A Father’s Day “No Kings” Tribute to a Lifelong Anti-fascist

Richard Reichart.

It is Father’s Day as I write these words. And it’s one day after No Kings Day. My father, Dr. Richard Reichard, would have approved – he was a lifelong anti-fascist. 

In the Air Force in World War II, he was shot down behind fascist lines in Croatia, where the Croatian resistance took him and his surviving crewmates overland to the Adriatic coast, and from there by boat to Allied-held southern Italy. Not all his crewmates survived the war, but he did. 

After the war...