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Spring Bookstand Cleaning
On the NightstandIt’s Spring again. My roses are growing up into the oak branches and the irises have blossomed for the...
CONTINUE READING →A Year for Travel……
On the NightstandDecember, 2016: 2016 was a year of travel. It took me to Maine and Colorado and Montana but most...
CONTINUE READING →From Tet to Tet in Vietnam: March 10-11, 1968
ArticlesCOURAGE, WITH NO HOPE: THE MEN OF RADAR LIMA SITE 85 The last North Vietnamese attack of the January...
CONTINUE READING →Hope, and Courage. On this day…
ArticlesThe Tet, February 29, 1968 The Tet attack on Huễ became the longest battle during the Tet offensive of...
CONTINUE READING →Hope and Courage
ArticlesOn this day in 1968, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, American marines defended the assault on Khe Sanh...
CONTINUE READING →On the Nightstand: A Verdugo Winter
On the NightstandThe word verdugo is, of course, from the Spanish office of torturer for the Inquisition. That group’s work was...
CONTINUE READING →Touching the Past: In Honor of Veterans
ArticlesThe way led down a paved road, then another mile on a rough road past a farmhouse, then off...
CONTINUE READING →St. Crispin’s Day, 600 years on: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
ArticlesOctober 25 is St. Crispin’s Day, originally celebrated for a cobbler who was martyred by the Romans in AD...
CONTINUE READING →On the Nightstand: Autumn (book) leaves….
On the NightstandAutumn. It’s a wonderful autumn, with cooler days (from the hundreds down...
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