Monthly Archives: July 2009
Going to War: Planes, Pit Stops, Patriots and Pubs… the Flight to Kuwait
WWII Troopship USS Cape San Juan 1943 Going to war now days is certainly different than it was a generation or two back. Back in World War II and Korea the primary manner in which troops deployed to and returned … Continue reading
Filed under iraq,afghanistan, Military, Tour in Iraq
The Forgotten Cold Warriors
Checkpoint Charlie in the Berlin Crisis Note: As a follow up to this Article I posted “20 Years: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End of the Cold War” to this site. The link to that article is … Continue reading
Filed under History, Loose thoughts and musings, Military, national security
Offensively Offending the Chronically Offended
We live in a country that has transformed itself into one of the thinnest skinned, easily offended and offendable bunch of folks in the world. It doesn’t seem to matter what political affiliation, religion, race, gender, socio-economic group or Dodger’s … Continue reading
Filed under Loose thoughts and musings, philosophy, Politics
Correction Mr Bean Church video link
I updated my last post by getting a better link to Mr Bean in church video the last would not open from outside the original site.
Filed under Loose thoughts and musings
Loose Thoughts: Can Somebody Tell Me What Sleep is and Why the Old Crap? Why not New Crap?
Mr Bean Trying to Stay Awake in Church. I can Really Relate See the video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7178785146631188901&ei=UthpSvKcCpv-qAOCyJAd&q=mr+bean+in+church&hl=en Tuesday and Wednesday were days where the old Crap both my own life and others kept rising to the top. My current and … Continue reading
Filed under iraq,afghanistan, leadership, Loose thoughts and musings, philosophy, PTSD, Religion
Special Prayer Requst
A former patient at my hospital named Don went to a transplant center for a shot at a lung transplant. He’s a relatively young retired Navy guy and like me a Tides fan and Gordon Biersch Regular. He asked me … Continue reading
Filed under Loose thoughts and musings
My Brotherhood of War
RP2 Nelson Lebron and Me- The RST-2 “Desert Rats” Back in the mid 80s shortly after I was commissioned as an Army Officer there was a series of historical novels by W.E.B. Griffin called the Brotherhood of War. The series … Continue reading
Filed under healthcare, iraq,afghanistan, Military, PTSD, Religion, Tour in Iraq
