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Category Archives: Values
Letters to My Granddaughter, No. 38 (Thanksgiving)
[November 23, 2023] Rowen, long ago I was your age, eight years old and living in a small town, so small there was no traffic light, no grocery store, no park, and no library. Thanksgiving was a big holiday, with family coming in for miles around to eat a great meal cooked by my grandmother; we called her… Read More »
A Woke Gen Z’er Learns Responsibility
[November 21, 2023] Rule #1 in learning how to live a good life is to realize that nobody owes you nuttin’. This is a valuable lesson that most of us learned as children, but some failed to get the message. Here we have a white female, Gen Z’er, who gets stopped for possible drinking and driving. And now… Read More »
I was Given a Letter of Reprimand
[November 19, 2023] It was a red-letter day. On March 17, 2008, I took command of a Brigade in a U.S.-based unit. Brigade is the level of command that truly separates the best from the very best. The change of command was terrific, with hundreds of soldiers, mentors, family, and friends present. Immediately after I sat down with… Read More »
Letters to My Granddaughter, No. 37
[November 17, 2023] “What’s the Boy Scouts?” I asked after my Dad said he’d signed me up as a brand-new Boy Scout. And the first meeting was that very night. Oh, great!! I started with the lowly rank of Tenderfoot. My brother was too young, so he had to stay home and help our Mom. He cried because… Read More »
They Wished to be on the 9/11 Plane
[November 16, 2023] Sometime in early 2002, two Soldiers from my Engineer unit said something that shocked me. They said that they wished they had been on one of those planes that Muslim terrorists used to kill nearly 3,000 innocents on 9/11. Several officers and I were sitting around talking about preparing to go to war in Iraq.… Read More »
Destroy the Palestinian Culture of Death
[November 14, 2023] After the Hamas terror attacks on Israel, killing more than 1,400 civilians, I wrote an article that proposed the only way to stop Palestinian violence was to utterly destroy their culture of death (October 17). And yet few thinkers have dared to agree. But I found one of them, John Hinderaker, at PowerLine (November 13). … Read More »
Letters to My Granddaughter, No. 36
[November 12, 2023] The rain was coming down hard. The night was hot. For that reason, I was allowed to sleep in Bigmama’s twin bed on the first floor, next to an open window; only the screen kept out the night air. An old, oscillating fan blew a breeze over me; occasionally, a spit of rain would come… Read More »
Letters to My Granddaughter, No. 35
[November 10, 2023] I didn’t know it then, but I grew up privileged. Not with money, or status, or owning a big house or car or lots of clothes, but by being in the company of ordinary men, combat veterans from World War II and the Korean War, as well as those who served to protect us at… Read More »
The Common Sense of Ammo Grrrll
[November 9, 2023] Susan Vass, better known as Ammo Grrrll from her writings on PowerLineBlog serves us a dose of common sense today, the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass). Her topic? It is about being scammed, knowing you are being scammed, and telling people you love being scammed. This is how she begins: “…think… Read More »