This post is #804. As you have seen lately, I no longer write every day, but I write every day I do something Army and other things that are related to being an old soldier.
Today also was the day the of the 70,000th visit to the site. Some of those visitors looked at other pages so the site has had 91,000 page views also.
since I no longer provide any information about the war--except passing along coverage by others--I am going to add my favorite milblogs to my navigation bar. As always, the Thunder Run is the best and the link is already there, but others are worth listing too.
Elegy in Blue: Mark Helprin Still Believes in Heroes
Reading Mark Helprin ’s Elegy in Blue feels like visiting an old friend, a friend who is clearly aging, (as am I) but still his brilliant s...
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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... -
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...
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