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Part I here. “Yeah, should be a good night for hunting – wonder what we’ll bag tonight…” he thought as he walked out to the waiting Hawkeye with the Skipper. “Omaha 51, check right one o’clock, 4 miles, heading 280, angels 3…” “51, negative contact” Damn he thought, Is this guy blind or what?

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Pearl Harbor – 69 Years Later

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About that Global Warming Deal (II). . .

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The Ties That Bind

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Project CADILLAC: AEW And the US Navy (Part Two)

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