Let me say at the outset that I have heard nothing but positive things about the Veterans Administration (VA) Operation in Fargo. My son, my nephew and many of my students that are veterans tell me that they are treated well there. Having said that I have long been disappointed in the stories of substandard [...]
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He is dead…but all is not well.
My son Noah called me last night around 10 PM to tell me the big news - U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden. He had hoped that the 10th Mountain Division (his home base while he was in the Army) was involved in this final resolution to a decade long saga. It seemed appropriate [...]
THE GREATEST INJUSTICE – VETERANS’ SUICIDES.
I am angry today having heard about the suicide of veteran advocate Clay Hunt (see the article here). This article was posted by a colleague on Facebook and it struck the same raw nerve that is hit every single time I hear of another veteran or soldier suicide (or worse, a veteran or soldier homicide/suicide). [...]
Suicide is never the answer.
Cheyenne is not all that big a fan of watching the Oprah show. It records to my DVR daily and then the episodes just pile up until Cheyenne is with her dad and I have the time to sit down for an Oprah marathon. Lately, to sit for even an hour to watch television seems [...]
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace…
Noah in Kandahar in 2004 "The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." ~Douglas MacArthur I too pray for peace and I recognize that the price of freedom has come at a much higher cost for some than others. Today I [...]
These things I remember…
My hard drive is full. The hard drive that is my brain that is. I wish the brain was the same as a computer where you could just add new memory as needed. If that was possible I would have long ago upped my memory capacity exponentially. Alas, absent that avenue I am stuck with [...]
Will you be there?
Here I am, back in North Dakota after a fabulous week out in Emmitsburg with friends and colleagues that I typically only get to see once a year (in the photo above taken in Emmitsburg are my disaster diva girlfriends - Claire and Dorothy). It was grand - to be sure...and a tad tiring, but [...]
THE NEW FORTY 