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Showing posts with label Dad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dad. Show all posts
Saturday, April 5, 2025

"You Can Tell Who Boozes by the Company He Chooses" Another of my Dad's Axioms

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  Lt.George Gussman in 1943 One of my Dad's favorite axioms for life is the phrase "You Can Tell Who Boozes by the Company He Choos...
Monday, February 17, 2025

The Every-Other-Asshole Rule

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  My Dad, Lt. George Gussman, during World War II My Dad had several favorite bits of wisdom he lived by.  “You can tell who boozes by the c...
Monday, November 2, 2020

Captain George Gussman on Motivating Americans

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1st Lieutenant George Gussman, US Army, 1943 My Dad, George Gussman, grew up in Boston. He was the fourth of six sons of a Russian Jewish co...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Boston Traffic: Rules Made Up on the Spot

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My Home Town, Boston Boston traffic is now the worst in the nation, maybe worst in the world according to a new survey.  It's not...
Monday, August 13, 2018

The Painting in My Living Room by a Prisoner of War

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 A Picture of Bavaria on My Living Room Wall Painted by an Afrika Korps Prisoner of War When I look up from reading on the couch at n...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Courage and Fear: My Father on Fist Fights and Doctors

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The ideal of the courageous person is one who can and will face any threat and pain in any situation with equal grace. That ideal person c...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Great Dad, Ordinary Dad: So Different for Sons

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My son Nigel and I walking to Church Young boys learn how to be men by watching their fathers. The son of a house painter who wor...
Friday, March 25, 2016

At Home Dad: With Five Baby Mommas!!

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On the Thursday before Easter in 2007, I called Sgt. 1st Class Kevin Askew, the recruiter for the 28th Combat Aviation Brigade, and start...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Photos from My Father's 1st Command, Black Company World War 2

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During the early months of World War 2, my father went to Officer Candidate School.  Since he was very old in Army year, 36, his first comma...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Dad's Last Fist Fight

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This year I am the age my Dad was when he fought and won his last fist fight.  And on Friday of this week, my adopted son Jacari will follow...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

My Dad and I, by the Numbers on Veterans Day

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If my father were alive on this Veterans Day in 2013 he would be 107 years old.  In a strange coincidence of numbers my father left the Army...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Reading Airport--Where my Dad Served In World War 2

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After dropping off infantry soldiers at the Reading Armory, we flew to Reading Airport. This small municipal airport has very little passen...
Monday, April 5, 2010

My Dad on Political Violence

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My Dad's stories about World War 2 were a big part of my childhood.  They were not the stories I saw on Combat! on TV or read in comics ...
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