Category Archives: Respect

What is Most Contemptible: Cowardice or Treason?

By | March 30, 2020

[March 30, 2020]  I do not write enough about cowardice, nor about treason.  It is my sincere belief that both behaviors demonstrate an inherent, elemental weakness in all humans.  In the religious world, we call these weaknesses by the name “sin.”  And while these transgressions against others are odious, some are worse than others.  My question is, “What… Read More »

Hero:  Jack Wilson

By | January 1, 2020

[January 1, 2020]  Welcome to the New Year 2020, where we will surely see an increase in violence, crime, drug use, and yet great hope.  I say “great hope” because there are men like Jack Wilson who gives us hope that there are good people who will adopt responsibility and do what is right, at the right time… Read More »

Imprinting Pearl Harbor on our Memory

By | December 7, 2019

[December 7, 2019] Seventy-Eight years ago, at approximately 8 a.m., Imperial Japanese planes appeared over the Hawaiian island of Oahu.  Less than two hours later the surprise attack was over, and the American naval fleet in the Pacific lay in smoking ruins.  U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt declared the next day that this is a “date which will live… Read More »