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ON VETERANS DAY 2024

November 11, 2024 by David Gillaspie

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.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Army, college, conflict, education, enlistment, france, germany, italy, Korean War, Marine Corps, Navy, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, service, Ukraine, Veterans Day, Vietnam War, WWII

COACHING STAFF FOR THE WORLDWIDE WIN

October 24, 2024 by David Gillaspie

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?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Berlin wall, coaching staff, decent people, despots, dictators, election, England, germany, head coach, Hitler, iron curtain, jan.6, night of long knives, normal people, Russia, stalin, the great terror, USA, USSR, Winston Churchill, WWII

‘NOTHING TO FEAR’ WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL AND GEORGE CLOONEY

July 11, 2024 by David Gillaspie

“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.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: afraid, alarmist distraction, Army, biden candidacy, blogger, boy scouts, Churchill, Churchill war rooms, crappy things, England, fear, forward, free world, George Clooney, germany, great britain, hooper, Joe biden, journey, learning, london, Nazi, New York Times, opinion, parents, public life, respect authority, small footprint, war rooms, whine, Winston Churchill

LIFE LESSONS: FIRST DO NO HARM

December 6, 2023 by David Gillaspie

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.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, Army, army medic, blogger, boomerpdx, caduceus, college, David Gillaspie, do no harm, education, English translation, germany, harm, history, japan, Kurt Vonnegut, latin, life, life lesson, life lessons, MARRIAGE, medical school, mental health, no harm, normal, not normal, writer, writers, writing, WWII

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: WWII ON BOOMERPDX

June 15, 2022 by David Gillaspie

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:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: boomerpdx, emerging technology, fort dix, germany, Great Depression, london, original screenplay, poland, radio waves, scientific, screenplay, WWII

WAR ORIGINS: WWII ON TWITTER

June 14, 2022 by David Gillaspie

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.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: American History, germany, great white fleet, twitter, war origins, world history, wwi, WWII

OVERSTOCK CLEARANCE ON THE WEAPONS AISLE

March 12, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Overstock clearance is a common marketing ploy. Who doesn’t like a good deal in life? Get a deal on car, a guitar, or a weight set and you’re good to go. Is it the same with ordnance? What do you do if you’re a ruthless dictator with an overstock of missiles aging out on an […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: better american, dictator, germany, japan, marketing ploy, missile, overstock, overstock clearance, Putin, republican, rocket, Russia, trump, Ukraine, wwi

AMERICAN CITY ON THE LEFT COAST: PORTLAND

July 26, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Normandy, not Portland Portland, Oregon is an American city on the west coast. Not too big, not too small, but just right for a big rural state on the edge of the North American continent. (Think top left corner of America. That’s Seattle. Everybody knows Seattle. Portland is down from there.) For an extra reminder, […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: american army, dad wall, destruction, Ellen urbani, federal troops, france, germany, mom wall, normandy invasion, Oregon, paris, Portland, Portland Oregon, save paris, save portland, Seattle, surrender, veterans wall, WWII

HISTORY BEGINNER: COMMON BASICS FROM UNCOMMON BLOGGER

October 15, 2019 by David Gillaspie

Long stories blur into each other the more they’re told. Eventually a common thread emerges. I’m a history beginner, you’re a history beginner, we all be history beginners. If you don’t agree, then visit a new place, a place where you don’t speak the language, a place with different food, where you essentially throw yourself […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: American History, germany, history, Hitler, Oregon, Oregon History, stalin, world history, WWII

PORTLAND OREGON BLOG MESSAGE TO YOUR WORLD

May 24, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Who reads posts and comments on a Portland Oregon blog? The weird thing about writing online is the reach. From literally around the world, readers find blogs like boomerpdx. They come in on a variety of devices, operating systems, and browsers. It’s amazing how anyone finds anything in their own house, but finding a blog […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: android, apple, australia, blogger, blogs, boomerpdx, browsers, china, devices, firefox, germany, google chrome, Google+, india, italy, japan, lifestyle, lifestyle elements, macintosh, malaysia, manifest destiny, new zealand, online, online writing, operating systems, opinion, opinion heavy blog, Oregon, oregon blogger, Oregon Trail, pioneers, Portland, Portland Oregon, Rolling Stones, Russia, safari, sweden, windows, writing, writing online