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WHEN ‘OLDEN DAYS’ GET OLDER

January 27, 2023 by

My olden days started in 5th grade. It was a nice day in North Bend, Oregon. A little chilly, not that foggy, and just windy enough to spread your jacket out like wings and lean in to it. I skipped half the lunch recess outside and ducked into the grade school library. The door was […]

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WHEN ONE SIDE DOESN’T QUITE GET THE MESSAGE

August 23, 2021 by

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.

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OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER? A FAMILY TIMELINE

February 22, 2021 by

Old enough didn’t matter when I bought a switchblade knife in Mexico. I was a twelve year old with my parents on a family car trip. After driving across Texas we stopped in El Paso after the Carlsbad Caves, then a day trip across the border to Juárez. After proudly showing my mom my new […]

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Dylan Song For 2018 Mid-Term Elections

August 17, 2018 by

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it is ragin’. It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’.  

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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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POWAY WRESTLING, HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING THE RIGHT WAY

February 13, 2018 by

    High school wrestling in Poway, California is a calling. It’s the same calling kids felt in North Bend, in Newberg, Crater, Roseburg, and Burns, Oregon.   Call it tradition, or answering a challenge, just don’t make the mistake of calling it less than what it is. All Poway High School wants is all […]

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7 WAYS TO JOIN A MILITIA THAT MATTERS

January 18, 2016 by

Join a militia expecting things to go right? Then join the right militia. First, look in the mirror. Take a good, long, look. Do you see an eighteen year old? Nineteen or twenty? Or do you see a forty or fifty year old? Maybe sixty? Either way, ask yourself if you really want to join […]

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BABY BOOMERS: OLDER SIBLINGS OF THE WORLD

November 29, 2014 by

When Big Brother Is A Good Thing. In a large sense baby boomers have become the big brother of the world. Boomers young (50) and old (68) have caught plenty of heat over the years, but their influence is everywhere. Save the earth? Peace? Equality? Women’s rights? Gay rights? In such a huge demographic, baby […]

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Every D-Day

June 6, 2013 by

National WWII Museum, New Orleans How did Tom Hanks become the baby boomer go-to guy for WWII? Was it Saving Private Ryan, or Band of Brothers? Both good guesses if you haven’t seen him in New Orleans. After his acting job introducing the big show there, he is THE go-to guy. You know him as a film actor, but […]

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