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Monday, August 31, 2020

Bike Racing Embarrassment: “What a big one!”

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    At most bicycle races, we deal with pre-race nervousness by riding to a tree and facing away from the road or waiting in line at a Port-...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Vote Trump to Support Israel? Not This American Jew!

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    I know Jews in America and Israel who support re-electing the current President based in part on his support for Israel.  I can understa...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

In My Next War I'm On The Other Side of Asymmetric Warfare

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Between 1972 and 2016 our country was always at war. Even in the decade between 1991 and 2001 when The Cold War was over and the Gulf War wa...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Sophie's Choice and Several Others by Meryl Streep

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  After we watched "Sophie's Choice" my wife and I decided to watch several Meryl Streep movies. We next watched "The Fre...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Military Service Always Risks Death

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  In 1971 Murrie Hubbard and I graduated from Stoneham High School.  Among the 371 graduates only Murrie and I served during the Vietnam War...
Monday, August 10, 2020

America's Future: Combat Medic in Training

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  Emily Burgett on Mount Monadnock just before enlisting  Eleven years ago, I wrote a lot of articles with the general title "Who Fight...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Academy Class Ranking Does Not Predict Success, or Morality

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John McCain, 894th of 899 class of 1958, US Naval Academy Class ranking at the academies do not predict success in the military or in life. ...