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Jul.26.2012
While typing about mentors and remembering people who affected and changed my life today, I recalled different times in my military career, and the Code of Conduct.
The code is six articles. We carried a small book of the code around with us while we were in basic training, memorizing its contents...
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Jul.22.2012
Each and every time something like the massacre in Aurora Colorado occurs I wind up being forced to defend America. I suppose these things come with the territory; being an American citizen and all living on an island where the crime rate is about 007% I suppose it’sunderstandable why people would...
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Jul.05.2012
I have just had quite an amazing month in the USA and am going to attempt to sum it up, as if that was ever possible, or at least sort out some of the thoughts in my head into some coherence! So, the first two weeks I spent at the amazing Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in the...
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Jul.04.2012
Between a man in a dark grey suit and a bright-eyed bride in white, they seem to have covered the American dream. Insider trading and ‘marrying well’ are common occurrences, but when these things happen in the United States of America they become symbols. Somewhere outside of this Wall Street and...
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Jun.23.2012
A list of 23 books – novels, poetry, autobiography, and a play – that have shaped American life. By the Library of Congress. From the Washigton Post website, today.
Interesting to guess ahead. You have to wait through an advertisement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/books-that-shaped...
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Jun.12.2012
The deerskin clothing kept the Native American and his mate warm against the elements as they sat on top of the grassy hill, utilizing the shade of the giant oak. The late spring wind was cool and the two found themselves shoulder to shoulder staring out across the great...
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May.09.2012
A video store I frequent was closed right after 9/11 because one of the tapes was found covered in white powder. The fire department arrived, and it turned out the powder was not anthrax, but gypsum. A customer whose house was being re-modeled had returned the tape. The store was re-opened and...
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Apr.24.2012
American Galaxy is my upcoming new book: http://uwachuku.googlepages.com/americangalaxy
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Apr.22.2012
When Did Immigrants Become the Enemy?
New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Apr 20, 2012
Photo of Condoleeza Rice urging passage of immigration reform earlier this month provided coutesy of Duke University.
SAN FRANCISCO—Recently, in front a packed crowd at Duke...
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Apr.01.2012
How great is freedom? How great is choice? We have to love a country where we have both. We have the freedom to buy land, own a house, pets, horses, dogs, cats, and so on. We have the freedom to go out and seek the type of work we want to do and get the education we feel we...
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