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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Friday, March 4, 2022

Bad Religion Kills Good People

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The book "Prisoners of Geography" by Tim Marshall begins, "Vladimir Putin says he is a religious man, a great supporter of t...

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Flying with No ID

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Today my son Nigel was flying to the east coast and had an ID that said "Not for use as Federal Identification." I had not gotte...

Monday, February 28, 2022

War and Wooden Shoes

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Sabot is one of the names for the wooden shoe that in the Lexicon of War. One of the reports I heard about the Invasion of Ukraine talked ab...

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Waterloo: A Visit to the Museum and Battlefield

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On a cold, clear, windy afternoon earlier this month I visited the museum and battlefield of Waterloo, Belgium: the scene of the final def...

Sunday, February 20, 2022

1776 by David McCullough: Book 9 of 2022

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I bought this book more than a year ago. A friend who teaches literature said he has read this book every couple of years for more than a ...

Friday, February 18, 2022

Red Baron Memorial in France

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Beside a narrow road Vaux-sur-Somme, France , is a modest memorial to the most well-known fighter pilot in history: Baron Manfred Friedric...

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

A Visit to Chartres Cathedral

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On the was back from visiting the Circuit de Sarthe, the race course of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I stopped at Chartres Cathedral . It is o...

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