“BFP Exclusive- Last Thoughts on Helen Thomas: American Icon – Part I”
Our Collective Duty is Very Simple: We Must Never Forget
By Mark Mondalek
Helen Thomas was a patriot.
“You have to believe in something,” she once told me, “Believe in democracy.”
Patriotism is, of course, a relative thing. Shamefully, it has almost become a dirty word these days, increasingly harbored by those who take the word of the government as though it were scripture; those who behave permissive of the Washington war machine; don’t doubt, don’t ask why.
