Reflections

A Christmas Videocard For You

BySteeljawscribe 15 December 200915 December 2009

From all the ink-stained wretches here, wishing all of you a Merry Christmas and safe and prosperous year to come:

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Praise and Thanksgiving
BySteeljawscribe 24 November 2010

O BE joyful in the LORD, all ye lands: * serve the LORD with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. Be ye sure that the LORD he is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; * we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. O…

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Reflections – NFO Copilot
BySteeljawscribe 9 January 2007

In the mid-80’s, the VAW community in an attempt to address soaring OPTEMPO and a shortage of pilots tried the NFO Copilot program, wherein 2nd tour LTs and LCDRs were taken through a FRS NATOPS syllabus and qualified to fly right seat for day/VMC ops off the boat… “So Scribe, what was it like as…

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Pearl Harbor – 69 Years Later
BySteeljawscribe 6 December 2010

“AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR.Â THIS IS NOT A DRILL” Sixty-nine years ago those words ushered in a period of unbelievable agony, trial, effort and sacrifice.Â What was once before was forever changed afterward.Â Jack-booted thugs bent on their “Final Solution” strode cobblestone streets of the land distantly remembered as the forebear of a new nation,…

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The 11th Hour, of the 11th Day, of the 11th Month – When the Guns Fell Silent
BySteeljawscribe 11 November 2012

At the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month…the guns fell silent along what was known then as the Western Front as the Allies and Germany observed the agreement to end this “War to End All Wars.” While fighting continued sporadically elsewhere, in what were fast becoming the former empires of Russia…

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Remembering Columbine – 10 Years Later
BySteeljawscribe 20 April 20098 September 2010

It began as an ordinary, early spring day – teachers going about their business of teachingÂ students; students doing what normal high school students are wont to do.Â At 1140, it dramatically, tragically changed with 12 students and a teacher dead and 23 others physically wounded – many more emotionally scarred. Two years, four months…

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Overseas RFI: 474th Fighter Group (WWII)
BySteeljawscribe 21 June 201121 June 2011

As I’ve noted elsewhere – one of the great things about running a blog are the contacts you make from around the world about the darnedest things. Some few years back I put up a post in the MIA section about the return of 2ndLt Ray Packard, a rookie P-38 pilot thrown into a battle…

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Santa says:

22 December 2009 at 02:39

Hello dude, nice site Happy Holidays!

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