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Thursday, June 14, 2018

AIM-9 Explodes on the Test Stand

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--> AIM-9 Sidewinder missile fired from an F/A-18C My job in the Air Force was Aging and Surveillance Testing of mis...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Tanks from Inside, Tanks from Outside: The Huge Difference

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The podcast Sectarian Review just did an episode on Philip Roth. It included a passage from American Pastoral using a military tank as a...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

My New Breakfast Club--Jewish Draft-Era Veterans

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In November of last year, I started going to the Wednesday morning Minyan prayer group at a synagogue in Lancaster City-- Congregation Sh...
Monday, May 28, 2018

On Memorial Day: Visiting the Grave of Major Richard "Dick" Winters

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Major Richard Winters, 1918-2011 This morning I got a message on Facebook from Sarah Frye Gingrich. She was asking about a gravesite ...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Faith in the Military: Chaplains During the Cold War and the Current Wars

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Army Chaplain with Armor Unit In the Cold War Army of the 1970s, the Protestant Chaplains were very different men than most of the C...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

The German Evangelical Church Backed the Nazis in 1932 Then Turned on Their Jewish Members

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In Charlottesville in 2017 Nazi flags and Rebel flags flew together. Jim Crow laws in the American South  inspired the German race l...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Live Forever? Yes! In This Body? No.

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Unicorn Farting a Rainbow: Long life and lack of reality Today and many other days, a nice person less than half my age said somethi...