The cost of victory, American victory, is ongoing. And it should be. Here’s why: After finishing the assigned reading list for an American History degree I noticed repeated behavior: The losers get paid. Why, you ask? Here’s why:
FOLLOWING ORDERS WITH FELLOW FOLLOWERS
March 6, 2025 by
Following orders seems simple at face value: Someone tells someone what to do and the second someone does it. Done deal? Not so fast.
EXCITABLE BOY, THEY ALL SAID
March 5, 2025 by
An excitable boy at age eighteen is a good thing. I had a great year at that age. Graduated from high school, got a summer job, hitch-hiked to Iowa and back. I left town for college, then turned nineteen and joined the Army the next fall like it was school. That’s where I saw older […]
EXTRA EFFORT, BUT HOW MUCH?
March 1, 2025 by
Extra effort is the rule, or so we hear. “If you want to be somebody, it will take more than you’re doing.” “If you want to succeed, work harder.” But some people are born lucky. Clint asks, “Do you feel lucky? Do you, punk?”
ON VETERANS DAY 2024
November 11, 2024 by
Veterans Day is for the old folks who remember their youth and those who were young with them. They remember the young people who didn’t have the chance to get old. My Dad got a chance to get old. He out-lived his Dad, just like I’m out-living him.
COACHING STAFF FOR THE WORLDWIDE WIN
October 24, 2024 by
A coaching staff starts at the top with the head coach. From there it’s a bunch of coaches for the specialties, the offense, defense, special teams, quarterbacks, the works. The smart head coach hires people who are qualified and ready to go. How can they tell who they want?
‘NOTHING TO FEAR’ WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL AND GEORGE CLOONEY
July 11, 2024 by
“Nothing to fear, nothing to see, move along.” It’s just Winston Churchill strolling in his front yard. We had a Churchill lesson at his place, then another in his London war rooms. Our dude didn’t have smooth seas on the trip to joining the immortals of history.
LIFE LESSONS: FIRST DO NO HARM
December 6, 2023 by
Life lessons start early and never stop. But, and this is a tough one, people do look away. “But Blogger D, aren’t older people a repository of life lessons?” Not always, but who am I to judge? If you need to ask, this might not be the place for you.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: WWII ON BOOMERPDX
June 15, 2022 by
An original screenplay is what it says it is: Original, never seen, or heard. Who isn’t up for a new story? Let’s go:
WAR ORIGINS: WWII ON TWITTER
June 14, 2022 by
War origins bring out the experts on Twitter. With warnings on what to pay attention to, what to ignore. It wasn’t a bad take, just wrong.
