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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.

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BLOG SURFER? THE TIDE IS HIGH, BRAH

November 13, 2023 by

I imagine the blog surfer who lands on boomerpdx. More than imagine, I get to read about them. At least that’s how I see my personal spam, my surfer spam. For example:

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THANK A VETERAN, THEN BRACE YOURSELF

November 12, 2023 by

Everybody knows you can’t thank a veteran without a veteran story in return, so: I served in the medical community doing pre-physical work ups on my civil service patients in South Philadelphia. It was a remote clinic administered from the Army hospital in Fort Dix, New Jersey although there was a Navy hospital just up […]

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EVERYDAY EVERYMAN FOR THE WIN ON VETERANS DAY

November 11, 2023 by

An everyday everyman is the goal to strive for. Not average, not ordinary, not basic. Everyman isn’t richer, stronger, or taller, either. Even if they were, you’d never know. Why?

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VETERAN SKILLS ON VETERANS DAY

November 11, 2022 by

Veteran skills I like to explain to my wife: We hear everything, but we don’t respond to every little thing. Why? We’re saving up to respond to the big things better. Or, most likely we might be a little deaf and this is an excuse. What did she say?

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ARMY PEOPLE: GUYS YOU MEET AT THE START

November 11, 2020 by

No one who served forgets the people, in my case Army people, they meet in the beginning. Fellow enlistees ranged from age seventeen to thirty five years old. Some of the Army people were older than the Drill Sergeants. That was a surprise. That some of the Drills looked like they could be doing other […]

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