Memorial Day Tribute to the Shoulders We Stand On Posted by: Vassar (I’ve posted this and other Memorial Day pieces annually for nearly a decade, but this year it has special meaning in that I get the sense that now that…
Category: Military and Veterans
Savo Sound, 1942, and Our Place on the Current Learning Curve
When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow The lessons most learned from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic)…
Deplorables, The Return of the Taught
Among the Baby Boomer generation, there must be two (2) major missions we agree to undertake before we pass out of sight. We are all that remains of “the taught”, so practically speaking we have until our generation passes away to…
Vindman
When I watched LTC Vindman march up to Congress for his off-camera testimony before Adam Schiff’s impeachment committee, and heard that he was a naturalized US citizen originally from Ukraine, I first noticed the CIB (Combat Infantryman’s Badge) he wore. That told me he was no…