it is the boots
Before I left Sangin, I attended a memorial service for two marines who were killed a week earlier by an I.E.D. The centerpiece of any memorial for a marine is the formal construction of his battle...
View Articlemore cutting room floor
I’ll help you meet the unknown. I rather enjoy the unknown. At least some of it. Not all of it. Maybe later I’ll tell you about what specific unknowns I cannot deal with. Every life-form has a...
View Articlefinnagain
* * *j* * * Now I am thoroughly disgusted. GBU. snafu. New York rubber rooms: Rubber Hobo Economies, R.H.E.,U.S.A.: Today my face is the Good the Bad the Ugly, with 51 percentz lezz guudz …. The Diet...
View ArticleSunday, 03 March, 1963
Finished report to ELE. 1/2 OC Went to church at 11 AM in the Memorial Chapel. The sermon was on “Time to Triumph” by the minister, Mr. Daughtry. Shortly afterwards, as I was strolling back to the BOQ,...
View ArticleMary Caroline MacKenzie 1916 – 2013
My favorite Aunt, Mary, passes peacefully today in Fort Myers, Florida. At 96-y.o. she had a long and active life. More to come on this. I have her entire photographic archive of which I scanned a few...
View Articlethe dorsal turn
As readily as one accepts the status of artistic creation, as a paradigm for human production, in terms of a terrestrial afterlife — the desire to leave something behind — so might we insist that the...
View ArticleFriday, 22 November, 1963
Rec’d call from Dr. Pippert C-230 for wt, β, and CoA on Mk 6 & Mk II decoys about 1:30 PM when I was working on it. As I tried to get AvCo, it wasn’t possible due to the load on the phone lines...
View ArticleSunday, 24 November, 1963
Clear Took family to SS & church. The morning service was a memorial to the President and was well-done. The church was completely filled — the largest crowd Ed Poore said he had ever seen there....
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