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<strong>The Sam H. Werner Military Museum is in Monteagle, Tennessee.</strong> (Courtesy The Werner Museum)Premium Dan Conaway

Conaway: Our ghosts are calling this Memorial Day

“On Dec. 2, 1943, USS LCT-242 was sunk by a circling torpedo off Naples, Italy. In a little more than a year of service, she earned two battle stars. She was a Memphis girl.”

By Dan Conaway May 23, 2025
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Conaway: We are Warriors, every one

“It’s the city, man,” the band’s leader, Ollie Liddell, answered when asked where that joy comes from, “the soul.”

By Dan Conaway May 19, 2025
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Conaway: We are the target; we are the catch

“Like a .30-06 Springfield with a buck in the sights, the curricula in our schools have become a target, and our history has become fair game.”

By Dan Conaway May 09, 2025
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Conaway: Struggle and sacrifice, set in stone, set afire, set to rise again

“We cannot escape our responsibility to our place in history any more than a fire can burn down what happened at Clayborn Temple.”

By Dan Conaway May 02, 2025

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    Conaway: A journey to my tomorrow and the path of my yesterday

    “As you read this, I’m headed east on Interstate 40 to a reading and book signing of ‘Never Over The Hill,’ a memoir I coauthored with Bill Haltom about our time in college.”

    By Dan Conaway April 25, 2025
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    Conaway: Everybody in the golf world knows every King-Collins course, except here, of course

    “Should you like to play a King-Collins course, still rare but growing in number, there’s one right smack dab in the middle of your city.”

    By Dan Conaway April 18, 2025
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    Conaway: First-period civics – the school board mess

    “Whatever happens next, however ill-conceived, will largely be the result of the hubris and selfishness of the majority of that school board, and the losers will be our city’s kids and our tomorrow.”

    By Dan Conaway April 11, 2025
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    Conaway: You can’t sell Summer Drive-In memories; they’re priceless

    “If the drive-in was mine, what would I do with it?"

    By Dan Conaway April 04, 2025
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    Conaway: A life, and this one comes cubed or crushed

    And the photo fell away, while the magnet crashed to the floor between my feet, depriving the meerkat of its left ear. There’s something to be said for sloppy, arbitrary, impetuous, and rough around the edges. Right in front of you. You know, like life in the moment.

    By Dan Conaway March 28, 2025
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    Conaway: If we don’t do Memphis over, others will, and soon

    “We have to get our act together. The city and county mayors need to sit down together for a cup of coffee. Strong coffee. A pot of it.”

    By Dan Conaway March 21, 2025
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    Conaway: A time for reflection — and mayonnaise

    “For me, Lent is a time for reflection. The journey so far, the journey at present, and the journey to come. That’s what I feel called to do these 40 days.”

    By Dan Conaway March 14, 2025
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    Conaway: Of Katz and rats, dads and doughnuts, then and now

    “Even though we were in those same places at the same time, we were not the same. My public pool was in the Fairgrounds; Howard’s was in Orange Mound. At Katz, he’d have his water fountain, and I’d have mine.”

    By Dan Conaway March 07, 2025
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    Conaway: Eight Tennessee volunteers could save us — but we only need four

    No core principles would be abandoned. In fact, those four would become the most important members of Congress, and their tiny caucus the most impactful in the entire body.

    By Dan Conaway February 28, 2025
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    Conaway: They should wear ‘This Shirt Kills Kids’

    “Numbers are cold, numbers don’t bleed. Numbers don’t silently cry in a waiting room or crumble to the floor when the news arrives. Numbers don’t comfort or explain or justify when a child dies.”

    By Dan Conaway February 21, 2025
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    Conaway: Bottled arrogance, just in time for Valentine’s

    Dan Conaway writes, “We’ve been chosen as the test market for a new men’s cologne just in time for Valentine’s Day: Elon Musk.”

    By Dan Conaway February 14, 2025
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    Conaway: A gift of perspective

    “The morning brings a new day, like the one before never happened, but like all the days before, what happened is baked in old slave-made brick, and immigrant-laid stone, and preserved.”

    By Dan Conaway February 07, 2025
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    Conaway: The governor’s wallet opens Jan. 27

    “Every vote for vouchers takes tax money, your money, from already underfunded public schools and gives it to private schools.”

    By Dan Conaway January 24, 2025
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    Conaway: If you’re in the funeral business, you’d best know where to dig

    “Brent Taylor would use his elected office — voted on by about 20% of the county — to remove a county official elected by 100% of the county voters.”

    By Dan Conaway January 19, 2025
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    Conaway: Let’s pick the cabinet

    “Aside from the obvious point that we could all suggest better than we’re going to get, the larger point is that we’re all going to need each other as things shake out in Washington.”

    By Dan Conaway January 10, 2025
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    Conaway: Tuesday is the measure of us

    In his opinion piece, Dan Conaway says that if you vote for Donald Trump, whatever he does will be with your permission.

    By Dan Conaway November 06, 2024
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    Conaway: Katz and Wright, therapy for the moment

    “If you see me talking to myself, just move along. I’m self-employed; we’re having a staff meeting.”

    By Dan Conaway October 25, 2024
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    Conaway: This ballot ‘triggers’ memories but also possibilities

    Tennessee’s Republican leadership maintains that cities and counties can’t have different state laws, but what did they do when it came to new, suburban school districts and school vouchers? 

    By Dan Conaway October 18, 2024
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    Conaway: Oceans give rise to storms and lies. We must rise to meet them.

    “The truth is that no one is asking the people that have lost everything whether or not they are Republican or Democrat before they help them, no more than those two walkers on the beach asked me.”

    By Dan Conaway October 11, 2024
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    Conaway: Dan’s Tasteful List 2024

    Eating out in Memphis is a reward for living here. You deserve it.

    By Dan Conaway October 04, 2024
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    Conaway: The hotel that saved Downtown

    “The City of Memphis buying a hotel to protect its interests — our interests — is not a bad idea. But, the city running a hotel is a terrible idea.”

    By Dan Conaway September 27, 2024
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    Conaway: We haven’t done anything about guns, and the Legislature is scared we might

    “Can a city stand against laws that disproportionately and negatively affect their entire population, daily threatening their safety, their livelihoods and their very lives?”

    By Dan Conaway September 20, 2024
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    Conaway: In Tennessee, Trump couldn’t vote

    “In one of the reddest states in the nation, where Trump will likely win by more votes than Tennessee-based Cracker Barrel has biscuits, Trump couldn’t vote.”

    By Dan Conaway September 13, 2024
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    Conaway: Finally agreed — the boys can write

    After my oldest brother died, my other brother and I began really talking and laughing. 

    By Dan Conaway September 06, 2024
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    Conaway: This time, The Citadel saluted

    This is about effort against odds, the measure being the effort itself, never accepting that there’s no sense in trying, never giving anything less than your best, knowing the measure of you is you.

    By Dan Conaway September 10, 2024

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