…and a new Education Model in America can provide both employment and justification for veterans service. For a few years I managed a veterans website called “VeteransTales”. It was constructed by my author-friend and colleague, @DavidMPoff. We stopped publishing after…
Category: Military and Veterans
Reprisals and the Killing of Civilians in War
“In Belgium there are many towns whose cemeteries today have rows and rows of memorial stones inscribed with a name, the date 1914, and the legend, repeated over and over: “Fusille par les Allemandes” (shot by the Germans). In many…
Send Me, Isaiah 6, from Fury
Requires no commentary, 5 tankers in World War II, behind German, their tank unable to move, and a battalion of German troops headed for them.
Salutin’ Demons
I know, the way we fight wars has changed, but I suspect life around headquarters command centers hasn’t. In the long campaigns in World War II, North Africa, Italy and France, units were often sent back to the rear for R…
Undesirables I Have Known, Stolen Valor, 1972
I arrived at my new duty assignment in Japan in February, 1972. They had just concluded a rare general court martial for that command, Attempted Murder. It had ended with an acquittal and the entire JAG staff was outraged. The fellow who beat…