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(Please, not these...) Dear Readers of Open Salon, help. The few who might see this, and know something of my prior writing, will know that I am a soldier, and that I am in Afghanistan. This means...
View ArticleBeing a Father from 7,000 Miles Away
From: backsight_forethought@fakeaddress.comTo: IncredibleDaughter@hotmail.comSubject: RE: ChangesDate: Mon, 23 May 2011 12:14:09 -0400Daughter Forethought, As always, I cannot tell you how...
View ArticleUpon Fiddler's Green
“Halfway down the trail to Hell,In a shady meadow greenAre the Souls of all dead troopers camped,Near a good old-time canteen.And this eternal resting placeIs known as Fiddlers' Green.” The...
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** Some time ago, a few years actually, I was having lunch at a dining facility in Iraq and I found myself sharing a table with several members of a Personal Security Detachment or a “PSD,”...
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O.B.E. According to thundering proclamations in nearly every professional journal the army has, we have passed, once again, through the throes of a new “Revolution in Military Affairs.”...
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