Commentary
It is now Memorial Day, and I want to focus on the historic role of the commander-in-chief.
Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at his desk in the Marly headquarters, near Paris. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
