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Thursday, March 15, 2018

Every Week in Cold War West Germany, Gas Mask Drills

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Every week during my three years in Cold War West Germany,  the Tankers of 1-70th Armor had a MOPP drill. Gene Pierce, Abel Lopez and...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Chaplain on Every Convoy, Every Remote Fire Base

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Chaplain Timothy S. Valentine  During the first few months of my deployment Camp Adder, Iraq, in 2009, my favorite chaplain, and the f...
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...