Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat rooks and ruin and pure fun

and pure fun

and Southern racism

Rosebush tells how his center core was formed by his mother

without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other

and suspects -- who must endure in the wake of atrocity

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat rooks and ruin and pure funOn May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister. Europe was in crisis: Three days earlier, Germany had invaded France and the Low Countries. Facing only feeble resistance, Hitler's armies were rapidly sweeping westward. Accused of mishandling the war, Neville Chamberlain's government collapsed, and Churchill was chosen to succeed him. Churchill had little support within the new