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My treasured Library of Congress and National Archives cards.

It Was Just a Library Card

(Originally written April 15, 2015; updated Aug. 7, 2025.) “Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace...
Walker Army Airfield as it appears today

Looking Down on Life

“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the...
Flashes and Bulletins from the Wire for website

Ripped From the Wire

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not...
I've Got Your Back - The Three Servicemen Statue at The Wall.

We’ve Got Your Back

“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”...
An Phong Orphanage, Vung Tau, South Vietnam, December 1971

Angels of An Phong

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an...
Graves at DFW National Cemetery.

Memorial Day in a Time of Pandemic

By Dave Berry (Written on Memorial Day 2020 in the first year of the Covid-19...
My Dad's Life in Keys

My Dad’s Life in Keys

Going through my father’s things today, I got sidetracked. Among manuals for his first car...
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Stone Post Stubborn

“I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.” - Bob Seger Native...
Jennifer Young in Vietnam serving as a Donut Dolly.

Playing Games in a War Zone

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was...

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