Vietnam War
Recently there has been a lot of talk about how the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden is getting screwed out of his benefits by the government, and people are outraged at the way veterans are being treated in this country. Really? Do you think this is anything new? Ask a Vietnam veteran how [...]
The recently released video that allegedly shows U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of three dead Taliban fighters has provoked a firestorm of criticism around the world. From the White House to the halls of the Pentagon, to newspapers and blogs everywhere, the desecration of the enemy bodies is being condemned. Yes, it’s horrible. But [...]
We are becoming a nation of wimps, and I’m afraid that someday it’s going to kill us all! If you grew up in my generation, you remember those schoolroom drills where we all got under our desks to be “saved” from an atom bomb’s blast. You may have had a friend, relative, or neighbor who [...]
It’s not about cookouts. It’s not about loading the kids and dogs into the car for a long weekend at the lake. It’s not about having an extra morning to sleep in. It’s about a young man named Charles Saxton, who left his home in Maumee, Ohio in July of 1942 to serve his country. [...]
During the Vietnam War, and probably during every war since the first caveman threw the first spear at the guy in the next cave, there has been the truth as those far away perceived things, and the truth that the man on the ground experienced. More than once, during my time overseas, small skirmishes in [...]
Do you remember Chicken Little, the storybook character who ran around screaming “The sky is falling?” I bet if you were into genealogy and did some research, you would find that Chicken Little has a huge family tree, because we certainly don’t have any shortage of people warning us about one impending calamity after another. [...]
I’m sure that headline might upset some people, but if you will read on and let me tell you a story, you may see my point. Once, when I was a young soldier, in a land far, far away, I was ordered to guard a prisoner until whatever spooks from headquarters were interested in him [...]
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At one time I knew a woman who had been a teenage victim of incest. It was a terrible thing to have happened, and I truly sympathized with her for a while. But the more I got to know her, the more I realized that she had never dealt with the experience, in spite of [...]
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