Tag: The Old Guard
Mission Complete
Mission Complete. The first time I heard that regarding a funeral was a bit shocking. After all, I had just returned from Iraq 5 months earlier, and our missions were outside the wire–where the locals sometimes didn’t want us there–they even demonstrated that by shooting and lobbing rounds in our direction. The night I arrived… Read more
Peaceful Transistion of Power
Today, for the Presidential Inauguration, I’m sitting at home in jeans and a t-shirt, watching the official United States Peaceful transition of power. The shirt I’m wearing is from Colonial Williamsburg and says “Liberty: noun. Freedom. The state of being free within a society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life,… Read more