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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

My Next Race--Fighting Back Against Aging

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Riding at Camp Adder, Iraq. The Army won't deploy a soldier who is more than sixty years old without a waiver signed by a general o...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Catching Up with a World Traveling Friend: Ivan Porccino

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Ivan Porccino at a visit to Georgia Military Institute Twenty years ago I worked for a big American company that bought a big Brazil...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Unforgettable Moment, B-52s Scramble, Hill Air Force Base, 1974

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B-52 Bombers taking off on full throttle on Strategic Air Command alert I was stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, from 1972-74. E...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

Fishing My Phone from a Storm Drain

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This grabber saved me lots of money  Yesterday I rode south from Lancaster for about fifteen miles. On the way back I was coasting down...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Loving the Book is not the Same as Liking the Author

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Mark Helprin, I love his books, hate his politics   My two favorite living authors are very different men. I have read all of the nove...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Military Movies and "The Rule"

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Dick Winters, inspiration for the book and video series Band of Brothers The world is full of good, great and terrible things to watch...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Soldiers Hate the Media—They Always Have

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Ron Chernow’s thousand-page biography Grant explains the life and legacy of the General who won the Civil War, and the President who ...