Fifty years? A half-century? You’re kidding, right?
Apparently not. I was surrounded by a crowd in Phoenix for a film festival showing of “Platoon” and the turnout was impressive. But…
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All of us who came of age in the late 1960s are familiar with the sweet tenor voice and harmonious lyrics of Jesse Colin Young on “Get Together,” one of…
Most days I’d shy away from telling a personal love story. This is not one of those days. What little remains of my family lost a beloved matriarch this month…
One of the lessons I learned during my 365 days in Vietnam was to expect the unexpected. That might explain why I wasn’t too surprised when I joined a pickup…
Call me a closet curmudgeon. I’m a guy who grew up reading, listening to, and later watching the news religiously. Now I’m the old poop in a recliner cackling like…
One of my all-time favorites, Jerry Butler, former lead singer of the Impressions and a highly successful solo artist in the 1960s and ‘70s, passed away last week. He was…
It was a tough call. A young man sitting next to me in an airport lounge wanted to know if I’d recommend joining the Marine Corps. I found myself struggling…
Our current Commander-in-Chief isn’t a military veteran but he damn sure understands the OODA Loop. In fact, I’m now convinced that using Air Force Colonel John Boyd’s famous decision-making tool…
In 1989, the Marine Corps’ maneuver warfare doctrine began to investigate U.S. Air Force Colonel John R Boyd’s “OODA Loop” in attempts to discover how and why rapid decisions are…
After Vietnam and grad school, I arrived in Madison, Wisconsin in June 1974, trying to find my way home. Luckily, I saw an article in the local paper about a…
My phone stayed silent on Inauguration Day. No missed calls or voice messages from the 202 area code. Apparently no one in the old administration or the new one cared…
I shed more than one tear when I heard the news of the passing of Sam Moore earlier this month. When I’d booked Sam and Dave to perform at my…