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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

The Sergeant's Major in Film and Video

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Last night I finished re-watching the HBO series "Generation Kill," about a Marine Recon Battalion during the invasion of Ira...
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Saturday, April 27, 2019

Wisdom Tooth Out With A Hammer and Chisel, Hill AFB, 1973

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Dental Hammer and Chisel Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah, was my first duty station after tech school at Lowry AFB.  In the Spring of...
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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Sleep Deprived: The Suffering Built Into Every Military

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Today is one month since I got knee-replacement surgery. Inside my stiff, swollen, sore left leg is something like the titanium and plast...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

My Physical Therapist is a Marine

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Marine Corps Basic Training I started outpatient physical therapy yesterday. I have two therapists. One leads me in various exercises f...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Screwed Out of Retirement at 19 Years

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Yesterday, I got a call from a soldier I served with in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Her father is 59 years old, a Sergeant Fir...
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...