As most regular readers know, this blog was established nine years ago as largely an extension of the Personal Daily Journal of Yours Truly. It has become a tradition during this, the last few hours of the calendar year to reflect on the twelve months gone by and recall fondly or not-so-much as the case…
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Operation Homecoming + 50
One of the most enduring memories of the early adolescent years of my youth is the end of direct U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia. This was heralded by the return of the first group of 591 American Prisoners of War held by North Vietnam which happened fifty years ago today. The longest held among…
Continue ReadingRecalling the emergence of the inner humanitarian
Most would agree that some personal anniversary dates carry a great deal more weight than others. Such is the case with this one. Forty-two years hence, the evening of 12 December 1980 stands out as the night I became aware that I was no longer a youth. That was when the U.S. Navy warship I…
Continue ReadingVolume 47: A cataloged first-person account of 2021 CE
Measurement of time in terms of days, months and years is a manmade metric, a means of identifying intangible benchmarks relative to and relevant only to the existence of the human species. These arbitrary milestones have long since become living universal fixtures in the lives of the descendants of those who invented them. The ceremonial…
Continue ReadingThe end of our turn
Afghanistan: The graveyard of empires is busy shoveling dirt on the latest burial. As they cover the final resting place of U.S. military adventurism with Taliban occupied Afghan soil, a continent-sized stage version of the old adage “failing to plan is planning to fail” is playing out before all eyes on the planet. Could the…
Continue Reading50 years of desegregation: Tulsa edition
One claim any American born in the 1940s, 50s and 60s can make that can never be refuted is that we have lived in not only interesting but changing times. While it may be true the technology and wherewithal required to live day to day as a fully engaged citizen in 2021 is a great…
Continue ReadingThe 26th Amendment at 50
Those Americans who were not alive and those who were alive but not yet between their eighteenth and twenty-first birthdays before July 1st, 1971, will never be able to truly appreciate the full justice of what occurred on that date. For those readers who were not yet eighteen years of age on or who were…
Continue ReadingCyber insecurity serves notice
It is known by most of the followers of this blog that Yours Truly has been on sabbatical from politics since the day after the 2020 General Election. It was my intention to keep this unofficial publication up to date with viewpoints and happenings concerning life and times along the Mother Road’s most conservative stretch. …
Continue ReadingThe significance of finishing Volume 46
It is by pure coincidence that the election of the 46th President of the United States happened in the year of the 46th volume of the personal daily journal kept by Yours Truly. It is also just a mere coincidence that the vast majority of the preceding forty-five volumes of that personal daily journal chronicle…
Continue ReadingLearning how to win
Back during my enlisted naval service, I vividly remember talking with a few shipmates who had been Navy recruiters. Recruiting requires a mindset similar to that of politics. It not only deals heavily with numbers but also salesmanship. The better the sales pitch the better the numbers. To improve each, The Navy sent new recruiters…
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