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Reflections: Smuggler’s Blues (III)
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Midway Week & TAD
This week is the 69th anniversary of the Battle of Midway.  In recognition of that, check with your local VFW/American Legion Post for local observances and try and make it a point to attend. To help, here’s a listing of known events from around the country: 2009 BOM ANNIVERSARY AND UNIT REUNION ANNOUNCEMENTS 1….
Reflections: The Jacket
Solo travel has a way of providing time – time for reflection, time for review, time for introspection. Prolonged layovers in particular, provide that time (ed – and a lot of it, if this recent trip is to be judged). It was while cooling his heels in another (not so) antiseptic terminal somewhere along his…
Of Transitions and Enduring Gratitutde
Like Skippy-san, a fellow Citadel alumnus, I received the following in an email last night: Retiring Citadel faculty to be recognized April 17 Five members of The Citadel faculty will retire this academic year and will be recognized during the annual Faculty Recognition Luncheon April 17. Retiring faculty members, their departments and years of service…
Of Snow and Buffoonery Around the Beltway
(Actually was thinking of something that rhymes with mass-hattery, but we’re family friendly here – SJS) So – season’s first snow and coming midday like it did only portends ill…We were not disappointed. So much road, so much snow — so many idiots. But one in particular merited special attention as he went whizzing by,…