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Natural Law, Afghanistan and Vietnam, Have We Learned Anything?

vassar / August 18, 2021

I had a new chapter in my How Things Work in Natural Law series already outlined when History suddenly repeated itself over the past few days, proving the viability of those laws, which I’ll restate shortly. There’s a lesson here…

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Famous Common People I have Known: Gays in the Military, a Wartime Remembrance

vassar / June 26, 2021

  “Policies Concerning Homosexuals” have changed since I was an Army defense lawyer in the closing years of the Vietnam War. “Being boarded out” was a large part of my defense work. I’d be interested to know how attitudes stand up…

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The Time I Took my Wife to Meet the Girls at Manos in Tokyo

vassar / June 11, 2021

You already know the story of my first visit to Manos, the Russian spy-restaurant in Tokyo. It was 1972. It was run by two brothers from Pittsburgh, former OSS officers during WWII, and within shouting distance of the Soviet embassy, where, at…

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