This weekend we pause to remember our nation's fallen.
( Published Friday, May 23rd, 2025 @ 10:09 am )]]> Most people will remember April 4, 1968 as the day that Martin Luther King was assassinated. While that was a more histrionically important event, that date will always seired in my mind as the date of a battle we fought in Vietnam. I was only in country for a couple of months and the loss of comr
( Published Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 10:20 am )]]> A heart warming story about Ann Margret and her Vietnam gentlemen.
( Published Sunday, December 24th, 2023 @ 11:25 pm )]]> King Charles is busy preparing for his coronation in a few weeks, which will include a cross containing shards of wood from the cross that's believed to have been used to crucify Jesus Christ.
( Published Monday, May 1st, 2023 @ 4:04 pm )]]> Walter Cunningham, the last surviving member of the Apollo 7 mission and a Korean War veteran, has died in a Houston hospital at 90.
( Published Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 6:29 pm )]]> This is what I call making a difference. If you are or have ever had a teacher like this, say a private or public thank you if they are still around.
( Published Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 11:26 pm )]]> I am writing my most difficult book report ever at 70 years old. It is about another GI I did not know, and an enemy I never wanted to know. Yet we were all in the same place forty-eight years ago along with a bunch of others, with us trying to kill him and his comrades and him trying to kill us
( Published Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 1:03 pm )]]> A restrospective look at one of the great music venues in Atlanta during the 1970's
( Published Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 1:49 pm )]]> Many may have heard of Desmond Doss, Here is another hero's story. I knew him.
( Published Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 @ 1:32 pm )]]> As a Dustoff Pilot, I would fly out for pick-ups in the field. Each day I would see the conditions that the ground troops had to endure and I would draw comparisons to my own situation.
( Published Sunday, October 18th, 2020 @ 8:07 am )]]> Just two bad days in a long year
( Published Sunday, May 24th, 2020 @ 9:00 pm )]]> Long goodbyes have a finality that I have avoided most of my life.
( Published Sunday, May 24th, 2020 @ 1:36 pm )]]> Thomas Wolfe is famous in part for a book published posthumously in 1940: You Can't Go Home Again. I am slowly coming to grips with that fact as I watch old friends, acquaintances and companies Fold Up their Tent and go home (or wherever if you wish).
( Published Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 @ 8:15 am )]]> Like most people, I have a few (???) artifacts from the past in the house.
( Published Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 @ 3:02 pm )]]> Finding the strength to say goodbye,
( Published Sunday, June 17th, 2018 @ 11:18 am )]]> Most of my stories to the grandkids start with believe it or not. In 1963, believe it or not, my school was segregated and the only confusion was with two ethnic Japanese sisters.
( Published Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 @ 9:23 am )]]> The war with France in 1946 and a final war with Cambodia in 1978 are like book ends to 30 years of conflict. Maybe West Point studies this one.
( Published Saturday, April 21st, 2018 @ 5:26 pm )]]> In 1960s Jungle, you could not call a taxi. You could radio base for a Chopper ride and mark your clearing with Smoke.
( Published Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 @ 9:56 pm )]]> The Military has a simple 10 week method to determine mental health ... called boot camp.
( Published Monday, April 16th, 2018 @ 3:28 pm )]]> Cambodian Genocide (The Killing Fields) was the dream of Pol Pot to return Cambodia to an agrarian society by murdering the elite.
( Published Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 6:17 pm )]]> Vietnamese are not fond of mixed children and I am told the Chinese offered to send troops but got a 'thanks but no thanks'.
( Published Sunday, April 8th, 2018 @ 9:08 pm )]]> I truly wish that our founding fathers had been a bit more clear on what they meant when writing the 2nd Amendment but numerous contemporaneous writings clearly show their intent was for individual possession and ownership of firearms.
( Published Saturday, March 17th, 2018 @ 9:06 am )]]> One of my Standard Operating Procedures when I hear of a Vietnam Veteran in the news is to research them to find the 'Story behind the Story.
( Published Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 1:56 am )]]> "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL"
( Published Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 @ 10:50 am )]]> In the spirit of giving this year, it is perhaps appropriate to remember that some gifts cannot be bought or sold but earned.
( Published Saturday, January 6th, 2018 @ 4:11 pm )]]>