Veteran AF

Veteran of four wars, four enlistments, four branches: Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard. I am both an AF (Air Force) veteran and as Veteran AF (As Fuck)

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Friday, March 22, 2019

Two Guys Comment on the Book I am Reading: How Fascism Works

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Reading Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism" led me to start reading Jason Stanley's "How Fascism Works...

Thursday, March 21, 2019

The Heel Thing: My Bone Spur and Deployment

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Ten years ago, I was at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, training to deploy to Iraq. With just a week to go before the long flight to the Middle Eas...

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Cold War Barracks Roommate Visits for 37 Hours

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At Philadelphia Airport at 6am During the first months of 1979, my roommate in the barracks of the Wiesbaden Military Community was ...

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Three Kinds of People: Sheep, Sheep Dogs, and Wolves

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The movie "American Sniper" brought into popular culture and old view of people: We are all sheep, sheep dogs, or wolves. It ...

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Inverting the Beatitudes

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The Mount of Olives, Jerusalem Sometimes when I want to know if I really understand an idea, I restate it. More rarely, I invert it...

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...

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