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VETERAN SOLUTIONS FOR VETERAN PROBLEMS

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 […]

HOSPICE, A DANGLING CONVERSATION

The borders of our lives. Boomers have heard this more than once, others will hear it more later on: The closer people get to death, the more they drop their facade. There’s no one left to impress, no one left to pretend for, no one to juke. Toward the end it seems we get the […]

7 WAYS TO JOIN A MILITIA THAT MATTERS

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 […]

HIGH GROUND TO VIETNAM VET MEMORIAL: a photo essay

“The high ground is good.” That’s what the old timer said. “And there’s not so many people.” I found him under the Vietnam Veterans of Oregon Memorial bridge, sitting in a lawn chair and handing out pamphlets on Veteran’s Day. Had his car parked on one side of a flowerbed and a walkway without a […]

HOW HARD? BOOMER HARD

Growing Up During Baby Boomer Years Made You Hard. The last thing you want to be called is soft. Soft in the head, soft in the gut, soft arms. Part of living a sedentary life, not a lazy life but not active, is how it leaves a body. Soft. Soft and lumpy after too many […]

PROTOCOL FOR THE NEW MIA: VETERAN PATIENTS IN THE VA

Please Make The Call At The Bottom Of This Post. Show Some Boomer Power. Portland, Oregon’s Veterans Affairs Medical Center list jobs on usajobs.gov. The stated goal on usajobs.gov is “Working For America.” Abraham Lincoln drives the point further with this quote: “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, […]