My Promise: I will entertain you with original stories, challenge you with the opinions, reminisce over an interesting lifetime, and share my love of history and America.

New postings appear approximately three times each week. 

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Past postings: More than 500 postings have accumulated during 2011 & 2012. Some categories (listed below) are self explanatory, others require some explanation:

• Blogging: Commentary on the art and science of maintaining a successful website/weblog
  
• Cuba: History of the island and its people gathered while writing my novel, Rebels on the Mountain
  
• Doodles: Miscellaneous commentary on subjects too arcane to be categorized
  
• Good Reads: Book reviews and interviews with current authors
  
• Infantry School: A journal of my experiences in Basic Combat Training, Advanced Infantry Training, and Infantry Officer Candidate School in preparation to going to war in Vietnam.
• Opinion: I am not a member of any organized (or disorganized) political party. My views tend to be libertarian. 
  
• Sea Scouts: A journal of my experiences as man and boy with this branch of Boy Scouting (probably not what you'd expect)
  
• Trifles: (Literary dessert) Original tales, too short to be called short stories and too long to be flash fiction
  
• Vietnam: A journal of my experiences and observations of the Vietnam War while assigned to the 9th Infantry Division, 1967 to 1968
  
• Writing: Personal observations on the craft of writing and the current condition of the publishing industry