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Thursday, March 2, 2017

The Jefferson Library and the Fall of Rome

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Inside the Library of Congress is the Jefferson Library--the 4,929 books Thomas Jefferson owned and read during his long life. His libr...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Courage and Fear: Weapons for Wives

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Five years ago I was eating lunch in the Aviation Armory at Fort Indiantown Gap.  I sat with a Blackhawk helicopter pilot and a Chinook...
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...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Russia and America: Destined to Conflict

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Nearly 200 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville visited America and wrote one of the most important books on America and American politics eve...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Barracks Talk, Locker Room Talk and Old Soldiers

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A few short years ago, when I was 59 years old, I was assigned to a field barracks in Northern Michigan with a unit I had never trained o...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Volunteer Army Consolidated Mess

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Consolidate Mess line, or German prisoners marching out of Stalingrad? In almost every way, I liked the draft Army and the Cold War Ar...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

One Last Haircut: World War II Vet Shares a Story After Forty Years

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Elias King learned to cut hair while serving as a gunner’s mate on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II.   When I met him in 198...