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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Seeing Paris in a New Way from Saint-Germain-en-Laye

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The top of the Eiffel tower and Mont-Valerien seen from Saint-Germain-en-Laye  Today I saw Paris in a new way, a...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

Green Beans Coffee in Newark, Terminal B

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At Camp Adder, Iraq, my favorite place was Green Beans Coffee.  Today I am in Newark Liberty Airport and saw a Green Beans coffee for the ...
Monday, February 19, 2018

My First Military Haircut, February 1, 1972

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The night before my Basic Training haircut. When I arrived at Lackland Air Force Base on February 1, 1972, among the first order of bu...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

An American Nazi and a Russian Nazi

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Prison In almost twenty years of service over more than forty years, I met some of the best people it has ever ...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

The Topless Shoeshine Parlor: The Draft-Era Military Really was Different

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After Basic Training, the Air Force sent me to a technical school at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado.   The base is now a comm...
Monday, February 5, 2018

The War We Won, In a Podcast

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In 1991 the Soviet Union ceased to exist. The Cold War ended. There was only one Superpower left in the world. China was still communi...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Immigration and Surviving The Holocaust in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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On the eve of World War in the late 1930s, the original "America First" campaign turned away thousands of Jews who came to Ame...