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The Oar of Evening's Shade
October 2, 2018
The Bizarre Power of American Apathy
It doesn’t happen all that often, but every now and again well-intentioned souls embrace me and apologize for America’s forgetfulness, all because I fought...
GWOT vs WW2 Vets
A common belief among many quarters is that we have gone squishy. From participation trophies to so called “microaggressions”, the “snowflake” youth of today...
A Frogman’s Response to the Fiasco
There’s a long established concept that the only thing people love more than a hero is to see one fall. With the dwindling combat...
Warless Warriors
The most common question asked of a service member is, “why did you join?” The most common question asked of a veteran is, “why...
Gentleman Goon: A Case for the Warrior Artist
Warriors and art have gone hand in hand for millennia. The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Art of War, and of course, The Iliad and...
To Them I Appeared a Stranger
You felt it the first time you came home on mid tour leave. You were still young enough and still close enough to your...
THE DOLLARS AND SENSE OF WRITING
Perhaps it is fitting that I begin this essay on the 12th anniversary of my “Alive Day”. A dozen years ago today, far away...
Belonging to the Tribe
The Warrior Caste - our tribe. It’s a faded memory, but I can still feel it. Signing my proverbial (maybe more like “literal”) life...
First Sergeant Hill
Memorial Day is a complicated holiday for some of us. Nothing can cast into sharp relief the chasm, real or imagined, between GWOT vets...