As our recent spring early evening dinner preps are underway with the sun setting on the Empire, we’ve been listening to old music standards on one of our local cable music stations. The music prompted this. -Marlow Savannah You’ve had a lot to say to me You whispered here’s where my love should be There’re […]

We long lived slow walkers, what are we standing here for?Better get up, get out, get out of the doorWe’re playing old cold music while swaying on our kitchen floorDrowning in our laughter, nearly dead to the coreRussian dragons with WMD torches loose in our townsIt’ll take more than a whole ocean of water to […]

Editor’s Note: This just in from Marlow. – Vic One Last Item One last item before this Memorial Day week passes . . . All of us Vietnam era vets could do our children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, godchildren, their friends, and class members a great service if we’d talk to them about our service with […]

Author’s Note: On this past Memorial Day, W and I were headed south down on US-17 to Jekyll Island while listening to some peckerwood small town FM station railing on about proposed gun control legislation and the last week’s school shooting particulars, while a song was played as an intermission before the next speaker wanted […]

It is a fine sunny spring day and great matters loom across the approaching horizon of American history. We think that ​Carthage is in our rearview mirror and that we’ll blend into time. What a bunch of dolts. America’s blood is soiled, and a dark angel sits in its brain. Will it take a “point […]

Another of America’s hidden cannons broke its moorings suddenly this past week becoming a strange, supernatural beast. An 18 year old suddenly was transformed into a monstrous armored loose cannon. His young bullied smallishness belied his billiard-ball moves, as he rocked and rolled with his irregular internal rotating, pitching, and yawing. Before he embarked on […]

Editor’s Note: This is a holiday weekend that has nuance. It is solemn remembrance in part, and the start of the summer season for most. Marlow takes a look at a now-common greeting in the context of his time. If you had a ‘draft number’ in your memory, you will share some of them. – […]

Author’s Note: Nice work on yesterday’s fire ring doings. W and I will vote in our state primaries this coming Tuesday. Georgia has already surpassed 2020’s record general election early voting totals. In the off-year primaries, no less. The national parties’ carpet baggers are down here in force with their money, BS TV commercials and […]

Editor’s Note: This is powerful stuff from shipmate Marlow. I was in attendance for the ceremony and reading this still moves me. Hard. -Vic Author’s Note: I didn’t begin to write about these events until May of last year — their 30thanniversary. Here is the current quasi-organized version of these thoughts. -Marlow In a New […]

Editor’s Note: Arrias rang in this morning with a sober and riveting rhyme this morning of young men who placed their time on this planet in service to an idea filled with passion. It is not about some lofty concept of “territorial integrity” but something much simpler. It is about protecting the ‘family’ contained in […]