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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Sunday, June 23, 2019

Digging Up My Cold War Past: Moving Day Soon

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We are moving to a new house next month. Our six kids are in or through college so six bedrooms is more than we need. As we cleaned the ...

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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