I received a phone call Wednesday afternoon from a good friend of mine telling me General Moseley had been asked to resign. I did not want to believe it at first. Another phone call to a connected friend in Washington DC confirmed the news. My first thought was more will be coming. Bad grades on […]
Category Archives: The Gouge
The Chocolate Bunny Full of Fuel
We have read or been told numerous accounts of the selflessness and heroism of our men and women during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The combat exploits of our service men and women are well documented in books like Robert Kaplan’s “Imperial Grunts” and “Hog Pilots and Blue Water Grunts” or Bing West’s “No […]
Memorial Day
We have a long weekend before us. I will not bore you with the history of Memorial Day, it can be found elsewhere. I want to give you my thoughts on Memorial Day… as a former uniformed airmen and pilot for twenty-four and a half years.
I will always think of my Uncle on Memorial […]
i’m a dot
- I’m departing. From the military fliers’ experience of watching another plane leave a training area. As it leaves it gets smaller and smaller, until it loses its shape and becomes a dot.
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Burdensome Stone: Israel’s long range strike rehearsals to Iranian Nuclear Facilities
“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
Zachariah 12:3
I have read this passage from the Old Testament a number of times this past week. My […]