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Posted in History, Information, Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2008
The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars are the two largest and most high-profile veteran service organizations (VSO) in the country, but there are many more. This link will take you to the page at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs. This is a screen capture image from the VA website, to give [...]
Posted in Flags in the News, History, Information, Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2008
Flying the flag, just not the right one
August 14, 2008
THIS is all I’m doing at the moment: watching the Olympics, eating cruddy food, and getting riled up with full-on patriotic Aussie-love. Any time I see an Aussie athlete competing in something, I feel pride burning in my heart – well, part pride, part [...]
Posted in Editorial, History, Information, Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2008
Don Adair’s childhood visit to movie set of The Alamo was the experience of a lifetime, and left him with a deep and abiding affection for the Alamo and Texas history. Forty-three years later, a second movie about the Alamo was made in Texas, and Don and his twin brother Ron made the trip again. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2008
I’m taking the day off. Not for larking about, but to rest my eyes. I’ve been suffering from terrible eye strain for about ten days. I avoided the computer over the weekend, but it wasn’t enough. So I am going to slack off for today, and maybe tomorrow, too.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15th, 2008
Do you ever have one of those days? You know the kind—when a pre-dawn thunderstorm (um—at 4:15 in the pre-dawn), rattles the house and all your lovely electronic things: computers, printer, and those blinking black boxes that make them all play nice. A second wave of the same weather front passed through a few hours [...]
