Category: Military
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Take It From The Top – Cleaning My Desk – part the seventh
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Many of you know or know of, my friend Carter, especially if you’ve read any of the back posts. He survived being blown up in an IED incident in 2006 which I attempted to chronicle here. That article had originally been posted on a previous blog site I used to…
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Memorial Day – The HMT Rohna Coverup
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Greetings, everyone. In the United States of America this is holiday called Memorial Day. People will be having picnics and barbecues and doing a lot of fun things. We will be going over to Ben’s house and having a variety of things, including, of course, German Potato Salad. It’s going…
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The French Connection (Hint: not the book)
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The other day my wife handed me a sheaf of papers to go through. This is nothing new, especially since I am a slob and a pack-rat. These papers were some reprints of blogs and articles that I had printed off for her, I don’t remember why. One that caught…
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Veteran’s Day
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On Veteran’s Day, many of the area businesses recognize the contribution of all of our military veterans. This post is just a shout-out to say thanks to all that these businesses gave out today. The lines were really, really long, but it was worth it in the end. Started off…
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One U.S. Soldier
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A large group of Taliban soldiers are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune, “One U.S. soldier is better than ten Taliban.” The Taliban commander quickly sends 10 of his best soldiers over the dune whereupon a gun battle breaks out and…
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Stand Up, Knuckleheads
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We took the grandkids to the park today for our city’s annual balloon festival. We woke them up at 5:15 am and we left the house by 6:10 so we could find parking. Our family tradition for this occasion, ever since our own kids were little, is that we buy…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2015 T
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Blogging A – Z Challenge T is for Time to Remember Time is important. If the Lord wills and I live through a full 24 hour day I will have 1,440 minutes at my disposal. 86,400 seconds. If I were to get a full 8 hours of sleep, which I…
