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Saturday, April 6, 2019

"Smoking's Not Going to Kill Us, They Are:" Tobacco on the Cold War Border

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I started watching "Band of Brothers" again, the HBO series about American paratroopers in World War II. At the beginning...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Talking Racing and Cheating with a Richmond Cab Driver

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Cale Yarborough, NASCAR Champion I took a train to Richmond to visit my daughter and son-in-law. I took a cab to their house from the...
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...