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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Books and War: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

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A Tour Bus Ride from Hell to Heaven War gave me faith in 1973 when I was blinded by shrapnel in a missile explosion. War almost took...
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...