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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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Grandpa Hyman: My Favorite Draft Dodger

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My grandfather Hyman Gussman dodged the draft. He was 44 years old at the time and in Odessa, a Black Sea port in Tsarist Russia. It was ...

Saturday, June 8, 2019

Nuts About Cycling: The Next Call After a Broken Collarbone

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My collarbone after I crashed Twenty-five years ago, in 1994, I decided to get a vasectomy, but it was spring an...

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

My Top 15 Video Series

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Lucius Verenus, Centurion, HBO Series ROME I watch video series more than any other kind of video entertainment. I was talking with a ...

Friday, May 31, 2019

D-Day 75th Anniversary Next Week: Cold War Follows

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Family Gravesite of Major Richard "Dick" Winters One of the 9,000+ graves at the US War Memorial above Omaha Beach On ...

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Draft Dodging, A Matter of Honor

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In 1993, President Bill Clinton spoke at the Vietnam War Memorial. A large group of Vietnam War veterans were in attendance. As soon as ...

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Mennonite Warriors: Pacifist Killers

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Dunkard Mennonite Seal In the early 80s, when I first lived in Lancaster County, I was a tank commander in a Reserve Armor unit based ...

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Thursday, May 9, 2019

F in the Middle Acronyms: Military and Civilian

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In 2007 I re-enlisted after almost a quarter-century as a civilian. I quickly started learning and re-learning acronyms for everything. ...

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