Let me start off by saying I have an oar in this water. I am a dual American-Israeli citizen. I have no intention of going back there to live or visit. I’m too old for extended travel and our roots… Read More ›
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HONOR THE FIGHTERS WHILE HATING THE WAR
WQ #21: Is Being Honorable Better Than Happiness? Being happy — really happy — is always a better choice than pretty much anything else. Words like honorable always leave me wondering what exactly it means? By whose standards? I have my… Read More ›
BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE
A FLASHBACK FRIDAY POST FROM RICH PASCHALL It has been well over a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. They apparently hoped to add them to their country as they did with Crimea. They miscalculated the resolve of the Ukrainian people… Read More ›
AN OUTBREAK OF PEACE – CHRISTMAS 1914
The Christmas truce (German: Waffenstillstand; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front during the Christmas season of 1914. During the days leading to Christmas, German and British soldiers left their trenches… Read More ›
BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE
And A Bumpy Road It Was, by Rich Paschall The memories live on. It’s not like they were yesterday, but they are still pretty clear. We lived through cold wars and real wars and you would have thought we had… Read More ›
WAR?
Talk about going back to the olden days. Wow, we are on a roll! Watching news tonight was a return to the 1950s when we were hiding under our desks so the A-bomb wouldn’t hit us. Even as a child,… Read More ›
IN SEARCH OF PEACE ON EARTH – RICH PASCHALL
The Same Auld Lang Syne, by Rich Paschall Another year has begun and we can see it is not exactly the same as days gone by. If “old acquaintance be forgot” as one year passes into another, then we would… Read More ›
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR
I have an opinion about ending the war in Afghanistan — this endless, expensive, pointless war. We shouldn’t have gone there in the first place. They had nothing to do with 9/11 and experts at the time said it was… Read More ›
NO LONGER WILL THEY COME
AMERICAN SOIL IN A FOREIGN LAND – RICH PASCHALL A few years ago on V.E. Day, Armistice Day for the end of World War II in Europe, I visited the American cemetery at St. Avold. It is the final home… Read More ›
BRUTALLY HONEST – Marilyn Armstrong
Medical terminology is designed to take the sting — and sometimes the responsibility — out of troubling problems. PTSD – Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is the latest entry in trying to find a way around admitting war is bad for soldiers… Read More ›
MARCHING FOR THE CAUSE? NOT EXACTLY. – Marilyn Armstrong
So the question was: “If your day-to-day responsibilities were taken care of and you could throw yourself completely behind a cause, what would it be?” You mean other than loathing our current president? The answer is I wouldn’t. I can… Read More ›
THE WORLD WAR ONE CHRISTMAS TRUCE – 1914 – Marilyn Armstrong
The Christmas truce (German: Waffenstillstand; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front during the Christmas season of 1914. During the days leading to Christmas day, German and British soldiers left their… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 