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APPLIED GUN VIOLENCE EXPLAINED

February 17, 2018 by

  Baby boomers have a unique perspective when it comes to gun violence. Our fathers participated in the most extreme gun violence in world history. The books call it WWII and Korea; the dads went with bad intentions.   Their applied gun violence saved the world from a Nazi future. Along with the horrific acts […]

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SETTLE OLD SCORES OUTSIDE, WIN THE BIGGER WAR INSIDE

April 1, 2017 by

    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 […]

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OLD SCHOOL LANDMINE LEADERSHIP

October 3, 2016 by

With lives at stake, landmine leadership matters. Detecting landmines in the Korean War needed men who paid attention during training. Those were the guys who stepped into the minefield first, the people with landmine leadership. If they did the job they were trained for others could walk through the same area without blowing themselves up. […]

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VETERAN SOLUTIONS FOR VETERAN PROBLEMS

July 24, 2016 by

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of veteran problems. The biggest veteran problems come when those who served say, “I didn’t sign up for this.” What is the ‘this’ in “I didn’t sign up for this?” The ‘this’ veterans talk about is the hard part for non-veterans to understand. Even veterans of […]

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WHO GETS FOOLED AGAIN? WHO? WHO?

May 12, 2016 by

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Baby boomers grew up with The Man. It wasn’t daddy, but daddy knew The Man. Sometimes daddy was on The Man reserve. Who is The Man? It’s the police Man. We saw him at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The Man swung a hard […]

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DON’T MEAN NOTHING? OR EVERYTHING?

December 9, 2014 by

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 […]

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A VETERANS DAY REMINDER FOR NEXT YEAR

November 15, 2014 by

The Conversation You Need To Have. A conversation between an Army vet and a Non-vet: V: People that join the Army with the right intentions come out better. NV: If you join and serve your country it’s all the same. V: Except it’s better for the people who understand the deal ahead of time. NV: […]

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BOOMER DENIABILITY: WE DIDN’T LIGHT THE FIRE

August 22, 2014 by

We Know Where The Matches Are Though. Believable generational research relies on strong academic studies, insurance statistics, and the federal census. This triumvirate of detailed minutia creates a colorless picture of the past. Instead of men in grey flannel suits, it looks like grey men in flannel, lines of them. Baby Boomer research is the […]

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FURY: BRAD PITT GOES TO WAR…AGAIN

August 2, 2014 by

Taking A Shot At The Great American War Movie. World War II is the biggest war canvas for the biggest stories. It’s that big. War stories from every other conflict miss the moral certainty, the celebration, of wiping evil off the earth. There’s nothing like a Nazi, or an Imperial Japanese soldier, biting the dirt […]

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To: COMMANDER, NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS

May 28, 2014 by

Baby boomers know how to move on. We’ve seen hippies turn into businessmen, radicals to politicians, yippies into stock brokers. We’ve seen our soldiers come back from Vietnam and work to regain missing years. The following two letters come from an American veteran. He served on the Korean DMZ. Thomas Lucken, like thousands of other […]

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