“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.” Robert E. Lee I began my flight home from the Middle East three years ago today. Three years ago I could not imagine … Continue reading →
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Tagged as 2008 presidential election, abandoned by god, abandonment, al asad, al waleed, algerian independence movement, anthony quinn, COP north, cop south, crisis of faith, dien bien phu, dietrich bonhoeffer, egypt protests, fallujah, french algeria, french indochina, french paratroops, hit, iraq, iraq war, jean lartenguy, korean villiage, lost command, political violence, psychological collapse, PTSD, ramadi, spiritual crisis, ta qaddum, the balkans, the centurions, toxic political climate, violent political language
Happy New Year! Well, we have killed off the first decade of the new millennium and I hate to say it but I miss the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Somehow despite the threat of double secret nuclear annihilation, disco, and … Continue reading →
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