Vietnam | Vietnam
Sep.15.2008
About a month or so ago (8/2008), GM announced that retirees would be losing their insurance coverages beginning at age 65. I'd like to share something that I discovered through a gentleman who just happened to come through the department that I work in on my part time job.
He was simply passing...
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Aug.01.2008
In my July 27th post (http://tinyurl.com/55zq2z), National Guardsman Big Tobacco (www.big-tobacco.blogspot.com) currently deployed in Iraq provided his response to my July 20th post about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military personnel (http://tinyurl.com/6eu789). In that same July...
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Jul.31.2008
I suspect that I'm the only one here who is a true Independent. I've written about this before. I take pride in the fact that I am quite capable of weighing issues and thinking for myself. Right now we're in the middle of a political campaign that may or may not reshape America. As a taxpayer, as a...
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Jul.17.2008
Here's a guest post from Specialist Neil Gussman - he has quite an interesting story to tell about his military service. (When he's not training with the Army National Guard, he writes about the history of chemistry at Chemical Heritage Foundation, a museum and library of the history of chemistry...
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Jun.25.2008
The June 24th Wall Street Journal carried this blurb in the front-page What's News column: A woman has been chosen for promotion to the rank of four-star general for the first time in American history.
For someone whose novel features the wives of four new army officers in the spring of 1970 and...
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Apr.30.2008
Today is the 38th anniversary of the day President Nixon went on national television – all three channels – to announce attacking Cambodia, Vietnam’s western neighbor. To many this was a widening of the Vietnam War. And this was also the trigger for anti-war protests that led to the death of four...
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Mar.29.2008
I wake up at about five-thirty this morning because the neighbor is watering her orchids and pumping up the Cai Luong
(Vietnamese opera. If, in an attempt to provide yourself with atmosphere, you click the link and try to listen while you read this post, your concentration will go for shit...
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Feb.20.2008
I've been a cultural activist all my life, so where I stand on the question of culture is clear: with Augustin Girard when he wrote more than 30 years ago that “Culture concerns everyone and it is the most essential thing of all, as it is culture that gives us reason for living, and sometimes for...
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Jan.08.2008
John Updike once remarked that he realized, early in his career, that he could either be a reader or a writer, but he couldn’t be both. Hearing that, I felt welcomed, as it were, to one of the severest regrets of many a professional writer—the lack of time one has to pursue reading for pleasure....
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