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Jul 29

A Love Note to my Gramma (or Why I Posted a Picture with my Ex)

My Gramma died from Alzhaimer’s on Saturday, 23 July 2022. I grieved. I talked with my cousin for several hours. Losing a dear relative to that evil Alzheimer’s is rough, but I actually grieved deeply and cried more than six years ago, the last time I saw her. We were…

Alzheimers

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A Love Note to my Gramma (or Why I Posted a Picture with my Ex)
A Love Note to my Gramma (or Why I Posted a Picture with my Ex)

Sep 10, 2021

11 September 2001 is one of the major days everyone remembers.

11 September 2001 is one of the major days everyone remembers. As with the Challenger disaster, it is one of those days where I remember everything. I was commissioned into the Navy on the 25th of May, receiving my diploma and shaking the President’s hand. I spent the summer with…

9 11 Attacks

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Jan 19, 2021

6 January was not a “Constitutional Crisis”

The weekend after the 6 January events, I found myself watching “60 Minutes.” I don’t normally watch this show but was intrigued that Leslie Stahl would be airing her interview with Speaker Pelosi. I needed to hear her account of what happened. The lead-in to the interview referred to the…

Presidential Election

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Aug 28, 2020

Discussing Racism and Prejudice in the Military: A Matter of Embracing Civility and Managing Our Biases

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer over the minor crime of attempting to pass a counterfeit $20 bill is the tipping point that touched off international protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. …

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Jun 11, 2020

12 June is Loving Day — Thoughts from a White Man in an Interracial Marriage During the 2020 Black Lives Matter Movement

I’m not Black. I will never be Black. …

Interracial Marriage

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12 June is Loving Day — Thoughts from a White Man in an Interracial Marriage During the 2020 Black…
12 June is Loving Day — Thoughts from a White Man in an Interracial Marriage During the 2020 Black…

Jun 9, 2020

Naming the Future Doris Miller (CVN-81)

Note: I submitted this letter to Proceedings, the monthly magazine of the United States Naval Institute, for inclusion into their “Comment and Discussion” section. In the May issue of Proceedings, a retired Lieutenant Commander characterized Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly’s January decision to name CVN 80 in honor…

Navy

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Jun 8, 2020

Banning the “Stars and Bars” from Marine Corps Installations is NOT a Nod to “Revisionist History”

On 6 June 2020, the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David Berger, issued MARADMIN 331/20, which: “DIRECTS MARINE CORPS COMMANDERS TO IDENTIFY, AND REMOVE THE DISPLAY OF THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG OR ITS DEPICTION WITHIN WORK PLACES, COMMON-ACCESS AREAS, AND PUBLIC AREAS ON THEIR INSTALLATIONS.” A friend…

The Confederate Flag

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Banning the “Stars and Bars” from Marine Corps Installations is NOT a Nod to “Revisionist History”
Banning the “Stars and Bars” from Marine Corps Installations is NOT a Nod to “Revisionist History”

May 27, 2020

That Time My Wife Was Driving and We Were Pulled Over for DWB

Last year we said, ‘Things can’t go on like this’, and they didn’t, they got worse.” — Will Rogers This is an updated version of a previous story that I posted last June. In June of 2019, while driving from the house I own in Florida to the apartment in…

Racism In America

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Jan 24, 2020

Some Reflections of my Second First Anniversary

People who know me understand I tend to be a salty man of grit, piss, and vinegar. I’m a very masculine man who only dares to show emotions of anger and disappointment (and the occasional jubilation) in public. I only cried before my first wife when I realized our shit…

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Aug 9, 2019

A Perspective on Co-Parenting a Year after Divorce

A Perspective on Co-Parenting a Year after Divorce Last year, I finalized my divorce, ending my first marriage. My ex has majority custody because I’m serving in the military and move frequently. I’m currently assigned OCONUS (outside the Continental US) so instead of seeing my kid a few times a…

Family

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