Thoughts on Nagasaki Day

My mother served as a WAC — Women’s Army Corps — in General Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters in Tokyo during the Korean War, and she came to know the Japanese people, inasmuch as that was possible for a white woman who didn’t speak Japanese, in the early 1950s. She met and married my father there, so …

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Bucks, Bullets, and the Business of Land Grabs: A Hunter’s Take on Fort Knox and Fort A.P. Hill

You don’t expect to feel history crunching under your boots when you’re dragging a tree stand into the woods. But at places like Fort Knox and Fort A.P. Hill, that’s exactly what you get—world-class hunting grounds layered over old farmsteads, lost churches, and more than a few hard truths about eminent domain.

The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 1

Former POW of the Viet Cong, COL James N. Nick Rowe sits for an interview on resilience.

What I could use is in this 5th Generation War is 12 psychological gifts from the king of resilience, COL James N. “Nick” Rowe, U.S. Army Green Beret and survivor of five years as a Viet Cong prisoner of war in the swampy U Minh Forest of southernmost Vietnam.

Genes And Jeans Are Not Racist

Genes And Jeans Are Not Racist

Pushing a standard Democrat talking point, this “professor” failed to mention that it was Dems, lead by President Wilson, and Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, who promoted the idea that certain races were inferior and should not be reproducing. Sanger pushed the reduction/elimination of the negroid race in America via abortion.

Not my Father’s (or my Mother’s) Democratic Party

My parents were lifelong Democrats. My mother sometimes volunteered at polling stations during primary and general elections. My father, a lifelong salesman with a great gift of gab, occasionally canvassed for various Democratic candidates.