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74Democrats Endorse Sarah Palin
The Democratic leaders might as well have announced their intention of getting Sarah Palin into the White House in 2012 when they pushed, bullied, cajoled, bribed, and generally strongarmed their in-party...
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70Remote, 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...
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80Memories of Viet Nam
It’s that time of year when the heat vanishes with the sun, the breeze whipping up the change in temperature. We’re sitting in the dark, and he’s whispering. I can see the tears suspended in his...
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7143-Love Letters From Vietnam: Will This Relationship End?
To Read Letters from the beginning of Tim and Kate's Journey, Click Here. 7 December, 1969 Dearest Kate, O my Love, it was so good to hear your voice today. Kate, what a position we find ourselves in....
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79Independent Voter | Old Soldier View | Afghanistan Pt II Dec 09
Back in September, I wrote about the crossroads our country is at with the War in Afghanistan (link below). Last night we heard from President Obama on the planned ‘surge’ of troops to the...
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93Is This The America You Grew Up In?
NOT ME! First of all, I was born in 1949. When scrolling on a site to click on the year I was born, it...
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71How 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...
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65There's A Monster On the Loose In the USA
I am what they call a "baby-boomer", that means I was born during the period ten - fifteen years after the end of WWII. This was a scary, exciting, tumultuous time to be growing up. It was a time of...
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7441-Love Letters from Vietnam: Tim Buys Airline Tickets for Christmas Leave
25 November, 1969 (note: this letter was apparently written two days before Thanksgiving in 1969, but Tim anticipated that it would be received after Thanksgiving, thus the reference to the past tense "was...
66My 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...
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