Veteran of four wars, four enlistments, four branches: Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard. I am both an AF (Air Force) veteran and as Veteran AF (As Fuck)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Nature Update
And following my last post, here's Katharine Sanderson's view of running in Philadelphia on the blog at Nature magazine.
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Reading Robert Alter: The Psalms and the Wisdom Books
Over the past year I have read two of Robert Alter 's remarkable translations of the Hebrew Bible: The Book of Psalms and, more recen...
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Tasks, Conditions and Standards is how we learn to do everything in the Army. If you are assigned to be the machine gunner in a rifle squad...
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
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Senatus Populusque Romanus The Senate and People of Rome Some of the soldiers I served with in Iraq talked about getting an SPQR tat...