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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
As in the case of life as we know it to be, all answers are dependent on both experience and talent. Unless that is, you fall into one of the many cases of those too young to understand either or both terminologies. In the world of the subjective art form, early on talent — which…
We shall weather this stormThen, standing high on our hillWithout the aid of any other’s handIn truth, few other than one has been offeredNot smiling with contentmentFor before us, yet left to be conqueredRaising higherA spire never reached in a human lifetimeOur newest goal God’s wish still to be determined -HK
It came as a shock to me, the first time I was interviewed live by a radio host and discovered that there were actually people listening to us. It’s difficult to remember; it was quite a while ago. At the time, there was an abundance of late night talk radio going on in Los Angeles….