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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Space-Time on My Bicycle

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On the bike, space and time can be interchangeable In Pennsylvania, Germany, Slovakia and many other places I have ridden, the dista...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

3, 2, 1: Chance, Fate and Free Will

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"Free Will" by Mark Balaguer : did I choose to buy it? In the book “The Forgotten Soldier” Guy Sajer describes a moment wh...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

The Forgotten Soldier: "Surely the war must end soon."

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The Forgotten Soldier, a memoir of World War II In the middle of Guy Sajer's story of war on the Eastern Front in World War II, he...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Boston Traffic: Rules Made Up on the Spot

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My Home Town, Boston Boston traffic is now the worst in the nation, maybe worst in the world according to a new survey.  It's not...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

Soldiers Under Any Flag Can Be Great Warriors: The Forgotten Soldier

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 A 17-Year-Old draftee  on the Eastern Front for the entire war.  I just started re-reading "The Forgotten Soldier." ...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Basic Training to Combat Deployment: Just 37 Years!

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C-130 Hercules: I flew on one of these on my first military  flight in 1972 and in Iraq 37 years later. All my life I have been lat...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Ten Years Ago I Was Writing My Name on My Underwear--and Everything Else

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The faded laundry mark from  January 2009  after a few hundred machine washings. Ten years ago there were piles of Army uniforms and...