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Monday, November 28, 2016

Gutting a Deer in the Driveway in 1980

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Today, my kids are home from school because in Pennsylvania, school is closed on the first day of deer season.   I grew up in Boston ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Sergeant Bambi Killer: Nicknames Happen as Fast as Machine Gun Fire

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From 1982 to 1984 I was a Staff Sergeant and tank section leader in Alpha Company, 6th Battalion, 68th Armor.  For the last few months I w...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Movie Review: "Prisoner of the Mountains" "Кавказский пленник"

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Last night I watched the 1996 movie " Prisoner of the Mountains " loosely based on a short story by Leo Tolstoy called "...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

This is My Shit: Why Army Language Makes Sense

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While I was in Iraq, I wrote about the word Shit as a pronoun. The post is here . Earlier today I was reading a book called The Zone  by S...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Obama Will Take Our Guns

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The 28th Combat Aviation Brigade mobilized for Iraq in January of 2009.  My battalion flew to Fort Sill for training at the end of the mo...
Friday, November 4, 2016

Riding in 2017--A Story

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“Shane, Shane is right as rain,” Shane sang to himself as he drove north on Pennsylvania Route 74 from York.   He saw dark clouds to th...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Feeling More Jewish as the World Moves to the Right

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    In mid-August, while I was returning from a family vacation in Santa Fe and enjoying life, the world got darker.  A candidate for...