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Monday, November 20, 2017

SPQR and America

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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...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Cold War Hero Who Served After 1991

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Armand Lattes, Professor Emeritus of the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the world faced a...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Why is Veteran's Day Today? Who is a Veteran?

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Almost 20 years ago when I had been a bearded civilian for more than a decade and was still almost ten years away from re-enlisting...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: MAD--Mutually Assured Destruction

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The 60s was the heyday of “Mad Magazine” and MAD as the centerpiece of our Cold War strategy. MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction —became ...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

My Last Tanker Nickname: Oddball

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Donald Sutherland as Oddball, a tank commander in the movie "Kelly's Heroes" I got my last tanker nickname more t...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: ICBMs (InterContinentalBallistic Missiles)

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LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM. The name of every type of missile describes how far it flies. So an ICBM, or Intercontinental Ballistic Mis...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Real Senior Moment and a Book About the Iraq War

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I just had a real senior moment about a book about PTSD. The book, Thank You For Your Service  by David Finkel will be released soon as ...