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  • Failure in Afghanistan

    What just happened? How did it happen so fast? What did we do wrong? I’ll tell you what we did wrong, we didn’t think it through: You don’t get to leave; unless you lose. That should have been obvious from the start. Post WW-II we’re still in Italy, Germany, Japan; post Korea we’re still in… Read more

  • When Lilacs Bloom

    When Lilacs Bloom

    When Lilacs Bloom If Death does come it will be too soon. “Wait! Until the lilacs bloom! And those flowers in the vase beside the door For whom I had not time enough, before.” If Death does come it will be too fast Opportunities all gone past Like toddlers grown, or children gone, Or laughter’s… Read more

  • Citizen Surgeon

    Citizen-Surgeon takes readers into the otherwise inaccessible, remote, and intense world of life and surgery within a combat zone. In the backdrop of the U.S. led war in Afghanistan, amidst a defining U.S. Marine Corps’ offensive to conquer the Marjah region of Helmand Province, [then] U.S. Navy Commander Paul Roach and his company-mates assemble and… Read more

  • The End

    The End

    U.S. Marine Captain Francis Xavier O’Rourke has a big problem: Afghanistan, gunfire, and a helicopter crash have left him burnt, broken, and in pieces. Alas, while hospitalized and in critical condition he meets his end, and in a swirling blaze of brilliance transports into the afterlife. But darling it is not the end; it is not… Read more

  • The Viet Nam War- Worth It?

    The Viet Nam War- Worth It?

    I suppose it’s because it was the backdrop of my youth, born in 1967, that the war was a tunnel from which I exited. Mom, Dad, and my six older brothers and sisters were, of course, more close to it than I. Dad served in Korea; not in Viet Nam. But my oldest brothers had… Read more

  • Book Review: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

    It’s been ages since I’ve posted, and that’s for a variety of reasons. One, I had nothing to say. This, my friends, is definitely worth your time: Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt is a new (~25 yrs ago) book that absolutely blows your mind with its magnificence. The genius of it is in how it… Read more