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WHEN ONE SIDE DOESN’T QUITE GET THE MESSAGE

August 23, 2021 by David Gillaspie

One side, the left, are U.S. Marines in WWII. The other side is reputed to be a propaganda pic from Afghanistan. Men in both wear U.S. gear. That’s it, that’s the post. This is so wrong in so many ways.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Afghanistan, Iwo Jima, Marines, propaganda, taliban, WWII

BOOMER BUBBLE: LIVING IN A PORCUPINE SUIT

October 8, 2019 by David Gillaspie

Once you make it to the ‘home’ things change; you’re out of the boomer bubble and into the back stretch of life. Everyone can justify being nice since you’re on the clock. Or when you move to the ‘over 55’ community? Same deal, things change, but you’re still not out of the boomer bubble. No […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Afghanistan, baby boomer, BOOMER, boomer bubble, boomer history, boomerpdx, Vietnam, vietnam veteran boomer, Vietnam War, Vietnam-era

AR15 PURCHASE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING

April 9, 2018 by David Gillaspie

The Washington Post ran an nice piece about a guy buying his first AR15. He’d wanted one for years and finally the day came. Money, motivation, and gun show all came together for him. The WaPo research seems pretty good, even with a tag of fake news thrown around. The […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: Afghanistan, AR-15, AR-15 platform, assault rifle, automatic rifle, blog, blogger, boomerpdx, Civil War, d.a.gillaspie, fake news, gan safety, gun control, gun sales, gun seller, gun show, Iraq War, Korean War, M16, M4, machine gun, money, motivation, NRA, second amendment, semi-auto, soldiers, training, Vietnam War, Washington Post, writer, wwi, WWII

WEAPONS FOR HOME DEFENSE: WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

March 23, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Home defense begins in the home, but you knew that. The real question of weapons and home defense starts with location, location, location. I met a Portland man who bought a former crack house. Customers who didn’t get the press report on the crack wire crawled through his windows for a year. […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: Afghanistan, defense, gun arsenal, gun control march, gun march, guns, home defense, home defense weapons, home intruder, Iraq, phoenix, suburban phoenix, Syria

SETTLE OLD SCORES OUTSIDE, WIN THE BIGGER WAR INSIDE

April 1, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Small wars turn into bigger war, small conflict to large scale How far back do you go to find a good war? It’s not that war, the Good War, the Last Good War, the Big One. The end results justified the means in WWII. Industrial death and human neglect in the Axis Powers […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: Afghanistan, allies, axis powers, bigger war, fire bombing, gas chambers, human, Iraq War, Korean War, last good war, nuclear weapons, police action, policeman, the forgotten war, Vietnam War, war

WHY BOOMERS NEED MORE

August 20, 2015 by David Gillaspie

Do Boomers Need More Than Anyone Else? It Looks That Way. What do you get the person who has everything? That’s a question that starts an avalanche of more questions, such as what is everything? No one has everything they want, even if every need is answered. Start with the basics of food, shelter, and […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: Afghanistan, Baby Boomers, boomers, boomers need more, education, fine dining, give more, Iraq, Vietnam

DON’T MEAN NOTHING? OR EVERYTHING?

December 9, 2014 by David Gillaspie

The Torture Report. All war anniversaries, from WWI, to Pearl Harbor, to closing the operational command in Afghanistan, feel the same. It’s all Vietnam. That war played out on the nightly news through junior high and high school for my classmates. It was the war older brothers were drafted for, the war that robbed another […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: Afghanistan, Baby Boomers, boomers, don't mean nothing, enhanced interrogation, Iraq, Korean War, Marine Corps, my lai 4, no gun ri, secretary of state colin powell, senate intelligence committee, torture, Vietnam War

No One Joins For The Death Benefit

October 10, 2013 by David Gillaspie

Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force. All Carry The Death Benefit. Modern war doesn’t draft troops. Young men and women talk to recruiters and sign up. They sign up on the trust of the recruiter and their own research. It’s a deal that says if you fulfill your end, we’ll do the same. What’s the deal?

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: Afghanistan, Air Force, Army, baby boomer, BOOMER, Butterfly bomb, David Gillaspie, Death Benefit, Earl Blumenauer, government shutdown, Greg Walden, Iraq, Jeff Merkley, Korea, Kurt Schrader, Marine, Navy, Peter DeFazio, Representatives Suzanne Bonamici, Ron Wyden, Vietnam

D-Day Boomer

June 6, 2013 by David Gillaspie

How do you explain D-Day? Or Do You Plug in the beginning of Saving Private Ryan and call it good? Say it was the Greatest Generation just doing what make them great? Every anniversary drives D-Day further away from American youth, including those in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. If they’re not boomers, they’re youths. […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: Afghanistan, D-Day, D-Day Boomer, greatest generation, history, Iraq, Korean War, Omaha Beach, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, WWII, young boomers

WHEN ONE SIDE DOESN’T QUITE GET THE MESSAGE

BOOMER BUBBLE: LIVING IN A PORCUPINE SUIT

AR15 PURCHASE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING

WEAPONS FOR HOME DEFENSE: WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

SETTLE OLD SCORES OUTSIDE, WIN THE BIGGER WAR INSIDE

WHY BOOMERS NEED MORE

DON’T MEAN NOTHING? OR EVERYTHING?

No One Joins For The Death Benefit

D-Day Boomer

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