[November 20, 2025] Yesterday was the viewing, and today is the funeral of another good friend of mine. I’m blessed to know many good people—those very same folks who would drop everything and help me if I truly needed assistance. Those are the kinds of people anyone would want to be around. The young man was 36 years… Read More »
[November 13, 2025] Occasionally it’s good to take a break from the challenge of the study of leadership. Today I’m providing my personal list of favorite war movies … those that made an impression on me when I saw them. Yes, they’re English movies so the list doesn’t include some great, non-English movies. For some reason these movies… Read More »
[November 11, 2025] Hello General Satterfield, Here we are again celebrating Veterans Day. Sir, this will be my 57th year being home from Vietnam. I guess you can say I am one of the lucky ones. General , even though Veterans Day is a day to remember and thank our living Veterans, it is a day that I… Read More »
[October 28, 2025] The stories of our war Veterans returning home are often disregarded as trivial and irrelevant. Besides that, we hear that these stories are not new. True enough! But one such story involves Homer’s epic work, “The Odyssey,” which is about Odysseus’ returning home after Troy. It deserves mentioning because it shows how not all returning… Read More »
[October 27, 2025] I was intrigued by the view of a North Korean defector who watched an American War movie: Saving Private Ryan. Her perspective on “war movies” and the differences how the Hermit Nation addresses war versus how America views it, was startling, and indicative of how Communists view human existence. Hanaya’s takeaway is that we must learn… Read More »
[October 14, 2025] Eight peace deals in eight months. I’m sure that’s a world record, untouched by anyone. As I write this post at 9:00 PM Monday, October 13 (Columbus Day), we have seen the return of twenty hostages stolen from Israel over two years ago. Who was responsible for making this peace deal happen? It was President… Read More »
[October 11, 2025] In my first book, “Our Longest Year in Iraq,” I made an effort to show how I developed to a point where I would achieve something important in my life. The discovery was my connection to combat Veterans and how they played an outsized role in my upbringing. ‘The Beginning’ is trying to lay this… Read More »
[October 7, 2025] Ever since the first battle among humans, the best lesson of winning was to have the leader present, front and center. As a kid, I learned while touring Civil War battlefields that great leadership happens by that leader being there. At the most famous battles, the most senior Army Generals were on the battlefield, leading… Read More »
[October 1, 2025] The journey to fulfillment in life is found through suffering. Taking on all the responsibility you can means confronting everything that needs to be faced. Doing so leads to the gradual improvement of your surroundings. If we accept this as an unavoidable truth, then, facing the world and doing so nobly, there is no upper… Read More »
[September 20, 2025] This morning, in the early hours as I prepare for the last day of honoring our Vietnam Veterans, I watched a clip of Dr. Jordan Peterson discussing the virtue of being a monster. I thought to myself, how appropriate his comments were, because that is what our heroes from that war created, virtuous men who… Read More »