31-40 of 81 hubssort by Hot Best Latest
67Remote, Isolated and The Prospects of Strippers!
Me at Campion AFS near Galena, Alaska 1970 A normal tour of duty in the USAF is four years and Uncle Sam has no qualms about where you spend that time but you do fill out a dream sheet for duty assignments...
4 comments
61My Little Brother-My Hero
My brother David and his wife Susan It was a July morning in 1953 when my dad took me and my sister, Wilma, across the creek to the Owens house where we would stay for the next several days while our mom was...
5 comments
54The Monster Pt.2
The Viet Nam War was in actuality, never a war. Congress never declared war on North Viet Nam, and throughout its duration, it was officially classified a “police action”. America, was there to protect...
2 comments
54Can History Decide? Bush on Asia
Every once in a while I see an essay about why we should study history. Here's a very good one, by a hubber who happens to be a history teacher. But there's a practical reason to study history, too. We need...
2 comments
51Global Affairs and Finance for November 6, 2009
Global Affairs and Finance for November 6, 2009 At least 13 people were killed and 30 more wounded in a shooting at Ford Hood in Texas on Thursday, and authorities are finding thus far a troubling...
0 comments
70How to buy Civet Coffee / Kopi Luwak
Civet Coffee or Kopi Luwak is harvested in lands like the Philippines and Viet Nam. The Civet is a cat sized mammal related to the mongoose. It lives in Southeast Asia and Southern China. The animals eat...
0 comments
51PTSD AND ME
I was just graduating high school while my future husband returned from the Viet Nam war. He had been drafted in 1967-'68. He was 19 years old and his whole life was ahead of him. While serving his country in...
0 comments
7918-Love Letters from Vietnam: Basic Was Never Like This
The Soldiers' Story Click the title above for an informative and quite comprehensive preview of the book by NBC's bureau chief in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Ron Steiman. It is the accompanying text to the...
0 comments
71My Sisters First Sentence
When we were young we weren't allowed to watch television, my father claimed it made for idiots. We grew up traveling all over the United States and Europe. So the events in our lives cannot be blamed on...
0 comments
68Friends from Other Countries - What I've Learned from Them
My husband and I bought a new house in a middle-class, American, suburb, when eldest son was three years old. What was kind of surprising, and yet nice, about our neighborhood of all new homes was that the...
3 comments
