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MODERN MILITARY GENIUS MISTAKE

June 14, 2016 by David Gillaspie

How does military genius work? Start with technology. Military genius understands the role of technology. They’re geniuses for a reason. And they study stuff. Military genius comes in two flavors, weapons and tactics. It doesn’t take a genius to understand the evolution of weapons. Tactics are harder. The knife wins hand to hand fighting. The […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: duxford, duxford museum, England, genius, gun, Iraq, israel, military, military genius, spotted dick, super gun, tel aviv, wwi, WWII

BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

May 20, 2016 by David Gillaspie

Every family has a man with so much backbone you’d think he has two of them. Such a man might have been injured on the job and took up another line of work. Maybe that man was a logger who broke his back in the woods and took up ranching. His biggest regret was missing […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: amazing grace, anthology, baby boomer, birth control, boomers, college, education, family, farm, Great Depression, Korea, logger, Marine Corps, mother's day, rancher, WWII

AVOID ANNIVERSARY MOVIES

May 17, 2016 by David Gillaspie

A Divorce Downer Of Old Movies. The plan: A nice wedding anniversary with the family followed by a weekend at the same beach you went to on your honeymoon. If anniversaries are a tradition, so is the beach trip. You book your favorite cabin, the one with unobstructed view of the ocean…from the bathroom. Pack […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: anniversary, anniversary movies, cary grant, Divorce, fancy people, George Clooney, Great Depression, movies, Prince, purple rain, WWII

WHO GETS FOOLED AGAIN? WHO? WHO?

May 12, 2016 by David Gillaspie

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 […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: 60's, acid, baby boomer field, Baby Boomers, BOOMER, campus discussion, civil unrest, fooled again, heroin addicts, Ken Kesey, Korean War, new content, Timothy Leary, Vietnam War, weed, Who, WWII, young beauty

BABY BOOMER HISTORY: PRESIDENTS SINCE 1946

February 25, 2016 by David Gillaspie

Baby boomers showed up in 1946, Presidents since 1946. From the drama of the golden baby boomer decade, the psychedelic Sixties, you’d think Nixon was the only president that mattered. Or Lyndon Johnson. But good history fans hark back to Harry Truman in 1946. Harry ‘The Buck Stops Here’ Truman welcomed the first wave of […]

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MUMMY IN LAW AT 90 YEARS OLD

February 13, 2016 by David Gillaspie

The best part of being a Mother in Law at 90? How many times have you heard tales of woe about a Mother In Law? How much woe can there be when she knows how to handle a tricky birthday drink? What could be wrong when you roll out with this model? She’s a traveler, […]

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THE AMERICAN JOB? BE A GOOD CITIZEN

January 21, 2016 by David Gillaspie

The American job comes with a Mission Statement, Code of Conduct, and Job Description. Talk to people who came to America after WWII and hear their citizenship story. They came from bombed out nations to find a new life. They came for the American job and learned the job of being an American along the […]

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THE LINE FOR AMERICAN REFUGEE STATUS

December 14, 2015 by David Gillaspie

If you’re an experienced refugee, it is better as an American refugee? What does America expect of the new people showing up? Be a good neighbor and learn the rules of the road. About the road: if you drive a luxury car with vanity plates you need auto insurance. If you don’t, you’re not following […]

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BOOMER AND THE BOMB

August 5, 2015 by David Gillaspie

Every August Brings The Atomic Winds Of The Bomb Howling Out Of History. History is more than binge watching the Hitler Channel with a few War In The Pacific shows tossed in for balance. If history is your passion, but you aren’t a history major with an advanced degree, your opinion still matters. Every August […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: armed forces, B29, BOOMER, FDR, hiroshima, japan, japanese soldiers, kokura, nagasaki, nuclear attack, nuclear bomb, the bomb, the fog of war, War in the Pacific, WWII

TRAUMA NATION AMERICA IN 10 POINTS

August 4, 2015 by David Gillaspie

Is America The Leader In The Race To The Top Of Trauma? 10 Reasons For Yes On Trauma Nation America. Recent research shows DNA passes down trauma markers from parents to kids. That means if a father suffers a traumatic event his DNA adapts and gets installed in his children. It could be a good […]

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MODERN MILITARY GENIUS MISTAKE

BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

AVOID ANNIVERSARY MOVIES

WHO GETS FOOLED AGAIN? WHO? WHO?

BABY BOOMER HISTORY: PRESIDENTS SINCE 1946

MUMMY IN LAW AT 90 YEARS OLD

THE AMERICAN JOB? BE A GOOD CITIZEN

THE LINE FOR AMERICAN REFUGEE STATUS

BOOMER AND THE BOMB

TRAUMA NATION AMERICA IN 10 POINTS

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