by Philip Caputo | Jun 1, 2020 | Journal of a Plague Year, News
THE GLORY The Falcon 9 rocket rose with agonizing slowness from its launchpad at Cape Canaveral, then rapidly gained speed — cleaving the air like a giant spear trailing a pillar of flame. Within minutes, with two astronauts on board, it hurtled through the last...
by Philip Caputo | May 25, 2020 | Essays, News
TO MY FALLEN BROTHERS: LCPL CARROLL FANKHAUSER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 8/24/65 PFC ROBERT FERNANDEZ, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 6/20/65 CPL BRIAN GAUTHIER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/11/65 LCPL REYNALDO GUZMAN, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. 1/25/66 1STLT WALTER...
by Philip Caputo | May 19, 2020 | Journal of a Plague Year, News
May 18 — This weekend, we attended – if that’s the right word — a virtual memorial service for our friend Karen Wessel Marcus, who died of Covid19 two weeks ago. It was streamed live from St. James Episcopal in Scarsdale, N.Y., Karen’s...
by Philip Caputo | May 8, 2020 | Journal of a Plague Year, News
I have to begin with an apology and a correction. In my last post, I misreported the date of Karen Wessel Marcus’s death as Sunday, May 3. It was actually Monday, May 4. During this pandemic, the days have lost their distinctiveness. Half the time, I don’t know if its...
by Philip Caputo | Mar 18, 2020 | News
The web is full of misinformation about the Corona Virus, as it is about far too many things. Below is the link to an authoritative and thorough analysis completed by a team of epidemiologists and statisticians at the Imperial College in London. Their report was sent...
by Philip Caputo | Mar 16, 2020 | News
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