After all, our efforts in Libya worked out so well
It’s pretty sad that we have to rely upon the British press for the news that the US mainstream media doesn’t want to touch, but there you have it. Latest example: an article by Patrick Cockburn in...
View ArticleSyria as Obama’s Bay of Pigs
Once again, I link to the excellent Diplomad, a retired Foreign Service official, who makes the comparison: Obama is going for another Bay of Pigs, to wit, a half-baked operation lacking in the...
View ArticleVeterans Day – 2013
Here is our annual Veterans Day post listing the vets in our respective families: ============= Bruce Webster: CPL Darren Green, USMC (active) — served twice in Afghanistan; married and still active....
View ArticleVeterans Day – 2014
(Fourth from the left is my nephew Darren Green) Here is our annual Veterans Day post listing the vets in our respective families: ============= Bruce Webster: Sgt. Darren Green, USMC (active) —...
View ArticleMemorial Day 2015
Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California Remembering those veterans from our respective families who have since passed on (reposted from years past): Bruce Henderson: Peter Anderson, USMC...
View Article70 Years On: This Is What Victory Looks Like
[Thanks to Ed Driscoll for the Instalanche!] [And as a sign of my own senility, I had this taking place 50 years ago, instead of 70. Thanks to Garrett York for the gentle correcting e-mail.] Seventy...
View ArticleVeterans Day – 2015
Darren Green (USMC) and Jon Webster (USMC), right after Darren’s completion of USMC Boot Camp, May 2008. Here is our annual Veterans Day post listing the veterans, living and passed on, in our...
View ArticleVeterans Day 2016
A freshly-minted Jon Webster, USMC, from a decade or so ago. OK, since I’ve only made one post since last Veterans Day, I probably need to revive the blog a bit. In the meantime…. Here is our...
View ArticleSECRET LUNAR WARS: update #1
Abandoned nuclear test site in Nevada A few stories have come in, and I’m quite pleased with them. I think this is going to be a great, entertaining anthology. In the meantime, someone posted this...
View ArticleVeterans Day 2019
Bruce Henderson as a newly-minted Marine ========== Here is our annual Veterans Day post listing the veterans, living and passed on, in our respective families: Bruce Henderson: Andy Henderson, USN...
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