If you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything… So you get humor… “Best” headlines of 2007… Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter This one I caught in the SGV Tribune the other day and called the Editorial … Continue reading
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This one came over the transom from the Mil email net… To understand a Military Veteran you must know: We left home as teenagers or in our early twenties for an unknown adventure. We loved our country enough to defend … Continue reading
Why do we say that? One of the reasons is that this was a cowardly attack on US soil against innocent civilians… I lost three friends in the Pentagon Navy Ops Center. Captain Larry Getzfred, AW1 Joe Pycoir, and Jack … Continue reading
Sigh… You’re really old if you remember these… Note- There were only six colors in the original boxes, by the 1950s there were EIGHT colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black) in the school crayon boxes… And … Continue reading
To think about… Ran across this the year before I retired the first time. Used it for some planning tools, and later used it when I went back in 2003… It’s an excellent breakdown by Tim Knoster of change management. … Continue reading
As opposed to maps… WSF’s comment on yesterday’s post kicked off some memories. These are charts, with a wealth of information… First up, a sectional of the area around the Wyoming/Colorado border. The normal scale on these is 1:250,000 (1 … Continue reading
Edit- Gah, scheduler didn’t schedule this morning, sorry! Maps can be important for any number of reasons… Directions, topography, distances, etc. But they can also be educational… Red is the highest population areas in the US Or, you can look … Continue reading
Playing with a short story concept here… I know, I know, it’s NOT the western I’m supposed to be working on, but the muse is driving… 13 September 1943, Palermo, IT, US military replacement depot A grizzled, frazzled sergeant stood … Continue reading
There was an article in The Atlantic that came out Thursday anonymously sourced that said Trump was dismissive of troops while on the Normandy celebration. When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in … Continue reading
First up is my friend Larry Correia with the third book in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior- Destroyer of Worlds As always, click the covers for the Amazon links! The blurb- IF IT’S WAR YOU WANT . . . … Continue reading