 classic
“Rocky”). But the Wepner film,
which Schreiber co-wrote, didn’t
actually get made until 2016. In
the interim, he took on all sorts of
other boxing-themed projects.
Most notably for real boxing
nerds, he was the narrator of
HBO’s longtime documentary
series “24/7,” which offered in-
depth profiles of boxers training
for fights before they aired.
And as you point out, there’s a
lot of boxing in “Ray Donovan,”
the role Schreiber is most famous
for (he’s the title character, after all,
and a producer). Ray’s brother is
an ex-pugilist who owns a boxing
gym where the Donovan family
spends a lot of time.
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