![]() ![]() Once a booming stop along a famous highway that connected the east to the west, now very little traffic drives through these towns due to new interstates that bypass the town or big industries moving out to larger, more central, cities. The town of Radiator Springs represents the state of many rural towns today – on the verge of being a forgotten ghost town. It wasn’t until I was watching the movie, for what seemed like the thousandth time, that I noticed the great work Pixar put into showing how society sees these towns and how special these rural towns once were and can still be today. The movie follows a race car named Lightning McQueen who ends up stranded in a small town off Route 66 called Radiator Springs. Sorry, if I’m ruining the movie for anyone, but it has been out since 2006, so tough. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.I recently introduced my daughter to the 2006 Pixar movie Cars. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University.īefore entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. The following quotes are from “Unbroken.” So he went, grudgingly, and they sat in the back. Billy Graham, she said, talks a lot about science. Cynthia argued for days and finally fibbed. He wasn’t going to watch some con man screaming. Cynthia grabbed at the straw, but Louie refused. An evangelist named Billy Graham had set up a tent and invited the public. One day a neighbor told them of something going on in town, in L.A. His wife, Cynthia, announced she was leaving. He couldn’t focus enough to make a living, couldn’t stop the downhill slide. But his life went from rise to descent-rage, alcoholism, destruction. ![]() He came back a hero, shocked to be alive. He spent two years in Japanese prison camps-beaten, tortured, brutalized as much as a person can be and still live. He crashed in the Pacific, drifted in a raft on open sea for 47 days, came near death-shark attacks, storms, strafing by Japanese bombers-and survived, only to be captured by enemy troops. You know the miraculous life of Louis Zamperini, whose story was told in Laura Hillenbrand’s epic, lovely book, “Unbroken.” Louis was the delinquent, knockabout son of Italian immigrants in Torrance, Calif., who went on to run for America in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, then joined the Army Air Corps before Pearl Harbor.
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