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November 11, 2010

Veterans Day 2010: Counting the Cost of War

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.” General Robert E. Lee Veterans Day had become a rather somber occasion for me over the past decade and since returning from Iraq in … Continue reading →

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July 31, 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 →

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