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August 18, 2017
The American Ridge Trail: a trail dying a slow death
A Trail on Life Support: the American Ridge Trail —conditions as of mid-August, 2017. It’s summer and for me, that always means backpacking. This time out it was to an area I’ve visited many times over the last thirty or … Continue reading →
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December 31, 2016
New game in town: Seattle Double-Tap Bocce anyone?
That need to fix Some of us who love to play board, card, and lawn games have an innate need to improve existing games. When required, we sometimes even bang out a new game from an old one. Well, maybe … Continue reading →
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October 31, 2015
40 years on—Vietnam and my enemy encounter
Return to Vietnam – Part III My wife and I had just visited Tay Ninh City, where we separated from the tour group at the Cao Dai Temple and took a taxi to what we American troops knew as the Black Virgin … Continue reading →
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October 24, 2015
Return to Vietnam—what I found
Return to Vietnam – Part II Although Vietnam is still a relatively poor country, Southern Vietnam has clearly prospered since the war when the only real economic engine was Uncle Sam’s aid and GI payday. Ho Chi Minh City, which … Continue reading →
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October 17, 2015
Vietnam 40 years on—my return
Return to Vietnam – Part I World War II is still very much alive in our media and our consciousness, as I’ve noted in recent blog posts. But one of that war’s offspring, the Vietnam War, hasn’t gone away either. … Continue reading →
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October 10, 2015
The fall and rise of Vietnam vets
Vietnam revisited Who alive in America today hasn’t heard of the Vietnam War or doesn’t know a family it has touched? This conflict dragged on for years and ultimately became very unpopular. Late in the war, returning soldiers like myself … Continue reading →
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September 25, 2015
Refugee Crisis—The Worst Ever?
The tragic refugee problem makes headlines every day. Dramatic photo and video scenes repeatedly show us a mass of impoverished humanity on the move. In many of us fortunate enough to have a permanent home in which we’re viewing or … Continue reading →
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August 26, 2015
Oswald and Oskar—they survived where many didn’t
In The Secret She Carried, an account of two German soldiers meshes with my mother’s story. Oswald Lustig and Oskar Halusa were my Uncle Eduard Hajek’s closest school friends and still teens when they first saw combat. Somehow, both came … Continue reading →
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July 2, 2015
World War II ended in 1945, or did it?
The end of World War II Did World War II in Europe end 70 years ago in May 1945? If you read my earlier two part post on the subject (Those Pesky World Wars–they just won’t go away), you’d know … Continue reading →
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December 15, 2014
The Death Valley Chuckwalla: They don’t write ‘em like this anymore! Or do they?
Recently, during my annual camping trip to Death Valley National Park, I found the following description hanging amidst the clutter of photos and other historical items on the wall of the Borax Museum at the Furnace Creek Ranch Resort. “The … Continue reading →
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