I graduated from West Point in 1964; the four years there truly molded me into the man that I am. It made me a man of character and honor and one committed to serve my nation. I was a reasonably squared-away young man when I arrived, but I really...
You graduated high school in 2011. Your teenage years were a struggle. You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Your mother was the leader of the family and worked tirelessly to keep a roof over your head and food on your plate. Academics were a...
TAKE A KNEE. -Take a little trip to Valley Forge in January. If you don’t know where that is, just Google it from the sidelines. Hold a musket ball in your fingers and imagine it piercing your flesh and breaking a bone or two. There...
It seems that virtually all of the money given to help our nation’s hurricane victims have come from Faith-based groups and Veterans–and virtually none from the goofy left (or right) or any of those groups that want to pull down statues...
I was thinking about all those multi-millionaire pro-football players who refuse to stand for our national anthem. I’m guessing that any family in America can live quite well on, say, $100,000 per year. How many of these America-haters have kept...
President Trump has made it clear that while public protesting is appropriate, violence is wrong and he’s opposed to it, period. I totally agree with this. We veterans have defended with our lives the Constitution which guarantees, among other...
When the president recently tweeted out that he was going to prohibit transgender persons from joining or being in our military outrage was expressed from many directions—the general complaint was that it was discriminatory and just not fair. It’s...
NATO—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has been our primary military alliance since right after WWII. During the Cold War period, which was the conflict between the Soviet Union and its satellites and the US and Western Europe, all the...
Our nation is under attack from without—that’s ISIS and friends, and from within—that’s the cop-killing scum from Black Lives Matter and their allies and followers. We’d better all act to get both under control quite soon or...
From a military perspective, one of the major problems with the current administration is that no one in it at the senior level has any military experience. Okay, there are a couple of vets there but they clearly do not understand or stand up for...