A VETERAN’S EXCERPT:So, There we stood, waiting in a cold mist for the next earth moving commandto be given. Without warning the booming voice of our sergeant major broughtour meaningless mass together. We became a solid block. Twenty five hundredmen became an imposing figure. We were at attention. The battalion commanderappeared and marched to the...
Read More It’s All The Rage: Don’t Act Your Age
“This is the lesson: Never give in… Never, never, never, never, …in nothing great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor or good taste.” Winston S. Churchill Not then, as a child,Or as manhood took over,Physically following nature’spredictable course of eventsHappening to find myself experiencing,Never quitting, though provoking,Or as is...
Read More Would I Serve Again
Sadly, those of us who have served our country and experienced the explicitness–and the lack there of–of fear, pain, and endless yearning for those we love to return home, have also borne the brunt of neglect and despair caused by leaders who have failed–and continue to fail–at executing the promises they made to us as...
Read More One Veteran Speaks
AS THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION struggles to repair damage caused by shoddy handling of health care for U.S. service members… many veterans who had their records wiped out in a massive fire at the National Personnel Records Center more than 40 years ago are still fighting to collect their benefits. One veteran speaks is the title...
Read More He Was “Grrrreat!”
For close to 25 years, Lee Marshall has been a part of our lives here at Kalmenson & Kalmenson. As an acting student, VO actor, and forever a friend, we will affectionately remember him always as the voice of “Tony the Tiger.” Lee passed away Saturday, April 26, 2014. We had the honor of casting...
Read More Looking Forward to the New Good Old Days
The New Good Old Days; Don’t give up yet; Looking Forward MIGHT STILL BE POSSIBLE;Maybe; if all goes well; So it shouldn’t be a total loss, And in order to help our digestion; GOD decided to “throw us a bone.”So to speak. Urban Dictionary: throw me a bone: “give me a break”/ “give me a...
Read More A Price To Pay
And as I flew through the air enjoying the crowd’s appreciation of my reckless abandonment Bearing no concern for life or limb, in the then present With zero regard for what the future had in store; This, a young man, exiting his twenties; As a personal prologue His Too deeply etched, never forgotten The many...
Read More This Just In: “Our New Starbucks”
Just opened on our corner It used to be a nickel Then what was, became a dime Some even gave it away Praying for customers to sit there and dine Apple pie along with a la mode No thoughts of calories Deceptive advertising was always told There was no “Starbucks” No “Coffee Tea & Me”...
Read More My Words
My words are my words They are not etched in stone Still, they are mine Some would have said: “His words are harsh Too strong in order to be digested Too weak to bet on, or pray upon.” But for better or worse, they remain mine. My brief respite, caused by a satiation attributed to...
Read More Before the Mustache
It was nothing more than a plain old upper lip. Day in and day out, across this country and to another continent, I traveled with a few thousand of my army buddies. Many of them brought with them lips equal to mine, but many with far more hair. The upper lip is a part of...
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