February 13, 2011
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington
Civil War remnants in the Capital and the story of Jubal Early’s last desperate assault (from the North!).
February 13, 2011
Snake Ranch Papers, Volume 1
The first of five aggregations of letters from Korea 1in 1980, each letter a mini-story Vic has been toting around for the last 30 years.
February 13, 2011
Oklahoma is OK
I had the opportunity to meet a former Governor of the Sooner State a couple months ago. He is a legitimately great american. He had just begun his term when that nutcase Tim McVey slaughtered the innovents at the ALfred P. Murrah Building in OK City. The Governor – he bristled when I called him […]
January 31, 2010
A Dusting of Snow
(H.Ross Perot exchanges views with President George H.W. Bush with candidate Bill Clinton of Arkansas. AP Photo) The clouds have blown over, now beyond the Chesapeake to the wide ocean. The “dusting of snow” they predicted is six inches deep on the balcony. Dusting, my sorry butt. The moon is closer than usual […]
January 30, 2010
The Winter Soldier
(John Kerry testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I don’t know if the war in SE Asia is over yet. I mean, the last WW II vet to have been president is around and still going strong. Still, I think the Vets from America’s war in Vietnam who could have been president have […]
January 29, 2010
Golden Rope
(Rear Admiral Walter Schlech presenting the golden aiguillette- The Rope- to his new Aide, LTJG John Kerry, 1970) It is said some places that you should never marry a woman who is worth less than $300 million dollars, like John Kerry. There are others who respond that, regardless of gender, anyone who marries for […]
January 28, 2010
The War Within
ENS John Kerry, top, third from right, at NOB Norfolk, 1967. Official Navy photo.) I am going to embark on a sensitive topic this morning. I know what Rex thought about Senator Kerry, and I know how the (now) Senior Senator from Massachusetts has been a burr under a lot of saddles since he […]